Gerhard Schröder (chemist)

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Gerhard Schröder (born June 25, 1929 in Kassel ; † December 18, 2015 in Karlsruhe ) was a German chemist and university professor.

Life

After training as an electrician, Schröder studied chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe and received his doctorate in 1959 under Rudolf Criegee . After postdoctoral work with William von Eggers Doering at Yale University and Union Carbide , he completed his habilitation in Karlsruhe in 1964. In 1970 he was offered the newly created Chair II for Organic Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe , which he held until his retirement in 1997. Schröder was twice Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry.

Scientific work

In 1963, Schröder succeeded in synthesizing the C 10 H 10 hydrocarbon Bullvalen , with which he was able to confirm the phenomenon of degenerate valence isomerism postulated shortly before by Eggert-Doering and Wolfgang Roth with over 1.2 million binding possibilities. In addition to further work on the Cope rearrangement in bullvalene derivatives and analogous compounds, Schröder dealt with carbon oxides as reactive intermediates in ozonolysis , with annulenes and chiral complexing agents ( crown ethers ).

Awards

In 1968 Schröder was awarded the Chemistry Prize of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Bräse: Gerhard Schröder ( 1929-2015 ) . In: News from chemistry . tape 64 , no. 4 , April 2016, p. 456 , doi : 10.1002 / nadc.20164050223 ( kit.edu [PDF]).
  2. ↑ wvE Doering and WR Roth, Angew. Chem. 75, 27 (1963)
  3. ↑ G. Schröder, Angew. Chem. 75, 722 (1963)
  4. ↑ G. Schröder, Chem. Reports 97, 3140 (1964)
  5. ^ Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Prize winner chemistry. Retrieved April 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 2015
Place of death Karlsruhe