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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Inorganic Molecular Chemistry |
| Keywords | Copper, Dioxygen Activation, bioinorganic chemistry, polymerization catalysis |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Minneapolis |
| Institution | University of Minnesota |
| Institute | Department of Chemistry |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang A. Herrmann | Lehrstuhl für Anorganische Chemie, Technische Universität München, Garching |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/08/2004 |
Programme(s)
| 2004 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor William B. Tolman is an outstanding scientist who has gained an excellent reputation in the field of bioinorganic and organometallic chemistry both in the United States and internationally - discovered a new motif in copper-oxygen chemistry that has changed the view of the possible mechanism for dioxygen production and activation in nature and catalysis. The objective of the proposed studies in Germany is to investigate the synthesis and catalytic properties of a new class of rhenium-copper complexes for application in industrial and biological oxidation reactions. |