Erich Clar

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Erich Clar (born August 23, 1902 in Herrnskretschen , Bohemia ; † March 27, 1987 in Estepona , Spain ) was a German chemist.

Life

Clar was born in German Bohemia . He studied chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden . There he did his doctorate on polycyclic aromatics in 1927 , his doctoral supervisor was Roland Scholl . From 1930 to 1933 he worked in a laboratory in Milan . During the Third Reich , Clar behaved apolitically and was not a member of the NSDAP . From 1936 to 1946 he worked in his private laboratory in his hometown. In 1929 he succeeded in the first presentation of the linear pentanuclear aromatic pentacene , in 1939 the first presentation of the linear hexanuclear aromatic hexacene . His intensive citation of scientific works from Great Britain, especially from the Royal Cancer Hospital, London , especially during the bombing there in 1940/1941, are understood by various quarters as a hidden criticism of National Socialism .

In 1946 he left Germany and settled in Glasgow . From 1953 to 1972 he was a professor at the local university. He became the founder and designer of modern polycyclic aromatic chemistry.

In 1965 he received the August Kekulé Medal from the Chemical Society of the GDR . Posthumously on September 24, 1987 he received the first "Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Research Award".

Fonts

  • Syntheses of hydrocarbons with several condensed benzene nuclei. (Dissertation, 1927)
  • Aromatic hydrocarbons. Polycyclic systems. (1941)
  • Polycyclic hydrocarbons. (1964)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Louis Fieser, Mary Fieser: Organische Chemie , Verlag Chemie Weinheim, 2nd edition, 1972, p. 1385, ISBN 3-527-25075-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Clar, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrnskretschen , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1987
Place of death Estepona , Spain