Ernest Wenkert

Ernest Wenkert (born October 16, 1925 in Vienna ; † June 20, 2014 ) was an Austrian-American chemist.

In 1941 he emigrated to the United States. Wenkert received his bachelor's degree in 1945 and his master's degree in chemistry from Washington University in 1947 . In 1951 he made his Ph.D. with Bob Woodward at Harvard University . Until 1961 he was a chemistry professor at Iowa State University , then until 1974 at Indiana University and until 1980 at Rice University , where Tomáš Hudlický was one of his students. Until his retirement in 1994 he worked at the University of California, San Diego .

Ernest Wenkert worked in the field of natural product synthesis, especially terpenes and alkaloids . He was one of the first to use cyclopropanes in natural product synthesis and further developed ¹³ C- NMR spectroscopy for structural elucidation.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Tomas Hudlicky: Contributions of Ernest Wenkert to the Use of Cyclopropanes in Synthesis - Impact, Reflections, and Recollections . In: Israel Journal of Chemistry . tape 56 , no. 6-7 , June 2016, pp. 540-552 , doi : 10.1002 / ijch.201500081 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Susan J. Ainsworth: Ernest Wenkert. In: Chemical & Engineering News . June 11, 2015, accessed October 5, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Ernest Wenkert: Oxycyclopropanes in organochemical synthesis . In: Accounts of Chemical Research . tape 13 , no. 1 , January 1980, p. 27-31 , doi : 10.1021 / ar50145a005 .

literature

• Supplement to Who's Who in America. Volume 44. Marquis Who's Who, Wilmette, Ill., 1987, p. 921