Gernot Boche

Gernot Boche

Gernot Boche (born May 18, 1938 in Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt ; † March 10, 2011 in Munich ) was a German chemist and professor emeritus of organic chemistry.

life and work

Gernot Boche was born in Bad Cannstatt as the first of two sons of the teachers Emma and Kurt Boche. After graduating from high school in Kirchheim / Teck in Swabia, he studied chemistry in Stuttgart and Vienna . Theodor Förster was his mentor for his diploma thesis . He received his doctorate in 1967 at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at LMU Munich as an academic student of Rolf Huisgen . After postdoctoral research with Eugene van Tamelen at Stanford University , he returned to LMU Munich and completed his habilitation in 1974 on isomerizations and cycloadditions of organic alkali metal compounds. There he worked until 1979, first as a lecturer and later as a professor. After a visiting professorship at the University of Wisconsin, Boche was appointed to the chemistry department at the University of Marburg in 1979 . As a professor of organic chemistry, he stayed with Marburg until his retirement in 2001. He has held visiting professorships in Russia, Japan, the United States and Israel. In 2001 he was awarded the Arfvedson Schlenk Prize 2001 by the GDCh for outstanding achievements in the field of lithium chemistry.

Boche has always given his academic students a holistic picture of chemistry without “thinking in terms of categories such as inorganic, organic, physical chemistry and biochemistry ”, which he believes is no longer relevant.

Boche published about 200 articles in scientific journals. His Hirsch index (h-index) of 41 proves the relevance and resonance of his scientific achievements.

literature

• G. Boche, JCW Lohrenz, A. Opel: From "Carbanions" to "Carbenoids": The Structure of Lithiated Amines and Lithiated Ethers . In: AM Sapse, P. von Ragué Schleyer : Lithium Chemistry: A Theoretical and Experimental Overview . John Wiley & Sons, New York 1995, ISBN 0-471-54930-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

Web links

• Literature by and about Gernot Boche in the catalog of the German National Library
• Working group of Prof. Boche at the University of Marburg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary at chemistryviews.org .
2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Gernot Boche at academictree.org, accessed on 7 January 2018th
3. ^ GDCh: Structure and reactivity of organolithium compounds: Arfvedson-Schlenck-Preis to Gernot Boche. ( Memento of the original from June 16, 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. Press release No. 42/2001. 
4. ↑ Reinhard W. Hoffmann and Michael Famulok: Gernot Boche (1938–2011) . In: Angewandte Chemie 123 (2011) 5359–5360.