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

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