Peter Roesky, Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology (KIT), Germany, has received the Marianne Baudler Award 2024 from the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh, German Chemical Society). The award honors outstanding scientific work in the field of inorganic chemistry and is endowed with EUR 7,500. It was presented at the Conference on Inorganic Chemistry of the Divisions of Solid-state Chemistry & Materials Research and Wöhler Association for Inorganic Chemistry in Munich on September 16, 2024.
The prize has been awarded since 1950 and was known as the “Alfred Stock Memorial Prize” until 2021. In 2022, the GDCh Board decided to rename the prize due to Alfred Stock’s anti-Semitic attitude and actions during the Nazi era. Marianne Baudler (1921–2003) was a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Cologne, Germany, and she received the prize, now named after her, in 1986. Her research interests primarily focused on phosphorus compounds.
Peter Roesky is being honored “for his innovative and pioneering contributions to lanthanide chemistry. He has had a lasting influence on this field. He has not only synthesized numerous novel compounds, but has also described their successful applications, for example, in catalytic processes or in the production of luminescent and magnetic materials. Outstanding and versatile synthetic strategies, consistent structural and property investigations, and intelligent ligand design, which has recently provided access to spectacular multinuclear complexes, form the basis of his successes.”
Peter W. Roesky, born in Göttingen, Germany, in 1967, studied chemistry at the University of Würzburg, Germany. After receiving his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 1994, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. In 1999, he habilitated at the University of Karlsruhe, where he subsequently worked as a private lecturer before joining the Free University of Berlin, Germany, as Professor of Anorganic Chemistry in 2001. From 2007 to 2008, he was also Director of the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Dean for Research of the Faculty of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy.
Since 2008, he has been Professor for Inorganic Functional Materials at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). From 2013 to 2015, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences, and in the two years before and after, he was Prodekan of the Faculty. From 2017 to 2018, he was Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Peter Roesky has received several awards for his work, including the Frank H. Spedding Award for Research in Rare Earth Science in 2022. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Science (EurAsc) since 2020 and of the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry since 2014. Among many other commitments, he is currently Chairman of the Wöhler Association and a member of the Chemical Forum of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Selected Publications
- Aminotroponate and Aminotroponiminate Calcium Amides as Catalysts for the Hydroamination/Cyclization Catalysis,
Simmi Datta, Peter W. Roesky, Siegfried Blechert,
Organometallics 2007, 26(18), 4392–4394.
https://doi.org/10.1021/om700507h - Pentanuclear Dysprosium Hydroxy Cluster Showing Single-Molecule-Magnet Behavior,
Michael T. Gamer, Yanhua Lan, Peter W. Roesky, Annie K. Powell, Rodolphe Clérac,
Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47(15), 6581–6583.
https://doi.org/10.1021/ic8008255 - Aminotroponiminate Complexes of the Heavy Alkaline Earth and the Divalent Lanthanide Metals as Catalysts for the Hydroamination/Cyclization Reaction,
Simmi Datta, Michael T. Gamer, Peter W. Roesky,
Organometallics 2008, 27(6), 1207–1213.
https://doi.org/10.1021/om701014d - Catalytic Hydroaminoalkylation,
Peter W. Roesky,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009.
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200900735 - Synthesis and properties of cyclic sandwich compounds,
Luca Münzfeld, Sebastian Gillhuber, Adrian Hauser, Sergei Lebedkin, Pauline Hädinger, Nicolai D. Knöfel, Christina Zovko, Michael T. Gamer, Florian Weigend, Manfred M. Kappes, Peter W. Roesky,
Nature 2023, 620, 92–96.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06192-4 - De- and Rearomatisation of Pyridine in Silylene Chemistry,
Da Jin, Alexander Hinz, Xiaofei Sun, Peter W. Roesky,
Chem. Eur. J. 2024.
https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202402456 - Phospholyl and Arsolyl Triple-Decker Sandwich Complexes of Europium(II) and Strontium(II),
Noah Schwarz, Julia Feye, Vanitha R. Naina, Ralf Köppe, Sebastian Gillhuber, Xiaofei Sun, Peter W. Roesky,
JACS Au 2024, 4(6), 2343–2350.
https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.4c00300 - Luminescent Tetranuclear Copper(I) and Gold(I) Heterobimetallic Complexes: A Phosphine Acetylide Amidinate Orthogonal Ligand Framework for Selective Complexation,
Shubham, Dr. Vanitha R. Naina, Peter W. Roesky,
Chem. Eur. J. 2024.
https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202401696
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