Carsten Bolm

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Carsten Bolm (born March 8, 1960 in Braunschweig ) is a German chemist ( organic chemistry ) who is a professor at RWTH Aachen University .

Life

Bolm studied chemistry from 1978 at the TU Braunschweig with a diploma in 1984 (with Henning Hopf ). In 1983/84 he was also on a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , where he worked with H.-J. Reich received a master's degree in chemistry. From 1985 he was in Marburg, where he received his doctorate in 1987 under Manfred T. Reetz (chiral catalysts for enantioselective CC linkages). In 1987/88 he was a post-doctoral student with Barry Sharpless at MIT and then in Darmstadt and Basel with Bernd Giese , where he completed his habilitation in 1993. In 1993 he became professor (C 3) for organic chemistry at the Philipps University of Marburg and in 1996 C4 professor at RWTH Aachen. He declined calls to Freiburg and Heidelberg. He holds the chair for organic chemistry in Aachen. From 2002 to 2004 he was a member of the university's senate.

He is an adjunct professor at the Wuhan Institute of Technology in China. He was visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1992), at the University of Paris VI, in Florence, Milan, Namur and Tokyo.

He deals with organic synthesis (especially asymmetric synthesis and synthesis with organometallic reagents), asymmetric metal catalysis and enantioselective catalysis, organocatalysis , bioactive components, pseudopeptides, mechanochemistry , conversion of biomass and sulfur and fluorine chemistry.

In 1998 he was awarded the Otto Bayer Award , the 1991 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize , in 1992 the ADUC annual award for postdoctoral, 1993 the annual Prize in Chemistry in Göttingen Academy of Sciences, in 1996 the Otto Klung Prize, the 2006 Prix Franco-Allemand of the French Chemical Society and in 2015 the Adolf von Baeyer commemorative coin . In 2003 he became a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In 2014 he was one of the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers. He is on the scientific advisory board of the Leibniz Institute for Organic Catalysis in Rostock.

Since 2008 he has been the International Associate Editor of the Journal of Organic Chemistry and is also on the editorial boards of various other journals such as Synthesis, Chemical Reviews, New Journal of Chemistry, Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, Tetrahedron Letters and Tetrahedron.

Fonts

  • Editor with Matthias Beller: Transition metals for organic synthesis: building blocks and fine chemicals, 2 volumes, Wiley-VCH 1998, 2004
  • Editor with F. Ekkehardt Hahn: Activating unreactive substrates: the role of secondary interactions, Wiley-VCH 2009

literature

  • Biography in Hubertus P. Bell, Carlos Güntner, Tim Feuerstein (eds.) What's Cooking in Chemistry: How Leading Chemists Succeed in the Kitchen, Wiley-VCH 2003 (with a recipe for Kaiserschmarren from Bolm)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Carsten Bolm at academictree.org, accessed on 7 January 2018th
personal data
SURNAME Bolm, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig