Rolf Appel

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

Education

Appel received his PhD at age 30.[1] He 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. ^ "Chemie".
  2. ^ "Scientific Pedigrees of Top Cited Chemists" (PDF). careerchem.com. 2001. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  3. ^ a b 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. ^ Lieblig Medal infosources.org [dead link‍]
  5. ^ "Appel Reaction".