This RTG will give excellent students the opportunity of a highly qualifying scientific education at an internationally competitive level. The research topic “ion pairs in molecular reactivity” will provide in a natural way interdisciplinary cooperations, transfers of concepts and a broad and high impact in academia and industry. In addition, the topic ion pairs will allow to combine model systems, methods and perspectives from various chemical disciplines in a unique and focussed way based on their common physical properties. Thus, this RTG provides an ideal basis for a broad and stimulating education programme including international speakers and research stays for PhD students.
Ion pairs are omnipresent in chemical reactions and provide both a huge potential for synthesis and catalysis and so far unsolved challenges for experiment and theory to elucidate their structures and reaction mechanisms correctly. This is due to the basic physical properties common to all ion pairs, the electrostatic interactions between counter ions, which combine the highest interaction energies of all intermolecular forces with the lowest distance dependence (r-1). As a result, there is a contrast of numerous famous and highly effective ion pair reagents and catalysts in synthesis and only very limited examples for an experimental access to structures or a rationalization of ion pair effects.
P1: Chiral Diselenophosphoric Acids: Excellent Reactivities, Strong Ion Pair Character, Salt Aggregates and an Intrinsic H-Bond Detection Tool
Prof. Dr. Ruth M. Gschwind / Prof. Dr. Marcel Schorpp
P2: Iminium Catalysis: Impact of Aggregation and Configuration on Reactivity and Stereoselectivity
Prof. Dr. Ruth M. Gschwind / Prof. Dr. Merle Behr
P3: Understanding Properties of Dynamic Ion-Pair Clusters as Precursors for PET Induced Radical Reactions
Prof. Dr. Julia rehbein / prof. Dr. Burkhard könig
P4: Ion-Pairing and Aggregation Effects in White Phosphorus Functionalization
Prof. Dr. Robert wolf / prof. Dr. Ivana ivanović-burmazović
P5: Explainable Machine Learning for Prediction of Aggregate Structures and Reactivities Shared Across Different Reaction Classes
Prof. Dr. Merle Behr / Prof. Dr. Hendrik Zipse
P6: High-Pressure Methodology for Investigating Ion-Aggregate Pairing and its Impact on Chemical Reactions
Prof. Dr. Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović / Prof. Dr. Ruth M. Gschwind
P7: Lewis Base Catalysis with Pyridinamide Ion Pairs
Prof. Dr. Hendrik Zipse / Prof. Dr. Robert Wolf
P8: Spectroscopy of Ionic Aggregates and its Impact on Photocatalytic Applicability
Prof. Dr. Patrick Nürnberger / Prof. Dr. Dominik Horinek
P9: Modulating the Electron Transfer Kinetic in Photoredox Catalysis by Ion-Pair Aggregates
Prof. Dr. Burkhard König / Prof. Dr. Patrick Nürnberger
P10: Ion-Pairing and Aggregation Effects on Transition Metal Hydride Intermediates
Prof. Dr. Robert Wolf / Prof. Dr. Julia Rehbein
P11: Activation of Halogen Bond Donors by Ion-Pairing
Prof. Dr. Marcel Schorpp / Prof. Dr. Robert Wolf
P12: Ion Pair Catalysis in Heterogeneous Solvent Environments
Prof. Dr. Dominik Horinek / Prof. Dr. Ruth M. Gschwind