Quinkert, Gerhard

Quinkert, Gerhard, and M. Volkan Kisakiirek. Essays in Contemporary Chemistry From Molecular Structure Towards Biology. New York Wiley-VCH, 2001. 

Dozent Dr. Wolf-Dieter Stohrer, Dr. Peter Jacobs, Dr. Klaus H. Kaiser, Dipl.-Chem. Gerhard Wiech und Prof. Dr. Gerhard Quinkert ... 

Gerhard Quinkert, Holger Wallmeier, Norbert Windhab, and Dietmar Reichert... 

Essays in Contemporary Chemistry FromMoiecular Structure towards Biology. Edited by Gerhard Quinkert and M. Volkan Kisakurek Verlag Helvetica Chiinica Acta, Post ch, CH-8042 Sirich, Switzerlland, 2001... 

Essc s in Contemporary Chemistry From Molecular Structure towards Biology. Edited by Gerhard Quinkert and... 

Prof. Gerhard Quinkert Institut fur Organische Chemie Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Marie Curie-Str. 11... 

The first diastereoselective synthesis of methyl (3R,7R)-jasmonate is attributed to Gerhard Quinkert. [94] In the initial step, starting from bis-(8-phenyhnen-thyl) malonate, a vinylcydopropane is constructed. After removal of the chiral auxiliary, the cyclopentanone is built up by means of a domino homo-Michael reaction / Dieckmann cydisation. Attack of dimethyl pent-2-ynylmalonate leads to inversion at the stereogenic centre at the vinyl cyclopropane. After decarboxylation, the vinyl residue is transformed into an ester group and the triple bond hydrogenated with a Lindlar catalyst. 

Gerhard Quinkert was bom in Ludenscheid in 1927 and obtained his scientific education at the Technische Hochschule Braunschweig. He received the Dr. rer. nat. in 1955 under the guidance of Prof. H. H. Inhoffen. Subsequently, he spent two years as postdoctoral fellow with Prof. H. H. Inhoffen and Prof. D. H. R. Barton at Imperial College London, respectively. Then he came back to Braunschweig and became lecturer in 1961 and professor in 1963. In 1970 he moved to his present position as Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Universitat Frankfurt am Main. His main research interests are in the field of organic photochemistry and the stereoselective total synthesis of bioactive compounds. 

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