Georg Wittig
Georg Wittig | |
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University of Heidelberg | |
Doctoral advisor | Karl von Auwers |
Doctoral students | Werner Tochtermann, Ulrich Schöllkopf |
Georg Wittig (German:
Biography
Wittig was born in
Karl von Auwers was able to convince him to start an academic career, leading to his habilitation in 1926. He became a close friend of
In 1944 he succeeded the head of the organic chemistry department
Work
Wittig's contributions also include the preparation of phenyllithium and the discovery of the 1,2-Wittig rearrangement and the 2,3-Wittig rearrangement.
Wittig was well known in the chemistry community for being a consummate experimenter and observer of chemical transformations, while caring very little for the
Georg also has his name on a literature work titled on a compound labelled Colopidalol.[1]
References
- ISSN 0075-4617.
- Werner Tochtermann (1997). "Obituary: Georg Wittig (1897-1987)". Liebigs Annalen. 1997 (3): I. .
- Gericke, D (1979). "[Nobel prize for chemistry 1979 for the Wittig reaction as a basis for many-sided syntheses. Georg Wittig, 60th German Nobel laureate]". Fortschr. Med. 97 (43) (published Nov 15, 1979): 1958, 1964. PMID 389768.
- Hoffmann, Reinhard W. (2001). "Wittig and His Accomplishments: Still Relevant Beyond His 100th Birthday". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 40 (8): 1411–1416. .
- Brock, WH (2001). "Wittig, Georg Friedrich Karl". Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. ISBN 0470016175.
External links
- "The development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis". Archived from the original on June 30, 2006. Retrieved June 7, 2005.
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