Prof. Dr. Herbert Mayr, i.R.
Department of Chemistry
+49 89 2180-77717
Postal address:
Butenandtstr. 5-13
81377 Munich
Research Interests
- Kinetics of polar organic and metal-organic reactions
- Reactivity scales for nucleophiles and electrophiles
- Carbocationic polymerizations
Short CV
- Studied chemistry at LMU München
- 1974 PhD, LMU München
- 1975-1976 Postdoctoral research, Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio/USA
- 1976-1984 Research associate, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 1980 Habilitation, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 1984-1991 Professor (C4), Univ. Lübeck
- 1991-1996 Professor (C4), TU Darmstadt
- Since 1996 Professor for Organic Chemistry (C4), LMU München
- 2006 Liebig Denkmünze of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)
- 2020 James-Flack-Norris Award for Physical Organic Chemistry by the American Chemical Society
Key publications
- Nucleophilicity and Electrophilicity Parameters for Predicting Absolute Rate Constants of Highly Asynchronous 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of Aryldiazomethanes
H. Jangra, Q. Chen, E. Fuks, I. Zenz, P. Mayer, A. R. Ofial, H. Zipse, H. Mayr, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 16758-16772. - Philicities, Fugalities, and Equilibrium Constants. H. Mayr, A. R. Ofial, Acc. Chem. Res. 2016, 49, 952-965
- Reactivity Scales for Quantifying Polar Organic Reactivity: The Benzhydrylium Methodology. H. Mayr, Tetrahedron 2015, 71, 5095-5111.
- Farewell to the HSAB Treatment of Ambident Reactivity. H. Mayr, M. Breugst, A. R. Ofial, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 6470-6505.
- The Reactivity-Selectivity Principle: An Imperishable Myth in Organic Chemistry. H. Mayr, A. R. Ofial, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 1844-1854.
- Nucleophilicity in Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions. H. Mayr, B. Kempf, A. R. Ofial, Acc. Chem. Res. 2003, 36, 66-77.