Dieter Seebach (1937)

German chemist born on 31 October 1937 in Karlsruhe, where he studied chemistry and obtained his doctorate in 1964 with Rudolf Criegee. As a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard, with E. J. Corey, he developed the chemistry of lithiated 1,3-dithianes, and with him introduced the concept of umpolung.

After his habilitation in Karlsruhe, he was a professor at the University of Giessen from 1971 to 1977 and then at ETH Zurich until his retirement in 2003. He is known for his contributions to stereochemistry, such as the principle of self-regeneration of stereocentres and the TADDOL ligands, and for his work on biopolymers, β-peptides and dendrimers.

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