Homepage Prof. Dr. Dieter Sicker  

Adress: Institut for Organic Chemistry, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 29, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany Tel.:  +49-341-9736574 Fax:  +49-341-9736599 Email: sicker@chemie.uni-leipzig.de Awarded with the 2009 Chemical Industry Fund Literature Prize:      Classics in Spectroscopy      Isolation and Structure Elucidation of      Natural Products →  Overview →  News item (www.wiley-vch.de)

Position
Senior scientist (awarded with the title Honorary Professor) in the group of Prof. Dr. A. Giannis.

Professional career

• Dissertation (1983): Synthesis of photographic yellow couplers and investigation of the connection between structure and light absorption
• Habilitation (1991): Synthesis of heterocycles by reductive cyclization of aromatic nitro compounds
• Facultas docendi for Organic Chemistry (1991), Privatdozent (1995), Honorary Professor (1997)
• 25 years of experience in academic research and teaching
• 10 years lecturer: Chemistry for students of medicine (veterinary medicine, resp.)

Current duties in academic teaching

Lectures	Chemistry for students of veterinary medicine Chemistry of colours and tensides (for teacher students) Chemistry around the clock (for all who do not study chemistry; joint project with Prof. Dr. S. Berger)
Supervisor of practical courses	Advanced organic chemistry - for chemists (5th semester) (lecturer Prof. Dr. A. Giannis)

Current research interests

• Carbohydrate chemistry: Syntheses with fermentative 2-Oxo-D-gluconic acid
• Natural products chemistry: Benzoxazinoid acetal glucosides from cereal plants
• Heterocyclic chemistry: Synthesis of saccharide-heterocycle-combinations

Further activities

• Manager for industrial support contacts of the faculty (since 1995)
• Adviser for students? problems at the Organic Institute
• Book author: see Publications

Speciality
Experimental lectures for the presentation of chemistry both as a fascinating science and everyday topic
  − for pupils and the public in general (with Dr. F. Dietze and E. Altmann)
  − Christmas lectures (Weihnachtsvorlesungen)
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