Otto Diels
1876 - 1954
Kiel 1916 - 1948

• diene synthesis (Diels-Alder reaction)
• steroid chemistry
• heterocycles
• Nobel prize in chemistry 1950 with Kurt Alder

   

Otto Diels

Kurt Alder
1902 - 1958
Kiel 1926 - 1936

• studies, P.D. and habilitation in Kiel
• diene synthesis (Diels-Alder reaction)
• Nobel prize in chemistry 1950 with Otto Diels

   

Ludwig Claisen
1851 - 1930
Kiel 1897 - 1904

• Claisen rearrangement
• Claisen condensation
• Claisen extender

   

Theodor Curtius
1857 - 1928
Kiel 1889 - 1897

• Curtius rearrangement
• synthesis of hydrazin
• synthese of hydrogen azide

   

Curtius' chemicals

• "oxalyl hydrazin"
• "diammonium semisulfate"

   

   

   

Albert Ladenburg
1842 - 1911
Kiel 1873 - 1889

• structure of benzene ("Ladenburg benzene")
• silicon organic compounds

   

Carl Dietrich Harries
1866 - 1923
Kiel 1904 - 1916

• ozonolysis (Harries reaction)
• rubber synthesis

   

Carl Himly
1811 - 1885
Kiel 1846 - 1884

• defense of Kiel against Denmark 1848
• "Himly bomb" (sea mine with cable detonator)