Konrad Seppelt

Professor Konrad Seppelt is a chemist who leads a research group at the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie der Freien Universität Berlin).

Positions held include:

• 1969-1979: Various positions at the University of Heidelberg
• 1980+: Professor of Chemistry at the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie der Freien Universität Berlin)
• 1974-1975: Visiting professor: U. of California, Berkeley
• 1982: Wilsmore Fellowship: U. of Melbourne
• 1992-1995: Served both as Dean and Vice President of the Freie Universitaet Berlin

Publications

A list of over 200 publications in the period 1969-2001 can be found here. A Google search on "Konrad Seppelt" and similar returns about 2,000 results.

Popular publications

• Cutting Edge, Konrad Seppelt, The (London) Times Higher Education Supplement, November 10, 2000, p. 24.
• The Future of Chemistry ... , Editorial, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 3618 –3620

Scientific publications

A random selection of Prof Seppelt's publications:

• K. Seppelt (1976). "Arsenic Pentachloride, AsCl₅". Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl 15 (6): 377. doi:10.1002/anie.197603771.
• Seppelt, Konrad (June 1979). "Recent Developments in the Chemistry of Some Electronegative Elements". Accounts of Chemical Research 12 (6): 211–216. doi:10.1021/ar50138a004.
• Seppelt, K. “Selenoyl difluoride” Inorganic Syntheses, 1980, volume XX, pp. 36–38. ISBN 0-471-07715-1.
• Ali Reza Mahjoub, Xiongzhi Zhang, Konrad Seppelt (1995). "Reactions of the Naked Fluoride Ion: Syntheses and Structures of SeF₆²⁻ and BrF₆⁻". Chemistry - A European Journal 1 (4): 216. doi:10.1002/chem.19950010410.
• Seppelt, K., Pfennig, V. Science 1996, 271, 626-8.
• Kleinhenz, S., Pfennig, V., Seppelt, K. Chem. Eur. J. 1998, 4, 1687-91.
• Haupt S, Seppelt K, (2002). "Solid State Structures of AsCl₅ and SbCl₅". Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie 628 (4): 729–734. doi:10.1002/1521-3749(200205)628:4<729::AID-ZAAC729>3.0.CO;2-E.
• Konrad Seppelt, Stefan Seidel; Seppelt, K (2000-10-06). "Xenon as a Complex Ligand: The Tetra Xenono Gold(II) Cation in AuXe₄²⁺(Sb₂F₁₁⁻)₂". Science 290 (5489): 117–118. Bibcode:2000Sci...290..117S. doi:10.1126/science.290.5489.117. PMID 11021792.
• Hwang, I; Seppelt, K. (2000). "The structures of ReF₈⁻ and UF₈²⁻". Journal of Fluorine Chemistry 102: 69. doi:10.1016/S0022-1139(99)00248-1.
• A. Ellern, T. Drews, K. Seppelt (2001). "The Structure of Carbon Suboxide, C₃O₂, in the Solid State". Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie 627 (1): 73–76. doi:10.1002/1521-3749(200101)627:1<73::AID-ZAAC73>3.0.CO;2-A.
• Seppelt, K. Accounts of Chemical Research 2003, 36(2), 147-153.

See also

• Arsenic pentachloride
• Carbon suboxide
• Hexamethyl tungsten
• Phosphorus pentachloride
• Rhenium heptafluoride
• Selenic acid
• Selenium tetrafluoride
• Tetraxenonogold(II)
• Xenon hexafluoride

External links

• Photo of Prof Seppelt. CV
• Prof Seppelt's research group: English, German photo