Vladimir Prelog

Vladimir Prelog (July 23 1906 - January 7 1998) was a renowned chemist from Croatia who worked in Prague, Zagreb and Zurich and who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1975.

Work in Zagreb

In 1935, he was invited to join the Technical Faculty (Tehni?ki Fakultet) of the University of Zagreb, where he took the post of lecturer in organic chemistry. He also taught students of chemical engineering.

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1935 - University of Zagreb - Organic chemistry - Chemical engineering

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With the help of collaborators and students, and financially sponsored by the pharmaceutical factory "Ka?el" (currently Pliva), he started research of quinine and its compounds. Final works with the industry yielded a financially successful production of Streptazol, one of the first commercial sulphonylamides.

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Ka?el - Pliva - Quinine - Streptazol - Sulphonylamide

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Scientific work here was crowned with the first synthesis of adamantane, a hydrocarbone with an unusual alicyclic structure, being isolated from Moravian oil.

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Adamantane - Hydrocarbone - Alicyclic structure - Moravian oil

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The results of Prelog's work have been published in the top European chemical literature and journals, while the organic chemistry developed in Zagreb at that time was well known and identifiable around the world.

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