Frieder W. Lichtenthaler

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Frieder W. Lichtenthaler (born January 19, 1932 in Heidelberg ; † November 6, 2018 in Darmstadt ) was a German chemist and university professor .

Life

Lichtenthaler studied chemistry at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1952 to 1957 and received his PhD in 1959 from Friedrich Cramer with a dissertation on the reactivity of enol phosphates. rer. nat. PhD. After two years as a postdoc with HOL Fischer at the University of California , Berkeley, he completed his habilitation with Clemens Schöpf at the Technical University of Darmstadt (1963), where he became a private lecturer and, from 1969, an associate professor. He turned down the appointments made in 1972 at the Universities of Kiel, Hohenheim and Darmstadt and took over the full professorship for Organic Chemistry II at the TU Darmstadt, where he was also Dean of the Department of Chemistry from 1976 to 1978. Visiting professorships led him to Keio University , Tokyo (1973), Kyoto University (1976), Tongji University, Shanghai (1981), 1985 to the University of California, Berkeley, 1989 to Lajos Kossuth University , Debrecen and 1992 to the Yokohama City University . From 1986 to 1988 Lichtenthaler was President of the European Carbohydrate Organization and Chairman of the Eurocarb IV Conference 1987 in Darmstadt. From April 2000 he was emeritus professor. Lichtenthaler was the oldest of five brothers, including Hartmut Lichtenthaler . In 1966 Lichtenthaler married the architect Evemaria von Infeld. The marriage had three children.

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Lichtenthaler's research work, recorded in over 300 scientific articles and 8 patents, deals with the use of carbohydrates as renewable raw materials, with the synthesis of immunologically important oligosaccharides using the specially developed Ulosyl Donor Approach, as well as the total synthesis of complex natural substances in enantio-pure form from sugar-derived products Building blocks such as the antibiotics Gougerotin and Spectinomycin, the soft coral ingredients palythazine and Bisseton, the plant acid Daucic Acid or the Alternaria citri toxin. In addition, he worked extensively on the computer simulation of chemical and biological properties of sugars, cyclodextrins and starch . As a kind of hobby, he also deals with the history of chemistry, in particular with protagonists of carbohydrate chemistry such as Emil Fischer , Karl Freudenberg , Hermann Otto Laurenz Fischer and Burckhardt Helferich .

Honors

  • 1988 Kitasato Medal from Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1992 Honorary Professorship, Yokohama City University, Japan
  • 1993 Honorary doctorate, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary
  • 1994 Science Award from the Sugar Processing Research Institution, New Orleans, USA.
  • 2004 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

Memberships

  • Society of German Chemists (since 1956)
  • American Chemical Society (since 1959)
  • Chemical Society of Japan (since 1973)
  • European Carbohydrate Organization (since 1983, President 1985-87)
  • Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry, London (FRSC, since 1985)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative page by Frieder Lichtenthaler. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
  2. ^ FW Lichtenthaler: Chemistry and Properties of Enol Phosphates. In: Chemical Reviews 1961, 61, 607-649.
  3. ^ FW Lichtenthaler, S. Peters: Carbohydrates as Green Raw Materials for the Chemical Industry. In: Comptes Rendus Chimie 2004, 7, 65-90.
  4. ^ FW Lichtenthaler: Carbohydrates as Organic Raw Materials. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 1991, 365S., ISBN 3-527-28280-7 .
  5. ↑ FW Lichtenthaler: 2-Oxoglycosyl ("Ulosyl") and 2-Oximinoglycosyl Bromides: Versatile Donors for the Expedient Assembly of Oligosaccharides with β-D-Mannose, β-L-Rhamnose, N-Acetyl-β-D-mannosamine, and N-Acetyl-β-D-mannosaminuronic Acid Units. In: Chemical Reviews 2011, 111, 5569-5609.
  6. ^ FW Lichtenthaler, T. Morino, HM Menzel: Total Synthesis of Gougerotin and its Identity with Aspiculamycin. In: Tetrahedron Letters 1975, 665-668.
  7. ↑ FW Lichtenthaler, E. Cuny, O. Sakanaka: Synthesis of the Gomphosides and of Spectinomycin. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2005, 44, 4944-4948.
  8. ^ M. Brehm, VH Göckel, P. Jarglis, FW Lichtenthaler: Suitable six-carbon Scaffolds for the concise Syntheses of the soft-coral Constituents Bissetone and Palythazine. In: Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2008, 19, 358-372.
  9. ↑ FW Lichtenthaler, K. Nakamura, J. Klotz: (-) - Daucic Acid: Revision of Configuration, Synthesis and Biosynthetic Implications. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2003, 42, 5838-5843.
  10. ↑ FW Lichtenthaler, J. Dinges, Y. Fukuda: ACRL Toxin I - Convergent Total Synthesis of its Methyl-enolether from D-Glucose. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition 1991, 103, 273-276.
  11. ↑ FW Lichtenthaler, S. Immel: The Lipophilicity Patterns of Cyclodextrins and of Non-glucose Cyclooligosaccharides. In: Journal of Inclusion Phenomena Molecular Recognition 1996, 25, 3-16.
  12. ↑ S. Immel, FW Lichtenthaler: The Hydrophobic Topographies of Amylose and its Blue Iodine Complex. In: Starch / Strength 2000, 52, 1-8.
  13. ^ FW Lichtenthaler: Emil Fischer's Establishment of the Configuration of Sugars. in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition 1992, 31, 1541-1556.
  14. ^ FW Lichtenthaler: 100 Years "Key and Lock Principle": What made Emil Fischer use this analogy? In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition 1994, 33, 2364-2374.
  15. ↑ JA Barnett, FW Lichtenthaler: A History of Research on Yeasts 3: Emil Fischer, Eduard Buchner and their Contemporaries, 1880-1900. In: Yeast 2001, 18, 363-388.
  16. ^ FW Lichtenthaler: Emil Fischer, his Personality, his Achievements, and his Scientific Progeny. In: European Journal Organic Chemistry 2002, 4095-4122.
  17. ^ FW Lichtenthaler: Karl Freudenberg, Burckhardt Helferich, and Hermann OL Fischer: A Centennial Tribute. In: Carbohydrate Research 1987, 164, 1-22.
personal data
SURNAME Lichtenthaler, Frieder W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2018
Place of death Darmstadt