Costin Nenitzescu

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2002 postage stamp with the image of Costin D. Nenitzescu

Costin D. Nenitzescu , also Neniţescu, (born July 15, 1902 in Bucharest , † July 28, 1970 in Buşteni ) was a Romanian chemist ( organic chemistry ).

life and work

Nenitzescu studied chemistry from 1919 at the ETH Zurich and from 1921 at the TH Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1925 . He then worked as an assistant in the laboratory for organic chemistry at the University of Bucharest , where he became a lecturer in 1928. In 1935 he became a professor of organic chemistry at the TH Bucharest. He was also director of the Chemical Institute of the Romanian Academy of Sciences.

The Nenitzescu indole synthesis (1934) is named after him. He dealt with the synthesis and reactions of cycloalkanes and cycloalkenes , for example cyclobutadiene and its metal complexes .

In 1963 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina , in 1970 he received the August Wilhelm von Hofmann medal . Since 1964 he was a corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , and since 1969 an external member . In 1966 he was elected a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .

A high school textbook on chemistry by Nenitzescu was also translated into German.

literature

  • Entry in Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists, Harri Deutsch 1989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Costin Nenitzescu. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 9, 2015 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Nenitzescu, Costin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nenitzescu, Costin D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian chemist (organic chemistry)
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1970
Place of death Buşteni