Rolf Appel
Rolf Appel (25 February 1921 – 30 January 2012) was an inorganic chemist who worked in the area of organophosphorus chemistry
Education
He received his PhD at age 30.[1] Appel was appointed in 1962 to both the University of Bonn along with the inorganic chemical institute in 1962 from the University of Heidelberg.[2] He was a research assistant in Chemistry at Bonn University in Bonn, when he developed the Appel reaction.[3] For his discovery, Appel received the Liebig Medal. In 1986, he retired from the inorganic institute.[4] He was succeeded by Edgar Niecke.[5]
The Appel reaction is an organic reaction that converts an alcohol into an alkyl chloride using triphenylphosphine and carbon tetrachloride.[3]
References
- ^ http://www.chemie.uni-bonn.de/oc/geschichte
- ^ http://careerchem.com/CAREER-INFO-ACADEMIC/top-cited.pdf
- ^ a b Rolf Appel (1975). "Tertiary Phosphane/Tetrachloromethane, a Versatile Reagent for Chlorination, Dehydration, and P-N Linkage". Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 14 (12): 801–811. doi:10.1002/anie.197508011.
- ^ http://www.infosources.org/what_is/Liebig_Medal.html
- ^ https://www.organic-chemistry.org/namedreactions/appel-reaction.shtm
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