Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian Böttcher (i.R.)
Inorganic/Coordination Chemistry

	Address	Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian Böttcher Department Chemie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Butenandtstr. 5-13, Haus D 81377 München Germany
	Phone	+49 (0)89 2180-77422
	Room-Nr.	D2.069
	Email
	Home page	www.cup.lmu.de/ac/boettcher

Research Interests

• Fixation and activation of small molecules in the coordination sphere of transition metal complexes
• Complexes with nitric oxide/hyponitrite ligands
• NMR studies on complexes bearing sterical demanding phosphane ligands

Short CV

• Studied chemistry at the University Halle-Wittenberg
• 1985 Ph.D, University Halle-Wittenberg
• 1985-2003 scientific assistant, Halle
• 1991-1993 postdoctoral research and research project for BASF-AG/Ludwigshafen at the University of Neuchâtel/Switzerland
• 1996 Habilitation, Halle (Privatdozent)
• Since 2004 scientific assistant (AK Klüfers) and Privatdozent, LMU, Munich

Key publications

• "Reductive Dimerization of Nitric Oxide to trans-Hyponitrite in the Coordination Sphere of a Dinuclear Ruthenium Complex", H.-C. Böttcher, M. Graf, K. Mereiter, K. Kirchner, Organometallics 2004, 23, 1269-1273.
• "Reaction Properties of the trans-Hyponitrite Complex [Ru2(CO)4(µ-H)(µ-PBut2)(µ-Ph2PCH2PPh2)(µ-h2-ONNO)]", H.-C. Böttcher, C. Wagner, K. Kirchner, Inorg. Chem. 2004, 43, 6294-6299.
• "Synthesis and Molecular Structure of trans-[IrCl(coe)(tBu2PH)2] (coe = cis-cyclooctene)", H.-C. Böttcher, M. Graf, K. Karaghiosoff, P. Mayer, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2007, 633, 913 916.