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.

Chemist Lukas Paetow, a PhD student in the international research training group Münster-Nagoya, is currently in Nagoya, Japan, for a research stay. Buses and trains are always on time there and the convenience stores are open around the clock. A guest article.

A Japanese-German research team has created and analysed carbon nanobelts containing thiophene. Such structures are particularly conductive and potentially suitable as optoelectronic components.

Together with Evonik the JungeChemieForum (JCF) Münster has awarded the Evonik Preis 2025 to Jannik Eschenbach (prize for the master thesis) for his work on the characterization of protein interactions and the insulin-regulated aminopeptidase and Malte Haring (prize for the doctoral studies) for the selective functionalization of pyridines.

Under the theme ‘Do It Yourself for Chemists’, Prof. Dr. Gustavo Fernandez and Sebastian Baumert prepared the last-minute Christmas celebrations with an audience of around 500 at the Christmas lecture of the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy . With humour and spectacular experiments, the chemists from the OC Institute proved that chemistry has a solution for everything.

The Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Münster has awarded three outstanding theses in the Chemistry (Nico Spreckelmeyer), Food Chemistry (Louisa Sophie Tölke) and Business Chemistry (Sandrine Mandau).

The chemists Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Zeier are represented in the current citation ranking of the US company "Clarivate Analytics" and are therefore among the highly cited researchers worldwide.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the CRC 1450 “inSight” and the CRC 1459 “Intelligent Matter” with around 25 million euros for another four years.
CRC 1459 "Intelligent Matter"

The International Graduate School “BACCARA” is set to receive around five million euros from the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The Organic Chemistry Institute is pleased to welcome two new junior research groups, Dr Robert Hein and Dr Johannes Tölle. Together with Dr Line Muradi (née Næsborg), three junior research groups are currently conducting research at the institute.

A team led by chemist Prof Dr Frank Glorius has synthesised so-called heteroatom-substituted cage-like 3D molecules. The innovative structures could help address key challenges in drug design by serving as more stable alternatives to traditional, flat, aromatic rings.

The chemist Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius has received the Emil Fischer Medal of the German Chemical Society (GDCh). The GDCh honours his "pioneering contributions to organic synthesis methodology and the design of functional molecules" with the award, which is endowed with 7500 euros.

A team from the University of Münster, ETH Zürich and Leibniz-Universität Hannover has investigated a key component of the so-called GM1 cholera toxin complex for the first time using a fluorinated GM1 analogue. The findings on the molecular mechanisms of the strong interaction may help to enable the development of inhibitors that prevent life-threatening cholera infections.

Every year for the past 44 years, the University of Münster Society has honoured young academics at the University of Münster for their excellent research achievements. This year, chemist Dr. Line Næsborg and physicist Prof. Dr. Kai Schmitz received the 10,000 euro prize in equal shares.

The developers of artificial intelligence-based software that automates the complex process of chemical analysis took first place at the "Demoday" of the REACH - EUREGIO Start-up Center at the University of Münster. Six university start-ups took part in the competition in the castle auditorium.

The Universitätsgesellschaft Münster e. V. awarded the promotion prize to junior research group leader Dr. Line Næsborg and junior professor Dr. Kai Schmitz on July 3. The chemist Dr. Line Næsborg is researching the sustainable and environmentally friendly use of light energy, while the particle physicist Dr. Kai Schmitz is devoting his work to gravitational waves.

David MacMillan, a professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, is a pioneer of photocatalysis with visible light. The Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy has now awarded the 56-year-old Scotsman an honorary doctorate for his outstanding research in this field.

A team from the University of Münster and the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam has now developed a combined vaccine lead from synthetic fluorinated sugar molecules that is effective against meningococci B and C simultaneously.

David MacMillan is one of the most successful researchers of our time in the field of catalysis and molecular chemistry. He is also a pioneer of photocatalysis with visible light. For his outstanding research in this field, he will receive an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy on 11 June. Norbert Robers spoke with the exceptional researcher.

Researchers led by Prof Dr Armido Studer from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Münster presents a new strategy, with which the so-called difluoromethyl group can be precisely introduced at specific sites in pyridine derivatives. This method could potentially identify candidates for new drugs and agrochemicals.

A team led by chemist Prof Frank Glorius has developed an algorithm that identifies molecular structures that are particularly relevant to a given problem. It uses these structures to encode the properties of molecules for various machine-learning models.

Other older press releases of the Organic Chemistry Institute are summarized in press archive from 2016.