R. W. Hoffmann

Reinhard W. Hoffmann is Professor Emeriti of the University of Marburg. He studied chemistry at the Universität Bonn and received his Dr. rer. nat. in 1958 under the direction of Prof. B. Helferich. He spent two years as postdoctoral fellow at The Pennsylvania State University with Prof. G. W. Brindley and moved then to the Universität Heidelberg for another postdoctoral year with Prof. G. Wittig. In 1964 he obtained his habilitation and in 1967 he moved as lecturer to the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt and in 1970 to his present position as Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Universität Marburg. His research interests are new methods in stereoselective C-C-bond formation, their application in natural products synthesis and the stereochemistry of reactive organometallic compounds. More recent research activities concern combinatorial approaches to new catalysts and conformation design.