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C. Oliver Kappe is Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry and Director of the Christian-Doppler-Laboratory for Microwave Chemistry at the University of Graz, Austria. He received his undergraduate and graduate education in organic chemistry from the University of Graz where he obtained is Ph.D. degree in 1992 with Professor Gert Kollenz. After periods of postdoctoral research work with Professor Curt Wentrup at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and with Professor Albert Padwa at Emory University in Atlanta, USA he moved back to the University of Graz in 1996 to start his independent research career. In 2003 he spent a sabbatical at the Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, USA) in the group of Professor K. Barry Sharpless.
The co-author of more than 150 publications, his main research interests are in the area of multicomponent reactions, combinatorial chemistry, and the synthesis of biologically active heterocycles. He is currently a member of the Executive Board of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry and of the Society of Combinatorial Sciences. In addition he is an Editor of the Journal QSAR and Combinatorial Sciences (Wiley-VCH) and serves on the Editorial/Advisory Boards of the Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry (ACS), Molecular Diversity (Springer), ChemMedChem (Wiley-VCH) and a number of other journals.
His research group at the University of Graz has been involved in the area of microwave chemistry since 1998 and today his laboratories feature a variety of state-of-the-art dedicated microwave instruments from all major equipment manufacturers. During the last few years his lab has authored over 50 original research articles, reviews and book chapters on microwave-assisted synthesis. His comprehensive book “Microwaves in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry” was published with Wiley-VCH in 2005 and is currently considered the standard reference work in the field.
In addition to his regular consulting and lecturing on microwave chemistry, he is a short course instructor on microwave chemistry for the American Chemical Society (ACS) and has presented courses on the subject at ACS National Meetings, Drug Discovery and Technology, and several CHI conferences. He has also organized several symposia, conferences, short courses and exhibitions on microwave chemistry and has provided successful in-house training courses for pharmaceutical and agrochemical companies. For his “innovative work in microwave chemistry” he received the 2004 Prous Science Award from the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry. |