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New Publication in Chemistry - A European Journal

The most recent paper "Stereoselective Synthesis of Tertiary Allylic Amines by Titanium-Catalyzed Hydroaminoalkylation of Alkynes with Tertiary Amines" by RTG PhD students Tobias Kaper and Dennis Geik has just been accepted for publication in Chemistry - A European Journal. The reviewers assessed that the results reported in the research article are "of great significance" (top 20%). Congratulations!

The article is also featured in the "Hot Topic: C-H Activation" section of the Wiley online library, and part of the Special Collection "In Memory of Klaus Hafner".

You can access the article here: doi.org/10.1002/chem.202103931
the "Hot Topic: C-H Activation" here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2193-5815.hottopic-c-h-activation
and the special collection "In Memory of Klaus Hafner" here: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-0690.KlausHafner

T. Kaper, D. Geik, F. Fornfeist, M. Schmidtmann, S. Doye, "Stereoselective Synthesis of Tertiary Allylic Amines by Titanium-Catalyzed Hydroaminoalkylation of Alkynes with Tertiary Amines", Chem. Eur. J. 2021, e202103931, DOI: 10.1002/chem.202103931.


Oldenburg Symposium on Chemical Bond Activation 2022 - Registration Now Open

The 4th Oldenburg Symposium on Chemical Bond Activation will take place on March 7th, 2022 as an online event. Participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral contributions or the online poster session.

There will be talks by four invited speakers:

Prof. Dr. Barbara Lechner, Professor for Functional Nanomaterials, Technical University of Munich
Prof. Dr. Sven Schneider, Professor for Inorganic Chemistry, Georg August University Göttingen
Dr. Tristan Wagner, Group Leader, Microbial Metabolism Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Bremen
Dr. Manfred Manßen, Postdoc, Anwander Group, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen

For more information, registration and abstract submission, please go to the website: uol.de/en/grk-2226/oldenburg-symposium


New Publication in Angewandte Chemie

The communication "Indium-Catalysed Transfer Hydrogenation for the Reductive Cyclisation of 2-Alkynyl Enones towards Trisubstituted Furans" by RTG PhD student Luomo Li has been accepted for publication in the journal Angewandte Chemie.

You can access the paper here (German edition): doi.org/10.1002/ange.202109266 or here (international edition): doi.org/10.1002/anie.202109266.

L. Li, S. Kail, S. M. Weber, G. Hilt
"Indium-katalysierte Transferhydrierung zur reduktiven Cyclisierung von 2-Alkinylenonen zu trisubstituierten Furanen"/"Indium-Catalysed Transfer-Hydrogenation for the Reductive Cyclisation of 2-Alkynyl Enones towards Trisubstituted Furans"
Angew. Chem. 2021, 133, 23853-23858; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 23661-23666.
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202109266
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202109266


Registration now open: Women in Science and Industry 2021!

The online event "Women in Science and Industry 2021" will take place on October 27th 2021, starting at 9:00. Female speakers from different chemistry-related fields will talk about their career paths, answer questions and provide tips for aspiring scientists.

For more information and registration, please go to the website: uol.de/en/grk-2226/wsi2021.


New Video

Would you like to learn about the photoconversion of 2-propanol on rutile titania? Then let RTG PhD student Jessica Kräuter tell you all about it in this new video!
The video shows the different setups which were used to analyze the investigated model reaction, which is of interest for chemical industries. It is based on a paper published earlier this year in collaboration with the Libuda group at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg.

You can access the paper here: doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c10734

J. Kräuter, L. Mohrhusen, F. Waidhas, O. Brummel, J. Libuda, K. Al-Shamery, "Photoconversion of 2-Propanol on Rutile Titania: A Combined Liquid-Phase and Surface Science Study", J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 3355-3367.


Publication in Angewandte Chemie

The communication "Titanium-Catalyzed Intermolecular Hydroaminoalkylation of Alkenes with Tertiary Amines" by RTG PhD students Dennis Geik and Michael Rosien has just been accepted for publication in the journal Angewandte Chemie.

In the paper, catalytic  intermolecular hydroaminoalkylation of alkenes with various tertiaryalkylamines and excellent regioselectivity at low temperatures is presented. The work was rated as "highly important (top 20%)" and even as "very important (top 5%)" by two of the reviewers, respectively. The paper is also featured in the "Hot Topic: C-H Activation" section of the Wiley online library.

You can access the article here (German Edition): doi.org/10.1002/ange.202100431
or here (International Edition): doi.org/10.1002/anie.202100431
and the Hot Topic: C-H Activation here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2193-5815.hottopic-c-h-activation

D. Geik, M. Rosien, J. Bielefeld, M. Schmidtmann, S. Doye, "Titanium‐Catalyzed Intermolecular Hydroaminoalkylation of Alkenes with Tertiary Amines", Angew. Chem. 2021, 133, 10024-10028; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 9936-9940.


New Cover Feature

The most recent paper by RTG PhD students Tobias Kaper and Dennis Geik was chosen for a cover feature in Chemistry - A European Journal!
The communication covers the conversion of alkynes into allylic amines within an unbelievably short reaction time of 4 hours, with broad scope, high yields, and excellent stereoselectivity to provide access to synthetically useful products. The paper is also featured in the "Hot Topic: C-H Activation" section of the Wiley online library.

You can access the communication here: doi.org/10.1002/chem.202100238
the cover here: doi.org/10.1002/chem.202100495
and the Hot Topic: C-H Activation here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2193-5815.hottopic-c-h-activation

T. Kaper,  M. Fischer, H. Thye, D. Geik, M. Schmidtmann, R. Beckhaus, S. Doye, "Intermolecular Hydroaminoalkylation of Alkynes", Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 6899-6903.


Oldenburg Symposium on Chemical Bond Activation - Registration Now Open

The 3rd Oldenburg Symposium on Chemical Bond Activation will take place on March 8th, 2021 as an online event.

There will be talks by five invited speakers:
Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ian Tonks
PD Dr. Andreas Vorholt
Dr. Alexandr Shafir
Dr. Malte Fischer

Furthermore, participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral contributions or the online poster session.

For more information, registration and abstract submission, please go to the website:

uol.de/en/grk-2226/symposium


Cover Picture in ChemPhysChem

The article "Electronic Transitions in Different Redox States of Trinuclear 5,6,11,12,17,18-Hexaazatrinaphthylene-Bridged Titanium Complexes: Spectroelectrochemistry and Quantum Chemistry" by RTG alumnus Dr. Aleksandra Markovic and RTG PhD student Luca Gerhards was selected for a cover picture in ChemPhysChem!
In the publication, the trinuclear [(Cp2Ti)3HATN(Ph)6] complex was studied. Voltammetric analysis showed six 1e oxidations and three 1e reductions. First principle calculations on TDDFT and CASSCF levels were used show that the ground state is formed by spin states of different multiplicity, explaining the observed electronic transitions in the UV‐vis‐NIR ranges.

You can access the article here: doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202000547,
the cover picture here: doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202000891
and the University's press release (in German) here: www.presse.uni-oldenburg.de/mit/2020/205.html

A. Markovic, L. Gerhards, P. Sander, C. Dosche, T. Klüner, R. Beckhaus, G. Wittstock, "Electronic Transitions in Different Redox States of Trinuclear 5,6,11,12,17,18‐Hexaazatrinaphthylene‐Bridged Titanium Complexes: Spectroelectrochemistry and Quantum Chemistry", ChemPhysChem 2020, 21, 2506-2514.

 


Report in "Mitteilungsblatt Umweltchemie und Ökotoxikologie"

RTG alumnus Julian Küppers and RTG PhD student Nico Mitschke have written a report about their work on anaerobic degradation of hydrocarbons for the GDCh division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology. To learn more about how bacteria activate C-H bonds under anoxic conditions, download the current issue of "Mitteilungsblatt Umweltchemie und Ökotoxikologie" here (text in German):

J. Küppers, N. Mitschke, Mitt. Umweltchem. Ökotox. 2020, 3, 85-89.


New Video

Earlier this year, the paper "Insights into Spectator-Directed Catalysis: CO Adsorption on Amine-Capped Platinum Nanoparticles on Oxide Supports" was published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. In the publication, which was co-authored by RTG PhD alumnus Gabriele Tomaschun, the authors employed amines as spectator molecules on Pt nanoparticles to achieve selective surface site activation in heterogeneous catalysis. If you want to learn more,  check out the new video above!

You can access the paper here: doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c06086

M. Siemer, G. Tomaschun, T. Klüner, P. Christopher, K. Al-Shamery, "Insights into Spectator-Directed Catalysis: CO Adsorption on Amine-Capped Platinum Nanoparticles on Oxide Supports", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 27765−27776.


Cover Feature

This was definitely not a "Schnapsidee"! (Schnapsidee: German proverb that describes a silly or impractical idea, often occurring after one too many glasses of alcohol.)
The communication "Intermolecular Hydroaminoalkylation of Propadiene" from our RTG PhD students Tobias Kaper and Michael Warsitz was selected for a cover feature in the journal Chemistry - A European Journal. The cover shows how the simplest allene 1,3-propadiene is employed in intermolecular hydroaminoalkylation reactions with secondary amines to give the corresponding allylamines in high regioselectivities. The referees attributed great significance to the reported results - less than a fifth of the submitted manuscripts receive such a positive review. As such, the communication is listed as a "Hot Paper"!

You can find the communication here: doi.org/10.1002/chem.202003484
and the cover here: doi.org/10.1002/chem.202004119.

T. Kaper, M. Fischer, M. Warsitz, R. Zimmering, R. Beckhaus, S. Doye, Intermolecular Hydroaminoalkylation of Propadiene, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 14300-14304.


Women in Science and Industry 2020

The online event "Women in Science and Industry 2020" will take place on November 4th 2020, starting at 9:00. Female speakers from different chemistry-related fields will talk about their career paths, answer questions and provide tips for aspiring scientists.

For more information, please refer to the website uol.de/en/grk-2226/wsi.

Participation is free of charge.


New Cover Feature

The communication "Titanium‐Catalyzed Hydroaminoalkylation of Ethylene" from our RTG PhD students Michael Rosien and Iris Töben was selected for a cover feature in the renowned journal Chemistry - A European Journal! The cover shows a simplified titanium‐catalyzed hydroaminoalkylation reaction cycle of ethylene with secondary amines in front of the Oldenburg Palace.
The referees attributed great significance to the reported results - less than a fifth of the submitted manuscripts receive such a positive review.

You can find the cover here: doi.org/10.1002/chem.202000084
and the communication doi.org/10.1002/chem.201904502.

M. Rosien, I. Töben, M. Schmidtmann, R. Beckhaus, S. Doye, Titanium‐Catalyzed Hydroaminoalkylation of Ethylene, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 2138-2142.


Workshop "Future Perspectives in Catalysis"/Poster Prize for Lars Mohrhusen

The workshop "Future Perspectives in Catalysis" took place 2nd - 6th September, 2019 in Bremerhaven. The event, which was organized by the PCAM-Network in cooperation with the Research Training Group "Chemical Bond Activation", included lectures, poster sessions, a fishbowl discussion and a think tank for PhD students.

RTG PhD student Lars Mohrhusen was awarded with a poster prize. Congratulations!

 Access to the University's press release: www.presse.uni-oldenburg.de/mit/2019/293.html


Poster Prize vor Lars Mohrhusen

RTG PhD student Lars Mohrhusen was awarded with a poster prize at the 118th General Assembly of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry, which took place in Jena on 30 May - 1 June 2019. Congratulations!
 


New Cover Feature

The communication "Theoretical Studies on the Hydroaminoalkylation of Alkenes with Primary and Secondary Amines" was chosen for a cover feature in Chemistry - A European Journal! First author Luisa Stelter, who was supported by the RTG, obtained the published results while working on her Bachelor thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Klüner.

You can find the cover here: doi.org/10.1002/chem.201803392
the communication here: doi.org/10.1002/chem.201802699
and the University's press release (German) here: www.presse.uni-oldenburg.de/mit/2018/354.html.

L. Stelter, T. Teusch, J. Bielefeld, S. Doye, T. Klüner, Theoretical Studies on the Hydroaminoalkylation of Alkenes with Primary and Secondary Amines, Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24,12485-12489.


Press Release: "Anaerobic bacteria as a treasure chest"

The University's Press & Communication department has published a new press release about the work of RTG member Prof. Dr. Ralf Rabus.

The group performs research on an extraordinary species of bacteria that degrade particularly stable organic compounds, without the need of oxygen. They thus represent a downright treasure chest for novel biochemical reactions, which could help in the remediation of polluted soils.

 You can access the press release (in German) here: www.presse.uni-oldenburg.de/mit/2019/070.html


"From the witches cauldrons in materials science"/
Poster prize for Jessica Kräuter

The scientific meeting "From the witches cauldrons in materials science" ("Aus den Hexenküchen der Materialwissenschaften") took place on April 29th and 30th, 2018 in Goslar. We were again able to win excellent female scientists as speakers for the conference. The meeting was held jointly by the Center of Interface Science and the Research Training Group "Chemical Bond Activation", and was also supported by the SFB 1083 "Structure and Dynamics of Internal Interfaces".

At the event, RTG PhD student Jessica Kräuter was awarded with the prize for the best poster. Congratulations!


Research Training Group 2226 "Chemical Bond Activation" to be established at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft has approved the establishment of a research training group (RTG) at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. The DFG will support the project financially with ca. 3,5 million Euro, initially for a time period of 4,5 years.

Starting in October 2017, twelve PhD students will start their research on the topic of chemical bond activation.

 You can access the press release here: www.presse.uni-oldenburg.de/mit/2017/166.html

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