Konstantin was born in Berlin and started his studies in Chemistry at Humboldt University in 2017. During his studies he showed specific interest in organic chemistry and analytical chemistry.
For his Bachelor thesis he joined the DumeleLab working on the synthesis of carbon-rich covalent organic frameworks and related macrocycles. His project further covered the computational description of such systems and predictions on chiral self-sorting processes.
Together with Niklas Grabicki, he discovered the photoswitch-activity of a [5]helicene that he synthesized in his bachelor thesis. This molecules became the platform for our photomagnetic bistable spin state switches, published in JACS.
For his master thesis, Konstantin joined the lab of Prof. Ken Itami at Nagoya University in Japan. There he works on carbon-rich nano belts. His thesis is co-examined at HU Berlin.
Publications:
K. Günther,† N. Grabicki,† B. Battistella, L. Grubert, O. Dumele*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 8707–8716. An All-Organic Photochemical Magnetic Switch with Bistable Spin States.
→ Highlighted by Chemistry Views 2022: All-Organic Molecular Spin-State Switches
→ Pre-print previously published on ChemRxiv 2022, DOI:10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-bh283.
