Paul Knochel

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Paul Knochel

Chemistry

#488

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#887

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Organic Chemistry

#57

World Rank

#85

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Paul Knochel's Degrees

• PhD Chemistry University of Marburg

Why Is Paul Knochel Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Paul Knochel is a French chemist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Biography Paul Knochel was born in Strasbourg. He studied chemistry at the IUT in Strasbourg, then at the ENSCS . From 1979 to 1982, he completed his thesis entitled "Nitroallyl-halogenide und -ester als effiziente Verknüpfungsreagenzien" at ETH Zurich in Prof. Dieter Seebach's group. He then spent 4 years at the CNRS at the Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris in the group of Prof. Jean-François Normant. During this period, he studied carbozincation reactions using allylic reagents and prepared bimetallic compounds bearing two different metals on the same carbon atom. He then joined Prof. Martin F. Semmelhack's laboratory for a post-doctoral fellowship during which he worked on the use of indoles-chromium complexes in organic synthesis. In 1987, he accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he developed the first methods for the preparation of polyfunctional organometallic zinc species. In 1991, he was promoted to Professor at the same University before moving to Marburg in 1992, where he was offered a position as Professor of Organic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the Philips-Universität University. He continued his work on the chemistry of polyfunctional organozinciques and their use in asymmetric synthesis. In 1999, he was offered a position as Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Munich which he still holds in 2019. He has developed new methods for the preparation of polyfunctional organometallic species as well as numerous synthetic methods using organometallic reagents or catalysts.

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