2017

Manfred SCHEER

(Germany) (1955)
Full Professor of Chemistry at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Regensburg

Manfred Scheer is a world-known specialist in the field of phosphorus chemistry, an author of over 500 publications on this scientific direction. Prof. Scheer is interested in the chemistry of arsenic and silicon-organometallic compounds as well. Extremely interesting results were obtained by Prof. Scheer in the field of hybrid organo- inorganic materials with group V elements, first of all phosphorus and arsenic, as well in the chemistry of coordination compounds with low-coordinated phosphorus ligands. Manfred Scheer laid the foundation of supramolecular chemistry of organometallic skeleton structures with cyclopentaphosphadienid ligands and other multiple-deck compositions with ferrocene-like structures. Scheer’s indisputable achievement is the synthesis of two- and three-dimensional coordination polymer structures with phosphorus ligands. The most interesting are phospha-carbocontaining frame super-structures with geometry of a spheroidal fullerene type, where pentaphosphaferrocen blocks are associated around carborane playing a role of “guest” molecule. Structure of one of these “super-molecules” corresponds to icosahedral fullerene consisting of 80 carbon atoms.