Latest News
01/2022
The Sindlinger group wishes everyone a Happy New Year 2022. We are looking forward to new molecules and structural motifs yet to be discovered.
2022
2021
20/12/2021
Tobias defended his thesis with flying colours and became the first PhD to graduate from the group. We couldn't be much prouder. His hat keeps a certain colour code to indicate a slight preference for a NRW-based football club.
08/12/2021
Julijans and Tobias' manuscript on meutral half-sandwich compound of divalent Germanium and Tin with a dianionic borole π-ligand was accepted and published in Chem. Commun. and will be part of the special themed issue on "Boron Chemistry in the 21st Century: From Synthetic Curiosities to Functional Molecules." You may find the manuscript here.
06/12/2021
Christian was invited to give a talk at the GDCh Seminar Series in
Bremen. I greatly enjoyed to finally give an "in-person" talk again and
excellent meetings with colleagues in Bremen.
25/11/2021
Most of our lab equipment took a ride with an RWTH lorry from Göttingen
to Aachen. Sad to say goodbye with so many fond memories and experiences
of Göttingen with great mentors and excellent support, friends and
colleagues and students. Thank you everybody. We are now looking forward
to (re-)building the lab in Aachen. But first one needed to regenerate
from quite stressful moving.
10/2021
The group received and Exploration Grant by the Boehringer Ingelheim
Stiftung (Foundation) to explore new bond activation pathways harnessing
borole moeties. We are grateful for this excellent support of our research.
01/10/2021
Christian officially starts the new position as Junior Professor at RWTH Aachen University. Exciting times!
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09/2021
Bastian handed in his BSc thesis.
07/2021
Tobias und Leonard were able to make and deprotonate a methyl-borole. The first insights into the chemistry of the resulting boratafulvene have now been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie. Check it out, it's open access!
03/2021
Great efforts and skillful experimental work by Tobias, Julijan, Leonard, Maxim and all research interns build the foundations for our group to receive one of the ADUC awards in 2021 at the digital Chemiedozententagung "in Rostock". Big thanks to all team members, nominators, and funders and mentors that grant us the freedom to pursue our synthetic endeavours. A short overview on our recent works are summarized in the Nachrichten aus der Chemie (German only!).
01/2021
For the last time me and Christian Hering-Junghans went through the 2020 literature to put together the "Trendberichte" in molecular inorganic chemistry
which can be found in the Nachrichten aus der Chemie. Exciting times,
beautiful molecules and thanks! Christian for the splendid collaboration
and communication over the years.
01/2021
Maxim hands in his MSc thesis and Julijan starts his PhD in our group as
part of the BENCh research training group in Göttingen. Exciting start
to a New Year 2021.
2021
2020
12/2020
Our report on Tobias' and Julijans successful synthesis of a Si(II)-Borole Half-Sandwich Complex has been accepted for publication in JACS. Superb news at the end of a
challenging year. We wish a Happy Christmas and all the best for a New
Year 2021. Great effort, Tobi und Julijan!
12/2020
Right before the Christmas lockdown the last few experimental results for the Master theses were hastily collected. Good luck, writing all up! Julijan hands in his MSc thesis (in Bielefeld).
08/2020
Our report on the first cationic borole incl. its CO-complex is published in Chem. Eur. J. along with a beautiful Cover Feature . Big thanks to everyone involved (and for being eligible for Open Access publishing)!
07/2020
Julijan's extended scientific research stay with our group was finally approved. Great news and welcome (again) to Göttingen! Maxim leaves his homeoffice to start working on a MSc project with us. Bonne Chance! Exciting times ahead.
05/2020
Carefully, keeping our distances and wearing "mouth-nose-covers" we are grateful to be allowed back in the lab at reduced operations.
03/2020
We try our best to stay at home and get something done.
02/2020
Tobias' und Leonard's report on the synthesis and properties of 2,5-Disilyl-substituted Boroles was accepted in Dalton Transactions.
01/2020
Leonard handed in his BSc thesis. Great time and nice perspectives!
01/2020
In january "Nachrichten aus der Chemie" scheduled the trend report for molecular inorganic chemistry. Here is the pick Christian Hering-Junghans and I had for (a good bunch of) 2019's main group chemistry Trendberichte der Anorganischen Molekülchemie 2019
01/2020
In january "Nachrichten aus der Chemie" scheduled the trend report for molecular inorganic chemistry. Here is the pick Christian Hering-Junghans and I had for (a good bunch of) 2019's main group chemistry Trendberichte der Anorganischen Molekülchemie 2019
2020
2019
11/2019
Julijan and Lukas start a research internship. Julijan joined us from Uni Bielefeld. Good luck!
10/2019
Leonard started his BSc project. All the best!
09/2019
Annual group trip to the Bavarian Alps. This year with a little more rain than usually.
08/2019
The application for a PhD position within the RTG2455 BENCh in our group has just been unlocked job portal of the University of Göttingen. Spread the news!
08/2019
Our latest report, on how to access a neutral "Aluminocene"-Sandwich complex with a borole, has just been accepted by Angewandte Chemie. Check it out, it'sopen access.
07/2019
We are happy to be part of RTG2455 BENCh and the team and are looking forward to collarbotations with Leticia González .
07/2019
Steffen successfully finished his lab internship and there is again ample space for new interns!
05-06/2019
Moritz starts a lab internship and Steffen continues on the project.
04/2019
Maxim and Henner started their research internships. It's getting crowded in the lab!
01/2019
Our first Paper on got accepted in Chemistry - A European Journal and gives some insight into substituent control on the frontier orbital energy levels in free pentaaryl boroles.
01/2019
The Trendberichte der Anorganischen Molekülchemie 2018 that were put together with Dr. Christian Hering-Junghans, have been published in Nachrichten aus der Chemie. (German Only)
2019
2018
12/2018
Niklas Herrmann starts his research internship.
10/2018
The "group" participated in the "Boron Chemists Meeting" in Reimlingen. Great presentation, Tobias!
09/2018
Joint Group Retreat in Oberjoch (Allgäu) to discuss chemistry and hike.
04/2018
Tobias Heitkemper joins the group for his PhD project!
02/2018
Receiving Funding from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie as a Liebig Fellow means the world to us and also that we can pursue our investigations into reactive boron heterocycles in Göttingen. Thank you FCI and Stiftung Stipendienfonds for making fundamental research possible. The very foundation of everything.