Edgar Heilbronner

Swiss-German chemist and professor (1921–2006)
Edgar Heilbronner
Edgar Heilbronner (1978)
Born13 May 1921
München Germany
Died28 August 2006 (2006-08-29) (aged 85)
Herrliberg Switzerland
AwardsMarcel Benoist Prize (1977)
Scientific career
InstitutionsETH Zurich, University of Basel

Edgar Heilbronner (13 May 1921 – 28 August 2006) was a Swiss German chemist.[1] In 1964 he published the concept of Möbius cyclic annulenes,[2] but the first Möbius aromatic was not synthesized until 2003.[3][4]

Edgar Heilbronner was a professor at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland for many years but then was offered a professorship in Basel, Switzerland where he spent the remainder of his career.

References

  1. ^ Jack D. Dunitz (2006). "Edgar Heilbronner (1921-2006)". Angewandte Chemie. 118 (41): 6936–6936. doi:10.1002/ange.200603850.
  2. ^ E. Heilbronner (1964). "Hückel molecular orbitals of Möbius-type conformations of annulenes". Tetrahedron Letters. 5 (29): 1923–1928. doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(01)89474-0.
  3. ^ D. Ajami; O. Oeckler; A. Simon; R. Herges (2003). "Synthesis of a Möbius aromatic hydrocarbon". Nature. 426 (6968): 819–821. doi:10.1038/nature02224. PMID 14685233. S2CID 4383956.
  4. ^ On Molecular Orbital Correlation Diagrams, the Occurrence of Möbius Systems in Cyclization Reactions, and Factors Controlling Ground and Excited State Reactions. I," Zimmerman, H. E. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1966, 88, 1564-1565
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