Lipid Science & Technology

Biography

After his graduation in 1950 in Bludenz studied Spiteller at the University of Innsbruck chemistry. In 1956 he was in Innsbruck for Dr. phil. doctorate. Then he had to 1958 in Innsbruck, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Organic Chemistry. He synthesized the Breitbandsulfonamid there sulphadimethoxine (Madribon). He then moved to the University of Vienna in the working group of Friedrich Wessely. This was followed by a two-year postdoctoral stay (1960-1961) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One area was about the structural elucidation of indole alkaloids, such as quebrachamine, by means of mass spectrometry (MS). 1961 went Spiteller back to Vienna and worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Organic Chemistry. His field there was the structure elucidation of alkaloids, steroids and metabolites of drugs and mass spectroscopy. 1964 Spiteller was in Vienna habilitated. In 1965 he went as a Scientific Council and C2 professor at the University of Göttingen, where he continued his research on the structure elucidation of natural products by MS. In 1969 he became C3 professor and started a new field of work: the study of the relationships between diseases and consequent changes in metabolism. 1975 received Spiteller in Göttingen a C4 professorship, but was followed in the same year a call to the newly established University of Bayreuth. In Bayreuth, he worked on the structure elucidation and biogenesis of furanoid fatty acids and discovered 1980 Urofuransäuren as metabolites of furanoid fatty acids.Oxidized fatty acids, their decomposition products and their physiological effects are among the other work areas Spitellers.

Research Interest

furanoid fatty acids