Leopold Horner

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Schulz-Horner building of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in honor of Leopold Horner and Günter Victor Schulz .

Leopold Horner (born August 24, 1911 in Kehl ; † October 5, 2005 in Mainz ) was a German chemist .

life and work

Horner studied chemistry in the 1930s, and in 1935 he was started with a thesis on “Knowledge of Vomicin: Degradation of Vomicidin; About Strychnos alkaloids XVIII "in Munich with the Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Otto Wieland doctorate . He completed his habilitation there in 1942. He then worked at the plastics institute in Frankfurt am Main . In 1950 he became a professor in Frankfurt and in 1953 went to the University of Mainz .

Horner was one of the pioneers of asymmetric catalysis and a luminary in the field of organophosphorus compounds. He is the discoverer of the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction , in which aldehydes or ketones react with enolates of alkyl phosphonic acid esters (phosphonate carbanions) to form olefins.

Awards

Leopold Horner was awarded the Liebig Medal of the Society of German Chemists (GDCh) in 1973 , and from 2005 he was an honorary member of the GDCh. In addition, from 1975 he was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , which awarded him the Cothenius Medal in 2001 . In 1995 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences at the University of Karlsruhe .

On January 23, 2019, building 2321 of the chemistry / physics lecture center at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz was given the name Schulz-Horner building.

literature

  • H. Kunz: Leopold Horner (1911-2005): Nestor of preparative organic chemistry. In: Angew. Chem. 117. 2005, 7833.
  • G. Schröder: Leopold Horner - Who is it. In: Nachr. Chem. Tech. 1973, 289.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Leopold Horner at academictree.org, accessed on February 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Horner, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Throat
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 2005
Place of death Mainz