Research

Karl Heinz Büchel was a German chemist. Focus of research in his work were metabolic intermediates and chemical engineering, especially the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds. He developed among others the acyl-lactone rearrangement which was named after him and his colleague. His work in the Bayer AG on plant protection and pharmaceutical agents contributed to 16 commercial products.

Career

• since 1997 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• 1989 Awarded with the German Bundesverdienstkreuz
• 1983 Awarded with the order of merit of the federal state North-Rhine-Westphalia1989 Awarded with the German Bundesverdienstkreuz
• 1983 Burdick Jackson Award of the American Chemical Society
• 1976 Director of central research at Bayer AG
• 1975 Honorary Professor at the University of Bonn
• 1967 Department manager at Bayer AG
• 1963-1966 Department manager at Shell International Research
• 1958-1961 Assistant at the Chemical Institute of the University of Bonn
• 1958 Dissertation at the University of Bonn
• 1952-1958 Chemical Studies at the University of Bonn