Gilbert Stork

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Gilbert Stork (born December 31, 1921 in Ixelles , Belgium - † October 23, 2017 ) was an American chemist . The Stork reaction is named after him. The American Chemical Society lists him as one of the 75 most important chemists.

Life

Gilbert Stork was the son of a Belgian and a French woman. His parents moved to France shortly after his birth, so that he first grew up in Paris and from the age of 14 in Nice, where he also passed his Abitur. In 1939 the family emigrated to the United States in view of the looming Second World War , where he completed his chemistry studies at the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Sciences. In 1945 he received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin – Madison , his doctoral supervisor was Samuel M. McElvain (1897–1973). From 1945 to 1946 he was Senior Research Chemist at Lakeside Laboratories in Milwaukee .

He continued his academic career in 1946 as an instructor at Harvard University , and in 1948 he became an assistant professor there. In 1953 he moved to Columbia University , where he was an associate professor, and in 1955 he was appointed professor. From 1967 to 1993 he was Eugene Higgins Professor at Columbia University. Gilbert Stork retired in 1993 .

In 1953 he published for the first time on the enamine synthesis , that is, on the creation of carbon – carbon bonds, and he developed a process known as the Stork reaction . Ultimately, his chemical experiments led to the engineering of numerous organic compounds, including sex hormones , steroids , prostaglandins, and drugs to treat cancer .

Stork's academic students included Eugene van Tamelen and Samuel J. Danishefsky .

Honors

Example of a Stork reaction (enamine synthesis)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gilbert Stork (1921-2017). In: ChemistryViews.org. Wiley-VCH, October 24, 2017, accessed October 25, 2017 .
  2. ^ Obituary , accessed October 25, 2017
  3. ^ Contributors to the Chemical Enterprise C & EN's Top 75 In: Chemical & Engineering News , January 12, 1998.
  4. ^ Gilbert Stork: Chemical reminiscences. In: Tetrahedron. Volume 67, 2011, pp. 9754–9764, doi: 10.1016 / j.tet.2011.10.007 (autobiography)
  5. ↑ Biography at The National Academies Press
  6. ^ Website of the Lakeside Laboratories ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu
  7. ↑ NZ Burns: Gilbert Stork (PDF file; 5.8 MB)
  8. ^ Paul Wender : Gilbert Stork (1921-2017). In: Nature. Volume 551, 2017, p. 566, doi: 10.1038 / d41586-017-07527-8 , full text (PDF)
  9. ^ Member History: Gilbert Stork. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 11, 2018 (with biographical notes).
  10. ^ Entry on Stork, Gilbert (1921 - 2017) in the archives of the Royal Society , London
personal data
SURNAME Stork, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Ixelles , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH 23 October 2017