Rolf Saalfrank

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Rolf W. Saalfrank (born January 12, 1940 in Fürth , Bavaria ) is a German professor of organic chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen - Nuremberg .

Rolf W. Saalfrank studied chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg and received his doctorate there on July 24, 1970 on the topic of synthesis and conversion of ketene diethylacetal ylidetriphenyl phosphorane as a Dr. rer. nat. After a post-doc with Professor Donald G. Farnum ( Michigan State University , East Lansing , Michigan , USA ), he worked at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg with D. Schmähl. In 1973 he returned to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and completed his habilitation in 1976 on the subject of push-pull substituted allenes . In 1980 he was appointed professor of organic chemistry. In the same year he was also a visiting professor at the Département de Physique Cristalline et Chimie Structurale, University of Rennes I , France . This was followed in 1990 by a research stay with Jean-Marie Lehn in Strasbourg . From 1993 to 1996, Saalfrank was a substitute professor for Gerhard Binsch at LMU Munich . In 1995 he became an Overseas Visiting Scholar, Cambridge University , St. John's College, Cambridge, England . He was appointed associate professor in 1997.

From October 2007 to September 2009, Saalfrank took over the representation of the Chair for Organic Chemistry I at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Research focus: allenes , metallo-supramolecular chemistry .

Works

More than 160 scientific publications.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RW Saalfrank, dissertation , Erlangen 1970.
  2. ^ RW Saalfrank: "Push-Pull" substituted allenes . Erlangen 1976.
  3. ↑ RW Saalfrank, H. Maid: Roots: From carbenes to allees and coordination polymers - Ever present never twice the same . In: ChemComm . Volume 48, 2005, pp. 5953-5967; doi : 10.1039 / b510062n .
  4. ↑ RW Saalfrank, H. Maid, A. Scheurer: Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry - Synergy of Accidental Discovery and Rational Design , Angew. Chem. 120 (2008) 8924-8956.

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SURNAME Saalfrank, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saalfrank, Rolf W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürth , Bavaria