Manfred Scheer

Manfred Scheer (* 1959 in Jüterbog ) is a German chemist and lecturer at the University of Regensburg . Scheer has also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Petersburg .

academic career

Manfred Scheer completed his diploma studies in chemistry from 1975 to 1980 at the University of Halle (Saale) . He then did his doctorate in 1983 with A. Tzschach and K. Jurkschat on the topic of the synthesis, structure and reactivity of intramolecular base-stabilized tin (II) compounds . After a stopover as a postdoc at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk with VE Federov. From 1985 to 1986 he stayed as a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr with Günther Wilke , who was supported by a DAAD scholarship. The main focus of research there was the use of phosphorus ligands in catalysis. In 1992 Scheer completed his habilitation at the University of Halle-Wittenberg on the subject of assembling and dismantling P4 structural units .

This was followed by a stay as visiting professor at the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington with MH Chisholm , supported by a Feodor Lynen grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . In 1993 Scheer received a Heisenberg scholarship from the German Research Foundation at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) until he was appointed C3 professor at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in 1996 . Scheer has been a full professor for inorganic chemistry at the University of Regensburg since 2004.

Functions and honors (selection)

Scheer is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of "Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements", the International Advisory Board of IRIS (International Symposium on Inorganic Ring Systems), Associate Editor of Chemical Communications , member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers (RSC-CCS Journal), member of the selection committee for the Adolf Stock Memorial Prize and the Wilhelm Klemm Prize of the GDCh and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Zeitschrift für Inorganische und Allgemeine Chemie . Since 2019 he has also been an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Phosphorus Chemistry Section of the GDCh (Vice Chairman).

He is also an honorary doctor of the University of St. Petersburg, Neil Bartlett Memorial Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley and a full member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences. In 2017 he received the International Arbuzov Prize in the field of organophosphorus chemistry, awarded by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia . He has also been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2016 .

research

The focus of Manfred Scheer's research is the coordination and supramolecular chemistry of substituent-free polypentelyl complexes. According to the university's website, this research area is again divided into two sub-areas:

“The working group is active in the field of molecular chemistry with a focus on material science use of the synthesized compounds. The research interests focus on the synthesis and investigation of the reaction behavior of substituent-free main group element-ligand complexes, with a focus on the elements of the 15th group.

Reactions of en ligand complexes with "naked" cationic coordination compounds. As a rule, polycationic compounds are obtained which show high solubility. In solution, these deoligomerize with the formation of monomer-oligomer equilibria. The addition of organic linkers makes new organometallic-organic hybrid materials accessible. In addition, reactions of ene ligand complexes with coordination compounds that have a permanently coordinating terminal ligand. In addition to neutral 1D or 2D coordination polymers, as a result of template-controlled reactions, very selectively spherical nanodimensioned clusters with fullerene-like topology in the form of balls and nanocapsules can be obtained. These show an unusual host-guest chemistry. "

- Official website of the University of Regensburg

The Scheers research division cooperates with numerous partners.

Publications (selection)

• M. Piesch, F. Dielmann, S. Reichl, M. Scheer: A General Pathway to Heterobimetallic Triple-Decker Complexes , Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 24, 1518-1524 .
• A. Nicolay, MS Ziegler, DW Small, R. Grünbauer, M. Scheer, * T. Don Tilley * Isomerism and Dynamic Behavior of Bridging Phosphaalkynes Bound to a Dicopper Complex , Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 1607 - 1616.
• R. Yadav, Th. Simler, S. Reichl, B. Goswami, Ch. Schoo, R. Köppe, M. Scheer, * PW Roesky * Highly Selective Substitution and Insertion Reactions of Silylenes in a Polyphosphide J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 1190 - 1195
• MAK Weinhart, AS Lisovenko, AY Timoshkin, M. Scheer Phosphanylalanes and -gallanes stabilized only by a Lewis Base Angew. Chem. 2019, 131, 5586 - 5590. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 5541 - 5545.

Web links

• Official website on the website of the University of Regensburg