Gerhard E. Herberich

Gerhard E. Herberich (born November 24, 1936 in Waldshut , Hochrhein) is a German chemist and emeritus professor for inorganic chemistry at RWTH Aachen University .

life and work

Herberich initially studied chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . After completing his intermediate diploma in 1958, he moved to the University of Munich in Ernst Otto Fischer's group , where he received his doctorate in 1962 . After a postdoctoral period at University College London with Jim Millen (1923–1999) and a stay at the Physics Institute of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg i. Br. With Helmut Dreizler and Heinz Dieter Rudolph (* 1924) followed in 1967 the habilitation at the Technical University of Munich . From 1971 to 1973 he received a Karl Winnacker scholarship and in 1973 the chemistry prize of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. In 1973, Herberich accepted a call to RWTH Aachen, where he retired in 2003.

The focus of his work was on organoboron compounds . In 1970 Herberich discovered the first derivative of borabenzene and the first complex of a planar, classic boron-carbon system. Together with J. Hengesbach, he discovered the triple decker complex, in which a borole ring acted as a ligand for the first time . Herberich succeeded in a synthetically efficient access to dihydroboroles, borole dianions and borole complexes, the subsequent organometallic chemistry of which he investigated in various ways.

In 1973 he received the Chemistry Prize from the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Gerhard E. Herberich at academictree.org, accessed on February 10, 2018.