Articles citing this paper

Peter Comba obtained a diploma in chemistry and chemical education from ETH Zürich and Ph.D. from the Université de Neuchâtel. He had research positions at the Australian National University, Canberra, the Université de Lausanne and the Universität Basel, before taking up his present position as Professor of Chemistry at the Universität Heidelberg. He is interested in fundamental transition metal coordination chemistry, involving ligand design and synthesis, preparative coordination chemistry, spectroscopy as well as theoretical and computational inorganic chemistry, with projects in bioinorganic and medicinal inorganic chemistry, molecular magnetism and molecular catalysis.

Marion Kerscher was awarded a Ph.D. degree from the University of Heidelberg in 2003. Subsequently, she got a permanent position as a scientist in the Inorganic Chemistry Department of the University of Heidelberg, where she is working in the field of coordination chemistry and focuses on synthesis and spectroscopy.

Torsten Krause obtained a diploma in chemistry with a thesis on analytical and pharmaceutical applications of quantum dots from the University of Marburg. From the University of Heidelberg he obtained his Ph.D. degree for research on salt lake chemistry and volatile organic compounds emitting therefrom. Today, he works at the Max Rubner-Institute, the German Federal Research Institute of Nutrition and Food within the department for safety and quality of milk and fish in Kiel.

Heinfried Schöler studied in Bonn and obtained the diploma in chemistry and Ph.D. from the University of Bonn. He had a research position at the Medical Department of the University of Bonn. After habilitation he became Professor of Environmental Hygiene at the University of Bonn and in 1992 Professor for Environmental Organic Geochemistry at the University of Heidelberg. He is especially interested in naturally produced organohalogens (trichloroacetic acid, chlorobenzoic acids, methyl halides, chlorethene, chloroethyne, trihalomethanes) and volatile organic carbon (carbon suboxide, furan, and furan derivatives) in soils, sediments, and fluid inclusions.