Jocelyn Field Thorpe
Sir Jocelyn Field Thorpe (born December 1, 1872 in Clapham (London) , † June 19, 1940 in Cooden Beach , East Sussex ) was a British chemist.
Thorpe, the son of a lawyer, first studied engineering at King's College London from 1888 and chemistry at the Royal College of Science in South Kensington from 1890 and received his doctorate in organic chemistry under Victor Meyer at the University of Heidelberg , where he had been since 1892, in 1895 . He went to the University of Manchester, where he became a lecturer and obtained a D.Sc. received. From 1909 he did research for the Royal Society in Sheffield and in 1913 he became Professor of Organic Chemistry at Imperial College London . In 1938 he retired. In 1939 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor .
He dealt with camphor , terpenes and dicarboxylic acids, with nitriles and with tautomerism . According to him, the Thorpe reaction (1904, oligomerization of nitriles), the Thorpe-Ziegler reaction (with Karl Ziegler , 1904, also Thorpe-Ziegler nitrile cyclization), the Guareschi-Thorpe pyridine ring closure ( pyridine synthesis with Cyanoacetic ester) and the Thorpe-Ingold effect (gem-dimethyl effect, dialkyl effect), which describes the influence of geminal alkyl groups on the reaction rate and the equilibrium position of the ring closure (with Christopher Kelk Ingold 1915).
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society .
literature
- Entry in Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists. Harri Deutsch, 1989.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thorpe, Jocelyn Field |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Clapham (London) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1940 |
| Place of death | Cooden Beach |