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 Heidelberg1980+: 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, Berkeley1982: Wilsmore Fellowship: U. of Melbourne1992-1995: Served both as Dean and Vice President of the Freie Universitaet BerlinKonrad Seppelt was the first chemist in the world that managed to form a Compound between a noble gas and a noble Metal (between Xenon and Gold). The result was surprising to many Chemists around the world.
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.
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 –3620A 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. CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)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. PMID 11021792. doi:10.1126/science.290.5489.117. 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.