Ulrich "Uli" Kortz is a German chemist and
professor, working in the area of synthetic
polyoxometalate chemistry.
Biography
Ulrich Kortz obtained his education in
Chemical Engineering in the period 1982–1989 and was awarded his
Diplom
A ''Diplom'' (, from grc, δίπλωμα ''diploma'') is an academic degree in the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and a similarly named degree in some other European countries including Albania, Bulgaria, Belarus ...
from
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. In the period of 1989–1995 he was working on his doctorate degree at
Georgetown University in
Washington, DC, under close supervision of
Michael T. Pope
Michael Pope, was born and educated in England. He received B.A. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University. He can be considered as one of the leading and most influential polyoxometalate chemists worldwide. His 1983 book entitled “Heteropoly ...
. He spent his postdoctoral years with Dante Gatteschi at Florence University,
Italy, from 1995 to 1996, and with Andre Tézé and Gilbert Hervé at
Versailles University,
France, from 1996 to 1997. In 1997 he was hired as
assistant professor at the
American University of Beirut
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in
Lebanon, and he was promoted to
associate professor
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Overview
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in 2001. In 2002 he returned to Germany to join the newly established International University Bremen, now
Constructor University, as associate professor and he was promoted to
full professor in 2007.
Highlights
The Kortz group ("The POM Lab") has discovered the class of polyoxopalladates(II) in 2008 with the synthesis of ,
and the class of polyoxoaurates(III) in 2010 with the synthesis of .
Ever since they have systematically developed the field of polyoxo-noble-metalates further.
They have also pioneered the chemistry of the wheel-shaped by preparing , which contains a highly symmetrical Cu20 core with copper(II) ions in three different coordination geometries,
and another highlight example was .
Kortz and his team have also discovered the dilacunary heteropolytungstate in 2006,
and systematically explored its reactivity towards transition metal ions.
They have also explored the reactivity of many other lacunary heteropolytungstates with d and f block metal ions, two highlight products being
and .
The Kortz group has also reported on POMs with interesting magnetic properties.
In the area of catalysis, they have reported mainly on olefin epoxidation,
alkane/alkene oxidation,
as well as oxidative
and reductive
water splitting. Finally, they are also interested in the biological properties of POMs.
References
External links
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Living people
21st-century German chemists
Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences alumni
1963 births