Manfred Schulz (chemist)

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Manfred Schulz (born March 16, 1930 in Königszelt , Silesia ; † February 10, 2013 in Potsdam ) was a German chemist and university professor.

Life

Schulz spent his childhood in Stendal , where he started school in 1936. After graduating from high school in 1949, he began studying sugar technology in Berlin, but soon switched to chemistry. His diploma thesis on a natural substance topic was supervised by Ludwig Reichel . In 1959 Schulz received his doctorate as an academic student of Alfred Rieche , where he researched peroxides and worked at the newly founded Institute for Organic Chemistry in Berlin-Adlershof.

In 1968 he completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In the same year Schulz was appointed to the Technical University of Leuna-Merseburg . As a professor, Schulz stayed true to peroxide chemistry. He ended his scientific career - after the technical universities of Leuna-Merseburg had been wound up - as a professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle , where he retired in 1995.

In 1988 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Act

Schulz succeeded in obtaining peroxides of the cyclic benzyl ether phthalane using three different methods:

  • Autoxidation,
  • Implementation of suitable precursors with hydrogen peroxide and
  • Ozonolysis .

Schulz isolated peroxides when phenylhydrazones were exposed to air and was then able to reduce them to unexpectedly stable aryl diimides. A novel photoisomerization of azomethine imides led to diaziridines . In an extensive project in collaboration with industry, Schulz dealt with nitrogen-containing ring systems that were of interest as inhibitors.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ uni-halle.de: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Manfred Schulz (Organic Chemistry) 1930 - 2013 , accessed on September 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ Member entry of Manfred Schulz at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on September 16, 2013.
  3. ^ Ernst Schmitz : Manfred Schulz (1930-2013) , Nachrichten aus der Chemie 61 (2013), p. 939.
personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Royal tent , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2013
Place of death Potsdam