Wolfgang Beck

Wolfgang Beck is a German inorganic chemist who contributed to organometallic chemistry as well. He was a professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Beck received his PhD in under Walter Hieber at the TU Munich.[1] He later moved to LMU Munich. He became emeritus in 2000.

Research

Beck published widely on complexes of simple inorganic and organic ligands. One theme was on organometallic derivatives of amino acids.[2] He investigated weakly coordinating anions well before the them was popular.[3]

Recognition

  • Liebig Memorial Medal (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker)
  • Lavoisier Medal for Bioorganometallic Chemistry

References

  1. ^ Hieber, W.; Beck, W. (1960). "Über Tricarbonyleisenverbindungen des Typs [Fe(CO)3X]2 (X = S, Se, SC2H5, SeC2H5, SC6H5)". Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie. 305 (5–6): 265–273. doi:10.1002/zaac.19603050504.
  2. ^ Severin, Kay; Bergs, Ralph; Beck, Wolfgang (1998). "Bioorganometallic Chemistry - Transition Metal Complexes withα-Amino Acids and Peptides". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 37 (12): 1634–1654. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19980703)37:12<1634::AID-ANIE1634>3.0.CO;2-C. PMID 29711516.
  3. ^ Beck, Wolfgang; Suenkel, Karlheinz (1988). "Metal complexes of weakly coordinating anions. Precursors of strong cationic organometallic Lewis acids". Chemical Reviews. 88 (7): 1405–1421. doi:10.1021/cr00089a017.