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Brief Biography of Dieter Seebach Born in 1937 in Karlsruhe (Germany), married to Ingeborg (born Reichling), three children, Nationality: German. Education: Elementary and secondary schools in Karlsruhe, B.S.1961,
Ph.D. 1964 (thesis on small-ring compounds and peroxides, supervisor
R.Criegee) at the University of Karlsruhe (TH). Present and past areas of research: Development of new synthetic methods (umpolung of reactivity, use of organometallic derivatives, of aliphatic nitro-compounds, of small rings, and of tartaric acid, enantioselective catalysis, self-regeneration of stereogenic centers, use of microorganisms and enzymes, chiral fluorine-containing building blocks, backbone modifications of peptides), natural product synthesis (macrodiolides, alkaloides, amino acids), mechanistic studies (dissociation of C,C bonds, stability of carbenoids, aggregation of Li-compounds, pyramidalization of trigonal centers, TiX4 catalysis), structure determination (Li- and Mg-derivatives, NMR-spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction), chemical and biochemical aspects of poly(hydroxyalkanoates). Syntheses of enantiopure compounds with TADDOL auxiliaries, chiral dendrimers, and b-peptides are presently the most active research areas. The results have been described in ca. 650 research papers, in 125 Ph.D. theses, and in numerous lectures held at national and international meetings. Visiting professorships Madison-Wisconsin, California Institute of Technology, Johannesburg (S.A.), Canberra, Max Planck-Institut Mülheim, JSPS (Japan), Strasbourg, Technische Universität München, Universität Kaiserslautern, Frankfurt, Cornell, Harvard University Cambridge (USA). Distinguished lectureships: Kolthoff (Minnesota), Vorhees (Urbana-Champaign), Greater Manchester (UK), M. S. Kharasch (Chicago), W. E. Bachmann (Michigan), Barré (Montréal), Musgrave (Durham (UK), R. Hirschmann (Madison-Wisconsin), J. Musher (Jerusalem), G. Büchi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge), R. B. Sandin (Alberta, Edmonton), Andrews (New South Wales, Australia), M. Tishler (Harvard), Falk-Plaut (Columbia (New York), Centenary Lecture (Royal Soc. Chem., U.K.), Firth (Sheffield), C. Shipp Marvel (Urbana-Champaign), Merck (Cambridge, U.K.), Bergmann (Yale), Clemo (Newcastle upon Tyne), Merck-Schuchardt (BOSS 5, Namur), Schering (Berlin), Korea (Seoul and Sogang), E. E. Smissman (Lawrence, Kansas), Thieme (Stuttgart), R. B. Turner (Rice), B. Carruther (Exeter, U.K.), Nieuwland (Notre Dame, IN), Kennedy (St. Louis, Missouri), Fèlix Serratosa (Barcelona), Appleton (Brown University), Melvin Calvin Lecture (Berkeley), Barton Lecture (Texas A&M University), Bohlmann Lecture (Berlin), H.C. Brown Lecture (Indiana), Annual Francis Clifford Phillips Lecture (Pittsburgh)), Wyeth-Ayerst Lecture (MIT, Cambridge), Holm Lecture, (Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen), The Abbott Lecturer (University of Chicago, Illinois), Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture (Stanford University, California). Awards and prizes: Dozentenpreis (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, Germany), Havinga Medal (Leiden, 1985), Karl Ziegler-Preis (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, 1987), Fluka Prize (Reagent of the year 1987), 1992 ACS Award for Creative Work in Organic Synthesis, The Allan Day Award (Philadelphia OCC, 1995), Hamilton Award (Lincoln, Nebraska, 1996), Roger Adams Award (ACS) 1999, King Faisal Prize 1999 for Science, Yamada Prize 2000 (Japan), Marcel Benoist-Preis (Switzerland) 2000. Academies: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, Leopoldina (Halle), corresponding membership Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur in Mainz, Academia Europea (founding member), Einzelmitglied der Schweizerischen Akademie der Technischen Wissenschaften (1998), corresponding membership Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (AMC) 2001, México. Honorary Ph.D. degree (Dr. h.c.) of the University of Montpellier, France, in 1989. Professional activities: Board of the Schweizerischer Chemiker-Verband (1981-1992), of the Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft (1987-1992), of the Neue Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft (1992-1995), Organic Syntheses (USA) and Advisory Board of the following journals: Angew. Chemie (1985-94), Chimia (since 1985), Helv. Chim. Acta (1986-1991), Synthesis (since 1984); President of the 23rd Bürgenstock conference. Membership: ACS, Chemical Society of Japan, DECHEMA, Gesellschaft
Deutscher Chemiker, Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Neue Schweizerische
Chemische Gesellschaft, European Chemical Society, Soc. Synth. Org.
Chem. Japan.
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