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13.06.2024 - Mastalerz Group on Conferences

Mastalerz group members have been actively participating in two conferences recently.

Liping, Christoph and Sven (see picture on the left, Copyright H. Wessely, L. Hake and U. Blank) were giving talks and Moritz presented a poster at the 12th Workshop on Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers (KOPO 2024) in Bad Honnef.

Furthermore, Anika, Lisa, Xuping and Yogendra presented posters at the SupraChem 2024 in Ulm were the Mastalerz group was present with ten group members in total (see picture on the left).

On both conferences, our newest findings of projects within the SFB 1249 as well as our ERC-Synergy Grant TACY have been presented.

04.03.2024 - PhD Defense!

Congrats to Mattes Holsten to the successful defense of his PhD thesis with the title "Löslichkeitsmodifizierte poröse organische Käfigverbindungen".

Mattes was able to decorate 2,7,14-triaminotriptycene, a building block commonly used in our working group, with solubilizing groups to obtain a series of Soluble Congeners of Prior Insoluble Shape-Persistent Imine Cages. This opens up future solution-based modifications and applications for these compounds. Furthermore, Mattes managed to obtain Single Crystals of Insoluble Porous Salicylimine Cages to investigate their packing as well as the porosity in solid state. Some of those crystal structures we were chasing since almost a decade.

It was a pleasure for us to be a part of Mattes' academic journey, we wish him all the best for his future, thank him for everything he did for the group and he will be missed as a member of our team.

04.03.2024 - Farewell to Bahiru

We want to say goodbye to Dr. Bahiru Punja Benke.

Bahiru joined our group about six years ago and applied our triptycene end-capping strategy to turn insoluble pigments such as indigo derivatives into soluble dyes. Moreover, he investigated the Dimeric and trimeric catenation of giant chiral [8 + 12] imine cubes driven by weak supramolecular interactions where he gained some fundamental understanding about the driving forces of catenation events and isolated some spectacular structures, which we were able to publish in Nature Chemistry. Furthermore, his work was highlighted as "Synfacts of the Month".

His expertise and the willingness to share his knowledge with others are just two out of countless reasons why we was a great person to have conversations with and he really will be missed in the group. Thus, we want to thank him for everything he did for the group and he will be missed as a member of our team.

01.03.2024 - Price awarded to Tobias!

Huge congrats to Dr. Tobias Kirschbaum!!

Tobi was awarded the price of the Dr. Alexander und Dr. Rosemarie Bauer-Stiftung in 2023 for his outstanding PhD thesis with the name "Chirale polyzyklische aromatische Kohlenwasserstoffe mit Affensattel-Topologie"!!

After completing his bachelor and master theses as well as a PhD in our group, Tobias moved to the R&D division of the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF in Darmstadt, Germany, to work on polymer additives.

So again, huge congrats to Tobi for this price and all the best for your future!!

Also thanks to Giada Galow for the nice picture.