Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director, Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Graham Perdue Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.

Email: schleyer@chem.uga.edu or schleyer@chemie.uni-erlangen.de
WWW: www.chem.uga.edu/schleyer or www.ccc.uni-erlangen.de/schleyer

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1962-66; Fulbright Research Fellow, University of Munich, 1964-65; J. S. Guggenheim Fellow, University of Munich, 1964-65; Dr. Honoris Causa, Université de Lyon, 1971; 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, (WATOC) 1987, President, WATOC, 1990; 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.

Author of:

• 650 scientific papers
• Books : 5 volumes on "Carbonium Ions", co-edited with G.A. Olah, Wiley, 1968-1976. Comments in "The Nonclassical Ion Problems", 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.

• Physical organic chemistry and the mechanisms of organic reactions.
• Conformational analysis.
• Spectroscopic studies of hydrogen bonding.
• Carbonium ion rearrangements, reactivities and stabilities; solvolysis mechanisms.
• Adamantane, diamondoid molecules, norbornane and other bridged ring systems.
• Theoretical calculations applied inter alia to carbonium ions, carbanions, reactive intermediates, organolithium, and boron compounds.
• The discovery of new molecular structures and new bonding principles.