Dr. Bernhard Kempf

	Address	Dr. Bernhard Kempf Department Chemie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Butenandtstr. 5-13, Haus F 81377 München Germany
	Phone	+49 (0)89 2180-77120
	Room-Nr.	F2.063
	Email
	Home page	www.cup.uni-muenchen.de/oc/kempf/

Research Interests

• Laser Flash Photolyse - Reaktionen

Short CV

• 02/2000 Diploma thesis
• 06/2003 PhD thesis "Construction and Application of Reference Scales for the Characterization of Cationic Electrophiles and Neutral Nucleophiles"
• Since 07/2003 Scientific assistant

Key publications

• Nucleophilicities and Carbon Basicities of Pyridines
  F. Brotzel, B. Kempf, T. Singer, H. Zipse, H. Mayr, Chem. Eur. J. 2007, 13, 336-345.
• Switching Between Penta- and Hexacoordination with Salen-Silicon-Complexes
  J. Wagler, U. Böhme, E. Brendler, B. Thomas, S. Goutal, H. Mayr, B. Kempf, G. Ya. Remennikov, G. Roewer, Inorg. Chim. Acta 2005, 358, 4270-4286.
• The DMAP-Catalyzed Acetylation of Alcohols - A Mechanistic Study (DMAP = 4-(Dimethylamino)pyridine)
  S. Xu, I. Held, B. Kempf, H. Mayr, W. Steglich, H. Zipse, Chem. Eur. J. 2005, 11, 4751-4757.