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The Clever Lab is welcoming a new coworker. Chak-Shing Kwan joined the group as a postdoc. He was awarded with a prestigious Humboldt fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. We wish him all the best and success in his re­search in the Clever Lab.

We are happy to welcome a new mem­ber in the Clever Lab: PhD student Elie Benchimol. We wish him all the best for his re­search and we are looking forward to work with you!

„We say goodbye, thank you and wish all the best to Dr. Sonja Pullen who leaves the Clever Lab for starting her independent re­search career as a tenure track Assistant Professor at the Van 't Hoff In­sti­tute for Molecular Sciences, Uni­ver­sity of Amsterdam. Lots of luck and success, Sonja! Read more here

Dr. Sonja Pullen was featured in this re­search spotlight from the TU Dort­mund. The interview is about her re­search topic on light-driven catalysis and her in­ter­na­tio­nal re­search experience. Dr. Pullen also talks about the Marie Skłodowska-Curie-Fellowship (MSCA) from the European Un­ion which made her stay in the Clever Lab possible. Read more here

We are happy to welcome three new mem­bers in the Clever Lab. Dr. Ananya Baksi (right) joins our group as a postdoc, PhD student Alexandre Walther (middle) and Dr. David Van Craen (left) as a young investigator who is conducting independent re­search on anion-binding helicates.

The Clever Lab congratulates our PhD student Irene Regeni for being one of the poster prize winners of the virtual ISMSC poster session 2020, where she presented her work on multy-cavity coordination cages.

We have to say goodbye to Dr. Haeri Lee, who starts her independend career at Hannam Uni­ver­sity in Daejeon, South Korea. All the best! We will be missing you!

Part of our JSPS-funded collaboration with the group of Keisuke Umakoshi, Nagasaki Uni­ver­sity, Japan, has just been accepted for publication: S. Horiuchi, C. Matsuo, E. Sakuda, Y. Arikawa, G. H. Clever, K. Umakoshi, Dalton. Trans. 2020, 49, 8472. (HOT article).
 

Congratulations to Irene Regeni for being selected to attend this year's 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting! In her PhD thesis, Irene works on dye-functionalized coordination cages and their application to DNA secondary structure recognition.

The Clever Lab wishes Merry Chistmas!!!

A brand-new JASCO CPL300 is now installed in our Lab, the first one in Germany! It enables us to measure Circularly Polarized Luminescence (CPL) of chiral compounds, cages and so on. The new machine is funded within the RESOLV Cluster of Excellence.

And again we are proud to welcome three new group mem­bers who will strengthen the Clever Lab: Dr. Pedro Montes Tolentino, postdoc from Mexico (left) and our new PhD students Hannah Kuckling and Simon Kotnig.

We are happy to welcome three new mem­bers in the Clever Lab: PhD student Shota Hasegawa from Japan and our bachelor students Rameeya Muraleetharan and Marie Langenberg. We are looking forward to work with you!

Congratulations to our PhD student Lukas Stratmann who was awarded a poster prize at the ICBIC19 in Interlaken, Switzerland, the biggest in­ter­na­tio­nal con­fe­rence on bioinorganic chem­is­try. He presented his proj­ect on EPR-based intermolecular distance measurements in higher-order DNA G-quadruplex structures which he is working on in collaboration with the group of JProf. Kasan­mascheff from Physical Chem­is­try.

See this recent highlight of the Clever Lab re­search activities in self-assembly and fullerene binding in the UniZet magazine (in German).

Our PhD student Bin Chen won a IUPAC poster prize at ISMSC 2019 in Lecce, Italy, for his work on fullerene binding bowls re­cent­ly published in JACS.

The Clever Lab congratulates!

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Hierzu konnte US Chemiker Ken Raymond in den letzten zwei Wochen als erster “Mercator Fellow” des GRK2376, in welchem sich Wis­sen­schaft­ler von Ruhr-Uni Bochum und TU Dort­mund mit chemischen Reaktionen in nanometergroßen Hohlräumen und Kompartimenten beschäftigen, spannende Antworten liefern.

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Congratulations to PhD student Philip Punt who was awarded with the poster prize at the RESOLV Klausurtagung 2019 in Harsewinkel-Marienfeld for his work on “Imidazole-modified metal-binding DNA G-qua­dru­plexes – a step towards artificial metalloenzymes”. In his work he could show how the introduction of imidazole residues in DNA G-qua­dru­plexes leads to tunable metal-binding G-qua­dru­plexes that are able to catalyze various reactions in­clu­ding Michael additions as well as Diels-Alder reactions.

Congratulations to PhD student Irene Regeni who was awarded with a poster prize at SupraChem 2019 in Würzburg. Her work on dye-based coordination cages was awarded in the category "Molecular Cages, Switches and Machines" and the prize offered from Springer was presented by Prof. Dr. Markus Albrecht, Editor of J. Incl. Phenom. Macrocycl. Chem..

We regularly conduct diffraction experiments at biomolecular synchrotron beamline P11@DESY for structure elucidation of large metallo-supramolecular assemblies. Two publications in Angew. Chem. on a new M₈L₁₆ catenane and cage-in-ring pseudo rotaxane were chosen as science highlight in the 2018 DESY annual report (p. 32 - 33)

We congratulate Irene Regeni who was awarded a poster prize on the Supe@Lyon 2018, a popular in­ter­na­tio­nal symposium on supramolecular chem­is­try. She presented her interesting work with the title "Self-assembled [Pd₂L₄] coordination cages based on well-known organic dyes." The prize was handed over by Nobel laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart!

We are happy to welcome two new mem­bers in the Clever Lab: Dr. Sudhakar Ganta, postdoc coming from the IIT in Madras, India and our guest scientist Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Eri Sakuda from Nagasaki Uni­ver­sity in Japan.
Both will work on functional coordination cages.

Congratulations to Irene, Soham and Bo for winning the presentation prizes on the first edition of the International Clever Lab Conference!

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Great news for RESOLV: The joint proposal by RUB and TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity was selected by the DFG and the Cluster of Excellence in solvation science will be funded in Germany’s Excellence Strategy for the next seven years.

We happily announce that our recent paper on interpentrated peanut-shaped cages made it on the Front Cover of Angew. Chem.!

We welcome our two new lab mem­bers from the south of China: Qianqian Yan, PhD student coming with a CSC scholarship from Fuzhou Uni­ver­sity (right) and Dr. Kai Wu, postdoc coming from Sun Yat-Sen Uni­ver­sity (left). Both will work on functional coordination cages.

For this years scientific retreat, the Clever Lab crossed the north see to visit the island of Juist: Great landscapes, intense semi­nars and a lot of fun!

We are happy to announce that Haeri Lee from Korea starts her postdoc in the Clever Lab. Her ex­per­tise is X-ray crystallography and she will work on functionalized coordination cages.

The Clever Lab welcomes new postdoc Jacopo Tessarolo from Italy who will work on functionalized cages.

Our recent publication "Catenation and Aggregation of Multi-Cavity Coordination Cages" (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.) was highlighted by Dr. Emiliano Feresin with a short article on the website of the RESOLV cluster of excellence.

Dr. Sonja Pullen started her proj­ect entitled „Metal Organic Cages for Catalysis Applications” (short „MOCCA“) that is funded by the European Un­ion within the frame­work of Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (MSCA). She will work on functional heteroleptic coordination cages for CO₂ reduction.

The Clever Lab congratulates Philip Punt for winning a poster prize at the RESOLV retreat 2018. On his poster with the title “Imidazole-modified metal-binding DNA G-qua­dru­plexes - a step towards artificial metalloenzymes” he showed how to create designed coordination environments for metal ions on top of G-quadruplex structures.

Our recent publication "Hierarchical Assembly of an Interlocked M₈L₁₆ Container" (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.) was highlighted on the website of the RESOLV cluster of excellence. In a short interview, Guido Clever explains the significance of his new dis­cov­ery described in this paper.

The Clever Lab is looking forward to start collecting diffraction data for crystal structure elucidations on its new Bruker D8 Venture single crystal X-ray diffractometer.

We welcome our guest sci­en­tists Assist.-Prof. Dr. Shinnosuke Horiuchi and Assist.-Prof. Dr. Hironobu Tahara, both from the Uni­ver­sity of Nagasaki, Japan, in our group.

The Clever Lab is looking forward to start its measurements on the new Bruker AV 500 Avance NEO NMR spectrometer.

We are excited to start the operation of our new Bruker timsTOF ion mobility mass spectrometer.

The Clever Lab congratulates Irene Regeni for obtaining a PhD scholarship from the German Fonds of the Chemical Industry (FCI Kekulé stipend) to support her work on dye-functionalized coordination cages.

We congratulate Marcel Krick who was awarded a poster prize on the ISMSC 2017 in Cambridge, the biggest in­ter­na­tio­nal symposium on supramolecular chem­is­try. He presented his work with the title “Endohedral Dynamics of Push-Pull Rotor-Functionalized Cages.“

Susanne Löffler won the Young Researcher Award 2016 at the 7th Münster Symposium on Cooperative Effects in Chem­is­try (MSCEC) for her outstanding publication (JACS 2015, 137, 1060) exhibiting the control of host guest chem­is­try in supramolecular coordination cages. The Clever Lab congratulates!