Dieter Enders (1946-2019)

German chemist. He obtained his doctorate in Giessen with Dieter Seebach and, after a postdoctoral stay with E. J. Corey at Harvard, was professor in Bonn and, from 1985, at RWTH Aachen University.

In 1976 he introduced the proline-derived chiral auxiliaries SAMP and RAMP for the asymmetric alkylation of aldehydes and ketones through their hydrazones. Later he was one of the driving forces of asymmetric organocatalysis.

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