Thomas Kauffmann

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Thomas Kauffmann (born November 20, 1924 in Reutlingen ; † February 23, 2012 ) was a German chemist and professor at the University of Münster .

Thomas Kaufmann was the son of the teacher Fritz Alexander Kauffmann and his wife Gertrud . He studied chemistry at the University of Würzburg and at the Technical University of Darmstadt and was in 1956 when Clemens scoop at Darmstadt Technical University with a dissertation entitled on sodium in organic synthesis to Dr. rer. nat. PhD. The habilitation also took place at the TH Darmstadt in 1960. In 1965 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Münster. In 1968 he was appointed full professor and director at the Institute of Organic Chemistry.

His main research interests were organometallic reagents , reagents for organic synthesis and heterocycle chemistry. His best-known development is the Kauffmann olefination which an organometallic alternative, similar to Tebbe methylenation , the Wittig reaction is.

After his retirement, Kauffmann wrote two autobiographical books.

Publications (selection)

  • In another time. Memories 1944 to 1950 . Kovač, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-8300-0442-7 .
  • Farewell lecture. A German organic-chemical "working group" between 1956 and 1993 . Kovač, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-8300-1688-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Obituary, press release from the University of Münster
  2. Thomas Kauffmann: New reactions of molybdenum and organic tungsten compounds: additive-reductive carbonyl dimerization, spontaneous conversion of methyl to μ-methylene ligands and selective carbonylmethylenation . In: Angewandte Chemie , 109, 1997, pp. 1312-1329 ( doi : 10.1002 / anie.19971091205 ).