Ferdinand Bohlmann

Ferdinand Bohlmann (27 August 1921 – 23 September 1991) was a German chemist, known for his studies of plant natural products chemistry, especially terpenoids and polyynes.

Life

Bohlmann studied chemistry in Göttingen from 1939 to 1944. His studies were interrupted by military service and injury. In 1946, he received his doctorate under Hans Brockmann (1903–1988) on chromatography of pyridine compounds. He then worked under Hans Herloff Inhoffen at the University of Marburg. Bohlmann followed Inhoffen to the TH Braunschweig and completed his habilitation there. Bohlmann became a lecturer in 1952 and an adjunct professor in 1957. In 1959, he succeeded Friedrich Weygand at the TU Berlin (1911–1969) at the Institute for Organic Chemistry, where he led a rapidly expanding working group. His most famous academic student is Helmut Schwarz.

Bohlmann died on 23 September 1991.

Work

Bohlmann's main area of work was natural product chemistry, especially terpenes and polyynes. Purdue University United States David MacMillan 2012 New Catalysis Concepts Princeton University United States David Milstein 2013 Discovery of Metal-Catalyzed Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry Weizmann Institute of Science Israel François Diederich 2014 New acetylene and cumulene chemistry: from optoelectronic and chiroptical molecular materials to supramolecular systems ETH Zürich Netherlands Phil Baran 2015 Studies in Natural Product Synthesis The Scripps Research Institute United States Frances Arnold 2016 Innovating with Evolution: Expanding the Enzyme Universe California Institute of Technology United States Alois Fürstner 2017 Catalysis for Synthesis – Concepts and Scrutiny Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung Germany Ben L. Feringa 2018 The Art of Building Small − from Molecular Switches to Motors Stratingh Institute for Chemistry Netherlands Hiroaki Suga 2019 Revolutionizing the discovery processes of de novo bioactive peptides and biologics University of Tokyo Japan