Holger Braunschweig

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Holger Christoph Braunschweig (born November 2, 1961 in Aachen ) is a German chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

Braunschweig studied chemistry from 1983 at RWTH Aachen University with a diploma in 1988 and received his doctorate there in 1990 under Peter Paetzold on the subject of reactions of iminoboranes with carbene complexes of tantalum . Until 1992, he was a post-doctoral student at the University of Sussex in Brighton . In 1998 he completed his habilitation in Aachen, was then senior assistant there and was senior lecturer and reader at Imperial College London from 2000 before becoming professor in Würzburg in 2002. From 2005 to 2009 he was Vice Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy.

He is known for his research on compounds of transition metals with main group elements, especially boron (which is known for complicated bonding relationships that often have no parallels with other elements), and on organometallic polymers. He synthesized novel compounds in this field, clarified the electronic structure of the compounds and looked for new catalysts. In the case of the transition metal complexes of boron, he was particularly concerned with borylene complexes (with a double bond between the metal and boron). He discovered previously unknown multiple bonds of boron, for example in connections between boron and oxygen and the boron-boron triple bond.

In 1991 he received the Borchers plaque from RWTH Aachen University. In 2001 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry . In 2008 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and in 2009 of the Leopoldina . He has been a corresponding member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences since 2015 . In 2009 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and in 2011 an Advanced Grant from the ERC . In 2016 he received the Alfred Stock Memorial Prize .

From 2006 to 2009 he was the editorial board of the magazine Organometallics .

Fonts (selection)

  • H. Braunschweig: Transition Metal Complexes of Boron - New Findings and New Coordination Types, Angewandte Chemie, Volume 118, 2006, p. 5380
  • N. Arnold, H. Braunschweig, RD Dewhurst, WC Ewing: Unprecedented Borane, Diborane (3), Diboren and Borylene Ligands via Pt-Mediated Borane Dehydrogenation, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Volume 138, 2016, pp. 76-79.
  • H. Braunschweig, WC Ewing, S. Ghosh, T. Kramer, JD Mattock, S. Östreicher, A. Vargas, C. Werner: Trimetallaborides as starting points for the syntheses of large metal-rich molecular borides and clusters, Chem. Sci ., Volume 7, 2016, pp. 109-116
  • H. Braunschweig, RD Dewhurst, F. Hupp, M. Nutz, K. Radacki, CW Tate, A. Vargas, Q. Ye: Multiple complexation of CO and related ligands to a main-group element, Nature, Volume 522, 2015 , Pp. 327-330.
  • T. Kupfer, H. Braunschweig, K. Radacki: The Triboracyclopropenyl Dianion: The Lightest Possible Main-Group-Element Hückel π Aromatic, Angew. Chem., Volume 127, 2015, pp. 15299-15303 (AAngew. Chem. Int. Ed., Volume 54, 2015, 15084-15088)
  • R. Bertermann, H. Braunschweig, P. Constantinidis, T. Dellermann, RD Dewhurst, WC Ewing, I. Fischer, T. Kramer, J. Mies, AK Phukan, A. Vargas: Exclusive π Encapsulation of Light Alkali Metal Cations by a Neutral Molecule, Angew. Chem., Volume 127, 2015, pp. 13282-13286

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Holger Braunschweig at academictree.org, accessed on 14 January 2018th
  2. ^ Member entry of Holger Braunschweig (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 26, 2016.
  3. ↑ Member entry of Holger Braunschweig (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 26, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Braunschweig, Holger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braunschweig, Holger Christoph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2nd, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen