Walter Dieckmann

Dieckmann in 1893 as a private assistant to A. v. Baeyer

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Walter Dieckmann (born October 8, 1869 in Hamburg , † January 12, 1925 in Munich ) was a German chemist and associate professor.

Life

The son of a businessman, he studied chemistry at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg (today Technische Universität Berlin) and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München . Dieckmann received his doctorate in Munich as an academic student of Eugen Bamberger in 1892 , then he worked as a private assistant to Adolf von Baeyer and then worked at the Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik (today's BASF SE). In 1894 he returned to the University of Munich and completed his habilitation in 1898. Dieckmann was an associate professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Example: product of multiple Dieckmann condensation

During his habilitation phase, Dieckmann discovered the Dieckmann condensation named after him , an intramolecular ester condensation that is similar to the ( intermolecular ) Claisen condensation . The Dieckmann condensation later found wide application in the synthesis of polycyclic and macrocyclic compounds.

↑ Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the assistance of Heinz Cassebaum : Lexicon of important chemists , VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1988, pp. 116–117, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .
^ László Kürti , Barbara Czakó: Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis , Elsevier Academic Press, Amsterdam 2005, pp. 138-139, ISBN 978-0-12-369483-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Dieckmann, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 8, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 1925
Place of death	Munich