Dieter Enders

Dieter Enders (* 1946 in Butzbach, Hesse ) is a German chemist and professor at the RWTH Aachen University.

Life and work

Enders studied chemistry and received his doctorate at Dieter Seebach in Giessen. After a fellowship at Harvard University when Nobel laureate Elias James Corey Jr. followed a reputation as a professor at the University of Bonn. Since 1985 he heads the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the RWTH Aachen.

Dieter Enders is one of the pioneers in the field of stereoselective synthesis, specifically the diastereoselective carbon-carbon linkages using " Enders reagent " [(S ) - (- )-1- amino-2- methoxymethylpyrrolidine ( SAMP )] a derivative of the amino acid (S)- proline. This is for the development of new drugs, such as drugs, pesticides or insect pheromones of considerable importance since the biological activity of the enantiomers is generally different. Successes achieved Enders among others, the synthesis of a bark beetle pheromone, which lets you bark beetle eco-friendly and massively can catch in traps.

Awards

Enders received numerous honors and awards including the Prize of the University of Giessen, 1993, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the Yamada Prize ( Japan) and the 2000 Max Planck Research Prize for Chemistry. In 2008 he was awarded the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society. In 2012 he was awarded with prize money of 2.5 million Euro ERC Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC ). Since 2007 is a member of the Leopoldina. He was honored in 2013 by the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research with Karl Ziegler Visiting Professorship.

Literature (selection )

  • Enders, Dieter in: Asymmetric Synthesis, Morrison, JD, Editor, Academic Press, Orlando, 1984, Vol.3B; S. 275
  • Enders, Dieter; Fey, Peter; Kipphardt, Helmut: Organic Synthesis 1987, 65, 173
  • Enders, Dieter; Fey, Peter; Kipphardt, Helmut: Organic Synthesis 1987, 65, 183
  • Enders, Dieter, Klatt, M.: Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, Paquette, LA, ( editor); Wiley, New York, 1995, p. 178, ISBN 978-0-471-93623-7.
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