Welcome to the Mastalerz Group

30.09.2024 - Paper accepted!

Congrats to Sven!

His paper on A Negatively Curved Nanographene with Four Embedded Heptagons was accepted in JACS!

In this paper, we developped a synthetic route to a negatively curved nanographene that can be considered as a C₇₆ cut-out of the Schwarzite 8-4-1-p proposed by Lenosky et al. Furthermore, supramolecular interactions with the fullerenes C60 and C70 have been inverstigated both, in solution and in solid state.

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

Great job Sven!

30.09.2024 - Paper accepted!

Congrats to Dennis and Moritz!

Their paper (with shared first-authorship) on Substituent Effects in Scholl-type Reactions of 1,2-Terphenyls to Triphenylenes was accepted in Chem. Eur. J.!

In this paper, we tried to answer the question whether Scholl-type reactions proceed by a acid-catalyzed arenium-ion mechanisms or rather by radical cation mechanisms on terphenlys and how additional electron withdrawing substituents influence the outcome of these reactions.

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

Great job Dennis and Moritz!

23.09.2024 - New PhD student!

We would like to welcome Silvia Cucinella as PhD to our group. Silvia did her bachelor and master studies at the University of Bologna in Italy. Furthermore, during her master thesis about the synthesis of 3rd generation molecular motors, Silvia was working in the labs of Prof. Dr. Ben Feringa at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Silvia is going to work on cage compounds for sensing and biomedical imaging.

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

21.08.2024 - New technician

We would like to welcome Anusha Sounder Rajan as new technician to our group. Anushais going to help organizing the OC2-practical course in all technical aspects, will be assisting Sven in safety matters and will furthermore be involved in research projects doing syntheses.

Glad to have you on board and looking forward to work with you.

21.08.2024 - Group Hike and Summer BBQ

Last week the group had a really nice group day beginning with a breakfast/brunch in the institute followed by a hick starting in Schriesheim, going all the way over Weißer Stein (where the picture was taken) to Thingstätte and back to OCI, where we ended the day with a BBQ. The weather was luckily great and the hike had 15 km, awesome views and a lot of laughs. We want to thank Finn for organizing this nice event and we look forward to more things like this in the future.

The Mastalerz group wishes everybody a great summer!

20.08.2024 - Paper accepted!

Congrats to Sven!

His paper on Z-shaped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with embedded five-membered rings and their application in organic thin-film transistors was accepted in Org. Chem. Front.!

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

In this paper (being based on the bachelor thesis of Evelin Bolgert and an internship of Owen Paine) we were able to develop a straight forward route to Z-shaped PAHs with and without nitrogen doping as well as with and without solubilizing peripheral groups and found hole mobilities up to 0.4 cm² V^-1s^-1 in collaboration with our SFB1249 colleagues Hagen Klauk and Marcus Elstner.

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Great job Sven and team!