The Thiele group
Picture: P. Czechowski, www.czeko.de

Kilian Heckenberger

Working area(s)

Bachelor thesis 07/17 - 09/17, Master thesis 10/19 - 05/20, Ph.D. thesis 08/20 -

Contact

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Work L2|07 4
Peter-Grünberg-Str. 16
64287 Darmstadt

Field of research

  • Reaction monitoring and mechanistic studies of transition metal-catalyzed reactions
  • Etablishment and utilization of combined NMR-UV/Vis-spectroscopy for transition metal-catalyzed reactions
  • Member of the Collaborative Research Centre 1487 “Iron, Upgraded, Projekt B05!”

Bachelor thesis

Title Tetragonal Phases of the Dodecaborides MB12 (M=Sc, Y, Zr, Hf)
Group Prof. Dr. B. Albert
Place Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Technical University of Darmstadt

Master thesis

Title Study on the reaction intermediates of a Grubbs-Hoveyda catalysed metathesis reaction using rapid injection UVNMR spectroscopy
Group Prof. Dr. C. M. Thiele, Prof. Dr. Herbert Plenio
Place Clemens-Schöpf-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Fachbereich Chemie, Technical University of Darmstadt

Prizes and awards

11/21 Athene-Award for Excellence in Teaching – Special Award for Gender-Sensitive and Diversity-Oriented Teaching of the Carlo and Karin Giersch-Foundation at Technical University of Darmstadt

together with Han Dittmar, Melissa Meinel and Miriam Seebach for the lecture series Scientists in Society, Academia and Industry (SciSAI)
11/21 Hessischer Hochschulpreis für Exzellenz in der Lehre of the Hessian State Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts

together with Han Dittmar, Melissa Meinel and Miriam Seebach for the lecture series Scientists in Society, Academia and Industry (SciSAI)
03/22 – 08/25 Doctoral Scholarship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
09/23 SMASH student scholarship
11/23 Higher Education Teaching Certificate – Professional Competence Level of the Hochschuldidaktische Arbeitsstelle of the Technical University of Darmstadt
07/24 Audience Participation Award for Early Career Researchers of the International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis (ISHC 2024)

Talks

1 K. Heckenberger
Chemistry is like Sudoku
Herbstforum für Promovierende, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Nürnberg/Germany, 11/24.

Publications

1 Y. Liang*, Y. Zhang, H. Jiang, L. Wu*, W. Zhang*, K. Heckenberger, K. Hofmann, A. Reitz, F. C. Stober, and B. Albert*
Thermodynamic Ground States of Multifunctional Metal Dodecaborides
Chem. Mater. 2019, 31, 1075–1083.
2 B. J. Elvers, M. Sawall, E. Oberem, K. Heckenberger, R. Ludwig, K. Neymeyr, C. Schulzke, V. Krewald,* C. Fischer*
Towards operando IR‐ and UV‐vis‐Spectro‐Electrochemistry: A Comprehensive Matrix Factorisation Study on Sensitive and Transient Molybdenum and Tungsten Mono‐Dithiolene Complexes
Chem. Meth. 2021, 1, 22-35.

Poster

1 K. Heckenberger, D. Herold, C. M. Thiele
Combined UV/vis-NMR spectroscopy for investigating reaction mechanisms in transition metal catalysis?– a proof of principle
GRC Physical Organic Chemistry 2023, Holderness/NH/USA, 06/2023
2 K. Heckenberger, D. Herold, C. M. Thiele
Combined UV/vis-NMR spectroscopy for investigating reaction mechanisms in transition metal catalysis – a proof of principle
SMASH, Baveno/Italy, 09/23.
3 K. Heckenberger, C. M. Thiele
Operando NMR spectroscopic investigation of a Kumada-type iron-catalysed cross-coupling reaction
International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis 2024, Trieste/Italy, 07/24.
4 K. Heckenberger, C. M. Thiele
Operando NMR spectroscopic investigation of a Kumada-type iron-catalysed cross-coupling reaction
Understanding Iron & Friends 2024, Darmstadt/Germany, 09/24.
5 K. Heckenberger, C. M. Thiele
One isn’t always enough … – How combined operando NMR-UV/Vis spectroscopy helps to understand mechanisms
European Symposium on Organic Chemistry 2025, Kopenhagen/Denmark, 06/25.
6 K. Heckenberger, C. M. Thiele
One isn’t always enough … – How combined operando NMR-UV/Vis spectroscopy helps to understand mechanisms
BASF International Summer Course 2025, Ludwigshafen/Germany, 08/25.