Organic Chemistry - Prof. Hans J. Schäfer

born 1937

1963 Dr. rer. nat., Univ. Heidelberg, U. Schöllkopf

1964 -1966 Postdoctoral Research, Yale, K. B. Wiberg

1970 Habilitation, Univ. Göttingen

1973 Universitätsprofessor, Univ. Münster

1985 Member Dechema Board

1988 Dean Faculty of Chemistry

1989 Award Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science

1990 Member of Senate Univ. Münster

1993 Coordinator of EC-Human Capital and Mobility Network "Electron Transfer"

1995 Advisory Board: Fett, Lipid

1998 Manuel Baizer Award

2002 Normann-Medaille der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fettwissenschaft

• Organic Electrosynthesis

• Anodic and Cathodic CC-Bond Formation and Functional Group Interconversion.
• Stereoselective Reactions of Electrochemically Generated Reactive Intermediates.

• Radical Reactions

• Selective Oxidation of Remote CH-Bonds.
• Inter- and Intramolecular Addition of Radicals to Double Bonds.

• Natural Product Synthesis

• Morphines.
• Taxanes.
• Alkaloids.

• Renewable Resources

• Conversion of Fatty Acids at CH- and Double Bonds.
• Self-Organising Supramolecular Structures.