Reiner Luckenbach
Reiner Luckenbach (born July 7, 1941 in Wuppertal ; † November 18, 2011 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German chemist who was director of the Beilstein Institute from 1978 to 1996 and thus editor of Beilstein's Handbook of Organic Chemistry .
Luckenbach studied chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and received his doctorate in 1969 ( on the representation, behavior and reactions of optically active phosphorus compounds and on the determination of their optical purity ). After that he was a scientific assistant until 1974 and then an assistant professor at the Institute for Organic Chemistry in Mainz. In 1974 he completed his habilitation and became a professor in Mainz. In 1978 he became director of the Beilstein Institute.
In 1995 he and Clemens Jochum received the Herman Skolnick Award from ACS (Division of Chemical Information).
Web links
- Literature by and about Reiner Luckenbach in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Reiner Luckenbach in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Title of the habilitation thesis: Contributions to the stereochemistry of nucleophilic substitution reactions on chiral acyclic tetracovalent phosphorus compounds .
- ↑ Biographical data from Luckenbach Do you know Beilstein? In: Chemie in our Zeit , Volume 15 (1981), No. 2, pp. 47-51, ISSN 1521-3781
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Luckenbach, Reiner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 2011 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |