Hansgeorg Schnöckel

Hansgeorg Schnöckel, born 1941 in Marienburg, is a German chemist and emeritus Professor of analytical chemistry at the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.

[1] He gained renown for studies on reduced silicon and aluminium compounds.

[2] Schnöckel studied chemistry at the University of Münster under the direction of H. J. Becher focused on spektroscopic studies of boron compounds.

[3] In 1981, he finished his habilitation on matrix isolation of reactive silicon oxides.

He was the Professor in Münster und Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

[Cp*Al] 4 was discovered by the Schnöckel group.