Prof. i.R. Dr. Herbert Mayr
Chair of Organic Chemistry - Physical Organic Chemistry

	Address	Prof. Dr. Herbert Mayr Department Chemie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Butenandtstr. 5-13, Haus F 81377 München Germany
	Phone	+49 (0)89 2180-77719
	Room-Nr.	F2.084
	Email
	Home page	www.cup.lmu.de/oc/mayr

Research Interests

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
2006 Liebig Denkmünze of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)
2020 James-Flack-Norris Award for Physical Organic Chemistry by the American Chemical Society

One-Bond-Nucleophilicity and -Electrophilicity Parameters: An Efficient Ordering System for 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions
L. Li, R. J. Mayer, A. R. Ofial, H. Mayr, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 7416-7434
Nucleophilicity and Electrophilicity Parameters for Predicting Absolute Rate Constants of Highly Asynchronous 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of Aryldiazomethanes
H. Jangra, Q. Chen, E. Fuks, I. Zenz, P. Mayer, A. R. Ofial, H. Zipse, H. Mayr, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 16758-16772
Philicities, Fugalities, and Equilibrium Constants
H. Mayr, A. R. Ofial, Acc. Chem. Res. 2016, 49, 952-965
Reactivity Scales for Quantifying Polar Organic Reactivity: The Benzhydrylium Methodology
H. Mayr, Tetrahedron 2015, 71, 5095-5111
Farewell to the HSAB Treatment of Ambident Reactivity
H. Mayr, M. Breugst, A. R. Ofial, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 6470-6505
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