Prof. Bernhard Breit from Freiburg University, Germany, visited Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM) at the invitation of the State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry and delivered a seminar report entitled “Rhodium-Catalyzed Addition of Pronucleophiles to Alkynes and Allenes – An Atom-Efficient Alternative to the Tsuji-Trost Reaction” on September 28th, 2018. Deep discussion was carried out with the research staff at FJIRSM.

Dr. Bernhard Breit studied chemistry at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany where he obtained his doctorate in 1993 with Professor Regitz. After postdoctoral training with Professor Trost at Stanford University, he worked in Marburg, Germany, with Professor R. W. Hoffmann to obtain his habilitation in 1998. In 1999 he was appointed as an Associate Professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Since 2001 he has been a Full Professor of Organic Chemistry (Chair) at the Freiburg University. His research interests focus on the exploration and development of catalytic methods for organic synthesis, and its application in target oriented synthesis. He is author of more than 200 publications.