Peter Jutzi, Professor Emeritus, University of Bielefeld, Germany, passed away on April 6, 2024. He was esteemed for his organometallic studies of the main group elements, especially silicon, and was also praised for his ‘clever and open manner’, as described in the university’s obituary [1].

Peter Jutzi’s research interests included organometallic chemistry, in particular the dynamic covalent chemistry of the elements of the 13th main group elements, the cyclopentadienyl compounds of the main group elements, the π-complexes of low-valence silica, the formation mechanisms and the preparation of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles as well as metal silsesquioxanes in chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and sol-gel processes. His discovery of silicocenes was spectacular.

 

Peter Jutzi, born in Duisburg, Germany, in 1938, studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Marburg, Germany, in 1965 under the supervision of Max Schmidt. He habilitated at the University of Würzburg, Germany, in 1971 and became a professor at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, in 1979, where he remained until his retirement in 2007.

Among his many honors, Peter Jutzi received the Alfred Stock Memorial Award in 2002, the F. S. Kipping Award in 2000, the Max Planck Research Award in 1992, and the Wacker Silicon Award in 1987.

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Selected Publications

• Peter Jutzi, The Pentamethylcyclopentadienylsilicon(II) Cation: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity, Chem. Eur. J. 2014. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201402163
• Kinga Leszczyńska, Kai Abersfelder, Andreas Mix, Beate Neumann, Hans-Georg Stammler, Michael J. Cowley, Peter Jutzi, David Scheschkewitz, Reversible Base Coordination to a Disilene, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201202277
• Axel Dreyer, Michael Peter, Jochen Mattay, Katrin Eckstädt, Andreas Hütten, Peter Jutzi, Ionic Additives and Weak Magnetic Fields in the Thermal Decomposition of Octacarbonyldicobalt – Tools To Control the Morphology of Cobalt Nanoparticles, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2011. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201100947
• Kinga Leszczyńska, Andreas Mix, Raphael J. F. Berger, Britta Rummel, Beate Neumann, Hans-Georg Stammler, Peter Jutzi, The Pentamethylcyclopentadienylsilicon(II) Cation as a Catalyst for the Specific Degradation of Oligo(ethyleneglycol) Diethers, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201101139
• Peter Jutzi, Kinga Leszczyńska, Andreas Mix, Beate Neumann, Britta Rummel, Wolfgang Schoeller, Hans-Georg Stammler, Synthesis and Characterization of the Ferrio-Substituted Silicon(II) Compound Me₅C₅(CO)₂FeSiC₅Me₅, Organometallics 2010, 29(21), 4759–4761. https://doi.org/10.1021/om100366f
• Peter Jutzi, Kinga Leszczyńska, Beate Neumann, Wolfgang W. Schoeller, Hans-Georg Stammler, [2,6-(Trip)₂H₃C₆ ](Cp*)Si: A Stable Monomeric Arylsilicon(II) Compound, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200805749
• Peter Jutzi, Andreas Mix, Beate Neumann, Britta Rummel, Wolfgang W. Schoeller, Hans-Georg Stammler, A. B. Rozhenko, Reversible Transformation of a Stable Monomeric Silicon(II) Compound into a Stable Disilene by Phase Transfer: Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the System {[(Me₃Si)₂N](Me₅C₅)Si }_n with n = 1,2, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131(34), 12137–12143. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja902153u
• Peter Jutzi, Andreas Mix, Beate Neumann, Britta Rummel, Hans-Georg Stammler, Novel π-complexes of divalent silicon: mixed substituted neutral sandwich compounds and the half-sandwich cation (iPr₅C₅)Si⁺, Chem. Commun. 2006, 3519-3521. https://doi.org/10.1039/B607236D
• Alexander Althoff, Dirk Eisner, Peter Jutzi, Norman Lenze, Beate Neumann, Wolfgang W. Schoeller, Hans-Georg Stammler, The Trinuclear Gallium-Bridged Ferrocenophane [{Fe(η⁵-C₅H₄)₂}₃Ga₂]: Synthesis, Bonding, Structure, and Coordination Chemistry, Chem. Eur. J. 2006. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.200600218
• Silicon Chemistry (Eds. Peter Jutzi, Ulrich Schubert), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2003. ISBN: 3527306471
• Peter Jutzi, Dieter Kanne, Carl Krüger, Decamethylsilicocene—Synthesis and Structure, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1986. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.198601641
• Peter Jutzi, Bernd Hampel, Michael B. Hursthouse, Andrew J. Howes, Mixed germylenes from (pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)germanium chloride and (pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)germanium tetrafluoroborate, Organometallics 1986, 5(10), 1944–1948. https://doi.org/10.1021/om00141a003

 

[1] Traueranzeige Peter Jutzi, NEUE WESTFÄLISCHE 15.06.2024. (accessed June 16, 2024)