Robert Purrmann
Robert Purrmann (born January 30, 1914 in Paris , † January 20, 1992 ) was a German chemist .
The parents were the painter and graphic artist Hans Purrmann and the painter Mathilde Vollmoeller .
In 1919, Purrmann moved with his parents to Langenargen on Lake Constance and went to school there. As a student of Heinrich Otto Wieland at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich, he received his doctorate degree on April 22, 1940. phil. PhD, with the dissertation "On the constitution of xanthopterin and leukopterin ". He also completed his habilitation there. After the end of the Second World War, on October 12, 1945, he married Mechtild von König, daughter of the painter Leo von König and his pupil Anna von Hansemann (1897–1992). Robert Purrmann's marriage has three children. In January 1948 he founded the company "ESPE / Factory Pharmaceutical Preparations" GmbH in Seefeld (Bavaria, Ammersee) with the chemist Werner Schmitt, also a Wieland student who had completed his habilitation . They derived the company name from the first letters of their surnames, pronounced like "es" and "pe". Purrmann was the managing director of ESPE GmbH for many years and lived in Starnberg. Today ESPE GmbH is a subsidiary of 3M .
Services
For the first time, Purrmann clarified the structure of pterins by chemical synthesis , u. a. Leucopterin and xanthopterin . With this he opened up the area of pteridines , an important class of natural substances. For his company he received several patents in the field of chemistry. With his cousin Heidi Vollmoeller he set up the Hans-Purrmann-Archiv in Munich.
Publications
- Robert Purrmann: About the dyes in butterflies. In: Angew. Chem. 56: 253-258 (1943). doi : 10.1002 / anie.19430563702 .
- Robert Purrmann: Pterine. Advances in the chemistry of organic natural products 4 , 64-86 (1945).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nachrichten aus Chemie, Technik und Laboratorium, 40, 637 (1992).
- ↑ a b Eva-Maria Herbertz, Life in His Shadow. Women of famous artists. Edition monacensia. 2nd edition, Allitera Verlag, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-86906-052-1
- ^ Elisabeth Kraus (ed.), The University of Munich in the Third Reich, Volume 2 essays: Elisabeth Faupel.
- ↑ Aspen 100 percent American
- ↑ Hans Purrmann Archive
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Purrmann, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1992 |