Wolfgang Kaim (born 13 May 1951 in Bad Vilbel, Germany) is a German chemist who held the chair of coordination chemistry at the University of Stuttgart.
His diploma thesis in physical organic chemistry was supervised by E. Daltrozzo (1974).
Kaim is an adjunct professor at the Northern Illinois University (USA), and has been visiting professor at the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou (China), guest professor at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago (Chile), the University of Concepción (Chile) and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India).
In 2014 he was awarded the Alfred Stock Memorial Prize by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh).
Kaim's interdisciplinary research covers the areas of radical stabilization by metal coordination ('non-innocent ligands'), coenzyme models, the extension of mixed-valence chemistry, electron transfer effects on M-C and M-H bonds, the crystallization of new organic radicals and the electron transfer properties of boron compounds, as well as spectroelectrochemistry in the IR, UV/VIS/near-infrared regions as spectroscopic probes for electron transfer sites and the consequences of electron transfer or charge transfer on structure and bonding, EPR spectroscopy as a less common but highly useful methodology and CV (cyclic voltammetry).