Franz Sondheimer
Franz Sondheimer · Science & Medicine
Organic chemist known for the synthesis of annulenes and natural products
1926, Stuttgart, Germany — 1981, London, England
Germany · United States · United Kingdom
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Franz Sondheimer was an organic chemist renowned for the synthesis of the annulenes — large ring molecules that tested theories of aromaticity — and for work on the total synthesis of natural products. He worked at Harvard, the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and University College London. Born in Stuttgart to a Jewish family, he emigrated after the Nazis came to power.
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Organic chemist known for the synthesis of annulenes and natural products
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