Office: CAP 1.18 Email: m.bochmann@uea.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1603 592044 School Position: Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, director of the Wolfson Materials & Catalysis Centre.

Manfred Bochmann is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. He gained his Diploma Degree at Marburg University, Germany (1977), and his Ph.D. at Imperial College London, with Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (1979). After a spell in industry at ICI's Corporate Laboratory, he moved to a lectureship at UEA and became Professor of Chemistry in 1994. From 1995 -2000 he was Head of the Inorganic and Structural at the University of Leeds. He returned to UEA in April 2000. From 2006 – 2009 he was Head of the School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy and 2009-2011 Head of the School of Chemistry.

He was a vice-president of the RSC Dalton Division Council, an editorial board member of Dalton Transactions and the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry and a volume editor of a major reference work, “Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III”. He was a member of the Scientific Organising Committee of the World Polymer Congress and organiser of the Advances on Polyolefins Symposium 2010. He is the author of two popular “Chemistry Primer” teaching texts in Organometallic Chemistry and co-author of the textbook Cotton, Wilkinson, Murillo and Bochmann: “Advanced Inorganic Chemistry”, 6th ed. (Wiley 1999). He is an Associate Editor of Organometallics. Currently he holds a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. In 2003 he was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Medal for Organometallic Chemistry.

Professor Bochmann’s research centres broadly around synthetic organometallic and coordination chemistry directed towards homogeneous catalysis. He has published over 260 papers and patents in this area. He was coordinator of the EC Research Training Network on new polyolefin materials and is currently a partner in an EU-funded consortium including DSM, Sabic and Lanxess, on “Methylaluminoxane Activators in the Molecular Polyolefin Factory” (MAO-Robots). His work has been supported by the EPSRC, Royal Society, British Council, European Commission, BP Chemicals, Bayer AG, and Lanxess Inc., Canada.

Selected Publications

Gold(III) Olefin Complexes.
N. Savjani, D.-A. Roşca, M. Schormann, M. Bochmann,
Angew. Chem. 2012, accepted.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201208356

Rapid Evaluation of Catalysts and MAO Activators by Kinetics: What controls polymer molecular weight and activity in metallocene / MAO catalysts?
F. Ghiotto, C. Pateraki, J. R. Severn, N. Friederichs, M. Bochmann, Dalton Trans. 2013, accepted. 
DOI: 10.1039/C3DT00107E

A Thermally Stable Gold(III) Hydride: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Reductive Condensation as a new Route to AuII Complexes.
D.-A. Roşca, D. A. Smith, D. L. Hughes, M. Bochmann,
Angew. Chem. 2012, 124, 10795–10798;
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 10643 –10646. VIP paper.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201206468

Selective Au-C Cleavage in (C^N^C)Au(III) Aryl and Alkyl Pincer Complexes.
D. A. Smith, D.-A. Roşca, M. Bochmann,
Organometallics 2012, 31, 5988 - 6000.
DOI: 10.1021/om300666j

Cyclometallated Gold(III) Hydroxides as Versatile Synthons for Au-N, Au-C Complexes and Luminescent Compounds.
D.-A. Roşca, D. A. Smith, M. Bochmann,
Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 7247 – 7249.
DOI: 10.1039/C2CC33104G

InP Nanowires from Surfactant-Free Thermolysis of Single Molecule Precursors.
C. Banerjee, D. L. Hughes, M. Bochmann, T. Nann,
Dalton Trans. 2012, 41, 7244 - 7248. (DJ Cole-Hamilton Special Issue).
DOI: 10.1039/C2DT30283G

The Chemistry of Catalyst Activation: The Case of Group 4 Polymerization Catalysts.
M. Bochmann,
Organometallics 2010, 29, 4711 – 4740.
DOI: 10.1021/ar100044s

Highly Electrophilic Organometallics for Carbocationic Polymerizations: From Anion Engineering to New Polymer Materials.
M. Bochmann,
Acc. Chem. Res. 2010, 43, 1267 – 1278.
DOI: 10.1021/ar100044s

Highly Electrophilic Main Group Compounds: Ether and Arene Thallium and Zinc Complexes.
M. Bochmann,
Coord. Chem. Rev. 2009, 253, 2000 – 2014.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2009.01.012