June Ipaktschi

June Ipaktschi (2015)

Junes Ipaktschi (born October 25, 1940 in Tabriz , Iran) is an Iranian-German chemist and professor of organic chemistry at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

Life

Junes Ipaktschi grew up in Tehran / Iran. After graduating from high school in June 1958 at the Razi Gymnasium in Tehran, he studied chemistry from 1958 to 1966 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He completed his doctoral thesis in the field of organic chemistry under the direction of Heinz A. Staab . He then did research as an assistant in the same working group and obtained his habilitation in organic chemistry in 1972 with a thesis on the photochemistry of unsaturated ketones .

From 1972 to 1974 he was a postdoc and visiting professor in William Garfield Dauben's group at the University of California, Berkeley .

In 1973 he accepted a position in the chemistry department of the Philipps University of Marburg and was appointed professor.

In 1975 he was appointed to the chemical institute of the Arya-Mehr University (today Sharif University) in Tehran and moved to his home country Iran as a professor. In 1978 he moved to the newly founded Reza Shah Kabir University (today Mazandaran University) and worked there as a professor for chemistry. For a time he was the head of the university and at the same time head of the chemical institute.

From 1980 until he retired in 2005, he was chemistry professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. 1992–1995 he was dean of the chemistry department of this university and 2001–2002 managing director of the organic chemistry institute there.

In addition to several stays as a visiting professor at various universities in Iran, he was invited as a visiting professor at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology , Tsukuba / Japan in 2001 and spent three months there. In 1999 Ipaktschi was awarded the Kharazmi Prize.

research

Ipaktschi is known for using ethereal solutions of lithium perchlorate as a medium for organic-chemical reactions and organometallic chemistry .

Literature (selection)

• J. Ipaktschi and MR Saidi: Metal-Mediated Cyclizations of Amines , Science of Synthesis, 2012, 40.1.1.5.5, pages 351-504.
• J. Ipaktschi, A. Ziyaei Halimehjani, MR Saidi: Investigation of the Reaction of Allyl (cyclopentadienyl) iron (II) Dicarbonyl with Iminium Salts: Synthesis of Ammonium Salts of Substituted Five-Membered-Ring Iron Complexes , Organometallics , 2007, 26, Pages 201-203, DOI: 10.1021 / om060783i .
• J. Ipaktschi, S. Uhlig, and A. Dülmer: h2-Alkynyl and Vinylidene Transition Metal Complexes. Hydroamination of Neutral Tungsten-Vinylidene Complexes , Organometallics 2001, 20, pages 4840-4876, DOI: 10.1021 / om010528s .
• J. Ipaktschi, R. Hosseinzadeh, P. Schlaf, E. Dreisidler and R. Goddard: Self-organization of molecules via covalent bonds: selective tetramerization of a p-quinodimethane , Helvetica Chimica Acta 1998, 81, pages 1821–1834, doi: 10.1002 / (SICI) 1522-2675 (19981007) 81:10 3.0.CO; 2-C .