Cyril A. Grob

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Cyril A. Grob (born March 12, 1917 in Streatham , today in London ; † December 15, 2003 in Basel ) was a Swiss chemist and university professor. The coarse fragmentation he discovered bears his name.

biography

Cyril Grob's parents were Swiss. After attending school, he took to study chemistry at the ETH Zurich , where he in 1943 with the work of artificial production of complex antigens of steroid series doctorate was. His doctoral supervisor was Leopold Ruzicka . He then moved to Basel to Tadeus Reichstein , whose successor he took over in 1960. After initially dealing with natural product chemistry, he turned to the investigation of the mechanisms of organic chemical reactions in the 1950s. In doing so, he discovered the reaction type of heterolytic fragmentation, which today bears his name as coarse fragmentation. Another focus of his research was the inductive effect . Grob retired in 1987.

literature

  • P. Schiess: Cyril A. Grob (1917–2003): Fragmentation and inductance. In: Angew. Chem. Volume 116, 2004, p. 4492.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae in his dissertation, p. 67, doi: 10.3929 / ethz-a-000293986 .
  2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Cyril rough at academictree.org, accessed on 7 February 2018th
personal data
SURNAME Grob, Cyril A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Streatham
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 2003
Place of death Basel