Wolfgang Kaim

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Wolfgang Kaim (born 13 May 1951 in Bad Vilbel, Germany) is a German chemist who held the chair of coordination chemistry at the University of Stuttgart. He is co-author of the internationally recognized book, Bioinorganic Chemistry^[1] which was awarded with the Literature Award of the German Chemical Industry.

Career[]

Kaim studied chemistry and physics at the University of Frankfurt and the University of Konstanz. His diplom thesis in physical organic chemistry was supervised by E. Daltrozzo (1974). He started working on in Hans Bock’s group at the University of Frankfurt, where he earned his PhD in 1978. After a post-doctoral year with F. A. Cotton at Texas A&M University, supported by a postdoctoral Liebig Fellowship, he completed his habilitation for inorganic chemistry in 1982 ("Coordination Chemistry of Reduced Heterocycles"). Kaim continued his independent research career at the University of Frankfurt with a followed by a . In 1987 he moved to the University of Stuttgart to take up a chaired position for coordination chemistry until 2019.

Kaim is an adjunct professor at the Northern Illinois University (USA), and has been visiting professor at the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou (China), guest professor at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago (Chile), the University of Concepción (Chile) and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India).^[2]

He has been the advisor of more than 70 PhD students.

In 2014 he was awarded the Alfred Stock Memorial Prize by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh). In the same year he received the L. F. Leloir Award from Argentina.

Research[]

Kaim’s interdisciplinary research covers the areas of radical stabilization by (‘non-innocent ligands’), coenzyme models, the extension of mixed-valence chemistry, electron transfer effects on M-C and M-H bonds, the crystallization of new organic radicals and the electron transfer properties of boron compounds, as well as spectroelectrochemistry in the IR, UV/VIS/near-infrared regions as spectroscopic probes for electron transfer sites and the consequences of electron transfer or charge transfer on structure and bonding, EPR spectroscopy as a less common but highly useful methodology and CV (cyclic voltammetry).

He is the co-author of more than 700 publications in peer-reviewed journals.^[3]

Major reviews[]

• “Spectroelectrochemistry: the best of two worlds”, W. Kaim and J. Fiedler, Chem. Soc. Rev. 38 (2009) 3373-3382.
• “Non-innocent ligands in bioinorganic chemistry – an overview”, W. Kaim and B. Schwederski, Coord. Chem. Rev. 254 (2010) 1580-1588.
• “Concepts for metal complex chromophors absorbing in the near infrared”, W. Kaim, Coord. Chem. Rev. 255 (2011) 2503-2513.
• “The Shrinking World of Innocent Ligands: Conventional and Non-conventional Redox-active Ligands (Essay)”, W. Kaim, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (2012) 343-348.
• “Interacting Metal and Ligand Based Open Shell Systems: Challenges for Experiment and Theory”, W. Kaim and A. Paretzki, Coord. Chem. Rev. 344 (2017) 345-354.
• “The Coordination Potential of Indigo, Anthraquinone and Related Redox-active Dyes”, W. Kaim and G.K. Lahiri, Coord. Chem. Rev. 393 (2019) 1-8.
• “NO and NO₂ as non-innocent ligands: A comparison”, W. Kaim, A. Das, J. Fiedler, S. Záliš and B. Sarkar, Coord. Chem. Rev. 404 (2020) 213114, 1-6.
• “Sites of Electron Transfer Reactivity in Organometallic Compoundsˮ, W. Kaim, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (2020) 875-878.

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