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

Dr. Marcel Alcaraz Janßen

Working area(s)

Bachelor thesis 07/14 - 09/14, Master thesis 04/16 - 10/16, Ph.D. thesis 12/16 - 08/20

Contact

Marcel finished his Ph.D. on August 25th, 2020. Congratulations!

Field of research

  • Side-chain functionalization and synthesis of polypeptides
  • Investigations of alignment media based on polypeptides

Bachelor thesis

Title Synthese eines chiralen Seiten-Ketten-Bausteins zur Modifikation helikaler Polymere
Group Prof. Dr. C. M. Thiele
Place Department of Chemistry, Technical University Darmstadt

Master thesis

Title Investigation of photoswitchable polypeptides
Group Prof. Dr. C. M. Thiele
Place Department of Chemistry, Technical University Darmstadt

Dissertation

Title Synthese seitenketten-substituierter Homopolypeptide zur Entwicklung neuer Orientierungsmedien für die NMR-Spektroskopie
Group Prof. Dr. C. M. Thiele
Place Department of Chemistry, Technical University Darmstadt

Prizes and awards

08/17 – 08/19 Ph. D. fellowship of the Chemical Industry Fund (FCI)

Publications

1 F. Krohm, J. Kind, R. Savka, M. Alcaraz Janßen, D. Herold, H. Plenio, C. M. Thiele, A. Andrieu-Brunsen
Photochromic spiropyran- and spirooxazine-homopolymers in mesoporous thin films by surface initiated ROMP
J. Mater. Chem. C 2016, 4, 4067-4076 / Corrigendum.
2 M. Alcaraz Janßen, C. M. Thiele,
Poly‐γ‐S‐perillyl‐L‐glutamate and Poly‐γ‐S‐perillyl‐D‐glutamate: diastereomeric alignment media used for the investigation of the alignment process
Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 7831-7839.
3 F. Theiss, L. Wienands, J. Lins, M. Alcaraz Janßen, C. M. Thiele, G. Buntkowsky
Parahydrogen-induced polarization enables the single-scan NMR detection of a 236 kDa biopolymer at nanomolar concentrations
Sci. Rep. 2023, 13, 10117.

Poster

1 J. Kind, M. Alcaraz Janßen, D. Herold, A. Andrieu-Brunsen, C. M. Thiele
Investigation of spirooxazines and -pyrans and their norbornene polymers by in situ irradiation NMR
Euromar 2016, Aarhus/Denmark, 07/16.
2 M. Alcaraz Janßen, C. M. Thiele
Investigation of the influence of chiral sidechains in polyglutamic acid based alignment media on the enantiodifferentiation process
ICOS “22nd International Conference on Organic Synthesis”, Florence/Italy, 09/18
3 M. Alcaraz Janßen, C. M. Thiele
Influences of chiral sidechains in polypeptide based alignment media
SMASH 2019, Porto/Portugal, 09/19