Dieter Seebach

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Switzerland Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Switzerland Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Switzerland Leader Award
• 2019 - Arthur C. Cope Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
• 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2004 - Ryoji Noyori Prize, Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry
• 2003 - Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry or Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Elsevier
• 2002 - Chirality Medal, Società Chimica Italiana Switzerland
• 1990 - Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
• 1984 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Chemistry

Overview

Best Publications

• Peptide Folding: When Simulation Meets Experiment

  Xavier Daura;Karl Gademann;Bernhard Jaun;Dieter Seebach

  2245
  Citations

• Methods of Reactivity Umpolung

  Dieter Seebach

  1570
  Citations

• The world of beta- and gamma-peptides comprised of homologated proteinogenic amino acids and other components.

  Dieter Seebach;Albert K Beck;Daniel J Bierbaum

  1278
  Citations

• Structure and Reactivity of Lithium Enolates. From Pinacolone to Selective C‐Alkylations of Peptides. Difficulties and Opportunities Afforded by Complex Structures

  Dieter Seebach

  1059
  Citations

• β-Peptides: a surprise at every turn

  Dieter Seebach;Jennifer L. Matthews

  1020
  Citations

• β-Peptides: Synthesis by Arndt-Eistert homologation with concomitant peptide coupling. Structure determination by NMR and CD spectroscopy and by X-ray crystallography. Helical secondary structure of a β-hexapeptide in solution and its stability towards pepsin

  Dieter Seebach;Mark Overhand;Florian N. M. Kühnle;Bruno Martinoni

  985
  Citations

• Generation and synthetic applications of 2-lithio-1,3-dithianes

  Dieter Seebach;Elias J. Corey

  760
  Citations

• β-Peptidic Peptidomimetics

  Dieter Seebach;James Gardiner

  757
  Citations

• TADDOLs, Their Derivatives, and TADDOL Analogues: Versatile Chiral Auxiliaries

  Dieter Seebach;Albert K. Beck;Alexander Heckel

  744
  Citations

• Umpolung of the Reactivity of Carbonyl Compounds Through Sulfur-Containing Reagents

  Bengt-Thomas Gröbel;Dieter Seebach

  741
  Citations

• Organic Synthesis—Where now?

  Dieter Seebach

  708
  Citations

• Methoden der Reaktivitätsumpolung

  Dieter Seebach

  671
  Citations

• Self-Regeneration of Stereocenters (SRS)—Applications, Limitations, and Abandonment of a Synthetic Principle†‡

  Dieter Seebach;Andrea R. Sting;Matthias Hoffmann

  635
  Citations

• The Outstanding Biological Stability of β‐ and γ‐Peptides toward Proteolytic Enzymes: An In Vitro Investigation with Fifteen Peptidases

  Jens Frackenpohl;Per I. Arvidsson;Jürg V. Schreiber;Dieter Seebach

  561
  Citations

• Alkylation of amino acids without loss of the optical activity: preparation of .alpha.-substituted proline derivatives. A case of self-reproduction of chirality

  D. Seebach;M. Boes;R. Naef;W. B. Schweizer

  532
  Citations

• Poly(hydroxyalkanoates): A Fifth Class of Physiologically Important Organic Biopolymers?†

  Hans-Martin Müller;Dieter Seebach

  519
  Citations

• Synthesis of Open-Chain 2,3-Disubstituted 4-nitroketones by Diastereoselective Michael-addition of (E)-Enamines to (E)-Nitroolefins. A topological rule for C, C-bond forming processes between prochiral centres. Preliminary communication

  Dieter Seebach;Jerzy Goliński

  507
  Citations

• Probing the Helical Secondary Structure of Short‐Chain β‐Peptides

  Dieter Seebach;Paola E. Ciceri;Mark Overhand;Bernhard Jaun

  506
  Citations

• The Unambiguous Specification of the Steric Course of Asymmetric Syntheses

  Dieter Seebach;Vladimir Prelog

  481
  Citations

• 13C‐NMR.‐Spektroskopie von Organolithiumverbindungen bei tiefen Temperaturen. Strukturinformation aus der 13C, 6Li‐Kopplung

  Dieter Seebach;Robert Hässig;Josef Gabriel

  468
  Citations