| 2020 |
Blaise Pascal Medal of the European Academy of Sciences |
| 2018 |
Distinguished Scientist of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) |
| 2017 |
BioTrans Senior Award |
| 2014 |
Chirality Medal |
| 2012 |
IKCOC Prize (Japan) |
| 2011 |
Otto-Hahn-Preis (Germany) |
| 2011 |
Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry |
| 2009 |
Yamada-Koga Prize (Japan) |
| 2009 |
Arthur C. Cope Award, ACS (USA) |
| 2009 |
Lilly Distinguished Lectureship Award |
| 2007 |
Ruhr Prize for Arts and Science (Germany) |
| 2007 |
Honorary Professor at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (China) |
| 2006 |
Prelog Medal (Switzerland) |
| 2006 |
Ernst Hellmut Vits-Prize (Germany) |
| since 2005 |
Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 2005 |
Karl Ziegler Prize (German Chemical Society) |
| 2005 |
Cliff S. Hamilton Award in Organic Chemistry (USA) |
| 2004 |
Centenary Lecture, Royal Society of Chemistry |
| 2003 |
Centenary Lecture Award (UK) |
| 2003 |
Hans Herloff Inhoffen Medal (Germany) |
| since 2001 |
Member of the Academy of Sciences of the State of NRW |
| 2000 |
Nagoya Gold Medal of Organic Chemistry (Japan) |
| since 1997 |
Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
| 1997 |
Fluka Prize "Reagent of the Year 1997" |
| 1992 - 2010 |
Honorary Professsor at Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| 1989 |
Leibniz Prize of the German Research Council (DFG) |
| 1986 |
Otto Bayer Prize (Germany) |
| 1978 |
Chemistry Prize of the Academy of Sciences Göttingen |
| 1977 |
Jacobus van't Hoff Award Grant (Niederlande) |
| 1976 |
German Chemical Industries Prize (Dozentenstipendium des FCI) |