Privatdozent Dr. rer. nat. Otto Dopfer

(Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

Institute of Physical Chemistry

University of Wuerzburg

Am Hubland

D-97074 Wuerzburg

Germany

Phone: ++49-931-888 6377 (office)

Phone: ++49-931-888 6347 (lab)

Fax: ++49-931-888 6378

e-mail: dopfer@phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de

room: 220 (office), 105 (lab)

NEU ab 01.04.06: Der Arbeitskreis zieht an die Technische Universitaet Berlin um.

Current Research Interests:

Intermolecular interactions (in particular ion-ligand interactions)

Hydrogen bonds, proton transfer & transport (proton wires/pumps)

pi-pi stacking, cation-pi interaction

Intermolecular potential energy surfaces & Microsolvation Processes

Ionic Complexes

Chemistry of planetary atmospheres and interstellar media

Ion-molecule reactions

Chemical reaction mechanisms (e.g., proton transfer, substitution reactions)

Carbocations

Plasma chemistry

Catalytic processes

Combustion and soot formation

Molecular recognition of biological molecules

Nanodroplets and nanomaterials

Poster: summary of research (pdf)

Tools:

Spectroscopy & Mass Spectrometry & Quantum Chemistry

Funding:

The research of my group has been funded so far by:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI)

Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS)

European Union (EU)

Bavaria-California Technology Center (BaCaTeC)

Present Coworkers:

1. Dr. Nicola Solca (postdoctoral fellow)

now at Laboratorio Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland

email: nicola.solca@bluewin.ch

2. Dipl.-Phys. Horia-Sorin Andrei (PhD student)

Phone: ++49-931-888 6318 (office), Phone: ++49-931-888 6347 (lab), Fax: ++49-931-888 6378

email: hsandrei@phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de, room: 225 (office), 105 (lab)

3.-6. Cand.-Chem. Ulrich Lorenz, Felix Pasker, Wu Xian, Hannes Kuchelmeister (undergraduate students)

emails: Ulrich-Lorenz@gmx.de, fpasker@web.de, wuxn03@hotmail.com, hyk@onlinehome.de

Current Group Photograph

Family Photo

last updated 7.4.05

Privatdozent Dr. rer. nat. Otto Dopfer

(Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

Institute of Physical Chemistry University of Wuerzburg Am Hubland D-97074 Wuerzburg Germany

Institute of Physical Chemistry

University of Wuerzburg

Am Hubland

D-97074 Wuerzburg

Germany