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

Dr. Mira Schwab (née Köberle)

Working area(s)

Master thesis 01/13 - 07/13, Ph.D. thesis 10/13 - 04/18, PostDoc 07/18 - 07/19

Contact

Mira finished her Ph.D. on April, 23rd, 2018. Congratulations!

Field of research

  • Polyphosphazenes
  • LLC-phases of polyphosphazenes
  • Synthesis of homopolyaspartates and their characterization as novel alignment media for structure elucidation

Education

04 – 05 Student exchange , USA
07 High School Graduation
07 – 10 Study of Chemistry B. Sc., Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt
10 – 13 Study of Chemistry M. Sc., Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt

Bachelor thesis

Title Studien zum Ursprung der Enantiomerendifferenzierung bei Polyguanidinen
Group Prof. Dr. M. Reggelin
Place Clemens-Schöpf-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Fachbereich Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Master thesis

Title Studies towards liquid crystalline phases of Polyphosphazenes.
Group Prof. Dr. C. M. Thiele
Place Clemens-Schöpf-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Fachbereich Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Dissertation

Title Synthese und Charakterisierung neuer helikal-chiraler enantiodifferenzierender Orientierungsmedien für die NMR-Spektroskopie
Group Prof. Dr. C. M. Thiele
Place Department of Chemistry, Technical University Darmstadt

Prizes and awards

09/18 Ernst Award of the Magnetic Resonance Division of the German Chemical Society

Talks

1 Homochiral Polyaspartates as a New Alignment Medium in NMR Spectroscopy of Small Organic Molecules
Chirality 2016, Heidelberg, 07/16 (upgraded poster).

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 M. Schwab, D. Herold, C. M. Thiele
Polyaspartates as Thermoresponsive Enantiodifferentiating Helically Chiral Alignment Media for Anisotropic NMR-Spectroscopy
Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 14576-14584.
3 M. Schwab, V. Schmidts, C. M. Thiele
Thermoresponsive Alignment Media in NMR spectroscopy: Helix Reversal of a Copolyaspartate at Ambient Temperatures
Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 14373-14377.
4 M. Hirschmann, M. Schwab, C. M. Thiele
Molecular Weights: The Key for Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Phases of Poly-γ-benzyl-L-aspartate
Macromolecules 2019, in print, DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b00970.

Poster

1 A. Kolmer, M. Köberle, M. Fredersdorf, A.-C. Pöppler, C. E. Müller, P. R. Schreiner, C. M. Thiele
Understanding the origin of the selectivity of the organocatalyzed enantioselective acylation of 1,2-alkane diols
GDCh FGMR 37th Annual Discussion Meeting, Darmstadt, 09/15.
2 M. Köberle, S. Jeziorowski, C. M. Thiele
Synthesis of helically chiral liquid crystalline polyphosphazenes
2015 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACFICHEM), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 12/15.
3 M. Köberle, A. Hofstädter, F. Roth, V. Schmidts, C. M. Thiele
Homopolyaspartates as new alignment medium in NMR spectroscopy of small organic molecules
18. JCF Frühjahrssymposium, Kiel, 03/16.
4 M. Schwab, M. Hirschmann, C. M. Thiele
Hot and Cool RDCs: Investigations on the Alignment Process
SMASH 2017, Baveno/Italy, 09/17.