2017
December 2017
We look back to a very successful year doing great science. Thanks to all our coworkers and followers.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Bowling time! A tough competition revealed Bernhard as this year's bowling king.
Hurray! Our paper about radical aromatic trifluoromethylthiolation was highlighted in Chem. VIews. 2017.
November 2017
A game of Snakes and Ladders! We are happy to invite Guy Lloyd Jones (University of Edinburgh) as this years Anton Vilsmeier Lecturer. He gave an impressive lecture on careful mechanistic investigations in organoboron chemistry by high-tech equipment (kinetics, Stop-Flow-NMR, in situ IR).
Two photons to tango! Michael, Michal and Raul publish in Chemisty - A European Journal about two-photon processes. Have a look here!
Denis wraps up his time with us. He defended his thesis on November 10th and is the 14th finisher of the group. Pozdravleniya, doctor Koziakov!
Well done Michael! The collaboration with the Bäumner group proved fruitful. They could profit from our Luminol synthesis and published in Angewandte Chemie. Have a look here!
Well done! Denis and Michal publish their paper: Radical Aromatic Trifluoromethylthiolation: Photoredox Catalysis vs. Base Mediation. Have a look here!
October 2017
Hurray! Our paper about iron-catalyzed cyclotrimerization of alkynes was highlighted in Nachr. Chem. 2017, 65, 982. Have a look here!
September 2017
Conference season! We are happy to call Regensburg the venue of this year's Symposium on Heterocyclic Chemistry. The group traveled to Berlin to celebrate the 150th birthday of the German Society of Chemistry at the Wifo 2017.
Learn some new interesting things about our boss in the Angewandte Chemie Author Profile. Have a look here!
Well done! Bernhard finishes his master thesis: Z-Selective Semi-Hydrogenation of Alkynes using Iron Catalysts
August 2017
The hot temperatures pushed the group to a day out for biking, swimming and playing beach volley. Thumbs up!
July 2017
Well done! Denis publishes about aromatic carbonylations. Have a look here!
Davide (left) leaves the ship. We had an amazing time with him! Good luck for his industry career!
Conference time! Uttam, Efrain, Sebastian and Axel participated in the European Conference of Organometallic Chemistry (EUCOMC) in Amsterdam. Was a great time!
Denis and Efrain attended the Conference on Green Chemistry in Melbourne, Australia.
The group had a great day boating on the near river Naab.
June 2017
Davide and Michael attended the 'International Summer School of Organic Chemistry in Italy. Both gave oral presentations.
May 2017
Das Leiden der anderen nimmt kein Ende:
Oops, we did it again. The UR took Germany's pole position of universities according to the 2017 Leiden University Ranking in the category highest impact publications in the physical sciences!
Good news a day before the holiday: We set a new world record! 6 days from submission to acceptance at Angew. Chem. Our 2+2+2 = sexy paper was a favourite of the reviewers and editors. Much obliged! My congrats go to Davide, Matteo and Tim for their great work and our collabs Fabian and MarkOh! Have a look here!
Matteo wraps up his time with us. He defends his thesis on May 11th and is the 13th finisher of the group. Auguri, dottore Villa!
His next stop: Cuba! Hasta la victoria siempre!
Our new kitchen equipment arrive: What's cooking?
April 2017
Axel attends the JCF Young Chemists' Meeting of the three Berlin universities which dedicates a full day to gender, family, and career aspects of a chemist's life. His talk in the "kids and careers" session is well received. The following panel discussion with GDCh president Thisbe Lindhorst and colleagues from academia, industry, and NGO is a true encouragement for students and coworkers to challenge the employer's family support beyond the high-gloss brochures and drive normative and infrastructural innovation. Kids and careers could go very well together, but we are not quite there yet!
The group travels to Hamburg to sniff some big city beats! City walks, boat cruises, beach bombing, beer sampling, team building at summerly weather, including the first encounter with the new workplace. Have a look here why we already get excited about the move!
Well done! Matteo and Dieter publish their paper Synthesis and Catalysis of Redox-active Bis(imino)acenaphthene (BIAN) Iron Complexes. Have a look here!
Happy Easter holidays!
The summer term starts on April 24th. Axel visits the world's largest F&F manufacturer Firmenich at their Geneva site. City, weather, and company have presented their best sides. Thanks for having me!
March 2017
10-year-anniversary of the European Research Council (ERC). Congratulations to one of the strongest motors of european research. We took our slice of the cake!
The Graduate School Chemical Photocatalysis (GRK 1626) holds its annual spring meeting with student presentations and riveting tutorials by Louis Fensterbank and Paolo Melchiorre. Lessons learned, thanks a lot!
Max Hansmann gave an inspiring lecture on Lewis acid catalysis starring Au and B complexes. Good luck in San Diego!
This year, our friends at Marburg University host the annual Chemiedozententagung at summerly weather. It's a great scientific event with lots of opportunities to socialize with peers over coffee and beers.
The DFG priority program "materials syntheses in ionic liquids" (SPP 1708) enters its second period. There are two new passengers on board: Matthias Bauer (Paderborn) and our group teamed up to study solvent and surfactant effects on the growth and catalytic activity of iron(0) nanoparticles. The battle for funding takes place at the Steigenberger Hotel in Dresden just in front of Manaf Halbouni's riveting Aleppo bus barricade sculpture.
February 2017
Wheels on fire! Tim, Uttam and Matteo publish about our beautiful iron wheel and the corresponding hydrogenations in Angewandte Chemie.
An extract of our group trained their climbing skills at the Boulderwelt Regensburg.
Well done! The collaboration with our friends from the Wolf group brings again fruitful work. The Wolf group is interested in anionic complexes and helps us to learn more about low-valent base metal catalysis. Dominik and Efrain publish about the reaction mechanism of metalates in hydrogenations.
January 2017
Bernhard has started his master thesis and Davide is joining the group as visiting scholar from Milano. Welcome to the ship!
Well done boys! Michal and Michael publish on Aromatic Chlorosulfonylation by Photoredox Catalysis in ChemSusChem.
The group practiced their bowling skills at the SuperBowl in Regensburg. Michael turned out to be highly skilled!
December 2016
The group enjoys the famous Thurn und Taxis Christmas Market to test some Glühwein and sweets.
Tim successfully defends his thesis 'Iron-catalyzed Hydrogenation of Olefins'. Congrats Dr. Gieshoff!
Well done! Denis and Michal publish about metal-free radical thiolations mediated by very weak bases.
The year ends with our obligatory Christmas party with our friends from the second floor and cleaning days.
November 2016
Welcome back to Patrick and Sebastian who finished their master thesis and begin their Ph.D. studies. Patrick investigates Photo-Oxidations with his flow-reactor setup and Sebastian investigates Iron-catalyzed reactions. Good luck!
September 2016
The group welcomes our new postdocs Uttam and Guojiao. Uttam comes from our inorganic friends to teach us in the art of inorganic synthesis. Both investigate iron-catalyzed reactions.
Shining light on mechanism! Michal publishes in Accounts of Chemical Research: Mechanistic Perspectives on Organic Photoredox Catalysis for Aromatic Substitutions.
Conference time! Our group members visit the subgroup meetings of the German Chemical Society (GDCh): ORCHEM - Organic Community, Wöhler Tagung - Inorganic Community and the Photochemistry Conference.
We prolong our ORCHEM trip to Weimar to enjoy riding our bikes (Weimar - Jena and back).
August 2016
Holiday and music festival season! See, how quickly nothing does happen in the labs ....
Michael receives great news from the Chemical Industry Fund. He'll become our third concurrent doctoral fellow of the prestiguous Kekule program from 2016 to 2018. Congratulations!
Our manual for the set-up of a home-built microreactor is out in Beilstein JOC!
July 2016
Deutschland bleibt Weltmeister! The group's Euro cup betting competition was won by Vroni with Michi and Axel trailing. Two days after the Portuguese victory over France in France, TEAM JacobiGschwindWolfGarcia dominate the CHEMSOC competition on home turf and win the newly designed Chem CUP. Congratulations!
June 2016
Dominik Gärtner wins the annual departmental Ph.D. Award for his extraordinarily successful thesis on iron and cobalt catalyzed method developments. Congratulations! (the certificate came with a four digit cheque)
Off-campus group cultivation: We snatch the last seats at the Bavarian theater festival and attend Tom Waits' musical "The black rider" which was outstandingly staged by the Gaertnerplatz theater Munich. The aftershow party brings some big city beats to Regensburg. Great night (and early morning) out!
In late June, temperatures skyrocket in Regensburg. The plazas and riverwalks are crowded with sun worshippers. Our group goes for an early morning bike tour around town before temperatures reach the 30s at noon.
Euro cup fever takes hold of the group! The group's bet competition clearly demystifies Raul's sports knowledge and sees Axel, Vroni and Michael take the lead after the group stage. Sadly, the extra pts. for an Albanian advancement did not come true for Axel.
May 2016
Kevin Burgess (Texas A&M) is our guest for a couple of weeks. Students and coworkers flock to his office to discuss their chemistry. Thanks for the service!
Bernd Plietker (Stuttgart) delivers a riveting lecture of NO(iron) catalysis!
April 2016
Axel starts his sabbatical leave with a holiday trip to the Canaries. On La Gomera, he shares the coastline hotel with our chancellor Angela Merkel.
Vroni joins the group! Welcome! She will be a valuable support in all things synthetic, analytical and administrative. Great to have you!
Reach Out. Michal wins the 1st prize and the public choice award of the 2016 Bavarian Science Slam of FameLab with his entertaining talk on photocatalysis! Congratulations! He will now compete with the top of the pops at the battle of Germany in Bielefeld. Go, go, go!
March 2016
Doctor inda House! Josef crosses the finish line and picks up the black crown! This is lucky number 12 and counting... Josef takes up a new challenge at Hilti in Landsberg/Lech. Our man at the hardware store!
The 2015 trend reports of Nachr. Chem. feature two of our works: The photochemistry chapter highlights Michal's photoredox carbonylation. The fine chemicals chapter dedicates a half page to Dominik's iron-catalyzed cross-coupling with enol acetates. Nachr. Chem. 2016, 64, 276-277 and 280-281.
Some crew members follow in Bavarian footsteps: It's Palmator time at Prössl Bräu in Adlersberg!
February 2016
The winter term ends on Feb 5th. Our group retreats to Lenggries-Brauneck for some serious skiing.
January 2016
Happy New Year everyone!
On Jan 7th, we return to duty with full vigour and wit! This year will see a major turnover in the group with several coworkers leaving the ship and new heads joining. Sebastian Sandl and Patrick Bayer start their Master thesis studies with us. Good luck!
Our New Year's dinner, formerly known as Christmas dinner, took us to the old town and involved a hearty Bavarian feast and a selection of brews and liquor.
