Bernd Eistert

Bernd Karl Georg Eistert ( born November 9, 1902 in Ohlau, † May 22 1978 in Saarbrücken ) was a German chemist.

Life

Eistert studied chemistry at the University of Breslau, where he was in 1927 his doctorate with a dissertation on the chain extension of carboxylic acids. His doctoral supervisor was Fritz Arndt. He went in 1928 as an assistant at the University of Bonn and worked in 1929 at the Baden Aniline and Soda-Fabrik AG in Ludwigshafen / Rhein in the main laboratory. In a lively exchange of ideas with Fritz Arndt, he devoted himself alongside further theoretical problems such as tautomerism and resonance, the keto -enol equilibrium, the electron theory of proton mobility. Eistert external habilitation at the University of Heidelberg. There he became a lecturer in 1942. He worked from 1943 as a lecturer (from 1950 as a professor ) at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt. 1949 Eistert guest employee was on Euler Chelpin in Stockholm. 1957 retired from Eistert at BASF and worked from then until his retirement (1971 ) at the University of Saarbrücken as Professor of Organic Chemistry.

Work

Eistert was known by the developed in 1927 together with Fritz Arndt chain extension reaction of the carboxylic acids. This synthesis reaction is therefore also Arndt Eistert homologation called, see also: name reaction.

With further fundamental work on tautomerism and resonance he contributed greatly to the understanding of theoretical problems of organic chemistry.