Gas Phase and Solution Studies of Bioinspired Lanthanide-based Alcohol Dehydrogenation Catalysts (A02)

• Subject Area: Inorganic Molecular Chemistry - Synthesis and Characterisation ; Physical Chemistry of Molecules, Liquids and Interfaces, Biophysical Chemistry
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 471424360

The aim of the project is inspired by the recently discovered lanthanide-mediated biocatalysis related to methanol dehydrogenases (MDH). Our comprehensive approach to gain detailed understanding of the structural and mechanistic intricacies will entail the preparation of new tailor-made structural and functional model systems and the correlation of their structural and catalytic properties with detailed gas-phase and condensed-phase measurements of key parameters for catalysis (e.g., by mass spectrometry combined with ion mobility and photo- as well as collision-induced dissociation, gas phase ion chemistry, paramagnetic NMR, time-resolved luminescence and quantum chemical calculations).

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1573: 4f for Future
• Applicant Institution: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Lena Daumann; Professor Dr. Michael Seitz; Privatdozent Dr. Patrick Weis