Hans-Ulrich Reissig

Hans-Ulrich Reissig

Hans-Ulrich Reissig (born May 9, 1949 in Helmbrechts , Bavaria ) is a German chemist. He is professor for organic chemistry at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

During his school days at the Münchberg grammar school , he was already doing research in the field of macromolecular chemistry (participation in the “ Jugend forscht ” competition 1966–1968, state winner Bavaria in 1967 and 1968, 2nd prize in the 1968 national competition).

From 1970, Reißig studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and graduated in 1978 with a doctorate from Rolf Huisgen in 1978 ("New contributions to the additions of diazoalkanes and the chemistry of 3 H -pyrazoles"). As a post-doctoral student he worked with Edward Piers (1938-2010) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In 1979 he began working independently with Siegfried Hünig as a mentor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . There he completed his habilitation in 1984 ("Donor-Acceptor-Substituted Cyclopropane") and worked as a private lecturer with a Heisenberg grant. In 1986 he was appointed to the TH Darmstadt , in 1993 to the TU Dresden and in 1999 to the FU Berlin . In 2015 he retired.

Act

Reissig deals with new synthetic methods and the elucidation of reaction mechanisms. In 1980 he introduced the expression “donor-acceptor-substituted cyclopropanes” and systematically used these building blocks for synthetic applications. Later, the focus was on the reactions of nitrosoalkenes, lithiated alkoxyallenes and the use of samarium diiodide. In addition to the presentation of structurally interesting heterocyclic compounds, his group is interested in the synthesis of natural products ( strychnine , γ-rubromycin etc.) and bioactive compounds (e.g. carbohydrate mimetics).

Honors

In 1985, Reißig was awarded the Karl Winnacker Scholarship from Hoechst AG. He has been a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2012 and in 2014 he received the Liebig Medal from the Society of German Chemists .

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Fonts (selection)

• H.-U. Reissig: Donor-acceptor-substituted cyclopropanes: Versatile building blocks in organic synthesis , in Mark S. Baird, HU Reissig, Jacques RY Salaün: Small ring compounds in organic syntheses III, Topics in current chemistry 144, Springer Verlag 1988.
• H.-U. Reissig, R. Zimmer, Donor-Acceptor-Substituted Cyclopropane Derivatives and their Application in Organic Synthesis , Chem. Rev. 2003, 103, 1151-1196, doi: 10.1021 / cr010016n .
• M. Brasholz, S. Sörgel, C. Azap, H.-U. Reissig , Rubromycins: Structurally Intriguing, Biologically Valuable, Synthetically Challenging Antitumour Antibiotics , Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3801-3814, doi: 10.1002 / ejoc.200601054 .
• J. Högermeier, H.-U. Reissig, Nine Times Fluoride can be Good for your Syntheses. Not just Cheaper: Nonafluorobutanesulfonates as Intermediates for Transition Metal-Catalyzed Reactions , Adv. Synth. Catal. 2009, 351, 2747-2763, doi: 10.1002 / adsc.200900566 .
• F. Pfrengle, H.-U. Reissig, Amino Sugars and their Mimetics via 1,2-Oxazines , Chem. Soc. Rev. , 2010, 39, 549-557, doi: 10.1039 / B914356D .
• C. Beemelmanns, H.-U. Reissig, Samarium Diiodide Induced Ketyl- (het) arene Cyclizations towards Novel N-Heterocycles , Chem. Soc. Rev. 2011, 40, 2199-2210, doi: 10.1039 / B914356D .
• R. Zimmer, H.-U. Reissig , Alkoxyallenes as Building Blocks for Organic Synthesis , Chem. Soc. Rev. 2014, 43, 2888-2903, doi: 10.1039 / c3cs60429b .