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 Heidelberg
1980+: 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, Berkeley
1982: Wilsmore Fellowship: U. of Melbourne
1992-1995: Served both as Dean and Vice President of the Freie Universitaet Berlin
Konrad 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 –3620
A 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.
