Beck, Wolfgang

Beck, Wolfgang. "Michael Maiers Examen Fucorum Pseudo-Chymicorum Eine Schrift wider die falschen Alchemisten." PhD diss., Fakultat fur Chemie, Biologie und Geowissenschaft der Technischen Universitat Milnchen, 1992. 

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Acknowledgments. Like editors of previous volumes of this series, I am indebted to many colleagues for contributions to this work. First there are Wolfgang Beck in Munich, Ekkehard Lindner in Tubingen, and John R. Shapley in Urbana, who assisted me in the selections and solicitations for three special collections transition metal complexes containing weakly bonded anions (Chapter 3), metalocyclic complexes (Chapter 4), and polynuclear transition metal complexes (Chapter 5), respectively. Each has contributed a preface for the chapter he helped to form, following the pattern set in Volume XII when Alan G. MacDiarmid invited E. C. Ashby and myself to form a chapter on metal hydrides. As a consequence of such efforts, more than two-thirds of this volume consists of invited preparations. 

Fig. 2.13 Professor Wolfgang Beck and me, with our wives, at the Vllth International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry in Venice in 1975...

Fig. 2.21 Ernst Otto Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson dancing at the final reception of the Conference on Organometallic Chemistry at Ettal, Germany, in July 1974 (photo by courtesy of Professor Wolfgang Beck)...

Fig. 4.5 John Emmett Ellis (born in 1943), a native of California, received his Ph.D. in 1971 from MIT under the direction of Alan Davison who opened his eyes to the challenge and wonder of inorganic syntheses (J. E. E.). In 1971, John joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota, where he is Professor of Chemistry since 1984. His recent honors include a Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, spent in Wolfgang Beck s group in Miinchen, and the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry for his studies on the synthesis and characterization of compounds containing d-block elements in their lowest known formal oxidation states. John s research also includes investigations on the reactions of polyarene radical anions with high-valent transition metal precursors as a route to new classes of homoleptic polyarene metal species, in particular anionic ones. Those species can function as highly reactive sources of naked metal anions which previously had only been detected in the gas phase (photo by courtesy of J. E. E.)...

Fig. 4.14 Walter Hieber at the time when he was the Director of the Anorganisch-chemische Laboratorium at the Technische Hochschule in Munchen (photo by courtesy from Professor Wolfgang Beck)...

Klaus Rudolf, Wolfgang Eberlein, Wolfhard Engel, Annette G. Beck-Sickinger, Helmut Wittneben, Heike A. Wieland and Henri N. Doods... 

Wolfgang Beck, Josef Breimair, Peter Fritz,... 

Wolfgang Beck, Erich Schuierer und Klaus Feldl Anorganisch-Chemisches Laboratotium der Technischen Hochschule MUnchen, Germany. 

Girard Jaouert, Wolfgang Beck, and Michael J. McGlinchey... 

The stmcture of fulminic acid was originally believed to be linear. Based on the IR spectra and theoretical calculations, it was, however, proved that fulminic acid does not have linear, but rather an unusual quasi-linear molecule with angle between H—C—N of precisely 165.13° [8, 10, 11]. The isomers of fulminic acid have attracted the attention of theoreticians and are even the topic of some recent papers [8,19]. A comprehensive review of fulminic acid and its salts was published relatively recently by Wolfgang Beck [8]. 

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