• development and fundamental understanding of new carbohydrate-based ionic liquids and salts (CHILS)
• optimization of highly cost- and yield-efficient CHILS syntheses
• investigating carbohydrate-based ionic liquids and salts as green alternatives to common ionic liquids by developing biocompatible and biodegradible CHILS
• application of CHILS in  bio- and organocatalysis, in organometallic complexes, in polymer chemistry and more

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01/2025: Stefan has finished his Habilitation and achieved the degree Dr. rer. nat. habil.

10/2024: Glucosyl imidazolium CHILS were investigated as organocatalysts for aza-Diels-Alder reactions in Mirai's latest work, published in ChemistryEurope!

09/2024: Sina's third hydrogel paper about the biocompatibility of the hydrogels has been published in RSC Advances.

08/2024: Sina's second hydrogel paper, focusing on Raman and Rheology, has been published in Materials Advances.

07/2024: Stefan visited the International Carbohydrate Symposium 2024 in Shanghai.

06/2024: Paul has successfully defended his PhD. Congratulations!

04/2024: Our signature Glucosyl Imidazolium CHILS have been applied as NHC ligands for Pd-complexes, as now published in EJOC.

01/2024: After 2 years of research, the extensive study of the synthesis and swelling of ionic carbohydrate-based hydrogels by Sina and her students has been published. Thank you for your great work!

11/2023: Paul's second paper, about the optimization of CHIL-Noyozym 435 catalyzed acrylations, was published.

09/2023: Henrik and Hannes have successfully defended their Master thesis and Henriette has finished her Staatsexamen. Congratulations!

09/2023: The whole group presented posters at the GDCh Wissenschaftsforum 2023 in Leipzig.

08/2023: The biocompatibility as well the the antimicriobial properties of our glucosyl imidazolium salts were tested in cooperation with Johanna Meyer (University of Hannover) and the results have been published in RSC Sustainability.

03/2023: The continuation of our glucosamine project, performed by Mirai in Prof. Nokamis group in Tottori, has been published in AJOC.

12/2022: Mirai, who was previously at Tottori University, Japan, has joined our group in Rostock as PhD. Welcome!

11/2022: Sina, Paul and Stefan presented the latest results on Glucosyl Imidazolium salts at the RoHan Winterschool 2022 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

10/2022: We welcome Hannes, Henrik and Henriette as our three new students.

08/2022: Paul's first paper about CHILs and Novozym 435! Will also get a front cover!

05/2022: We visited the ISGC2022 in La Rochelle with 2 posters and an oral presentation.

03/2022: Sinas beautiful crystal structure was published in IUCrData.

12/2021: We contributed to the new journal "Compounds" with a paper about Johannes' Master thesis.

11/2021: Sina and Paul have joined our group as PhDs!

08/2021: Johannes successfully defended his Master thesis. Congratulations!

08/2021: Mirai has won the poster presentation award at the Japanese Society for Chitin and Chitosan!

07/2021: Our research group moved into the Department Life, Light & Matter of the University of Rostock.

01/2021: The paper of Mirai and Tanja has been published in Journal of Molecular Liquids.

11/2020: AJOC has published the collaboration between our group and the group of Prof. Nokami and selected it for a frontcover!

10/2020: Johannes has started in our group. Welcome!

09/2020: Tanja has finished her "Methodenpraktikum".

09/2020: Stefan has returned from Japan.

04/2020: New paper about the biocompability of CHILs!

02/2020: Stefan started his JSPS scholarship at the Tottori University, Japan.