12/2024
Sareh Paziresh joins the group for her Postdoc project funded by the prestigious Georg-Forster Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation - welcome.
11/2024
Laura Rauschenbach joins the group for her Bachelor project - welcome.
11/2024
Florian Reichenauer, Dimitri Zorn, Robert Naumann and Christoph Förster publish a paper on Factorizing the Nephelauxetic Effect in Heteroleptic Molecular Rubies in Inorg. Chem. 2024, accepted.
11/2024
Florian Reichenauer, Robert Naumann, Christoph Förster and Winald Kitzmann (together with Antti-Pekka M. Reponen and Sascha Feldmann from Harvard university) publish a paper on Bridge Editing of Spin-Flip Emitters gives Insight into Excited State Energies and Dynamics in Chem. Sci. 2024, in press.
10/2024
Lukas Sorge and Phillip Sikora publish a paper on Face-to-Face Gold Porpyhrins in Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 21742–21752.
10/2024
Christoph Förster contributed to a paper of Georg Manolikakes's group (Kaiserslautern) on the Generation of sulfamoyl radicals via visible-light mediated fixation of sulfur dioxide as novel approach for the synthesis of sulfonamides in ACS Catal. 2024, in press.
10/2024
Patrick Becker from the group of Johannes Kästner publishes a paper on Redox−Acid/Base Phase Diagrams as an Entry to Computational Redox Chemistry in ChemElectroChem 2024, 11, e202406438.
09/2024
The Heinze group made a nice hicking trip Kletterweg Mittelrheinsteig with mixed phantastic/rainy weather.
09/2024
Alexander Fischer, Moritz Förster, Alexandra König, Sandra Kronenberger and Steven Sittel presented posters at the 29th Lecture Conference on Photochemistry (LCP 2024) in Mainz. Steven Sittel was awarded a poster price. Congratulations! Katja Heinze received the Theodor-Förster Memorial Lectureship 2024 by the GDCh Division of Photochemistry.
09/2024
Daniel Marz joins the group for his Master project - welcome.
09/2024
Elena Meßmer joins the group for her Master project - welcome.
09/2024
Julian Neuner joins the group for his PhD project - welcome.
09/2024
Joan Sander has been awarded the Kekulé Fellowship from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie - congratulations.
08/2024
Thomas Reuter and Robert Naumann contributed to a paper of Sven Schneider's group (Göttingen) on Triplet Carbenes with Closed-Shell Transition-Metal Substituents in Nat. Chem. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-024-01597-8.
07/2024
Laura Stein contributed to the Sustainable Chemistry Summer School organized by Faculty 09 at JGU Mainz! She has shown that photochemistry can contribute to the sustainable chemistry of the future.
07/2024
Winald Kitzmann (now at MIT) presented a poster and Katja Heinze gave a talk at the 45th ICCC in Fort Collins (Colorado, USA).
07/2024
Lukas Sorge successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
07/2024
Joan Sander and Moritz Förster gave talks at the 6th Ligand Design Workshop in Cologne.
07/2024
Philipp Sikora presented a poster and Katja Heinze gave a talk at the 29th PhotoIUPAC in Valencia (Spain).
07/2024
Maurice Schrick successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
06/2024
Thomas Reuter, Dimitri Zorn, Robert Naumann, Jan Klett and Christoph Förster publish a paper on A Tetracarbene Iron(II) Complex with a Long-lived Triplet Metal-to-ligand Charge Transfer State due to a Triplet-Triplet Barrier in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 136, e202406438.
05/2024
Julian Neuner successfully finishes his master thesis - congratulations!
05/2024
Winald Kitzmann was awarded with the Boehringer Ingelheim Prize 2024 - congratulations!
05/2024
Laura Stein successfully defended her PhD thesis - congratulations!
05/2024
Toshikazu Ono from Kyushu University (Fukuoka/Japan) joins our group as visiting researcher. Welcome!
04/2024
Lukas Sorge and Julian Link publish a paper on 14-Membered Macrocyclic beta-Diiminato Gold(II) – A New Member for the Gold(II) Complex Family? in Chem. Eur. J. 2024, 30, e202400924.
04/2024
Laura Stein and Christoph Förster publish a paper on Luminescent Cyclometalated Chromium(III) Complexes in Organometallics 2024, 43, 1766–1774.
04/2024
Anika Busch successfully finishes her bachelor thesis - congratulations!
03/2024
Marietta Goetz successfully finishes her bachelor thesis - congratulations!
03/2024
Alexandra König gave a talk and Franka Philippi presented a poster at the 3rd SPP 2102 meeting in Stuttgart.
03/2024
Melanie Feucht successfully finishes her bachelor thesis - congratulations!
03/2024
Katja Heinze was elected for the DFG Review Board Inorganic Molecular Chemistry - Synthesis and Characterisation (2024-2028).
02/2024
Christoph Förster's review on The Photophysics and Applications of Molecular Rubies is now published in Adv. Inorg. Chem. 2024, 83, 111-159.
02/2024
Florian Reichenauer presented a poster and Laura Stein gave an oral presentation at the 18th Koordinationschemie-Treffen in Innsbruck.
02/2024
Franka Philippi and Sandra Kronenberger presented posters and Alexander Fischer and Katja Heinze gave oral presentations at the 18th Ferrocene Colloquium in Düsseldorf.
02/2024
The paper Oxidative two-state photoreactivity of a manganese(IV) complex using near-infrared light by Nathan East, Robert Naumann, Christoph Förster and our collaboration partners from JGU and MPI-P is finally out in Nature Chemistry. You can find the preprint here and the final paper on ShareIt here. This publication is highlighted as a JGU press release (German)/JGU press release (English).
02/2024
The tripodal carbonyl molybdenum(0) complex and its extraordinary photophysical properties investigated by Winald Kitzmann is highlighted in the Trendbericht Anorganik 2024 Teil 2: "Nebengruppen, Bioanorganik und Koordinationschemie"
01/2024
Moritz Förster joins the group for his PhD project within the CRC 1633 PCET - welcome.
12/2023
Maurice Schrick, Christoph Förster and our collaboration partners from Finland and South Africa (group of Daniela Bezuidenhout) publish a paper on Redox Activation of Acyclic (Aryl)(Amino)Carbene Gold(I) Complexes in Organometallics 2024, 43, 69-84.
12/2023
Joan Sander joins the group for the PhD project - welcome.
11/2023
The Raman spectrometer has found a new home and produces highly resolved Raman spectra.
11/2023
Julian Neuner joins the group for his Master project - welcome.
11/2023
The CRC 1633 Pushing Electrons with Protons – Unifying Multi-Electron Redox Catalysis by Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer was approved (Spokesperson: Sven Schneider/Göttingen) and we participate with a project together with Stella Stopkowicz/Saarbrücken and Dirk Schwarzer/Göttingen.
11/2023
Anika Busch joins the group for her Bachelor project - welcome.
11/2023
Melanie Feucht joins the group for her Bachelor project - welcome.
11/2023
Our brandnew fs-transient absorption spectrometer is up and running.
10/2023
Nathan East, Robert Naumann, Christoph Förster and our collaboration partners from JGU and MPI-P publish a paper on Oxidative two-state photoreactivity of a manganese(IV) complex using near infrared light in Nat. Chem. 2024, 16, 827–834. You can find the preprint here.
10/2023
Marietta Goetz joins the group for her Bachelor project - welcome.
09/2023
Moritz Förster successfully finishes his master thesis (together with Carsten Streb's group) - congratulations!
09/2023
The Heinze group made a nice canoe trip on the Lahn from Weilburg to Aumenau with phantastic weather.
09/2023
Jonas Grenz successfully finishes his bachelor thesis - congratulations!
09/2023
Winald Kitzmann successfully defended his PhD thesis with the highest grade - congratulations!
09/2023
Winald Kitzmann, Christoph Förster and our collaboration partners from JGU, Paderborn, Stuttgart, Harvard and MPI-P publish a paper on Electronic Structure and Excited State Dynamics of the NIR-II Emissive Molybdenum(III) Analog to the Molecular Ruby in Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 15797-15808. This paper has been highlighted as a cover.
09/2023
Philipp Reichert re-joins the group for his PhD thesis - welcome back!
09/2023
Sandra Kronenberger got a stipend from the MPGC - congratulations!
08/2023
Adrian Sauer successfully finishes his bachelor thesis - congratulations!
08/2023
Alexander Fischer re-joins the group for his PhD thesis - welcome back!
07/2023
Winald Kitzmann gave a talk at the Gordon Research Seminar Photochemistry 2023 and and presented a poster at the Gordon Research Conference Photochemistry 2023 in Lewiston/Maine (USA).
07/2023
Florian Reichenauer, Steven Sittel, Laura Stein and Winald Kitzmann presented posters at the 25th ISPPCC 2023 in Ulm. Winald Kitzmann was awarded a poster price. Congratulations! Winald Kitzmann and Katja Heinze gave oral presentations at the yISPPCC and ISPPCC, respectively.
07/2023
The article of Winald Kitzmann, Alexander Fischer, Robert Naumann, Christoph Förster and our collaboration partners from JGU, RPTU and MPI-P on A stable molybdenum(0) carbonyl complex for upconversion and photoredox catalysis in J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 16597–16609 has been highlighted in ChemViews and press news JGU.
07/2023
Nathan East successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
07/2023
Dr. Jan Klett joins our group - welcome!
07/2023
Alexander Fischer successfully finishes his master thesis - congratulations!
07/2023
Winald Kitzmann, Alexander Fischer, Robert Naumann, Christoph Förster and our collaboration partners from JGU, RPTU and MPI-P publish a paper on A stable molybdenum(0) carbonyl complex for upconversion and photoredox catalysis in J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, accepted.
06/2023
Philipp Reichert successfully finishes his master thesis - congratulations!
05/2023
The Opatz group (JGU) and Winald Kitzmann publish a study on Substitution Effects on the Photophysical and Photoredox Properties of Tetraaza[7]helicenes in Chem. Eur. J. 2023, e202301244.
05/2023
Philipp Sikora gave an oral presentation at the French, Swiss and German Conference on Photochemistry, Photophysics and Photosciences CP2P’23 in Mulhouse/France.
05/2023
Nathan East, Christoph Förster and our collaboration partner Christian Reber (Montreal) publish a paper on Coupled potential energy surfaces strongly impact the lowest-energy spin-flip transition in six-coordinate nickel(II) complexes in Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 9025–9034.
05/2023
Franka Philippi re-joins the group for her PhD thesis - welcome back!
04/2023
Winald Kitzmann gave an oral presentation at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation network meeting in Mainz visiting the Department of Chemistry/Inorganic Chemistry Section hosted by Katja Heinze and Carsten Streb.
04/2023
Adrian Sauer joins the group for his Bachelor project - welcome.
04/2023
Jonas Grenz joins the group for his Bachelor project - welcome.
03/2023
Alexandra König and Franka Philippi presented posters at the 2nd SPP 2102 meeting in Rostock.
03/2023
Christoph Förster and our collaboration partner Nikos Doltsinis (Münster) publish a Quantum Chemical Study of the Pressure-dependent Phosphorescence of [Cr(ddpd)2]3+ in the Solid State in ChemPhysChem. 2023, 24, e202300165.
03/2023
The group's review written in 2020 by Matthias Dorn, Nathan East, Christoph Förster, Winald Kitzmann, Johannes Moll, Florian Reichenauer, Thomas Reuter and Laura Stein on "d-d and charge transfer photochemistry of 3d metal complexes" for Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry III is now released [DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-823144-9.00063-7].
02/2023
Franka Philippi successfully finishes her master thesis - congratulations!
02/2023
Katja Heinze has been selected as a member of the Board of Directors (2023-2026) of the Wöhler Association for Inorganic Chemistry.
02/2023
Cui Wang from the group of Ute Resch-Genger (Berlin) together with Ilko Bald (Potsdam) showed that our Molecular Ruby induces strand breaks in DNA Origamis with light excitation as shown in Chem. Eur. J. 2023, 29, e202203719.
02/2023
TTA upconversion by the Molecular Ruby [Cr(bpmp)2]3+ of Florian Reichenauer is highlighted in the Trendbericht Anorganik 2023 Teil 2: "Nebengruppen, Bioanorganik und Koordinationschemie".
01/2023
Philipp Sikora, Robert Naumann and Christoph Förster publish a study on the Excited State Energy Landscape of Phosphorescent Group 14 Complexes Chem. Sci. 2023, 14, 2489-2500. This article has been included in the 2023 Chemical Science HOT Article Collection and highlighted as a cover.
01/2023
Steven Sittel and our collaboration partners from JGU/Mainz (C. Kerzig) and RPTU/Kaiserslautern (G. Manolikakes) publish a study on Visible-Light Induced Fixation of SO2 into Organic Molecules with Polypyridine Chromium(III) Complexes in Chem. Cat. Chem. 2023, 15, e202201562.
01/2023
Our collaboration partners (M. Bauer/Paderborn) together with Thomas Reuter publish a study on Janus-type emission from a cyclometalated iron(iii) complex in Nat. Chem. 2023, 15, 468-474.
01/2023
Alexander Fischer re-joins the group for his Master project - welcome back.
12/2022
Matthias Dorn successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
12/2022
The DFG funds of our collaborative research project with Oliver Wenger (Basel) and Isabelle Dixon (Toulouse) on Light-Driven Charge Accumulation based on Earth-Abundant High-Potential Photosensitizers (CA-HiPoPS) within the call “Solar-Driven Chemistry”.
12/2022
Elena Meßmer successfully finishes her bachelor thesis - congratulations!
11/2022
Matthias Dorn, Christoph Förster, Robert Naumann and our collaboration partners from Stuttgart publish an article on Towards Luminescent Vanadium(II) Complexes with Slow Magnetic Relaxation and Quantum Coherence in Chem. Eur. J. 2022, 29, e202202898.
11/2022
Katja Heinze will serve for another three years as a member of the advisory board of Inorganic Chemistry.
11/2022
Philipp Reichert joins the group for his Master project - welcome.
11/2022
Elena Meßmer joins the group as HiWi - welcome.
11/2022
Paul Kadereit successfully finishes his master thesis - congratulations!
10/2022
Laura Stein, Christoph Förster and Cui Wang (Resch-Genger group/BAM) publish an article on Bulky Ligands protect Molecular Ruby from Oxygen Quenching in Dalton Trans. 2022, 51, 17664-17670 increasing the photoluminescence quantum yields of Molecular Rubies under air to above 5 %.
10/2022
Christoph Förster publishes a review on Bimolecular Reactivity of 3d Metal-Centered Excited States (Cr, Mn, Fe, Co) in Chem. Phys. Rev. 2022, 3, 041302 looking at unconventional excited state reactivity of metal complexes of Earth-abundant metals with substrates.
10/2022
Winald Kitzmann publishes a review on Charge-Transfer and Spin-Flip States: Thriving as Complements in Angew. Chem. Int Ed. 2022, e202213207 comparing the classical photoactive [Ru(bpy)3]2+ complex with the Molecular Ruby.
10/2022
Sandra Kronenberger joins the group for her PhD project - welcome.
09/2022
Sven Waniek successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
09/2022
Nathan East gave a flash oral presentation/poster and Philipp Sikora presented a poster at the 21st Conference on Inorganic Chemistry in Marburg. Philipp Sikora got a best poster award. - Congratulations.
09/2022
Laura Stein gave an oral presentation at the 28. Lecture Conference on Photochemistry in Düsseldorf.
09/2022
Alexandra König re-joins the group for her PhD thesis - welcome back!
09/2022
Florian Reichenauer gave an oral presentation and Philipp Sikora presented a poster at the 19th KCT in Jena.
08/2022
Maurice Schrick gave an oral presentation and Lukas Sorge presented a poster at the 44th ICCC in Rimini/Italy.
08/2022
Nathan East, Christoph Förster and our colleagues Luca Carrella and Eva Rentschler publish a paper The full d3–d5 Redox Series of Mononuclear Manganese Complexes: Geometries and Electronic Structures of [Mn(dgpy)2]n+ in Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 14616–14625.
08/2022
Franka Philippi joins the group for her Master project - welcome back.
07/2022
Nathan East and Winald Kitzmann presented posters at the 24th ISPPCC in Vancouver/Canada. Winald Kitzmann got a best poster award. - Congratulations.
07/2022
Christoph Förster and our collaboration partners from Bayreuth publish a study on Solvent-dependent self-assembly of an amphiphilic copper(II) complex with bulky head groups in Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2022, e202200341.
07/2022
Elena Meßmer joins the group for her Bachelor project - welcome.
07/2022
Johannes Moll, Robert Naumann, Lukas Sorge, Christoph Förster and our collaboration partners publish a study on Pseudo-octahedral Iron(II) Complexes with Near-degenerate Charge Transfer and Ligand Field States at the Franck-Condon Geometry in Chem. Eur. J. 2022, e202201858.
07/2022
Philipp Sikora and Steven Sittel presented posters at the 28th IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry in Amsterdam/Netherlands.
07/2022
Paul Kadereit gave an oral presentation at the 5th Ligand Design Workshop in Cologne/Germany.
07/2022
Malte Hellmann successfully finishes his bachelor thesis - congratulations!
06/2022
Sven Waniek, Christian Heine, Dimitri Zorn, Taro Lieberth, Maximilian Lauck and Christoph Förster publish a study on Dicobaltocenium amine – proton, electron and H atom transfer in Organometallics 2022, 41, 2050-2058.
06/2022
Winald Kitzmann gave an oral presentation at the Junge Wöhler Vereinigung für Anorganische Chemie (JuWöV).
05/2022
Patrick Becker joins the group for his joint PhD project with the group of Prof. Johannes Kästner with a scholarship from the Studienstiftung - welcome.
04/2022
Alexandra König successfully finishes her master thesis - congratulations!
04/2022
Paul Kadereit joins the group for his Master project - welcome.
04/2022
Winald Kitzmann, Robert Naumann and our collaboration partners from MPI-P/Mainz publish a study on Molecular Ruby: Exploring the Excited State Landscape (Frontier article) in Dalton Trans. 2022, 51, 6519-6525. The paper is also highlighted as a cover.
04/2022
Our collaboration partners from JGU/Mainz and Winald Kitzmann publish a study on Photochemical alpha-Aminonitrile Synthesis using Zn Phthalocyanines as Near Infrared Photocatalysts in J. Org. Chem. 2022, 87, 5630-5642.
03/2022
Malte Hellmann joins the group for his Bachelor project - welcome.
03/2022
Florian Reichenauer, Winald Kitzmann and our collaboration partners from JGU/Mainz and BAM/Berlin publish a study on Efficient Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion Sensitized by a Chromium(III) Complex via an Underexplored Energy Transfer Mechanism in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202202238. This publication is highlighted as a 'Hot Paper' and by a JGU press release.
03/2022
Matthis Schäfer successfully finishes his Bachelor project - congratulations!
03/2022
Steven Sittel and Robert Naumann publish a study on Molecular Rubies in Photoredox Catalysis in Front. Chem. 2022, 10, 887439.
03/2022
Nico Blum successfully finishes his Bachelor project - congratulations!
02/2022
Laura Stein, Robert Naumann, Christoph Förster and our collaboration partners from TU/Kaiserslautern publish a study on The overlooked NIR luminescence of Cr(ppy)3 in Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 3701-3704.
02/2022
Winald Kitzmann, Christoph Förster and our collaboration partners from BAM/Berlin publish a study on Matrix Effects on Photoluminescence and Oxygen Sensitivity of a Molecular Ruby in ChemPhotoChem 2022, 6, e202100296. This article was selected as an Editor's Spotlight published in Chemistry Europe, GDCh, and ACES journals.
02/2022
Laura Stein gave an oral presentation at the Central European Conference on Photochemistry 2022 in Bad Hofgastein/Austria.
02/2022
The strongly red-emissive Molecular Ruby [Cr(bpmp)2]3+ of Florian Reichenauer featuring a super-high photoluminescence quantum yield and the the ultrafast and long-time excited state kinetics of the NIR-emissive vanadium(III) complex VCl3(ddpd) of Matthias Dorn are highlighted in the Trendbericht Anorganik 2022 Teil 2: "Nebengruppen und Koordinationschemie, Bioanorganik und mehr".
02/2022
Minh Thu Pham re-joins the group after her parental leave - welcome back, Thu!
02/2022
Winald Kitzmann and Johannes Moll publish a review on Spin-Flip Luminescence in Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 2022, 21, 1309–1331.
12/2021
Johannes Moll, Alexandra König and our collaboration partners from JGU Mainz and MIP-P Mainz publish a paper on Panchromatic Absorption and Oxidation of an Iron(II) Spin Crossover Complex in Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 1659–1671.
11/2021
Matthis Schäfer joins the group for his Bachelor project - welcome.
11/2021
Sven Waniek and Christoph Förster publish a paper on Protic ferrocenyl acyclic diamino carbene gold(I) complexes in Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2022, e202100905.
10/2021
Giuseppe Bengasi was awarded the FNR Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis 2021 - congratulations.
10/2021
Nico Blum joins the group for his Bachelor project - welcome.
10/2021
Laura Stein, Winald Kitzmann and Florian Reichenauer presented posters and Katja Heinze gave an oral presentation at the Leopoldina Symposium: Exploratory photochemistry - Light creates structure 2021 in Halle/Germany.
10/2021
Philipp Sikora joins the group for his PhD project - welcome.
10/2021
Robert Naumann joins the group as research associate with focus on (time-resolved) spectroscopy - welcome.
09/2021
Thomas Fässler, Katja Heinze, Heinrich Lang, Christian Limberg and Franc Meyer wrote an obituary for Prof. Gottfried Huttner - an inspiring and formative mentor - in Nachrichten aus der Chemie 2021, 69, 89.
09/2021
Alexandra König joins the group for her Master project - welcome.
09/2021
Our FLS1000 picosecond lifetime spectrometer with a tunable laser has been installed and is working.
09/2021
Katja Heinze commented on manganese(I) sensitizers reported by Oliver Wenger's group from Basel in Made with manganese in Nat. Chem. 2021, 13, 926–928.
08/2021
Lukas Sorge and Sven Waniek from our group contributed to the EPR and UV/Vis spectroscopy of radical cations and dications reported by the TJJ Müller group from Düsseldorf in Radical cations and dications of bis[1]benzothieno[1,4]thiazine isomers in Org. Chem. Front. 2021, 8, 5744–5755.
07/2021
Adina Muff finishes her time as trainee laboratory assistant in our lab. We wish her all the best for her future!
07/2021
Laura Stein gave an oral presentation at the 4thLigand Design Workshop (virtual) in Cologne.
07/2021
Florian Reichenauer and our collaboration partners from Mainz, Tübingen, Berlin, Rostock and Kaiserslautern publish a paper on Strongly Red-Emissive Molecular Ruby [Cr(bpmp)2]3+ surpasses [Ru(bpy)3]2+ in J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 11843-11855.
07/2021
Philipp Sikora successfully finishes his master thesis - congratulations!
07/2021
Matthias Dorn and our collaboration partners from Tübingen, Rostock, Montreal and Kaiserslautern publish a paper on Ultrafast and long-time excited state kinetics of an NIR-emissive vanadium(III) complex I: Synthesis, spectroscopy and static quantum chemistry in Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 10780-10790.
06/2021
Johannes Moll successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
06/2021
Thomas Reuter (first first author paper!) and our collaboration partners from Paderborn and Rostock publish a paper on Higher MLCT Lifetime of Carbene Iron(II) Complexes by Chelate Ring Expansion in Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 7541-7544.
06/2021
Our group and our collaboration partners from Kaiserslautern publish a paper on Transient FTIR spectroscopy after one- and two-colour excitation on a highly luminescent chromium(III) complex in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2021, 23, 13808-13818.
06/2021
Our group and our collaboration partners from Paderborn, Rostock and Tübingen publish a paper on Distinct photodynamics of k-N and k-C pseudoisomeric iron(II) complexes in Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 6640-6643.
05/2021
Alexander Fischer successfully finishes his Bachelor project - congratulations!
04/2021
Steven Sittel joins the group for his PhD project - welcome.
03/2021
Moritz Förster successfully finishes his Bachelor project - congratulations!
01/2021
Alexander Fischer joins the group for his Bachelor project - welcome.
01/2021
The chromium(III) complex [Cr(tpe)2]3+ of Steffen Treiling featuring a super-long excited state lifetime and the vandium(III) complex [V(ddpd)2]3+ of Matthias Dorn showing dual blue and NIR-II emission are highlighted in the Trendbericht "Nebengruppen, Koordinationschemie, Bioanorganik und mehr"
12/2020
Lucas Leuschner successfully finishes his bachelor thesis - congratulations!
12/2020
Steven Sittel successfully finishes his master thesis - congratulations!
11/2020
Matthias Dorn and Johannes Moll gave short talks at the 3rd Virtual SPP Meeting in Leipzig "Chemistry of Electronically Excited Transition Metal Complexes".
11/2020
Philipp Veit successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
11/2020
Philipp Sikora joins the group for his Master project - welcome.
10/2020
Lucas Leuschner joins the group for his Bachelor project - welcome.
10/2020
Moritz Förster joins the group for his Bachelor project - welcome.
10/2020
Together with Oliver Wenger (University of Basel), Katja Heinze put together a collection of great articles on Light-Controlled Reactivity of Metal Complexes in the Inorganic Chemistry Forum. You can read the editorial here: Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 14627-14628.
09/2020
We welcome Adina Muff as trainee laboratory assistant in our lab!
09/2020
Thomas Reuter from our group contributed to the fluorescent iron(II) complexes reported by the Bauer group from Paderborn in Ground and excited state properties of iron(II) complexes linked to organic chromophores Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 14746-14761.
07/2020
An electronically coupled oligoferrocene prepared by Andreas Neidlinger and Torben Kienz from our group shows superior anticancer activity as shown by the group of Andriy Mokhir in Erlangen: Organometallics 2020, 39, 3112–3120.
06/2020
Winald Kitzmann has been awarded the Kekulé Fellowship from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie - congratulations.
06/2020
Steven Sittel joins the group for his Master project - welcome.
06/2020
Christoph Förster and our collaboration partners from Berlin and Tübingen publish a paper on Near-IR to Near-IR Upconversion Luminescence in Molecular Chromium Ytterbium Salts in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 1884-18808.
05/2020
Giuseppe Bengasi successfully defended his PhD thesis in a Skype defense- congratulations!
04/2020
Christoph Förster publishes a paper on Preparation and Thermochromic Switching between Phosphorescence and Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence of Mononuclear Copper(I) Complexes in J. Chem. Ed. 2020, 97, 1644-1649.
04/2020
Matthias Dorn and Christoph Förster from our group together with our collaboration partners from the Department of Chemistry and from Tübingen, Kaiserslautern, Rostock and Vienna publish a paper on A vanadium(III) complex with blue and NIR-II spin-flip luminescence in solution in J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 7947−7955.
04/2020
Philipp Veit and Christoph Förster publish a paper on an Unexpected C-C Bond Formation with a Ferrocenyl Fischer Carbene Complex in Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2020, 646, 940-947.
04/2020
Giuseppe Bengasi from our group together with our collaboration partners from LIST in Luxembourg publishes a paper on Constitution and Conductivity of Metalloporphyrin Tapes in Eur J. Inorg. Chem. 2020, 1938-1945. The paper is also highlighted as a cover.
03/2020
Patrick Becker and Christoph Förster from our group together with our collaboration partners from the Department of Chemistry and from Stuttgart and Kaiserslautern publish a paper on Spin Crossover and Long-lived Excited States in a Reduced Molecular Ruby in Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 7199-7204.
03/2020
Johannes Moll from our group together with our collaboration partners from Berlin and Rostock publishes a paper on Green Light Activation of Push-Pull Ruthenium(II) Complexes in Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 6820-6832. The paper is also highlighted as a cover.
03/2020
Johannes Moll gave an oral presentation and Thomas Reuter and Lukas Sorge presented posters at the 16th Koordinationschemie-Treffen in Freiburg.
02/2020
Giuseppe Bengasi from our group together with our collaboration partners from LIST in Luxembourg publishes a paper on Molecular flattening effect to enhance the conductivity of fused porphyrin tape thin films in RSC Adv. 2020, 10, 7048-7057..
02/2020
Franka Philippi successfully finishes her bachelor thesis - congratulations!
02/2020
The review of Christoph Förster about Photophysics and Photochemistry with Earth-Abundant Metals – Fundamentals and Concepts appeared in Chem. Soc. Rev. 2020, 49, 1057-1070.
The review is also highlighted as a cover in the journal Chemical Society Reviews and will be part of a themed collection on "Earth Abundant Metals in Catalysis".
02/2020
Winald Kitzmann joins the group for his PhD project - welcome.
01/2020
Max Lauck successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
01/2020
Laura Stein joins the group for her PhD project - welcome.
12/2019
Prof. Christian Reber (University of Montreal, Canada) joins our group as guest professor. Welcome!
12/2019
Saskia Bär joins the group as our new secretary - welcome.
11/2019
Jessica Muziol successfully finishes her master thesis - congratulations!
11/2019
Florian Reichenauer joins the group for his PhD project - welcome.
10/2019
Shadab Gharaati and Christoph Förster from our group together with our collaboration partners from Berlin publish a paper on Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion in a MOF with Acceptor-filled Channels in Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 1003-1007.. The publication is also highlighted as a cover.
10/2019
Winald Kitzmann from our group together with our collaboration partners from Tübingen and Pisa publishes a paper on Strong Circularly Polarized Luminescence of an Octahedral Chromium(III) Complex in Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 13078-13081.
10/2019
Steffen Treiling, Florian Reichenauer and Christoph Förster from our group together with our collaboration partners from Tübingen, Kaiserslautern and Montreal publish a paper on Luminescence and Light-driven Energy and Electron Transfer from an Exceptionally Long-lived Excited State of a Non-innocent Chromium(III) Complex in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 18075-18085. The publication is also highlighted as a cover and at JGU press releases.
10/2019
Johannes Moll gave an oral presentation and Matthias Dorn presented a poster at the 2nd Meeting of the PP 2102 Light-controlled reactivity of metal complexes" in Düsseldorf.
10/2019
Christoph Förster from our group together with our collaboration partners from Berlin and Bonn publishes a paper on Photochemie: Bindungen aktivieren und Redoxreaktionen in Nachr. Chem. 2019, 67, 67-71.
09/2019
Winald Kitzmann successfully finishes his master thesis - congratulations!
09/2019
Christoph Förster from our group together with our collaboration partners from Berlin and Bonn publishes a paper on Photochemie: Licht und Leuchten bei 3d-Metallen in Nachr. Chem. 2019, 67, 54-59.
08/2019
Florian Reichenauer successfully finishes his master thesis - congratulations!
08/2019
Alexandra König successfully finishes her bachelor thesis - congratulations!
08/2019
Cristina-Maria Hirschbiegel successfully finishes her bachelor thesis - congratulations!
06/2019
Nils Schewe successfully finishes his master thesis - congratulations!
06/2019
Prof. Christian Reber (University of Montreal, Canada) joins our group as guest professor. Welcome!
06/2019
Johannes Moll from our group together with our collaboration partners from Paderborn publishes a paper on Excited state kinetics of an air-stable cyclometalated iron(II) complex in Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 11826-11830..
05/2019
Lukas Sorge successfully finishes his master thesis - congratulations!
05/2019
Laura Stein successfully finishes her master thesis - congratulations!
05/2019
Oliver Back successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
05/2019
Sebastian Preiß successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
04/2019
Alexandra König joins the group for her Bachelor project - welcome.
04/2019
Cristina-Maria Hirschbiegel joins the group for her Bachelor project - welcome.
04/2019
Giuseppe Bengasi from our group together with our collaboration partners from LIST in Luxembourg publishes a paper on Reactivity of Nickel(II) Porphyrins in oCVD Processes – Polymerisation, Intramolecular Cyclisation and Chlorination in Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 8313-8320.. This paper has been highlighted as "Hot Paper".
03/2019
Matthias Dorn gave an oral presentation and Johannes Moll presented a poster at the 1st Meeting of the PP 2102 Light-controlled reactivity of metal complexes" in Bonn.
03/2019
Sven Otto was awarded the Forschungsförderpreis 2019 der Vereinigung Freunde der Universität Mainz e.V. for his outstanding PhD thesis in chemistry. Congratulations.
03/2019
Matthias Dorn gave an oral presentation and Johannes Moll and Lukas Sorge presented posters at the 15th Koordinationschemie-Treffen in München.
03/2019
Sven Otto from our group together with our collaboration partners from Stuttgart (Joris van Slageren) publishes a paper on Chromium(III)-based potential molecular quantum bits with long coherence times in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2019, 21, 6976-6983..
03/2019
Philipp Veit, Carla Volkert and Christoph Förster from our group together with our collaboration partners from Paderborn (Matthias Bauer) publish a paper on Gold(II) in Redox-Switchable Gold(I) Catalysis in Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 4615-4618.. The paper was also highlighted as a cover.
03/2019
Winald Kitzmann joins the group for his Master project - welcome.
03/2019
Jessica Muziol joins the group for her Master project - welcome.
02/2019
Maurice Schrick and Patrick Becker presented posters at the 17th Ferrocene Colloquium in Rostock.
02/2019
Giuseppe Bengasi from our group together with our collaboration partners from LIST in Luxembourg publishes a paper on Conductive Directly Fused Poly(Porphyrin) Coatings by Oxidative Chemical Vapour Deposition – from Singly to Triply Fused in Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 2368-2375..
02/2019
Sebastian Preiß from our group together with our collaboration partners from Rostock (Stefan Lochbrunner) and Paderborn (Matthias Bauer) publishes a paper on Gold(II) Porphyrins in Photoinduced Electron Transfer Reactions in Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 5940-5949..
02/2019
Oliver Back and Christoph Förster publish a paper on Alkali Blues: Blue-emissive alkali metal pyrrolates in Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 6542-6552.. The paper is also highlighted as a cover in the journal Chemistry - A European Journal.
01/2019
Our deuterated molecular ruby recently published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 1112-1116 has been highlighted in the Trendberichte der Anorganischen Chemie 2018.
01/2019
Our deuterated molecular ruby recently published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 1112-1116 has found its way to the standard textbook of Modern Inorganic Chemistry Moderne Anorganische Chemie, chapter 3, page 599. - Congrats.
12/2018
Giuseppe Bengasi from our group together with our collaboration partners from LIST in Luxembourg publishes a paper on Conductive Fused Porphyrin Tapes on Sensitive Substrates by a Chemical Vapor Deposition Approach in Angew. Chem. Int Ed. 2019, 58, 2103–2108..
12/2018
Sven Otto and Matthias Dorn from our group together with our collaboration partners from BAM in Berlin publish a paper on Luminescent TOP Nanosensors for Simultaneously Measuring Temperature, Oxygen, and pH at a Single Excitation Wavelength in Anal. Chem. 2019, 91, 2337–2344..
This paper has been selected as "paper of the month" at the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung in Berlin. Congrats to all coworkers for this great success!
12/2018
Maurice Schrick joins the group for his PhD project - welcome.
12/2018
Nathan East joins the group for his PhD project - welcome.
12/2018
Nils Schewe joins the group for his Master project - welcome.
11/2018
Florian Reichenauer joins the group for his Master project - welcome.
11/2018
Laura Stein joins the group for her Master project - welcome.
11/2018
Taro Lieberth joins the group as a lab assistant - welcome.
10/2018
Our group hosted the SPP 2102 Kickoff Meeting in Mainz with more than 60 participants.
10/2018
Steffen Treiling receives his diploma degree (University of Mainz) - congrats.
12/2018
Our group together with our collaboration partners from the Gasser group in Paris publishes a paper on the Biological Evaluation of the NIR-Emissive Ruby Analogue [Cr(ddpd)2][BF4]3 as a Photodynamic Therapy Photosensitizer in Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2019, 37-41.
09/2018
Winald Kitzmann was awarded the GLK Award for his outstanding bachelor thesis in chemistry. Congratulations.
09/2018
Christian Heine receives his diploma degree (University of Mainz) - congrats.
09/2018
Marius Werner finishes his master thesis (University of Mainz) - congrats.
09/2018
Lukas Sorge joins the group for his Master project - welcome.
09/2018
Lucas Kleinort joins the group as a trainee - welcome.
08/2018
Our group together with collaboration partners publishes a review on Dpdd as expanded terpyridine: dramatic effects of symmetry and electronic properties in first row transition metal complexes in Inorganics 2018, 6, 86.
08/2018
Christoph Förster and Patrick Becker publish a paper on A Ferrocenyl Amino Substituted Stannylene as an Intramolecular Fe->Sn Lewis Adduct in Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2018, 644, 1057-1063.
08/2018
Sven Otto successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
Christian Reber twittered a nice comment and photo.
07/2018
Our work on highly NIR emissive metal complexes with earth-abundant metal ions has been highlighted in in SciTech Europa Quarterly 2018, 28, 97.
07/2018
Sven Otto, Christoph Förster and our collaboration partners Cui Wang and Ute Resch-Genger publish a paper on A strongly luminescent chromium(III) complex acid in Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 12555–12563. The paper is also highlighted as a cover in the journal Chemistry - A- European Journal.
06/2018
Sven Otto and our collaboration partners Joe Harris and Christian Reber publish a paper on Molecular ruby under pressure in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 11069-11073.
Christian Reber twittered a nice comment. This study was also highlighted at JGU press releases.
06/2018
Kristina Hanauer and Christoph Förster publish a paper on Redox-controlled stabilization of an open-shell intermediate in a bioinspired enzyme model in Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2018, 3537-3547. The paper is also highlighted as a cover with an author profile and a press release in the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry.
06/2018
Prof. Christian Reber (University of Montreal, Canada) joins our group for four weeks as DAAD guest professor. Welcome!
05/2018
Matthias Dorn, Christoph Förster and our collaboration partners Luca Carrella and Eva Rentschler publish a paper on Structure and electronic properties of an expanded terpyridine complex of nickel(II) [Ni(ddpd)2](BF4)2 in Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2018, 644, 706–712.
05/2018
Sven Waniek, Christoph Förster and our collaboration partner Jan Klett publish a paper on Polysubstituted Ferrocenes as Tunable Redox Mediators in Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1004-1015.
04/2017
Patrick Becker joins the group for his Bachelor project - welcome.
04/2017
Anna Riede joins the group for her Bachelor project - welcome.
04/2017
Carla Volkert joins the group for her Bachelor project - welcome.
03/2018
Oliver Back gave an oral presentation and Johannes Moll and Matthias Dorn/Sven Otto presented posters at the 14th Koordinationschemie-Treffen in Heidelberg. The whole group was present at this meeting.
02/2018
Sven Wanieck gave an oral presentation and Christian Heine, Philipp Veit and Max Lauck presented posters at the 16th Ferrocene Colloquium in Berlin. Max Lauck got a best poster award. - Congratulations.
01/2018
Sven Otto presented a poster at the Mainz Mini Symposium Emerging Trends in Molecular Magnetism/ Spintronics Emerging Trends in Molecular Magnetism/ Spintronics.
01/2018
Steffen Treiling joins the group for his Diploma project - welcome.
12/2017
Sven Otto, Matthias Dorn and our collaboration partners publish a review on Understanding and Exploiting Long-lived Near-infrared Emission of a Molecular Ruby in Coord. Chem. Rev. 2018, 359, 102-111.
11/2017
Sven Otto, Matthias Dorn and our collaboration partners publish a paper on Deuterated Molecular Ruby with Record Luminescence Quantum Yield in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 1112-1116.
This paper has been selected as "paper of the month" at the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung in Berlin. Congrats to all coworkers for this great success!
11/2017
Max Lauck and Christoph Förster publish a paper on N-Cobaltocenium amide as reactive nucleophilic reagent for donor-acceptor bimetallocenes in Organometallics 2017, 36, 4968−4978.
11/2017
Laura Büldt from the group of Prof. Michael Seitz (Tübingen) joins the group for performing some experiments - welcome.
11/2017
Marius Werner joins the group for his Master project - welcome.
10/2017
Christian Heine joins the group for his Diploma project - welcome.
10/2017
Thomas Reuter joins the group for his PhD project - welcome.
10/2017
Matthias Dorn joins the group for his PhD project - welcome.
09/2017
Sven Otto, Johannes Moll and our collaboration partners from Berlin publish a paper on Three in One Crystal: the Coordination Diversity of Zinc Polypyridine Complexes in Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2017, 5033–5040.
09/2017
The minireview on The Quest for Mononuclear Gold(II) and its Potential Role in Photocatalysis and Drug Action in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 16126–16134 is now online.
09/2017
Johannes Moll and Philipp Veit presented posters at the GDCh Wissenschaftsforum in Berlin.
09/2017
Johannes Moll, Giuseppe Bengasi, Oliver Back and Philipp Veit attended the ORCA summerschool in Gelsenkrichen.
08/2017
Kristina Hanauer successfully defended her PhD thesis - congratulations!
08/2017
Andreas Mengel successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
08/2017
Thomas Reuter receives his master degree (University of Mainz).
07/2017
Johannes Moll gave a short talk at the 1. Kölner Ligandendesign-Workshop 2017.
07/2017
Sven Otto returned from a successful research stay at the group of Prof. Christian Reber (University of Montreal, Canada).
07/2017
The Impulsfonds der Forschungsinitiative Rheinland-Pfalz supports our collaborative research under the programme LESSING (Light-inducEd Sensitizing, Switching and ImagiNG). Partners from the Institutes of Inorganic Chemistry (Katja Heinze, Eva Rentschler), Organic Chemistry (Pol Besenius, Till Opatz) and Physical Chemistry (Thomas Basché) will adress the utilization and generation of light.
05/2017
Sven Otto presented a poster at the 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Toronto/Canada.
05/2017
Christoph Kreitner was awarded the Boehringer Ingelheim Award for his dissertation at the Dies Academicus 2017. Congratulations.
05/2017
Sebastian Preiß, Christoph Förster and our collaboration partners from Mainz, Halle and Paderborn publish a paper on the Structure and reactivity of a mononuclear gold(II) complex in Nat. Chem. 2017, 9, 1249-1255. Click here for shared link access. This study was also highlighted at JGU press releases and in the Trendberichte der Anorganischen Chemie 2017.
05/2017
Sven Otto and our collaboration partners from Mainz, Rostock and Berlin publish a paper on Photo-Chromium: Sensitizer for Visible Light-Induced Oxidative C-H Bond Functionalization – Electron or Energy Transfer? in ChemPhotoChem 2017, 1, 344-349. This paper is highlighted as a cover article featuring a cover profile.
05/2017
Ronja Beichler receives her master degree (University of Mainz).
04/2017
Sven Otto and our collaboration partners Norman Scholz, Thomas Behnke and Ute Resch-Genger from BAM publish a paper on Thermo-Chromium: A Contactless Optical Molecular Thermometer in Chem. Eur J. 2017, 23, 12131-12135. This paper is part of the Special Issue 150 years of German Chemical Society GDCh. This study was also highlighted (among others) at JGU press releases, in Allgemeine Zeitung 8.6.2017, in Photonik 03/2017, in Novus Light Technologies Today 06/2017 and in GIT Labor-Fachzeitschrift 2017, 8.
04/2017
Andreas Mengel, Christian Bissinger, Matthias Dorn, Oliver Back and Christoph Förster publish a paper on Boosting Vis/NIR Charge Transfer Absorptions of Iron(II) Complexes by N-Alkylation and N-Deprotonation in the Ligand Backbone in Chem. Eur J. 2017, 23, 7920-7931. This paper is highlighted as a frontispiece.
04/2017
The DFG funds 17 new Priority Programs. The Priority Program "Light controlled reactivity of metal complexes" has been initiated by and will be coordinated by Katja Heinze. See JGU press release and Photonik 03/2017.
03/2017
Oliver Back and Sven Otto presented posters and Sebastian Preiß got a best oral presentation award at the 13th Koordinationschemie-Treffen in Potsdam. - congratulations.
03/2017
Johannes Moll joins the group for his PhD project - welcome.
03/2017
Winald Kitzmann joins the group for his Bachelor project - welcome.
02/2017
Philipp Veit presented a poster and Max Lauck got a best oral presentation award at the 15th Ferrocene Colloquium in Mainz. - congratulations.
02/2017
Our group hosted the 15th Ferrocene Colloquium in Mainz with more than 140 participants from over 12 countries. A press release appeared in Nachr. Chem. Tech. 2017, 65, 689 Ferrocen-Chemiker treffen sich in Mainz [DOI: 10.1002/nadc.20174064197]
02/2017
Sven Wanieck joins the group for his PhD project - welcome.
02/2017
Max Lauck and Christoph Förster publish a paper on Cobaltocenium Substituents as Electron Acceptors in Photosynthetic Model Dyads in J. Organomet. Chem. 2017, 847, 33-40.
01/2017
Sven Waniek receives his diploma degree (University of Mainz).
01/2017
Johannes Moll receives his master degree (University of Mainz).
01/2017
The DFG supports our research on chromium(III) emitters Near-Infrared Light Emitting Chromium(III) Complexes - Design and Applications for three years. This is a collaborative research project with the group of Dr. Ute Resch-Genger from the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung (BAM - Biophotonics) in Berlin.
11/2016
Torben Kienz successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
11/2016
Giuseppe Bengasi joins the group for his PhD project - welcome.
11/2016
Thomas Reuter joins the group for his Master project - welcome.
11/2016
Nils Schewe joins the group for his Bachelor project - welcome.
10/2016
Torben Kienz and Christoph Förster publish a paper on the Generation and Oligomerization of N-Ferrocenyl Ketenimines via Open-shell Intermediates in Organometallics 2016, 35, 3681–3691
10/2016
Ronja Beichler started her Master project at Merck.
10/2016
Oliver Back and Philipp Veit presented posters at the 3Met Conference 2016 in Kaiserslautern.
09/2016
Sven Otto and Sebastian Preiß presented posters and Sebastian Preiß got a best poster award at the 18th Wöhler-Tagung in Berlin. - congratulations.
09/2016
Kristina Hanauer, Min Thu Pham and Christoph Förster publish a paper on the Solution Conformation and Self-Assembly of Ferrocenyl (Thio)Ureas in Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2017, 433-445
09/2016
Andreas Neidlinger and Christoph Förster publish a paper on responsive ferrocenyl-phenol conjugates"Confirmational Switching of Multi-Responsive Ferrocenyl-Phenol Conjugates" Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 4852–4864.
08/2016
Oliver Back, Jana Leppin and Christoph Förster publish a paper on the Photo- and Redox Chemistry of an Unsymmetrical Bimetallic Copper(I) Complex in Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 9653-9662
07/2016
Christoph Kreitner successfully defended his PhD thesis with distinction - congratulations!
07/2016
Sven Otto presented a poster and got a best poster award at the 42nd International Conference on Coordination Chemistry in Brest (France). - congratulations.
07/2016
Shadab Gharaati joins the group as a Humboldt Post Doc - welcome.
06/2016
The Dalton perspective article of Christoph Kreitner on Excited State Decay of Cyclometalated Polypyridine Ruthenium Complexes: Insight from Theory and Experiment has been published in Dalton Trans. 2016, 45, 13631-13647. This perspective is highlighted as a cover article.
06/2016
Philipp Veit and Christoph Förster publish a paper on On the Mechanism of Imine Elimination from Fischer Tungsten Carbene Complexes in Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1322-1333.
05/2016
The group presented the most recent AK overview poster 2016 at the 6th Mainzer AK Symposium organized by the JCF in Mainz.
05/2016
Christopher Brenig returned from his research stay at Prof. Bernhard Kräutler's group (Univ. Innsbruck, Austria) and submitted his diploma thesis.
05/2016
Johannes Moll joins the group for his Master project - welcome.
03/2016
Christoph Kreitner, Andreas Mengel and our collaboration partners publish a paper on Strongly Coupled Cyclometalated Ruthenium Triarylamine Chromophores as Sensitizers for DSSCs in Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 8915-8928
03/2016
Lukas Sorge joins the group for his Bachelor project - welcome.
03/2016
Sebastian Preiß and Oliver Back presented posters and Sven Otto gave a talk at the 12th Koordinationschemietreffen in Kiel.
02/2016
Christoph Kreitner publishes a paper on The photochemistry of mono- and dinuclear cyclometalated bis(tridentate)ruthenium(II) complexes: dual excited state deactivation and dual emission in Dalton Trans. 2016, 45, 5640-5658
02/2016
Constantin Haese joins the group for his Bachelor project - welcome.
02/2016
Ephraim Prantl and Max Lauck presented posters and Philip Veit gave a talk at the 14th Ferrocene Colloquium in Konstanz.
02/2016
Our DFS mass spectrometer is now working routinely.
02/2016
Sven Waniek joins the group for his Diploma project - welcome.
02/2016
Sven Otto is elected as a junior member of the Gutenberg Academy for Young Researchers. Congratulations.