Kurt Peter C. Vollhardt

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Kurt Peter Christian Vollhardt , called Peter Vollhardt, (born March 7, 1946 in Madrid ) is an American chemist . He is best known in Germany for his textbook "Organic Chemistry", which he wrote with Neil E. Schore .

Life

Vollhardt grew up in Madrid and Buenos Aires and graduated from high school in Munich. He began studying chemistry in Munich. After his bachelor's degree he moved to the University College London , where he in 1972 at Peter J. Garratt doctorate in chemical was ( Ph. D. ). After two years of post-doctoral work at the California Institute of Technology with Robert G. Bergman , Vollhardt became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1974 , where he received a full professorship in 1982. From 1983 to 1987 he was also a Principal Investigator in the Center for Advanced Materials at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory .

He was visiting professor at the University of Paris XI in Orsay (1979), in Bordeaux (1985), Lyon (1987), Rennes (1991), the University of Paris VI (1992), in Marseille (2000) and at the University of Rome (Tor Vergata, 2004), whose honorary doctorate he received in 2004. In 1985 and 1992 he received a Humboldt Research Award and in 1985/86 he was Miller Professor in Berkeley.

From 1966 to 1969 he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and from 1976 to 1980 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1983 he received the Adolf Windaus Medal, in 1987 the American Chemical Society Award in Organometallic Chemistry , received the Otto Bayer Prize in 1990, was an Arthur C. Cope Scholar in 1991 and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize in 1995.

His sixth edition of his textbook "Organic Chemistry" is also available in German translation and is one of the most widely read introductory textbooks in the field of organic chemistry in Germany . In addition to the German translation, there are translations into Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Serbian.

He is a US citizen. He has been married since 1991 and has one daughter.

research

The working group around KPC Vollhardt is investigating the possible uses of transition metals in organic syntheses . He deals with organometallic clusters in catalysis, with anti-aromatics , pyrolysis in the gas phase, synthesis of natural products (such as total synthesis of strychnine and new synthesis methods for morphines) and synthesis of highly strained hydrocarbons and organic compounds with interesting electronic properties (e.g. conductors or magnets) .

Fonts

  • with Neil E. Schore Organic Chemistry , Wiley-VCH, 5th edition 2011, ISBN 3527327541 (translation and editor Holger Butenschön)
    • Original English Organic Chemistry , first Freeman, 1987 (from Vollhardt alone), 5th edition 2007 with Schore

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Biographies, publications and academic family tree of K. Peter C. Vollhardt at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.