Siegfried Blechert (born 1 March 1946 in

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, Denmark) is a German chemist. Blechert studied chemistry at the University of Hannover, Germany and completed his

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under the supervision of

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in 1974. After a research stay with

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in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, in 1981, he finished his

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at the University of Hannover in 1982 and there became lecturer in organic chemistry. In 1986 he took up a professorship at the University of Bonn. In 1990 he accepted the Chair of the Organic Chemistry Department at the

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. His research interests include the development of new catalysts for olefin metathesis, novel synthetic methods, and the stereoselective synthesis of natural products.

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