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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16.05.2023 - Paper accepted! Congrats to Tobi! His paper on the Synthesis of a Benzotrisazulene via a Trioxobenzotrisazulene was accepted in Chem. Eur. J.!! Using the coupling/condensation-cascade he established during his studies on the monkey-saddles, Tobi was able to synthesis a contorted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) with three azulene units. In-depth analysis by e.g. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction, UV/Vis-spectroscopy as well as quantum chemical calculations gave insights in the molecular and electronic structure of the Benzotrisazulene. If you are interested in the story, click here or directly on the picture on the left. Great job Tobi! |
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12.05.2023 - New (Old) Group Members and Scientific Guest We would like to welcome two new group members and a Scientific Guest.
After his Master Thesis in our group Cornelius Daiber started his PhD Thesis in our group. He will work on our ERC-funded TACY-project and will explore ways toward cyclacene and other belt shaped macromolecules.
Rahul Yadav studied chemistry at the University of Delhi in Dehli, India and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Madras, India. After a Master Thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Mahiuddin Baidya working on Organo-Catalysis he is joining our group also working within the TACY-project.
Ankur Bhaumik is studying chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and is visiting us for an internship.
We want to welcome all three of you to our group and are looking forward to work with you! |
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23.04.2023 - Group retreat Our group had an amazing three-day group retreat in Annweiler am Trifels in the palatinate forest! The scientific program included great talks of our group members about methods, evaluation techniques and the fundamental aspects of science in general and led to a tremendous knowledge transfer within the group. Furthermore, we had fun during endless pool billiard sessions, a Tischkicker tournement (congrats to team Yannik/Sven) as well as a hike to the beautiful Burg Trifels (as you can see on the picture). Thanks to everybody in the group to make this happen and we are already looking forward to the next retreat! |
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Funding
For more Information about SFB 1248 click here.
