Browsing Fakultät für Chemie (inkl. GAUSS) by Advisor & Referee "Meyer, Franc Prof. Dr."
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Molecular Zinc(II) Complexes for the CO₂/epoxide Copolymerisation
(2025-09-03)In this thesis, series of novel {ONO}-pincer zinc(II) complexes were synthesized and evaluated as catalysts for the copolymerization of CO₂ and cyclohexene oxide (CHO) under both high (50 bar) and ambient (1 bar) CO₂ ... -
Magnetic Properties and Electron Transfer Coupled Spin Transitions of Molecular Prussian Blue Analogues
(2025-08-29)Prussian Blue, discovered in the early 18th century, is renowned for its intense blue color arising from metal-to-metal charge transfer. Replacing one of the Fe centers with other transition metals produces Prussian Blue ... -
Reductive Elimination in Transition Metal Complexes: Selectivity and Trends across the d-Block
(2025-08-22)Transition metal-catalyzed cross-coupling chemistry requires more insights into the details of diverse and complex reaction mechanisms of different metals and the factors influencing them. This thesis aimed to investigate ... -
Axial and Equatorial Ligand Effects of Bioinspired Tetracarbene Iron Models for Heme and Non-Heme Enzymes
(2025-06-12)The selective oxidation of hydrocarbons with sustainable oxidants is still a challenging reaction in industry. In order to create a sustainable future—especially in regard of progressing climate change—finding alternative ... -
Exploring Transient Dialumene and Diazido-Dialane: Low Oxidation State Aluminium Chemistry based on a Hybrid Ligand
(2025-06-12)This thesis focuses on the exploration and development of the hybrid NacNac-Box-akin ligand, DippNac-Indole (DNI), and its application in stabilizing low oxidation state aluminium complexes. The study is structured to ... -
Preorganization within a pyrazolato-bridged bis-β-diketiminato dinickel frame as a key tool to access terminal sulfides and synergistically stabilized intermediates for acetyl-CoA synthase mimetic thioester formation
(2025-05-21)Bimetallic complexes are frequently employed in natural enzymes and in applications such as imaging, targeting, and catalysis, in order to exploit the synergy between two metal centers or to combine different functionali ... -
Cooperative Activation of Small Molecules on Preorganized Dinuclear Cobalt Complexes
(2025-03-14)The coordination chemistry of late-transition-metal dinitrogen complexes remains a topic of considerable interest. In this study, a pyrazolate-based dinucleating nacnac ligand was employed to construct a series of bimetallic ... -
On the chemistry of sulfur: Development of NOS bridge model systems and Stereoretentive 2,3-bis(trifluoromethyl)cyclopropanation of heteroarenes via sulfonium salts
(2025-02-05)This thesis presents research conducted across two distinct projects in sulfur chemistry. The first project focused on the synthesis of model systems based on biphenyl, xanthene, and triazamacrocyclic scaffolds to investigate ... -
Reductive Small Molecule Transformations with Pyrazolate-Based Bimetallic Complexes
(2025-01-23)The activation of small molecules (NO, O2, CO, CO2, N2, etc.) is important in a multitude of fields such as biology, medicine and industrial catalysis. Many synthetic catalysts were inspired by the active sites of ... -
3d-Metall-Käfig-Komplexe als Modelle für aktive Zentren von nicht-Häm Proteinen
(2024-10-22)This thesis presents a broad study on a new ligand system, specially designed for the mimicry of the quasi-chelating coordination by amino acid side chain residues in enzymatic pockets. The ligand system is based on an ... -
Selectivity controlling factors in the reductive elimination of coinage metal complexes
(2024-07-12)In this thesis, reductive elimination reactions and their selectivity-determining factors were investigated using ESI and tandem-MS. To this matter, square-planar coordinated coinage- metalate complexes bearing ... -
Femtosecond spectroscopy of charge-transfer dynamics in self-assembled Pd(II) based donor-acceptor/host-guest cages and heterobinuclear alkyne-bridged W(II)-Ru(II) and W(II)-Ir(III) complexes
(2024-04-11)Using femtosecond UV/vis-pump-UV/vis-probe and -midIR-probe absorption spectroscopy the charge-transfer dynamics of self-assembling donor-acceptor Pd(II) coordination cages and heterobinuclear alkyne-bridged W(II)-Ru(II) ... -
Exploiting the Disulfide/Thiol Switch for Photoinduced Proton-Coupled Multielectron Transfer Reactivity
(2024-03-27)Energy storage and efficient release has become a pivotal issue for our society relying progressively on renewable energy sources. The dichotomy between harvesting the sun’s energy in daylight hours, and requiring it the ... -
Sustainable Ruthenium- and Rhodium-Catalyzed C−H Activations with Photochemistry and Electrochemistry
(2024-03-18)Cross-coupling chemistry stands out as a fundamental tool in synthetic organic chemistry for forging C‒C and C‒Het bonds. However, the necessity for substrate prefunctionalization imposes significant sustainability challenges ... -
Chemical Synthesis of Alpha-Synuclein Proteins via Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis and Native Chemical Ligation
(2024-03-05)Parts of this chapter have already been published and have been adapted from the original publication: L. M. Gatzemeier, F. Meyer, U. Diederichsen, T. F. Outeiro, Chemical Synthesis of Alpha-Synuclein Proteins via Solid-Phase ... -
Tailoring and Exploiting Magnetic Anisotropy in Low Coordinate 3d Transition Metal Complexes.
(2023-07-04)Among 3d transition metal based SMMs, Co(II) SMMs is the most-studied group owning to the high-spin electronic configuration (CoII, d7) which yields second-order spin-orbit coupling or even first-order spin-orbit coupling. ... -
Bioinspired dioxygen activation with copper complexes supported by Bis(oxazoline) and Bis(benzimidazole) ligands
(2023-06-20)Many synthetic complexes modeling the oxy form of the tyrosinase have been developed and have shown a preference for either the side-on peroxodicopper(II) (P) or the bis(-oxo)dicopper(III) (O) core depending on the ... -
New Synthetic Analogues for Biological Fe/S Clusters
(2023-03-20)Iron-sulfur (Fe/S) clusters are omnipresent and are essential components in virtually all life forms due to their versatile structures and functions. Biological systems extensively employ Fe/S clusters, especially with ... -
Tetradentate NHC/Thiolato and NHC/Alcoholato Hybrid Scaffolds – A Nickel(II) Complex as Bidentate Metalloligand in 3d Transition Metal Chemistry
(2023-03-08)Research and development of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-based ligands has flourished in recent decades. Herein, The new bis-imidazolinium proligands were designed and synthesized to serve as tetradentate bis(NHC)-dithiolato ... -
Bioinspired Dinuclear Copper Complexes for Oxygen Activation
(2022-12-06)This thesis explores new bioinspired bimetallic copper complexes for the activation of dioxygen. Therefore, two novel TACN/pyrazolate ligand scaffolds with reduced steric hindrance were introduced and successfully established. ...