Rainer Philippson

Short description: German organic chemist

Rainer Philippson

Nationality| German
Scientific career
Fields| Organic chemistry
Institutions|

* German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
* Schering AG

Rainer Philippson was a German organic chemist. He is known for inventing and patenting the synthesis of clocortolone with Emanuel Kaspar in 1973.[1] The original assignee of the patent was Schering AG. Philippson held a PhD (Dr.rer.nat.) and worked as a researcher at the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin (in East Berlin) in the 1950s and 1960s.[2] In the 1960s, he defected to West Germany and joined Schering AG as a researcher. Philippson was also a co-inventor of several other patents held by Schering.

## References

1. ↑ Process for the preparation of 9alpha-chloro-11beta-hydroxy steroids, http://www.google.com/patents/US3729495, retrieved 2015-12-07
2. ↑ Tätigkeitsbericht der Forschungsgemeinschaft der Naturwissenschaftlichen, Technischen und Medizinischen Institute der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1960, p. 244

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