Harder Group

Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry (Lehrstuhl AC1)

Organometallic chemistry bridges the gap between Organic Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry.

Our Mission

Our research is strongly related to the problems of the future: Energy and Resources

CATALYSIS: We target doing catalysis with abundant and biocompatible metals like Ca or Mg. Can we replace the rare noble metals like Pt, Rh, Pd with cheap main group metals? Or maybe with Al or Fe? The most abundant metal in the world.

SMALL MOLECULE ACTIVATION: As part of the catalysis project we aim to make highly reactive molecules that can break extremely strong bonds H-H, C-H or even N≡N!