Ulrich Schöllkopf
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Ulrich Schöllkopf | |
Born | October 11, 1927 |
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Died | November 6, 1998 (aged 71) Göttingen, Germany |
Institutions | University of Göttingen |
Alma mater | University of Tübingen, University of Heidelberg |
Doctoral advisor | Georg Wittig |
Known for | Schöllkopf method |
Ulrich Schöllkopf was a German chemist and together with Georg Wittig discovered the Wittig reaction in 1956. Later in 1981 he published the synthesis method for amino acids known as the Bislactimether method or Schöllkopf method.
Schöllkopf studied with Georg Wittig at the University of Tübingen where he received his Phd with work on the Wittig reaction[1] in 1956 and received his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg with Wittig in 1961. He became Professor at the University of Göttingen.
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- ^ Georg Wittig, Ulrich Schöllkopf (1954). "Über Triphenyl-phosphin-methylene als olefinbildende Reagenzien I". Chemische Berichte 87: 1318. doi: .