Wolfgang Steglich (born 12 August 1933) is a German chemist .
Life
Wolfgang Steglich was born in
Kamenz
Kamenz () or Kamjenc ( Sorbian) is a town ('' Große Kreisstadt'') in the district of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany. Until 2008 it was the administrative seat of Kamenz District. The town is known as the birthplace of the philosopher and poet Gotth ...
and studied chemistry at the
Technical University of Berlin and later at the
Technical University of Munich
The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences.
Establis ...
where he received his PhD in 1960 for work with
Friedrich Weygand. Following a postdoc stay with Sir
Derek H. R. Barton at the
Imperial College London
Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...
, Wolfgang Steglich completed his
habilitation at the Technical University of Munich. After Friedrich Weygand's decease in 1969,
Steglich was in charge of the Weygand chair until he became a full professor at the Technical University of Berlin in 1971. In 1975, he was appointed a professorship at the
University of Bonn
The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...
. He succeeded
Rolf Huisgen
Rolf Huisgen (; 13 June 1920 – 26 March 2020) was a German chemist. His importance in synthetic organic chemistry extends to the enormous influence he had in post-war chemistry departments in Germany and Austria, due to a large number of his H ...
as head of the organic chemistry department of the
University of Munich
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...
in 1991. Wolfgang Steglich retired in 2001.
Work
The use of
4-dimethylaminopyridine for
esterification
In chemistry, an ester is a compound derived from an oxoacid (organic or inorganic) in which at least one hydroxyl group () is replaced by an alkoxy group (), as in the substitution reaction of a carboxylic acid and an alcohol. Glycerides ar ...
s with
anhydride
An organic acid anhydride is an acid anhydride that is an organic compound. An acid anhydride is a compound that has two acyl groups bonded to the same oxygen atom. A common type of organic acid anhydride is a carboxylic anhydride, where the pa ...
s, which is sometimes called the
Steglich esterification, his studies on the metabolism of fungi,
and, in collaboration with Timm Anke, the structure eludication and chemical synthesis of the antifungal
Strobilurin Strobilurins are a group of natural products and their synthetic analogs. A number of strobilurins are used in agriculture as fungicides. They are part of the larger group of QIs (Quinone outside Inhibitors), which act to inhibit the respiratory c ...
s
that resulted in the industrial development of the novel class of Strobilurin-based crop protection agents
[Peter Jeschke, Matthias Witschel, Wolfgang Krämer, Ulrich Schirmer (eds.), ''Modern Crop Protection Compounds'', 3rd edition, Wiley-VCH, 2019, .]
are his main contributions in the field of chemistry.
References
Literature
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External links
Steglich Alumni Website
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1933 births
Living people
20th-century German chemists
Alumni of Imperial College London
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
Technical University of Munich alumni
Technical University of Berlin alumni
Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin
Academic staff of the University of Bonn
University of Bonn alumni
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany