Albert Eschenmoser

Albert Eschenmoser

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name = Albert Eschenmoser


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birth_date = August 5, 1925
birth_place = Erstfeld, Switzerland
residence = Switzerland
nationality = Swiss
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field = organic chemistry
work_institution = ETH Zurich
alma_mater = ETH Zurich
doctoral_advisor = Lavoslav Ružička
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Albert Eschenmoser (born August 5, 1925) is a Swiss chemist working at the ETH Zurich and The Scripps Research Institute.

His work together with Lavoslav Ružička on terpenes and the postulation of squalene cyclization to form lanosterol improved the insight into steroid biosynthesis. [Eschenmoser "et al." (1955)]

In the early 1960s, Eschenmoser began work on what was the most complex natural product synthesized to date - Vitamin B12. In a remarkable collaboration with his colleague Robert Burns Woodward in Harvard, a team of almost one hundred students and postdoctoral workers worked for many years on the synthesis of this molecule. The work was finally published in 1973, and it marked a landmark in the history of organic chemistry.

The Eschenmoser fragmentation and Eschenmoser's salt are named after him.

Notes

Awards

Eschenmoser was awarded the 2008 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry from The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [http://www.fi.edu/franklinawards/08/laureate_bf_chemistry-eschenmoser.html] .

References

* cite journal
author = A. Eschenmoser, L. Ruzicka, O. Jeger, D. Arigoni
title = Zur Kenntnis der Triterpene. 190. Mitteilung. Eine stereochemische Interpretation der biogenetischen Isoprenregel bei den Triterpenen
journal = Helvetica Chimica Acta
volume = 38
issue = 7
year = 1955
pages = pp.1890–1904
doi = 10.1002/hlca.19550380728 de icon

*cite journal
author = Erik J. Sorensen
title = Albert Eschenmoser
journal = Helvetica Chimica Acta
volume = 83
issue = 8
year = 2000
pages = 1673–1677
doilabel = 10.1002/1522-2675(20000809)83:81673::AID-HLCA16733.0.CO;2-I
doi = 10.1002/1522-2675(20000809)83:8<1673::AID-HLCA1673>3.0.CO;2-I

External links

* [http://www.scripps.edu/newsandviews/e_20080421/eschenmoser.html/ An interview with Albert Eschenmoser at The Scripps Research Institute]
* [http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/Portraits/PortraitsHH_Detail.asp?HH_LName=Eschenmoser Albert Eschenmoser, MSU Gallery of Chemists' Photo-Portraits and Mini-Biographies]


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