Heinz Hunsdiecker

{{Short description|German chemist (1904–1981)}}

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|name = Heinz Hunsdiecker

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|caption = Heinz Hunsdiecker

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|1|22|df=y}}

|birth_place = Cologne Germany

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|nationality = German

|death_date = {{death date and age|1981|10|22|1904|1|22|df=y}}

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|alma_mater = University of Göttingen

|doctoral_advisor = Robert Wintgen

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|known_for = Hunsdiecker reaction

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}} Heinz Hunsdiecker (22 January 1904 – 22 November 1981) was a German chemist who together with his wife Cläre Hunsdiecker (1903–1995) improved a reaction of Alexander Borodin now known as the Hunsdiecker reaction.{{cite journal

|title = Über den Abbau der Salze aliphatischer Säuren durch Brom

|author = Heinz Hunsdiecker

|author2 = Claire Hunsdiecker

|journal = Chemische Berichte

|volume = 75

|pages = 291–297

|year = 1942

|doi = 10.1002/cber.19420750309

|issue = 3}}{{cite journal

|title = A propos de la réaction de Borodine-Hunsdiecker

|author = Jacques Jean

|journal = Comptes Rendus

|volume = 2

|pages = 181–183

|year = 1999

|doi = 10.1016/S1387-1609(99)80062-0

|issue = 3}} They received both US{{cite patent|country=United States|number=2,176,181|title=METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ORGANIC CHLORINE AND BROMINE DERIVATIVES|status=patented|pubdate=October 17, 1939|fdate=|pridate=|gdate=|invent1=Heinz Hunsdiecker|inventor=|invent2=Cläre Hunsdiecker|invent3=Egon Vogt|assign1=|assign2=|url=https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/66/8d/ee/4281db8e583f25/US2176181.pdf|class=}} and German patents{{cite patent|country=German|number=DE722464C|title=Process for the preparation of aliphatic saturated chlorine- or bromine-substituted monocarboxylic acid esters|status=patented|pubdate=1935-04-09|fdate=|pridate=|gdate=|invent1=Cläre Hunsdiecker|inventor=|invent2=Egon Vogt|invent3=Heinz Hunsdiecker|assign1=|assign2=|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/DE722464C/en|class=}} for the work.