Werner Emmanuel Bachmann

Werner Emmanuel Bachmann
Werner Emmanuel Bachmann
Born	November 13, 1901; Detroit, Michigan, US
Died	March 22, 1951 (aged 49)
Education	Western Technical High School
Alma mater	Wayne State University; University of Michigan (B.S., 1923)(M.S., 1924) (Ph.D, 1926)
Awards	Henry Russell Award (1933); Naval Ordnance Award (1945); Presidential Certificate of Merit (1948); King's Medal
	Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry
Institutions	University of Michigan; University of Illinois

Werner Emmanuel Bachmann (November 13, 1901 – March 22, 1951) was an American chemist. Bachmann was born in Detroit, Michigan where he studied chemistry and chemical engineering at Wayne State University and later at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor nearby. He completed his doctorate under Moses Gomberg and spent the rest of his academic career at the University of Michigan.

Bachmann studied physical organic chemistry (rearrangements, free radicals) and organic synthesis. He is considered a pioneer in steroid synthesis, and carried out the first total synthesis of a steroidal hormone, equilenin with Alfred L. Wilds.[1][2] His name is associated with the Gomberg-Bachmann reaction for the synthesis of diaryl compounds from aryl diazonium chlorides.[3]

Bachmann developed a new method for the production of the explosive Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX), which was used by the United States during World War II.[4]

References

Bachmann, Werner E.; Cole, Wayne; Wilds, Alfred L. (1940). "The Total Synthesis of the Sex Hormone Equilenin and Its Stereoisomers". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 62 (4): 824–839. doi:10.1021/ja01861a036.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110720004450/http://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/Genealogy/work-area-B.shtml
http://www.ecompound.com/Reaction%20reference/name_reaction_alphabetical2.htm
Bachmann, W. E.; Sheehan, J. C. (1949). "A New Method of Preparing the High Explosive RDX1". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 71 (5): 1842–1845. doi:10.1021/ja01173a092.

Elderfield, Robert C. (1951). "Werner Emmanuel Bachmann (1901-1951)" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences.
Michigan State University Bachmann Biography
Gomberg-Bachmann reaction

External links

National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir

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[1] Bachmann, Werner E.; Cole, Wayne; Wilds, Alfred L. (1940). "The Total Synthesis of the Sex Hormone Equilenin and Its Stereoisomers". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 62 (4): 824–839. doi:10.1021/ja01861a036.

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[3] ttp://www.ecompound.com/Reaction%20reference/name_reaction_alphabetical2.htm

[4] Bachmann, W. E.; Sheehan, J. C. (1949). "A New Method of Preparing the High Explosive RDX1". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 71 (5): 1842–1845. doi:10.1021/ja01173a092.