Harald Günther

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Harald Günther (born July 8, 1935 in Halle an der Saale ) is a German chemist.

Günther grew up in Markkleeberg before he moved to Stuttgart with his family. From 1954 he studied chemistry in Stuttgart and Heidelberg with a diploma in 1959 and a doctorate under Georg Wittig at the University of Heidelberg in 1961 ( pyrolysis of o-phenylene mercury and formation of dehydrobenzene from o-diiodobenzene ). As a post-doctoral student he worked at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh , USA, at AA Bohner By and from 1963 as an assistant at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the University of Cologne under Emanuel Vogel . In 1968 he completed his habilitation there in theoretical organic chemistry and was there from 1970 scientific advisor and professor. In 1978 he became professor for organic chemistry at the University of Siegen . 1992/93 and 1997 to 1999 he was Dean of the Department of Chemistry and Biology.

He deals with nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) in organic chemistry. In addition to fundamental questions of NMR about spin-spin coupling, among other things, he dealt with aromaticity, dynamic NMR, organo-lithium compounds and the application of solid-state NMR in organic chemistry. He published over 220 papers (2006) and wrote a standard work on NMR translated into several languages.

In 1995 he became a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences. In 1973 he received the chemistry prize of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

From 1992 to 2005 he was editor of Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry . From 1986 to 1997 he was co-editor of the book series NMR - Basic Principles and Progress at Springer and a member of the advisory board of the Encyclopedia of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (editor DM Grant, RK Harris, Wiley 1996). 1979 to 1981 and 1991 to 1993 he was chairman of the specialist group for magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the Society of German Chemists , which he co-founded.

Fonts

  • NMR spectroscopy - an introduction, Thieme Verlag 1973, 3rd edition, 1992 (also translated into English, Polish, Russian and French); 3rd, greatly expanded English edition 2013 by Wiley-VCH, ISBN 978-3-52733000-3 .

He translated Ronald Breslow's book Organic Reaction Mechanisms (Thieme 1982) into German.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Harald Guenther at academictree.org, accessed on 7 February 2018th
  2. ^ H. Günther: From Organic Chemistry to NMR - a Personal Experience of Magnetization Transfer , Encyclopedia of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (editor DM Grant, RK Harris, Wiley 1996), Vol. 1., p. 357.
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle on the Saale