Hans-Werner Wanzlick (1917-1988) was a German
chemist
A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe t ...
. A Professor of chemistry at the
Berlin Technical University
The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...
he is notable for work on
persistent carbene
A persistent carbene (also known as stable carbene) is a type of carbene demonstrating particular stability. The best-known examples and by far largest subgroup are the ''N''-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) (sometimes called Arduengo carbenes), for ex ...
s and for proposing the
Wanzlick equilibrium between saturated
imidazolin-2-ylidenes and their
dimer
Dimer may refer to:
* Dimer (chemistry), a chemical structure formed from two similar sub-units
** Protein dimer, a protein quaternary structure
** d-dimer
* Dimer model, an item in statistical mechanics, based on ''domino tiling''
* Julius Dimer ...
s
[
][
] — which he called "''das doppelte Lottchen''", after a
1949 novel by
Erich Kästner about a pair of mischievous twins.
[
Anthony J. Arduengo, III (1999) ''Looking for Stable Carbenes: The Difficulty in Starting Anew''. Accounts of Chemical Research, volume 32, number 11, pages 913–921.
]
References
* Hans-Werner Wanzlick (1958), letter to
Linus Pauling (in German). Linus Pauling's Correspondence, item #444.6.
Technical University of Berlin faculty
1917 births
1988 deaths
20th-century German chemists
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