Stefan and Peter travel to Innsbruck to attend the EWPC (European Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry, including the other pnictogen elements for the first time). Alongside seeing some old friends, this conference brought together PhD students from around Europe, resulting in three days of fascinating pnictogen chemistry. Stefan provided his first talk at an international conference (with great success!).
01/2025
A visit from Wiley-VCH! Axel Straube, editor of Chemistry - A European Journal and ChemPlusChem, visits TU Munich to provide a workshop on publishing. Axel gave two fascinating talks sharing first-hand editorial insights into the publishing process and ethical aspects regarding scientific misconduct, paper mills and data manipulation. The succesful workshop was followed by a lovely "Nachsitzung" at the Augustiner in Garching.
The special collection: "Non-innocent ligands in sustainable catalysis" appeared in ChemCatChem and EurJIC! It features Peter and Julia Khusnutdinova as co-guest editors and covers selected examples illustrating the role of the ligand in enabling (or disabling) catalytic bond cleavage/formation processes via metal-ligand and metal-metal cooperation. The special collection can be found here.
09/2024
We welcome Michael Neuwirt to the group. He will be working on metal-ligand cooperativity in modified biradicaloid complexes - all the best, Michi :)
Our group attented the "Wöhlertagung"/GdCh conference on inorganic chemistry hosted at TUM (also in part organised by us). Lots of interesting talks and posters and David presented our work on exotic main group cations.
05/2024
After a while, we finally assembled our photoreactor equipped with a medium-pressure mercury lamp!
04/2024
Some new group members will join soon (research internships, Master's Thesis and a PhD student) - time to reorganise and clean the glovebox!
03/2024
Peter travels to the "Chemiedozententagung" in Aachen. Yet another fruitful conference visit, apart from the rather underwhelming weather :D
David and Peter travel to the EWPC (European Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry) in Würzburg, Germany. While it was the fifth time for Peter, it was Davids first conference including a nice poster presentation with lots of interesting discussions!
02/2024
Our UV-vis spectrometer arrived. A very helpful (and necessary) tool, as we are beginning to dip our toes in photochemistry!
Our first project student, Leon, joins the group. He will be working on a theoretical project dealing with the ligand properties of biradicaloids.
2023:
12/2023
Great news! Our Emmy-Noether proposal "Carbene- and phosphine-substituted biradicaloids for sustainable catalysis (CarPhoSCat)" got funded! This gives us the oppurtunity to dive deeper into the exctiting coordination chemistry and reactivity of biradicaloids and to develop novel approaches in catalytic olefin functionalization.
11/2023
The first two publications from the group are out! The first one is a DFT study investigating the redox behavior of pyramidanes and the second one is our first novel biradicaloid ligand (see the Publications section for details).
09/2023
Peter travels to the EuChemS Inorganic Chemistry Conference (Vienna, Austria) to present our new biradicaloid! This was a very nice conference with many interesting talks and presentations.
08/2023
Finally a "group" - David joins the lab as the first PhD student!
04/2023
After some time, chemicals and glassware are ordered, the fumehood is set up and the glovebox is finally running well. Time to do some chemistry!
03/2023
Peter travels to the "Chemiedozententagung" (Dresden, Germany) and the PBSi (Berlin, Germany).
01/2023
Exciting times ahead! Peter arrives at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) to start his independent career as a junior research group leader funded by with a Liebig sholarship of the VCI.
