Ivar Karl Ugi

Infobox Scientist


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name = Ivar Ugi
birth_date = birth date|1930|9|9|df=y
birth_place = Saaremaa, Estonia
death_date = death date and age|2005|9|29|1930|9|9|df=y
death_place = Munich, Germany
residence = Germany
nationality = German
field = Chemist
work_institution = Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
Bayer
University of Southern California
Technical University of Munich
alma_mater = University of Tübingen
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
doctoral_advisor = Rolf Huisgen
doctoral_students =
known_for = Ugi reaction
prizes =
religion =

Ivar Karl Ugi (Sep 9, 1930 in Saaremaa, Estonia - 29 September, 2005 Munich) was a German chemist who made major contributions to organic chemistry. He is known for the research on multicomponent reactions, yielding the Ugi reaction.

Biography

After he came to Germany from Estonia in 1941 he began his studies of chemistry in 1949 at the University of Tübingen until 1951. He became Dr. rer. nat. in 1954 at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. He did his habilitation 1960 at the same university. After a short but very successful career in industry at Bayer from 1962 til 1968 he joined the University of Southern California at Los Angeles.

Since 1971 he worked at the Technical University of Munich, he was an emeritus from 1999 until his death in 2005.

Research and development

The one pot reaction of a ketone or aldehyde, an amine, an isocyanide and a carboxylic acid to form a bis-amide is generally known as Ugi reaction.

Major works

*cite journal
author = Ugi, I.
title = The α-Addition of Immonium Ions and Anions to Isonitriles Accompanied by Secondary Reactions
journal = Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl.
year = 1962
volume =1
issue = 1
pages = 8–21
doi = 10.1002/anie.196200081

References

* [http://www.ch.tum.de/oc1/IUgi/ugivitae.html Cirucilum Vitae at TUM]
*cite journal
title = Ivar K. Ugi (1930-2005): Multicomponent Reactions, Computer and Phosphorus Chemistry
author = Peter Lemmen, Eric Fontain, Johannes Bauer
journal = Angewandte Chemie International Edition
volume = 45
issue = 2
pages = 193–193
doi = 10.1002/anie.200503978
year = 2006