Professor Klaus Unger, formerly University of Mainz, Germany, and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, passed away on October 7, 2020.
Professor Unger was a distinguished researcher in the field of porous materials and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). His research interests included the design and synthesis of porous materials as adsorbents and catalysts, their surface functionalization and characterization, the development of liquid-phase separation methods, and multidimensional liquid chromatography in proteomics.
Klaus Unger studied chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, where he received his Ph.D. under the supervision of Hans Wolfgang Kohlschütter in 1965. He finished his habilitation in Darmstadt in 1969 and was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry there. From 1977 to 2001, he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Mainz, Germany. After his retirement, he worked at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, as Senior Researcher in the field of bioseparation from 2001 to 2009.
Among many other honors, Professor Unger received the Pregl Medal from the Austrian Society for Analytical Chemistry in 1991, the A. J. P. Martin Award from the Royal Chromatography Society, London, in 1993, the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Chromatography in 1995, the Clemens Winkler Medal from the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh, German Chemical Society) in 2007, the CASSS Annual Scientific Achievement Award from the California Separation Science Society in 2010, and the Nernst–Tswett Award from the European Society for Separation Science in 2016.
Selected Publications by Klaus Unger
- Monolithic silica columns of various format in automated sample clean-up/multidimensional liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry for peptidomics,
Egidijus Machtejevas, Sven Andrecht, Dieter Lubda, Klaus K. Unger,
J. Chromatogr. A 2007, 1144, 97–101.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2006.11.042 - Characterization of mesoporous silica and its pseudomorphically transformed derivative by gas and liquid adsorption,
Julien Iapichella, Juan-Miguel Meneses, Isabelle Beurroies, Renaud Denoyel, Zöfre Bayram-Hahn, Klaus Unger, Anne Galarneau,
Microporous Mesoporous Mater. 2007, 102, 111–121.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2006.12.026 - Particle packed columns and monolithic columns in high-performance liquid chromatography-comparison and critical appraisal,
Klaus K. Unger, Romas Skudas, Michael M. Schulte,
J. Chromatogr. A 2008, 1184, 393–415.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2007.11.118 - Liquid Chromatography-Its Development and Key Role in Life Science Applications,
Klaus K. Unger, R. Ditz, E. Machtejevas, R. Skudas,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 2300–2312.
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200906976 - Liquid intrusion and alternative methods for the characterization of macroporous materials (IUPAC Technical Report),
Jean Rouquerol, Gino Baron, Renaud Denoyel, Herbert Giesche, Johan Groen, Peter Klobes, Pierre Levitz, Alexander V. Neimark, Sean Rigby, Romas Skudas, Kenneth Sing, Matthias Thommes, Klaus Unger,
Pure Appl. Chem. 2011, 84, 107–136.
https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REP-10-11-19 - Monolithic Silicas in Separation Science: Concepts, Syntheses, Characterization, Modeling and Applications,
Klaus K. Unger, Nobuo Tanaka, Egidijus Machtejevas (Eds.),
Wiley-VCH, 2011.
ISBN: 978-3-527-32575-7 - The characterization of macroporous solids: An overview of the methodology,
Jean Rouquerol, Gino V. Baron, Renaud Denoyel, Herbert Giesche, Johan Groen, Peter Klobes, Pierre Levitz, Alexander V. Neimark, Sean Rigby, Romas Skudas, Kenneth Sing, Matthias Thommes, Klaus Unger,
Microporous Mesoporous Mater. 2012, 154, 2–6.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2011.09.031 - Characterization of microscopic disorder in reconstructed porous materials and assessment of mass transport-relevant structural descriptors,
Tibor Müllner, Klaus K. Unger, Ulrich Tallarek,
New J. Chem. 2016, 40, 3993–4015.
https://doi.org/10.1039/c5nj03346b
Also of Interest
- Today for Tomorrow,
Vera Koester,
Klaus Unger’s 80th Birthday Symposium at a castle overlooking the Rhine Valley looked into the future of materials sciences - Adventures in Separation Science and Technology,
Klaus K. Unger,
ChemViews Mag. 2016.
Research and development of HPLC adsorbents and columns with tailored surface chemistries and different column formats - Klaus Unger Received CASSS Prize,
ChemViews Mag. 2010.
Klaus K. Unger, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, received CASSS Scientific Achievement Award
