Hans-Herbert Brintzinger

Hans-Herbert Brintzinger (born April 29, 1935 in Jena ; † June 2, 2019 in Konstanz ) was a German chemist .

life and work

Brintzinger was born the son of the Jena chemistry professor Herbert Otto Brintzinger (1898–1969) and grew up in Jena and Oberlenningen . From 1953 he studied chemistry at the Universities of Tübingen and Basel . In 1960 he was awarded a doctorate by Hans Erlenmeyer in Basel. phil. PhD . After completing his habilitation in Basel in 1964, he went to the University of Michigan in 1965 . From 1972 to 2003 he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Konstanz . In 1973 he became a Sloan Research Fellow .

Brintzinger worked in the field of organometallic chemistry . He was particularly concerned with the development of new types of Ziegler catalysts and Kaminsky catalysts for polypropylene production. In the 1980s he developed titanium metallocenes in which the two rings are linked by a carbon bond. These so-called ansa metallocenes can be chemically modified in such a way that they can be used to produce polypropylene of the desired tacticity . In this way, polyolefins can be tailored with certain properties. Another advantage is their efficiency - with just 100 g more than 100,000 kg of plastic can be obtained.

Publications

Brintzinger published more than 100 publications.

• On the metal specificity of ATP-dependent enzymes. A complex chemical interpretation, demonstrated by the example of hexokinase . Dissertation, Birkhäuser, 1960

Awards

• 1991 Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize (Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation)
• 1995 Alwin Mittasch Medal (BASF AG)
• 1999 American Chemical Society Award in Organometallic Chemistry
• 2000 Karl Ziegler Prize (Karl Ziegler Foundation)
• 2004 Giulio Natta Prize
• Honorary doctorates: 2000 University of Helsinki , 2004 University of Heidelberg .

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 2005, ISBN 3-598-23612-3 , p. 403
• Kurt Begitt (editor), Society of German Chemists (editor): Chemistry and Biochemistry in Germany . 2nd edition, VCH, Weinheim [u. a.] 1995, ISBN 3-527-29258-6 , pp. 437f.

Web links

• Hans-Herbert Brintzinger on uni-konstanz.de
• Karl Ziegler Prize to Professor Dr. Hans-Herbert Brintzinger
• Heidelberg University awards an honorary doctorate to chemists from Konstanz
• Literature by and about Hans-Herbert Brintzinger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Commemorative page of Hans-Herbert Brintzinger | obituaries.suedkurier.de. Accessed June 17, 2019 (German). 
2. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Hans-Herbert Brintzinger at academictree.org, accessed on January 14, 2018.