Gerhard Binsch

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Gerhard Binsch (born October 7, 1934 in Stuttgart , † March 16, 1993 in Munich ) was a German chemist ( theoretical chemistry , organic chemistry ) and professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Binsch received his doctorate in 1963 from the University of Munich (dissertation: 1,2-cycloadditions of ketocarbenes ). Then he was a post-doctoral student with John D. Roberts at Caltech until 1965 and with Edgar Heilbronner at ETH Zurich in 1965/66 . In 1966 he became an Assistant Professor and 1969 Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame . In 1968 he received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ). From 1972 he was a full professor of theoretical and organic chemistry at the University of Munich.

He dealt with aromaticity and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). With Ernest Eliel and Horst Kessler , he introduced the term topomerization and topomer in 1971 .

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  1. Binsch, Eliel, Kessler, A Nomenclature for Intramolecular Exchange Processes, Angewandte, Chemie, Volume 83, 1971, p. 618.