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 | |
|---|---|
 Edgar Heilbronner (1978) | |
| Born | 13 May 1921 |
| Died | 28 August 2006 (aged 85) |
| Awards | Marcel Benoist Prize (1977) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | ETH Zurich, University of Basel |
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.
In 1998 he co-authored the standard work in the area of chemistry on stamps, A Philatelic Ramble Through Chemistry with Foil A. Miller.[5][6]
References
edit- ^ Jack D. Dunitz (2006). "Edgar Heilbronner (1921-2006)". Angewandte Chemie. 118 (41): 6936–6936. doi:10.1002/ange.200603850.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ Rabinovich, Daniel (August 1998). "Book & Media Reviews: A Philatelic Ramble through Chemistry". Journal of Chemical Education. 75 (8): 958. Bibcode:1998JChEd..75..958R. doi:10.1021/ed075p958.
- ^ Doumas, B. T. (11 November 2004). "A Philatelic Ramble through Chemistry. E. Heilbronner and F.A. Miller. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2004, 278 pp., $89.95, softcover. ISBN 3-906390-31-4". Clinical Chemistry. 51 (1): 279–280. doi:10.1373/clinchem.2004.035626.
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