Carbon Atom Transfer

Spectacular basic research in organic chemistry

23-Jul-2024 - Professor Max Martin Hansmann from the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and his team have developed a new reagent for selectively adding carbon atoms to molecules. This development is so spectacular for basic research in organic chemistry that it has been published in the prestigious ...

On the way to sustainable chemistry? Iron makes it possible

Hydroformylation of olefins using iron catalysis and light

22-Jul-2024 - The hydroformylation of olefins, also known as oxosynthesis, is one of the most important industrial processes in chemistry. Developed in 1938 by Otto Roehlen (Ruhrchemie), more than 10 million tons per year of so-called oxo products are now produced using this process. The main catalysts used ...

Developing new types of batteries sustainably

16-Jan-2024 - "Conventional lithium-ion batteries are very powerful, but also expensive, as they require metals such as nickel and cobalt in addition to lithium," says chemist Prof Dr Yan Lu. "That's why I'm researching more sustainable alternatives, such as lithium-sulphur batteries and batteries based on ...

Leibniz Prize for chemist Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner

Germany's most important research funding prize goes to scientist at the University of Giessen

08-Dec-2023 - Chemist Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2024 by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The award, which is endowed with 2.5 million euros, is considered the most ...

Researchers “film” novel catalyst at work

15-Aug-2023 - A novel catalysis scheme enables chemical reactions that were previously virtually impossible. The method developed at the University of Bonn is also environmentally friendly and does not require rare and precious metals. The researchers recorded the exact course of the catalysis in a kind of ...

Otto Hahn Medal for chemist Dr Susanne Reischauer

29-Jun-2023 - At its annual meeting in Göttingen, the Max Planck Society awarded the Otto Hahn Medal 2022 to the young scientist Dr Susanne Reischauer. The prize is awarded for outstanding scientific achievements during doctoral studies. Dr. Susanne Reischauer is a chemist who worked at the Max Planck ...

Milestone for organic chemistry: Long searched chemical compound prepared for the first time

Chemists report on the "neutral homoaromatic compound" that has only been suspected for more than 70 years

17-Apr-2023 - In a recent issue of the international journal Nature Chemistry, Prof. Dr. Johannes Teichert, head of the Professorship of Organic Chemistry at Chemnitz University of Technology, his research assistant Trung Tran Ngoc, and other contributors report on a so-called "neutral homoaromatic ...

Novel method for controlling chemical reactions discovered

Organic chemist develop new catalyst to selectively activate carbon-hydrogen bonds

26-Jan-2023 - Substituted aromatics are among the most important building blocks for organic compounds such as drugs, crop­protecting agents, and many materials. The function of the molecules is determined by the spatial arrangement of the different building blocks, the substitution pattern. A research team ...

Chemists discover new reactivity of strained molecules

Light energy enables the reaction of double bonds with strained single bonds to produce three-dimensional molecules

24-Mar-2022 - In synthetic organic chemistry, so-called cycloadditions are a particularly important class of reactions. With this type of reaction, ring-shaped molecules can be constructed simply and efficiently by joining (“adding“) two compounds that each contain double bonds. A team led by Prof. Dr. Frank ...

Breakthrough in the production of three-dimensional molecular structures

New dimensions in organic chemistry through light-mediated synthesis

07-Apr-2021 - A major goal of organic and medicinal chemistry in recent decades has been the rapid synthesis of three-dimensional molecules for the development of new drugs. These drug candidates exhibit a variety of improved properties compared to predominantly flat molecular structures, which are reflected ...