Philip Kraft

Philip Kraft sniffing the gas chromatograph

Philip Kraft (born March 24, 1969 in Rendsburg ) is a German fragrance chemist. Since 1996 he has been employed by Givaudan , the world's largest manufacturer of fragrances and flavors , since 2001 in the role of group leader for the synthesis of new fragrances. He is also a lecturer at the University of Bern , the University of Zurich and, since the fall semester 2010/11, at the ETH Zurich .

Life

After high school and military service , where he worked in forensic chemistry and analytics , Kraft studied chemistry from 1989 to 1994 at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and graduated with a diploma thesis on the subject of “Targeted Fragrance Synthesis”. From 1994 to 1996 he worked in the working group of Werner Daughtermann as a scholarship holder of the Association of the Chemical Industry on " macrocyclic fragrances through ring expansion of cycloalkanones with chiral synthetic building blocks". He received his doctorate summa cum laude in 1996 and received the faculty award of the Christian Albrechts University in 1997. Since 1996 he has been working at Givaudan's research center in Dübendorf ( Switzerland ) on the synthesis of new fragrances, with a focus on musk bodies and floral notes. In the autumn semester 2008/09 he read “Fragrance Chemistry” at the University of Bern , then at the University of Zurich and since the autumn semester 2010/11 at the ETH Zurich .

His hobby is font design . He designed some fonts for typefaces that he used for his publications. They are now on offer at URW Type Foundry and are represented in the Klingspor Museum .

Publications and patents

To date, Kraft has written 78 publications in specialist journals and is the inventor or co-inventor of currently 30 patents . Popular review articles are “Fragrance Chemistry”, “All sorts of trends: The latest developments in fragrance chemistry” and “New and unusual natural substances in fascinating floral scents” as well as the book chapter “Musks”. He was co-organizer of the Flavor & Fragrance conference series of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of the Chemical Industry in Manchester in 2004 and in London in 2007, which Kraft is now continuing with the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker .

Books

• Philip Kraft, Karl AD Swift, “ Perspectives in Flavor and Fragrance Research ” , Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta, Zurich, and WILEY-VCH Verlag, Weinheim, 2005, ISBN 3-906390-36-5 .
• Philip Kraft, Karl AD Swift, “ Current Topics in Flavor and Fragrance Research ” , Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta, Zurich, and WILEY-VCH Verlag, Weinheim, 2008, ISBN 978-3-906390-49-9 .
• Günther Ohloff , Wilhelm Pickenhagen, Philip Kraft: “ Scent and Chemistry - The Molecular World of Odors ” , Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta, Zurich, 2011, ISBN 978-3-906390-66-6 .

Inventions

• Super Muguet (6-ethyl-3-methyloct-6-en-1-ol): " Marc Jacobs Men " ( Givenchy , 2003).
• Azuron (7-isopentyl-2 H -benzo [ b ] [1,4] dioxepin-3 (4 H ) -one): " Oscar Marina Spirit " ( Oscar de la Renta , 2005), " Sécrétions Magnifiques " (Etat Libre d'Orange, 2007).
• Pomarose ((2 E ) -5,6,7-trimethylocta-2,5-diene-4-one): " Be Delicious for Men " ( DKNY , 2005), " Unforgivable " ( Sean John , 2006), " Unforgivable Woman "(Sean John, 2007)," John Galliano "( John Galliano , 2008)," 1 Million "( Paco Rabanne , 2009)," CK free "( Calvin Klein , 2009).
• Serenolide (cyclopropanecarboxylic acid 2- (1- (3,3-dimethylcyclohexyl) ethoxy) -2-methylpropyl ester): " Polo Double Black " ( Ralph Lauren , 2005), " Unforgivable Woman " ( Sean John , 2007), " John Galliano «( John Galliano , 2008).
• Sylkolide ((3 ' E ) -Cyclopropanecarboxylic acid -2 - ((3', 5'-dimethylhex-3'-en-2'-yl) oxy) -2-methylpropylester, 2010): " Core for Men " ( GAP , 2010).
• Cassyrane (2- ( tert -butyl) -5-methyl-2-propyl-2,5-dihydrofuran, 2010).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lecturers ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Bern, accessed on July 19, 2014. 
2. ↑ Philip Kraft at the University of Zurich, accessed on July 19, 2014.
3. ↑ Philip Kraft: Catalog data in the fall semester 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at ETH Zurich, accessed on July 19, 2014. Philip Kraft: Learning units in the fall semester 2014 at ETH Zurich, accessed on July 19, 2014. 
4. ↑ P. Kraft, K. Popaj, A. Abate, Design, Synthesis and Olfactory Properties of 2-Substituted 2- tert -Butyl-5-methyl-2,5-dihydrofurans: seco -Derivatives of Theaspiranes, Synthesis 2005 , 2798– 2809 (with short biography, English); doi : 10.1055 / s-2005-918404 .
5. ↑ FontForum: Dr. Philip Kraft ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , urwpp.de, accessed on July 19, 2014. 
6. ↑ Philip Kraft , klingspor-museum.de, accessed on July 19, 2014.
7. ↑ G. Fráter, JA Bajgrowicz, P. Kraft, Tetrahedron 1998 , 54 , 7633-7703 (with short biography, English).
8. ↑ P. Kraft, YES Bajgrowicz, C. Denis, G. Fráter, All kinds of trends: The latest developments in fragrance chemistry, Angew. Chem. 2000 , 112 , 3106-3138 (with short biography, German).
9. ↑ R. Kaiser , P. Kraft, New and Unusual Natural Substances of Fascinating Flower Fragrances, Chem. Unserer Zeit 2001 , 8–23 (with short biography, German); doi : 10.1002 / 1521-3781 (200101) 35: 1 <8 :: AID-CIUZ8> 3.0.CO; 2-F
10. ^ P. Kraft, Musks in Chemistry and Technology of Flavors and Fragrances , Ed. DJ Rowe, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, 2004, ISBN 1-4051-1450-9 , pp. 143-168.
11. ↑ P. Kraft, W. Eichenberger, Synthesis and Odor of Aliphatic Musks: Discovery of a New Class of Odorants, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2004 , 354-365; doi : 10.1002 / ejoc.200300578 .
12. ↑ H. Mouhib, W. Stahl, M. Lüthy, M. Büchel, P. Kraft, Currant scent from the microwave perspective: Fragrance properties and gas phase structures of all Cassyran stereoisomers and their dihydro derivatives, Angew. Chem. 2011 , 123 , 5691-5695; doi : 10.1002 / anie.201100937 .