Röhr Group

Thanks for the active participation 🙏

Thanks to Dr. habil. Merle Röhr and team members for organizing a great tutorial workshop on "Theoretical Chemistry with a Focus on Electronic Structure". 🖥️

Grateful to be among the 25 inspiring women featured in @zeit.de as part of the #Zia fellowship for Visible Women in Science. Thanks to @uni-wuerzburg.de for their support and to everyone involved for making scientific work by women more visible. Honored and proud to be part of this initiative ☺️.

Check out this new Perspective in Chemical Science from @jiarongwu.bsky.social and @jakeylg.bsky.social (Universitat Würzburg, Germany)!

'Light them up: photoresponsive imine-containing systems'

Read it here for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

#ChemSciHOT #ChemSky

Thank you for the support and guidance over the years! 🙏

Congratulations to Merle Röhr @roehrgroup.bsky.social for successfully finishing her habilitation with her final lecture on "Exploring Functional Landscapes in Molecular Aggregates: Theoretical Methods for Electronic Structure and Property-Driven Design"!

📢Our team will be advertising a number of fully-funded positions in the coming months (new photoswitch-based projects)💡🚨 Applicants from the 🇪🇺 and 🇨🇳 are encouraged. More info will be coming soon and advertised on our website imineswitch.com
#photoswitch #imine

From Oct. 21-25 a large number of scientists from IRTG 2991 participated in the 13th Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Conference in Kochi, organized by K. George Thomas and his team from IISER Thiruvananthapuram.

Enhancing the Photoswitching Properties of N-Alkyl Imines N-Alkyl imines are prevalent in dynamic-covalent chemistry and self-assembled structures, yet their E/Z photochromism is often overlooked due to the high-energy light required for isomerization. Here, we present a simple strategy to enhance their photoswitching properties, achieving switching wavelengths and photostationary state distributions comparable to azobenzene. Moreover, we demonstrate that these N-alkyl imines undergo photoisomerization in the condensed phase and exhibit isomer-dependent fluorescence. We anticipate that this study will inspire the design of photoresponsive architectures that operate directly at the dynamic-covalent bond, eliminating the need for dedicated photoswitchable motifs.

🚨📢Improving the photoswitching properties of N-alkyl imines, out now in @jacs.acspublications.org 🤔Insights from our previous work led @jiarongwu.bsky.social, Lasse and I to tune the properties of these N-alkyl systems🛠️, where we also observed isomer-dependent fluorescence!💡🔦 doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

More news from our group – we have an open PhD position in computational catalyst design! If you're interested in applying data science to real-world challenges from the lab, and want to be part of an interdisciplinary team, we'd be happy to hear from you.

Check fsk-lab.github.io for details!

Our PhD students Johannes and Lasse had a fantastic time at the IRTG2991 Start-up Meeting at IISER TVM, India, enjoying stimulating scientific discussions and great company with the amazing Swathi Group. ✨

Huge thanks to everyone involved for the warm welcome and inspiring exchange. 🙏

🎓 Looking for opportunities to take the next step in your academic career and interested in ML, medical imaging (and more), and interdisciplinary work?
Come and join us!

More information:
www.caidas.uni-wuerzburg.de/pr/open-posi...

website still under construction 🙈, see also here:
aimi.tf.fau.de

This is what the stack of four dyes synthesised in Würzburg looks like. It represents a further step towards artificial photosynthesis because it absorbs light energy and transfers it quickly and efficiently in the stack. (Image: Leander Ernst / University of Würzburg)

Our chemists Frank Würthner & Leander Ernst have taken artificial #photosynthesis one step further: @naturechemistry.bsky.social they present a stack of dyes very similar to the photosynthetic apparatus of plants. Congratulations!
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

The Würzburg model system consisting of two nanographene layers that can absorb and bind chloride ions (green) through a defect in the crystal lattice. (Image: Kazutaka Shoyama / University of Würzburg)

Opening up new perspectives for water filtration or sensor technology @nature.com: the group of our chemist Frank Würthner introduces a #graphene with a defect that allows ions to pass through.
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

New to Bluesky 🌐 but not to chemistry! 🧪 We're a junior research group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social, passionate about modeling supramolecular structures and interactions.

Learn more about our research ⬇️
www.chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de/roehr-group/