Dr. Jan Christopher Bernhammer

Lab manager of a process development laboratory.

DFT studies of the electronic structures of carbene ligands and their bonding to transition metal fragments.

Contributions to the enantioselective total synthesis of a complex, tricyclic natural product and a series of natural product analogues for the purpose of testing their biological activity; multistep synthesis of target molecules, reaction development, and optimisation; isolation, purification and full characterisation of intermediates and products.

Synthesis of late transition metal NHC complexes; application of NHC complexes in catalysis; study of the structure and reactivity of N-heterocyclic carbenes and their complexes by computational methods.

ERASMUS student, focus on physical chemistry.

Thesis in organic chemistry: "Stereodivergent hydrogenation of 1,6-dioxaspiro[4.5]decene".