Welcome to the Mastalerz Group
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
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19.03.2025 - Paper accepted! Congrats to Dennis Reinhard! His paper on the Dead Ends and Detours Towards a Rigid Hexasalicylic Aldehyde Precursor for Triptycene-Based Porous Materials was accepted in ChemistryEurope! Dennis developed a route towards a rigid congener of the hexasalicylic aldehyde he investigated in previous work. On-route to this unique building block he faced several dead ends and had to find detours to finally obtain his target structure. In this paper, we describe the story in detail and furthermore used the target compound as building block for salphen based porous materials in first tests. This work was only possible because of Dennis' impressive persistence and drive to tackle this synthetic challenge. If you are interested in the story, click here or directly on the picture on the left. Great job Dennis! |
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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. |
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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! |
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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! |
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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. |
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Funding
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