Nationality German Role Chemist | Name Leopold Horner Alma mater University of Munich | |
Known for Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction Education Heidelberg University, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | ||
Doctoral advisor Heinrich Otto Wieland | ||
Leopold Horner (August 24, 1911 – October 5, 2005) was a German chemist who published a modified Wittig reaction using phosphonate-stabilized carbanions now called the Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction (HWE reaction) or Horner-Wittig reaction.
Life
Horner started studying chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and later with Heinrich Wieland at the University of Munich. After he received his Ph.D and his habilitation he worked at the Polymer Research Institute in Frankfurt. In 1953 he became professor at the University of Mainz.
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