“Catalytic Alkyne Chemistry:
From New Paradigms to Applications in Natural Product Synthesis”
Prof. Alois Fürstner is Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim, Germany. His research interests in the area oforganometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis range from the characterization of reactive intermediates and method development to applications in natural product total synthesis.
He is coauthor of over 470 papers, with over 48,000 citations and an h-index of 119. His honors include the Leibniz Prize (German Science Foundation), the inaugural Mukaiyama Award (Japan), a Centenary Lectureship (RSC), the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (ACS), the Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, the Prelog Medal (ETH Zürich), the Karl Ziegler Prize (GdCH), the Gay Lussac/Humboldt Prize (France), the H. C.Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods (ACS), and the Prix Mondial Nessim Habif (Switzerland).