Prof. Dr. Stefan Mecking

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsPreparative and Physical Chemistry of Polymers,Inorganic Molecular Chemistry
Keywordspolymer chemistry, catalysis, organometallic chemistry, nanoparticles
Honours and awards

2019: Elected Visiting Fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford

2019: ERC Advanced Grant (Degradable Polyolefins enabled by Catalytic Methods)

2008: Karl Ziegler-Giulio Natta-Lectureship

2003: BASF Catalysis Award

2003: Fonds-Stipendium

2003: Hermann-Schnell-Stipendium

2003: Otto-Roelen-Medaille

1994: Feodor-Lynen-Stipendium

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityKonstanz
InstitutionUniversität Konstanz
InstituteArbeitsgruppe Chemische Materialwissenschaft
Homepagehttp://www.chemie.uni-konstanz.de/agmeck/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Richard P. BuckVenable and Kenan Laboratories, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Prof. Dr. Maurice S. BrookhartVenable and Kenan Laboratories, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/1994

Programme(s)

1994Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2006Amaia Bastero, Gan Carlo Francio, Walter Leitner, Stefan Mecking: Catalytic Ethylene Polymerization in Carbon Dioxide as a Reaction Medium with Soluble Nickel (II) Catalysts. . In: Chemistry - Eur. J., 2006, 6110-6116
2006Victor Martinez, Stefan Mecking, Thierry Taissing, Marcel Besnard, Sandy Moisan, Francois Cansell, Cyril Aymonier: Dendritic Core-Shell Molecules Soluble in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. . In: Macromolecules, 2006, 3978-3979
2005Amaia Bastero, Stefan Mecking: Synthesis of Submicrometer Particles of a Stereoregular Polyolefin by Catalysis in Aqueous Dispersion. . In: Macromolecules , 2005, 220-222
2004Martin A. Zuideveld, Peter Wehrmann, Caroline Röhr, Stefan Mecking: Remote Substituents Controlling Catalytic Polymerization by very Active and Robust Neutral Nickel(II) Complexes. . In: Angew. Chem Int. Ed. , 2004, 869-873
2002Dirk L. Schröder, Wilhelm Keim, Martin A. Zuideveld, Stefan Mecking: Ethylene Polymerization by Novel, Easily Accessible Catalysts Based on Nickel(II)-Diazene Complexes. . In: Macromolecules , 2002, 6071-6073
2002Anke Held, Ludmilla Kolb, Martin A. Zuideveld, Ralf Thomann, Stefan Mecking, Markus Schmid, Raimund Pietruschka, Ekkehard Lindner, Monther Sunjuk, Mahmoud Khanfar: Aqueous Polyketone Latices Prepared with Water-Insoluble Palladium(II) Catalysts. . In: Macromolecules , 2002, 3342-3347
1998Stefan Mecking, Lynda K. Johnson, Lin Wang, Maurice Brookhart Mechanistic Studies of the Palladium-Catalyzed Copolymerization of Ethylene and alpha-Olefins with Methyl Acrylate. . In: J. Am. Chem. Soc. , 1998, 888-899
1996Lynda K. Johnson, Stefan Mecking, Maurice Brookhart: Copolymerization of Ethylene and Propylene with Functionalized Vinyl Monomers by Palladium(II) Catalysts. . In: J. Am. Chem. Soc. , 1996, 267-268