Research Group Prof. Dr. Robert Wolf
Prof. Robert Wolf
 | Robert Wolf is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Regensburg. Robert studied chemistry at Leipzig University. He started his research career at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he obtained an M.Phil. degree under the guidance of Dominic S. Wright. Subsequently, he returned to Leipzig, where he was awarded a PhD from Leipzig University for work in phosphorus chemistry supervised by Evamarie Hey-Hawkins. After postdoctoral research with Philip P. Power (UC Davis, USA) and Koop Lammertsma (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands), he started his independent career at the University of Münster(mentor: Werner Uhl). He became Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Regensburg in 2011 and was promoted to a W3 position (chair) in 2022. Current research projects of Robert Wolf focus on the chemistry of low-valent organometallic compounds, homogeneous catalysis, photoredox catalysis with earth-abundant metals, and phosphorus chemistry. In 2017, Robert Wolf received an ERC Consolidator Grant for the development of new methods for the functionalization of white phosphorus. |
Personal website: wolf-chem.de
Awards
| 2017 | ERC Consolidator Grant “FunctionalP4” |
| 2010 - 2011 | Emmy Noether Research Group Leader (German Research Foundation, DFG) |
| 2009 - 2014 | Member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina |
| 2010 | Fellowship by the Dr. Otto R?hm Ged?chtnisstiftung |
| 2008 - 2010 | Liebig Fellowship (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, Germany) |
| 2007 - 2008 | Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (German Research Foundation, DFG) |
| 2006 - 2007 | Feodor Lynen Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation) |
| 2002 - 2005 | PhD Fellowship by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes |
| 2002 - 2005 | Scholarship by the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e.V. |
Selected publications
1)??? Y. Liu, F. Westermair, I. Becker, S. Hauer, M. Bodensteiner, C. Hennig, G. Balázs, F. Meyer, R. Gschwind, R. Wolf, ?Synthesis and Reactivity of an Iron?Tin Complex with Adjacent Stannylidyne and Ferriostannylene Units“ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 7083–7093. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c18423 ??
2) ?? J. M?rsch, S. Reiter, T. Rittner, R. E. Rodriguez-Lugo, M. Whitfield, D. J. Scott, R. J. Kutta, P. Nuernberger, R. de Vivie-Riedle, R. Wolf, “Cobalt-Mediated Photochemical C?H Arylation of Pyrroles”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202405780. DOI:?10.1002/anie.202405780
3)? ?D. J. Scott, J. Cammarata, M. Schimpf, R. Wolf, “Synthesis of monophosphines directly from white phosphorus”, Nat. Chem. 2021,?13,?458–464. DOI: 10.1038/s41557-021-00657-7
4) G. Hierlmeier, P. Coburger, M. Bodensteiner, R. Wolf, ?Di-tert-butyldiphosphatetrahedrane: Catalytic Synthesis of the Elusive Phosphaalkyne Dimer“, Angew. Chem. 2019, 131, 17074–17078; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 16918–16922. DOI: 10.1002/ange.201910505; DOI: 10.1002/anie.201910505.
5)??? U. Lennert, P. B. Arockiam, V. Streitferdt, D. J. Scott, C. R?dl, R. Gschwind, R. Wolf, ?Direct catalytic transformation of white phosphorus into arylphosphines and phosphonium salts”, Nat. Catal. 2019,?2, 1101–1106. DOI: 10.1038/s41929-019-0378-4
? ? ? ?freely available full text: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/31844839
Dirk Herrmann - 13.10.2025 13:52 
