CRC/TRR 247
At the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Ruhr-University Bochum.
With Participation of: Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, and Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Principal Investigator Wolfang Kleist
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kleist
Phone: +49 234 32 24121
E-Mail
Industrial Chemistry – Nanostructured Catalyst Materials
Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ruhr-University Bochum
Project Area CC6: Metal‐organic frameworks as molecularly defined single‐site catalysts and precursor species for bimetallic Co/Fe materials in liquid phase oxidation reactions
Project C6 aims at the development of single‐site catalysts based on metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) containing well‐defined Co and Fe species in their framework structures.
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Curriculum Vitae
Professional career
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Since 2017 |
Professor for Industrial Chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany |
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2010-2017 |
Group Leader Novel Catalyst Materials at the Institute of Catalysis Research and the Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany |
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2007-2010 |
Postdoctoral researcher / Senior Scientist at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
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2006-2007 |
Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany |
Scientific education and degrees
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2015 |
Habilitation at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; venia legendi for Technical Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry |
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2006 |
Doctoral degree from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany (Prof. K. Köhler) |
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2002-2006 |
Doctorate studies at the Institute of Inorganic Chemisty, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany |
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2002 |
Diploma degree from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany (Prof. K. Köhler) |
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1997-2002 |
Studies of chemistry at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany |
Awards and scholarships
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2004 |
Marie Curie Fellowship, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute de Recherches sur la Catalyse (IRCELYON), Villeurbanne/Lyon, France |
Selected Publications
- S.S. Pröckl, W. Kleist, M.A. Gruber, K. Köhler, In situ generation of highly active dissolved palladium species from solid catalysts – a concept for the activation of aryl chlorides in the Heck reaction, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 1881-1882.
- P. Haider, B. Kimmerle, F. Krumeich, W. Kleist, J.-D. Grunwaldt, A. Baiker, Gold-catalyzed aerobic oxidation of benzyl alcohol: Effect of gold particle size on activity and selectivity in different solvents, Catal. Lett. 2008, 125, 169-176.
- S. Marx, W. Kleist, J. Huang, M. Maciejewski, A. Baiker, Tuning of functional sites and thermal stability of mixed-linker MOFs based on MIL-53(Al), Dalton Trans. 2010, 39, 3795-3798.
- S. Reimann, J. Stötzel, R. Frahm, W. Kleist, J.-D. Grunwaldt, A. Baiker, Identification of the active species generated from supported Pd catalysts in Heck reactions: An in situ quick scanning EXAFS investigation, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 3921-3930.
- M.J. Beier, W. Kleist, M.T. Wharmby, R. Kissner, B. Kimmerle, P.A. Wright, J.-D. Grunwaldt, A. Baiker, Aerobic epoxidation of olefins catalyzed by the metal-organic framework STA-12(Co), Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 887-898.
- A. Bhunia, M.A. Gotthardt, M. Yadav, M.T. Gamer, A. Eichhöfer, W. Kleist, P.W. Roesky, Salen-based coordination polymers of manganese and the rare earth elements - Synthesis and catalytic aerobic epoxidation of olefins, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 1986-1995.
- M.A. Gotthardt, R. Schoch, T.S. Brunner, M. Bauer, W. Kleist, Design of highly porous single-site catalysts through two-step post-synthetic modification of mixed-linker MIL-53(Al), ChemPlusChem 2015, 80, 188-195.
- M.A. Gotthardt, S. Grosjean, T.S. Brunner, J. Kotzel, A.M. Gänzler, S. Wolf, S. Bräse, W. Kleist, Synthesis and post‐synthetic modification of amine‐, alkyne‐, azide‐ and nitro‐functionalized metal-organic frameworks based on DUT‐5, Dalton Trans. 2015, 44, 16802-16809.
- M.A. Gotthardt, R. Schoch, S. Wolf, M. Bauer, W. Kleist, Synthesis and characterization of bimetallic metal-organic framework Cu-Ru-BTC with HKUST-1 structure, Dalton Trans. 2015, 44, 2052-2056.
- Y.S. Raupp, C. Yildiz, W. Kleist, M.A.R. Meier, Aerobic oxidation of α-pinene catalyzed by homogeneous and MOF-based Mn catalysts, Appl. Catal. A - Gen. 2017, 546, 1-6.