Dieter Seebach

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Dieter Seebach (born October 31, 1937 in Karlsruhe ) is a German chemist .

Life

Seebach studied chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and received his doctorate there in 1964 with a thesis on peroxides of 2,5-dihydrofuran . He then spent two years at Harvard University with Elias James Corey, who later won the Nobel Prize . In 1969 he went back to Karlsruhe and completed his habilitation there with a thesis on the detection of free bis (arylthio) carbenes in solution and selenium- stabilized carbanions. In 1971 he was appointed to the Justus Liebig University in Giessen ; In 1977 he switched to a professorship for organic chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich . In 2003 he retired.

He was visiting professor at the universities of Madison (Wisconsin), Strasbourg , Munich ( TU ), Kaiserslautern , Frankfurt am Main and at Caltech in Pasadena (California) , as well as at the then Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry in Mülheim an der Ruhr .

Act

His work focuses on the development of new synthetic methods, the production and structural investigation of β-peptides; the synthesis of oligomers in ( R ) -3-hydroxybutyric acid and the respective biopolymers as well as their possible applications; the synthesis of optically active dendrimers and the use of optically active titanates in organic synthesis. He is also known for his development of the concept of polarity reversal , as implemented in the Corey-Seebach reaction .

Dieter Seebach is a member of the New Swiss Chemical Society and similar organizations in Germany, Great Britain, Japan and the USA. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 1984), the Academia Europaea , the National Academy of Sciences , the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz . He is an honorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier .

In 2004 he received the Ryōji Noyori Prize , the Roger Adams Award in 1999 , the August Wilhelm von Hofmann Memorial Coin and the Tetrahedron Prize in 2003 and the Karl Ziegler Prize in 1987 . Since 2007 he has been a member of the Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates . For 2019 he was awarded the Arthur C. Cope Award .

Publications

  • Dissertation: 2.5 [Two five] -Dihydro-Furan-Peroxides , Karlsruhe, Technical University for Natural u. Humanities, 1964
  • Habilitation: Metallized ortho-trithioformic acid ester: proof of free bis (arylthio) -carbenes in a solution of selenium-stabilized carbanions , Karlsruhe, Technical University for Natural u. Humanities, 1969
  • With Albert Eschenmoser: Biopolymers and -oligomers of (R) -3-Hydroxyalkanoic acids: contributions of synthetic organic chemists; dedicated to Prof. Dr. Albert Eschenmoser at the occasion of his 70th birthday , Berlin: Ernst Schering Research Foundation, 1995
  • Collection of articles: Special issue dedicated to Dieter Seebach , Stuttgart / New York: Thieme, 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Dieter Seebach (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2016.
  2. ↑ Directory of members: Dieter Seebach. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 13, 2017 .
  3. ^ Member Directory: Dieter Seebach. National Academy of Sciences, accessed August 13, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Member entry of Dieter Seebach at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on November 6, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Seebach, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe