News
November, 2018
Our new full paper about Cu(I) photosensitizers with amazing long excited state lifetimes is now online:
Read here.
October, 2018
Bernd Maier has completed his bachelor thesis and Sarah Maier came back for her master thesis.
September, 2018
Our new article about the comparison of copper with ruthenium photosensitizers is online.
Read here.
August, 2018
Fabian Zills successfully defended his Bachelor thesis about the study of photoredoxcatalysis using Cu(I) complexes.
July, 2018
Our new publication about the characterization and photocatalytic activity of photo- and plasma-deposited nanoparticles on titania layers just appeared in Nanomaterials 2018, 8(7), 502.
Read here.
June, 2018
Tatjana Basile successfully finished her Bachelor thesis working on imidazo-phenantroline complexes. Furthermore, Bernd Maier started with the design of new diimine ligands containing an additional electron storage.
April, 2018
Martin Rentschler started his master thesis working on novel chelate ligands for the stabilization of heteroleptic Cu(I) complexes.
March, 2018
Our joint project with Stefanie Tschierlei (Ulm University) has been selected for participation in the DFG Priority Program SPP2102 - Light-controlled reactivity of metal complexes.
Link to SPP website.
March, 2018
The impact of the type of reactor and the catalytic conditions on the photocatalytic H
2 production was published in ChemistrySelect.
Read here. Please, also see the new CoverPicture.
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
