Group Members
Dr. Burkhard Butschke
Ph.D. Students
M.Sc. Gilles Stebens

Internships (M.Sc. Chemistry)
Jan Blocki

Former Group Members
"Synthese und Charakterisierung von Übergangsmetall-Fluorcarben-Komplexen"
(synthesis and characterization of transition-metal fluoro-carbene complexes)
"Synthese eines PCN-Pincerliganden zur Stabilisierung von Übergangsmetall-Oxido-Komplexen"
(synthesis of a PCN pincer-ligand for the stabilization of transition-metal oxido-complexes)
Konstantin Koessler (Ph.D. thesis 2024)
"On the Correlation of Gas-Phase Ion-Chemistry and Related Processes in Solution - Heterodinuclear Transition-Metal Complexes as Model Systems"
Luisa Kaufmann (Ph.D. thesis)
topic: heterobimetallic transition-metal chemistry for the transfer of gas-phase ion-chemistry into the condensed phase
"Synthesis and Characterization of Cationic Platinum(II)- and Palladium(II)-Thiomethoxymethyl Complexes with Bidentate Phosphine Ligands aiming at Comparing their Dissociation Behavior in Gas Phase and Solution"
(synthesis and characterization of platinum-pincer complexes with carbene and oxo ligands)
(late transition-metal pincer-complexes as precursors for TM-oxo complexes)
"Gold-Platin-Koordinationschemie eines langreichweitig bidentat cis-verbrückenden PN-Liganden"
(Au/Pt coordination chemistry of a cis-spanning PN ligand)
(reactivity studies of bimetallic coinage-metal platinum-complexes in gas phase and solution)
Markus Haag (master thesis 2019)"Stabilisierung von homobimetallischen Goldkomplexen durch sterisch und elektronisch modifizierte Phosphanliganden"
(generation of homobimetallic gold complexes by the use of sterically and electronically modified phosphine ligands)
Stefanie Maier (research intern 2019)"Synthese und Charakterisierung von Oxo-Platin-Komplexen mit Pincer-Liganden"
(synthesis and characterization of platinum-oxo complexes with pincer ligands)
Friederike Oesten (research intern 2019)"Versuche zur Darstellung von homodinuklearen Au(0)Au(I)- und Au(0)Au(0)-Komplexen"
(attemps towards the synthesis of homodinuclear Au(0)Au(I) and Au(0)Au(0) complexes)
"Synthese und Charakterisierung von Platin-Hydrid-Komplexen"
(synthesis and characterization of platinum-hydride complexes)
Luisa Kaufmann (research intern 2019)
"cis‑Spanning Phosphorous Ligands as a Tool for the Generation of Heterobimetallic Transition-Metal-Complexes"
Lukas Ernst (research intern 2019)
"How Ligand Modifications Influence the Charge Distribution in Heterobimetallic Au–Pt Complexes"
(synthesis and characterization of untethered, heterobimetallic Au-Pt-complexes)
Gilles Stebens (master thesis 2019)(C–H-bond activation mediated by Ni, Pd, and Pt complexes)
(stabilization of multinuclear transition-metal complexes by bidentate, cis-spanning ligands)
Steffen Föhrenbacher (master thesis 2016)(synthesis and characterization of bridged bimetallic coordination compounds)
(investigations into the synthesis and the reactivity of non-bridged Au–Pt complexes)
(synthesis of methylene-bridged gold-platinum complexes)
(synthesis of bimetallic Au–Pt complexes)