Studied chemistry at Munich 1982 PhD, Munich 1983 Postdoctoral research, University of Southern California/USA 1990 Habilitation, Munich 1991-1998 Privatdozent, Munich Since 1998 Apl. Professor, LMU, Munich

Metallocene Chemistry Coordination Chemistry of polyfunctional ligands

Coordination Chemistry of Pentahalocyclopentadienyls. K. Sünkel. Chem. Ber./ Recueil 1997, 130, 1721. Coordination Chemistry of Perhalogenated Cyclopentadienes and Alkynes, XXIV. Synthesis and Characterisation of Pentakis(dimethylphosphano)cymantrene [C5(PMe2)5]Mn(CO)3, the first cyclopentadienyl complex with five phosphanyl substituents. K. Sünkel, C. Stramm und S. Soheili, J.C.S. Dalton Trans., 1999, 4299.

Coordination Chemistry of Perhalogenated Cyclopentadienes and Alkynes, XVIII. Mechanistic Studies on the Metal-Halogen-Exchange-Reaction of Ring-halogenated Metallocenes: The Influence of Stoichiometry, Temperature, Solvent and Reaction Time. Karlheinz Sünkel, Werner Kempinger and Julian Hofmann. J. Organomet. Chem. 1994, 475, 201