Publikationsliste

PCET beyond Simple pKa-Related Base Effects: Unlocking Inaccessible Substrates for Direct Intermolecular Photocatalytic Ring-Opening Remote Alkylative C-C Functionalization of Cycloalkanols

Michael Klimkait, Nele Berg, Ruth Gschwind, Kirsten Zeitler, ChemRxiv 2025.

Pre Print: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-j62j0


Enhancing FAIRdata by providing digital workflows from data generation to the publication of data: an open source approach described for cyclic voltammetry

David Herrmann, Patrick Hodapp, Martin Starman, Pei-Chi Huang, Chia-Lin Lin, Lan B. Q. Le, Tillmann G. Fischer, Claudia Bizzarri, Philipp Röse, Niklas Oppel, Jochen Klar, Pierre Tremouilhac, Laura Holzhauer, Sonja Herres-Pawlis, Alexander Hoffmann, Tobias Seitz, Alrik Dorn, Kirsten Zeitler, Nicole Jung*, Stefan Brase*, Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 4430–4441.

Web Edition: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SC08620A


Unimolecular net heterolysis of symmetric and homopolar σ-bonds

Anna F. Tiefel, Daniel J. Grenda, Carina Allacher, Elias Harrer, Carolin H. Nagel, Roger J. Kutta, David Hernández-Castillo, Poorva R. Narasimhamurthy, Kirsten Zeitler, Leticia González, Julia Rehbein, Patrick Nuernberger, Alexander Breder, Nature 2024, 632, 550–556.

Web Edition: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07622-7


Hydrogen isotopes 1,2,3H-A school lab concept for an exemplary insight into chemical research and the work of researchers in chemistry

Liesa Gromm, Knut R. Asmis, Kirsten Zeitler, Jannik Sälker, Rebekka Heimann, Chemkon 2024, 6, 215–220.

Web Edition: https://doi.org/10.1002/ckon.202300064


Integration of Impedimetric Sensors for In Situ Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy in Free-Flow Electrophoresis Applications in Lab-on-Chip Systems

Tobias Haensch, Franziska D. Zitzmann, Heinz-Georg Jahnke,* Maximilian E. Blaha, Erik Paternoga, Kirsten Zeitler, Detlev Belder, Andrea A. Robitzki, ACS Sens. 2022, 12, 3906–3914.

Web Edition: https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.2c01938

 


Photocatalytic Arylation of P4 and PH3: Reaction Development Through Mechanistic Insight

Robin Rothfelder, Dr. Verena Streitferdt, Dr. Ulrich Lennert, Jose Cammarata, Dr. Daniel J. Scott, Prof. Dr. Kirsten Zeitler, Prof. Dr. Ruth M. Gschwind, Prof. Dr. Robert Wolf, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 24650–24658.

Web Edition: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202110619


On-chip mass spectrometric analysis in non-polar solvents by liquid beam infrared matrix-assisted laser dispersion/ionization

Raphael D. Urban, Tillmann G. Fischer, Ales Charvat, Konstantin Wink, Benjamin Krafft, Stefan Ohla, Kirsten Zeitler, Bernd Abel, Detlev Belder, Anal Bioanal Chem 2021, 413, 1561–1570.

Web Edition: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-020-03115-4


Versatile Visible-Light-Driven Synthesis of Asymmetrical Phosphines and Phosphonium Salts

Dr. Percia Beatrice Arockiam, Ulrich Lennert, Christina Graf, Robin Rothfelder, Dr. Daniel J. Scott, Tillmann G. Fischer, Prof. Dr. Kirsten Zeitler, Prof. Dr. Robert Wolf, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 16374.

Web Edition: https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202002646


In situ monitoring of photocatalyzed isomerization reactions on a microchip flow reactor by IR-MALDI ion mobility spectrometry

Chris Prüfer, Raphael D. Urban, Tillmann G. Fischer, José Villatoro, Daniel Riebe, Toralf Beitz, Detlev Belder, Kirsten Zeitler, Hans-Gerd Löhmannsröben, Anal Bioanal Chem 2020, 412, 7899–7911.

Web Edition: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-020-02923-y


Impact of Chlorine on the Internal Transition Rates and Excited States of the Thermally Delayed Activated Fluorescence Molecule 3CzClIPN

Martin Streiter, Tillmann G. Fischer, Christian Wiebeler, Sebastian Reichert, Jörn Langenickel, Kirsten Zeitler, Carsten Deibel, J. Phys. Chem. C 2020, 28, 15007–15014.

Web Edition: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c03341


Synergistic visible light photoredox catalysis

Zeitler, Kirsten and Neumann, Matthias, Physical Sciences Reviews 2020, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 20170173.

Web Edition: https://doi.org/10.1515/psr-2017-0173


A Catalytic Strategy for α,ω‐Functionalization: NHC‐Mediated Fragmentation/Umpolung Cascades to Access Hydroxytrifluoromethyl Ynones and Allenones

Christoph Selg, Fabian B. Kraft, Linda Welcke and Kirsten Zeitler, ChemCatChem 2019, 11, 3750-3755.
Web edition: https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201801454


Nonaqueous Micro Free-Flow Electrophoresis for Continuous Separation of Reaction Mixtures in Organic Media

Benjamin M. Rudisch, Simon A. Pfeiffer, David Geissler, Elisabeth Speckmeier, Andrea A. Robitzki, Kirsten Zeitler, Detlev Belder*, Anal. Chem. 2019, 91, 6689−6694.

Web Edition: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b00714


NHC-Stabilized Radicals in the Formal Hydroacylation Reaction of Alkynes

Jenny Phan, Stephanie-M. Ruser, Kirsten Zeitler, Julia Rehbein, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 2-3, 557–561.

Web Edition: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201801185


Unprecedented Mechanism of an Organocatalytic Route to Conjugated Enynes with a Junction to Cyclic Nitronates

Verena Streitferdt, Michael H. Haindl, Johnny Hioe, Fabio Morana, Polyssena Renzi, Felicitas von Rekowski, Alexander Zimmermann, Martina Nardi, Kirsten Zeitler, Ruth M. Gschwind, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 2-3, 328–337.

Web Edition: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201801153


A Toolbox Approach to Construct Broadly Applicable Metal-Free Catalysts for Photoredox Chemistry – Deliberate Tuning of Redox Potentials and Importance of Halogens in Donor-Acceptor Cyanoarenes

Elisabeth Speckmeier, Tillmann Fischer and Kirsten Zeitler, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 15353–15365.
Web edition: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b08933


A Synergistic LUMO Lowering Strategy Using Lewis Acid Catalysis in Water to Enable Photoredox Catalytic, Functionalizing C-C Cross-Coupling of Styrenes

Elisabeth Speckmeier, Patrick J. W. Fuchs and Kirsten Zeitler, Chem. Sci. 20189, 7096-7103.
Web edition: https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SC02106F


Unlocking the Potential of Phenacyl Protecting Groups: CO2-Based Formation and Photocatalytic Release of Caged Amines

Elisabeth Speckmeier, Michael Klimkait and Kirsten Zeitler, J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 3738–3745.
Web edition: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.joc.8b00096


An N‑Heterocyclic Carbene-Mediated, Enantioselective and Multicatalytic Strategy to Access Dihydropyranones in a Sequential Three-Component One-Pot Reaction

Patrick Fuchs and Kirsten Zeitler, Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 6076–6079.
Web edition: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.orglett.7b02889


Desyl and Phenacyl as Versatile, Photocatalytically Cleavable Protecting Groups - A Classic Approach in a Different (Visible) Light

Elisabeth Speckmeier and Kirsten Zeitler, ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 6821-6826.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.7b02117


Nitroalkenes as latent 1,2-biselectrophiles - A multicatalytic approach for the synthesis of 1,4-diketones and their application in a 4-step one-pot reaction to polysubstituted pyrroles

Patrick J. W. Fuchs and Kirsten Zeitler, J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 7796–7805.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.7b00830


Carboranes as Aryl Mimetics in Catalysis: a Highly Active Zwitterionic NHC Precatalyst

Christoph Selg, Wilma Neumann, Peter Lönnecke, Evamarie Hey-Hawkins and Kirsten Zeitler, Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 7932-7937.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201700209


Domino reactions: More than just a game

T. Broja, P. J. W. Fuchs, K. Zeitler, Nat. Chem. 2015, 7, 950.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2402


Visible Light Mediated Reductive Cleavage of C–O Bonds Accessing α-Substituted Aryl Ketones

Elisabeth Speckmeier, Clément Padié, Kirsten Zeitler, Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 4818-4821.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.5b02378 


No Photocatalyst Required – Versatile, Visible Light Mediated Transformations with Polyhalomethanes

Johannes F. Franz, Wolfgang B. Kraus, Kirsten Zeitler, Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 8280-8283.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C4CC10270C

Aerobic oxidation of NHC-catalysed aldehyde esterifications with alcohols: benzoin, not the Breslow intermediate, undergoes oxidation

Eoghan G. Delany, Claire-Louise Fagan, Sivaji Gundala, Kirsten Zeitler and Stephen J. Connon, Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 6513-6515.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C3CC42597E


NHC-catalysed aerobic aldehyde-esterifications with alcohols: no additives or cocatalysts required

Eoghan G. Delany, Claire-Louise Fagan, Sivaji Gundala, Alessandra Mari, Thomas Broja, Kirsten Zeitler and Stephen J. Connon, Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 6510-6512.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C3CC42596G


A Cooperative Hydrogen-Bond-Promoted Organophotoredox Catalysis Strategy for Highly Diastereoselective, Reductive Enone Cyclization

Matthias Neumann and Kirsten Zeitler, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 6950-6955.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201204573


What is your actual catalyst? TMS cleavage rates of diarylprolinol silyl ethers studied by in situ NMR

Michael H. Haindl, Markus B. Schmid, Kirsten Zeitler and Ruth M. Gschwind, RSC Adv. 2012, 2, 5941-5943.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2RA20860A


Application of microflow conditions to visible light photoredox catalysis

Matthias Neumann and Kirsten Zeitler, Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 2658-2661.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ol3005529


NHC-catalyzed, chemoselective crossed-acyloin reactions

Christopher A. Rose, Sivaji Gundala, Claire-Louise Fagan, Johannes F. Franz, Stephen J. Connon and Kirsten Zeitler, Chem. Sci. 2012, 3, 735-740.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2SC00622G


Stabilization of Proline Enamine Carboxylates by Amine Bases

Markus B. Schmid, Kirsten Zeitler, Ruth M. Gschwind, Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 3362–3370.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201102660


A novel reaction-based, chromogenic and "turn-on" fluorescent chemodosimeter for fluoride detection

Clément Padié and Kirsten Zeitler, New J. Chem. 2011, 35, 994-997.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C0NJ00937G


A versatile combined N-heterocyclic carbene and base-catalyzed multiple cascade approach for the synthesis of functionalized benzofuran-3-(2H)-ones

Johannes F. Franz, Patrick J. W. Fuchs and Kirsten Zeitler, Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 6952-6956.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.10.078

Highlighted in ChemInform 2012, as Editors´Choice


Chemoselective crossed acyloin condensations: catalyst and substrate control

Christopher A. Rose, Sivaji Gundala, Stephen J. Connon and Kirsten Zeitler, Synthesis 2011, 2, 190-198.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0030-1258363


Highly Chemoselective Direct Crossed Aliphatic-Aromatic Acyloin Condensations with Triazolium-Derived Carbene Catalysts

Sarah E. O'Toole, Christopher A. Rose, Sivaji Gundala, Kirsten Zeitler and Stephen J. Connon, J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 347-357.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jo101791w


Formation and Stability of Prolinol and Prolinol Ether Enamines by NMR: Delicate Selectivity and Reactivity Balances and Parasitic Equilibria

Markus B. Schmid, Kirsten Zeitler and Ruth M. Gschwind, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 7065–7074.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja111544b


Markus B. Schmid, Kirsten Zeitler and Ruth M. Gschwind, J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 3005–3015.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jo200431v


Metal-Free, Cooperative Asymmetric Organophotoredox Catalysis with Visible Light

Matthias Neumann, Stefan Füldner, Burkhard König, Kirsten Zeitler, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 951-954.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201002992

Highlighted in Synfacts 2010, 1419: "Organophotoredox Catalysis" - Synfact of the Month


Efficient Catalytic, Oxidative Lactonization for the Synthesis of Benzodioxepinones using Thiazolium Derived Carbene Catalysts

Christopher A. Rose, Kirsten Zeitler, Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 4552-4555.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ol101854r


Efficient, Enantioselective Iminium Catalysis with an Immobilized, Recyclable Diarylprolinol Silyl Ether Catalyst

Ina Mager, Kirsten Zeitler, Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 1480-1483.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ol100166z

Photoredox Catalysis with Visible Light

Kirsten Zeitler, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 9785-9789.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.200904056


Highly Enantioselective Benzoin Condensation Reactions Involving a Bifunctional Protic Pentafluorophenyl-Substituted Triazolium Precatalyst

Louise Baragwanath, Christopher A. Rose, Kirsten Zeitler, Stephen J. Connon, J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 9214-9217.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jo902018j


An Efficient Carbene-Catalyzed Access to 3,4-Dihydrocoumarins

Kirsten Zeitler, Christopher A. Rose, J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 1759-1762.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jo802285r


N-Heterocyclic Carbenes - Organocatalysts Displaying Diverse Modes of Action

Kirsten Zeitler, E. Schering Found. Symp. Proc. 2007, 2, 183-206.


Asymmetric Organocatalysis

Stefan Jaroch, Hilmar Weinmann, Kirsten Zeitler, ChemMedChem 2007, 2, 1261-1264.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.200700109


An Efficient and Versatile Approach for the Immobilization of Carbene Precursors via Copper-catalyzed [3+2]-Cycloaddition and their Catalytic Application

Kirsten Zeitler, Ina Mager, Adv. Synth. Cat. 2007, 349, 1851-1857.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adsc.200700174

Highlighted in Synfacts 2007, 1221: "MeOPEG-Supported Carbene Catalysts"


Stereoselective Synthesis of (E)-α,β-Unsaturated Esters via Carbene-Catalyzed Redox Esterification

Kirsten Zeitler, Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 637-640.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ol052826h


Extending Mechanistic Routes in Heterazolium Catalysis-Promising Concepts for Versatile Synthetic Methods

Kirsten Zeitler, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 7506-7510.
Web edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.200502617