Institut für Organische Chemie
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Henkestr. 42
91054 Erlangen
Germany
Tel.: +49-(0)9131-8522554
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Curriculum vitaeR
Rolf W. Saalfrank studied chemistry at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg and received his PhD in 1970 for studies of cumulated phosphoranes. After spending one year as a postdoctoral research fellow with Professor Donald G. Farnum (Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA), he moved to the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. In 1973 he returned to Erlangen and finished his habilitation in 1976 on push–pull substituted allenes. In 1980 he was appointed Professor of Organic Chemistry and in 1997 Extraordinarius. He was visiting professor at the University Rennes, France, Berkeley University, California, USA, Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, München and he spent his Sabbatical with Jean-Marie Lehn, Strasbourg, he is an Overseas Visiting Scholar at St. John's College, University of Cambridge, UK. After his retirement he was teaching at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg for an extra two years. Since 1987 his research has contributed seminal work in supramolecular coordination chemistry. He financed his research almost exclusively with grant money.