2019
December
We're feeling ready for the Holidays! Have some peace- and joyful christmas days and a good start into the New Year, everybody!
Snapshot of the day: Photocatalysis in the making:
"When the weather outside is frightful..." The Christmas tree was erected in front of our chemistry department. We wish all our friends and colleagues a joyful Advent season!
November
After some busy months, we spent a relaxed and nice evening in a typically chinese restaurant. Thanks a lot to Guojiao and Patrick for the invitation! We're sad to see you go so soon...
Congratulations! The Graduate School "Nanohybrids" was approved by the DFG and will take up work at the interface of defined nanomaterials syntheses, spectroscopy, and gas sensor applications in early 2020. Our group is participating with investigations into stimuli-responsive molecular linkers between semiconductor/metal nanorods in collaborations with the groups of Carmen Herrmann, Alf Mews, Horst Weller, and Michael Fröba. The program will be headed by our P-Chem mate Alf Mews. Ph.D. student applications are invited from now on! Find out more about it here.
In the year of Alexander von Humboldt's 250th birthday, Mike was awarded a prestigious postdoc fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. Congratulations! This is a great appreciation of Mike's past research achievements and his proposal on photoredox-carboxylation reactions. Well done!
Axel was invited to serve another 4-year-term on the International Advisory Board of ChemSusChem!
Congratulations! After an exhausting finish, our master's students Ursula, Kevin, Nils and Roderich submit their master thesis.
Andrey and Sebastian publish articles about Fe(hmds)2 and Dibenzo[a,e]cyclooctatetraene, respectively, in the Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. Have a look here and there!
A carbene-extended ATRA reaction! Guojiao and Jennifer publish in Angewandte Chemie. Have a look here!
October
Teamwork at its best! Bernhard publishes about semihydrogenation of alkynes catalyzed by a Cobalt/Aluminium nanoalloy. Big thanks go to our collabs from the Fischer and Janiak group. Have a look here!
One of our group members turns from a Masters student into a PhD student - we are glad that you continue to work with us and wish you all the best, Nils Nun, for your next project in our group!
Michael wraps up his time with us. He defended his thesis on Obtober 11th and is the 16th finisher of the group. Glückwunsch, Doktor Neumeier!
Our hardworking group members Josef and Guojiao published an article on iron-catalysed cross coupling reactions. Curious about it? Read the article!
September
The exhibition "100 years University of Hamburg" has opened in late September and is definitely worth a visit! The rooms show numerous objects and memorabilia of important milestones from the first lectures to scientific achievements and the 1960s political riots. Among the displays is the letter that Nobel laureate Otto Stern sent to the higher education authorities to preempt his pending dismissal for being Jewish.
Conference time! The group travels to Aachen for the Wissenschaftsforum 2019 of the German Chemical Society (GDCh). Have a look here!
Hamburg plans to build the world's largest hydrogen plant in the harbor! You want to know more about it? Read an article!
August
We warmly welcome Mikhail Konev, who came across the pond to continue his work and research in organic photochemistry with us. Nice to have you!
Social time! The group enjoyed a sunny day canoeing at the river Doveelbe.
Boom! Our recent article about stereoselective alkyne hydrogenations by a simple iron catalyst was highlighted in the Editors' choice of ChemPubSoc Europe. Have a look here!
July
We are excellent! Our University suceeded in a tough race for special funding amoung the German Universities. We are delighted to receive the title - University of Excellence. Have a look here!
Party time! Our group published three articles within nine days.
Cobaltates with bridging hydrides! Sebastian and Uttam publish their work on cobalt-catalyzed hydrogenation reactions with a total of 13 authors. Big thanks go to our collabs from the de Bruin, Herrmann, Meyer and Wolf group. Have a look here!
Oxygen flows with delight! Patrick, Josef and Michal publish about photo-oxygenations of arylcyclohexenes . Have a look here!
Sustainable! Bernhard publishes a simple, yet efficient iron catalyst for the stereoselective synthesis of alkenes. Big thanks go to our collabs from the Bauer and Zweck group. Have a look here!
June
Sunny! Axel and Sebastian enjoy the time of the White Nights in Finland at the European Meeting of Organometallic Chemistry in Helsinki. Both present lectures about our research.
Delicious! TCI invites the group for a brunch.
May
A warm welcome goes to Ursula Otterpohl, who joins the group for adventures in reductive catalysis together with the Herrmann group.
A normal day in our labs...
April
Our collaboration with the Bauer group (U Paderborn) took us to the DESY synchrotron facilities in Hamburg. Determinations of oxidation states, coordination numbers, and neighbouring atoms were performed by XANES and EXAFS studies. Stay tuned for the upcoming publications ;-)
March
Iron it out! Tim publishes a book chapter about C=C Hydrogenations with Iron Group Metal Catalysts in Non-Noble Metal Catalysis: Molecular Approaches and Reactions. Have a look here!
A warm welcome goes to Stefan Reichert, who enters the ship for a joint project with the Neffe group!
February
Efrain wraps up his time with us. He defended his thesis on February 27th and is the 15th finisher of the group. Felicidades, doctor Reyes-Rodriguez!
January
Bridging the gap! R. A. Fischer from Munich gives us an impressive overview about brass-related metal clusters.
A warm welcome goes to Jenny Börger who joins us for metal-catalyzed hydrofunctionalization reactions. Good luck!
The New Year brings good news! Uttam's Manganese cubane cluster has been published in Angewandte Chemie. Big thanks go to our collabs from the Meyer group. Have a look here!
