Victor Grignard - Georg Wittig Lecture

The Victor Grignard - Georg Wittig Lecture is a cooperation between the German Chemical Society eV and the Société Chimique de France. Grignard and Wittig - both big names in chemistry, both Nobel Prize winners in chemistry.

Victor Grignard received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1912 together with Paul Sabatier for his discovery of the alkyl magnesium compounds, which are named after Grignard compounds. These compounds play a major role in organic chemistry. Georg Wittig and Herbert Charles Brown received the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of the Wittig reaction named after him. This enables the synthesis of alkenes by reacting aldehydes or ketones with ylides.

In 1994 the first Victor Grignard - Georg Wittig lecture took place. The winner was Jean-Pierre Majoral from Toulouse in France. Since then, renowned chemists from Germany and France have been honored on a regular basis.

Excellent people so far

2022 - Anne-Marie Caminade, Center National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Toulouse/France

Commission of the Victor Grignard - Georg Wittig Lecture

Prof. Dr. Tanja Gaich, University of Konstanz (lead management)
Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius, Westphalian Wilhelms University in Munster
Prof. Dr. Ivan Huc, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Prof. Dr. Sabine Laschat, University of Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. Oliver Reiser, University of Regensburg