Vladimir Prelog - Career

Career

Prelog badly wanted to work in academic environment, so he accepted the position of lecturer at the University of Zagreb in 1935. At Technical Faculty in Zagreb, he lectured organic chemistry and chemical engineering.

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

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

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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