Arne Lützen

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Arne Lützen (born March 26, 1969 in Schleswig ) is a German chemist and professor of organic chemistry at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Life

Arne Lützen began studying chemistry in 1989 at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg , which he completed in 1994 with his diploma thesis under Peter Köll . He then did his doctorate under Köll in the chemistry department of the University of Oldenburg, where his doctorate was funded by a doctoral scholarship from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and another doctoral scholarship from the Heinz Neumüller Foundation. After successfully completing his doctorate in 1997, he started a postdoc at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California with Julius Rebek , which was funded by a postdoctoral fellowship from the DAAD . After his return, he worked from 1998 to 2004 as a research assistant in the chemistry department of the University of Oldenburg in the von Köll group. This was followed by his habilitation and appointment as a private lecturer, with which he became senior scientific assistant at the Institute for Pure and Applied Chemistry at the University of Oldeburg in 2004. In the same year he received invitations from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to the 10th German-American Frontiers in Science Symposium (GAFOS-10) and from the GDCh and the American Chemical Society to the 3rd German-American Frontiers in Chemistry Symposium (GAFOC -3). In autumn 2005, appointments to professorships for organic chemistry at the universities of Duisburg-Essen, Erlangen and Bonn followed, and from October 2005 to March 2006 he was a substitute for a professorship for organic chemistry at the chemistry department of the University of Duisburg-Essen . He then began his work as a university professor for organic chemistry at the Kekulé Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, where he can still be found today. Lützen is married and has two children.

Research areas

As group leader of the Lützen working group at the University of Bonn, Arne Lützen conducts research with his colleagues in organic synthesis, supramolecular chemistry and functional materials.

In organic synthesis, the main focus of preparative work is the production and functionalization of carbo- and heterocyclic aromatic compounds, the synthesis, resolution of racemates and elucidation of the absolute configuration of chiral , dissymmetric compounds and the synthesis of highly functionalized macrocyclic compounds , with a particular focus on is on the development of processes for targeted monofunctionalizations or efficient four to eightfold functionalizations.

In supramolecular chemistry, the working group focuses on the production and testing of functional supramolecular systems, whereby the self-organization of metallosupramolecular systems , systems whose functions can be controlled by allosteric effects, supramolecular principles in order to arrive at new spin-crossover materials , the production of covalently and non-covalently structured receptors for the recognition of (chiral) molecules and the synthesis of bistable rotaxanes are the focus.

For some time now, the Lützen group has also been working intensively on functional materials, such as the synthesis of p-conjugated oligomers and their self-organization into aggregates with interesting optoelectronic properties.

Publications

Since 1995 Lützen has written over 170 publications in specialist journals and book chapters.

Awards

In January 2002 Lützen received the Thieme Journal Prize, which was followed in 2003 by the ADUC annual prize for post-doctoral candidates and the prize for good teaching from the University of Oldenburg. Subsequently, in 2004, Lützen was presented with the Wachsmann Prize of the University Society of Oldenburg. In 2013 and 2017, the teaching awards of the University of Bonn and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Bonn followed.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CV. Retrieved May 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Research Areas . Retrieved May 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ List of publications. Retrieved May 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lützen, Arne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and professor of organic chemistry at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig