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Edgar Heilbronner
Edgar Heilbronner (1978)
Born	13 May 1921 München Germany
Died	28 August 2006 (2006-08-29) (aged 85) Herrliberg Switzerland
Awards	Marcel Benoist Prize (1977)
Scientific career
Institutions	ETH Zurich, University of Basel

Edgar Heilbronner (13 May 1921 – 28 August 2006) was a Swiss German chemist. In 1964 he published the concept of Möbius cyclic annulenes, but the first Möbius aromatic was not synthesized until 2003.

Edgar Heilbronner was a professor at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland for many years but then was offered a professorship in Basel, Switzerland where he spent the remainder of his career.

References

1. Jack D. Dunitz (2006). "Edgar Heilbronner (1921-2006)". Angewandte Chemie. 118 (41): 6936–6936. doi:10.1002/ange.200603850.
2. E. Heilbronner (1964). "Hückel molecular orbitals of Möbius-type conformations of annulenes". Tetrahedron Letters. 5 (29): 1923–1928. doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(01)89474-0.
3. D. Ajami; O. Oeckler; A. Simon; R. Herges (2003). "Synthesis of a Möbius aromatic hydrocarbon". Nature. 426 (6968): 819–821. doi:10.1038/nature02224. PMID 14685233. S2CID 4383956.
4. On Molecular Orbital Correlation Diagrams, the Occurrence of Möbius Systems in Cyclization Reactions, and Factors Controlling Ground and Excited State Reactions. I," Zimmerman, H. E. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1966, 88, 1564-1565

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