Schrodinger Medal to C. Frenking

摘要

Gemot Frenking (University of Marburg) was awarded the Schrodinger Medal by the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists for his outstanding work in organometal-lic chemistry and the chemical bond. His group uses both quantum-chemical ab initio methods and density functional calculations together with effective potentials for heavy atoms. These methods are used to analyze the contributions of covalent and classical electrostatic interactions to the chemical bond throughout the periodic table and to explain metal-ligand interactions and reaction mechanisms. He recently discussed in Angewandte Chemie the possibility of synthesizing neutral noble-gas compounds with a bond between noble-gas atoms. In Chemistry-A European Journal, he investigated the interaction between steric and electronic effects in S_N2 reactions.