Hansgeorg Schnöckel

Hansgeorg Schnöckel (* 1941 in Marienburg , West Prussia) is a German chemist and emeritus professor of analytical chemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology .

Schnöckel studied chemistry at the University of Münster with a doctorate under HJ Becher in 1970 with a thesis on the spectroscopic investigation of compounds containing boron. In 1981 he completed his habilitation on matrix studies of reactive molecules at high temperatures. In 1987 he became professor in Münster and in 1987 professor of inorganic chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since 1993 he has been professor for analytical chemistry in Karlsruhe.

He dealt with spectroscopy and quantum chemistry of reactive molecules and later with the synthesis of aluminum and gallium halides and cluster compounds with dimensions down to the nanoscale (referred to by him as metalloid clusters, since, in contrast to metal clusters, only metals are in the cluster core Transitions to metal grids). In 2004 he received the Alfred Stock Memorial Prize .

Web links

• Biography at KIT

Individual evidence

1. ^ H. Schnöckel: Metalloid Al- and Ga-Clusters: A Novel Dimension in Organometallic Chemistry between the Molecular and the Solid State Areas?, Dalton Trans. 2005, 19, 3131.