Hans J. Schaefer

Hans Jürgen Schäfer (born April 20, 1937 in Mannheim ) is a German chemist, emeritus professor for organic chemistry at the University of Münster .

Life

Schäfer studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1963 under Ulrich Schöllkopf . As a post-doctoral student he was with Kenneth B. Wiberg at Yale University until 1966 . In 1970 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen, in 1971 received a lecturer's grant from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and in 1973 became a university professor in Münster. In 1988 he was dean of the chemistry department and from 1990 to 1994 a member of the university senate.

He researched among other things, organic electrosynthesis (u. A. C-C bonds and functional group conversion, regioselective oxidation of C-H bonds in fatty acids and steroids, stereoselective reactions of electrochemically generated reaction intermediates), radical reactions, synthesis of natural products ( Morphine , taxanes , guaianolides (sesquiterpene lactones), alkaloids like indolizidines and quinolizidines ), self-organized supramolecular structures in fat chemistry and conversion of fatty acids in the context of the chemistry of renewable raw materials.

In 1989 he received the Japan Academy Prize for the Promotion of Science, in 1998 the Manuel Baizer Award from the Electrochemical Society and in 2002 the Normann Medal from the German Society for Fat Science. In 1985 he became a member of the DECHEMA Council for Electrochemical Processes. From 1993 to 1998 he was the coordinator of the EU network Electron Transfer . He was on the advisory board of Fett, Lipid magazine .

Web links

• Homepage in Münster
• University of Münster, organic chemistry, emeriti

Individual evidence

1. ^ In Römpp Chemielexikon Hans-Jürgen Schäfer.
2. ^ Editor and contributions to Volume 8 of the Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry, Wiley-VCH 2004.