Research Topics
Transition metal complexes and their application in catalysis and materials science; organohosphorus compounds; biologically active boron compounds (reagents for boron-neutron capture therapy (tumour therapy), enzyme inhibitors (inflammation, progression of cancer)
Research Activities
• Homogeneous Catalysis with Mono- and Multinuclear Transition Metal Complexes
• Biological and Medicinal Chemistry with Inorganic Compounds
• Precursors for Materials Science
Inorganic Chemistry, Bioorganometallic Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry: Synthesis (Schlenk technique, chromatography for air-sensitive compounds) reactivity and structural elucidation (IR, UV-Vis, NMR, X-ray crystallography) of organometallic, coordination and main group element compounds; Homogeneous catalysis with mono- and multinuclear complexes: Reactions of transition metal complexes with functionalised ligands (N, P, As, O, S donors), (chiral, functionalised) phosphorus compounds, switchable catalysts, (chiral) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), heteronuclear complexes;Applications of inorganic compounds in medicinal and biological areas: Biologically active carbaboranes, carbaboranyl derivatives for BNCT, carbaboranyl- and phosphanyl-modified amino acids, metal- and phosphorus-based anti-tumour agents, carbaboranes as phenyl mimetics, new, selective COX inhibitors; Precursors for novel materials: Alkali and earth alkaline metal phosphanides and phosphanediides, complexes with reactive metal–phosphorus bonds, strained phosphacycles for ROP, phosphorus-rich precursors for phosphorus-rich metal phosphides