2024

Prof. Dr. Armido Studer (University of Münster)

"Radical Water Activation and Pyridine C-H-Functionalization".
  • Date: Dec 11, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Armido Studer (University of Münster)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de

Institute Seminar

  • Date: Dec 6, 2024
  • Speaker: Mathias Turberg & Dr. Alexios Stamoulis
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Prof. Dr. Frank Neese

Dr. Julia Reisenbauer (CalTech)

Navigating chemical space: utilizing nitrene reactivities in traditional organic chemistry and biocatalysis
  • Date: Dec 5, 2024
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 04:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Julia Reisenbauer (CalTech, US)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Prof. Dr. Frank Neese
  • Contact: neese@kofo.mpg.de

GDCh Lecture: Prof. Shengming Ma (Fudan University & Zhejiang University & Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS)

„Enantioselective Allenylation with Propargylic Alcohols and Their Derivatives”
  • Date: Dec 2, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Shengming Ma (Fudan University & Zhejiang University & Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Prof. Christian Lehmann
  • Contact: lehmann@kofo.mpg.de

Ernst Haage Symposium 2024: Key Note: Prof. Dr. Siegfried Waldvogel, Direktor Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion

  • Date: Nov 15, 2024
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
Award winners: NATIONAL: Prof. Dr. Barbara A. J. Lechner (TU München) PHD/POSTDOC: Tim Schulte (Kofo, AG Ritter) Sheng-Hsiang Lin (CEC, AG Leitner) AZUBIS: Elisabeth Glöcler (CEC, Chemielaborantin, Waldvogel) Hinrich Kludig (Kofo, Feinmechanik) [more]

Prof. Dr. Petra Ágota Szilágyi (Department of Chemistry Oslo, NO)

“Metal-organic frameworks in energy conversion and storage"
  • Date: Oct 23, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Petra Ágota Szilágyi (Department of Chemistry Oslo)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Prof. Weidenthaler
  • Contact: weidenthaler@mpi-muelheim.mpg.de

Dr. Andrew Akbashev (Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen CH)

“Ion Intercalation, Lattice Instability and Chemo-Mechanical Coupling in Electrocatalysts under OER”
  • Date: Oct 16, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Andrew Akbashev (Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen CH)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de
“Ion Intercalation, Lattice Instability and Chemo-Mechanical Coupling in Electrocatalysts under OER” [more]

MBLA Lecture Tour: Dr. Yoichi Hoshimoto (Osaka University, JP)

Exploring Ways to Harness N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Triarylboranes in Organometallic and Synthetic Chemistry
  • Date: Oct 9, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Yoichi Hoshimoto (Osaka University, JP)
  • Dr. Yoichi Hoshimoto (Osaka University, JP) Exploring Ways to Harness N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Triarylboranes in Organometallic and Synthetic Chemistry
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Prof. List
  • Contact: kaltsidis@kofo.mpg.de

Prof. Dr. Alexander Radosevich (MIT)

“Biphilic Redox Reactivity of Nontrigonal Organophosphorus Compounds”
  • Date: Oct 2, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Alexander Radosevich (MIT)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de
“Biphilic Redox Reactivity of Nontrigonal Organophosphorus Compounds” [more]

Summer School: Spectroscopy and Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Complexes | September 22-28, 2024

  • Start: Sep 22, 2024 11:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Sep 28, 2024 11:15 AM
  • Speaker: diverse
  • Location: Mülheim Chemistry Campus, Lemkestraße 7
  • Host: Prof. Dr. Frank Neese & Prof. Dr. Serena DeBeer

Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius (University of Münster, DE)

  • Date: Sep 18, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius (University of Münster, DE)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de

Prof. Dr. Lena Daumann (Düsseldorf University, DE)

  • Date: Aug 13, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Lena Daumann (Düsseldorf University, DE)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de

ORCA 6.0.0 Release

ORCA 6.0.0 Release
  • Start: Jul 25, 2024 08:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jul 26, 2024 06:00 PM
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Hörsaalgebäude, Eingang Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Zoom
  • Host: ORCA Group
  • Contact: neese@kofo.mpg.de

Prof. Masaaki Kitano (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Prof. Masaaki Kitano (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • Date: Jul 22, 2024
  • Time: 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Masaaki Kitano (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: contact@kofo.mpg.de
Catalytic ammonia synthesis by mixed anion materials [more]

Prof. Dr. Darren Dixon (University of Oxford)

  • Date: Jul 17, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Darren Dixon (University of Oxford)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Mata (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

  • Date: Jul 3, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ricardo Mata (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, DE)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de

Prof. Dr. Robert Phipps (University of Cambridge)

  • Date: Jun 26, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Robert Phipps (University of Cambridge)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de

Festive Awarding of the "Historical Landmarks Award" by the European Chemical Society

to the Sites of Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta
  • Date: May 17, 2024
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Alois Fürstner, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
  • "Why I think Prof. Ziegler could not help but discover Olefin Polymerization"
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: EuChemS
  • Contact: gombert@kofo.mpg.de
Opening remarks: Prof. Dr. Frank Neese, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, talks by Prof. Dr. Angela Agostiano, EuChemS President, Prof. Dr. Sabine Becker, GDCh Vice President, Prof. Dr. Gianluca Farinola, SCI President, Marc Buchholz, Mayor of Mülheim an der Ruhr [more]

Karl Ziegler Guest Professorship - Seminar

  • Date: May 16, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Véronique Gouverneur, University of Oxford
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: MPI für Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: schiffhorst@kofo.mpg.de

Karl Ziegler Lecture 2024 - Main Lecture with Award Ceremony

  • Date: May 15, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Véronique Gouverneur, University of Oxford
  • "Rethinking Fluorine Chemistry with Global Challenges in Mind"
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: MPI für Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: schiffhorst@kofo.mpg.de
Professor Gouverneur’s research has focused on the invention of new strategies for the synthesis of fluorine-containing molecules for applications in materials and the life sciences. This lecture will highlight selected accomplishments and discuss how this fundamental research has evolved to address some of the current global challenges facing the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. [more]

Prof. Dr. Thisbe Lindhorst (University of Kiel)

  • Date: May 8, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thisbe Lindhorst (University of Kiel)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: GDCh Ortsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Contact: lehmann@kofo.mpg.de

Dr. Maria Drosou, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung

  • Date: May 7, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Maria Drosou, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: MPI für Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: contact@kofo.mpg.de
Deciphering Multi-Spin Chemistry [more]

Girls' Day at the Institute

  • Date: Apr 25, 2024
  • Time: 08:30 AM - 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Claudia Weidenthaler
  • The institute offers about 30 girls the opportunity to get to know practically the profession of chemical/physical laboratory assistant and working at a scientific institute. More information about Girls' Day and a registration can be made on the official Girls' Day page at www.girls-day.de.
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Small Lecture Hall
  • Host: MPI für Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: schiffhorst@kofo.mpg.de

Prof. Dr. Eric Jacobsen, Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University

  • Date: Apr 15, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Eric Jacobsen, Harvard University
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Prof. Ritter
  • Contact: ritter@kofo.mpg.de
Privileged Chiral Catalysts: Selectivity and Generality in Asymmetric Catalysis [more]

Prof. Dr. Alison Wendlandt, MIT

"Emergent selectivity in complex stereoarrays"
  • Date: Apr 10, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Alison Wendlandt, MIT
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de

Day of Catalysis

  • Date: Mar 14, 2024
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 06:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: divers
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: List Department
  • Contact: kaltsidis@kofo.mpg.de

Young Chemists Symposium Ruhr 2024

  • Date: Feb 29, 2024
  • Time: 09:00 AM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ferdi Schüth
  • And other oral presentations, poster sessions
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Hörsaalgebäude, Eingang Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Young Chemists Forum of the GDCh (JCF)
  • Contact: bilician@kofo.mpg.de
Registration here: https://forms.gle/1mbY6imGWQf2ukgz8 [more]

Prof. Dr. Prof. Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol

Boron Mediated Cross Couplings for sp2-sp3 and sp3-sp3 bond construction
  • Date: Feb 28, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Prof. Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de

Institute Seminar with Awarding of the Thiel Prize

  • Date: Feb 16, 2024
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Prof. Dr. Frank Neese

Prof. Dr. Yuzhou Wu (School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology, CN)

  • Date: Jan 30, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Yuzhou Wu (School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology, CN)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de

Prof. Dr. David Powers (Texas A&M University, US)

Making, Seeing, and Using Subvalent Nitrogen Species
  • Date: Jan 24, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. David Powers (Texas A&M University, US)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de
"Making, Seeing, and Using Subvalent Nitrogen Species" [more]

Dr. Mikkel Juelsholt (Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, US)

  • Date: Jan 24, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Mikkel Juelsholt (Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, US)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: MPI für Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: kalischer@kofo.mpg.de
“Chemistry of Nucleation: Mapping the Hydrothermal Chemistry of Tungsten Oxide Formation” [more]

“Solution-processed nanostructured semiconductors for next-generation photovoltaics”

“Solution-processed nanostructured semiconductors for next-generation photovoltaics”
  • Date: Jan 10, 2024
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Arnau Bertran (University of Oxford, UK)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Hörsaalgebäude, Eingang Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Dr. Harun Tüysüz
  • Contact: tueysuez@kofo.mpg.de
Dr. Arnau Bertran (University of Oxford, UK) “Solution-processed nanostructured semiconductors for next-generation photovoltaics” [more]
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