PhD Public Presentations

Felix Fleckenstein
Modulating Cobalt-Carbon Bond Strengths in a Vitamin B₁₂ Model Complex
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiner: Prof. Jérôme Lacour
02.07.2025

Heterobimetallic Complexes as Probes for Investigating Metal-Metal Interactions in Cross-Coupling Reactions
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiners: Prof. Hansjörg Grützmacher, Prof. Ilija Čorić
31.01.2024

Mass Spectrometry Advancements for Diverse Structural Biology Applications
Supervisor: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiners: Prof. Paola Picotti, Prof. Timothy P. Jenkins
31.01.2024

Metabolism Beyond Borders: Periplasmic Shikimate Pathway Enzymes in Pathogenic Bacteria
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Kast
Co-examiners: Prof. Hubert Hilbi, Prof. Emma Slack
07.02.2024

Study of Non-Covalent Interactions in Onium Ions
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiners: Prof. Philippe Hünenberger, Prof. Reinhard Neier
10.04.2024

Selective Carbon–Phosphorus Bond Activation Strategies for Reaction Design
Supervisor: Prof. Bill Morandi
Co-examiner: Prof. Jérôme Waser
17.04.2024

New Frontiers in Nickel Chemistry: Well-Defined Nickel(I) Complexes and Mechanistic Studies of Functional Group Metathesis
Supervisor: Prof. Bill Morandi
Co-examiner: Prof. Eva Hevia
08.05.2024

Optimising Enzyme Function: Leveraging Classical and Ultrahigh-Throughput Screening
Supervisor: Prof. Helma Wennemers
Co-examiners: Prof. Donald Hilvert, Prof. Alexandria Deliz Liang
15.05.2024

Expanding the Bioorthogonal Chemistry Toolbox for Protein Labeling
Supervisor: Prof. Kathrin Lang
Co-examiner: Prof. Stephan Hacker
22.05.2024

Improving On-Line Breath Analysis with Ambient Mass Spectrometry
Supervisor: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiners: Prof. Dirk Mohr, Prof. Pablo Sinues
22.05.2024

Total Synthesis of (+)-Aberrarone and Advances in Photoredox Chemistry – Exploring New Catalytic Systems in the Service of Synthesis
Supervisor: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiners: Prof. Karl Gademann, Prof. Bill Morandi
05.06.2024

Cannabinoid Receptor 2 in the Spotlight: Ligand-Directed Covalent Probes and Rational Tailoring of Ligand Functionality
Supervisor: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiners: Prof. James Frank, Dr. Uwe Grether
05.06.2024

Mechanistically Guided Predictive Modeling of Stoichiometric Elimination Reactions of Palladium (II) Complexes
Supervisor: Prof. Bill Morandi
Co-examiners: Prof. Peter Chen, Prof. Matt Sigman
21.08.2024

Charge-Tagged Cyclopentadienone Iron Complexes: Mechanistic Studies Using Mass Spectrometry for Catalytic Hydrogenation Reactions
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiners: Prof. Victor Mougel, Prof. Martin Albrecht
21.08.2024

High-throughput Synthesis of Chemical Libraries and Prediction of Reaction Outcomes
Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiners: Prof. Sereina Riniker, Prof. Philippe Schwaller
21.08.2024

Total Synthesis and Related Studies of Mutanobactins from the Human Oral Microbiome and Photochemical Rearrangements Towards the Synthesis of a Sesterterpene
Supervisor: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Karl Gademann
04.09.2024

Exploring Tigliane and Limonoid Natural Products: Total Synthesis of (+)-Pedrolide and Synthetic Studies on Andhraxylocarpin E
Supervisor: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Karl Gademann
18.09.2024

GR PROTAC and Beyond – Expanding the Toolbox for Targeting the Glucocorticoid Receptor
Supervisor: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Dennis Gillingham
15.09.2024

Palladium-Catalysed Carbofunctionalisation Reactions of Acid Chlorides
Examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
Co-examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers
01.03.2023

Initiation and Deactivation of Homogeneous Rhenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts
Examiner: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiner: Prof. Christophe Copéret
15.03.2023

Synthetic Collagen Heterotrimers: Self-sorting, Functionalization and Higher-order Supramolecular Assembly
Examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers
Co-examiner: Prof. Renato Zenobi
05.04.2023

Mass Spectrometric Methods for Studying Thermodynamic Properties of Biomolecular Systems
Examiner: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiner: Prof. Jonathan Hall
05.04.2023

Developments in Nickel-catalyzed Transfer Hydrocyanation Reactions and Novel Skeletal Editing Strategies through Nitrogen Atom Insertion
Examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
Co-examiner: Prof. Erick Carreira
12.04.2023

Rhodium-Catalyzed -Carbon Elimination from Unstrained Alcohols as a Strategy for Reversible Carbon-Carbon Bond Activation
Examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
Co-examiner: Prof. Peter Chen
26.04.2023

KAT Ligation with Quinolinium Acyltrifluoroborates (QATs) for Bioconjugations
Examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiner: Prof. Roger Schibli
03.05.2023 Zoom

Methods Development, Structure Elucidation and Quantum-Mechanical Calculations: Harnessing Nickel and Iron for Strong Bond Functionalization
Examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
Co-examiner: Prof. Máté Bezdek
10.05.2023

The Rearranged Ingenane Diterpenoid (+)-Euphorikanin A: Enantioselective Total Synthesis and Chemical Insights into the Biosynthesis
Examiner: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
17.05.2023

Towards Nanoscale Chemical Imaging of Biological Membrane using Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Examiner: Prof. Zenobi
Co-examiner Prof. Lippert
31.05.2023

Automated Chemical Systems and the Synthesis of Human Nerve Growth Factor
Examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiner: Prof. Gisbert Schneider
05.07.2023

I. Toward the Total Syntheses of Ganoboninketals A-F
II. Organophotocatalytic Functionalization of Olefins
Examiner: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
23.08.2023

Exploring the Uncharted Chemical Space of Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons
Examiner: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiner: Prof. Renana Gershoni-Poranne, Prof. Kjell Jorner
23.08.2023

Unraveling London Dispersion in the Gas Phase
Examiner: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiner: Prof. Kjell Jorner
30.08.2023

Enzyme Engineering for Site-Specific Ubiquitylation
Examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiners: Prof. Kathrin Lang, Prof. Rebecca Buller
13.09.2023

Low-temperature Plasma Chemistry for Mass Spectrometry and Beyond
Examiner: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiner: Prof. Detlef Günther
06.12.2023

Gas-Phase Bond Dissociation Energies: Reconciling Theory with Experiment
Examiner: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiner: Prof. Jeremy Richardson
16.02.2022

Engineering Nonviral Protein Cages for Delivery Applications
Examiner: Prof. Peter Kast
Co-​examiner: Prof. Donald Hilvert
16.03.2022 Zoom

Development of AFM-based Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: Methodology and Applications
Examiner: Prof. Renato Zenobi 
Co-examiner: Prof. Thomas Lippert
16.03.2022

Stereoselective Peptide Catalysis: From Synthesis of C-Substituted Succinimides to Kinetic Resolution of Chiral Aldehydes
Examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers 
Co-examiner: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
06.04.2022

Mass Spectrometric and Fluorescence Spectroscopic Studies on Ion Formation and (Bio-)molecular
Conformations in the Gas Phase
Examiner: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiners: Prof. Kathrin Lang, Prof. Ben Schuler
06.04.2022

C(sp2)–H Activation Beyond Arenes: Palladium-Catalyzed C–H Functionalization of Alkenes and Allenes
Examiner: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
04.05.2022

Cytokine Engineering with Chemical Synthesis
Examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode 
Co-examiners: Prof. Cornelia Halin Winter, Prof. Onur Boyman
11.05.2022 Zoom

Synthesis and Reactions of Potassium Acyltrifluoroborates (KATs) and Trifluoroborate Iminiums (TIMs)
Examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiner: Prof. Maté J. Bezdek
11.05.2022 Zoom

Functionalization of Peptide-Stabilized Metal Nanoparticles and Quantum Dots – Towards Biomedical Applications
Examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers 
Co-examiner: Prof. Kathrin Lang
08.06.2022

Halogenated Thioesters in Organocatalysis and Borylated Prolines for Carbohydrate Recognition
Examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers 
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
22.06.2022 Zoom

Tailored peptide catalysts for N-heterocyclic substituted substrates and cascade reactions
Examiner: Prof: Helma Wennemers 
Co-examiner: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
22.06.2022

Synthesis of Saturated N-Heterocycles from Organostannanes
Examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiner: Prof. Máté Bezdek
31.08.2022 Zoom

Synthetic and Semisynthetic Proteins as Probes for Ubiquitin-like Protein Pathways
Examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiner: Prof. Jacob Corn
31.08.2022 Zoom

Direct Infusion Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Rapid Analysis
Examiner: Prof. Zenobi
Co-examiner: Prof. Zamboni
14.09.2022

Customizing Nonribosomal Peptide Synthesis through Next-Generation Protein Engineering
Examiner: Prof. Jörn Piel
Co-examiner: Prof. Donald Hilvert
21.09.2022

Synthesis of N-Alkylhydroxylamine Triflic Acid Salts and their Application in Organic Synthesis
Examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi 
Co-examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
28.09.2022

Direct Access to Unprotected Primary Amines via Iron Catalysis
Examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi 
Co-examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
28.09.2022

Readily Accessible Cavitand Hosts for the Binding of Large Guests in Water: Towards the Development of Gd3N@C80 Complexes as Potential MRI Contrast Agents
Examiner: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers
28.09.2022

Harnessing Reversibility in Catalysis: Development of Novel Strategies for Halogenation and Functional Group Metathesis
Examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi 
Co-examiner: Prof. Máté Bezdek
12.10.2022

Carbon Nitrides in Single Atom Heterogeneous Catalysis and Metal-Free Photocatalysis
Examiner: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
12.10.2022

Development and Application of Ambient Ionization Sources for Analyzing Metabolites in Single Cells
Examiner: Prof. Renato Zenobi 
Co-examiner: Prof. Markus Stoffel
12.10.2022

Stereoselective Tripeptide Organocatalysis – Highly Reactive Electrophiles and Machine Learning
Examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
02.11.2022

Non-invasive Metabolic Monitoring via Volatiles: in Humans, Bacteria and Mice
Examiner: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiner: Prof. Emma Wetter Slack
16.11.2022

New Instruments and Techniques for Laser Spectroscopy of Mass-Selected Biomolecular Ions
Examiner: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiners: Prof. Roland Riek, Prof. Lars Konermann
17.03.2021 Zoom

Expanding the Nonribosomal Code with High-Throughput Protein Engineering
Examiner: Prof. Donald Hilvert
Co-examiner: Prof. Jörn Piel
14.04.2021 Zoom

From Imaging to Proteomics – Using Photoactivatable Probes to Study Enzymes
Examiners: Prof. Rivera-Fuentes, Prof. Bode
Co-examiner: Prof. Leroux
21.04.2021 Zoom

Dynamic Chemistry with Potassium Acyltrifluoroborates (KATs)
Examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiner: Prof. Peter Chen
05.05.2021 Zoom

Out of the Dark, Into the Light: Fluorescent and Photoswitchable Probes for Cannabinoid Receptors
Examiner: Prof. Erick Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers
26.05.2021 Zoom

Proline-Rich Peptides – From Molecular Receptors to Antimicrobial Agents
Examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers
Co-examiner: Prof. Donald Hilvert
09.06.2021 Zoom

Total Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Mutanobactin D from the Human Microbiome
Examiner: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers
16.06.2021 Zoom

Palladium-Catalyzed Cyclization Reactions
Examiner: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
16.06.2021 Zoom

Engineering Efficient Metalloenzymes from De Novo Protein Scaffolds by Directed Evolution
Examiner: Prof. Donald Hilvert
Co-examiner: Prof. Rudolf Glockshuber
30.06.2021 Zoom

Effect of the Linker of Radiolabeled Bombesin-based Peptides for Targeting the h-GRP Receptor
Examiner:  Prof. Helma Wennemers 
Co-examiners: Prof. Roger Schibli, Dr. Martin Béhé
28.07.2021 Zoom

Synthesis of Ubiquitin Chains by Chemical and Chemoenzymatic Conjugations
Examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode 
Co-examiner: Prof. Kathrin Lang
28.07.2021 Zoom

Development of Chemical Biology Tools to Modulate Redox Homeostasis and Study Subcellular Stress Responses
Examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers 
Co-examiners: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes, Prof. Karl-Heinz Altmann
18.09.2021 Zoom

When Shikimate Pathway Catalysts Team up: Chorismate Mutases and their Partner Enzymes
Examiner: Prof. Peter Kast
Co-examiner Prof. Jörn Piel
22.09.2021 Zoom

Noncovalent Interactions Studied by Chemical Crosslinking and High-mass MALDI Mass Spectrometry
Examiner: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiner: Prof. Gebhard Schertler
26.10.2021 Zoom

Engineering Peptides and Proteins for Affinity Chromatography and Biocatalysis
Examiner: Prof. Donald Hilvert
Co-examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers
27.10.2021 Zoom

Ir-Catalyzed Enantioconvergent Synthesis of Protected Allenylic Amines, Synthesis of Methylated δ-Viniferin Derivatives, and Synthetic Studies on a Cassane Furanoditerpene
Examiner: Prof. Erick M. Carreira 
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
24.11.2021

Reversible Metathesis of Aryl Nitriles and Aryl Sulfides: A Stepping Stone Towards Organic Diversity
Examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
Co-examiner: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
24.11.2021 Zoom

Total Synthesis of (–)-Mitrephorone A
Examiner: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Karl-Heinz Altmann
25.03.2020 Zoom

Synthetic Collagen – From Conformational Design to Biological Applications
Examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers
Co-examiner: Prof. Donald Hilvert
06.05.2020 Zoom

The Bioorthogonal Isonitrile–Chlorooxime Ligation
Examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers
Co-Examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
10.06.2020 Zoom

Mechanistic Investigations on Biologically Relevant Sulfur Systems
Examiner: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiner: Prof. Hansjörg Grützmacher
08.07.2020 Zoom

Synthesis of Saturated N-Heterocycles and α-Tertiary Amines
Examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
17.08.2020 Zoom

Protein Cages: Mimicry, Repurposing and Beyond
Examiner: Prof. Donald Hilvert
Co-examiner: Prof. Nenad Ban
30.09.2020 Zoom

New Amino Reagents for the Synthesis of Complex Saturated N-heterocycles
Examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-Examiner: Prof. Antonio Togni
07.10.2020 Zoom

Directed Evolution of Enzymes using Ultra-High Throughput Screening
Examiner: Prof. Donald Hilvert
Co-examiner: Prof. Andrew deMello
11.11.2020 Zoom 

Mechanistic studies of heme proteins facilitated by enzyme engineering and genetic code expansion
Examiner: Prof. Donald Hilvert
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morand
24.11.2020

The Functional Group Metathesis of Aryl Iodides and Acid Chlorides: a Key for the Advent of Novel Carbofunctionalization Reactions via a Molecular Shuffling Process
Examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
Co-examiner: Prof. Christophe Copéret
02.12.2020 Zoom

Synthesis of Water-Soluble C60, C70, and Gd3N@C80 Derivatives for Biological Applications
Examiner: Prof. Yoko Yamakoshi
Co-examiners: Prof. Carlo Thilgen, Prof. Victor Mougel
02.12.2020 Zoom

Divergent Evolution of an Artificial Carboligase
Examiner: Prof. Donald Hilvert
Co-examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers
02.12.2020 Zoom

Lysine Acylation using Conjugating Enzymes for the Modification of Recombinant Proteins
Examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-Examiner: Prof. Donald Hilvert
09.12.2020 Zoom

Dispersion Effects on Stereoselectivity-Study of Asymmetric Epoxidation and Sulfoxidation
Examiner: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
16.12.2020 Zoom

Metabolic Insights Related to Sleep and Circadian Clocks from Mass Spectrometry-Based Analysis of Blood and Breath
Examiner: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-Examiners: Prof. Steven A. Brown, Prof. Emma Wetter Slack
16.12.2020 Zoom

Total Synthesis of (+)-Dendrowardol C and Investigation of Anti-Inflammatory Epoxyisoprostanes and their Analogs
Supervisor: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers
16.01.2019

Iridium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Substitution with Enolate Surrogates and Enantioselective Addition of Alkynes to α,α-Dichlorinated Aldehydes
Supervisor: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
30.01.2019

Synthesis of New KAHA Ligation Monomers and Their Applications on Proteins
Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiner: Prof. Donald Hilvert
27.02.2019

On-line Breath Metabolomics with Ambient High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry
Supervisor: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiners: Prof. Malcolm Kohler, Prof. Marloes Maathuis
22.05.2019

Capillary Gap Sampler: a microfluidic platform directly coupled to ESI-MS for rapid analysis of low sample amounts
Supervisor: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiner: Prof. Andrew deMello
29.05.2019

Proline-Rich Peptides – From Catalysts to Metal Organic Frameworks
Supervisor: Prof. Helma Wennemers
Co-examiner: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
04.06.2019

Chemoselective Amide Bond-Forming Reactions with Acylboron Compounds
Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiner Prof. Helma Wennemers
05.06.2019

Chemical Methods to Tailor the Stability of Collagen Triple Helices
Supervisor: Prof. Helma Wennemers
Co-examiner: Prof. Renato Zenobi
12.06.2019

Harnessing Plasma for Soft Ionization Mass Spectrometry
Supervisor: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiner: Prof. Detlef Günther
12.06.2019

On Photoinduced Transformations in Plasmonic Hot Spots
Supervisor: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiner: Prof. David Norris
12.06.2019

Nickel-Catalyzed Cyclopropanation with Lithiomethyltrimethylammonium Triflate
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
26.06.20219

Synthetic Fermentation as a Platform for Library Synthesis, Drug Discovery, and Chemical Outreach
Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiner: Prof. Jonathan Hall
26.06.2019

Exploring the Potential of Shuttle Catalysis in Organic Synthesis
Supervisor: Prof. Bill Morandi
Co-examiner: Prof. Antonio Togni
26.06.2019

Coupling Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging with MALDI Mass Spectrometry as a Screening Tool for Non-covalent Interaction Partners
Supervisor: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiners: Prof. Jeffrey Bode, Prof. Andreas Plückthun
27.06.2019

Development of Photoactivatable Phosphines for the Induction of Reductive Stress and Peptides for Subcellular Targeting
Supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes
Co-examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers
17.07.2019

London Dispersion in Molecular Systems
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiner: Prof. Sereina Riniker
31.07.20219

Fundamental Reactions for Gold Catalysis
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
02.10.2019

Synthesis of Potassium Acyltrifluoroborates with Transfer Reagents and their Applications to 3D Photopatterning of Hydrogels
Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
06.11.2019

Design of Functional Fluorophores for Single-Molecule Super-Resolution Microscopy and Live-Cell Tracking
Supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes
Co-examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
13.11.2019

Total Synthesis of (+)-Shearinine D
Supervisor: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Karl-Heinz Altmann
20.11.2019

Gas-phase Study of Dispersion-bound Complexes
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiner: Prof. Renato Zenobi
27.11.20219

Lipid Nanoparticles as MRI Contrast Agents for the Detection of Atherosclerotic Plaques
Supervisor: Prof. Yoko Yamakoshi
Co-examiners: Prof. Jean-Christophe Leroux, Prof. Peter Johann Walde
04.12.2019

Interfacial photochemical and catalytic reactions studied by tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Supervisor: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiners: Prof. Jeremy Richardson, Prof. A. Dieter Schlüter
04.12.2019

Total Synthesis and Structural Revision of a Harziane Diterpenoid
Supervisor: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Bill Morandi
11.12.2019

Towards the Synthesis of Javanicolide A and Ganoboninketal C
Supervisor: Prof. Erick M. Carriera
Co-examiner: Prof. Karl-Heinz Altmann
18.12.2019

Conformational Analysis of Peptides using RDC-enhanced NMR Spectroscopy
Supervisor: Prof. Helma Wennemers
Co-examiners: Prof. Roland Riek, Dr. Marc-Olivier Ebert
24.01.2018

Soft Ionization Mass Spectrometry: from Matrix-Assisted Laser   Desorption/Ionization to Dielectric Barrier Discharge Ionization and Atmospheric Pressure Photoionization
Supervisor: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiners: Prof. Andrew de Mello, Prof. Janusz Pawliszyn
31.01.2018

Exploring the Role of Halogens in Chlorosulfolipids
Supervisor: Prof. Erick M. Carriera
Co-examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers
21.02.2018

Efforts Toward the Synthesis of Potassium Acyltrifluoroborates
Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiner: Prof. Antonio Togni
28.02.2018

From Structure to Function-Evolving De Novo Metalloenzymes
Supervisor: Prof. Donald Hilvert
Co-examiner: Prof. Jörn Piel
28.02.2018

Kinetic and Mechanistic Investigation of the Potassium Acyltrifluoroborate Ligation Reaction
Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiner: Prof. Simon M. Ametamey
07.03.2018

Lock 'em up: Putting Enzymes into Protein Cages
Supervisor: Prof. Donald Hilvert
Co-examiner: Prof. Helma Wennemers
07.03.2018

Total Synthesis of (−)-Rhazinilam and Related Alkaloids. Synthesis of Truncated Mutanobactin Analog
Supervisor: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Karl-Heinz Altmann
04.04.2018

Synthetic and Biological Investigation of Lipids from the Membrane of Ochromonas danica
Supervisor: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Donald Hilvert
11.04.2018

The Renaissance of Pentafulvene and Pentafulvene Chemistry
Supervisor: Prof. François Diederich
Co-examiner: Prof. Carlo Thilgen
25.04.2018

Molecular Recognition with Enantiopure Alleno-Acetylenic Cage Receptors
Supervisor: Prof. François Diederich
23.05.2018

Dissecting Non-covalent Interactions in Oligomeric Protein Complexes by Native Mass Spectrometry
Supervisor: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiner: Prof. François Diederich
23.05.2018

Peptide Catalyzed Conjugate Addition Reactions of Aldehydes to Nitroolefins - Mechanistic Insights and Transformation of Bifunctional
Supervisor: Prof. Helma Wennemers
Co-examiner: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
06.06.2018

On the formation of ions
Supervisor: Prof. Renato Zenobi
Co-examiners: Prof. Detlef Günther, Dr. Jürgen Gross
06.06.2018

Fluorinated monothiomalonates in stereoselective organocatalysis
Supervisor: Prof. Helma Wennemers
Co-examiner: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
04.07.2018

Investigating Noncovalent Interactions: Substituent Effects in Aromatic p–p Stacking and s-Hole Interactions in Supramolecular Capsules
Supervisor: Prof. François Diederich
Co-examiner: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes
25.07.2018

Total Synthesis of Sarcophytin and Studies Towards Pavidolide B and related Cembranoids
Supervisor: Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Co-examiner: Prof. Antonio Togni
05.09.2018

Enteroendocrine L cells and metabolic disease
Supervisor: Prof. E. Carreira
Co-examiners: Prof. M. Stoffel, Prof. Ch. Wolfrum, Dr. S. Wolfrum
19.09.2018

Chemical Synthesis of Insulin Variants by KAHA Ligation
Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiner: Prof. Dario Neri
26.09.2018

Building Block Approaches to the Synthesis of Lasso Peptides and Polycyclic Saturated N-Heterocycles
Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Co-examiner: Prof. Peter Chen
26.09.2018

Infrared Ion Spectroscopy in a Cold FT-ICR Cell
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Chen
Co-examiner: Prof. Renato Zenobi
03.10.2018

The Self-Assembly of Oligoproline-Chromophore Conjugates
Supervisor: Prof. Helma Wennemers
Co-examiner: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes
03.10.2018

Structure-Based Design of Cyclohexylpyrrolidine-Based Ligands for Trypanothione Reductase: A Potential Target for Neglected Tropical Diseases
Supervisor: Prof. Carlo Thilgen
Co-examiners: Prof. François Diederich, Prof. Donald Hilvert
14.11.2018

Helicene Dimers and Oligomers: Novel Chiral Chromo- and Fluorophoric Materials
Supervisor: Prof. Carlo Thilgen
Co-examiners: Prof. François Diederich, Prof. Dieter Schlüter
21.11.2018