Prof. Dr. Sonja Herres-Pawlis

Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry

	Address	Prof. Dr. Sonja Herres-Pawlis Department Chemie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Butenandtstr. 5-13, Haus D 81377 München Germany
	Phone	+49 (0)89 2180-77486
	Fax	+49 (0)89 2180-77867
	Room	D3.075
	E-Mail	Sonja.Herres-Pawlis@cup.uni-muenchen.de
	Internet	http://www.cup.lmu.de/ac/herres-pawlis/

• Biomimetic Copper-dioxygen chemistry, oxygen transfer
• Lactide polymerization with zinc complexes
• Atom transfer polymerization with transition metal complexes
• Further activation of small molecules with N donor complexes

• Studied Chemistry at Universität Paderborn and Ecole National Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier
• 2002: PhD in Chemistry at Universität Paderborn
• 2006: Postdoc at Stanford University
• 2007 Junior Research group at Universität Paderborn
• 2009 Junior Research group at Technische Universität Dortmund
• 2010: Member of the "Junges Kolleg" of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Northrhine-Westphalia

• J. Börner, I. dos Santos Vieira, A. Pawlis, A. Döring, D. Kuckling, S. Herres-Pawlis, "Mechanism of the living lactide polymerisation mediated by robust zinc guanidine complexes", Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 4507 - 4512
• S. Herres-Pawlis, P. Verma, R. Haase, P. Kang, C. T. Lyons, E.C. Wasinger, U. Flörke, G. Henkel, T.D.P. Stack; "Phenolate Hydroxylation in a bis(µ-oxo)dicopper(III) Complex: Lessons from the Guanidine/Amine Series", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 1154-1169.
• J. Börner, U. Flörke, K. Huber, A. Döring, D. Kuckling S. Herres-Pawlis; "Synthesis and Characterisation of Zinc Complexes with Guanidine-Pyridine Hybridligands: New Catalysts for the Ring-Opening Polymerisation of D,L-Lactide", Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 2362-2376.