Wolfgang Kläui
Wolfgang Kläui (born April 28, 1945 in Zurich ) is a Swiss chemist and emeritus professor of inorganic chemistry at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , where he headed the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry and Structural Chemistry .
life and work
Kläui grew up in the Principality of Liechtenstein , where he attended an old-language grammar school. In 1964 he began studying chemistry at the University of Zurich , which he graduated with a diploma in 1971. After receiving his doctorate in 1973 under Helmut Werner , he worked with a grant from the Royal Society as a postdoc at the University of Cambridge , from 1975 to 1978 as an assistant professor at the University of Zurich and then at the University of Würzburg , where he joined in 1979 Inorganic in chemistry habilitated . In 1981 he received offers at the University of Marburg and at RWTH Aachen University , where he held a C3 professorship at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry from 1982. In 1991 he succeeded Wilhelm Kuchen as head of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry and Structural Chemistry at the University of Düsseldorf. He was retired on July 22, 2010.
Kläui became known through the chemistry of the Kläui tripod ligands (where tripod is the abbreviation for tripodal, tripod) Na [η 5 -C 5 H 5 Co {P (O) R 2 } 3 ] where R varies within wide limits can be. A wide range of steric and electronic properties can be set by varying the residues. The design of ligands for catalytic and biochemical processes is still a focus of his work today.
Web links
- List of publications by Wolfgang Kläui (PDF file; 48 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Wolfgang Kläui at academictree.org, accessed on February 24, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kläui, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |