Auteur: Horst Kisch

Horst Kisch studied chemistry at the University of Vienna, Austria, where he received his Ph.D. in 1969. From 1968 to 1984 he worked at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Strahlenchemie (now Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemische Energiekonversion) in Mulheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany. In 1977 he completed his « habilitation » in Organic Chemistry at the University of Dortmund, Germany, and became Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany, 1984. He retired in 2008. His research interests were the catalytic activation of 1, 2-diazenes by transition metals and physical consequences of weak charge-transfer interactions in redox active ion pair complexes. Recently he was engaged in new organic syntheses photocatalyed by semiconductor powders and in the photofixation of dinitrogen by nanostructured thin films.