Wolfgang Steglich
Wolfgang Steglich ( born August 12, 1933 Kamenz ) is a German chemist.
Career
Steglich began in 1951 at the Technical University of Berlin with the study of chemistry, graduating with the Diploma Examination 1958. In the same year he moved to the Technical University of Munich, where he received his doctorate on the subject peptide synthesis with activated esters of Carbobenzoxyaminosäuren in glacial acetic acid and Entcarbobenzoxylierung with trifluoroacetic acid at Friedrich Weygand. There followed a two-year research stay at Imperial College London in Derek HR Barton, where Steglich worked in the field of biosynthesis of opium alkaloids. In 1965 he completed his habilitation at the TU München studies on Pseudooxazolone ( 5) and oxazolones ( 5). Between 1969 and 1971 Steglich acting head of the Chair of Friedrich Weygand, before he was appointed as Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the TU Berlin. He remained there until 1975 and then accepted a position at the University of Bonn, where he was the successor of Rudolf Tschesche to 1991 Professor and Director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. In April 1991, Steglich moved to the Ludwig -Maximilians- University of Munich, where he was at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, succeeding Rolf Huisgen Professor and Executive Board. Since October 2001 he has been Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the University of Munich.
Steglich since 1973 is co-editor of the journal Nature Research and was from 1975 to 1980 co-editor of the Chemical reports. From 1979 to 1984 he was a member of the Senate Committee on Collaborative Research Centre of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Work
The focus of Steglich's work lies in the field of natural products. It deals with the isolation, structure elucidation, synthesis and biosynthesis of biologically active substances from mushrooms. In addition, include biomimetic synthesis and the development of new peptide syntheses Steglich's field of work.
Steglich 1978 described a variant of the esterification, in which it together with the catalyst 4, the coupling agent dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC) - is used ( dimethylamino) pyridine (DMAP). This reaction is known today as the Steglich esterification.