Justus
Liebig (1803-1873)
Erlangen
(1822)
August
W. Hofmann (1818-1892)
(Gießen,
1841)
- benzidine
rearrangement (1863)
Johann
K. W. F. Tiemann (1848-1899)
(Berlin,
1870)
- First proposal
of nitrenes as intermediates in Lossen rearrangement (1891)
Daniel
Vorländer (1867–1941)
(Halle
1890)
Hermann
Staudinger (1881–1965)
(Halle
1903)
- Chemistry
Nobel Prize (1953)
"Macromolecular
Chemistry"
- ketenes (1905)
- o-quinonemethide
(1911)
- nitrenes (1917)
- pyrethrins
Leopold
Ruzička (1887–1976)
(TH
Karlsruhe, 1910)
- Chemistry
Nobel Prize (1939)
"Multimembered Rings,
Higher Terpene Compounds and Male Sex Hormones"
- Total synthesis of fenchone
- Wagner rearrangement
- Syntheses of ß-collidine and
linalool
- Structures of jasmone, civetone, and muscone
George
H Büchi (1921-1998)
(ETH,
Zurich, 1947)
- Paterno-Büchi
reaction (1954)
Edward
M. Burgess (1934- )
(MIT
1962)
Anthony
J. Arduengo, III (1952- )
(Georgia
Inst. of Tech. 1976)
- First stable
carbonyl ylide (1983)
- First stable
nitrile ylide (1984)
- Tricoordinate
hypervalent pnictogens (1984)
- Edge Inversion
(1986)
- Stable
'Arduengo' carbene [imidazol-2-ylidene] (1991)
- C-H-C Hydrogen
bond (1995)
- Stable Thiazole
Carbene (1997)
Daniela
Ţapu
Rasika H.V. Dias
Matthias
Tamm
(Alabama
2005)
(Postdoctoral)
(Postdoctoral)