Catalysis
Sustainable energy generation, storage, and the transition towards eco-friendly industrial processes are intricately linked to the advancement of efficient, innovative catalytic methods. Targeted exploration focuses on highly ordered porous materials as a foundation for tailored catalytic sites, designed to optimize both chemical energy storage and sustainable chemical production. Techniques aimed at controlling catalyst structures, along with nanoscale assembly and stabilization, introduce fundamentally new approaches to the sustainable synthesis of chemicals.
Publications
Stephan, J.; Olmedo-Martinez, J. L.; Fornacon-Wood, C.; Stuhler, M. R.; Dimde, M.; Braatz, D.; Langer, R.; Muller, A. J.; Schmalz, H.; Plajer, A. J. Easy Synthetic Access to High-Melting Sulfurated Copolymers and their Self-Assembling Diblock Copolymers from Phenylisothiocyanate and Oxetane. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024, 63 (25), e202405047. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202405047
Winter, A.; Hamdi, F.; Eichhofer, A.; Saalwachter, K.; Kastritis, P. L.; Haase, F. Enhancing structural control in covalent organic frameworks through steric interaction-driven linker design. Chem Sci 2024, 15 (35), 14449-14457. DOI: 10.1039/d4sc03461a
Münch, J.; Dietz, N.; Barber-Zucker, S.; Seifert, F.; Matschi, S.; Püllmann, P.; Fleishman, S. J.; Weissenborn, M. J. Functionally Diverse Peroxygenases by AlphaFold2, Design, and Signal Peptide Shuffling. ACS Catalysis 2024, 14 (7), 4738-4748. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.4c00883.
Pullmann, P.; Homann, D.; Karl, T. A.; Konig, B.; Weissenborn, M. J. Light-Controlled Biocatalysis by Unspecific Peroxygenases with Genetically Encoded Photosensitizers. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023, 62 (41), e202307897. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202307897.
Knorrscheidt, A.; Soler, J.; Hunecke, N.; Pullmann, P.; Garcia-Borras, M.; Weissenborn, M. J. Accessing Chemo- and Regioselective Benzylic and Aromatic Oxidations by Protein Engineering of an Unspecific Peroxygenase. ACS Catal 2021, 11 (12), 7327-7338. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c00847.
Haase F, Craig G, Bonneau M, Sugimoto K, Furukawa S. Pseudo-5-Fold-Symmetrical Ligand Drives Geometric Frustration in Porous Metal–Organic and Hydrogen-Bonded Frameworks, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142(32), 13839-13845, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c04450
Maser L, Schneider C, Vondung L, Alig L, Langer R. Quantifying the Donor Strength of Ligand-Stabilized Main Group Fragments, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141(18), 7596-7604, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b02598
Collaborative research centers / Network
Patents / Awards
Liebig Fellowship by VCI-FCI (Frederik Haase)
Heisenberg Grant by DFG (Robert Langer)