Gerhard Spiteller

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Gerhard Spiteller (born September 24, 1931 in Vienna ; † April 13, 2017 ) was an Austrian natural product chemist and university professor .

Career

After his graduation in 1950 in Bludenz studied Spiteller at the University of Innsbruck chemistry . In 1956 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . He then had a postdoctoral degree at the Chair of Organic Chemistry in Innsbruck until 1958 . There he synthesized the broadband sulfonamide sulfadimethoxine (Madribon) . He then moved to the University of Vienna in the working group of Friedrich Wessely . This was followed by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship (1960–1961) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . One area of ​​work was the structural elucidation of indole alkaloids, such as quebrachamine , with the help of mass spectrometry (MS). In 1961 Spiteller went back to Vienna and worked as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Organic Chemistry. His area of ​​work there was the structure determination of alkaloids, steroids and metabolic products of drugs using mass spectroscopy. 1964 Spiteller was in Vienna habilitation . In 1965 he went to the University of Göttingen as a scientific adviser and C2 professor , where he continued his research into the structure elucidation of natural substances using MS. In 1969 he became a C3 professor and began a new field of work: research into the connections between diseases and the changes in metabolism caused by them. In 1975 Spiteller received a C4 professorship in Göttingen, but in the same year followed a call to the newly founded University of Bayreuth . In Bayreuth he worked on the structure elucidation and biogenesis of furan fatty acids and discovered urofuranic acids as metabolic products of furan fatty acids in 1980. Oxidized fatty acids , their decomposition products and their physiological effects are among Spiteller's other areas of work.

From 1974 to 1985 Spiteller was co-editor of the Chemical Reports . He was married to Margot Spiteller (née Friedmann). His three sons are the three professors Michael Spiteller (Managing Director of the Institute for Environmental Research at the Technical University of Dortmund), Peter Spiteller (* 1971, W3 Professor for Organic Chemistry and Instrumental Analysis at the University of Bremen ) and Dieter Stefan Spiteller (* 1974 , Professor of Chemical Ecology and Biological Chemistry at the University of Konstanz).

Gerhard Spiteller died on April 13, 2017 at the age of 85. The burial in the closest family circle took place in Aldrans .

Honors

  • Ernst Späth Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 1978.

Publications (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Spiteller, Gerhard Spiteller, Georg-Alexander Hoyer: Urofuransaeuren - a previously unknown class of metabolic products. In: Chemical Reports. 113, 1980, pp. 699-709 doi : 10.1002 / cber.19801130227
  2. ^ University of Bremen: CV of Prof. Dr. Peter Spiteller. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  3. ↑ University of Konstanz: Prof. Dr. Dieter Spiteller ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved October 7, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cms.uni-konstanz.de
  4. ↑ Dieter Spiteller: Characterization of N-acyl-glutamine conjugates from the regurgitation of Lepidoptera larvae. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena 2002.
  5. ↑ Gerhard Spiteller. Nordbayerischer Kurier , April 22, 2017, accessed on March 31, 2018 (obituary).
personal data
SURNAME Spiteller, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian natural product chemist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 2017