Research

Currently we are heavily engaged in luminescent and photoactive transition metal complex chromophores for diverse applications (light-emitting electrochemical cells, sensors, catalysis), transition metal complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells and upconverting materials, photosynthesis, fundamentals of electron transfer reactions, biomimetic chemistry and biomimetic homogeneous catalysis with transition metal complexes.
Please see our recent review articles:

Molecular Ruby: Exploring the Excited State Landscape [DOI: 10.1039/D2DT00569G]
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Spin-Flip Luminescence [DOI: 10.1007/s43630-022-00186-3]
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dpdd as Expanded Terpyridine: Dramatic Effects of Symmetry and Electronic Properties in First Row Transition Metal Complexes [DOI: 10.3390/inorganics6030086]
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Strongly Luminescent Chromium(III) Complexes [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2018.01.004]
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Mononuclear Gold(II) Complexes [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201708349]
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Excited State Decay of Cyclometalated Polypyridine Ruthenium Complexes [DOI: 10.1039/C6DT01989G]
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Biomimetic Molybdenum Chemistry [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2015.04.010]
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Photochemistry and Applications of Ruthenium(II) Complexes [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201402466]
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Some recent results have been highlighted at JGU press releases:
A novel path for sustainable photon upconversion with non-precious metals,
Highly sensitive molecular optical pressure sensor,
Molecular optical thermometer and
Gold in the very rare oxidation state +II.
Our work has been highlighted in
2023 Trendberichte der Anorganischen Chemie 2023
2022 Trendberichte der Anorganischen Chemie 2022
2021 Trendberichte der Anorganischen Chemie 2021
2020 Trendberichte der Anorganischen Chemie 2019
2019 Trendberichte der Anorganischen Chemie 2018
SciTech Europa Quarterly
2018 Trendberichte der Anorganischen Chemie 2017
2017 Editorial in Chemistry - A European Journal by Neville Compton
2017 Trendberichte der Anorganischen Chemie 2016
For more details please check our recent publications and our group meetings.

News & Activities

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.
03/2023
Alexandra König and Franka Philippi presented posters at the 2nd SPP 2102 meeting in Rostock.
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
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, Lukas Sorge presented a poster and Katja Heinze gave an invited lecture at the 44th ICCC in Rimini/Italy.
07/2022
Nathan East and Winald Kitzmann presented posters at the 24th ISPPCC and Katja heinze gave a pleanry talk in Vancouver/Canada. Winald Kitzmann got a best poster award. - Congratulations.
07/2022
Paul Kadereit gave an oral presentation at the 5th Ligand Design Workshop in Cologne/Germany.
07/2022
Philipp Sikora and Steven Sittel presented posters at the 28th IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry in Amsterdam/Netherlands.
06/2022
Katja Heinze has been selected as a finalist in Engineering and Technology for the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2022.
03/2022
Katja Heinze was awarded the Elisabeth and Prof. Dr. Horst-Dietrich Hardt Prize 2022 [press release Saarbrücken] [press release JGU]
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.
11/2020
Philipp Veit successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
05/2020
Giuseppe Bengasi successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
01/2020
Max Lauck successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
05/2019
Oliver Back successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
05/2019
Sebastian Preiß successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
03/2019
Matthias Dorn gave an oral presentation and Johannes Moll and Lukas Sorge presented posters at the 15th Koordinationschemie-Treffen in München.
07/2018
Sven Otto successfully defended his PhD thesis - congratulations!
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.

09/2017 Johannes Moll and Philipp Veit presented posters at the GDCh Wissenschaftsforum in Berlin.