Lukas J. Goossen

Lukas Johannes Goossen (born October 16, 1969 in Bielefeld ) is a German chemist ( organic chemistry and organic synthesis, catalysis ).

Goossen (quoted in English Goossen) studied chemistry from 1989 at the University of Bielefeld and the University of Michigan (1992 with A. Ashe). After graduating in Bielefeld in 1994, he worked with Kurt Peter C. Vollhardt at the University of California, Berkeley and then with Wolfgang A. Herrmann at the Technical University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1997 (dissertation: Functionalized Imidazolin-2-ylidene-Metal Complexes in Catalysis ). In 1998 he was a post-doctoral student with K. Barry Sharpless at the Scripps Research Institute and from 1999 to 2000 at the central research laboratory of Bayer AG . In 2000 he went to Manfred T. Reetz at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research , where he completed his habilitation in 2003 (habilitation thesis: New Transition Metal-Catalyzed Reactions for Organic Synthesis ) and was group leader in 2003/04. In 2004/05 he was a Heisenberg fellow at RWTH Aachen University and in 2005 he became a professor at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern . In 2016 he became Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum (Evonik Chair).

In 2008 he was visiting professor at the University of Toronto .

In 2002 he received the Chemistry Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen for his articles on palladium-catalyzed syntheses of aryl ketones from carboxylic acids and boronic acids , palladium-catalyzed silylations of aromatics and studies on waste-free Heck reactions . In 2007 he received the Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize .

Fonts

• as editor: Inventing Reactions , Springer 2013
  • therein with Käthe Goossen: Decarboxylative Coupling Reactions

Web links

• Website at the University of Bochum