Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner
Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC)
University of Würzburg | BPI Executive committee | KeyLab coordinator
Job History
since 2002 | Professor, Chair of Organic Chemistry II, University of Würzburg |
since 2010 | Director of the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry, University of Würzburg |
since 2016 | Member of the Board of Directors of the Bavarian Polymer Institute (BPI) and Head of the KeyLab of Supramolecular Polymers in Würzburg |
2007 – 2009 | Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Würzburg |
2001/2002 | Professor of Organic Chemistry (temporally limited), Technical University of Karlsruhe |
1997 – 2000 | Liebig and DFG fellow (Habilitation), University of Ulm |
1995 – 1996 | Chemist at BASF AG, Central Research, Ludwigshafen. Research on functional dyes |
1994 – 1995 | Post-doc with Prof. J. Rebek, Jr. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge/MA (USA) |
Education
2001 | Habilitation in Organic Chemistry, University of Ulm (with Peter Bäuerle): Supramolecular Dye Chemistry |
1990 – 1994 | Dr. rer.nat., University of Stuttgart (with Franz Effenberger): Synthesis and Properties of Donor-Acceptor-substituted Oligothiophenes |
1984 – 1990 | Study of Chemistry, University of Stuttgart |
Awards and other responsibilities
Awards
2017 | Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences |
2016 | Member German National Academy of Science Leopoldina |
2015 | Emanuel Vogel Lecture (University of Cologne) |
2014 | Listed as Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher & World's Most Influential Scientific Minds in Chemistry K. S. Krishnan Memorial Lecture (Indian Association of the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata) Solvay Lecture, Brussels |
2009 | Steinhofer Award & Lectureship (University of Freiburg) |
2003 | Tarrant Award & Lectureship (University of Florida) |
2002 | Arnold Sommerfeld Award (Bavarian Academy of Science) |
2000 | Otto Röhm Memorial Award |
1997 | Liebig Fellowship (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie) |
1995 | Feodor Lynen Fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) |
Visiting Professorships
2013 | Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Taipei |
2010/2011 | Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Chemistry, Beijing |
2010 | Université d’Angers, France |
Editorial Boards
since 2015 | Associate Editor Organic Chemistry Frontiers (Royal Society of Chemistry) |
since 2015 | Editorial Advisory Board Member Open Chemistry (De Gruyter) |
since 2012 | International Advisory Board Member Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry (Wiley-VCH) |
since 2010 | Editorial Advisory Board Member Journal of Organic Chemistry (American Chemical Society) |
since 2008 | Editorial Advisory Board Member Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry (Springer) |
2005 | Editor Topics in Current Chemistry Volume “Supramolecular Dye Chemistry” (Springer) |
Advisory Borads
since 2010 | Member of the Scientific Council of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie |
2007 – 2012 | Member of the Selection Committee of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (Institutional Partnerships) |
2007 – 2015 | Scientific Consultant in the field of Organic Electronics for BASF SE |
2009/2010 | Member of the Selection Committee for International Research Groups of the Max-Planck Society |
2011 –2014 | Member Evaluation Panel 5 of the European Research Council (Starter & Consolidator Grants) |
Conference Organization
2001 | Secretary General 5th International Symposium on Functional π-Electron Systems, Ulm |
2013 | Chairman 7th Conference on Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers (KOPO), Würzburg |
Selection of Plenary Lectures at International Conferences (last years)
2017 | International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry, Cambridge, UK (accepted) |
2016 | 3rd Riken International Symposium on Supramolecular Chemistry and Functional Materials, Tokyo, Japan |
2015 | Faraday Discussions on Supramolecular Photochemistry, Cambridge, UK |
2014 | 8th Asian Photochemisty Conference,Trivandrum, India |
2014 | 5. Fundación Ramón Areces Scientific Symposium "CHEMISTRY: ANSWERS FOR A BETTER WORLD ", Madrid, Spain |
2014 | Gordon Research Conference on Electronic Processes, Lucca (Barga), Italy |
2013 | Frontiers in Macromolecular and Supramolecular Science Symposium, Bucharest, Romania |
Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC)
University of Würzburg | BPI Executive committee | KeyLab coordinator
- Dyes and organic semiconductors
- Supramolecular chemistry and biomolecular recognition
- Photochemistry
- Self-assembly & supramolecular polymerization
- gelation and organic nanostructure formation
- Materials for organic electronics, photonics, photovoltaics & photocatalysis
Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC)
University of Würzburg | BPI Executive committee | KeyLab coordinator
10 selected publications
A complete list of publications of Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner is available here.
A supramolecular ruthenium macrocycle with high catalytic activity for water oxidation that mechanistically mimics photosystem II
M. Schulze, V. Kunz, P. D. Frischmann, F. Würthner
Nat. Chem. 2016, 8, 576-583
Supramolecular block copolymers by kinetically controlled co-self-assembly of planar and core-twisted perylene bisimides
D. Görl, X. Zhang, V. Stepanenko, F. Würthner
Nat. Commun. 2015, 6, 7009
Mechanism of self-assembly process and seeded supramolecular polymerization of perylene bisimide organogelator
S. Ogi, V. Stepanenko, K. Sugiyasu, M. Takeuchi, F. Würthner
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 3300-3307
High-performance air-stable n-channel organic thin film transistors based on halogenated perylene bisimide semiconductors
R. Schmidt, J. H. Oh, Y.-S. Sun, M. Deppisch, A.-M. Krause, K. Radacki, H. Braunschweig, M. Könemann, P. Erk, Z. Bao, F. Würthner
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 6215-6228
Vesicular perylene dye nanocapsules as supramolecular fluorescent pH sensor systems
X. Zhang, S. Rehm, M. M. Safont-Sempere, F. Würthner
Nat. Chem. 2009, 1, 623-629
Supramolecular construction of fluorescent J-aggregates based on hydrogen-bonded perylene dyes
T. E. Kaiser, H. Wang, V. Stepanenko, F. Würthner
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 5541-5544
Photoproduction of proton gradients with π-stacked fluorophore scaffolds in lipid bilayers
S. Bhosale, A. L. Sisson, P. Talukdar, A. Fürstenberg, N. Banerji, E. Vauthey, G. Bollot, J. Mareda, C. Röger, F. Würthner, N. Sakai, S. Matile
Science 2006, 313, 84-86
Supramolecular p-n-heterojunctions by co-self-organization of oligo(p-phenylene vinylene) and perylene bisimide dyes
F. Würthner, Z. Chen, F. J. M. Hoeben, P. Osswald, C.-C. You, P. Jonkheijm,
J. van Herrikhuyzen, A. P. H. J. Schenning, P. P. A. M. van der Schoot, E. W. Meijer,
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 10611-10618
Fluorescent J-type aggregates and thermotropic columnar mesophases of perylene bisimide dyes
F. Würthner, C. Thalacker, S. Diele, C. Tschierske
Chem. Eur. J. 2001, 7, 2245-2253
Light-switchable catalysis in synthetic receptors
F. Würthner, J. Rebek, Jr.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1995, 34, 446-448
Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC)
University of Würzburg | BPI Executive committee | KeyLab coordinator
Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner
University of Würzburg | BPI Executive committee
KeyLab coordinator
Institut für Organische Chemie &
Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC)
D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)931 / 31 85340
E-mail: wuerthner@uni-wuerzburg.de
Homepage: Organic Materials and Nanosystems Chemistry