Wolfgang Kirmse
Wolfgang Kirmse (born June 26, 1930 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German chemist and former professor of organic chemistry at the Ruhr University in Bochum (organic chemistry II).
Kirmse studied chemistry in Frankfurt and Mainz from 1948, received his doctorate in 1955 in Frankfurt under Leopold Horner and completed his habilitation in Mainz in 1959 (reactions with carbenes and imines as intermediate stages: for the photochemical and thermal conversion of organic nitrogen compounds). 1959/60 he was at Yale University with William von Eggers Doering . From 1964 he was associate professor and from 1967 full professor in Marburg and from 1970 at the Ruhr University Bochum.
He dealt with reactive intermediates, carbenes , carbocations, rearrangement reactions and reaction mechanisms and with compounds with small rings and bridges.
In 1987 he received the Adolf von Baeyer Memorial Medal .
Fonts
- Carbene, Chemistry in Our Time, December 1969
- Carbene Chemistry, Academic Press 1971 (2nd edition of: Wolfgang Kirmse, Carbene, Carbenoide und Carbenanaloge, Chemische Taschenbücher 7, Verlag Chemie 1969)
- Rearrangements of Carbocations - Stereochemistry and Mechanism, Topics in Current Chemistry, Volume 80, 1979, p. 128
- Metastable Norbornyl Cations, Acc. Chem. Res., Vol. 19, 1986, p. 36
- with TW Bentley, B. Goer: Factors influencing the relative stabilities of bridged carbocations, J. Organ. Chem., Vol. 53, 1988, p. 3066
- with K. Kund: Intramolecular generation of Oxonium Ylides from functionalized Acrylcarbenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 111, 1989, p. 1465
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Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Kirmse, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |