Gottfried Märkl

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Gottfried Märkl (born April 28, 1929 in Munich ; † July 21, 2014 in Würzburg ) was a German chemist and university professor.

Live and act

From 1948 he studied chemistry at the University of Würzburg . After the final examination in 1954, he was there in 1957 when Alfred Roedig with a thesis on "Synthesis and reaction of Polychloraldehyden" doctorate . Research on the biosynthesis of phytol, carotenoids and steroids followed as assistant to Franz Gottwalt Fischer until 1959 . After Fischer's death in 1960, he began independent work on organophosphorus compounds. In 1964 he completed his habilitation in Würzburg with the "synthesis and reaction of open-chain and cyclic phosphine methylene" . After postdoctoral research with Elias J. Corey at Harvard University (1964/1965), Märkl returned to the University of Würzburg as a private lecturer . In 1966 he achieved the first synthesis of a phosphabenzene here .

First synthesis of an element-homologous pyridine

With this he synthesized for the first time a higher Hückel aromatic homologue of pyridine with cyclic λ 5 σ 4 - phosphabenzenes .

In 1968 he received a teaching fellowship from the VCI and in 1969 an extraordinary professorship in Würzburg. Almost at the same time, he received appointments to the universities of Kaiserslautern, Frankfurt am Main and Regensburg as well as an offer from Hoechst AG to head the main laboratory.

In 1971 Märkl became professor of chemistry at the University of Regensburg , which was founded in 1962 . 1974 to 1977 he designed the organization of the structure of the pharmacy. From 1991 to 1993 he was dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences (chemistry and pharmacy), from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1995 he was a member of the Senate of the University of Regensburg. He remained loyal to his adopted city of Würzburg and the University of Regensburg until his retirement in 1997. In his own words, he looked back on "40 years of chemistry and 33 years of pharmacy in Regensburg".

The scientific work of Gottfried Märkl includes around 300 publications on everything in the field of phosphorus chemistry and element organic chemistry of phosphorus, arsenic, silicon, germanium. He dealt with the synthesis and reactivity of element-organic compounds and oxygen-bridged annulenes .

Reform of chemistry studies

Together with Siegfried Hünig and Jürgen Sauer , Märkl and students from both universities developed the textbook "Integrated Organic Practical Training" from 1976 onwards. After its first publication in 1980, it was awarded the literary prize of the Fonds derchemischen Industrie in 1981.

Gottfried Märkl made influential contributions to a reform of chemistry studies in the Federal Republic of Germany, which became known as the "Würzburg Model" and which, long before the establishment of the Bachelor and Master courses, contained a division into a three-year basic and a two-year postgraduate course. The postgraduate course could also be located in a non-chemical focus. From 1985 to 1992 Märkl was the speaker of the Conference of the Chemistry Faculties in the Federal Republic (KFC) and from 1996 to 2002 chairman of the study planning commission and the accreditation agency for chemistry courses of the Society of German Chemists (GDCh).

Honors

He was a lifelong member of the Arminia Burschenschaft in Würzburg , a permanent member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1988 and holder of the Carl Duisberg plaque from the GdCH (award in 2000 for his long-term commitment to reform and improvement of chemistry studies in Germany).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ FG Fischer, G. Märkl, H. Hönel and W. Rüdiger: Formation and occurrence of Phytol, III. Incorporation of acetic acid and mevalonic acid [2- 14 C] in chlorophyll, sterols and carotenoids from barley seedlings. In: Justus Liebig's Annals of Chemistry. 657, 1962, pp. 199-212, doi: 10.1002 / jlac.19626570125 .
  2. ↑ Klaus Koschel and Gerhard Sauer in "On the History of the Chemical Institute of the University of Würzburg", p. 121, self-published by the University of Würzburg, 1968.
  3. ↑ G. Märkl, F. Lieb, A. Merz: A new synthesis of derivatives of phosphabenzene. In: Angewandte Chemie. 79, 1967, pp. 475-475, doi: 10.1002 / anie.19670791014 .
  4. ↑ Successor to Oliver Reiser (born August 11, 1962 in Hamburg).
  5. ^ Tag der Chemie Regensburg 2008 and Chronology University Regensburg ( Memento from December 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ A short biography in his article in Chemistry in Our Time, Volume 16, 1982, p. 148.
  7. ^ Siegfried Hünig, Gottfried Märkl, Jürgen Sauer, Christa Braig, Andreas Merz, Theodor Troll: Integrated organic basic internship . Wiley-VCH, Weinheim u. a. 1998, ISBN 3-527-25473-0 ( Internet presentation of the IOC ).
  8. ↑ Streamlining of the chemistry studies including diploma thesis in Bavaria to ten semesters, later 6-semester basic course and 4-semester specialty course pdf
  9. ↑ Gottfried Märkl (1929 - 2014) . In: News from chemistry . tape 62 , no. 9 , September 2014, p. 896-896 , doi : 10.1002 / nadc.201490303 .
  10. ↑ and archive link ( memento of the original from January 21, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mainpost.de
  11. ^ Research areas ( Memento from December 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  12. ^ GDCh awards
personal data
SURNAME Märkl, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2014
Place of death Wurzburg