The latest results on titanium-catalysed carbon-carbon bond linkages from the working group of Prof. Dr. Sven Doye (Institute of Pure and Applied Chemistry) receive special recognition in issue no. 27 of "Angewandte Chemie" (Volume 2009, pp. 4988-4991) in the "Highlights" section. The research results published by Dipl.-Chem. Raphael Kubiak and Dipl.-Chem . Insa Prochnow over the course of the last year deal with the one-step, waste-free and therefore resource-saving production of industrially important organic chemical compounds, so-called amines, from simple starting materials in the presence of a titanium catalyst. As most amines are currently still produced via multi-stage syntheses, an atomically efficient synthesis route to amines would be of great importance for both academic and industrial applications.

In the "Highlights" section of "Angewandte Chemie", one of the two leading chemistry journals in the world alongside the "Journal of the American Chemical Society", very important new results from original publications from the entire field of chemistry are usually described in a didactically skilful manner by a competent third party in order to make them known to a wider audience. The fact that the Oldenburg research results are now presented and compared in the aforementioned article together with work from two competing research groups from the USA and Canada impressively emphasises the importance of the studies carried out here, which are already being funded as part of the very demanding standard procedure of the German Research Foundation.

The German Research Foundation grants the Institute of Pure and Applied Chemistry funding for the procurement of a new 500 MHz NMR spectrometer in accordance with a proposal for large-scale research equipment drafted by Prof Dr Sven Doye and Prof Dr Thomas Müller.