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- A new sustainable raw material for chemistry
A research project conducted by the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung shows how biomass can be used as a raw material for chemical products instead of petroleum. The scientists have now publi...
- Chirality control: New ways for active ingredients
A research team from Prof. Benjamin List's department at the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung has solved a long-elusive riddle of chemistry: the synthesis of stable, open-chain amines that c... - Rethinking catalysis - from tradition to the future
Dr. Josep Cornella has been appointed Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr. From April 1st, the 40-year-old chemist joins the board of directors as the 6th...
- A new method to synthesize the popular fragrance Ambrox
Prof. Benjamin List's research group at Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung has developed an elegant method to produce the popular fragrance Ambrox. The researchers published their results with... - Mechanochemistry for a sustainable industry
Dr. Özgül Agbaba is on the road to success with her start-up "MechSyn". The business idea is to implement mechanochemistry in industrial processes. Özgül Agbaba recently raised more than 1.26 milli... - Using strong acid catalysts to increase the reactivity of aliphatic hydrocarbons
So-called aliphatic hydrocarbons play a major role in the chemical industry, but are not easy to handle from a scientific point of view. These special molecules form precursors of desired substance...
- Switch of a nucleophilic amino acid into a versatile intermediate
Chemical diversification of proteins is an important concept in the study of biological processes and the complex structures of the proteins themselves. Researchers of our institute have now publis... - Bismuth goes "radical" to mimic the behavior of transition metals
So-called "cross-coupling reactions" are one of the most important modern tools for making new bonds in synthetic organic chemistry. They are used as key step in the preparation of drugs. Tradition... - New Method to synthesize Menthol
Menthol and cannabinoids are important for the chemical industry. A team led by Prof. Benjamin List has now found a new way to synthesize both substances - cheaper and more efficient than before. ...
- More sustainability with Mechanochemistry
Flour, coffee or spices: Many people know the principle of a mill from the kitchen. But special mills are also used for research purposes in the laboratories of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenfo... - New organocatalysts can compete with enzymes
Organocatalysis not only provides an imaginable alternative to classical catalytic processes, but is even more efficient in many cases - and thus of particular interest to the chemical and pharmace... - New method enables simple tritium labeling
Tritium 3H, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, is commonly used in medicinal chemistry as a label to follow the course of a drug in the human body. Chemists like to use the technique to evaluate dr...
- 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
On behalf of the American Chemical Society (ACS), President H. N. Cheng, Ph.D., congratulates the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Benjamin List, Ph.D., Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforsch... - Predicting NMR parameters with DLPNO approximation
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is one of the most important analytical techniques used in chemical, pharmaceutical, and biomedical research as well as in materials sciences. It provides detail...
- Crude oil contains fullerenes
Fullerenes are hollow closed molecules with high symmetry, consisting of carbon atoms. The best-known fullerene C60 has a structure reminiscent of a football. The name Fullerene - or Buckyball - go...
- New linchpin in C-H functionalization opens up direct access to many derivatives of complex molecules
With regard to medicinal chemistry, basic chemical research has the ongoing task of enabling the synthesis of complex molecules with useful structural and functional groups in the shortest possible...