Andreas Pfaltz

Andreas Pfaltz (born May 10, 1948 in Basel ) is a Swiss chemist ( organic chemistry ). He is professor of chemistry at the University of Basel .

Pfaltz acquired in 1972 a degree in Natural Sciences at the ETH Zurich and was at there in 1978 Albert Eschenmoser in Organic Chemistry PhD (dissertation received the core price). As a post-doctoral student he was at Columbia University with Gilbert Stork in 1978/79 . From 1980 he was back at the ETH Zurich, from 1987 as a private lecturer. In 1990 he became assistant professor and in 1993 professor of organic chemistry at the University of Basel. In 1995 he became director at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr , where he headed the homogeneous catalysis department . Since 1999 he has been professor of chemistry in Basel again.

He deals with organic synthesis, organometallic chemistry , homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, asymmetric catalysis (i.e. selectivity for one of the optical isomers, important for biologically active substances) with chiral catalysts and combinatorial methods for the search (the screening) for catalysts using of mass spectrometry . In the 1980s, influenced by his doctoral supervisor Eschenmoser, he was initially concerned with the synthesis of macrocyclic compounds such as corrins and porphyrins , which he then used as ligands in asymmetric catalysis, for example corrins or oxazolines (box ligands).

In 2003 he received the Prelog Medal , in 2003 the Horst Pracejus Prize , in 1989 the Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society, in 2008 the Ryōji Noyori Prize , in 2011 he gave the Heilbronner-Hückel Lecture and in 2011 he received the Yamada-Koga -Price. In 2002 he was Wilhelm Manchot Research Professor at the Technical University of Munich .

He is a member of the Leopoldina (2011).

Fonts

• with Eric N. Jacobsen , Hisashi Yamamoto (editor) Comprehensive Asymmetric Catalysis , 3 volumes, Springer Verlag 1999 (Supplement 2004)

Web links

• Biography on his homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Andreas Pfaltz (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 16, 2016.