Paul von Ragué Schleyer
Graham Perdue Professor
The University of Georgia

Married: December 29, 1969 to Inge, neé Venema. Three daughters by former marriage: Betti (1953), Laura (1955), Karen (1963).

Education:

• West Technical H.S., Cleveland, Ohio 1944-47 (Valedictorian)
• Princeton University, 1947-51 (A.B. 1951, Magna Cum Laude)
• Harvard University, 1951-54 (M.A. 1956, Ph.D. 1957, Advisor: Professor P.D. Bartlett).

Professional Career:

Harvard University

• Teaching Assistant 1952-54

Princeton University

• Instructor 1954-58
• Assistant Professor 1958-63
• Associate Professor 1963-65
• Professor 1965-69
• Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry 1969-76

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

• Professor/Co-Director of the Organic Institute 1976-98
• Founding Director, Computer Chemistry Center 1993-98
• Emeritus 1998-

University of Georgia

• Graham Perdue Distinguished Visiting Professor 1990-98
• Graham Perdue Professor
  The University of Georgiaof Chemistry 1998-

Honorary Degrees:

• Dr. Honoris Causa, Université de Lyon, France, 1971.
• Honorary Professor, National Technical University of the Ukraine, Kiev, 1997.
• Dr. Honoris Causa, University of Munich, Germany, 1998.

Visiting, Guest, and Adjunct Professorships:

• University of Colorado, 1963
• University of Munich, West Germany, 1964-65; 1969; 1974-75
• Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, West Germany, 1967
• University of Michigan, 1969
• Carnegie-Mellon University, N.S.F. Visiting Professor, 1969; 1977-78
• Kyoto University, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1970
• Westfälische Wilhelms Universität, Münster, West Germany, 1971
• Iowa State University, 1972
• Université de Genève, Switzerland, 1972
• University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 1972-73, 1990
• The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1973
• Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, 1973
• Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, 1974
• Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1974
• Université de Liège, Belgium, 1974
• Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 1976-77
• Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, 1978-82
• University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1979-80
• University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1982; 1985
• University of Barcelona, Spain, 1983
• EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1983
• The Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1993.
• Graham Perdue Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Georgia, 1990-1998.

Citations:

• Third most cited chemist, 1981-1997, Science Citation Index, 1998.
• Eighth most cited chemist, 1984-1991, Science Watch, May 1992.
• Twelfth most cited chemist during 1965-78.

Named Lectureships:

• Glidden Company Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Florida, 1967.
• S.C. Lind Lecturer, East Tennessee Section, A.C.S., 1968.
• H.J. Backer Lecturer, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 1969.
• Sun Oil Lecturer, Ohio University, 1969.
• Merck Lecturer, Bucknell University, 1969.
• DuPont Lecturer, Clemson University, 1971.
• Kahlbaum Lecturer, University of Basel, 1975.
• Ingersoll Memorial Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, 1983.
• Jeremy Musher Memorial Lecturer, Hebrew University, Israel, 1985.
• Dow Distinguished Lecturer, Michigan State University, 1986.
• Stanley J. Cristol Lecturer, University of Colorado, 1989.
• Madison Marshall Award Lecture, North Alabama Section of the American Chemical Society, 1990.
• Henry Gilman Lecturer, Iowa State University, 1990.
• R.B. Bost Lecture, University of Arkansas, 1991.
• Organic Chemistry Day Lecture, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1993.
• Emerson Lecture, Emory University, 1993.
• Baxter Colloquium, Northern Illinois University, 1993.
• Merck Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994.
• J.W.T. Spinks Lecturer, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 1995.
• C.A. Coulson Lecturer, University of Georgia, 1995.
• Organic Syntheses, Inc. Distinguished Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, 1997.
• H. C. Brown Lecturer, Purdue University, 1998.
• Lise Meitner Lecture, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1998.
• W. Kolos Lecturer, Universities of Warsaw, Krakau, and Wroclow, Poland, 2002.

Honors:

• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1962-66.
• Fulbright Research Fellow, University of Munich, 1964-65.
• J.S. Guggenheim Fellow, University of Munich, 1964-65.
• Petroleum Research Fund, Unrestricted Type C Grant, 1966-70.
• Senior US Scientist Award, Alexander v. Humboldt Foundation, 1974-75.
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1981.
• Member, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1984-.
• Adolf-von-Baeyer Prize, German Chemical Society, 1986.
• James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry, American
• Chemical Society, 1987.
• Heisenberg Medal, Hungarian Chemical Society and World Association
• of Theoretical Organic Chemists, 1987.
• Christopher K. Ingold Medal and Lectureship of the Royal Society
• of Chemistry, London, 1988.
• Cope Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society, 1991.
• Merck-Schuchardt Chair, Belgian Chemical Society, 1991.
• Fellow, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, 1992.
• German Presidential Service Medal of Honor (Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande),1993.
• IME Boron Prize for Computational Boron Chemistry, 1997.
• Arfvedson-Schlenk Prize, German Chemical Society, 1999.

Research Interests:

• Physical organic and computer chemistry
• Synthesis of adamantane, diamondoid, and cage molecules
• Chemistry of norbornane and other bridged ring systems
• Discovery of new types of hydrogen bonding by IR spectroscopy
• Conformational analysis of organic and inorganic systems
• Carbocation rearrangements, reactivities, stabilities, and structures
• Chemical shift computations and the solution of structure problems
• Aromaticity deduced via magnetic property computations
• Novel structures of lithium compounds, X-ray and ab initio determinations
• Boron and main group element computer chemistry
• The discovery of new molecular structures and new bonding principles
• Planar hypercoordinate carbon structures

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Coworkers:

• Total about 150 doctoral and postdoctoral associates
• 50 Professors in Universities in 17 countries, including: President, the Technion, Haifa, Israel (Yitzhak Apeloig)
  JACS Editor-in-Chief (Peter Stang)

Publications:

• Scientific papers: 1095 through October 2004.
• Books: 5 volumes on "Carbonium Ions", co-edited with G.A. Olah, Wiley, 1968-1976.
• Comments in "The Nonclassical Ion Problem", by H.C. Brown, Plenum Press, 1977.
• "Ab initio Molecular Orbital Theory", Wiley, 1985; jointly authored with W. Hehre, L. Radom, and J.A. Pople.
• "Theoretical Structures of Molecules, Landolt-Börnstein, Vol. II/22A, Multiple Bonds", by F. Hampel, edited by P.v.R. Schleyer, Springer Verlag, 1993; "Theoretical Structures of Molecules. Landolt Börnstein, Vol. II/22b, Small Rings", by F. Hampel, edited by P.v.R. Schleyer, Springer Verlag, Berlin 1994.
• "Lithium Chemistry", Wiley, 1995, co-edited with A.M. Sapse
• "Stable Carbocation Chemistry", Wiley, 1997, co-edited with G.K.S. Prakash
• Editor-in-Chief, "Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry", five volumes, Wiley, 1998.
• Guest Editor, Special Chemical Reviews issue on "Aromaticity," (Vol. 101, May, 2001). This issue won the Prize of the American Association of Publisher's Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division for "the 2001 Best Single Issue of a PSP Journal."

Professional Societies:

• American Chemical Society (Princeton Section: Secretary and Acting Chairman, 1959; Councillor, 1962-1968; Chairman-Elect, 1970; Chairman, 1971).
• The Royal Chemical Society, London.
• Sigma Xi.
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences.
• Fellow, American Institute of Chemistry.
• German Chemical Society (Chairman, Erlangen Section, 1980-1981).
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Lehrstuhlinhaber von Unterrichtsinstituten für
• Chemie an den Hochschulen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ADUC).
• Swiss Chemical Society.
• Fellow, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1984.
• World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists (Vice President, 1984-90; President, 1990 - 1996)
• Associate Member, Commission on Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy, IUPAC, 1999-

Consultantships:

• Union Carbide Chemicals Co., South Charleston, West Virginia 1955-1970
• FMC. Corporation, Princeton, New Jersey 1960-1966
• L. Rockefeller Associates, New York, N.Y. 1961
• International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc., New York, N.Y. 1963
• Smith, Kline and French Laboratories, Philadelphia, PA 1964-1970
• Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., Nutley, N.J. 1971-1972
• Hoechst AG, Frankfurt 1980-1983

Professional Activities:

• Member, Medicinal and Organic Review Committee B, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health, 1967-1970.
• Editorial Board, Chemical Reviews, 1969-1972.
• Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1970-1979.
• Editorial Advisory Board, Reviews of Chemical Intermediates, 1979-1990.
• Co-Editor, Journal of Computational Chemistry, 1980-2001.
• Editorial Board, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 1984-1994.
• Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, 1987-1996.
• Editorial Advisory Board, Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, 1987-
• Editorial Advisory Board, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 1987-1990.
• Regional Advisory Board for Chemical Communications, 1989-1998.
• Board of Consulting Editors, Tetrahedron Publications, 1989-
• Editorial Advisory Board, Heteroatom Chemistry, 1990-1998.
• Editorial Advisory Board, Perkin Transactions 2, 1994-2002.
• Board of Consulting Editors, Chemtracts, 1994-
• Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry, 1995-1998; Electronic Continuation 2001-
• Advisory Board, The Chemistry Preprint Server, Chemweb.com, 2000-
• Editorial Advisory Board, Organometallics, 2002-

Bibliographical Listings include:

• Who's Who in the World
• Who's Who in America
• Who's Who in Germany