Wolfgang Beck (chemist)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wolfgang Maximilian Beck (born May 5, 1932 in Munich ) is a German chemist ( inorganic chemistry , organometallic chemistry , complex chemistry ) and lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Beck received his doctorate in 1960 under Walter Hieber at the Technical University of Munich ( on the structure of some metal carbonyl and nitrosyl compounds ) and completed his habilitation in 1963 at the Technical University of Munich. From 1968 he was a full professor of inorganic and analytical chemistry at the University of Munich. In 2000 he was retired.

In 1977 he was visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison .

He dealt with pseudo- halogeno metal compounds (fulminates, azides), metal complexes with biologically important ligands (amino acids, peptides, sugars, nucleobases, quinine), organometallic Lewis acids and complexes with hydrocarbon bridges. He dealt with platinum complexes as chemotherapeutic agents against cancer and with metal-mediated synthesis of oligopeptides and cyclotetrapeptides . He wrote around 650 essays. He is the co-author of high school chemistry textbooks and has supervised over 130 doctoral students.

In 1994 he received the Liebig Memorial Medal from the Society of German Chemists and in 1967 the Chemistry Prize from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 2002 he was awarded the Lavoisier Medal for Organic Biometallic Chemistry in Paris (which was first awarded to him). In 2011 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich (Dr. hc).

Fonts

  • with Karl Häusler: Chemistry for high schools, 2 volumes, Cornelsen 1984
  • with Ludwig Killian, Karl Häusler a. a .: Chemistry, part 1–3, Oldenbourg 1992 to 1995
  • Complex metal fulminates, Organometallic Chemistry Rev. A 7, 1971, p. 159
  • with B. Niemer, M. Wieser: Methods for the synthesis of ( hydrocarbon) transition metal complexes without metal-metal bond, Angewandte Chemie, Volume 105, 1993, pp. 969-996
  • Metal pseudo-halogen compounds, addition of the azide ion and other N-nucleophiles to coordinated carbon monoxide and CO-like ligands, and related reactions. Azido and isocyanato-carbonyl metal complexes, J. Organometallic Chemistry, Volume 383, 1990, pp 143-160
  • with K. Severin, R., Bergs: Biometallorganische Chemie - transition metal complexes with amino acids and peptides, Angewandte Chemie, Volume 110, 1998, pp. 1722-1743
  • with K. Sünkel: Metall complexes of weakly coordinating anions. Precursors of strong cationic organometallic Lewis acids, Chemical Reviews, Volume 88, 1998, pp. 1405-1421
  • The first chemical achievements and publications of Justus v. Liebig (1803–1873) on metal fulminates and some further developments in metal fulminates and related areas of chemistry, European J. Inorganic Chemistry, 2003
  • with Kay Severin: Biometallorganic Chemistry. A fascinating area of ​​research, Chemistry in Our Time, Volume 36, 2002, Issue 6, pp. 356–365
  • with B. Lippert: Platinum Complexes in Cancer Therapy, Chemistry in Our Time, Volume 17, 1983, p. 190
  • Metal ions and metal complexes as protective groups of amino acids and peptides-reactions of coordinated amino acids, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, Volume 64b, 2009, pp. 1221-1245
  • Formation of peptides in the coordination sphere of metal ions and of classical and organometallic complexes and some aspects of prebiotic chemistry, Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie Volume 637, 2011, pp. 1647–1672
  • A glance on pentacarbonylrhenate (-I) and on the (umpolte) pentacarbonylrhenium (+ I) cation, Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie Volume 639, 2013, pp. 2117-2124
  • with Wolf Peter Fehlhammer: Azide Chemistry-an inorganic perspective, Part I Metal azides, Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, Volume 639, 2013, pp. 1053-1082
  • with Wolf Peter Fehlhammer: Azide chemistry-an inorganic perspective-Part II [3 + 2] -cycloaddition reactions of metal azides and related systems, Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie Volume 649,2015, pp. 1599–1678

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of life according to Kürschner's scholar's calendar.
  2. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Wolfgang Beck at academictree.org, accessed on January 6, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beck, Wolfgang Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich