Gottfried Schill

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Gottfried Schill (born August 28, 1930 in Eisenach ) is a German chemist ( organic chemistry ) and former professor at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg . He is considered a pioneer in the synthesis of mechanically interlocked molecules .

Schill received his doctorate in 1959 at the University of Freiburg under Arthur Lüttringhaus , completed his habilitation there in 1965 and was professor there from 1972.

In 1964 he and Arthur Lüttringhaus succeeded in the first systematic synthesis of catenanes with the help of directed covalent bonds. This was the predominant synthetic method for a long time until the development of the template method by Jean-Pierre Sauvage in the 1980s. In 1971 he proposed a nomenclature for rotaxanes and catenanes in a monograph published by him on topological chemical compounds. He was the first to synthesize completely synthetic catenanes and he also succeeded in the synthesis of several rotaxanes (and their first targeted synthesis in 1967) and already a "near synthesis" of a trefoil knot molecule, which he tried using a Möbius tape method, but which failed due to too many reaction steps (the synthesis succeeded Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Christiane Dietrich-Buchecker 1989). The name "Rotaxane" comes from him.

In addition to macrocycles and molecules with topological bonds such as catenanes and rotaxanes, he also worked on the synthesis of vinca alkaloids .

The Nobel laureate J. Fraser Stoddart called him the father of the mechanical bond, especially for his monograph from 1971 and the following twenty years of independent research and with his independent research decades ahead of his contemporaries.

Fonts (selection)

  • Catenanes, Rotaxanes and Knots, Academic Press 1971, ISBN 9781483275666 (Organic chemistry: a series of monographs 22)
  • with Enno Logemann, Walter Littke: Macrocyclen, Catenane and Knots, Chemistry in Our Time, Volume 18, 1984, No. 4, pp. 130-137

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to Kürschner, German Scholar Calendar 2009
  2. ↑ Lüttringhaus, Schill, Targeted synthesis of catena compounds (1), Angewandte Chemie, Volume 76, 1964, pp. 567-568
  3. ↑ The evidence of catenanes was made in 1960 by Edel Wasserman
  4. ^ Nomenclature of Catenanes and Rotaxanes. In: Catenanes, Rotaxanes, and Knots, Academic Press, 1971
  5. ↑ a b Schill, Hubertus Zollenkopf, Rotaxane compounds (1), Liebigs Ann. Chemie, Volume 721, 1969, pp. 53-74. In the article on p. 53 it is pointed out that the content was presented in extracts at the West German Chemiedozententagung on April 13, 1967 in Saarbrücken (see also Nachr. Chemie Technik, Volume 15, 1967, p. 149). Hubertus Zollenkopf was a PhD student from Schill and received his PhD in 1968.
  6. ↑ a b J. Fraser Stoddart, Mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) for the world of tomorrow , Angewandte Chemie, Volume 126, 2014, pp. 11282–11284 (Editorial)
  7. ↑ Stoddart , greeting message to the GDCh 2017
personal data
SURNAME Schill, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach