Götz Bucher

Götz Bucher is a German physical organic chemist, currently lecturer at the University of Glasgow, specializing in radical chemistry.

Career

Götz Bucher studied for his diploma at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, then did his PhD research at the Technical University of Braunschweig, using the technique of matrix isolation spectroscopy. During this time he spent three months at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa, working with Juan Cesar (Tito) Scaiano on carbene reactions. After finishing his PhD thesis on carbene rearrangements, he joined the Scaiano group again, this time as PDRA at the University of Ottawa. After two years research work on reactions of atoms in solution, photobases, and rearrangements of heteroaromatic N-oxides, all studied by laser flash photolysis, he returned to Germany to set up laser flash photolysis himself at the Ruhr-University Bochum. This work led to his Habilitation in 2001. He has joined the faculty at the University of Glasgow in 2007.

Publications

  • Addition of the Carbonyl Oxygen to the ipso- or ortho-Carbon Atoms of the β-Phenyl-Ring Followed by Intersystem Crossing and Rapid Relaxation to the Ground-State Ketones: A Mechanism for β-Phenyl Quenching of the First Triplet Excited States of Derivatives of β-Phenylpropiophenone; G. Bucher, J. Phys. Chem. A 112 (2008), 5411-5417.
  • The Photochemistry of Lipoic Acid: Photoionization and Observation of a Triplet Excited State of a Disulfide, G. Bucher, C. Lu and W. Sander, ChemPhysChem 6 (2005), 2607-2618.
  • Photochemical Myers-Saito and C2-C6 Cyclizations of Enyne-Allenes – Direct Detection of Intermediates in Solution, M. Schmittel, A. A. Mahajan, G. Bucher, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127 (2005), 5324-5325.
  • Infrared-, UV-Vis-, and W-Band ESR-Spectroscopic Characterization and Photochemistry of Triplet Mesityl Phosphinidene, G. Bucher, M. L. G. Borst, A. W. Ehlers, K. Lammertsma, S. Ceola, M. Huber, D. Grote, W. Sander, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 44 (2005), 3289-3293.
  • Photochemistry of an Azido-Functionalized Cryptand: Controlling the Reactivity of an Extremely Long-Lived Singlet Aryl Nitrene by Complexation to Alkali Cations, G. Bucher, C. Tönshoff, A. Nicolaides, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127 (2005), 6883-68

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