Thomas Braun
| Thomas Braun | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 August 1968 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | German |
| 🎓 Alma mater | |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | CF Bond Catalysis Fluorinated building blocks |
| 🏅 Awards | Fluorine Chemistry Award (2007) |
| 🌐 Website | Braun group |
Thomas Braun is a German chemist and lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin.[2] He is married and has two children.
Career and Research
Braun studied chemistry at the University of Würzburg and received his diploma in 1993. He stayed in Würzburg for his doctorate with Helmut Werner working on ruthenium carbene, vinylidene and allenylidene complexes. In 1995 he worked with Pierre H. Dixneuf at the University of Rennes 1 on a project of asymmetric catalytic hydrogenation.[3] After his doctorate he moved to York in England and worked with Robert N. Perutz on nickel catalysis involving CF bond activation from 1997 to 2000. At the University of Bielefeld he started his independent research in the habilitation programme with Peter Jutzi focusing on C-F bond activation reactions at nickel, rhodium, palladium complexes and also characterisation of transition metal fluorido complexes. In 2003 he became a lecturer at the University of Bielefeld followed by an appointment as a temporary professor at University of Kassel in 2006.[4] In 2006 he was appointed at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Since 2011 he is Full Professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin and chair of Organometallic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis.
His research focuses on new routes for metal-mediated syntheses of fluorinated compounds by a wide variety of carbon–hydrogen bond, carbon–fluorine bond and sulfur–fluorine bond activations using both homogeneous conditions (often with rhodium complexes) and heterogeneous conditions by utilising the solid Lewis-superacid aluminium chloro fluoride (ACF). Since 2019 he is deputy spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre „Fluorine-specific Interactions“ (CRC1349).[5]
Honors and Awards (selection)
- 1997: Departmental Prize for Doctoral Thesis (University of Würzburg)
- 2006: Wöhler-BASF Young Talent Award [6] of the GDCh
- 2007: Fluorine Chemistry Award[7] of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2015: Xingda Lecture, Beijing University[8]
- 2015: Publication Award Fluorine Chemistry, GDCh-Wissenschaftsforum Chemie[9]
Publications (selection)
- with Theresia Ahrens, Johannes Kohlmann and Mike Ahrens: Functionalization of Fluorinated Molecules by Transition-Metal-Mediated C–F Bond Activation To Access Fluorinated Building Blocks In: Chem. Rev. 2015, 115, 931. doi:10.1021/cr500257c
- with Lada Zámostná: Catalytic Degradation of Sulfur Hexafluoride by Rhodium Complexes In: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 10652. doi:10.1002/anie.201505462
- with Mike Ahrens, Gudrun Scholz and Erhard Kemnitz: Catalytic Hydrodefluorination of Fluoromethanes at Room Temperature by Silylium-ion-like Surface Species In: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 5328. doi:10.1002/anie.201300608
- with Moritz F. Kuehnel and Dieter Lentz: Synthesis of Fluorinated Building Blocks by Transition-Metal-Mediated Hydrodefluorination Reactions In: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 3328. doi:10.1002/anie.201205260
- with Marcel A. Salomon, Kai Altenhöner, Michael Teltowsoi and Silke Hinze: C–F Activation at Rhodium Boryl Complexes: Formation of 2-Fluoroalkyl-1,3,2-Dioxaborolanes by Catalytic Functionalization of Hexafluoropropene In: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 1818. doi:10.1002/anie.200805041
- with Marcel A. Salomon and Anna Penner: Stepwise Oxygenation of Pinacolborane by a Rhodiumperoxo Complex: Detection of an Intermediate Metal Borate and Perborate In: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 8867. doi:10.1002/anie.200803768
- with Thomas Schaub, Peter Fischer, Andreas Steffen, Udo Radius and Andreas Mix: C−F Activation of Fluorinated Arenes using NHC-Stabilized Nickel(0) Complexes: Selectivity and Mechanistic Investigations In: JACS 2008, 130, 9304. doi:10.1021/ja074640e
Links
References
- ↑ "Homepage of Helmut Werner". Retrieved 2022-11-10.
- ↑ "Prof. Dr. Thomas Braun". Retrieved 2022-11-10.
- ↑ "Pierre H. Dixneuf". Retrieved 2022-11-10.
- ↑ "Thomas Braun - Author Profile". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 49 (34): 5824–5824. 2010. doi:10.1002/anie.201004120.
- ↑ "Deputy Spokesperson of the CRC 1349". 2019-01-29. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
- ↑ "Wöhler-BASF Young Talent Award". 2019-01-29. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
- ↑ "Fluorine Prize RSC". 2019-01-29. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
- ↑ "UniSysCat". Retrieved 2022-11-20.
- ↑ "Publication Award Fluorine Chemistry". Retrieved 2022-11-20.
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