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Kurt Alder (German pronunciation: [ˈkʊʁt ˈaldɐ] ⓘ; 10 July 1902 – 20 June 1958) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate. Biography. Alder was born in the industrial area of Königshütte, Silesia (modern day Chorzów, Upper Silesia, Poland), where he received his early schooling.
Jul 6, 2024 · Kurt Alder was a German chemist who was the corecipient, with the German organic chemist Otto Diels, of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their development of the Diels-Alder reaction, or diene synthesis, a widely used method of synthesizing cyclic organic compounds.
Biographical. Kurt Alder was born in Königshütte, Upper Silesia, on the 10th of July 1902. His childhood and school years were spent in these industrial surroundings, but after the end of the First World War he was forced to leave his home, due to political circumstances.
In organic chemistry, the Diels–Alder reaction is a chemical reaction between a conjugated diene and a substituted alkene, commonly termed the dienophile, to form a substituted cyclohexene derivative. It is the prototypical example of a pericyclic reaction with a concerted mechanism.
Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Kurt Alder. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950. Born: 10 July 1902, Königshütte, Prussia (now Chorzów, Poland) Died: 20 June 1958, Cologne, West Germany (now Germany) Affiliation at the time of the award: Cologne University, Cologne, Germany.
Kurt Alder In 1950, Otto Diels and his student Kurt Alder were awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. There is little in Kiel Chemistry that does not remind us of the long-term director of the institute, Professor Otto Diels.
Jun 8, 2018 · Alder, Kurt (b. Könighsuü Germany [now Chorźow Poland], 10 July 1902 d. Cologne, Germany, 20 June 1958) organic Chemistry. Alder, the son of Schoolteacher in heavily industrialized area around Kattowitz (now Katowice) in Upper Silesia, received his early education in the German schools of Königshütte.
