Wolfgang Pfleiderer (chemist)

Wolfgang Pfleiderer (born July 22, 1927 in Esslingen ; † January 20, 2018 ) was a German chemist .

Life

Although Pfleiderer lost his left arm and right thumb during his school days during the war, he graduated from high school in 1946 and then studied chemistry at the TH Stuttgart . He completed his studies six years later with a doctorate on "Investigations in the purine series ". After he completed his habilitation in 1957 with “Investigations in the Pteridine Series ” at the same university, he was a lecturer at the Organic Institute. Only a year later he went to Princeton for a year of research and in 1965 to Canberra for half a year .

In 1967 he was appointed to the University of Konstanz , where, among other things, he helped set up the Faculty of Chemistry. Nucleic acid chemistry was added to his previous research area of heterocycle synthesis with a focus on pteridine and the isolation and structure elucidation of natural pteridines . Pfleiderer gained international recognition in the field of oligonucleotide synthesis by developing universally applicable protective groups .

He has received numerous international awards for his scientific achievements. For example, he received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College in Dublin in 1982 and was recognized for his life's work by the German nucleic acid chemistry community in 2017.

Publications and patents

Wolfgang Pfleiderer has produced more than 700 scientific publications, books and patents from his research. One of his works was the book "Organic Chemistry - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow", which was published in 1968 by Konstanz University Press.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Hübsch: Wolfgang Pfleiderer (1927-2018) In: Nachrichten aus der Chemie 66, 2018, p. 456, doi: 10.1002 / nadc.20184074484 .
2. ^ Wolfgang Pfleiderer: Organic chemistry - yesterday, today, tomorrow , Konstanz University Press , 1968, ISBN 978-3879400157 .