Organometallic chemistry, new reagents for organic synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry

Organometallic chemistry, new reagents for organic synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry: sodium hydrazide as reagent, hetarynes, homo coupling via copper compounds, 1,3-anionic cycloaddition, preparative application of the arenology principle, organoelement lithium reagents, organotransition metal reagents, chele- and anticheleselectivity, chemoselective carbonyl olefination.

Veröffentlichungen:

Th. Kauffmann: "Neue Reaktionen molybdän- und wolframorganischer Verbindungen: additiv-reduktive Carbonyldimerisierung, spontane Umwandlung von Methyl- in m-Methylenliganden und selektive Carbonylmethylenierung", Angew. Chem. 1997, 109, 1312-1329; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1997, 36, 1258-1275.