Professor

Curt Wentrup

FAA

Curt Wentrup
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Professor Wentrup is one of the leading experts worldwide in the field of flash vacuum thermolysis (FVT). He has contributed very substantially to the knowledge of carbene and nitrene chemistry and is without doubt Australia's leading expert in this field. He has developed the coupling of FVT with matrix isolation spectroscopy of reactive intermediates and used this technique to characterize a wide variety of new intermediates (first direct observation of thermally produced nitrenes, of dehydrodiazepines, of dinitrogen sulfide, and of the HCN dimer N-cyanomethanimine; first IR-spectroscopic observation of ketene-pyridine ylides; discovered the oxoketene-oxoketene and analogous rearrangements; first syntheses of iminopropadienones RN=C=C=C=O).

Fields of research

34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3405 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    • 340501 Free Radical Chemistry
    • 340505 Physical Organic Chemistry
  • 3406 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY (INCL. STRUCTURAL)
    • 340602 Chemical Thermodynamics and Energetics

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • Flash Vacuum Pyrolysis
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Reactive Intermediates
  • History of Science

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