Alois Fuerstner
Max Planck Institute, Germany
Max Planck Institute, Germany
Biography
Fürstner completed his PhD in 1987 at the Technical University of Graz with H. Weidmann and completed his habilitation there in 1992, following a postdoctoral fellowship with W. Oppolzer (University of Geneva). He has been a group leader at the Max Planck Institute at Mülheim since 1993 and has been a director there since 1998. He carries out pioneering work at the interface between organometallic chemistry and organic synthesis, in particular alkene and alkyne metathesis and its application to the total synthesis of complex natural products, such as carbohydrates and alkaloids.
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