Wilhelm Schlenk
Wilhelm Johann Schlenk (born March 22, 1879 in Munich , † April 29, 1943 in Tübingen ) was a German chemist .
life and work
Schlenk completed a chemistry degree in Munich, which he completed in 1905 with a dissertation under Oskar Piloty . After a brief activity in the chemical industry, he returned to Munich, where he completed his habilitation in 1909 . In 1913 he accepted a call to the University of Jena, from there to Vienna in 1918 and to Berlin in 1921 as Emil Fischer's successor . After the National Socialists came to power, he remained true to his democratic convictions and kept his distance from the regime. Therefore, he was transferred to a chair at the University of Tübingen in 1935.
In 1925 he became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Since 1922 he was a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and since 1935 a foreign member . In 1933 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . From the German Chemical Society , of which he was chairman from 1926 to 1928, he was expelled in 1942 because of a lack of loyalty to the regime.
Schlenk was one of the founders of organometallic chemistry and was particularly concerned with the air-sensitive organolithium, sodium and magnesium compounds as well as the chemistry of the stable free radicals discovered by Moses Gomberg .
Are named after him, the Schlenk equilibrium of Grignard reagents and Schlenk technique for chemical operations excluding air.
Honors
- Love Prize 1917
- The Arfvedson Schlenk Prize of the Society of German Chemists was donated in his memory. It is also named after the Swedish chemist Johan August Arfwedson .
Publications (selection)
- Organic chemistry , Berlin: de Gruyter 1949, 5th, verb. Edition, (Göschen Collection; Vol. 38), 11th edition 1968
- Instructions for technical mass analysis: For use in the Chem. Laboratorium d. State of Munich , compiled by W. Schlenk, Munich: Chem. Laboratorium d. State 1911
swell
- TT Tidwell: Wilhelm Schlenk: the Man Behind the Flask. In: Ang. Chem. Intl. Ed. 40 (2001) pp. 331–337 (PDF; 314 kB)
- R. Anwander: Schlenk in Tübingen . In: Nachr. Aus der Chemie 59 , 951-953 (2011) doi : 10.1002 / nadc.201190065
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Schlenk , members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Wilhelm Schlenk. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on June 11, 2015 .
- ↑ Member entry of Wilhelm Schlenk (senior) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 21, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schlenk, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schlenk, Wilhelm Johann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1943 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |