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 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.

The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Advanced Grant worth 2.5 million euros to Prof. Armido Studer. The grant will enable Studer to realise a project in the field of so-called radical water activation in the coming five years.

A team led by chemist Prof Frank Glorius from the University of Münster shows that a machine-based method prevents widespread “bias” in chemical publications.

Organic chemist Ryan Gilmour has received a 150,000 euro ERC Proof of Concept Grant. He is now exploring how a strategy to create fluorinated building blocks can be brought to the market.

A team led by Prof. Armido Studer has introduced a strategy for converting carbon-nitrogen atom pairs in a frequently used ring-shaped compound into carbon-carbon atom pairs. The method has potential in the quest for active ingredients for new drugs, for example.

The European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) has accepted the chemist Prof. Dr. Armido Studer as a new member in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of organic synthesis.

A team of chemists led by Prof. Frank Glorius have presented a new approach in which a single carbon atom is inserted into the carbon skeleton in order to adjust the ring size and to form a new ring. The method could be relevant, for example, for the production of active ingredients in new pharmaceutical products.

Nagoya University has awarded Gerhard Erker an honorary doctorate. The award recognizes his pioneering research achievements as well as his services to the promotion of international scientific cooperation and academic education. The certificate was presented on December 2 in Nagoya during one of the regular scientific meetings of the International Research Training Group IRTG 2678.

Prof Armido Studer from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Münster receives the Paracelsus Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society. He is honoured for his work in the field of radical chemistry.

The chemists Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Zeier as well as the physician Prof. Dr. Oliver Söhnlein from the University of Münster are represented in the current citation ranking of the US company "Clarivate Analytics" and are thus among the most cited researchers worldwide.

A team led by chemist Prof. Ryan Gilmour shows how a metal-free organocatalytic platform can be used to fluorinate certain carbon compounds. The method creates molecular building blocks that can be candidates for new active substances.

For his outstanding contribution towards the development of novel radical-based methodologies, Prof. Armido Studer from the Organic Chemistry Institute of the University of Münster receives an "Arthur C. Cope Late Career Scholars Award" worth a total of 45,000 US dollar.

Working together with Chinese researchers, Münster physicists and chemists have, for the first time, produced long-chain mobile polymers on metallic surfaces, doing so by means of ballbot-type molecules which glide over the surface. Details of the work have been published in the journal “Nature Chemistry”.

A team of chemists from the University of Münster developed a novel concept in which a mixture of molecules that behave like mirror images is converted to a single form. To this end, they use light as external energy source. The conversion is relevant e.g. for the preparation of drugs. The study is now published in the journal “Nature”.

Together with his research group, chemist Prof. Frank Glorius is organizing a symposium on issues of sustainability in chemistry, which will be held for the first time on August 24th in Münster University's castle.

A team led by Prof. Ryan Gilmour at the Organic Chemistry Institute has reported in “Nature Communications” on the rapid generation of new fluorinated molecular fragments for drug discovery using organocatalysis.

An international team of chemists led by Professors Frank Glorius and Kendall N. Houk (University of California, Los Angeles) has succeeded for the first time in using structural editing to insert a four-membered molecular ring into a larger, aromatic ring. This resulted in a structurally complex bicyclic ring system.

The "European Academy of Sciences" (EURASC) has elected Prof. Ryan Gilmour from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Münster as a "Fellow". Election into the Academy is a great honour and important recognition of his scientific accomplishments.

A team headed by Münster University chemist Prof. Armido Studer has developed a photocatalytic process in which water is activated using an oxidised triaryl phosphine as a reagent. Activation is a precondition for splitting water into its components.