Werner Tochtermann
Werner Tochtermann (30 May 1934 – 7 August 2021) was a German
University of Kiel. His main areas of research were the chemistry of medium and large rings, the synthesis of cyclophanes, and the heteroquadricyclane→heteropin rearrangement, e.g. for the synthesis of oxepins from furans (known as Prinzbach–Tochtermann sequence[1]
).
Career
Tochtermann was born in
University of Kiel
working on the following areas:
- New routes towards medium and large rings (tailored synthesis of odorants)[2]
- Application of ultrasound in Organic Synthesis (Barbier, Lemieux und Wittig reaction)
- Synthesis of unnatural carbohydrate analogs (bridged deoxyfuranosids and furanoses, disaccharides, nucleosides, glycolipids)
- Stereoselective synthesis of perhydro azulenes(lactaranes, tremulanes, merulanes)
- Strained benzene derivatives (ansa compounds[3]
References
- ^ L. W. Jenneskens, G. B. M. Kostermans, H. J. Ten Brink, W. H. De Wolf, F. Bickelhaupt, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1985, 2119–2122.
- ^ W. Tochtermann, P. Kraft, Synlett 1996, 1029–1035 (incl. biographical sketch).
- ^ W. Tochtermann, G. Olsson, Chem. Rev. 1989, 89, 1203–1214 (incl. biographical sketch).