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Edgar Heilbronner
BornMay 13, 1921
DiedAugust 28, 2006
Scientific career
InstitutionsETH Zurich, University of Basel

Edgar Heilbronner ( May 13, 1921 – August 28, 2006) was a Swiss German chemist.[1] In 1964 he published the concept of Möbius aromaticity,[2] but the first Möbius aromatic was not synthesized until 2003. [3]

References

  1. ^ Jack D. Dunitz (2006). "Edgar Heilbronner (1921-2006)". Angewandte Chemie. 118 (41): 6936–6936. doi:10.1002/ange.200603850.
  2. ^ E. Heilbronner (1964). "Hückel molecular orbitals of Möbius-type conformations of annulenes". Tetrahedron Letters. 5 (29): 1923–1928. doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(01)89474-0.
  3. ^ D. Ajami, O. Oeckler, A. Simon, R. Herges (2003). "Synthesis of a Möbius aromatic hydrocarbon". Nature. 426 (6968): 819–821. doi:10.1038/nature02224. PMID 14685233.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)