Director of the Institute
Prof. Dr. Magnus Rueping
Tel.: +49 (0)241 8094710

   
  Deputy Director
Prof. Dr. Elmar Weinhold
Tel.: +49 (0)241 8094044

   
  Student Affairs
Dr. Michael Meske
Tel.: +49 (0)241 8094694

   
  Head of the Administration
Dr. Gunter Geibel
Tel.: +49 (0)241 8094685

   

 

 

News

Bachelor Thesis in Organic Chemistry - Please apply directly to the research groups. A list of topics can be found here
 
 
A great success! PhD students from the institute organized the 4th New Year's Symposium. More than 140 scientific co-workers attended the symposium sponsored by Bayer CropScience. Mathieu Candy and team obtained the prestigious poster award.
 
 
Top Performances 2011
Institute of Organic Chemistry exceeds capacity. In 2011, for the first time, over 850 students completed their practical training in the laboratories of the IOC.
Highly cited! In 2011 alone, publications from the research group leaders were cited more than 5300 times. A list of reviewed articles published in 2011 can be found here.
 
 
University Rankings 2011 - RWTH Aachen is one of the favorite universities for German human resources directors - RWTH natural sciences ranked number 1.
   
Congratulations to Prof. Carsten Bolm who has been awarded the prestigious Boehringer Ingelheim Lectureship from the Universite de Montreal. Prof. Bolm is in good company as recent awardees include: Professors: Seeberger, Hayashi, Pfaltz, Seebach, Knochel, Mikami, Ley and Trost.
 
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Philipp Selig, a new research group leader. Dr. Selig obtained his PhD from the Technical University of Munich, working with Prof. Thorsten Bach. Subsequently, he conducted postdoctoral studies with Prof. Scott Miller at Yale University and has now joined the IOC.
 
The University of California, Berkeley has named Prof. Magnus Rueping the 2010/2011 Novartis Lecturer in Organic Chemistry. Congratulations!
 
Our alumni continue to do outstanding work: Prof. Dr. Christian Hackenberger has received the Dozentenstipendium des Fonds der Chemischen Industrie as well as being awarded the prestigious Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Prize. Congratulations!
 
 
 
 
The RWTH’s Faculty of Chemistry belongs to the Excellence Group of European Universities.
 

 

 

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Events

18.05.2012, 11:15 am
OC-Colloquium - Prof. Dr. Thomas Bredow, Universität Bonn. "Expected and Unexpected Dispersion Effects on Properties of Solids and Surfaces"

 
22.05.2012, 05:15 pm
GDCh-Colloquium - Prof. Dr. Gerhard Erker, WWU Münster. "Frustrierte Lewispaare, Aktivierung kleiner Moleküle und mehr"
 
01.06.2012, 11:15 am
OC-Colloquium - Prof. Dr. J. Stephen Clark, University of Glasgow. "Total Synthesis of Marine Natural Products of the Cladiellin Family Using a General Approach"
 
15.06.2012, 11:15 am
OC-Colloquium - JULIUS-BREDT Lecture. Prof. Dr. K. C. Nicolaou, Scripps Research Institute. "Total Synthesis of Biologically Active Molecules"
 
18.06.2012, 05:15 pm
OC-Colloquium - Prof. Dr. Günter Helmchen, Universität Heidelberg."Iridium - Newcomer with Potential in Metalorganic Catalysis"

 

 

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