Gottfried Huttner

Gottfried Huttner (born August 1, 1937 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German chemist and emeritus professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Heidelberg .

Huttner is the son of a chemist with Bavarian roots and grew up in Bavaria (Freising, Abitur in Burghausen 1953). He first studied mathematics and physics before switching to chemistry and received his doctorate in 1966 under Ernst Otto Fischer at the Technical University of Munich ( donor-acceptor compounds of transition metal complexes with organic acceptors ). He then turned to X-ray crystallography (and the further development of its methods) and structural chemistry and received his habilitation in 1972 at the Technical University of Munich (on the structural chemistry of organometallic compounds). In Munich he clarified the structure of a whole series of novel classes of compounds in complex chemistry. In 1977 he became a professor at the University of Konstanz and in 1986 in Heidelberg. From 1997 to 1999 he was a member of the university senate and in 2005 he retired.

After starting out in X-ray structure analysis and structural chemistry, he turned to the synthesis of novel compounds in organometallic, complex and cluster chemistry in the 1970s.

He was visiting professor in Strasbourg, Helsinki, Bordeaux and the University of Paris VI.

In 1992 he received the Alfred Stock Memorial Prize . 1997 to 2001 he was on the board of the German Chemical Society. He is a member of the Finnish Chemical Society.

literature

• Portrait in News from Chemistry, Technology and Laboratory, Volume 40, 1992, 1284

Web links

• Homepage in Heidelberg
• Literature by and about Gottfried Huttner in the catalog of the German National Library