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Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Pierre Braunstein
*October 4, 1947 Mulhouse (France)
Section: Chemistry
Matricula number: 7029
Date of election: June 29, 2005
Pierre BrAunStein is Director of Research with the CNRS
and the Director of the Coordination Chemistry Laboratory
(UMR 7177 CNRS) of the Université Louis Pasteur
in Strasbourg (ULP) (France). He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure
de Chimie de Mulhouse (1969) and obtained his Dr. Ing. (1971) and Doctorat d’Etat
(1974) from the ULP, working on organometallic, metal-metal bonded transition
metal complexes. He is a member of the French Académie des Sciences and of the
Academia Europaea.
After studies at University College London (1971–1972, UK) and the Technische
Universität München (1974 –1975, Germany), he developed his research at ULP on
fundamental aspects and applications of the inorganic and organometallic chemistry
of the transition and main group elements.
His activities range from the development of new concepts in synthetic chemistry,
the synthesis of heterometallic clusters with pioneering work on their use for
the preparation of catalytically active bimetallic nanoparticles (1982), the discovery
of numerous novel reactions and organic and inorganic molecules, to their applications
in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. He has provided a number of
links between separate research areas. With his group, he has significantly contributed
to the development of cluster chemistry, of the hemilability concept, initiated
a bimetallic silicon chemistry, developed the chemistry of phosphinoenolates and
examined various catalytic reactions.
Publications (Selection):
– BrAunStein, P., Knorr, M., and Stern, C.: Bimetallic silicon chemistry: new opportunities in coordination
and organometallic chemistry. Coord. Chem. Rev. 178 –180, 903 –965 (1998)
– BrAunStein, P., and roSé, J.: Heterometallic clusters in catalysis. In: BrAunStein, P., oro, L. A., and
rAithBy, P. R. (Eds.): Metal Clusters in Chemistry. Vol. 2, pp. 616 – 677. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH
1999
– BrAunStein, P., and nAuD, F.: Hemilability of hybrid ligands and the coordination chemistry of oxazoline-based
systems. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 40, 680 – 699 (2001)
– SPeiSer, F., BrAunStein, P., and SAuSSine, L.: Catalytic ethylene dimerization and oligomerization:
recent developments with nickel complexes containing P,N-chelating ligands. Acc. Chem. Res. 38,
784 – 793 (2005)
– BrAunStein, P.: Bonding and organic and inorganic reactivity of metal-coordinated phosphinoenolates
and related phosphine-derived anions. Chem. Rev. 106, 134 – 159 (2006)
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