Huber Lab @ RU Bochum
@shuberlab.bsky.social
Research in organic and supramolecular chemistry at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Key interests are applications of halogen or chalcogen bonding in solution.
We report the synthesis of fourfold and threefold halogen bonding foldamers: pubs.rsc.org/cc/article/d.... This approach allows the modular synthesis of multidentate halogen bond donors without the need to use polyazides. With regard to activation: more is not always better...
August 28, 2026 at 8:28 PM
We report the synthesis of fourfold and threefold halogen bonding foldamers: pubs.rsc.org/cc/article/d.... This approach allows the modular synthesis of multidentate halogen bond donors without the need to use polyazides. With regard to activation: more is not always better...
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60-Second Safety Science! 🧪
Electrification of everything is well under way. People carry so many things they don't even realize are powered by lithium-ion batteries. A technology that deservedly earned 3 scientists the Nobel Prize — but that is NOT without risk...
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Electrification of everything is well under way. People carry so many things they don't even realize are powered by lithium-ion batteries. A technology that deservedly earned 3 scientists the Nobel Prize — but that is NOT without risk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XotV...
Thermal Runaway Risks
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July 29, 2026 at 4:04 PM
60-Second Safety Science! 🧪
Electrification of everything is well under way. People carry so many things they don't even realize are powered by lithium-ion batteries. A technology that deservedly earned 3 scientists the Nobel Prize — but that is NOT without risk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XotV...
Electrification of everything is well under way. People carry so many things they don't even realize are powered by lithium-ion batteries. A technology that deservedly earned 3 scientists the Nobel Prize — but that is NOT without risk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XotV...
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📢 Issue #7/26 of ChemistryEurope: out now!
https://bit.ly/4f8BVnt
Read about the newest research of @shuberlab.bsky.social, H. Takikawa, @nunobasilio.bsky.social & @mcindoe.bsky.social among others.
Congratulations to Yasuda et al. on a great cover!
https://bit.ly/4f8BVnt
Read about the newest research of @shuberlab.bsky.social, H. Takikawa, @nunobasilio.bsky.social & @mcindoe.bsky.social among others.
Congratulations to Yasuda et al. on a great cover!
July 17, 2026 at 12:35 PM
📢 Issue #7/26 of ChemistryEurope: out now!
https://bit.ly/4f8BVnt
Read about the newest research of @shuberlab.bsky.social, H. Takikawa, @nunobasilio.bsky.social & @mcindoe.bsky.social among others.
Congratulations to Yasuda et al. on a great cover!
https://bit.ly/4f8BVnt
Read about the newest research of @shuberlab.bsky.social, H. Takikawa, @nunobasilio.bsky.social & @mcindoe.bsky.social among others.
Congratulations to Yasuda et al. on a great cover!
Congratulations to Julian Wolf on being awarded the Dr. Klaus Marquardt prize for his PhD thesis, a university-wide recognition! (Picture by Michael Schwettmann, see news.rub.de/kultur-und-f...)
July 13, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Congratulations to Julian Wolf on being awarded the Dr. Klaus Marquardt prize for his PhD thesis, a university-wide recognition! (Picture by Michael Schwettmann, see news.rub.de/kultur-und-f...)
Redox activation of halogen-bonding catalysts for organic synthesis: thanks to the Paris groups for this very nice cooperation! doi.org/10.1039/d6sc...
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July 8, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Redox activation of halogen-bonding catalysts for organic synthesis: thanks to the Paris groups for this very nice cooperation! doi.org/10.1039/d6sc...
New paper on "Fukunaga dimers" in cooperation with groups from Berlin: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Open‐Shell Tetra(dicyanomethylene)‐bicyclopropenylidene CN8CP2 Radical Anion as Strong Electron Acceptor
A practical route to the novel CN8CP2 framework enables access to its dianion, radical anion, and electrochemically generated neutral species. Its exceptionally low LUMO levels establish the CN8CP2 f...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 8, 2026 at 11:17 AM
New paper on "Fukunaga dimers" in cooperation with groups from Berlin: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Finally out (after a long time on ChemXRiv...): our first swing at self-complementary halogen bonding building blocks.
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Thanks to Mate Erdelyi and coworkers for helping out with NMR expertise!
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Thanks to Mate Erdelyi and coworkers for helping out with NMR expertise!
Self‐Complementary Dimers Based on Zwitterionic Halogen Bond Donors
In this study we present the first isolated zwitterionic homodimers based on halogen bonding (XB). After optimization of the structures by changing the Lewis base (LB) and the backbone, their dimeriz...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 30, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Finally out (after a long time on ChemXRiv...): our first swing at self-complementary halogen bonding building blocks.
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Thanks to Mate Erdelyi and coworkers for helping out with NMR expertise!
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Thanks to Mate Erdelyi and coworkers for helping out with NMR expertise!
We are hiring again, please share, thanks!
PS: Applications (including a short research proposal) only via our university's online system please.
PS: Applications (including a short research proposal) only via our university's online system please.
April 29, 2026 at 2:01 PM
We are hiring again, please share, thanks!
PS: Applications (including a short research proposal) only via our university's online system please.
PS: Applications (including a short research proposal) only via our university's online system please.
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Ich wollte das erst später posten. Doch die Meldungen der letzten Tage zu nahen Kippvorgängen im Erdsystem nebst globaler Abkehr von einst etablierter Rationalität gibt nun tragischen Anlass. Ab 7.5. ist im Kino zu sehen, wie drei Akteure aus den Wissenschaften mit alldem umgehen.
#DasGewichtDerWelt
#DasGewichtDerWelt
February 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Ich wollte das erst später posten. Doch die Meldungen der letzten Tage zu nahen Kippvorgängen im Erdsystem nebst globaler Abkehr von einst etablierter Rationalität gibt nun tragischen Anlass. Ab 7.5. ist im Kino zu sehen, wie drei Akteure aus den Wissenschaften mit alldem umgehen.
#DasGewichtDerWelt
#DasGewichtDerWelt
We are hiring! Please spread, thanks!
PS: Note that all applications have to go through our university's new online portal, see link in the pdf.
PS: Note that all applications have to go through our university's new online portal, see link in the pdf.
February 6, 2026 at 7:26 PM
We are hiring! Please spread, thanks!
PS: Note that all applications have to go through our university's new online portal, see link in the pdf.
PS: Note that all applications have to go through our university's new online portal, see link in the pdf.
Almost a double-header! Last Friday and this Monday Dhananjoy and Christoph defended their theses, with great success. Thank you for your contributions and all the best to both of you!
January 20, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Almost a double-header! Last Friday and this Monday Dhananjoy and Christoph defended their theses, with great success. Thank you for your contributions and all the best to both of you!
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Start of RESOLV’s third funding period
With the beginning of the new year, the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV has officially started its third funding period (2026 to 2032) with new Research Areas.
Learn more about our new Research Areas: www.solvation.de/research
#SolvationScience
With the beginning of the new year, the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV has officially started its third funding period (2026 to 2032) with new Research Areas.
Learn more about our new Research Areas: www.solvation.de/research
#SolvationScience
January 12, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Start of RESOLV’s third funding period
With the beginning of the new year, the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV has officially started its third funding period (2026 to 2032) with new Research Areas.
Learn more about our new Research Areas: www.solvation.de/research
#SolvationScience
With the beginning of the new year, the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV has officially started its third funding period (2026 to 2032) with new Research Areas.
Learn more about our new Research Areas: www.solvation.de/research
#SolvationScience
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Chiral control through halogen bonding could be the next frontier for organocatalysis – allow Victoria Atkinson to guide you through the hisory, complexities and exciting new prospects on the horizon.
How chemists are harnessing halogen bonds for asymmetric synthesis
Chiral control through halogen bonding could be the next frontier for organocatalysis
www.chemistryworld.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Chiral control through halogen bonding could be the next frontier for organocatalysis – allow Victoria Atkinson to guide you through the hisory, complexities and exciting new prospects on the horizon.
Congratulations to the Bach group (@bach-lab.bsky.social) for this very nice Co-catalyzed asymmetric C-H alkylation, to which we contributed a few DFT calculations: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Enantioselective Intramolecular C–H Alkylation Catalyzed by a Nonsymmetric Chiral Cobalt Porphyrin
Upon catalysis (1 mol %) by a chiral cobalt porphyrin, quinazolinones with a tethered diazo alkane precursor underwent an enantioselective C–H alkylation at carbon atom C4. Formation of five-, six-, a...
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January 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Congratulations to the Bach group (@bach-lab.bsky.social) for this very nice Co-catalyzed asymmetric C-H alkylation, to which we contributed a few DFT calculations: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Thank you, ChemistryWorld, and Victoria in particular, for featuring some of our work!
Just as chemists harness hydrogen bonds when designing organocatalysts, researchers have started using halogen bonds to promote a variety of reactions.
How chemists are harnessing halogen bonds for asymmetric synthesis
Chiral control through halogen bonding could be the next frontier for organocatalysis
www.chemistryworld.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Thank you, ChemistryWorld, and Victoria in particular, for featuring some of our work!
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Two PhD positions still available! Please check the job openings!
PhD Position 1 (application deadline Jan 5th):
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
PhD Position 2 (application deadline Jan 22nd):
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
Apply with cover letter and CV!
Re-posts appreciated!
PhD Position 1 (application deadline Jan 5th):
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
PhD Position 2 (application deadline Jan 22nd):
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
Apply with cover letter and CV!
Re-posts appreciated!
Stellenausschreibung
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December 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Two PhD positions still available! Please check the job openings!
PhD Position 1 (application deadline Jan 5th):
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
PhD Position 2 (application deadline Jan 22nd):
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
Apply with cover letter and CV!
Re-posts appreciated!
PhD Position 1 (application deadline Jan 5th):
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
PhD Position 2 (application deadline Jan 22nd):
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
Apply with cover letter and CV!
Re-posts appreciated!
In November, we welcomed Lisa-Marie as a new PhD student. She will tackle some carborane-based halogen bond donors. All the best!
December 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
In November, we welcomed Lisa-Marie as a new PhD student. She will tackle some carborane-based halogen bond donors. All the best!
During our investigation on multidentate ortho-carborane-based halogen bond donors, we noticed that they from very interesting co-crystals with halides. Here is the full study - including a very rare sandwich complex with 6-fold coordination! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Ortho‐Carborane‐Derived Halogen‐Bonded Sandwich Complexes
A systematic co-crystallization-study of a tridentate ortho-carborane-based halogen-bond donor with halides was performed. Several association complexes are evaluated to give further insights into th....
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
During our investigation on multidentate ortho-carborane-based halogen bond donors, we noticed that they from very interesting co-crystals with halides. Here is the full study - including a very rare sandwich complex with 6-fold coordination! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
Just like halogen bonding, chalcogen bonding is not purely electrostatic - orbital interactions are also very important and my override the electrostatics. We recently published an illustrative example for this: inter-anion chalcogen bonding.
See: pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
See: pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
'Anti-Electrostatic' (Inter-Anion) Chalcogen Bonding Interactions
In this work, the ability of 1,2-bis(dicyanomethylene)cyclopropanide substituents to enable inter-anion interactions has been expanded to chalcogen bonding. An anionic selenium-based chalcogen-bond do...
pubs.rsc.org
October 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Just like halogen bonding, chalcogen bonding is not purely electrostatic - orbital interactions are also very important and my override the electrostatics. We recently published an illustrative example for this: inter-anion chalcogen bonding.
See: pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
See: pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
Prof. Wolfgang Kirmse, former Chair of Organic Chemistry II at Ruhr-University Bochum, has died on October 3rd. He was known, inter alia, for many fundamental contributions to carbocation chemistry and was a very well-visible representative of our chemistry department for a long time. Rest in peace.
October 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Prof. Wolfgang Kirmse, former Chair of Organic Chemistry II at Ruhr-University Bochum, has died on October 3rd. He was known, inter alia, for many fundamental contributions to carbocation chemistry and was a very well-visible representative of our chemistry department for a long time. Rest in peace.
Please check this announcement for an early-career group leader, hosted jointly by our cluster of excellence RESOLV and the MPI Kofo. The thematic focus should be on catalysis: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/4...
Early Career Research (ECR) Group Leader position (m/f/d) with the thematic focus on “Catalysis” within the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
October 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Please check this announcement for an early-career group leader, hosted jointly by our cluster of excellence RESOLV and the MPI Kofo. The thematic focus should be on catalysis: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/4...
In a preprint, we report a particularly interesting substrate for biaxial halogen bonding with iodine(III)-based Lewis acids: allenes. We also introduce chiral variants which allow enantiodiscrimination of allenes via NMR:
September 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
In a preprint, we report a particularly interesting substrate for biaxial halogen bonding with iodine(III)-based Lewis acids: allenes. We also introduce chiral variants which allow enantiodiscrimination of allenes via NMR:
At the end of August, we said goodbye to Julian Wolf, former PhD student and postdoc. Thanks a lot for your contributions, particularly all the work to establish highly enantioselective XB catalysis, and all the best!
September 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
At the end of August, we said goodbye to Julian Wolf, former PhD student and postdoc. Thanks a lot for your contributions, particularly all the work to establish highly enantioselective XB catalysis, and all the best!
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Wow. Check this out.
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
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Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
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August 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Wow. Check this out.
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...