Hugo Wyler

Hugo Wyler (* 1928 in Bremgarten , Canton Aargau ) is a Swiss chemist. Until his retirement he was professor of organic chemistry at the Institute of chemical sciences and engineering of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne . He dealt with the chemistry of betalaine , elemic acids and other secondary plant substances .

Wyler studied at the ETH Zurich and received his doctorate there in 1955. He then switched to André Samuel Dreiding at the University of Zurich . It was there in 1957 that he succeeded in the first separation, crystallization and structural analysis of betanine , the coloring agent in red cactus flowers. From 1966 Wyler worked in Lausanne, from 1967 as a lecturer.

Fonts (selection)

H. Wyler, MM Moll: Introduction au laboratoire de chimie organique: cours élémentaire de travaux pratiques . Lausanne (Université), Lausanne 1980, OCLC 78668259 .
H. Wyler: The Betalaine . In: Chemistry in Our Time . tape 3 , no. 5 , 1969, p. 146–151 , doi : 10.1002 / ciuz.19690030504 ( PDF ).
H. Wyler, U. Meuer: On the biogenesis of betacyans . In: Helvetica Chimica Acta . tape 62 , no. 4 , 1979, p. 1330-1339 , doi : 10.1002 / hlca.19790620447 .

Individual evidence

↑ Claudia Porchet: The secret of the red dye in beetroot and cacti. In: Unijournal. The newspaper of the University of Zurich. Vol. 36 (2006), No. 5, p. 15.
↑ H. Wyler, AS Dreiding: Crystallized betanin. Preliminary communication . In: Helvetica Chimica Acta . tape 40 , no. 1 , 1957, pp. 191–192 , doi : 10.1002 / hlca.19570400122 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wyler, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss chemist, phytochemistry
DATE OF BIRTH	1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremgarten , Canton of Aargau

[1] Claudia Porchet: The secret of the red dye in beetroot and cacti. In: Unijournal. The newspaper of the University of Zurich. Vol. 36 (2006), No. 5, p. 15.

[2] H. Wyler, AS Dreiding: Crystallized betanin. Preliminary communication . In: Helvetica Chimica Acta . tape 40 , no. 1 , 1957, pp. 191–192 , doi : 10.1002 / hlca.19570400122 .