Hans-Ulrich Reissig (german: link=no, Hans-Ulrich Reißig; born 9 May 1949) is a German chemist and was a full professor of

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Education and academic career

Reissig was born in

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, Bavaria, Germany. He studied chemistry at

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(Germany) from 1970 to 1975, where he completed his PhD in 1978 under the supervision of

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, with a thesis "Neue Beiträge zu den Additionen der Diazoalkane und zur Chemie der 3H-Pyrazole" (Contributions to the Additions of Diazoalkanes and the Chemistry of 3H-Pyrazoles). After a postdoctoral research stay at

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, Vancouver, with Edward Piers (1938–2010), he started his independent research at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Germany) in 1979 under the mentorship of Siegfried Hünig finishing his habilitation in 1984 (Chemistry of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes). As Heisenberg awardee and lecturer he stayed in

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until 1986. From 1986 to 1993, he was associate professor at TU Darmstadt and after the German reunification full professor at

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from 1993 to 1999. He was professor at

from 1999 to his retirement in 2015.

Research contributions

His research interests include the development of new synthetic methods, the investigation of reaction mechanisms and the synthesis of natural products. In 1980 he introduced the term "Donor-Acceptor Substituted Cyclopropanes" and used these building blocks systematically in his research. He is particularly interested in reactions of lithiated alkoxyallenes, the use of samarium diiodide in synthesis and cycloadditions of nitroso alkenes. Besides the synthesis of a broad range of heterocycles his group achieved total syntheses of natural products (strychnine, γ-rubromycin etc.) as well as the syntheses of bioactive compounds such as carbohydrate mimetics.

Honors

Reissig was awarded the Karl-Winnacker Fellowship of the Hoechst AG in 1985. He has been a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2012 and received the

Liebig Medal The Liebig Medal (German: ''Liebig-Denkmünze'') was established by the (''Verein Deutscher Chemiker'') in 1903 to celebrate the centenary of Justus von Liebig. Since 1946 it has been awarded by the Society of German Chemists (''Gesellschaft De ...

of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker in 2014.

Publications

* Reissig, Hans-Ulrich. ''Donor-acceptor-substituted cyclopropanes: Versatile building blocks in organic synthesis'', in Mark S. Baird, H. U. Reissig, Jacques R. Y. Salaün: Small ring compounds in organic syntheses III, Topics in current chemistry 144, Springer Verlag 1988. * * * * * *

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