Johann Mulzer

Johann Mulzer (approx. 1985)

Johann Mulzer (born August 5, 1944 in Prien am Chiemsee ) is a German chemist specializing in organic chemistry and from 1996 to 2012 professor at the University of Vienna .

Life

Mulzer studied chemistry from 1963 to 1969 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich ; In 1969 he received his degree and in 1974 with the work stereoisomerization and ring expansion in Styrylcyclopropanen: An Approach to trimethylene problem as an academic student of Rolf Huisgen at Munich University doctorate . He spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at EJ Corey at the Harvard University and qualified as a professor in 1980, again in Munich. In 1982 he received a C3 professorship at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , was C4 professor for organic chemistry at the Free University of Berlin from 1984 to 1995 , and went to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main for one year . In 1996 he switched to a professorship for organic chemistry at the University of Vienna . He has been retired since 2012.

Mulzer is known for his work on natural product synthesis and synthetic methods.

Important publications (selection)

Mulzer, Johann: Trying to rationalize total synthesis , In: Natural Product Reports (2014), 31 (4), 595-603.
Preindl, Johannes; Leitner, Christian; Soon, Simon; Mulzer, Johann: A Short Access to the Skeleton of Elisabethin A and Formal Syntheses of Elisapterosin B and Colombiasin A In: Organic Letters (2014), 16 (16), 4276-4279.
Toelle, Nina; Weinstabl, Harald; Gaich, Tanja; Mulzer, Johann: Light-mediated total synthesis of 17-deoxyprovidencin , In: Angewandte Chemie , International Edition (2014), 53 (15), 3859-3862.
Ramharter, Jürgen; Weinstabl, Harald; Mulzer, Johann: Synthesis of the Lycopodium Alkaloid (+) - Lycoflexine , In: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2010), 132 (41), 14338-14339.
Martin, Harry J .; Magauer, Thomas; Mulzer, Johann: In Pursuit of a Competitive Target: Total Synthesis of the Antibiotic Kendomycin In: Angewandte Chemie, International Edition (2010), 49 (33), 5614–5626.
Marchart, Stefan; Gromov, Alexey; Mulzer, Johann: Total Synthesis of the Antibiotic Branimycin In: Angewandte Chemie, International Edition (2010), 49 (11), 2050-2053.
Magauer, Thomas; Mulzer, Johann; Tiefenbacher, Konrad: Total Syntheses of (+) - Echinopine A and B: Determination of Absolute Stereochemistry , In: Organic Letters (2009), 11 (22), 5306-5309.
Gaich, Tanja ; Mulzer, Johann: Total Synthesis of Penifulvin A, an Insecticide with a Dioxafenestrane Skeleton In: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2009), 131 (2), 452-453.
Prantz, Kathrin; Mulzer, Johann: Decarboxylative Grob-Type Fragmentations in the Synthesis of Trisubstituted Z Olefins: Application to Peloruside A, Discodermolide, and Epothilone D , In: Angewandte Chemie, International Edition (2009), 48 (27), 5030-5033.
Tiefenbacher, Konrad; Mulzer, Johann: Short formal synthesis of (-) - platencin , In: Angewandte Chemie, International Edition (2008), 47 (33), 6199-6200.

Prizes and awards

2010 Emil Fischer Medal from the Society of German Chemists
2002 election to the corresponding member of the mathematical and natural science class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2002 City of Vienna Prize for Natural Sciences
1999 Erwin Schrödinger Prize from the Austrian Academy of Sciences
1997 Ernst Schering Prize from the Schering Research Foundation
1994 Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Johann H. Mulzer at academictree.org, accessed on January 4, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Mulzer, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mulzer, Johann Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German organic chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 5, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prien am Chiemsee

[1] Life data, publications and academic family tree of Johann H. Mulzer at academictree.org, accessed on January 4, 2019.