Rolf Appel

Rolf Appel (25 February 1921 – 30 January 2012) was an inorganic chemist who worked in the area of organophosphorus chemistry

Education

He received his PhD at age 30.[1] Appel was appointed in 1962 to both the University of Bonn along with the inorganic chemical institute in 1962 from the University of Heidelberg.[2] He was a research assistant in Chemistry at Bonn University in Bonn, when he developed the Appel reaction.[3] For his discovery, Appel received the Liebig Medal. In 1986, he retired from the inorganic institute.[4] He was succeeded by Edgar Niecke.[5]

The Appel reaction is an organic reaction that converts an alcohol into an alkyl chloride using triphenylphosphine and carbon tetrachloride.[3]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.chemie.uni-bonn.de/oc/geschichte
  2. ↑ http://careerchem.com/CAREER-INFO-ACADEMIC/top-cited.pdf
  3. 1 2 Rolf Appel (1975). "Tertiary Phosphane/Tetrachloromethane, a Versatile Reagent for Chlorination, Dehydration, and P-N Linkage". Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English 14 (12): 801–811. doi:10.1002/anie.197508011.
  4. ↑ http://www.infosources.org/what_is/Liebig_Medal.html
  5. ↑ http://www.organic-chemistry.org/namedreactions/appel-reaction.shtm


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