News
July, 2021
Our new lecture series on "photo(redox) catalysis and artificial photosynthesis" came to a successful end.
July, 2021
Our new baby, an emission spectrometer (Fluoromax Plus) from Horiba Jobin Yvon has been delivered and is now ready for use up to 1500 nm.
March/April, 2021
The group moves to the
Technische Universität Braunschweig. From April 1st we are part of the Department of Energy Conversion at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. We are looking forward to an interesting future with new colleagues and cooperation partners. Our new laboratories are located at the Rebenring 31, in 38106 Braunschweig.
March, 2021
There are two more publications:
1.) The master thesis of Florian about cross-coupled phenyl- and alkynyl-based phenanthrolines and their Cu(I) photosensitizers was published in Inorganic Chemistry. Good job!
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2.) The new paper by Robin and co-workers in ChemPhotoChem demonstrates the application of Cu(I) photosensitizers for the photocatalytic CO
2 reduction. Many thanks also to Dr. Schwalbe and Prof. Tschierlei!
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January, 2021
Nektarios has successfully completed his research internship. His main focus was the synthesis of viologen containing ligands and their different metal complexes. Well done!
October, 2020
Our recent publication in Chem. Eur. J. about a Ru(II) photosensitizer containing a fused naphthaloylenebenzene moiety was selected for a
cover picture and awarded as a "
Hot paper". Many thanks to all collaborators!
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Welcome to the homepage of the karnahl research group. We are part of the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart. 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, homogeneous catalysis, hydrogen production, CO
2 reduction,
ATRA and CDC reactions, copper photosensitizers, enzyme models, ligand design, organic synthesis,
structure-property-relationships, catalytic intermediates, photophysics
Last change: 13 Mar, 2018
