Dieter Lenoir

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Dieter Lenoir

Dieter Lenoir (born July 24, 1935 in Düsseldorf ) is a German chemist.

Life

Dieter Lenoir attended elementary and secondary school in Düsseldorf. After an apprenticeship as a chemical laboratory assistant at Henkel , he worked there for several years as a laboratory assistant (analysis of bright electroplating agents). After graduating from the evening grammar school in 1963, he studied chemistry at the University of Bonn until 1968 and received his doctorate with Rudolf Tschesche on a topic of steroid chemistry with distinction . He then worked from 1969 as an NIH postdoc for 15 months with Paul von Ragué Schleyer in Princeton , USA. From 1972 to 1978 he worked as a scientific assistant to Ivar Ugi at the Technical University of Munich, where he completed his habilitation in 1978 in organic chemistry and then taught as a private lecturer . From 1980 to 1985 he managed a C-3 position for organic chemistry at the University of Oldenburg , then until 1990 he was head of a research group on dioxins at the Department of Ecological Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth . In 1990 he was appointed head of the combustion research department at GSF in Munich. In 1992 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Bayreuth. His teaching activities consisted of lectures on environmental chemistry for the students of geoecology combined with excursions into the chemical industry . Since his retirement in 2000 until today he has been a visiting scientist at the Helmholtz Center in Munich and as a visiting professor at various universities abroad (in Toledo , Dayton and Pittsburgh , USA, Toronto in Canada and in Tartu in Estonia). In addition to the dioxins, he has also dealt with the evaluation of the combustion products of new, non-halogenated flame retardants for electronic polymers. His research results are documented in around 240 publications in peer-reviewed journals in addition to 7 patents as well as in around 50 overview articles in books and conference papers, which are cited around 5350 times in the ISI database . Lenoir was co-editor of the journal Chemosphere from 1996 to 2002 and has been a member of the IUPAC Commission Green Chemistry since 2002 . He is an honorary member of the Sustainable Chemistry Section at the GDCh and the Institute of Green Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA.

research

As an organic chemist, he initially dealt with the chemistry of carbocations and sterically hindered double bonds , and from 1985 also in the field of environmental chemistry . In the case of carbocations, he investigated the question of how classic and non-classic carbocations can be distinguished. He prepared 30 new sterically strained alkenes using the Lenoir variants of the McMurry reaction named after him . In environmental chemistry, he used reaction mechanistic models for the formation of halogen-containing trace pollutants , whereby the formation of dioxins in technical combustion processes ( waste incineration ) can be significantly reduced by the inhibition process. In addition, he promoted the field of sustainable chemistry ( English Green Chemistry ) in Germany through conferences and the formation of a new specialist group in the Society of German Chemists (GDCh).

Works

  • D. Lenoir: The Application of Low-valent Titanium Reagents in Organic Synthesis , Synthesis-Stuttgart, 1989, 883-897, doi : 10.1055 / s-1989-27424 .
  • D. Lenoir, PJ Smith, JF Liebman: Nonplanar Alkenes , in Strained Hydrocarbons: Beyond the van't Hoff and Le Bel-Hypothesis , Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, H. Dodziuk, Ed. 2009, pp. 103-146, doi : 10.1000 / 9783527627134.ch3 .
  • LC Dickson, D. Lenoir, O. Hutzinger : Quantitative Comparison of de novo and Precursor Formation of Polychlorinated Di-benzo-p-dioxins under Simulated Municipal Solid-Waste Incinerator Postcombustion Conditions , Environ. Sci. Technol. 1992, 26, 1822, doi : 10.1021 / es00033a017 .
  • S. Sen Gupta, M. Stadler, CA Noser, A. Gosh, B. Steinhoff, D. Lenoir, CP Horwitz, K.-W. Schramm, TJ Collins, Rapid Total Destruction of Chlorophenols by Activated Hydrogen Peroxide, Science 2002, 296, 326–328, doi : 10.1126 / science.1069297 .
  • M. Pandelova, D. Lenoir, K.-W. Schramm, A. Kettrup : Primary Measures for Reduction of PCDD / F in Co-Combustion of Lignite-Coal and Waste: Effect of Various Inhibitoras , Environ. Sci. Technol. 2005, 39, 3345-3350, doi : 10.1021 / es04979i .
  • D. Lenoir, et al .: Textbook [1]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography of Dieter Lenoir in “ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar ”, Volume 2, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2011.
  2. ^ ISI Web of Science , Clarivate Analytics
personal data
SURNAME Lenoir, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf