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Prof. Dr. Albrecht Salzer Department of Inorganic Chemistry  RWTH Aachen  Landoltweg 1  D-52056 Aachen  Tel.:  +49 241 809 4646  Fax:  +49 241 8092 288  e-mail:  albrecht.salzer@ac.rwth-aachen.de Secretary: Simone Becher Tel.: +49 241 80 94 645 e-mail: Simone.Becher@ac.rwth-aachen.de

1965-71 Undergraduate and graduate studies in chemistry at the University of Zurich
1971-74 Thesis in Inorganic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Helmut Werner, Zurich
1974 Ph.D. with faculty award; Thesis Title: The Route to the Tripledecker-Sandwich
1977 Scholarship from the Commission for the advancement of young scientists
1982 Venia legendi (habilitation) in coordination chemistry and promotion to lecturer at the University of Zurich
1984 Alfred-Werner-Award of the Swiss Chemical Society
1986 First edition of the text book "Organometallchemie", written together Ch. Elschenbroich
1988 Literature award from the German Federation of Chemical Industries
1989 First English Edition of the book "Organometallics, a Concise Introduction" together with Ch. Elschenbroich
1991 Titular Member of IUPAC in the Commission for Inorganic Nomenclature
1992 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Aachen Institute of Technology
1994 Member of Sonderforschungsbereich 380 "Asymmetrische Synthesen mit chemischen und biologischen Methoden"
1996/97 Guest Professor at the University of Capetown/South Africa
1998 Member of the Graduate Programme in Chemistry: "Methods in Asymmetric Synthesis" and of the "Katalyseverbund NRW" (Catalysis Society of Nordrhein-Westfalen) 

The ligands concerned are olefinic or aromatic systems, whose bonding properties are investigated as well as their changed reactivity patterns induced by metal coordination. The metal unit serves in many ways, being either protecting group, stabilizer, activator or directing group. The reactivity of the organic ligands can thus be modified and '"fine-tuned". The use of metal-p-complexes in stoichiometric as well as catalytic reactions is rapidly gaining importance in synthetic chemistry.

Polydentate ligands such as the well-known cyclopentadienylanion, on the other hand, form complexes with unusually high kinetic stability, thus modifying the reactivity of metal centers and enabling the synthesis of unprecedented types of complexes.

Apart from our synthetic work, we concentrate on mechanistic and spectroscopic studies in organometallic chemistry.

Research subjects:

• Syntheses of natural products via metal-p-complexes
• Metal complexes with non-linear optical properties
• Binuclear compounds with bridging cyclic ligands
• Half-open metallocenes
• Optically active metal complexes as auxiliaries in catalytic and stoichiometric reactions

Publications (PDF file)

A. Doppiu, N. Langenscheidt, A. Salzer, V. Peters, W. Braun, A. Wilden, C. Severins

Members of the Salzer Team:

Tel.: +49 241 809 0071
e-mail: wolfgang.braun@...

Tel.: +49 241 809 4625
e-mail: angelino.doppiu@...

Dipl.-Chem. Christian Severins

Tel.: +49 241 809 4656
e-mail: christian.severins@...

Dipl.-Chem. Andreas Wilden

Tel.: +49 241 809 4656
e-mail: andreas.wilden@...

Former co-workers:

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