Dieckmann, Walter

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Walter Dieckmann was a German chemist and a contemporary of Claisen... 

Walter Dieckmann (1869-1925) was born in Hamburg, Germany, and received his Ph.D. at the University oi Munich. He then stayed Dn at Munich as professor of chemistry. 

Dieckmann, W. Ber. Dtsch. Chem. Ges. 1894, 27, 102. Walter Dieckmann (1869—1925), bom in Hamburg, Germany, studied with E. Bamberger at Munich. After serving as an assistant to von Baeyer in his private laboratory, he became a professor at Munich. At age 56, he died while working in his chemical laboratory at the Barvarian Academy of Science. 

The Dieckmann condensation is an intramolecular reaction by which cyclic P-keto esters are formed using tethered di-esters under basic conditions. The name derives from its originator, Walter Dieckmann, who first reported the reaction in 1894 and demonstrated the formation of ethyl p-ketocyclopentanecarboxylate from ethyl adipate using sodium base and, in a similar fashion, the formation of p-ketocyclohexanecarboxylate from ethyl pimelate. ... 

Professor Walter Dieckmann (1869-1925), University of Munich, Germany. 

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