Karl Heinz Büchel

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Karl Heinz Büchel (born December 10, 1931 in Beuel ; † January 11, 2020 ) was a German chemist and member of the Board of Management of Bayer AG .

Büchel studied at the University of Bonn and received his doctorate there in 1958 . He then worked as an assistant and spent five years in research at Royal Dutch Shell. From 1966 he was in the main scientific laboratory of Bayer AG, was head of chemical research on crop protection in Elberfeld from 1971 and headed the main laboratory from 1975. In 1976 he became director and headed central research at Bayer AG. From 1977 to 1994 he was a member of the board and was responsible for research and development. In 1995 he retired.

From 1973 he held lectures on organic chemistry at RWTH Aachen University and was honorary professor there from 1975 . From 1989 he also taught as an honorary professor at the University of Bonn. He was qualified as a professor.

He was a co-developer of the very successful anti-fungal agent clotrimazole (approved as Canesten in Germany from 1973) at Bayer. Its synthesis in 1967 was the first of a whole class of new fungicides and antimycotics , the conazoles . He was also involved in other pesticides, insecticides and anti-fungal agents (Bayer products Mycospor, Bayleton, Baytan, Baycor, Peropal, Goltix, Folicur).

Büchel received several honorary doctorates (including 1985 Bielefeld, TU Munich (1981).) In 2003 he became an honorary citizen of the University of Bonn. In addition, Büchel became a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and, since 1994, of the Leopoldina . In the 2010s he was still a member of the administrative board of the University of Bonn.

Büchel was co-editor of the Houben-Weyl , the manual "Methods of Organic Chemistry" and standard work of chemical literature.

On November 25, 1993 Büchel was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Büchel collected postage stamps privately.

Fonts (selection)

  • Editor: Plant Protection and Pest Control , Georg Thieme 1994
  • with Hans-Heinrich Moretto, Peter Woditsch Industrielle Inorganische Chemie , Wiley-VCH, 3rd edition 1999 (the 4th edition from 2013 is completely revised and by Martin Bertau, Armin Müller, Peter Fröhlich and Michael Katzberg)
    • English edition Industrial Inorganic Chemistry , 2nd edition, Wiley-VCH 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bayer mourns Karl Heinz Büchel , Leverkusener Anzeiger, January 15, 2020. In addition, obituary notice in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung January 18, 2020. In the first reports, January 10 was also mentioned.
  2. ^ List of Professor Emeriti at RWTH Aachen University
  3. ↑ KH Büchel, W. Draber, E. Regel, M. Plempel: Synthesis and properties of clotrimazole and other antifungal 1-triphenylmethylimidazoles. In: Arzneimittel-Forschung / Drug Research . 22/1972. Editio Cantor Verlag, pp. 1260-1272, ISSN  0004-4172 .
  4. ↑ Honorary doctorates from Bielefeld University ( Memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Honorary doctorates from the Technical University of Munich .
  6. ^ Website of the University of Bonn. Retrieved November 3, 2011.
  7. ↑ Member list of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
  8. ^ Member entry of Karl Heinz Büchel at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 11, 2015.
  9. ↑ Administrative Board of the University of Bonn 2013–2015 .
  10. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Büchel, Karl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Bump
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 2020