Born in Wolfsburg (1959) ; Study of Chemistry at Braunschweig University of Technology; Ph.D. Thesis (1986), Supervisor: Prof. Dr. H. Hopf); Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zürich (Switzerland, 1987) and Yale University (New Haven, U.S.A, 1988); Habilitation in Organic Chemistry (Darmstadt University of Technology,1993); Associate Professor for Organic Chemistry at theUniversity of Bonn (1994); Full Professor for Organic Chemistry at Dortmund University of Technology (since 1998)

Research Interests: Coinage Metal (Copper, Silver, and Gold) Catalysis  Sustainable Synthesis Synthesis and Reactions of Functionalized Allenes  Synthesis of Natural and Unnatural Products Using Allenes Reaction Mechanism of Organometallic Reactions.

 

1. S. R. K. Minkler, B. H. Lipshutz, N. Krause, Gold Catalysis in Micellar Systems, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 7820-7823.

2. N. Krause, Ö. Aksin-Artok, V. Breker, C. Deutsch, B. Gockel, M. Poonoth, Y. Sawama, Y. Sawama, T. Sun, C. Winter, Combined Coinage Metal Catalysis for the Synthesis of Bioactive Molecules, Pure Appl. Chem. 2010, 82, 1529-1536.

3. S. Belot, K. A. Vogt, C. Besnard, N. Krause, A. Alexakis, Enantioselective One Pot Organocatalytic Michael Addition/Gold-Catalyzed Tandem Acetalization/Cyclization, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 8923-8926.

4. C. Winter, N. Krause, Structural Diversity through Gold Catalysis – Stereoselective Synthesis of N-Hydroxypyrrolines, Dihydroisoxazoles and Dihydro-1,2-oxazines, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 6339-6342.