Project Details
Projekt
Coordination Funds
Applicant
Professor Dr. Peter R. Schreiner
Subject Area
Organic Molecular Chemistry - Synthesis and Characterisation
Term
from 2015 to 2022
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 271343670
This priority programme aims at a thorough understanding and quantification of London dispersion interactions in molecular systems. These short-range electron correlation effects are the driving force for molecular aggregation that play a key role in thermodynamics, molecular recognition, chemical selectivity through transition-state stabilization, and other phenonema. The primary goal of this programme is the development of chemical design principles that utilizes dispersion interactions in the construction of novel molecular structures and in the design of chemical reactions. This can only be achieved through a tight interplay between synthesis, spectroscopy, and theory to quantitatively determine dispersion interactions. Novel experimental and theoretical capabilities have reached a stage that allows a clear-cut analysis of dispersion interactions. There are many challenges to understand and to utilize dispersion forces for the preparation of novel molecular structures, to elucidate the transition from molecular to bulk properties, and catalysis through fine tuning of dispersion-energy donors for optimizing the interactions of ligands and substrates. The focus lies on the following topics:Structural studies and quantification of dispersion interactions- Quantification of dispersion-energy donors- Design and preparation of novel dispersion-stabilized structures- Dispersion interactions in electronically excited states- Dispersion effects on reactivity and in catalysis- Transition-state stabilization through dispersion-energy donors- Solvent-induced modulation of dispersion interactionsTheory and spectroscopy as tools for the elucidation of dispersion interactions- Experimental and theoretical method development to address dispersion interactions- Molecular spectroscopy to quantify dispersion effects and to validate theoretical results- Visualization of dispersion interactions- Quantification of dispersion-energy donors- Design and preparation of novel dispersion-stabilized structures- Dispersion interactions in electronically excited states- Dispersion effects on reactivity and in catalysis- Transition-state stabilization through dispersion-energy donors- Solvent-induced modulation of dispersion interactionsTheory and spectroscopy as tools for the elucidation of dispersion interactions- Experimental and theoretical method development to address dispersion interactions- Molecular spectroscopy to quantify dispersion effects and to validate theoretical results- Visualization of dispersion interactions
DFG Programme
Priority Programmes
