Welcome to the Mastalerz Group

2024 Group Photo 1a

About the Lab


The Mastalerz Group is a diverse team of enthusiastic organic chemists that do not fear to tackle multistep syntheses of fascinating three-dimensional compounds such as shape-persistent chiral organic cage compounds or unique polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with negative curvature such as monkey-saddles or azulene containing PAHs.

For more details, see our research section.

If you are interested to join our highly motivated team, find more information here.
 
 

News


2025 Ulysse Gross

 

13.02.2025 - New Internship student!

We would like to welcome Ulysse J. Gross as Erasmus plus research internship student to our group. Ulysse studies at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. After a stay at MIT in Prof. Dr. Tim Swagers lab, Ulysse joined our group for a 5 months stay were he will work on the development of three-dimensional structures within our ERC-funded TACY project.

We look forward to this exiting project and to work with you.

   
       
2025 Toc Jochen Faujasite 3

06.02.2025 - Paper accepted!

Congrats to Jochen!

His paper on Supramolecular Interpenetrated Faujasite-like Crystals from [4+4] Imine Cages was accepted in Chem. Eur. J.!

Jochen identified a tribromoarene subunit of his [2+3]- and [4+4]-cages as novel crystal-engineering synthon and studied several solvatomorphs of these cages. One of the solvatomorphs resembles a supramolecular interpenetrated Faujasite-type structure.

If you are interested in the story, click here or directly on the picture on the left.

Great job Jochen!

   
       
2024 Toc Simone + Tobi_

13.11.2024 - Paper accepted!

Congrats to Tobias and Simone!

Their paper on Suppressing Inversion of a Chiral Polycyclic Aromatic Aza Monkey Saddle by Molecular Editing was accepted in Helv. Chim. Acta.!

The paper is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Marcel Mayor on the occasion of his 60th birthday and we want to say "happy birthday" in this way once more.

In this paper, a chiral aza monkey saddle is converted to a chromene monkey saddle by selective insertion of three oxygens in high yield. The obtained monkey saddle is configurationally stable even at 220 °C for 47 days and the molecular bowl is deepened and rigidified.

If you are interested in the story, click here or directly on the picture on the left.

Great job Tobias and Simone!

   
       
2024 Mel Bruttel

 

 

04.11.2024 - New PhD student!

We would like to welcome (back) Melanie Bruttel as PhD to our group. Melanie studied at Heidelberg University and did her bachelor thesis with Dr. Tobias Schaub. After her master thesis in our group where she investigated potential building blocks toward carbon nanobelts, Melanie will focus on novel synthetic methodologies in this field and try to broaden the scope of feasible reactions to create 3D nanostructures.

We look forward to this exiting project and to work with you.

   
       
2024 Toc Ms - Butafulvene

04.11.2024 - Paper accepted!

Congrats to Moritz!

His paper in which we are Revisiting Butafulvene formation by Thermal Dimerization of Fluorene-Based Dialkynes - Effects of Aromatic Substitutents was accepted in Chem. Eur. J.!

In this paper, the dimerization of fluorene based dialkynes that was originally described by Hopf et al. was rediscovered and substitution effects on the dimerization tendency, the (anti)aromaticity and the optoelectronic properties of the resulting butafulvenes were investigated. Furthermore, Moritz was able to underline the proposed mechanism with quantum chemical calculations.

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Great job Moritz!

   
       

 

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Funding


Funding Update 2022

For more Information about SFB 1248 click here.

 

 

 

 

 
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