Prof. Dr. Herbert Mayr

Chair of Organic Chemistry - Organo-Physical Chemistry

	Address	Prof. Dr. Herbert Mayr Department Chemie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Butenandtstr. 5-13, Haus F 81377 München Germany
	Office	+49 (0)89 2180-77716 (Hildegard Lipfert)
	Phone	+49 (0)89 2180-77719
	Fax	+49 (0)89 2180-77717
	Room	F3.030
	E-Mail	Herbert.Mayr@cup.uni-muenchen.de
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• Kinetics of polar organic and metal-organic reactions
• Reactivity scales for nucleophiles and electrophiles
• Carbocationic polymerizations

• Studied chemistry at LMU München
• 1974 PhD, LMU München
• 1975-1976 Postdoctoral research, Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio/USA
• 1976-1984 Research associate, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 1980 Habilitation, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 1984-1991 Professor (C4), Univ. Lübeck
• 1991-1996 Professor (C4), TU Darmstadt
• Since 1996 Professor for Organic Chemistry (C4), LMU München

• Farewell to the HSAB Treatment of Ambident Reactivity. H. Mayr, M. Breugst, A. R. Ofial, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 6470-6505.
• A Practical Guide for Estimating Rates of Heterolysis Reactions. N. Streidl, B. Denegri, O. Kronja, H. Mayr, Acc. Chem. Res. 2010, 43, 1537-1549.
• The Reactivity-Selectivity Principle: An Imperishable Myth in Organic Chemistry. H. Mayr, A. R. Ofial, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 1844-1854.
• Nucleophilicity in Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions. H. Mayr, B. Kempf, A. R. Ofial, Acc. Chem. Res. 2003, 36, 66-77.