Professor at Ruhr-University Bochum, Organometallic chemistry & catalysis; mother of 2; soccer fan (BVB); running, hiking, and good food; opinions mine.
I am extremely happy to have been awarded an
#ERCCoG
. In my project CARBFUNCTION we will uncover new chemistry and applications of carbanions and main group compounds. What an incredible honor!!!🥂🥂🥂
Thanks to
@ERC_Research
for this fantastic opportunity.
📢 The results of the 2022 ERC Consolidator Grant competition are out: €657 million for 321 researchers.
Who has been offered funding?
What topics they will investigate?
Where will they do their research?
Discover the details ➡️
🇪🇺
#EUfunded
#ERCCoG
I am extremely honored to be this year's recipient of the Klung Wilhelmy Science Award. 🍾🍾🍾
I thank all my present and former group members for their constant commitment, my mentors and colleagues who have supported me throughout my career.
@ChemieBiochemie
@SolvationSci
Wir gratulieren
@ViktoriaGessner
. 🎉 Die Expertin für
#Katalyse
und metallorganische Chemie erhält den Klung-Wilhelmy-Wissenschaftspreis. Verliehen wird er am 10. November an der
@FU_Berlin
. ^ad
I am waiting for my connecting flight in Mumbai to get home after a truly outstanding conference
#ICMGSC2023
in Trivandrum
@MainTvm
.👏 I am still overwhelmed by the hospitality of the organizers and the enthusiasm of all students.🥰 Thus was such a great experience.
I am really sick of getting applications starting with "Dear Sir". This is definetely the first selection criterion. If I read "Sir", I press 🗑
#WomenInSTEM
#female
#chemistry
I am pleased to announce that I have been accepted as a full member of the NRW Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts. This is a great honor for me. I would like to thank all my coworkers, colleagues, and supporters who have made this possible.
Wir gratulieren
@ViktoriaGessner
aus der
#Chemie
und Peter Mark aus dem
#Bauwesen
. Beide sind neu in der NRW-Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste.
Welcome to our new PhD student Sunita Mondal. We are very happy to have you in the team. Good luck with your research projects and lots of fun in the group.
Wow. I recieved 3 requests to review a manuscript in 1 hour: 2 ACS, 1 Wiley. I agreed to all 😰since the titles sound interesting 🤔😁and want my manuscripts to be reviewed as well.🤝
#chemistry
#community
How stable is the cyanoketene anion [NC3O]-?🤔
Is it a space molecule or can it be isolated?🤔
What does its structure look like?🤔
Can it be used as a building block for complex molecules?🤔
Check out our preprint on ChemRxiv👇
It's a great honor for me to be the 2020
@Orgmet_ACS
Distinguished Author Lectureship recipient. Thank you to all my colleagues and friends for supporting me over the years and all my students and coworkers for their excellent work in the lab. THANK YOU!!! 🍻🥂
@ACSPublications
We are pleased to announce the 2020
@Orgmet_ACS
Distinguished Author Lectureship recipient, Viktoria Gessner
@ViktoriaGessner
of Ruhr University Bochum, recognized for her work on ligands for main-group/transition metals! Learn more here:
@ACSPublications
I am finally back in India and on my to
@Icomc2024
. Yesterday, I had a fantastic day in Delhi with my coworkers and
@Lips_Group
. We visited magical places and had delicious Indian food. Thanks,
@Sunita_Mondal77
and
@Arpan1902
for organizing everything.
It was a pleasure to host
@sakya_sen
this week. Thanks for sharing your fantastic chemistry with us, for great discussions about science, history and our time in
@LabBraunschweig
.
International Conference on Main Group Synthesis and Catalysis 09-12 February 2023
@Chemie_iisertvm
@tvmiiser
Registrations are open for undergraduates, postgraduates, PhD scholars, and postdocs from India.
Registration Deadline: 20-December-2022
@Dr_Berionni
@MainTvm
I've finally made it to my first conference in India. Thanks to
@MainTvm
for the invitation and being a fantastic host. It has been a great experience and I am looking forward to the remaining days.
It was a great honor for me to recieve the Klung Wilhelmy Science Award yesterday. Thank you to
@FU_Berlin
and the Klung Wilhelmy foundation for this award, my former mentor Holger Braunschweig for an outstanding laudatory speach and my supporters behind the scenes. Biggest...👇
Golden Day!!🥇🪙🥇 First gold medals for Germany at the
@Olympics
and our paper on Au-HC hydrogen bonds got accepted in
@angew_chem
. Congrats to Heidar and Julian (great job!) and thanks to Steve, Catherine, Luigi for this fruitful collaboration.
I am currently putting together a new master course with one topic being structure-activity relationships in organometallic chemistry. What is your favorit paper with this topic? 🤔Can be diverse: catalysis, main group, organometallics in medicine etc...
#chemtwitter
Join
@Orgmet_ACS
at ACS Atlanta on Aug. 23 & 24 to celebrate Distinguished Author Award recipient
@ViktoriaGessner
! Learn more here: . Check out the symposium lineup here:
Just published in
@ChemicalScience
: Phosphorus-Ylides: Powerful Substituents for the Stabilization of Reactive Main Group Compounds- a mini review into the recent developments with
@ViktoriaGessner
and
@SwamyVsn
I am very happy to share that I’ve been recognised as one of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 Outstanding Reviewers.
Explore the full list at .
#RSCPeerReview
@RoySocChem
Check out our first paper now published in
@angew_chem
, in which my group used machine learning tools to tailor our YPhos ligands for Hiyama couplings. Kudos to
@JulianLoeff
and the team as well as
@tobiasgensch
and the Gooßen group for a great collaboration.
Congratulations, Dr. Kleinhaus (
@MichelleK_Chem
), on a great doctoral defense 🎓as culmination of your time with us. We wish you all the best for your future career!!! 🍾🥂
Yldiides meet actinides🤝
Check out our paper in collaboration with
@WalenskyGroup
published online in
@ChemCommun
. Kudos to
@MikeJoerges
, Alex,
@DanKnysz
and the whole team for opening doors to the f-block universe.
Check our our review in
@JACS_Au
. Thanks, Felix, for putting this together with me and all colleagues for their inspirational work.
@SolvationSci
@ERC_Research
Great perspective now published in
@JACS_Au
from the group of
@ViktoriaGessner
Ligand Exchange at Carbon: Synthetic Entry to Elusive Species and Versatile Reagents | JACS Au
The first
@GDCh_aktuell
lecture in 2022 was a real highlight: Thank you
@DehnenStefanie
for an outstanding lecture, which impressively showed that fundamental research is not only enchanting, but also enlightning. I enjoyed every minute of the talk and the Nachsitzung.🥂
Congratulations to the newest doctor from the Gessner family: Dr. Angela Burhenn.👏👏👏
Heartfelt congratulations on this wonderful achievement. 🥂🍻We are happy for you and wish you much success on your future path. We will miss you.
Loffler and Gessner
@ViktoriaGessner
@JulianLoeff
@ruhrunibochum
report on the attempted synthesis of a 9-methylfluorenyl-substituted ylide-functionalized phosphine, which results in the formation of a secondary phosphine by elimination of methylenef
I am back from a truly inspiring conference
@ISOC_MMM_2023
. Thanks to Francisco, José and their team for an outstanding organization and the invitation. I had a fantastic time in Alicante with old and new friends.
We are very happy to welcome our new team member
@PrakashDuari1
who recently started his PhD work supported by
@DAAD_Germany
and
@SolvationSci
. Good luck and lots of fun with the chemistry and group!!
Just out in
@Orgmet_ACS
from
@ViktoriaGessner
and colleagues: Cationic Phosphorus Compounds Based on a Bis(1-piperidinyl)-Substituted Carbodiphosphorane: Syntheses, Structures, and Csp3–H Activation (). Part of our Special Issue on Main-Group Chemistry.
Vielen Dank
@WAZ_Bochum
für den Besuch an der
@ruhrunibochum
und den schönen Artikel. Viele glauben Chemie stink, mir nicht😉!!! Im Gegenteil: Chemie macht Spaß und begeistert. Liebe Schüler*innen, probiert es doch mal aus, werdet Entdecker*innen von Morgen👍
@ChemieBiochemie
Many thanks to Diego Andrada
@ICCGroup2
, David Scheschkewitz
@scheschkewitz
,
@MunzDominik
and colleagues for the hospitality and many exciting discussion. It was truely great to finally give an in-person lecture after 2 years of online seminars.
It was great to host Sebastian Riedel
@RiedelLab
at
@ruhrunibochum
yesterday. Thanks for giving an outstanding lecture on halogen chemistry with cool structures and exciting applications.
I am just about leaving Regensburg. Thanks to Jonathan Bauer,
@TheWolf_Group
, Patrick Nürnberger and Arno Pfitzner for the invitation and hospitality. I had a fantastic day with exciting conversions and a lovely dinner in the "dicke Mann". Thank you.
Our work on the synthesis, structure and coordination chemistry of a piperidinyl substituted carbodiphosphorane ligand is now online available on
@ChemCommun
. Congrats to Alex (synthesis), Lennart and Henning (DFT) and Thorsten and Bert (XRD).🍾
We are happy to recognize our most-read recently published
@Orgmet_ACS
articles over the past month--please have a look at what others are finding interesting
Monomeric YPhos PdCl2 complexes: Why are they monomeric? What is the bonding situation? How do they perform in catalysis?🤔
These questions are now answered in our new article in
@ChemicalScience
👇
Our work on the synthesis of low-valent main group compounds via ylide transfer is now published in
@ChemEurJ
early view. Congrats to Chandrajeet, Heidar, Henning and the whole team.
@ERC_Research
We are happy to welcome Alexander Gremillion from
@WalenskyGroup
as guest PhD student in the group. We wish you a lot of fun in the team🥳 and with you our ylide chemistry🤪.
What happens if we add an N donor site in our YPhos ligands? - This question is answered in this👇 paper in
@angew_chem
. Congrats to
@JulianLoeff
, Nico, Daniel and the team!!!
Congratulations to Katharina for passing her PhD exam!!! Well done Dr. Dilchert.👏
Thanks to Stefan Huber,
@remulveygroup
and
@NMNLab
for being on the committee.
#ChemSciHOT
🔥 Towards the rational design of ylide-substituted phosphines for gold(i)-catalysis: from inactive to ppm-level catalysis by
@ViktoriaGessner
et al. at
@ruhrunibochum
Read it here 😍➡️
Popular this week: Diamino-Substituted Carbodiphosphorane Forms Unusual Complexes
Work by
@ViktoriaGessner
, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and colleagues
How far can the reactivity of carbanions be reduced?🤔
Read our latest paper to learn more about weakly coordinating carbanions. Congratulations to Leif and the whole team👍
From Y2Ge to Y2Pb and vice versa.🤔
Our work on a series of ylide-substituted heavier carbenes and their stability towards ylide transfer is now out in
@ChemEurJ
.
Congrats to
@MikeJoerges
and the whole team 🥳
I am super happy about an email that I received today. I can't spread the news yet, but hopefully soon (
@EvaHeviaGroup
knows it😉). Stay tuned.
Congrats to the group.