Professor Reinhard Brückner, University of Freiburg, Germany, celebrates his 65th birthday on May 5, 2020.
Brückner has authored several well-known textbooks on organic chemistry. His research interests include the total synthesis of natural products and their biologically active analogs, as well as the development of efficient synthetic methodology.
Reinhard Brückner, born in 1955 in Braunschweig, Germany, studied chemistry at the University of Munich, Germany, where he completed his Ph.D. in organic chemistry under the supervision of Rolf Huisgen in 1984. After post-doctoral research with Paul A. Wender at Stanford University, CA, USA, he returned to Germany and completed his habilitation with Reinhard W. Hoffmann at the University of Marburg in 1989. He became Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg, Germany, in 1991. In 1992, he moved to the University of Göttingen, Germany, as Full Professor of Organic Chemistry. Since 1998, Reinhard Brückner is Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Freiburg.
Among other honors, Professor Brückner has received the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan Lectureship in 1996, the Literature Prize of the Chemical Industry Fund (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, FCI) in 1998, and the Novartis Chemistry Lectureship in 2008.
Selected Publications
- Structure-Elucidating Total Synthesis of the (Polyenoyl)tetramic Acid Militarinone C,
Christian Drescher, Morris Keller, Olivier Potterat, Matthias Hamburger, Reinhard Brückner,
Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 2559–2563.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.0c00431 - Pioneering Work on Catenanes, Rotaxanes, and a Knotane in the University of Freiburg 1958–1988,
Reinhard Brückner,
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 2019, 3289–3319.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201900268 - Atropselective Synthesis of N,C-Bis(diphenylphosphanes) from Bridged 2-Arylindoles Based on Effective Point-to-Axial Asymmetric Inductions after an Unusual Dilithiation,
Felix Bäuerle, Reinhard Brückner,
Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 9970–9975.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03896 - Organic Mechanisms,
Reinhard Brückner,
Springer, Heidelberg, 2010.
ISBN: 978-3-642-03650-7 - Praktikum Präparative Organische Chemie: Organisch-Chemisches Grundpraktikum,
Reinhard Brückner, Hans-Dieter Beckhaus, Stefan Braukmüller, Jan Dirksen, Dirk Goeppel, Martin Oestreich,
Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2008.
ISBN: 978-3-827-41505-9 - The β-elimination route to stereodefined γ-alkylidenebutenolides,
Reinhard Brückner,
Chem. Commun. 2001.
https://doi.org/10.1039/b007590f - The Synthesis of γ-Alkylidenebutenolides,
Reinhard Brückner,
Curr. Org. Chem. 2001, 5, 679–718.
https://doi.org/10.2174/1385272013375300 - Organisch-Chemischer Denksport: Ein Seminar für Fortgeschrittene mit Aufgaben zur Naturstoffsynthese, Mechanistik und Physikalischen Organischen Chemie,
Reinhard Brückner,
Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Germany, 1989.
ISBN-13: 978-3528063290 - TiIV-BINOLate-Catalyzed Highly Enantioselective Additions of β-Substituted Allylstannanes to Aldehydes,
Stefan Weigand, Reinhard Brückner,
Chem. Eur. J. 1996, 2, 1077–1084.
https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.19960020907
