Professor Dr Alois Fürstner

Main areas of research: Organometallic chemistry applied to organic synthesis; homogeneous catalysis; metathesis, synthesis of natural products and pharmaceutically active compounds
Alois Fürstners work is centered at the interface between organometallic chemistry, homogeneous catalysis and natural product total synthesis. He is well known for his numerous contributions to alkene and alkyne metathesis, as well as for investigations on novel and broadly applicable concepts for homogeneous catalysis (Nozaki-Kishi reactions catalytic in chromium, carbonyl coupling reactions catalytic in titanium, platinum and gold catalyzed skeletal rearrangements, iron catalyzed cross coupling reactions etc.). These methods paved the way for the total synthesis of many bioactive and structurally challenging natural products, including macrolides, alkaloids, terpenes and complex glycoconjugates.