Source:
* Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society (1979)
* Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award (1987)
* ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (1992)
* Otto Bayer Award (1993)
* Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis (2000)
* Havinga Medal (2000)
* Myron L. Bender & Muriel S. Bender Distinguished Summer Lecturer at Northwestern University (2004)
* Humboldt Prize (2005)
* Burckhardt Helferich Prize (2005)
* August Wilhelm von Hofmann-Denkmünze of the German Chemical Society (2006)
* ACS Ronald Breslow Award for Achievements in Biomimetic Chemistry (2007)
*  of the German Chemical Society (2011)
* Honorary Doctoral Degree, Technion, Haifa (2012)
* Ernst Hellmut Vits-Preis (2014)
* Prix Paul Metz by the Institut Grand Ducal, Luxembourg (2014)
* EFMC Nauta Award for Pharmacochemistry and for outstanding results of scientific research in the field of Medicinal Chemistry (2016)
* Honorary Membership of the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh) (2019)