Studied chemistry at the University Halle-Wittenberg 1985 Ph.D, University Halle-Wittenberg 1985-2003 scientific assistant, Halle 1991-1993 postdoctoral research and research project for BASF-AG/Ludwigshafen at the University of Neuchâtel/Switzerland 1996 Habilitation, Halle (Privatdozent) Since 2004 scientific assistant (AK Klüfers) and Privatdozent, LMU, Munich

Fixation and activation of small molecules in the coordination sphere of transition metal complexes Complexes with nitric oxide/hyponitrite ligands NMR studies on complexes bearing sterical demanding phosphane ligands

"Reductive Dimerization of Nitric Oxide to trans-Hyponitrite in the Coordination Sphere of a Dinuclear Ruthenium Complex", H.-C. Böttcher, M. Graf, K. Mereiter, K. Kirchner, Organometallics 2004, 23, 1269-1273. "Reaction Properties of the trans-Hyponitrite Complex [Ru2(CO)4(µ-H)(µ-PBut2)(µ-Ph2PCH2PPh2)(µ-h2-ONNO)]", H.-C. Böttcher, C. Wagner, K. Kirchner, Inorg. Chem. 2004, 43, 6294-6299.

"Synthesis and Molecular Structure of trans-[IrCl(coe)(tBu2PH)2] (coe = cis-cyclooctene)", H.-C. Böttcher, M. Graf, K. Karaghiosoff, P. Mayer, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2007, 633, 913 916.