Helmut Zinner

Helmut Kurt Zinner (born March 21, 1921 in Jena ; † November 29, 2002 in Rostock ) was a German chemist .

Life

In his birthplace Jena, Zinner completed his studies in 1940 and then began his doctorate as a student of Hellmut Bredereck in 1945 at the University of Jena . Despite the adverse material circumstances in the first post-war years, he dealt with internship, seminar and lecture tasks for organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry . From 1952 he worked briefly as a lecturer in Jena, but was then appointed Professor of Organic Chemistry in Rostock in 1953. There he was co-editor of the scientific journal Carbohydrate Research for over 12 years. During his professorship, Zinner carried out a few experiments on the synthesis of cane sugar. Then he turned to the chemistry of monosaccharides . The focus of his scientific work was on the diethyl acetals . The organic chemist achieved international fame through his numerous publications on syntheses of and with derivatives of pentose and hexose mercaptale and the resulting powerful carbohydrate chemistry. In addition, he dealt with benzoxazoles , their tautomerism and the derivatives of the technically easily accessible chloride . 1986 ended his professorship at the University of Rostock .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Employers' Association North chemistry eV, Association of the Chemical Industry Association, National Association Northeast (ed.): Chemists from A to Z A biographical lexical overview of the chemistry and its most important representatives in East Germany. Berlin, 2006, 2nd revised and expanded edition, p. 99.
^ University of Rostock (Institute of Chemistry): Chemistry in Rostock - a review . https://www.chemie.uni-rostock.de/pl/historie/chemie-in-rostock-ein-rueckblick/ , accessed on April 29, 2020.
^ University of Rostock (Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium): Zinner, Helmut . http://cpr.uni-rostock.de/resolve/id/cpr_person_00002376 , accessed on April 29, 2020.

personal data
SURNAME	Zinner, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zinner, Helmut Kurt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 21, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jena
DATE OF DEATH	November 29, 2002
Place of death	Rostock

[Nordchemie-1] Employers' Association North chemistry eV, Association of the Chemical Industry Association, National Association Northeast (ed.): Chemists from A to Z A biographical lexical overview of the chemistry and its most important representatives in East Germany. Berlin, 2006, 2nd revised and expanded edition, p. 99.

[2] University of Rostock (Institute of Chemistry): Chemistry in Rostock - a review . https://www.chemie.uni-rostock.de/pl/historie/chemie-in-rostock-ein-rueckblick/ , accessed on April 29, 2020.

[3] University of Rostock (Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium): Zinner, Helmut . http://cpr.uni-rostock.de/resolve/id/cpr_person_00002376 , accessed on April 29, 2020.