Albert Eschenmoser
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| Albert Eschenmoser | |
| Born | August 5, 1925 Erstfeld, Switzerland |
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| Residence | Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Fields | organic chemistry |
| Institutions | ETH Zurich |
| Alma mater | ETH Zurich |
| Doctoral advisor | Lavoslav Ružička |
Albert Eschenmoser (b. August 5, 1925) is a Swiss chemist working at the ETH Zurich and The Scripps Research Institute.
His work together with Lavoslav Ružička on terpenes and the postulation of squalene cyclization to form lanosterol improved the insight into steroid biosynthesis.[1]
In the early 1960s, Eschenmoser began work on what was the most complex natural product synthesized to date - Vitamin B12. In a remarkable collaboration with his colleague Robert Burns Woodward in Harvard, a team of almost one hundred students and postdoctoral workers worked for many years on the synthesis of this molecule. The work was finally published in 1973, and it marked a landmark in the history of organic chemistry.
The Eschenmoser fragmentation and Eschenmoser's salt are named after him.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Eschenmoser et al. (1955)
[edit] References
- A. Eschenmoser, L. Ruzicka, O. Jeger, D. Arigoni (1955). "Zur Kenntnis der Triterpene. 190. Mitteilung. Eine stereochemische Interpretation der biogenetischen Isoprenregel bei den Triterpenen". Helvetica Chimica Acta 38 (7): pp.1890–1904. doi:. (German)
- Erik J. Sorensen (2000). "Albert Eschenmoser". Helvetica Chimica Acta 83 (8): 1673–1677. doi:.
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