Prof. Lutz Ackermann

Associate Editor

Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare Chemie
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen
Germany

Scientific career

Since 2017	PI at German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK)
2015 - 2017	Director of the Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
2013 - 2015	Dean of Research, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Göttingen
Since 2015	Adjunct Professor at the University of Pavia, Italy
2011 – 2013	Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Göttingen
Since 2007	Assistant Professor, Emmy Noether-Fellow (DFG): Independent research at the LMU München
2001 – 2003	Postdoctoral Studies with Prof. Dr. R. G. Bergman, UC Berkeley
1998 – 2001	Ph.D. thesis (Mentor: Prof. Dr. A. Fürstner), Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany
1998	Diploma thesis
1993 – 1998	Studies of Chemistry at the University of Kiel, Germany

 

Research areas

The development and application of novel concepts for sustainable catalysis constitutes his major current research interests, with a topical focus on C–H activation, including:

• transition metals in photocatalysis
• synthesis and use of new ligands in C–H activation catalysis
• continuous flow methods
• remote C–H functionalizations by ruthenium catalysis
• 3d base metal catalysis, including manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel and copper catalysis
• electrochemical C–H functionalization
• chemoselective modification of amino acids and peptides
• computational chemistry

 

Thematic issue

Prof. Ackermann edited the following thematic issue in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry:

Earth-abundant 3d metal catalysis

 

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