Wilfried König (chemist)
Wilfried A. König (born October 28, 1939 in Römerstadt , † November 19, 2004 in Hamburg ) was a German chemist .
Life
After the Second World War, the born Sudeten German moved to the Federal Republic of Germany with his family. In 1959, König began studying chemistry in Tübingen . Here he became a member of the Unitas Association in 1959 . In 1968 he received his doctorate under the then Nestor of Analytical Organic Chemistry in Germany Ernst Bayer (1927–2002). He became a postdoc in Houston , Texas . He completed his habilitation in Tübingen in 1974 and was given a chair for analytical and organic chemistry in Hamburg in 1975 .
The chromatographic separation of enantiomers became his main area of research. In 1988 he developed a new method of enantioselective gas chromatography using modified cyclodextrins as a carrier substance . It is now one of the standards for the analysis of racemates . In addition, he made an important contribution to the structure identification of complicated natural products , especially the breakdown products of organisms by mass spectrometry . Among other things, he improved the fast atom bombardment ionization technique for peptide analysis. In 2004 he was honored with the Golay Award .
Fonts
- with Daniel Joulain: The Atlas of Spectral Data of Sesquiterpene Hydrocarbons. EB-Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-930826-48-8 .
- Gas Chromatographic Enantiomer Separation with Modified Cyclodextrins. Hüthig, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-7785-2026-1 .
- Mass spectrometric studies on peptides. Tübingen 1968 (Tübingen, Univ., Mathemat.-Naturwiss. Faculty, Diss., June 24, 1968).
Web links
- Short biography and list of publications at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hamburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 5 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-87710-502-5 , p. 250 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | King, Wilfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | König, Wilfried A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roman city |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 2004 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |