European Workshop in Phosphorus Chemistry in Uppsala

Heavier pnictogens – treasures for optical electronic and reactivity tuning

Ahoy Mateys!

Honoring P-chemists Prof. E. Niecke and Prof. K.Lammertsma

Special Issue in hoinor of the birthday boys Koop Lammertsma and Edgar Niecke with contributions from the Ott group and the Orthaber group is out. 

Shamazing news!!!!

Muhamad Anwar Shameem defended his thesis in front of faculty opponent Prof. R. Fischer and committee members Jerker Mårtensson, Ute Cappel, ad Niclas Solin. 
Congratulations and big thanks to our latest Doctor in Synthetic molecular chemistry.

Smart Inorganic Polymers - Phosphorus polymers

The final dissemination act of our past COST action on mart Inorganic polymers has been published. The book published by Wiley-VCH Our contribution is a chapter on organophosphorus polymers.

Dithienoarsoles and their Pd complexes

Our invited Article to a special Issue celebrating the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Koop Lammertsma and the 80th Birthday of Prof. Dr. Edgar Niecke was accepted in Eur. J. Inorg. Chem.
Congratulations to Josh and Arvind!

New publications

The autumn comes and brings new publications for the group

Coinage metals: Super supra-molecular chemistry

Our invited perspective article on coinage metal cluster compounds has been accepted in Chem. Eur. J. 

Congrats to Arvind. 

Phosphaalkene bridges ...

European Workshop in Phosphorus Chemistry in Uppsala

Last chance to register for the EWPC-15 in Uppsala Sweden! Deadline 31st of January 2018.

Postdoctoral funding from Carl-Trygger foundation

The Carl-Trygger foundation supports the Orthaber group with a postdoctoral stipend.

Allylic Substitution in CEJ

Congrats to our collaborators in @ SU, the Samec group. The latest paper on green allylic substitutions is out in Chem. Eur. J.

Grant from the Engkvist foundation

A two-years postdoctoral fellowship is granted from the Olle-Engkvist foundation to support the Orthaber group.

New Postdoc Josh Green

New co-worker in the Orthaber group; Josh Green joins our team as a postdoctoral researcher.

VR Grant

The Orthaber group got funding from the Swedish Research council (Vetenskapsrådet).

The new SC-XRD microsource is operational

Our old D8 single crystal diffractometer has been upgraded with a brand new Molybdenum microsource...

A “Clean” Solution: Selectively Producing Methanol Fuel from Sunlight and CO2 by a Noble-Metal Free Catalytic System

A joint project by Tian-Orthaber-Berggren was funded by the Swedish Energy Agency.

We bridge the gap between Europe and UK

Ulrike's paper in Chem Comm

The article presents the first application of Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy to study post-synthetic ligand exchange in metal-organic frameworks.

Seminar with Prof. Patrick Holland

On the May 18th, 2017, Professor Patrick Holland from Yale University gave a Fotomol seminar titled "Nitrogen Fixation using Low-Coordinate Iron Complexes"

Sonja's thesis defence

Sonja Pullen defended her PhD thesis on the 19th of May, 2017.

Seminar with Prof. Belén Martín-Matute

Professor Belén Martín-Matute from Stockholm University gave a fotomol seminar on the 26th of April, titled "Selective Synthesis of (Halogenated) Building Blocks Mediated by Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysts. Insights into the Mechanisms"

Edgar's, Souvik's and Sonja's paper in Dalton Trans.

A technique is developed for electrochemical measurements of non-conducting MOF-catalyst composites with no need of growing them on the electrode

Sonja's and Souvik's paper in Chem Comm

The work investigates how MOF confinement affects ligand substitution at the [Fe₂(dcbdt)(CO)₆] complex, which is a proton reduction catalyst.

Sascha Ott is a new editorial board member for Dalton Transactions

In March 2017, Sascha Ott was elected as an Editorial Board member of the Dalton Transactions journal.

Sonja's thesis nailing

On April 27th, Sonja Pullen has nailed her thesis "Mimicking the Outer Coordination Sphere in [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Active Site Models - From Extended Ligand Design to Metal-Organic Frameworks"

Ben's and Asamanjoy's paper is puplished in Dalton Transactions

The article, featured on the issue's cover page, describes succesful incorporation of a water oxidation catalyst into a metal-organic framework, enhancing stability of the catalyst and providing an important tool for tuning its properties in the future works.

Uppsala Sci-Fest

Our group has participated in the annual scientific festival under the title "KEMI ÄR KUL".

Paper on arsoles in Inorganic Chemistry

Arvinds and Sunisas paper on the coordination chemistry of dibenzoarsoles was accepted in Inorganic Chemistry. Congrats!
A great combinatin of catalysis and structural investigations.

Shameems paper in Chem. Eur. J.

Shameems collaborative paper with Amal El-Nahas and Jens Uhlig on cyclopentadithiophene heterofulvenes is published in Chem. Eur. J.
!! CONGRATS!!

Souvik's paper in Chem Comm

The new paper by Souvik and others addresses the role of transport channels in the performance of catalyst-MOF composites.

Keyhan's and Juri's paper in JACS

The article features groundbreaking selective analogue of McMurry aldehyde coupling reaction.

Sonja's and Sascha's review article

The new paper by Sonja and Sascha reviews photochemical hydrogen production with metal-organic frameworks.

Sascha Ott is Full Professor

On the 18th of November 2016 Sascha Ott was awarded the Full Professor title. This followed the installation lecture given in Museum Gustavianum on the 16th of November.

Design of Gold Nanopartiles for Molecular Electronics

Our newly designed gold nanoparticles and their application in molecular electronics has been accepted in Mol. Sys. Des. Eng. Big thanks to our collabaroation partners from Engineering (Leifer group) and Montpellier (Serein-Spirau group).

Stronger together - Chlorins go polymer

Work from the Borbas group on how chlorins become polymeric is published in Chem. - Eur. J. 
Thanks for the nice collaborations!

Workshop: Practical guide to theoretical chemistry

Introductory course and practical guides to the use of quantum chemistry programs for PhD students.

Main group polymers in Chem Comm.

Daniels paper on phospha- and arsaalkene containing polymers is accepted in Chem. Comm. CONGRATS !!

Big thanks to all the contributors!

Travel Stipend

Excellent news from Åforsk. Daniel receives a travel grant.

Austria Tour

Andreas on a short tour through Austria:
General Assembly of the Austrian Chemical Society in Vienna.
GÖCH invited lecture at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz.

Docent in Inorganic Chemistry

Andreas has become a Docent in Inorganic Chemistry.

Seminar Christophe Lescop (13.10.2016)

Seminar by Christophe Lescop
House 7, Floor 1 at 15:15

Highly emissive supramolecular Cu(I) polymetallic supramolecular assemblies
Abstract

Flavonoid analytics by NMR and HPLC

Our collaborative paper with Martina Blunder is accepted in Food Chemistry.
Congrats !!!

Phosphorus and organic electronics

Juri's article (in German) on organophosphorus compounds and their applications in organic electronics is published in "Nachrichten aus der Chemie", a Journal of the German Chemical Society.

Our CO2 reduction catalyst featured in Chemistry Views

Ben's paper on a Ruthenium CO2 reduction catalyst was featured by Chemistry Views.

ERC Consolidator Grant to Sascha Ott.

The prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant was awarded to Sascha. Congratulations!

Seminar Ergang Wang (9.06.2016)

Seminar by Ergang Wang
House 7, Floor 1 at 10:15

Conjugated Materials for Organic Electronics
 

Invited Review on Organophosphorus Compounds

Our review Phosphorus "Organic Electronics" is online.
Congrats to Shameem!!!

Sulfonyl Acetylenes and phosphaalkenes

Shameem and Keyhans paper got accepted in Chemistry - A European Journal.
CONGRATS !!

Thomas Baumgartner (U. Calgary) 25th May 15:15

Seminar by Thomas Baumgartner (University Calgary) 25th May 15:15
Seminar room House 7 Floor 1

Organophosphorus Avenues Toward Powerful Electron Acceptors andSelf-Assembled Nanomaterials