Reinhard Jira

Reinhard Jira (born April 11, 1929 in Cham (Upper Palatinate) ) is a German chemist who was head of research at Wacker Chemie .

Jira did his doctorate with Ernst Otto Fischer at the University of Munich (he carried out experiments that led to the discovery of the sandwich structure of ferrocene ) and had been with Wacker Chemie in Burghausen since 1955, where he stayed for the rest of his professional life and became head of research.

At the end of the 1950s at Wacker Chemie, together with Walter Hafner and Jürgen Smidt, he developed the Wacker-Hoechst process (2nd Wacker process) for the production of acetaldehyde in the petrochemical industry , which caused a revolution at the time.

Web links

A brilliant success, Wacker Chemie 2017

Individual evidence

^ Address book Deutscher Chemiker, Verlag Chemie 1956. At that time already listed as a doctorate and as a chemist at the Consortium for Electrochemical Industry (ie Wacker Chemie).
^ Ernst Otto Fischer (1918-2007), Technical University of Munich

personal data
SURNAME	Jira, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cham (Upper Palatinate)

[1] Address book Deutscher Chemiker, Verlag Chemie 1956. At that time already listed as a doctorate and as a chemist at the Consortium for Electrochemical Industry (ie Wacker Chemie).

[2] Ernst Otto Fischer (1918-2007), Technical University of Munich