Fritz Beck (chemist)

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Fritz Paul Beck (born March 5, 1931 in Stuttgart , † February 15, 2009 in Essen ) was a German chemist .

As the son of a craftsman, at the age of twelve he undertook his first experiments in the field of electrochemistry with the investigation of Leclanché elements . From 1951 to 1956 he studied chemistry at the University of Stuttgart . With his thesis Electrochemical Aspects of the Catalytic Hydrogenation of Platinum Contacts in Buffered Solutions , he obtained his doctorate under Heinz Gerischer in 1960 .

Then he went to Ludwigshafen am Rhein and worked for the company BASF . There he developed semiconductors based on polymers such as poly-P-phenylenes and polyacetylene . He also gained fundamental knowledge in applying paint to surfaces using electrochemical methods.

Since 1978 he has taught and researched at the University of Duisburg in the field of electrochemistry.

His main topics included the research of organic electrosynthesis, of capillary gap cells, of electrochemical storage and questions of electrodeposition in polymer layers. By the time he was sixty, he had published 158 papers and registered 62 patents.

Fonts (selection)

  • Electrochemical aspects of the catalytic hydrogenation at platinum contacts in buffered solutions , 1960
  • Electroorganic Chemistry: Fundamentals and Applications , Weinheim 1974
  • Development of electrochemical energy storage devices with increased energy density with Wolfram Treptow, Munich 1977
  • Development of a lead tetrafluoborate accumulator , Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen 1979
  • Basics, aqueous accumulators with Karl-Joachim Euler, Berlin 1984
  • Selective anodic oxidation of tetrahydrofuran with Bernd Wermeckes and Harry Schulz in: Tetrahedron, Volume 43, Issue 3, 1987, pp. 577-583
  • Selective anodic oxidation of camphor with Siyu Ye in: Tetrahedron, Volume 47, Issue 29, 1991, p. 5463-5470
  • Electrochemical deposition and conversion of electronically conductive polymer layers , final report; Completion of the project on September 30, 1991, Duisburg 1992
  • Anodic Oxidation of 1,3-Cyclohexanedione to 1,2,3-Cyclohexanetrione with Bernd Wermeckes and Siyu Ye in: Chemistry Letters, Volume 21 (1992), No. 4, p. 609
  • Development of an All-Carbon Accumulator with Aqueous Electrolyte-HBF4-Evaluation for the GIC-Positive with Holger Krohn, Frank Kruumlger and Ulf Tormin in: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Volume 310, 1998, pp. 377-382
  • Anodic deposition of composites with a matrix of intrinsically conducting polymers with Elaref Abdelmula and Markus Dahlhaus in: Electrochimica Acta, 45 (20), 2000, pp. 3423–3429 doi : 10.1016 / S0013-4686 (00) 00422-9
  • The reversible electrochemical storage and removal of anions in fixed-bed electrodes made of graphite with Holger Krohn and Rolf Herrmann in: Chemie Ingenieur Technik, Volume 54, Issue 5, 2004, pp 530-531

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ G. Kreysa, AA Wragg: Special issue in honor of the 60th birthday of Professor Dr. Fritz Beck in: Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, Volume 21, Number 10 (1991), p. 847.
  2. ↑ Walter Habel: Who is who? , Lübeck 1993.
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beck, Fritz Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 2009
Place of death eat