Major Achievements - Working Group Schurig

1969 Establishment of nitride formation in the mild inorganic nitrogen fixation reaction: titanium(IV)/reducing metal (with E. Bayer): Ref. 4
1969 Ti/Na and Ti/Mg as hydrogen storage system (with E. Bayer): Ref. 4
1972 Synthesis of chiral NMR lanthanide shift reagents: Ref. 9
1972 Rhodium(II)-carboxylates as complexing agents for olefins: Refs. 10,12,79
1975 Discovery of soluble polystyrene phosphine-stabilized nanoparticulate palladium and platinum for catalysis: Ref. 20
1975 Catalysis with homogeneous polymeric catalysts and membrane filtration (evolving in the Symposium Series: International Conferences on Catalysis in Membrane Reactors) (with E. Bayer): Refs. 19,20

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1976 Bis(diphenylphosphino)polyethyleneoxide as soluble polymeric carrier in homogeneous catalysis (B. Koppenhöfer, Diploma Thesis): Reference
1976 Development of enantioselective complexation gas chromatography: Ref. 24, 25

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1977 Early design of binap-type ligands for asymmetric catalysis (C. Mark, Diploma Thesis): Reference
1979 Asymmetric epoxidation (with C. Mark, M. Mimoun and H.B. Kagan): Ref. 33

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1980 BINOL in enantioselective polymerisation via kinetic resolution of methylthiirane (with N. Spassky et al.): Refs. 38, 42
1981 Observation of 'chirodichroism' in a metal complex: Ref. 47

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1982 First example of enantiomerization in chromatography and determination of interconversion barriers (with W. Bürkle): Refs. 49, 59

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1986 Enzymatic epoxidation and kinetic resolution of simple aliphatic oxiranes: Refs. 81, 134, 135

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1988 Introduction of diluted and bonded cyclodextrin derivatives (Chirasil-Dex) for enantioselective gas chromatography (commercialized by all leading gas-chromatographic suppliers) (with H.-P. Nowotny and D. Schmalzing): Ref. 90, 125
1989 Proof of the 'isoenantioselective temperature' in chromatography: Ref. 92
1989 First separation of racemic unfunctionalized saturated hydrocarbons: Ref. 99, C&EN: July 10, 1989, p. 18 and a molecular modelling study: Ref. 111

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1991 First metal-catalyzed kinetic resolution of simple aliphatic oxiranes: Refs. 119, 159
1992 First establishment of enantioselective capillary electrochromatography - CEC (with S. Mayer) followed by the unified approach to enantioselective chromatography (GC, SFC, LC, CEC): Refs. 129, 140, 163, 169

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1993 Separation of chiral atropisomeric organochlorines and implication for enantiomeric bias in the environment (with A. Glausch) (evolving in chiral sessions at SETAC Meetings): Ref. 149
1996 First use of the library concept in enantioselective separations using combinatorial chiral selectors (with G. Jung et al.): Ref. 194
1997 Early development of an enantioselective sensor device (with W. Göpel et al.): Ref. 211
1998 Use of antibodies for enantiomeric discrimination (with O. & H. Hofstetter, M. Wilchek and B. S. Green): Refs. 222, 242
1998 First enantioselective gas chromatographic simulated moving bed unit (GC-SMB) (with M. Mazzotti, M. Morbidelli et al): Ref. 230

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2004 A Chirasil-Dex capillary column present in extraterrestrial space (Rosetta mission)
2006 First hyphenation of capillary gas chromatography and ¹H-NMR spectroscopy (with K. Albert): Ref. 367