Peter J. Stang

Peter John Stang ( born November 17, 1941 in Nuremberg, Germany) is an American chemist.

Life and work

Stang received his bachelor's degree in 1963 from DePaul University and in 1966 received his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley with Andrew Streitwieser. From 1968 he was a post-doctoral fellow and instructor at Princeton University ( with Paul of Ragué Schleyer ), 1969 he was appointed Assistant Professor in 1979 and Professor at the University of Utah.

It deals with molecular architecture and supramolecular chemistry on self - assembly ( Self Assembly ) of the molecules with specific geometric structures (such as polyhedra, polygons ). Among other things, he succeeded as the construction of a molecular dodecahedron. The ultimate goal is the construction of nano- molecular machines, for example, for information storage or photosynthesis. He has published over 400 articles and had over 30 PhD students.

He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received multiple times a Humboldt Research Award (1977, 1996, 2010) and an honorary doctorate from Moscow State University (1992 ) and the Russian Academy of Sciences. 1986 and 1997 he was a Lady Davis Visiting Professor at the Technion and 1989 he was a Lecturer Mendeleev in Russia. 1987/88 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Yugoslavia.

In 2006 he received the Linus Pauling Award, he received the George Olah Award of the American Chemical Society (2003), the James Flack Norris Award of the ACS (1998), received the Priestley Medal (2013 ) and the ACS 2010 National Medal of Science.

Since 2002 he has been editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society ( 1982-1999 and Associate Editor ), and was the 2000/2001 editor of the Journal of Organic Chemistry.

In 1962 he became a U.S. citizen. He is married to Christine Schirmer since 1969 and has two daughters.

Writings

  • Pierre Laszlo: Organic spectroscopy. Principles and applications. Harper and Row 1971
  • Publisher with Diederich, R. Tykwinski: Acetylene chemistry. Chemistry, biology, and material science. Wiley -VCH 2005
  • Other: Vinyl Cations. Academic Press 1979
  • Francois Diederich: Metal - catalyzed cross-coupling reactions. Wiley 1989
  • Published by Zvi Rappoport with: Dicoordinated carbocations. Wiley 1997
  • With Diederich (Editor): Templated organic synthesis. VCH 2000
  • Publisher with Diederich: Modern Acetylene Chemistry. VCH 1995
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