Wolfgang Sucrow

Wolfgang Sucrow (1980)

Wolfgang Sucrow (born January 27, 1931 in Berlin ; † January 5, 1989 in Paderborn ) was a German chemist and professor. His specialty was organic chemistry .

Life

Wolfgang Sucrow grew up as the son of Walter Sucrow and Elisabeth Sucrow in Berlin, where he also attended elementary school and high school. Despite several interruptions to school due to the war, he graduated from high school at the age of 18 and began studying chemistry at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . Professors Friedrich Weygand , Jean D'Ans, Gerhard Jander and Iwan N. Straski were his most important academic teachers there. He wrote his diploma thesis and doctoral thesis in organic chemistry in the working group of Hans-Werner Wanzlick , who had just completed his habilitation under Friedrich Weygand and with whom he remained lifelong friends. 1958 Sucrow was with a dissertation on the formation and structure of Dichlorcyclopentan-1,2-diones at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) PhD .

He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Leonidas Zervas ( National and Kapodistrias University of Athens , Greece) in the field of sugar chemistry. In Athens, Sucrow married Lea-Smaragda Mylonakou, the daughter of a senior officer from Greece and his wife of German descent, an artist. The married couple Lea-Smaragda and Wolfgang Sucrow raised two daughters (Bettina and Alexandra) and a son (Walter).

Sucrow returned to the TU Berlin in 1960 and became an assistant to Ferdinand Bohlmann , Friedrich Weygand's successor at the chair of organic chemistry. In his research, Sucrow focused on the synthesis of a sensitive trans, trans - mycomycin , a natural product with two carbon-carbon triple bonds, two carbon-carbon double bonds and an allene functionality. In his habilitation thesis with the title Sterols from Momordica charantia L. Sucrow dealt with the chemistry of steroid glycosides . After his habilitation (1966), Sucrow remained loyal to the TU Berlin and worked as a dietician , from 1969 as a scientific adviser and professor and from 1971 as a professor (AH5). In 1975 he followed a call to the chair for organic chemistry at the University of Paderborn . He worked there until the end of his life.

For decades, Sucrow was friends with the chemist and Professor Eckehard Dehmlow , who also wrote an obituary about him.

Act

His scientific work can mainly be assigned to organic chemical synthesis. At the University of Paderborn, he first devoted himself to the synthesis of heterocycles , then to the synthesis of liquid crystals . His scientific work includes around 110 publications. In addition, Sucrow was co-author of the 43rd edition of the classic textbook Gattermann-Wieland The Practice of Organic Chemists, published in 1982 by Walter de Gruyter , Berlin and New York, ISBN 3-11-006654-8 .

Wolfgang Sucrow is the doctoral supervisor of 31 chemists.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eckehard V. Dehmlow : In Memory of Wolfgang Sucrow. In: Glenn W. Patterson, W. David Nes: Physiology and biochemistry of sterols. American Oil Chemists' Society, Champaign, Illinois, ISBN 0-935315-38-1 , pp. Vii et seq .