Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1143: Complex Functional Systems in Chemistry: Design, Development and Applications
Subject Area
Molecular Chemistry
Term
from 2006 to 2014
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 785486
The motivation of the International Research Training Group is to gather a group of scientists, from a broad range of chemical sub-disciplines with complementary expertise on the nature, the characterisation, the experimental control, the application of various types of interactions between molecules and/or molecular assemblies, to understand, develop, and apply complex functional systems.
To cover the whole range of experimental tools and methodologies necessary to understand and use intermolecular interactions to design, develop and apply functional chemical systems, we have specifically selected a group of scientists from the University of Münster, each contributing high-level expertise on different intermolecular interactions to this International Research Training Group (e.g., hydrogen bonding; ó-/ð-interaction and van der Waals-interaction; hydrophilic, hydrophobic interactions, substrate-receptor fitting; dipolar interaction, magnetic interaction; electronic interaction, electron-transfer, oligomer hybridisation).
In addition, we have found a group of scientists from the Nagoya University with closely matching complementary expertise on studying intermolecular interactions in complex chemical systems (e.g., coordinative bonding at very electrophilic metal centres; weak interactions in catalysis; theoretical treatment of intermolecular interactions; ð-stacking, optoelectronic devices; magnetic interactions; supramolecular orientation of nanotubes; photophysical interactions; and interactions of proteins and enzyme-design).
The aim of the new International Research Training Group, in which scientists working in a broad range of technically different but conceptionally related areas of the chemical sciences are gathered, is to define common concepts based on intermolecular interactions for the preparation of complex functional systems. Interactions between bio-related chemistry and materials science, between catalysis and biochemistry (vide supra), between synthesis and biocatalysis, as well as between synthesis and materials science are meanwhile well established in modern science.
However, the attempt to gather all these research efforts at two related partner universities into a single research and graduate teaching programme, in the best Humboldtian sense, is uncommon, innovative and very challenging. Each doctoral student will have a German and a Japanese advisor, who are equally responsible for mentoring the progress of the dissertations. The German students must be willing to work for at least six months time on their joint project in the laboratory of the scientific partner group in Nagoya.
To cover the whole range of experimental tools and methodologies necessary to understand and use intermolecular interactions to design, develop and apply functional chemical systems, we have specifically selected a group of scientists from the University of Münster, each contributing high-level expertise on different intermolecular interactions to this International Research Training Group (e.g., hydrogen bonding; ó-/ð-interaction and van der Waals-interaction; hydrophilic, hydrophobic interactions, substrate-receptor fitting; dipolar interaction, magnetic interaction; electronic interaction, electron-transfer, oligomer hybridisation).
In addition, we have found a group of scientists from the Nagoya University with closely matching complementary expertise on studying intermolecular interactions in complex chemical systems (e.g., coordinative bonding at very electrophilic metal centres; weak interactions in catalysis; theoretical treatment of intermolecular interactions; ð-stacking, optoelectronic devices; magnetic interactions; supramolecular orientation of nanotubes; photophysical interactions; and interactions of proteins and enzyme-design).
The aim of the new International Research Training Group, in which scientists working in a broad range of technically different but conceptionally related areas of the chemical sciences are gathered, is to define common concepts based on intermolecular interactions for the preparation of complex functional systems. Interactions between bio-related chemistry and materials science, between catalysis and biochemistry (vide supra), between synthesis and biocatalysis, as well as between synthesis and materials science are meanwhile well established in modern science.
However, the attempt to gather all these research efforts at two related partner universities into a single research and graduate teaching programme, in the best Humboldtian sense, is uncommon, innovative and very challenging. Each doctoral student will have a German and a Japanese advisor, who are equally responsible for mentoring the progress of the dissertations. The German students must be willing to work for at least six months time on their joint project in the laboratory of the scientific partner group in Nagoya.
DFG Programme
International Research Training Groups
International Connection
Japan
Applicant Institution
Universität Münster
IRTG-Partner Institution
Nagoya University
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Gerhard Erker
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Hellmut Eckert; Professor Dr. Frank Glorius; Professor Dr. Hans-Ulrich Humpf; Professor Dr. Jens Müller; Professor Dr. Martin Oestreich; Professor Dr. Bart Jan Ravoo; Professor Dr. Armido Studer; Professor Dr. Bernhard Wünsch; Professor Dr. Ernst-Ulrich Würthwein
IRTG-Partner: Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Kazuyuki Tatsumi
Cooperation Partners
Professor Dr. Kunio Awaga; Professor Dr. Toshiya Endo; Professor Dr. Stefan Irle; Professor Dr. Kenichiro Itami; Professor Dr. Masato Kitamura; Professor Dr. Ryoji Noyori; Professor Dr. Susumu Saito; Professor Dr. Hisanori Shinohara; Professor Dr. Kentaro Tanaka; Professor Dr. Yoshihito Watanabe; Professor Dr. Shigehiro Yamaguchi
