William Theilheimer
William Theilheimer (born on November 11, 1914 in Augsburg as Wilhelm Theilheimer; died on July 14, 2005 ) was a German-born American chemist and pioneer of chemical documentation. He is known for his handbook series Synthetic Methods of Organic Chemistry , which was published by S. Karger in Basel from 1946 and was later continued in English as Synthetic Methods of Organic Chemistry . From 1982 it was called Theilheimer's Synthetic Methods of Organic Chemistry .
Life
Theilheimer emigrated from Germany in 1937 because he was Jewish and was therefore persecuted by the National Socialists. In 1940 he received his doctorate in organic chemistry from the University of Basel , where he was Hans Erlenmeyer's assistant until 1947 . There he published the first edition of his Synthetic Methods of Organic Chemistry (the first volume dealing with the literature from 1942 to 1944), developing his own notation for their classification. The reactions were differentiated according to the chemical bond created and broken, and into addition, elimination, rearrangement and exchange.
From 1948 he was at Hoffmann-La Roche in their seat in Nutley (New Jersey) and continued his work on his manual there. Between 1948 and 1959 he was a consultant, between 1959 and 1963 Literature Chemist and from 1964 to 1981 Resident Consultant at Hoffmann-La Roche. In 1981 he retired and Alan F. Finch published his manual.
The English follow-up volumes, which treat the respective literature from the previous year as yearbooks, were published by S. Karger from 1951. From Volume 8 (1954) there was a section Trends in Synthetic Organic Chemistry . Volume 70 was published in 2007.
Its classification system was adopted in various databases for reactions in the 1980s (Molecular Design Limited (MDL) and Organic Reactions Accessed by Computer (ORAC), both later at Maxwell Communications Corp.).
In 1987 he received the Herman Skolnik Award from the ACS Division of Chemical Information.
Fonts
- Synthetic Methods of Organic Chemistry, Basel: Karger, 1946 to 1948, continued from 1951 (Volume 5) as a series of yearbooks Synthetic Methods of Organic Chemistry , from 1982 (from Volume 36) Theilheimer's Synthetic Methods of Organic Chemistry by S. Karger
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b State Archives Basel-Stadt Signature: PD-REG 3a 28188
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Theilheimer, William |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Theilheimer, Wilhelm (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 2005 |