Advances in Inorganic Chemistry

Rudi van Eldik was born in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in 1945 and grew up in Johannesburg (South Africa). He received his chemistry education and DSc degree at the former Potchefstroom University (SA), followed by post-doctoral work at the State University of New York at Buffalo (USA) and the University of Frankfurt (Germany). After completing his Habilitation in Physical Chemistry at the University of Frankfurt in 1982, he was appointed as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Private University of Witten/Herdecke in 1987. In 1994 he became Professor of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, from where he retired in 2010. At present he is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and Visiting Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the N. Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. His research interests cover the elucidation of inorganic and bioinorganic reaction mechanisms, with special emphasis on the application of high pressure thermodynamic and kinetic techniques. In recent years his research team also focused on the application of low-temperature rapid-scan techniques to identify and study reactive intermediates in catalytic cycles, and on mechanistic studies in ionic liquids. He is Editor of the series Advances in Inorganic Chemistry since 2003. He serves on the Editorial Boards of several chemistry journals. He is the author of over 880 research papers and review articles in international journals and supervised 80 PhD students. He has received honorary doctoral degrees from the former Potchefstroom University, SA (1997), Kragujevac University, Serbia (2006), Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (2010), University of Pretoria, SA (2010), and Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology, Russia (2012). He has developed a promotion activity for chemistry and related experimental sciences in the form of chemistry edutainment presentations during the period 1995-2010. In 2009 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit (‘Bundesverdienstkreuz’) by the Federal President of Germany, and the Inorganic Mechanisms Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry (London). His hobbies include music, hiking, jogging, cycling and motor-biking. He is the father of two and grandfather of four children.

1.Controlling platinum, ruthenium and osmium reactivity for anticancer drug design
Pieter C. A. Bruijnincx and Peter J. Sadler
2. Design and function of metal complexes as contrast agents in MRI
Vojtech Kubícek and Éva Tóth
3. Design considerations towards simultaneously radiolabelled and fluorescent imaging probes incorporating metallic species
Sofia I. Pascu, Philip A. Waghorn, Timothy Conry, Bonita Lin, Catrin James and Jameel Zayed
4. Iron sequestration by small molecules: Thermodynamic and kinetic studies of natural siderophores and synthetic model compounds
Alvin L. Crumbliss and James M. Harrington
5. Calcium in biological systems
John Burgess and Emma Raven
6. New developments in synthetic nitrogen fixation with molybdenum and tungsten phosphine complexes
Ameli Dreher, Gerald Stephan and Felix Tuczek
7.Chemistry of metalated container molecules
Berthold Kersting and Ulrike Lehmann
8. Mechanistic considerations on the reactivity of green FeIII-TAML activators of peroxides
Alexander D. Ryabov and Terrence J. Collins
9. Ligand exchange processes on the smallest solvated alkali and alkaline earth metal cations. An experimental and theoretical approach
Ralph Puchta, Ewa Pasgreta and Rudi van Eldik
10. Spin-state changes and reactivity in transition metal chemistry. Reactivity of iron tetracarbonyl
Maria Besora, José-Luis Carreón-Macedo, Álvaro Cimas and Jeremy N. Harvey