Christian Limberg

Christian Limberg (born May 12, 1965 in Essen ) is a German chemist.

Limberg studied chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum with a diploma in 1990 and a doctorate with Alois Haas in 1992. As a post-doctoral student , he was with AJ Downs at the University of Oxford and received his doctorate there again (D. Phil.) In 1995. He then went to from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he completed his habilitation in 1999. In 1995/96 he had a Liebig scholarship and from 1999 to 2001 he was a Heisenberg scholar. In 2001/02 he was acting head of the chair for inorganic chemistry (substitute Wolfgang A. Herrmann ) at the Technical University of Munich and in 2003 he became professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2006 to 2008 he was dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences I.

It deals with activation of small molecules (such as , , , , , ) with metal complexes, oxo-metal complexes and oxidation reactions, in which it partially follows examples in biology. ${\displaystyle {\ce {O2}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\ce {N2}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\ce {H2}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\ce {CO2}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\ce {CO}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\ce {CH4}}}$

In 2002 he received the Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize and in 2001 the Chemistry Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (for his work on oxo transfer reactions on chromium and molybdenum compounds ). In 2018 he received the Alfred Stock Memorial Prize for his work on oxygen complexes and oxidation reactions.

He has been one of the editors of the Zeitschrift für Inorganische und Allgemeine Chemie since 2009 .

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