Theophil Eicher

Theophil Eicher (born August 20, 1932 in Heidelberg ; † October 21, 2016 in Saarbrücken ) was a German chemist and university professor .

Eicher studied chemistry at Heidelberg University and received his doctorate there in 1960 . His doctoral supervisor was the later Nobel Prize winner Georg Wittig . He then continued his studies at Columbia University , New York with Ronald Breslow . He completed his habilitation in 1967 at the University of Würzburg under Siegfried Hünig with the topic "On the reaction of 1,2-diaryl-3-ethoxycyclopropenylium cations". Eicher became associate professor in 1973 and in 1974 received a call as HS-3 professor to a chair for organic chemistry at the University of Hamburg . From 1976 to 1982 he was full professor for organic chemistry at the University of Dortmund . From 1982 until his retirement in 2000 he was full professor for organic chemistry at Saarland University .

Work areas

His topics were the preparative chemistry of cyclopropenones and triafulvene , especially their use as C3 building blocks for the synthesis of carbocyclic and heterocyclic systems; the synthesis of natural products and active ingredients, with a focus on the synthesis of bryophyte ingredients and their mimetics and the application and development of stereoselective synthesis methods .

Works

• Reactions and syntheses (with LF Tietze , 1991)
• Chemistry and pharmacy for natural scientists (with Dieter Hänssgen, 1997)
• The Chemistry of Heterocycles (with S. Hauptmann and A. Speicher, 2003)
• Reactions and Synthesis (with LF Tietze, U. Diederichsen and A. Speicher, 2007)

literature

• Klaus Koschel: The development and differentiation of chemistry at the University of Würzburg. In: Peter Baumgart (Ed.): Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. Degener & Co. (Gerhard Gessner), Neustadt an der Aisch 1982 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 6), ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 , pp. 703–749; here: p. 743.

Web links

• Literature by and about Theophil Eicher in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Theophil Eicher. (No longer available online.) In: www.chemie.uni-hamburg.de. Archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 4, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Theophil Eicher in the Hamburg professor catalog (accessed on December 22, 2018)