Theodor Wagner-Jauregg

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Theodor Wagner-Jauregg (born May 2, 1903 in Vienna ; † February 19, 1992 ) was an Austrian chemist.

Wagner-Jauregg reaction

He was the son of the Nobel Prize winner Julius Wagner-Jauregg , studied chemistry from 1921 at the University of Vienna and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1926 . As a post-doctoral student he was with Richard Kuhn at the ETH Zurich and followed Kuhn in 1930 to Heidelberg, where he completed his habilitation in 1933 .

From 1936 he headed the chemistry department and from 1943 biochemistry at the Georg-Speyer-Haus in Frankfurt. In addition, from 1939 he was an adjunct professor at the University of Frankfurt. He joined the NSDAP in 1937.

From 1949 to 1955 he was in the USA at the Chemical Corps Medical Laboratory in Edgewood (Maryland) , where he had the department of medicinal chemistry. From 1955 he was research director at Siegfried AG in Zofingen . In 1972 he retired. He is buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery, where his father is also resting.

Grave of T. Wagner-Jauregg and his wife Hermine and their parents

The Wagner-Jauregg reaction is named after him, a special case of the Diels-Alder reaction (a double Diels-Alder reaction when maleic anhydride is reacted with 1,2-diarylethene.) After re-aromatization, it involves the addition of a phenyl group to naphthalene addition.

In 1933, together with Richard Kuhn and Paul György, he presented vitamin B2 in crystal form. His main research area was chemotherapeutic agents.

literature

  • Entry in Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 651.
  2. ↑ Graves of honor in the Central Cemetery Vienna .
  3. ^ Wagner-Jauregg, On adding hetero-polymerisation , reports of the German Chemical Society, 68, 1930, p. 3218.
  4. ↑ Wagner-Jauregg, The addition of maleic anhydride to asymmetric diphenyl-ethylene, Liebigs Annalen, Volume 491, 1931.
  5. ↑ Diarylethenes have two aryl radicals on one ethene .
personal data
SURNAME Wagner-Jauregg, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1992