Honors

• Berthelot Medal of the Academie des Sciences (Paris) 1992
• IUPAC Thieme Prize 1994
• ECS - European Chemical Society - Chiroscience Award for Creative European Chemistry 1995
• Otto-Bayer-Prize 1995
• Leibniz-Prize 1996
• Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Award 2000/2001
• V.Grignard-Prize 2000
• Dr. Paul Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis 2004
• Cope Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society 2005
• Lilly European Distinguished Lectureship Award 2007
• Member of the Académie des sciences (Paris) 2007
• Member of the Bavarian Academy of Science 2008
• Karl-Ziegler-Preis 2009
• Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2009
• 2011 EROS (Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis) Best Reagent Award.
• Gold Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry 2012
• Appointed to Chevalier dans l'ordre national du Mérite 2013
• Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods 2014