Edgar Heilbronner

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Edgar Heilbronner
Born 1921
München Germany
Died August 28, 2006
Herrliberg Switzerland
Institutions ETH Zurich

Edgar Heilbronner ( 1921 – August 28, 2006) was an Swiss German chemist.[1] In 1964 he published the concept of Möbius aromaticity,[2] but the first Möbius aromatic was not synthesized until 2003. [3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Jack D. Dunitz. "Edgar Heilbronner (1921-2006)". Angewandte Chemie 118 (41): 6936 – 6936. doi:10.1002/ange.200603850. 
  2. ^ E. Heilbronner (1964). "Hückel molecular orbitals of Möbius-type conformations of annulenes". Tetrahedron Letters 5 (29): 1923 – 1928. doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(01)89474-0. 
  3. ^ D. Ajami, O. Oeckler, A. Simon, R. Herges (2003). "Synthesis of a Möbius aromatic hydrocarbon". Nature 426: 819-821. doi:10.1038/nature02224. 
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