The Holger Erdtman Lectures

Annual lectures from highly distinguished young scientists in the organic chemistry field. In recognition of Holger Erdtman, Professor of organic chemistry at KTH between 1945 and 1969. Sponsored by the Aulin-Erdtman foundation.

23rd Holger Erdtman lecture (2024)

Neil Garg

University of California, Los Angeles

“Strained Intermediates and Chemical Education
 as Vehicles for Innovation"

22nd Holger Erdtman lecture (2022)

Neil Garg

University of Bologna (Italy)

“Supramolecular chemistry in action: molecular machines and motors"

21st Holger Erdtman lecture (2019)

David J. Procter

University of Manchester, Manchester (UK)

“Cascades, catalysis and chiral ligand control with SmI2: The rebirth of a reagent"

20th Holger Erdtman lecture (2018)

​​​​​​​Vy M. Dong ​​​​​​​

University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California (USA)

"A few of my favorite rings: Catalysis inspired by macrocycles"

19th Holger Erdtman lecture (2017)

Oliver Trapp

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich (Germany)

"From Self-Amplification of Chirality to the Imaging of the Absolute Configuration by Coulomb Explosion"

18th Holger Erdtman lecture (2016)

Nagoya University, Nagoya (Japan)

"Exploring Nanocarbon Materials and Plant Biology by C-H Activation"

17th Holger Erdtman lecture (2015)

Tobias Ritter

Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung / Harvard University (Germany/USA)

"Late-Stage Fluorination for PET Imaging"

16th Holger Erdtman lecture (2014)

ICIQ - Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Tarragona (Spain)

ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona (Spain) 

"Photochemical Organocatalytic Processes"

15th Holger Erdtman lecture (2013)

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster (Germany)

"Mild, versatile and strategic: C–H-activation and asymmetric arene hydrogenation"

14th Holger Erdtman lecture (2012)

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin (USA)

"Hydrogenation for C-C Bond Formation"

13th Holger Erdtman lecture (2011)

Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Göttingen (Germany)

"Metal-Catalyzed C-H-Bond Functionalizations"

12th Holger Erdtman lecture (2010)

Department of Chemistry, University of Basel (Switzerland)

11th Holger Erdtman lecture (2009)

Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)

10th Holger Erdtman lecture (2008)

Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge (UK)

9th Holger Erdtman lecture (2007)

Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania (USA)

8th Holger Erdtman lecture (2006)

Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

"Chiral Ions in Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis"

7th Holger Erdtman lecture (2005)

Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology, Imperial College (UK)

6th Holger Erdtman lecture (2004)

Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (USA)

5th Holger Erdtman lecture (2003)

Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield (UK)

4th Holger Erdtman lecture (2002)

Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong (China)

3rd Holger Erdtman lecture (2001)

Department of Chemical Technology Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Helsinki University of Technology (Finland)

2nd Holger Erdtman lecture (2001)

Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)

1st Holger Erdtman lecture (1999)

Chemistry department, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich (Switzerland)