Reinhard Schmutzler
Georg Reinhard Schmutzler (born July 28, 1934 in Schwabach near Nuremberg ; † July 26, 2014 ) was a German chemist .
Life
In 1952, Schmutzler began studying chemistry at the University of Würzburg, graduating with a diploma, and was awarded his doctorate in 1960 at the University of Stuttgart under Fritz Seel (fluorophosphine complexes of nickel). He then worked as a research chemist at DuPont in the USA, interrupted by a year with Harry Emeléus at Cambridge University . In 1967 he became Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University and in 1969 Professor of the newly created Chair B for Inorganic Chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig . The chairs A and B were added to the Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry in 1985. In 2002, Schmutzler retired. He lived in Wolfenbüttel .
He was particularly concerned with organic phosphorus chemistry. In the 1960s, he gained his work on organic fluorine-phosphorus compounds (fluorine Phosphoranes international recognition). He developed synthetic methods and studied the compounds using NMR spectroscopy and their reactions with alcohols and amines. Organic phosphorus and fluorine compounds remained his main area of research afterwards.
He has made around 500 publications and supervised around 100 doctoral students. He made numerous scientific contacts in Braunschweig, initially in the Anglo-Saxon region and Japan, and later also in Eastern Europe. He also worked closely with industry (for example, studying phosphorus-nitrogen compounds for cytostatic effects).
literature
- Rainer Bartsch, Matthias Tamm : Reinhard Schmutzler (1934–2014) ; Obituary. In: Nachrichten aus der Chemie , Volume 62, November 2014, doi: 10.1002 / nadc.201490390
Web links
- Jürgen Hesselbach : The Technical University of Braunschweig mourns the loss of Prof. em. Dr. rer. nat. Reinhard Schmutzler . Website of the TU Braunschweig
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of birth Kürschner, German Scholar Calendar 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmutzler, Reinhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmutzler, Georg Reinhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 2014 |