News
November, 2024
I am happy to announce that I have now officially completed my habilitation and can call myself a
"Privatdozent" (PD). The inaugural lecture on 20
th of November was a great success. Once again, many
thanks to all the guests and supporters.
November, 2024
After his Bachelor and Master theses, Kurt is now starting his doctoral thesis with me. We are very
happy about this and wish you every success.
September, 2024
Max delivered a great bachelor thesis on “Photocatalytic dehalogenations with copper(I) complexes
and their analysis via gas chromatography”. Now we are ready for further photoredox catalysis. Great.
September, 2024
Kurt successfully completed his Master's thesis entitled ‘Design and Characterisation of
Bichromophoric Copper(I) Based Photosensitizers’. He was able to prepare four novel Cu(I) complexes
and even obtained two crystal structures. Congratulations!
August, 2024
Micha successfully passed the final scientific lecture and colloquium in course of his habilitation. The public inaugural lecture in the habilitation procedure will take place on November 20
th, 2024 at 17.00 in the lecture hall HR 30.1, Hagenring 30.
August, 2024
Exploring the Potential of Al(III) Photosensitizers for Energy Transfer Reactions. The paper by Volkan and Anastasiia has finally been accepted in Inorg. Chem. Congratulations! More information about photoactive and earth-abundant Al(III) complexes can be found here:
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June, 2024
Max has begun his Bachelor's thesis. His topic is: Photocatalytic dehalogenation reactions using Cu(I) complexes and their investigation via gas chromatography. A warm welcome to the group.
April, 2024
Kurt started with his master thesis dealing with the "Design and Characterization of Bichromophoric Copper(I) Based Photosensitizers". What a cool research topic. Welcome back!
Welcome to the homepage of the karnahl research group. We are part of the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. The homepage provides an overview about our current research interests, recent publications and open positions. For further details please check the different pages and enjoy reading.
”... I believe that water will be one day employed as fuel,
... water will be the coal of the future.“
Jules Verne ("The Mysterious Island", 1874)
Keywords
solar fuels, artificial photosynthesis, photocatalytic hydrogen production, CO
2 reduction, photoredox catalysis, singlet oxygen generation, reductive dehalogenation, design and synthesis of novel organic ligands and their transition metal complexes (especially Cu, Al, Ru and Ir), copper photosensitizers, enzyme models, ligand design, organic synthesis, structure-property relationships, catalytic intermediates, photochemistry and photophysics of coordination compounds
Last change: 13 Sep, 2024
