Jack D. Dunitz

Jack David Dunitz ( born March 29, 1923 in Glasgow ) is a British chemist.

Life and work

Jack Dunitz his doctorate in 1947 at the Glasgow University in chemistry, worked from 1946 to 1948 and from 1951 to 1953 at Oxford University when Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, 1948-1951 and 1953-1954 at Caltech with Linus Pauling, 1954-1955 at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and from 1956 to 1957 at the Royal Institution, London.

In 1957 he was appointed professor at the organic chemistry laboratory of the ETH Zurich, which he held until his retirement in 1990. Since 1992, he is affiliated with the research group led by François Diederich at the ETH Zurich. Together with his colleague Hans Beat Bürgi he determined in an extensive crystallographic study the angle ( 107 ° ) under the held out a nucleophilic attack on the carbonyl carbon atom. This angle was named Bürgi- Dunitz angle.

Memberships and Awards (selection )

1974 Dunitz member of the Royal Society. In 1990 he was awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize -. He is also a member of the Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (since 1979), the Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is also a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences of the U.S. amerikanioschen National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Writings

• X - Ray Analysis and the Structure of Organic Molecules. 1979
• Reflections on Symmetry in Chemistry ... and Elsewhere. ( with Edgar Heilbronner ), 1992.