Otto Paul Herman Diels ( German: Otto Paul Herrmann Diels ; January 23, 1876 , Hamburg - March 7, 1954 , Kiel ) - German organic chemist, Nobel laureate in chemistry (1950).
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| Date of Birth | January 23, 1876 |
| Place of Birth | Hamburg , Germany |
| Date of death | March 7, 1954 (78 years old) |
| Place of death | Kiel , Germany |
| A country | Germany |
| Scientific field | Chemistry |
| Place of work | Christian Albrecht University |
| Alma mater | Humboldt University of Berlin |
| supervisor | Emil Fisher |
| Famous students | Kurt Alder |
| Known as | discoverer of the Diels-Alder reaction |
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Biography
The son of a famous German linguist and researcher of religions German Alexander Diels .
In 1899 he graduated from the University of Berlin , where since 1906 he was a professor; since 1916 , professor at Kiel University .
Major works
Diels proposed in 1927 a method for the dehydrogenation of organic compounds using selenium without changing their carbon skeleton; dehydrogenated cholesterol and other sterols .
In 1928 , together with Alder, he discovered diene synthesis and obtained using this method a large number of organic compounds of various classes.
Recognition
- 1931 -
- 1950 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry , together with Alder ("For the discovery and development of diene synthesis").
See also
- Diels-Alder reaction
Compositions
- O. Diels. Dien-Synthese und Selen-Dehydrierung in ihrer Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der organischen Chemie (German) // Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. - 1936. - Bd. 69 , Nr. 11 . - S. A195-A208 . - DOI : 10.1002 / cber.19360691130 .
- Einführung in die organische Chemie, 15 Aufl., Weinheim, 1953 .
Literature
- Kazansky B. A. , New syntheses with the participation of unsaturated compounds, "Advances in Chemistry", 1934 , v.3, v.1
- Sass J., In memoriam Otto Diels, "Laboratorium Praxis", 1954 , Jg. 6, S. 37-41.