Hubert Schmidbaur

Hubert Schmidbaur (born December 31, 1934 in Landsberg am Lech ) is a German chemist.

Life

Schmidbaur studied chemistry from 1953 to 1957 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and passed his diploma exam in 1957. In 1960 he received his doctorate under Max Schmidt on "alkyl silyl esters of inorganic oxygen acids". He completed his habilitation in Marburg in 1964. In 1965 he followed a call to the University of Würzburg for a newly created full professorial position in inorganic chemistry and in 1973 to the Technical University of Munich (chair for inorganic and analytical chemistry).

Awards

He is a member of numerous scientific academies and has held visiting professorships at numerous universities, most recently at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa). He is a Leibniz Prize winner . Because of his numerous scientific merits, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. In 2010 he received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art . He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Münster . In 1990 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

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Hubert Schmidbaur was one of the most cited German chemists for a long time. He is the author of more than 800 scientific articles. Among other things, he dealt with the chemistry of the element silicon (heterosiloxanes, hydridosilanes), the element phosphorus ( ylides , phosphoranes ), the element beryllium (bioinorganic chemistry), gallium and, above all, the chemistry of the element gold . Here he coined the term "aurophilia", an interaction between gold atoms with the electron configuration d10 (closed-shell configuration), which is caused by relativistic effects . The term aurophilicity is finally on the concept Metallophilie been extended after it has been recognized that other metals are capable of such interactions. In this context, it is also interesting to note that the radii of Au (I) centers are smaller than those of Ag (I), also because of relativistic effects. Another outstanding result of his research in this area is the fivefold coordination of a carbon atom by Au (I) -phosphine fragments, as confirmed by X-ray structure analysis.

literature

• NW Mitzel: Professor Hubert Schmidbaur on his 70th birthday. In: Journal of Nature Research B . 59, 2004, pp. 1181–1184 ( PDF , free full text). (Curriculum vitae in the dedication volume for his 70th birthday)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PDF document with a list of the award winners (7.52 MB). German Research Foundation , accessed October 24, 2010 . 
2. ↑ Bearer of the Bavarian Maximilian Order 2010. Bavarian State Government, October 20, 2010 ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Member entry by Hubert Schmidbaur (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 20, 2016.