Peter Hofmann (chemist)

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Peter Hofmann

Peter Hofmann (born January 12, 1947 in Nuremberg ; † August 15, 2015 in Heidelberg ) was a German chemist who is best known in the field of organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis . He was a C4 professor at the Organic Chemistry Institute at Heidelberg University .

Life

Peter Hofmann studied chemistry (Diplom-Chemiker 1971) and received his doctorate in the field of synthetic and physical-organic chemistry in 1973 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . This was followed by a postdoctoral stay in Roald Hoffmann's research group at Cornell University (Ithaca, USA). As a postdoctoral fellow of the DFG , he worked there in the field of theoretical organic and organometallic chemistry. After returning to Germany in 1975, he began his own research in Paul von Ragué Schleyer's research group in Erlangen, where he obtained his habilitation in 1978.

In the fall of 1979, he accepted an invitation from the University of California, Berkeley's Department of Chemistry , as a visiting professor. In 1980 he was appointed professor (C2) back in Erlangen. 1981 to 1983 he held the EO Fischer guest professorship at the Technical University of Munich . From 1983 he was an associate professor at the Inorganic Chemical Institute. In 1995 he turned down an offer at the Free University of Amsterdam and accepted a chair for organic chemistry at the University of Heidelberg.

In 2002 Peter Hofmann initiated the Collaborative Research Center SFB623 “Molecular Catalysts - Structure and Functional Design”, which he headed as speaker for two funding periods until July 2009. Between 2002 and 2004 he was Dean and from 2004 to 2008 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences. He has received numerous grants and awards, including the Emmy Noether Habilitation Prize and the Lecturer Prize from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie.

During his career he was visiting professor at the universities of Bern, Ulm, Berlin, Rennes and Strasbourg. He has served on the editorial board of several academic journals and book series. In 2006 he was elected a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim .

Peter Hofmann was scientific director of the Catalysis Research Laboratory (CaRLa) until 2015, which he initiated and which was set up in 2006 as a joint research institution of BASF SE and the University of Heidelberg, supported by the state of Baden-Württemberg. In CaRLa, broad, interdisciplinary basic research and application-oriented research in the field of homogeneous catalysis is carried out.

In 2008 he was awarded the Emil Fischer Medal of the Society of German Chemists , one of the most prestigious science prizes for chemists in Germany. In 2011 the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts elected him a member. In 2012, Peter Hofmann was the first recipient of this award to receive the newly established "Charles Casey Lectureship in Organometallic Chemistry" at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (USA).

He was the organizer of the Heidelberg Forum of Molecular Catalysis (HFMC), which has been held in Heidelberg every two years since 2001 as a top-class international symposium. He was also the author of over 130 publications in magazines and several chapters in specialist books and also co-owner of many patents.

research

"Hofmann type" carbene complexes
  • Organometallic and organic chemistry, homogeneous catalysis
  • Preparative and physical-organic chemistry
  • rational ligand design for homogeneous catalysis
  • Reaction mechanisms in organometallic and homogeneous catalysis
  • Applied quantum chemistry

Awards

Publications

Patents

  • P. Hofmann, H. Heiss DE 4134772, 1991 (BASF AG).
  • F. Lippert, A. Höhn, P. Hofmann WO 1995/03353 A1 1995 (BASF SE).
  • F. Lippert, A. Höhn, P. Hofmann WO 1996/37537 A1 1996 (BASF SE).
  • T. Rühl, J. Henkelmann, M. Heider, P. Hofmann EP 1996/0737663 A1 (BASF SE).
  • W. Ahlers, M. Röper, P. Hofmann, D. Warth, R. Paciello WO 2001/58589 A1 (BASF SE).
  • W. Ahlers, R. Paciello, M. Röper, P. Hofmann, M. Tensfeldt, A. Goethlich WO 2001/85739 A1 (BASF SE).
  • W. Ahlers, R. Paciello, D. Vogt, P. Hofmann WO 2002/083695 A1 (BASF SE).
  • MO Kristen, P. Hofmann, F. Eisträger WO 2002 / 02573A1 2002 (BASF SE).
  • P. Hofmann, P. Hanno-Igels, O. Bondarev, C. Jäkel WO 2009/101162 A1 (BASF SE).
  • C. Jäkel, P. Hofmann, C. Scriban, P. Hanno-Igels WO 2011/012687 A2 (BASF SE).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 19th edition. Volume 2, 2003, p. 1364.
  2. ^ Obituary notice, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
  3. ↑ SM Hansen, MAO Volland, F. Rominger, F. Eisträger, P. Hofmann: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Volume 38, 1999, p. 1273.
  4. ↑ C. Adlhardt, MAO Volland, P. Hofmann, P. Chen: Helvet Chimica Acta. Volume 83, 2000, p. 3306.
  5. ^ MAO Volland, SM Hansen, F. Rominger, P. Hofmann: Organometallics. Volume 23, 2004, p. 800.
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 2015
Place of death Heidelberg