Title: Selectivity Control in C-H Activation
Speaker: Prof. Lutz Ackermann (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
Time: 10-11a.m., June 14th, 2017
Venue: Room 405, Shaw Engineering Building, Wushan Campus

Brief introduction to Prof. Lutz Ackermann
EDUCATION for Prof. L. Ackermann

1993 –1998, Diploma of Chemistry at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , Germany

1998-2001, Ph.D. Thesis (Prof. Alois Fürstner), MPI Kohlenforschung in Mülheim, Germany

2001-2003, Postdoctoral Studies with Prof. Robert G. Bergman, UC Berkeley, U.S.A.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2015–Present, Director of the Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Georg- August- University Göttingen2013–2015, Dean of Research, Faculty of Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen

2011–2013, Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen

Since 2007, Full Professor (W3) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen

2003-2007, Emmy Noether-Fellow (DFG): Independent research at the LMU München

Awards and Recognition (selected): 2011 ~ 2016

2017 Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize

2016 Thomson Reuters (Web of Science) ISI Highly Cited Researcher

2016 Fellow of the Royal Society of chemistry, FRSC

2016 Member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen

2014 ISI Highly Cited Researcher, BASF lecture, UC Berkeley, USA

2012 ERC Independent Researcher Consolidator Grant

2011 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award

Prof. L. Ackermanngroup is interested in the development of environmentally benign and economically sound processes of importance to organic synthesis. This combines techniques of organic synthesis and organometallic chemistry for the development of more efficient catalytic transformations. Thus far, Ackermanngroup is focused on four main research areas: (A) catalytic functionalizations of unactivated C–H bonds. This work includes the use of inter alias ruthenium, titanium, zirconium, palladium, nickel, and copper catalysts on a day to day basis; (B) development of air-stable secondary phosphine oxides as preligands for catalytic cross-couplings; (C) hydroaminations of alkynes, allenes, and alkenes; and (D) efficient syntheses of biologically relevant compounds.Up to now, Prof. Ackermann has already published around 240 papers in Nature, Nat. Chem., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem.Int. Ed., and Chem. Sci., etc.