Former members of the Thiele group
Picture: P. Czechowski, www.czeko.de

Dr. Julian Ilgen

Working area(s)

Bachelor thesis 11/13 - 01/14, Master thesis 11/15 - 05/16, PhD thesis 10/16 - 02/21

Contact

Julian finished his Ph.D. on February 22nd, 2021. Congratulations!

Field of research

  • Fast NMR-acquisition techniques for reaction monitoring
  • homonuclear decoupled 1H NMR spectroscopy (pure shift NMR)
  • pulse sequence development

Bachelor thesis

Title Temperature regulation within the NMR spectrometer via liquid crystalline phases
Group Prof. Dr. C. M. Thiele
Place Department of Chemistry, Technical University Darmstadt

Master thesis

Title Investigation of the performance of pure shift-experiments in the presence of strong coupling
Group Prof. Dr. C. M. Thiele
Place Department of Chemistry, Technical University Darmstadt

Dissertation

Title Development of a toolbox of NMR techniques for structure elucidation and their application
Group Prof. Dr. C. M. Thiele
Place Department of Chemistry, Technical University Darmstadt

Prizes and awards

12/16 Award of the Dr.-Anton-Keller-Foundation at Technische Universität Darmstadt
09/17 SMASH Student Stipend
09/18 – Ph. D. fellowship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
09/19 SMASH Student Stipend

Publications

1 E. Procházková, A. Kolmer, J. Ilgen, M. Schwab, L. Kaltschnee, M. Fredersdorf, V. Schmidts, R. C. Wende, P. R. Schreiner, C. M. Thiele
Uncovering Key Structural Features of an Enantioselective Peptide-Catalyzed Acylation Utilizing Advanced NMR Techniques
Angew. Chem. 2016, 128, 15986–15991, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 15754–15759.
2 J. Ilgen, L. Kaltschnee, C. M. Thiele
A pure shift experiment with increased sensitivity and superior performance for strongly coupled systems
J. Magn. Reson. 2018, 286, 18-29.
[JMR Most-read Publication Award in 2018]
[Raw Data: DOI 10.23728/b2share.76f2f9e3f53d4fce90e2ac768102c34e]
3 J. Ilgen, L. Kaltschnee, C. M. Thiele
perfectBASH: Band-selective homonuclear decoupling in peptides and peptidomimetics
Magn. Reson. Chem. 2018, 56, 918-933. [Raw Data: DOI 10.23728/b2share.688901f6e4fe4b92bd0238715c3186bb]
4 D. Sinnaeve, J. Ilgen, M. E. Di Pietro, J. J. Primozic, V. Schmidts, C. M. Thiele, B. Luy
Probing long-range anisotropic interactions – A general and sign-sensitive strategy to measure 1H-1H residual dipolar couplings as a key advance for organic structure determination
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 5316-5320; Angew. Chem. 2020, 132, 5354-5358. [Raw Data: DOI 10.6084/m9.figshare.11297651]
5 J. Ilgen, J. Nowag, L. Kaltschnee, V. Schmidts, C. M. Thiele
Gradient Selected Pure-Shift EASY-ROESY techniques facilitate the quantitative measurement of 1H,1H-distance restraints in congested spectral regions
J. Magn. Reson. 2021, 324, 106900. [Preprint: PDF (opens in new tab) | SI (opens in new tab) ]
6 J. J. Primozic, J. Ilgen, P. Maibach, M. Brauser, J. Kind, C. M. Thiele
Pd-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation of Cyclobutenes: From Double Inversion to Double Retention
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 15912-15923.

Talks

1 PSYCHE-EASY-ROESY goes quantitative: Extraction of 1H,1H-distance restraints from overcrowded spectral regions
SMASH 2019, Porto/Portugal, 09/19.

Poster

1 S. Weißheit, J. Ilgen, A. Beimel, R. Kümmerle, P. Lendi, R. Hensel, D. Moskau, V. Schmidts, C. M. Thiele
Regulation of Quadrupolar Splittings in NMR Experiments on Anisotropic Samples
GDCh FGMR 37th Annual Discussion Meeting, Darmstadt, 09/15.
2 S. Weißheit, J. Ilgen, A. Beimel, R. Kümmerle, P. Lendi, R. Hensel, D. Moskau, V. Schmidts, C. M. Thiele
Regulation of Quadrupolar Splittings in NMR Experiments on Anisotropic Samples
SMASH 2015, Baveno/Italy, 09/15.
3 J. Ilgen, L. Kaltschnee, C. M. Thiele
A variant to Zangger-Sterk decoupling with improved sensitivity
Euromar 2016, Aarhus/Denmark, 07/16.
4 J. Ilgen, L. Kaltschnee, C. M. Thiele
A Zangger-Sterck based pure shift experiment not requiring full spatial separation of coupling partners for studies of peptidomimetic oligomers
ENC 2017, Pacific Grove/CA/USA, 03/17.
5 J. Ilgen, L. Kaltschnee, C. M. Thiele
Novel Developments in Pure Shift NMR Using Perfect-Echo and Zangger-Sterk
SMASH 2017, Baveno/Italy, 09/17.
6 J. Ilgen, L. Kaltschnee, C. M. Thiele
Ultrahigh resolution EASY-ROESY spectra with improved spectral quality
GDCh FGMR 40th Annual Discussion Meeting, Leipzig, 09/18.
7 J. Ilgen, J. Nowag, L. Kaltschnee, C. M. Thiele
PSYCHE-EASY-ROESY goes quantitative: Extraction of 1H,1H-distance restraints from overcrowded spectral regions
SMASH 2019, Porto/Portugal, 09/19.