Welcome to the Mastalerz Group

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!

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.

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.

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

Great job Moritz!

28.10.2024 - Ceremonial Opening of INF272

On October 24th we celebrated the ceremonial opening of our laboratory building INF272. We celebrated with around 120 guests such as the secretary of state from the ministery of finance Gisela Splett, the ministerial director or the ministry of science, research and art Dr. Hans J. Reiter, the vice-rector for research and digitalization of Heidelberg University Prof. Dr. Andreas Dreuw,  the mayor of the city of Heidelberg Prof. Dr. Eckart Würzner and of course representatives of our institute and the state office for assets and construction.

In INF272, teaching and research labs can be found on four levels with the newest equipment and organizational considerations for the best possible research environment. Our group is located in the whole 3rd floor with additional labs in 2nd and 1st floor.

In the name of everybody working, teaching and learning in INF272, we want to thank everybody involved for this exiting journey and especially this tremendous outcome.

For the newsroom article of Heidelberg University click here. And further news about INF272 can be found here and here. More pictures will follow soon.

28.10.2024 - Mastalerz Group at the GRK Meeting

Pooja and Fabio were visiting Stuttgart to attend the the 1st Annual GRK Workshop on Mixed Ionic-Electronic Transport of GRK 2948. Fabio contributed with a talk about the "Synthesis of Cage Precursors for the Functionalization of Carbonbased Nanomaterials" (see picture on the left). The workshop was located at IBZ Eulenhof and was a platform for exchange between the GRK-members especially on the PhD level but also to get insights from PIs to encourage future collaborations and fine tune existing ones.

Thanks to the organizers and the whole GRK for this nice event.