Kurt-Alder-Vorlesungen seit 1990
| 09.07.2024 | Prof. Dr. Tanja Weil Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz "t.b.a." |
| 07.05.2018 | Prof. Varinder K. Aggarval School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK "Assembly Line Synthesis" |
| 02.07.2017 | Antonio Echavarren ICIQ Tarragona "Total Synthesis with a Golden Touch" |
| 06.06.2016 | Prof. Peter Chen, ETH Zürich "Catalytic Electrophilic Cyclopropanation without Diazo Compounds" |
| 08.06.2015 | Prof. Peter R. Schreiner, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen "Tunneling Control of Chemical Ractions" |
| 23.06.2014 | Prof. David Milstein, Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel "Discovery of Metal-Catalyzed Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry" |
| 21.05.2012 | Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge "Palladium-Catalyzed Carbon-Nitrogen and Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation: Progress, Applications and Mechanistic Studies" |
| 20.06.2011 | Prof. Eric N. Jacobsen, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA "Attractive Non-Covalent Interactions in Asymmetric Catalysis" |
| 12.07.2010 | Prof. Kendall N. Houk, University of California, Los Angeles "Mechanisms and Dynamics of Diels-Alder and Related Cycloadditions" |
| 15.06.2009 | Prof. Dr. Steven Ley, Department of Chemistry, The University of Cambridge "The Azadirachtin-Story" |
| 09.06.2008 | Prof. Masakatsu Shibasaki Tokyo University, Japan "Recent Progress in Asymmetric Two-Center Catalysis: Dynamic Structural Change of Chiral Rare Earth Complexes." |
| 16.06.2006 | Prof. Robert H. Grubbs California Institute of Technology, California, USA Nobelpreisträger 2005 |
| 26.06.2005 | Prof. Dale Boger Scripps Research Institute, Department of Chemistry, La Jolla, California, USA |
| 28.06.2004 | Prof. Sason Shaik Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 27.05.2002 | Prof. K. C. Nicolaou Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA |
| 28.05.2001 | Prof. A. Eschenmoser ETH Zürich, Schweiz and Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA |
| 26.04.2000 | Prof. Ryoji Noyori Nagoya University, Japan Nobelpreisträger 2001 |
| 04.05.1998 | Prof. Ronald Breslow Columbia University, New York, USA |
| 17.06.1996 | Prof. Francois Diederich ETH Zürich, Schweiz |
| 19.06.1995 | Prof. Richard E. Smalley Rice University, Houston, Texas Nobelpreisträger 1996 |
| 20.06.1994 | Prof. Günther Wilke Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mühlheim/Ruhr |
| 02.11.1992 | Prof. Elias Corey Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Nobelpreisträger 1990 |
| 18.11.1991 | Prof. Alan R. Battersby University of Cambridge, UK |
| 26.11.1990 | Prof. William von Eggers Doering Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |