Uwe Bunz

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Uwe Bunz (2010)

Uwe HF Bunz (born February 22, 1963 in Munich ) is a German chemist . He is professor of organic chemistry at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg . There he succeeded Günter Helmchen in July 2010 .

Education and career

Uwe Bunz was a student at the Protestant State School zur Pforte (Meinerzhagen) and graduated from high school in 1982 at the Gisela-Gymnasium in Munich. He completed a chemistry degree at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He completed his doctorate (summa cum laude) on propellanes in Günter Szeimies' group. After completing his doctorate, he worked at UC Berkeley with Kurt Peter C. Vollhardt . After completing his habilitation in 1997 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , during which he worked (1992–1997) at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz with Klaus Müllen , he was appointed to the University of South Carolina (1997 Associate Professor, 2001 Full Professor) and moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology as a full professor in 2003 . Since 2010, Bunz has held a W3 professorship for organic chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg. Since 2019 he has been co-spokesman for the Cluster of Excellence 3D Matter Made to Order (together with KIT , spokesman Prof. Martin Wegener ).

Research areas

A tetraazapentacene synthesized in the Bunz group.

The main research areas of Bunz include aromatics and acetylene chemistry as well as the construction of novel symmetrical molecules with attractive structures and attractive properties. His group researches, among other things, organic semiconductor materials based on nitrogen- substituted acenes . The best known of these is the silylethynylated tetraazapentacene (see figure). In addition, conjugated polymers and sensors for metal ions and amines are researched.

Another area is the sensor technology of complex analytes, shown using the example of a white wine sensor, which is based on the use of an opto-electronic tongue consisting of simple conjugated polymers.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Uwe HF Bunz at academictree.org, accessed on January 22, 2018.
  2. ↑ Jinsong Han, Markus Bender, Kai Seehafer, Uwe HF Bunz: Identification of white wines by ionic poly (para-phenylene-ethynylene) and their complexes. In: Angewandte Chemie. 128, 2016, p. 7820, doi : 10.1002 / anie.201602385 .
personal data
SURNAME Bunz, Uwe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bunz, Uwe HF
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich