Konrad Seppelt

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Konrad Seppelt (born September 2, 1944 in Leipzig ) is a German chemist of inorganic chemistry and former Vice President of the Free University of Berlin . There he heads the research group AG Seppelt at the Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Scientific career

Seppelt initially held various positions at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (1969–1974) and was visiting professor at the U. of California, Berkeley (1974–1975). He was then from 1980 to 1982 and from 1983 to 1991 Professor of Chemistry at the Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Free University of Berlin and received the Wilsmore Fellowship of the U. of Melbourne in 1982 . At the Free University of Berlin he was also dean of the faculty of biology, chemistry and pharmacy (1992–1993 and 1996–1997), vice president of the university (1994–1995) and since 1997 professor of inorganic chemistry and head of the research group AG Seppelt .

In 2000, Seppelt was the first scientist to succeed in creating a connection between a noble gas and a noble metal. This was previously considered impossible due to the highly inert nature of these chemical groups. In this series of experiments, the compound tetraxenonogold (II) was created and this finding was published in the journal Science .

Awards

Publications (selection)

Seppelt is author or co-author in over 350 publications:

  • M. Malischewski, M. Adelhardt, J. Sutter, K. Meyer, K. Seppelt: Isolation and structural and electronic characterization of salts of the decamethylferrocene dication. In: Science . Volume 353, Number 6300, August 2016, pp. 678-682, doi: 10.1126 / science.aaf6362 , PMID 27516596
  • S. Seidel, K. Seppelt: Xenon as a complex ligand: the tetra xenono Gold (II) cation in AuXe (4) 2+ (Sb (2) F (11) -) (2). In: Science . Volume 290, Number 5489, October 2000, pp. 117-118, PMID 11021792
  • K. Seppelt: Response: Structure of W (CH3) 6. In: Science . Volume 272, Number 5259, April 1996, pp. 182b-183b, doi: 10.1126 / science.272.5259.182b , PMID 17791392
  • Cutting Edge, Konrad Seppelt, The (London) Times Higher Education Supplement, November 10, 2000, p. 24

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The winners of the Karl Winnacker Scholarship, pp. 70–71. (PDF)
  2. ^ Homepage of the Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin
  3. ↑ Inorganic Chemistry. July 31, 2013, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ S. Seidel, K. Seppelt: Xenon as a complex ligand: the tetra xenono Gold (II) cation in AuXe (4) 2+ (Sb (2) F (11) -) (2) . In: Science (New York, NY) . tape 290 , no. 5489 , October 6, 2000, ISSN  0036-8075 , p. 117-118 , PMID 11021792 .
  5. ↑ List of publications by Prof. Seppelt. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  6. ^ Cutting edge: Konrad Seppelt. November 10, 2000, accessed March 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Seppelt, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig