Otto Dimroth

Otto Dimroth ( born March 28, 1872 in Bayreuth, † 16 May 1940 in Aschaffenburg ) was a German chemist.

Life

After school and university he received his doctorate in 1895 at John Thiele at the LMU Munich with a thesis on experiments with o-and p- nitrobenzyl chloride. He then worked as a chemist at the factory 1895-1897 Elberfeld Bayer AG, before he became an assistant to Adolf von Baeyer in 1897 returned again to the LMU Munich.

In 1898 he moved to a postdoctoral position at Hans von Pechmann in Tübingen and habilitated in 1900 with a thesis about direct introduction of mercury into aromatic compounds. In 1904 he was an adjunct professor in Tübingen, because in 1902 died unexpectedly von Pechmann.

In 1905 he accepted a call to a professorship in Munich. During his time in Munich, he married his first wife Aloysia, from this marriage came four children. His 1910 born son Karl Dimroth was also a chemist.

In 1910 he tried in vain to follow on the ordinariate of Julius panel at the Institute of Chemistry in Würzburg, who had to resign for health reasons. One preferred at this time the Nobel Prize winner Eduard Buchner. In 1913 he took over the line instead of the Chemical Institute in Greifswald as successor to Karl von Auwers.

In 1918 he was appointed as successor to the fallen in war E. Buchner to Würzburg and remained until his retirement in 1937.

After his habilitation he turned syntheses of heterocycles to (eg Dimroth rearrangement), from 1910 he worked on education and synthesis of natural dyes. Later he expanded his field of research on physico-chemical problems. The well-known Dimroth condenser came from his experimental experience as well as the semester traditional saying that " the careful measurement of a melting point would last a cigar ."

Predecessor to the chem. Institutions in Würzburg

  • Adolph Strecker (1869-1871 †; Chem Institute in Maxstr 4. )
  • John Wislicenus (1872-1885; Chem Institute in Maxstr 4. )
  • Emil Fischer (1885-1892; Chem Institute in Maxstr 4. )
  • Arthur Hantzsch (1893-1903; Chem. Institute in Maxstr 4, 1896 at the new Chem Inst Pleicher ring 11 )
  • Julius Tafel (1903-1910; Chemical Institute at the X- ring 11 ( in 1909 renamed the street name ) )
  • Eduard Buchner (1911-1917 †; Chem Institute on Röntgenring 11)
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