The group (May 2010)

Prof. Dr. Frank Breher
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry

Engesserstr. 15
Gebäude 30.45 (Raum 523)
76131 Karlsruhe

Frank Breher performed his Ph.D. studies at the Universities of Oldenburg and Marburg (1998 to 2001) under the supervision of Prof. W. Uhl. He spent his postdoctoral period in the research group of Prof. H. Grützmacher at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland (DFG fellowship), where he became an independent researcher in 2002 supported by a Liebig fellowship. In 2005 he accepted a faculty position at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and became Assistant Professor in January 2006. Subsequently, he was promoted to W3-Professor for Inorganic Chemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in April 2010. His research interests centre around the synthesis, structure, bonding and reactivity of organometallic and coordination compounds of unusual Main Group element cages/clusters and transition metal complexes. Spectroscopic techniques including cyclic voltammetry, EPR spectroscopy, and advanced NMR methods as well as density functional theory calculations are also of interest.

PhD students and postdocs

Jens Meyer

"Development of ambidentate ligand systems and metal complexes thereof"

Felix Armbruster

"Silicon based ambidentate ligand systems"

Dominik Nied

"Synthesis and reactivity of metallapropellanes"

Matthias Löble

"Stability, reactivity, and solution behavior of f-element coordination compounds"

Ina Trapp

"Coordination chemistry of multidentate ligand systems"

Tanja Wolfer
PhD student

"Synthesis and reactivity of transition metal complexes consisting of metalloligands"

Dr. Pascual Oña Burgos
Postdoc

"Synthesis and NMR spectroscopic investigations on f-element coordination compounds"

Franziska Dorner
Diploma student

"Multifuntional N-donor ligands"

Delphine Garnier
Exchange student from the École normale supérieure (ENS), Paris

"Multifuntional N-donor ligands"

Florian Walz
Diploma student

"Coordination chemistry of silicon-based ligand systems"

Regularly recurring stays of visiting scientists

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Former members

Dr. Ivo Krummenacher
PhD Thesis "Ambidente Ligandensysteme basierend auf Pyrazolylverbindungen der Gruppe 14"

After his PhD, Ivo joined the group of Prof. C.C. Cummins (MIT) as a postdoc, supported by a fellowship of the SNF.

Dr. Dastaghiri Reddy
Visiting scientist (AvH fellowship) from the Pondycherry University, India

Dr. Istemi Kuzu
PhD Thesis "Metallorganische Chemie und Koordinationschemie von ambidenten Ligandensystemen"

Istemi is now "akademischer Rat" at the Philipps University of Marburg

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