Ferdinand Bohlmann
Ferdinand Bohlmann (* 28. August 1921 in Oldenburg ; † 23. September 1991 ) was a German natural products - chemists .
Life
Bohlmann studied chemistry in Göttingen from 1939 to 1944 . The studies were interrupted by military service and injury. In 1946 he received his doctorate with Hans Brockmann (1903–1988) on solvatochromy in the pyridine series . He switched to Hans Herloff Inhoffen at the University of Marburg . Bohlmann followed Inhoffen to the TH Braunschweig and completed his habilitation there. Bohlmann became a lecturer in 1952 and an adjunct professor in 1957. In 1959 he succeeded Friedrich Weygand (1911–1969) at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the TU Berlin , where he headed a rapidly growing working group. His best known academic student is Helmut Schwarz .
Bohlmann died on September 23, 1991.
plant
Bohlmann's main area of work was natural products, especially terpenes and polyynes . These were mainly isolated from Asteraceae , formerly Compositae, and their structure was elucidated. Quinolizidines , which are among the alkaloids , were another area of research . Bohlmann's list of publications includes 1453 publications. The collaboration with the Biodiversity Informatics working group at the Botanical Garden in Berlin resulted in a system with which the chemical substances of the Compositae were made accessible in a database, the “Bohlmann Files”. The Bohlmann-Rahtz synthesis is named after him and Dieter Rahtz .
The Hirsch-Index of Bohlmann is 46th
Honors
In 1954 he received the lecturer award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie. In 1958 he was awarded the Göttingen Academy Prize. He received the Otto Wallach plaque from the GDCh in 1974. The Bohlmann Lecture has been held every year since 1989 at the Institute for Chemistry at the TU Berlin. From 2004 to 2018 this event was funded by the Schering Foundation . The event has been held in cooperation with Bayer AG since 2019 .
guest | year | Title of the talk | institution | Place of work |
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Albert Eschenmoser | 1989 | Why not hexose nucleic acids? | ETH Zurich | Switzerland |
Meinhart H. Zenk | 1990 | Why do plants have to be virtuoso chemists? | LMU Munich | Germany |
Elias James Corey | 1991 | New Developments in the Field of Steroids | Harvard University | United States |
Duilio Arigoni | 1992 | Synthesis and detection of chiral t-butyl groups | ETH Zurich | Switzerland |
Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou | 1993 | Chemistry and Biology of the Enediyne Anticancer Antibiotics | UCSD | United States |
Koji Nakanishi | 1994 | Lessons from Nature | Columbia University | United States |
Jean-Marie Lehn | 1995 | Supramolecular Chemistry : Concepts and Recipes | Collège de France | France |
Ekkehard Winterfeldt | 1996 | Natural product synthesis : experimental challenge, intellectual game, chemical treasure trove | Leibniz University Hannover | Germany |
Yoshito Kishi | 1997 | Stereochemistry Assignment by Organic Synthesis | Harvard University | United States |
Jack E. Baldwin | 1998 | How old is penicillin | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
Ryoji Noyori | 1999 | Asymmetric Catalysis : Science and Opportunities | Nagoya University | Japan |
Dieter Seebach | 2000 | A trip into the world of β proteins | ETH Zurich | Switzerland |
George Whitesides | 2001 | Polyvalency in Biochemistry | Harvard University | United States |
Samuel J. Danishefsky | 2002 | On the Awesome Power of Chemical Synthesis | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | United States |
Peter B. Dervan | 2003 | Molecular Recognition of DNA by Small Molecules | California Institute of Technology | United States |
Manfred T. Reetz | 2004 | Directed Evolution of Enantioselective Enzymes | Max Planck Institute for Coal Research | Germany |
Christopher T. Walsh | 2005 | Tailoring of Natural Products by Biosynthetic Halogenations | Harvard Medical School | United States |
Robert H. Grubbs | 2006 | Olefin Metathesis : from Fundamental Science to Applications | California Institute of Technology | United States |
Aaron Ciechanover | 2007 | The Ubiquitin System - From Bench to Bedside | Technion | Israel |
Richard R. Schrock | 2008 | Monoalkoxides Monopyrrolide Olefin Metathesis Catalysts of Molybdenum | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
Gerhard Ertl | 2009 | Elementary steps in heterogeneous catalysis | Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society | Germany |
Ada E. Yonath | 2010 | The amazing ribosome , its tiny enemies and hints of its origin | Weizmann Institute of Science | Israel |
Ei-ichi Negishi | 2011 | Magical Power of Transition Metals : Past, Present, and Future | Purdue University | United States |
David MacMillan | 2012 | New Catalysis Concepts | Princeton University | United States |
David Milstein | 2013 | Discovery of Metal-Catalyzed Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry | Weizmann Institute of Science | Israel |
François Diederich | 2014 | New acetylene and cumulene chemistry: from optoelectronic and chiroptical molecular materials to supramolecular systems | ETH Zurich | Switzerland |
Phil Baran | 2015 | Studies in Natural Product Synthesis | The Scripps Research Institute | United States |
Frances Arnold | 2016 | Innovating with Evolution: Expanding the Enzyme Universe | California Institute of Technology | United States |
Alois Fürstner | 2017 | Catalysis for Synthesis - Concepts and Scrutiny | Max Planck Institute for Coal Research | Germany |
Ben L. Feringa | 2018 | The Art of Building Small - from Molecular Switches to Motors | Stratingh Institute for Chemistry | Netherlands |
Hiroaki Suga | 2019 | Revolutionizing the discovery processes of de novo bioactive peptides and biologics | University of Tokyo | Japan |
(Name of the lecturer highlighted in color: Nobel Prize Winner)
literature
- Ekkehard Winterfeld: Ferdinand Bohlmann (1921–1991) and his scientific work. in: Liebig's annals of chemistry . 1994, pp. I-X.
Web links
- Biography in the commemorative publication 125 years of the Technical University of Berlin on opus.kobv.de
- List of scientific publications by Ferdinand Bohlmann on bohlmann-ban.de (PDF file; 196 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Ferdinand Bohlmann at academictree.org, accessed on 7 January 2018th
- ↑ Page of the Bohlmann lecture on the Schering Foundation homepage, accessed on October 11, 2019
- ↑ Announcement of the lecture on the website of the TU Berlin, Institute for Chemistry, accessed on October 11, 2019
- ^ Ei-ichi Negishi: Nobel Lecture: Magical Power of Transition Metals: Past, Present, and Future. on nobelprize.org.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bohlmann, Ferdinand |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German natural product chemist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1921 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oldenburg |
DATE OF DEATH | September 23, 1991 |