Volker Jäger

Volker Jäger (* 1942 in Nuremberg ) is a German chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Stuttgart .

After graduating from the Willstätter Gymnasium in Nuremberg , he studied chemistry from 1961 to 1967 at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . After completing his diploma thesis with G. Hesse in 1969 on the subject of the equilibrium between the four isomeric nitropropenes , he began a dissertation with HG Viehe, Union Carbide European Research Ass. (ERA) in Brussels , the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Leuven and the University of Erlangen from which he graduated in 1970 with a thesis entitled Nitroacetylenes . This was followed by postdoc stays with Viehe at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve (1971–1972) and with Robert B. Woodward at Harvard University in Cambridge (1971–1973) with work on the total synthesis of vitamin B12 . He then moved to the Justus Liebig University in Giessen for his habilitation , which he completed in 1979 with a thesis on syntheses with isoxazolines . After several visiting professorships, he became professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg in 1980 , which he held until 1992. In 1992 he became professor for organic chemistry at the University of Stuttgart, where he was employed until his retirement .

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