Anton Vilsmeier

Anton Vilsmeier ( born June 12, 1894 in Burgweinting today to Regensburg, † February 12, 1962 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a German chemist. The he discovered the Vilsmeier formylation reaction of aromatics bears his name.

Biography

Vilsmeier grew up as the son of a mill owner. After attending school in Regensburg, he became a soldier with the beginning of the First World War and fell into British captivity. After his release, he began in 1920 to study chemistry at the University of Munich, where he continued in Erlangen. He obtained his doctorate under Otto Fischer in 1924 with a thesis on "Gamma -chloro -iso- Chinocyanine of methyl ( ethyl ) acetanilide and phosphorus oxychloride ." He remained as an assistant at the university and discovered there in 1926, the named after him today reaction of aromatics with substiutierten formamides and phosphorus oxychloride.

From 1927 he was employed by the BASF AG. He went into retirement in 1959 and died three years later.

Trivia

In 2012, the annual " Anton Vilsmeier lecture" was launched at the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy of the University of Regensburg.

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