Kurt Issleib

Kurt Issleib (born November 19, 1919 , † August 23, 1994 ) was a German chemist ( inorganic chemistry , especially organic phosphorus chemistry). He was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the Martin Luther University in Halle .

biography

Kurt Issleib studied chemistry at the University of Jena from 1939 to 1948 , interrupted by five years of military service. He received his doctorate in 1950 under Franz Hein at the University of Jena ( investigations into the peculiarities of phosphines and their derivatives ) and completed his habilitation in 1958 in Jena ( coordination compounds of tertiary phosphines and phosphine oxides ). After that he was a lecturer there. In 1960 he received his call to Halle. There he was initially a professor with a teaching position and from 1962 as successor to Herbert Funk at the chair for inorganic chemistry, which he held until his retirement in 1985. After Helmut Werner, inorganic chemistry experienced a great boom with him in Halle. The chemistry section at the university was founded in 1969 and Issleib was its first director until 1971. He then headed the general and inorganic chemistry division in Halle. In 1985 he retired.

His academic students include Alfred Tzschach (University of Halle), Hans-Otto Fröhlich (Jena), Eberhard Wenschuh (Humboldt University of Berlin), Hartmut Oehme (Rostock), Hans-Peter Abicht and Horst Weichmann (Halle).

plant

He dealt with organic phosphorus chemistry and phosphorus pharmaceuticals and low-coordination phosphorus compounds. Issleib published over 300 scientific articles and held numerous patents. To the characterized by him Phophor pharmaceuticals heard that used as an antidote to snake venom trisodium phosphono . He isolated the first alkali metal diorganyl phosphides (before his time in Halle, which attracted international attention), synthesized cyclophosphanes and heterocycles with phosphorus and functionalized phosphonic and phosphinic acids . In the search for stable compounds with a double bond between phosphorus and carbon, he succeeded independently of Rolf Appel in isolating a connection with a hydrogen on phosphorus (instead of organic residues).

In the recognition for the Lieb commemorative coin, he was recognized as one of the most important inorganic chemists of the former GDR, who had decisively shaped the chemistry of phosphorus through many food for thought .

Memberships and honors

Issleib had been a member of the Leopoldina since 1969 . In 1979 he received the Clemens Winkler Medal from the Chemical Society of the GDR. In 1987 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

In 1991 he received the Liebig Medal and in 1992 an honorary doctorate from Heidelberg.

Fonts

• Organophosphorus chemistry: status and development. Nova Acta Leopoldina, Volume 40, 1974
• (Editor): Anomalies in ion exchange processes 1961. Plenary and discussion lectures at the symposium on "Anomalous processes in exchange adsorbents" in Weimar from April 13 to 15, 1961, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1962

literature

• Günther Rienäcker, Josef Goubeau, Harald Schäfer: Professor Kurt Issleib on his 60th birthday on November 19, 1979 , Journal for Inorganic and General Chemistry, Volume 458, 1979, pp. 7–8
• Helmut Werner: History of Inorganic Chemistry , Wiley-VCH 2016, p. 300

Web links

• Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on Issleib, Kurt. In: Römpp Online . Georg Thieme Verlag, accessed on January 2, 2015.
2. ↑ Quoted from Helmut Werner, Geschichte der Anorganischen Chemie, p. 301
3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 122.