François Diederich

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François Diederich
Diederich in 2016
Born	(1952-07-09)9 July 1952 Ettelbruck, Luxembourg
Died	23 September 2020(2020-09-23) (aged 68)
Alma mater	Heidelberg University
Scientific career
Institutions	ETH Zurich University of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral students	Nancy Goroff Anna Hirsch
Website	www.diederich.chem.ethz.ch

François Diederich (9 July 1952, in Ettelbruck – 23 September 2020)^[1] was a Luxembourgian chemist specializing in organic chemistry.

Education

He obtained both his diploma and PhD (first synthesis of

Career and research

After

Diederich died on 23 September 2020 after a battle with cancer.[2]^[3][4]

His research interests cover a wide range of topics:

• Molecular recognition in chemistry and biology.
• Modern
  isoprenoid biosynthesis (malaria); t-RNA guanine transglycosylase (shigellosis); trypanothione reductase (African sleeping sickness
  ).
• Supramolecular nanosystems and nano-patterned surfaces.
• Advanced materials based on
  alleno-acetylenes, amplification of chirality and its transfer from the molecular to the macroscopic scale
  .

Source:[5]

• Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society (1979)
• Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award (1987)
• ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (1992)
• Otto Bayer Award (1993)
• Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis (2000)
• Havinga Medal (2000)
• Myron L. Bender & Muriel S. Bender Distinguished Summer Lecturer at Northwestern University (2004)
• Humboldt Prize
  (2005)
• Burckhardt Helferich Prize (2005)
• German Chemical Society
  (2006)
• ACS Ronald Breslow Award for Achievements in Biomimetic Chemistry (2007)
• Adolf-von-Baeyer-Denkmünze [de] of the German Chemical Society (2011)
• Honorary Doctoral Degree,
  Technion
  , Haifa (2012)
• Ernst Hellmut Vits-Preis (2014)
• Prix Paul Metz by the Institut Grand Ducal, Luxembourg (2014)
• EFMC Nauta Award for Pharmacochemistry and for outstanding results of scientific research in the field of Medicinal Chemistry (2016)
• Honorary Membership of the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh) (2019)

Memberships in scientific academies

• Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
• Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Foreign Honorary Member)
• Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (Spain, foreign member)
• US National Academy of Sciences (Foreign Associate)

Books

• Diederich, François; Stang, Peter J.; Tykwinski, R. R. (2008). Modern supramolecular chemistry : strategies for macrocycle synthesis. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH.
  OCLC 166378356
  .
• Diederich, François; Stang, Peter J.; Tykwinski, R. R. (2005). Acetylene Chemistry : chemistry, biology and material science. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH.
  OCLC 85820648
  .
• Meijere, A. de; Diederich, François (2004). Metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH.
  OCLC 56439681
  .
• Diederich, François; Stang, Peter J. (2000). Templated organic synthesis. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH.
  OCLC 42620646
  .
• Diederich, François; Künzer, H. (1998). Recent trends in molecular recognition. Berlin: Springer.
  OCLC 743291450
  .
• Stang, Peter J.; Diederich, François (1995). Modern acetylene chemistry. Weinheim: VCH.
  OCLC 34027354
  .