Helmut Ringsdorf
Helmut Ringsdorf ( born July 30, 1929 in Gießen) is a German chemist.
Life and work
Ringsdorf studied chemistry from 1951, Politics and Geology at the University of Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt and Freiburg im Breisgau. He was the last student Hermann Staudinger and wrote under his care in 1956 and his thesis under Staudinger and Elfriede Husemann 1958 his dissertation. Ring village remained for some time as an assistant in Freiburg, before he went in 1960 as a research assistant to the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in New York City. 1962, he joined as a lecturer at the University of Marburg, where he habilitated in 1967. He was there from 1967 to 1968 and associate professor from 1969 to 1970 professor of polymer science, before he came to the University of Mainz in 1971. As a professor of organic chemistry, he taught there until his retirement in 1994 also, and then he held various professorships abroad held. 1988 to 2003 he was an associate professor of polymer science at the Jilin University, 1994 to 2000, associate professor of pharmacy at the University of London, 1995 to 2000 Courtauld visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, 2001 to 2005 associate Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Cardiff.
Ringsdorf works in the fields of organic chemistry, polymer science, supramolecular systems and nanomedicine. On the border area of materials and life sciences, he designed pharmacologically - active polymers and studied biochemistry at interfaces. He developed polymeric antitumor agents that can penetrate the blood vessels resulting from angiogenesis -specific and are specifically used to treat cancer. He also deals with the synthesis, structure and properties of functional liquid crystalline polymers and the polymerization in oriented systems (micelles, liposomes, monolayers ). He is also studying the properties of functional supramolecular systems and carries out tests for simulating biomembrane processes.
Since his doctoral thesis, Ringsdorf is married to Margot Kimpel, with whom he has two children, Ulrike and Martin.
Publications
Ringsdorf published more than 500 scientific papers, including:
- About azomethingruppenhaltige vinyl compounds and their use for the representation reversibly cross-linked and branched Polystrole. Dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 1958
- Structure and Properties of Pharmacologically active polymer. In: Journal of polymer science. Polymer symposia. Volume 51, 1975, p 135-153.
- L. Gros and H. Schupp: Polymeric antitumor agents on a Molecular and on a Cellular Level? . In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. Volume 20, No. 4, 1981, p 305-325
- With B. Schlarb and J. Venzmer: Molecular Architecture and Function of Polymeric Oriented Systems. Models for the Study of Organization, Surface Recognition, and Dynamics of Biomembranes. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. Volume 27, No. 1, 1988, pp. 113-158.
- With M. Ahlers: Specific Interactions of Proteins with Functional lipid monolayers. Ways of simulating biomembrane processes. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. Volume 29, No. 11, 1990, pp. 1269-1285
- With W. Müller, E. Rump, G. Wildenburg, X. Zhang, L. Angermaier, W. Knoll, M. Liley and J. Spinke: Attempts to mimic docking processes of the immune System. Recognition -induced formation of protein multilayers. In: Science. Band 262, 1993, pp. 1706-1708
- With D. Adam, P. Schuhmacher, J. Simmerer, L. Häussling, K. Siemens Meyer, K. and D. Haarer Etzbach: Fast photoconduction in the highly ordered columnar phase of a discotic liquid crystal. In: Nature. Volume 371, 1994, pp. 141-143.
- Attempts to Mimic Biomembrane Processes. Recognition and Organization Induced Functions in Biological and Synthetic Supramolecular Systems. In: A. and W. Norde Baszkin (ed.): Physical Chemistry of Biological Interfaces. Marcel Dekker, Inc. N. Y. 2000, pp. 243-282.