Wolfram Sander

Wolfram Sander (born October 22, 1954 in Heidelberg ) is a German chemist and professor for organic chemistry at the Ruhr University in Bochum (organic chemistry II).

Sander studied chemistry from 1973 to 1979 at Heidelberg University . He received his doctorate in 1982, was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California and completed his habilitation in 1989. He was a Winnacker Prize winner in 1989 and a Heisenberg fellow in 1990 . In 1990 he became a professor at the TU Braunschweig and in 1993 in Bochum. He turned down a call to the University of Marburg (2001).

Using methods of spectroscopy and theoretical quantum chemistry, he investigates the course of organic synthesis reactions via highly reactive intermediate stages (phenyl cation, dehydroaromatics, carbenes, nitrenes). He is also concerned with non-covalent, weak interactions between molecules, especially with proteins.

He is the speaker of the Bochum research group Understanding the aggregation of small molecules with precise methods - experiment and theory in the interplay and the Bochum Graduate School of Chemistry and Biochemistry (2007).

In 2007 he received the Adolf von Baeyer Memorial Coin like his chair predecessor Wolfgang Kirmse . In 1988 he received the Karl Freudenberger Prize of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Web links

• Baeyer medal for Sander, Ruhr University Bochum
• Information about Sander on the website of the University of Bochum

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biographical dates according to Kürschner's 2009 scholarly calendar