Research Topics

A reliable and efficient characterization of the constitution and configuration of chemical compounds is critical in essentially in all areas of catalysis research. NMR plays a crucial role not only... [more]

In many cases, it is desirable to collect the NMR data “on-the-fly” during a chemical reaction. Such real-time experiments allow one to obtain kinetic data, to characterize important key intermediates and to understand catalytic reaction mechanisms. However, this is challenging to achieve ... [more]

A glance into the formation of the products of a catalytic reaction offers valuable insight into its mechanism in situ. Unfortunately, the enlightening reaction intermediates are typically short-lived and at low-concentration, so that their characterisation by NMR can be challenging. Several strategies can be adopted... [more]

Whereas crystallography can provide exact atomic coordinates of compounds in specific solid-state stable forms, NMR can provide approximate atomic-scale structural information of compounds in principle under almost any conceivable conditions (temperature, pressure, solvent, mixtures, etc). The typically time- and space-averaged information provided... [more]

Solid-state NMR spectroscopy is one of the major techniques for the characterisation of solid catalysts, functional materials and potential hydrogen storage materials synthesized at the MPI für Kohlenforschung. In recent years, solid-state NMR spectroscopy has ... [more]

With over five-decades of qualified analytical NMR-based characterisation on thousands of compounds from natural products to metal complexes, the NMR department is dedicated to unify old and new multinuclear NMR data into a common database. This on-going project aims... [more]