Wolfgang Oppolzer
Wolfgang Oppolzer (born August 4, 1937 in Vienna , † March 15, 1996 in Geneva ) was an Austro-Swiss chemist who worked in the field of natural product synthesis .
After studying at the University of Vienna , Oppolzer did his doctorate on rifamycin from 1960 under Vladimir Prelog (ETH Zurich) . He then went to Harvard as a postdoc in 1964 with Elias J. Corey and stayed at the Woodward Research Institute in Basel for two years . From 1967 he worked at Sandoz . In 1974 he was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Geneva .
Web links
- Overview of syntheses by Wolfgang Oppolzer , August 11, 2006
Individual evidence
- ^ A b E. Peter Kündig: Oppolzer, Wolfgang. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 579 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ See also Vladimir Prelog, Wolfgang Oppolzer: Ansamycine , a new class of microbial metabolic products . In: Helvetica Chimica Acta . tape 56 , no. 7 , 1973, p. 2279-2287 , doi : 10.1002 / hlca.19730560716 .
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| SURNAME | Oppolzer, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-Swiss chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1996 |
| Place of death | Geneva |