Bernhard Breit

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Bernhard Breit (* 1966 in Saarbrücken ) is a German chemist. He is a full professor of organic chemistry at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg .

life and work

Breit studied chemistry at the University of Kaiserslautern , where he received his diploma in 1990 and received his doctorate summa cum laude in 1993 with Manfred Regitz . As a post-doctoral student he worked with Barry Trost in Stanford in 1993/94 and then with Reinhard W. Hoffmann at Marburg University , where he completed his habilitation in 1998. In 1999 he became associate professor at the University of Heidelberg and in 2001 full professor for organic chemistry in Freiburg. He turned down a call to Basel in 2015. He is a Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

He deals with the development and use of new methods for organic synthesis and homogeneous catalysis.

He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. In 1995 he received the Dr. Otto Röhm Prize, the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize in 1999, and in the same year he received the teaching scholarship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (whose Liebig scholarship he was in 1994). In 2000 he received the Alfried Krupp Award for Young University Teachers and in 2002 the Novartis European Young Investigator Award. In 2007 he was a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

In 1998/99 he was visiting professor at Harvard University , in 2005 in Stanford and in 2008 in Strasbourg. He holds several patents.

He has been on the editorial board of Chemistry in Our Time since 2013 . He is on the advisory boards of Chemical Record, Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis and the European Journal of Organic Chemistry.

Fonts

  • Fascination Organic Synthesis, Chemistry in Our Time, Volume 47, 2013, p. 139
  • B. Breit: Controlling stereoselectivity with the aid of a reagent-directing group: hydroformylation, cuprate addition, and domino reaction sequences In: Chemistry. Volume 6, number 9, May 2000, pp. 1519–1524, PMID 10839167 (also reprinted in Hans-Günther Schmalz, Thomas Wirth, Organic Synthesis Highlights V, Wiley-VCH 2008)

literature

  • Pia Teufel: Motivation is everything , Interview with Breit in: Eva-Maria Streier, Klaus Genius (Ed.): Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize, Recognition as Ansporn, Lemmens, 2000, pp. 32–36

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Date of birth Kürschner's Scholars Calendar 2009
  2. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Bernhard Breit at academictree.org, accessed on January 14, 2018.
  3. ↑ Title of the dissertation: Phosphaalkyne cyclooligomerization for the construction of phosphorus-carbon cage compounds: an investigation into the [2 + 2] cycloaddition behavior of phosphaalkynes with selected reaction partners
personal data
SURNAME Breit, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken