Paul Knochel
Paul Knochel (born November 15, 1955 in Strasbourg , French pronunciation: [pɔl knɔ'ʃɛl], German pronunciation: [pʰaʊl 'kʰnɔχəl]) is a French chemist .
Life
Paul Knochel was born in Strasbourg in 1955. He studied chemistry at the University of Strasbourg and obtained his doctorate from the ETH Zurich under Dieter Seebach with the thesis on nitroallyl halides and esters as efficient linking reagents . He then spent four years at the CNRS of the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris in the group of Jean-François Normant (with the topic of allyl zinc reactions and the representation of bimetallic compounds of zinc and magnesium ) and one year as a post-doc at Princeton University with Martin F. Semmelhack (topic: chromium- arene complexes of indoles ). In 1987 he accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of Michigan and was promoted to full professor there in 1991. As early as 1992, however, he accepted a call from the Philipps University in Marburg as a C4 professor for organic chemistry . In 1999 he then moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in the newly built campus for chemistry in Großhadern , again as a C4 professor for the same subject.
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The research work of Paul Knochel and his group includes the development of new organometallic compounds and methods for organic synthesis, as well as asymmetric syntheses and natural product syntheses . The working group employs a continuously changing number of domestic and foreign employees, Ph. D. students, post-doctoral students and visiting professors .
Awards
- Sloan Research Fellowship 1992
- Médaille Berthelot of the Académie des Sciences (Paris) 1992
- IUPAC Thieme Prize 1994
- ECS - European Chemical Society - Chiroscience Award for Creative European Chemistry 1995
- Otto Bayer Prize 1995
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 1997
- Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Award 2000/2001
- V. Grignard Prize 2000
- Dr. Paul Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis 2004
- Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society 2005
- Lilly European Distinguished Lectureship Award from Eli Lilly and Company 2007
- Member of the Académie des Sciences (Paris) 2007
- Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 2008
- Karl Ziegler Prize 2009
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2009
- EROS (Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis) Best Reagent Award 2011
- Gold Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry 2012
- Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods 2014
- Merit Cross on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2015
- Paul Karrer Medal 2015
- Heilbronner-Hückel Lecture by the Swiss Chemical Society and the Society of German Chemists 2015
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Paul Knochel at academictree.org, accessed on February 24, 2018.
- ↑ Member entry of Paul Knochel (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 15, 2016.
- ↑ LMU press release: Federal Cross of Merit, awarded to Professor Paul Knochel on November 18, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knochel, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Franco-German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |