Kurt Mislow

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Kurt Martin Mislow (born June 5, 1923 in Berlin - † October 5, 2017 ) was an American chemist . He was a professor emeritus of chemistry at Princeton University and was considered one of the world's leading experts in stereochemistry .

Life

Mislow grew up in Düsseldorf as the son of a Jewish representative for electrical appliances. In 1936 the family went to Italy on the run from the National Socialists. He attended school in Milan and from 1938 in England, where he and his father were interned as hostile foreigners on the Isle of Man even when the war began. In 1940 the family went to the USA. He earned his bachelor's degree from Tulane University in 1944 and was in 1947 at Caltech with Linus Pauling with the work Part I. The synthesis of potential antimaterials. Some 2-substituted 8- (3-diethylaminopropylaminol) -quinolines. Part II. Isomorphism in relation to serological specificity. Part III. A study of the reaction Hammick doctorate . He was then an instructor, from 1951 Assistant Professor, 1956 Associate Professor and 1960 at New York University . From 1964 he was Hugh Stott Taylor Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, where he headed the chemistry faculty from 1968 to 1974 and retired in 1988.

He dealt with theoretical stereochemistry, particularly molecular chirality (which he is considered to be one of the founders after Louis Pasteur introduced the concept in the 19th century). From the 1990s onwards he dealt with the development and classification of novel topological structures (nodes, links) in chemistry. The beginning of his occupation with stereochemistry was inspired by a book manuscript by George Wheland in the late 1940s.

In 1956 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the ETH Zurich and in 1974 in Cambridge. He has received several honorary doctorates (Free University of Brussels, Tulane University , University of Düsseldorf (1994), University of Uppsala). In 1986 he received the Prelog Medal in Zurich, 1972 the Solvay Medal of the University of Brussels, 1975 the James Flack Norris Award of the American Chemical Society (ACS), 1987 the William H. Nichols Medal , 1985 the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the ACS . From 1959 to 1962 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1990, 1991 and 1994 he was a Sherman Fairchild Scholar at Caltech . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1972), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1974) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science , and an external member of the Accademia dei Lincei .

He had been married since 1966 and had two sons.

Fonts

  • Introduction to Stereochemistry , Benjamin 1965
    • German edition: Introduction to Stereochemistry, Verlag Chemie 1972
  • with Richard Bolstad, Molecular Dissymmetry and Optical Inactivity , J. Am. Chem. Soc., 77, 6712 (1955).
  • with Morton Raban Stereoisomeric Relationships of Groups in Molecules , in NL Allinger, EL Eliel (editor) Topics in Stereochemistry , Volume 1, Wiley 1967, Chapter 1
  • On the Classification of Pairwise Relations Between Isomeric Structures , Bull. Soc. Chim. Belg., 86, 595 (1977).
  • with Jay Siegel, Stereoisomerism and Local Chirality , J. Am. Chem. Soc., 106, 3319 (1984).
  • Stereoisomerism and Conformational Directionality , Chimia, 40, 395 (1986).
  • Molecular Machinery in Organic Chemistry , Chemtracts-Org. Chem., 2, 151 (1989).
  • with Andrzej B. Buda, Thomas Auf der Heyde On Quantifying Chirality , Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 31, 989 (1992).
  • with Chengzhi Liang Topological Features of Protein Structures: Knots and Links , J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 4201 (1995).
  • with Noham Weinberg A Unification of Chirality Measures , J. Math. Chem., 17, 35 (1995).
  • with J.-C. Chambron, J.-P. Sauvage A Chemically Achiral Molecule with No Rigidly Achiral Presentations , J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 9558 (1997).
  • Molecular Chirality , in SE Denmark Topics in Stereochemistry , Volume 22, Wiley 1999, Chapter 1

literature

  • Istvan Hargittai: Interview with Mislow, Chemical Intelligencer 1998, No. 3, reprinted in Hargittai, Hargittai (Ed.), The culture of chemistry, Springer 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Kurt Mislow, pioneer in stereochemistry, dies at 94. Princeton University , October 27, 2017, accessed October 29, 2017 .
  3. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Kurt M. Mislow at academictree.org, accessed on 31 December 2017th
  4. ^ Mislow interview with Hargittai, Chemical Intelligencer 1998, No. 3
personal data
SURNAME Mislow, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mislow, Kurt Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 2017