Dieter Sicker
Dieter Sicker (born October 16, 1954 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German chemist ( organic chemistry ). He is a professor at the University of Leipzig .
Sicker studied chemistry in Leipzig with his doctorate in 1983 (synthesis of photographic yellow couplers and investigation of the relationship between structure and light absorption) and his habilitation in 1991 (heterocycle synthesis through reductive cyclization of aromatic nitro compounds). He became a private lecturer in Leipzig in 1995 and an extraordinary professor in 1997.
He deals with natural product chemistry (synthesis and isolation of natural products, optimization of classic natural product syntheses), including benzoxazinoids, acetal glucosides from cereal plants (they have an allelopathic function), with carbohydrates and heterocycles (saccharide-heterocycle combinations). He deals with green chemistry and syntheses based on fermentation solutions with oxo- and hydroxycarboxylic acids, for example carbohydrate syntheses with 2-oxo-D-gluconic acid produced by fermentation.
In 2009 he and Stefan Berger received the literary prize of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie for their book Classics in Spectroscopy . It describes in detail spectroscopic methods for the identification and structure elucidation of 30 natural products.
In Leipzig he has been giving chemistry lectures for doctors and veterinarians for many years and giving experimental lectures to get students excited about chemistry.
Fonts
- with Stefan Berger : Classics in Spectroscopy. Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Natural Products. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-527-32617-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dates of birth according to Kürschner, Scholars Calendar 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sicker, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karl Marx City |