The Effect of Oriented Electric Fields on PCET Reactions (B05)

• Subject Area: Inorganic Molecular Chemistry - Synthesis and Characterisation ; Organic Molecular Chemistry - Synthesis and Characterisation
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 510228793

The project is a bioinspired approach to study the effect of electric fields on PCET within structurally well-defined, nanoscopic environments. Supramolecular cages with different sizes and varying charge will be de-veloped and utilized as hosts to quantify the impact of oriented electric field on the PCET reactivity of arche-typal molecular hydrido and hydroxy guest species. Transfer of cage compounds to several projects in the A group aims at introducing biomimetic strategies to control molecular PCET. B05 collaborates with A03/A05 (PCET kinetics), A03/A04 (supramolecular catalysis), C03 (vibrational spectroscopy), B03 (Raman spectrosco-py), and B04 (theory).

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1633: Pushing Electrons with Protons – Unifying Multi-Electron Redox Catalysis by Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer
• Major Instrumentation: Cryo stopped flow ; Glovebox
• Instrumentation Group: 1120 Spezielle Reaktionsapparaturen (Blitzlicht-, Laser-, Photolyse, Stopped Flow) ; 4670 Handschuhkästen, Schutzgasanlagen
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Heads: Dr. Matthias Otte; Professorin Dr. Inke Siewert