Christoph Elschenbroich

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Christoph Elschenbroich (born April 28, 1939 in Gera ) is a German chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry .

life and work

Christoph Elschenbroich studied from 1957 to 1964 Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich , where in 1964 he received his degree in 1966 at EO Fischer doctorate . From 1967 to 1968 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot and at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa). From 1969 to 1971 he worked in industry at what was then Metallgesellschaft AG in Frankfurt am Main . From 1972 to 1975 Elschenbroich worked at the Physico-Chemical Institute of the University of Basel , where he completed his habilitation in 1975 with his mentor Fabian Gerson . In the same year he followed a call to the Philipps University of Marburg to take over a professorship for inorganic chemistry. He worked there until his retirement in October 2004. In 1983/1984 he was dean of the chemistry department in Marburg. In 1981 he spent a research semester at the University of Zurich , 1986 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (New York), and in 1994 a stay at the ENSCP Paris.

Christoph Elschenbroich became known as the author of the book "Organometallchemie", which he started together with Albrecht Salzer . In 1988 he and A. Salzer received the literary prize of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie for this work . In 2019 he received the culture plaque of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen market.

Research priorities

Elschenbroich's research focuses on the following areas:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Brief overview of the development of chemistry at the University of Marburg from 1609 to the present. (PDF; 4.4 MB) Ninth, improved and expanded edition. Chemistry Department at Philipps University, February 2020, p. 102 , accessed on March 28, 2020 .
  2. ^ Organometallchemie, C. Elschenbroich, BG Teubner Verlag / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, 6th revised edition, Wiesbaden, 2008 (1st edition 1986), ISBN 978-3-8351-0167-8 .
  3. ^ Fund of the Chemical Industry in the Association of the Chemical Industry eV: Awarded literature prizes (PDF; 31 kB), February 29, 2012, accessed on January 16, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Elschenbroich, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera