Currently one junior group leader and eight full professors are heading the research groups at the Organisch-Chemischen Institut. They are supportet by several analytical divisions belonging to the institute. Read more about the research of the individual groups and their contribution to international and interdisciplinary networks.

The "Academia Europaea" has accepted Prof. Frank Glorius, chemist at the University of Münster, as a new member. With this membership, the Academia Europaea honors scientists who have demonstrated "sustained academic excellence."

Team led by Frank Glorius finds new synthesis route for producing sensitive molecules under mild reaction conditions.
The team’s work has been published in the journal “Nature Catalysis”.

The Sigrid Peyerimhoff Doctoral Award of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theoretische Chemie (AGTC) goes this year to a scientist from Münster. Dr. Johannes Tölle from the group of Prof. Johannes Neugebauer received this prize for his dissertation entitled "Subsystem-Based Modeling of Photo-Induced Processes".

The Organic Chemistry Institute of WWU Münster is represented twice in the top 30 CSD authors (out of more than 450,000 unique author names) by the staff of the X-ray Structural Analysis Department.
According to CSD Author Statistics published in January 2022, Dr. Roland Fröhlich (former head of the X-Ray Department) and Dr. Constantin G. Daniliuc (head of the X-Ray Department) are ranked 19th and 28th worldwide.

Light energy enables the reaction of double bonds with strained single bonds to produce three-dimensional molecules

[...] A team led by Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius from the University of Münster has now succeeded in performing an unconventional cycloaddition in which a carbon-carbon double bond reacts with a carbon-carbon single bond.

Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius [...] will receive the Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis. The award, endowed with 20,000 euros, recognises internationally outstanding achievements in the research field of organic synthesis, which are of particular importance for the development of new drugs. Frank Glorius is an internationally leading and particularly innovative scientist in the field of organic synthesis and catalysis, according to the jury's statement.

Timo Stünkel and Constantin Stuckhardt received this year's Evonik Award for outstanding achievements during their theses. Timo Stünkel was able to convince with his contribution to the iodine-catalyzed synthesis of trifluorinated tetralins as part of his master's thesis. Constantin Stuckhardt received the prize for the publication on photoclick reactions of acylsilanes with indoles, which he completed during his doctoral thesis.

The new method for arylation of unactivated alkenes is based on a ternary nickel(Ni)-hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) photodox (PC) synergy system (schematically shown in the middle). Left side: structural formula of an aryl group (top) and an unactivated alkene, right side: arylated alkene after synthesis.

The chemists Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius and Prof. Dr. Armido Studer of the Organisch-Chemisches Institut and the biologist Prof. Dr. Jörg Kudla from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster are represented in the current citation ranking of the US company "Clarivate Analytics" and are thus among the most cited researchers worldwide. (Linked press release only in German.)

Great honour for Prof. Dr. Armido Studer: The "Academia Europaea" has accepted the chemist from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster as a new member. The Academia Europaea awards membership to individuals who have demonstrated "sustained academic excellence".

[...] Ever smaller structures for functionalizing semiconductor materials such as silicon cannot be produced using the approaches of classical technology. Scientists have now presented a new approach in the journal Nature Chemistry: They show that stable and yet very well-ordered molecular single layers can be produced on silicon surfaces - by self-assembly. To do this, they use N-heterocyclic carbenes. [...]

Chemist Dr Manuel van Gemmeren [...] has received the Lecturer Award of the Chemical Industry Fund. He accepted the award, which is endowed with 75,000 euros, at a virtual conference. With his research group, the scientist has been investigating so-called carbon-hydrogen (C-H) functionalisations at the WWU since 2016. These are chemical reactions with which stable C-H bonds, which are particularly difficult to change, can be converted into complex target structures.

Great honour for Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius: The chemist from the Westphalian Wilhelms University (WWU) Münster is a new member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. With this election, the oldest scientific-medical learned society in the German-speaking world honours his extraordinary scientific achievements in the field of catalysis chemistry and the development of functional molecules.