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PROFESSOR E. PETER KÜNDIG

 Full Professor - 

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+41 22 379 60 93
+41 22 379 32 15

 Secretary: 
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+41 22 379 65 26


 Office 122 (1st floor) - Sciences II Postal address

Photo  © Didier Perret 

 

SHORT RÉSUMÉ
 
Professor Peter Kündig graduated from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich in 1971 and in the same year moved to the University of Toronto where he received his PhD in Chemistry in 1975 (G.A.S. Ozin). Following a postdoctoral stay at the University of Bristol (P. Timms), he started his own research at the University of Geneva, focusing on synthetic and mechanistic organometallic chemistry and on metal mediated and catalyzed reactions in organic synthesis. Recent research interests focus on

  • Pd-NHC* catalyzed intramolecular arylations (chiral oxindoles) and on
    asymmetric Csp3-H activation (indolines)
  • Development and applications of chiral Fe- and Ru-Lewis acids
  • Catalytic processes to generate planar chiral metal complexes
He was a member of Executive Board of EuCheMS (2000-2006), and a member of the Editorial Board of Chemical Communications (chair 2008-2011), and is on the Advisory Boards of several international journals. In 2005 he was chair of OMCOS 13 (Geneva) and in 2006 he was scientific program chair for the 1st European Chemistry Congress of EuCheMS (Budapest). He occupied the position of chair of the School of chemistry and biochemistry of the University of Geneva (2000-2006) and was president of the ‘Bürgenstock Conference’ 2010. Presently he is a member of the Platform Chemistry of the Swiss Academy of Sciences and president of the Swiss Chemical Society.

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TEACHING ACTIVITIES
 
Courses taught at the University of Geneva include "Synthetic methods in organic chemistry" (BSc level), "Organometallics as reagents and catalysts in synthesis" (MSc and PhD levels) and "Current organometallic chemistry and catalysis" (PhD level).

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PH.D. AND POSTDOC POSITIONS
 
The University of Geneva has a mandatory retirement age. I will have to dissolve my research group in July 2012 and therefore cannot take on new coworkers.

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RECENT KEY REFERENCES OF PROFESSOR KÜNDIG

[ for a full list see Publications]
 

"Fused Indolines by Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric C—C Coupling Involving an Unactivated Methylene Group"
Nakanishi, M.; Katayev, D.; Besnard, C.; Kündig, E. P.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 7438-7441
 

"Highly efficient desymmetrisation of a tricarbonylchromium 1,4-dibromonaphthalene complex by asymmetric Suzuki-Miyaura coupling"
Urbaneja, X.; Mercier, A.; Besnard, C.; Kündig, E. P.
Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 3739-3741
 

"Efficient Enantioselective Syntheses of Sertraline, 2-Epicatalponol and Catalponol from Tetralin-1,4-dione"
Enriquez-Garcia, A.; Ouizem, S.; Cheng, X.; Romanens, P.; Kündig, E. P.
Adv. Synth. Catal. 2010, 352, 2306-2314
 

"Total synthesis of (±)-Vertine with Z-selective RCM as a key step"
Chausset-Boissarie, L.; Ŕrvai, R.; Cumming, G. R.; Besnard, C.; Kündig, E. P.
Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 6264-6266
 

"New Chiral N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands in Palladium-Catalyzed α-Arylations of Amides: Conformational Locking through Allylic Strain as a Device for Stereocontrol"
Jia, Y.-X.; Katayev, D.; Bernardinelli, G.; Seidel, T. M.; Kündig, E. P.
Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16, 6300-6309
 

"Asymmetric Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of Aryl—Halide Bonds in Fused Arene Chromium and Ruthenium Complexes"
Mercier, A.; Urbaneja, X.; Yeo, W. C.; Chaudhuri, P. D.; Cumming, G. R.; House, D.; Bernardinelli, G.; Kündig, E. P.
Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16, 6285-6299
 

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