Rudolf Criegee (1902-1975)

German chemist, professor at the University of Karlsruhe. He studied the reactions of peroxides and of oxidants such as lead tetraacetate, which cleaves vicinal diols (Criegee oxidation).

Between 1949 and 1953 he proposed the mechanism of ozonolysis: ozone forms a molozonide that fragments into a carbonyl compound and a carbonyl oxide, which recombine to the ozonide. The intermediate of the Baeyer–Villiger reaction also bears his name.

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