Research Interests : His work focuses on the development of new synthesis methods; production and secondary structure examination of beta peptides; the synthesis of oligomers in (R)-3 hydroxybutyric acid and the respective biopolymers as well as their application possibilities; the synthesis of chiral dendrimers and the use of chiral titanates in organic synthesis.
Awards and Honors : 1964
Wolf-Preis for the Ph.D. thesis, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
1969-1971
Dozentenpreis Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, Germany
1984
FRSC Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K.
Elected member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle, Germany
1985
Havinga Medal of the Stichting Havinga Fonds, Leiden, The Netherlands
1987
Karl Ziegler-Preis of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
First Fluka-Prize for the Reagent of the Year 1987
1989
Dr. h.c. of the University of Montpellier, France
1990
Corresponding member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, Germany
"Max Tishler Prize Lectureship", Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
1991
"Centenary Lectureship and Meda", The Royal Society of Chemistry (7 lectures at universities in the U.K.)
1992
ACS Award for Creative Work in Organic Synthesis
1994
“Merck Schuchardt Chair” at the 5th Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium in Namur, Belgium
1995
The Allan R. Day Award, Philadelphia Organic Chemists’s Club, Philadelphia, USA
"Sandoz-Preis-Vorlesung“, Universität Regensburg, Germany
1996
„Rolf Sammet-Stiftungsgastprofessur der Hoechst AG“, Universität Frankfurt/Main, Germany
The Cliff S. Hamilton Award in Organic Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA
1998
Einzelmitglied der Schweizerischen Akademie der Technischen Wissenschaften (SATW)
1999
The King Faisal International Prize in Science for 1999 (co-winner with Prof. Ryoji Noyori, Japan) „in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in the field of modern organic chemistry“, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
The Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry, American Chemical Society
2000
Yamada Prize, The Japan Research Foundation for Optically Active Compounds, Tokyo, Japan
Marcel Benoist-Preis 2000, Eidgenössischer Wissenschaftspreis der Marcel Benoist-Stiftung (Schweiz)
2001
Corresponding member of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (AMC), México
2002
Chirality Gold Medal, International Symposium on Chirality
Nagoya Gold Medal, Japan
Selected Publications : Waldemar Adam, Konrad J. Roschmann, Chantu R. Saha-Möller, Dieter Seebach
cis-Stilbene and (1a,2b,3a)-(2-Ethenyl-3-methoxycyclopropyl)benzene as Mechanistic Probes in the MnIII(salen)-Catalyzed Epoxidation: Influence of the Oxygen Source and the Counterion onthe Diastereoselectivity of the Competitive Concerted and Radical-Type Oxygen Transfer
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 5068-5073 (2002)
Eusebio Juaristi, Marcos Hernàndes-Rodríguez, Heraclio López-Ruiz, Judit Avina, Omar Muñoz-Muñiz, Michiya Hayakawa, Dieter Seebach
Synthesis of New Chiral Derivatives of N,N’-Dimethylpropyleneurea (DMPU) and Examination of Their Influence on the Regio- and Enantioselcetivity of Addition of 2-(2,3-Dithianyl)lithium to Cyvlohex-2-en-1-one
Helv. Chim. Acta 85, 1999-2008 (2002)
Magnus Rueping, Jürg V. Schreiber, Gérald Lelais, Bernahrd Jaun, Dieter Seebach
Mixed b2/b2-Hexapeptides and b2/b3-Nonapeptides Folding to (P)-Helices with Alternating Twelve- and Ten-Membered hydrogen-Bonded Rings
Helv. Chim. Acta 85, 2577-2593 (2002)
Dieter Seebach, Thierry Sifferlen, Daniel J. Bierbaum, Magnus Rueping, Bernhard Jaun, Bernd Schweizer, Jacob Schaefer, Anil K. Mehta, Robert D. O’Connor, Beat H. Meier, Matthias Ernst, Alice Glättli
Isotopically Labelled and Unlagelled b-Peptids with Geminal Dimethyl Substitution in 2-Position of Each Residue: Synthesis and NMR Investigation in Solution and in the Solid State
Helv. Chim. Acta 85, 2877-2917 (2002)
Hansjörg Wiegand, Bernard Wirz, Alain Schweitzer, Gian P. Camenisch, Maria I. Rodriguez Perez, Gerhard Gross, Ralph Woessner, Rolf Voges, Per I. Arvidsson, Jens Frackenpohl, Dieter Seebach
The Outstanding Metabolic Stability of a 14C-Labeled b-Nonapeptide in Rats – in vitro and in vivo Pharmacokinetic Studies
Biopharm. Drug Dispos. 23, 251-262 (2002)
Alice Glättli, Xavier Daura, Dieter Seebach, Wilfred F. van Gunsteren
Can One Derive the Conformational Preference of a b-Peptide from Its CD Spectrum?
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 12972-12978 (2002)
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