GRK 788: Hydrogen Bonding and Hydrogen Transfer

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The multidisciplinary research field of hydrogen bonding and hydrogen transfer is studied and developed in this research training group. Hydrogen bonds are weak bonds between molecules, and they often result in the formation of larger molecular aggregates. The tertiary structure of biologically important molecules is often determined by intramolecular hydrogen bonds. Hydrogen transfer processes can be decisive for the dynamics of such molecular aggregates and of macromolecules. These phenomena are studied by means of a variety of methods: methods of theoretical physics, theoretical chemistry and biology, of synthetic organic chemistry, of X-ray and neutron diffraction, of synchrotron radiation and UV/IR laser spectroscopy in the femtosecond range, of time-resolved ESR and optical spectroscopies as well as solid-state and liquid-state NMR spectroscopy.The scholarship students benefit from tuition by two supervisors, and in common seminars of all students and associates connections with other research areas are easily established. Finally, at the Institute of Chemistry, the research training group is part of the international PhD Programme (supported by DAAD), where beside the scientific seminars in the narrow sense, also language courses and exercises in scientific writing (in English) and presentation are available to the students.