Prof. Dr. Stefan Hecht
Research interests
- organic synthesis
- macromolecular and supramolecular chemistry
- photochemistry and electrochemistry (molecular switches)
- materials and nano science
- surface science
Research Units in UniSysCat
Awards (selection)
| 2012 | European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (Consolidator Phase) on Light-controlled and Light-driven Molecular Action |
| 2010 | Klung-Wilhelmy-Weberbank Prize in Chemistry |
| 2005 | ADUC Award of the German Chemical Society (Annual Young Scientist Award from the Association of Full-Professors at German Universities) |
| 2004 | Top 100 Young Innovator Award of MIT Technology Review |
| 2001 | Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation |
| 1994–1997 | Fellow of the German National Academic Foundation |
Prof. Dr. Stefan Hecht
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry and Functional MaterialsDepartment of Chemistry
Brook-Taylor-Straße 2
12489 Berlin
sh(at)chemie.hu-berlin.de
www.hechtlab.de
Publications (selection)
C. Jurissek, F. Berger, F. Eisenreich, M. Kathan, S. Hecht, External Reversal of Chirality Transfer in Photoswitches, Angewandte Chemie 2019, 131, 1965; Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2019, 58, 1945.
C.-Y. Huang, A. Bonasera, L. Hristov, Y. Garmshausen, B. M. Schmidt, D. Jacquemin, S. Hecht, N,N'-Disubstituted indigos as readily available red-light photoswitches with tunable thermal half-lives, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139, 15205.
V. Valderrey, A. Bonasera, S. Fredrich, S. Hecht, Light-activated sensitive probes for amine detection, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2017, 56, 1914.
A. Goulet-Hanssens, M. Utecht, D. Mutruc, E. Titov, J. Schwarz, L. Grubert, D. Bléger, P. Saalfrank, S. Hecht, Electrocatalytic Z→E isomerization of azobenzenes, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139, 335.
A. Fuhrmann, R. Göstl, R. Wendt, J. Kötteritzsch, M. D. Hager, U. S. Schubert, K. Brademann-Jock, A. F. Thünemann, U. Nöchel, M. Behl, S. Hecht, Conditional repair by locally switching the thermal healing capability of dynamic covalent polymers with light, Nature Communications 2016, 7, 13623.
M. Kathan, P. Kovaˇrícˇek, C. Jurissek, A. Senf, A. Dallmann, A. F. Thünemann, S. Hecht, Remote-controlling imine exchange kinetics with photoswitches to modulate self-healing in polysiloxane networks by light, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2016, 55, 13882–13886.
S. Fredrich, R. Göstl, M. Herder, L. Grubert, S. Hecht, Switching diarylethenes reliably in both directions with visible light, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2016, 55, 1208.
M. Herder, B. Schmidt, L. Grubert, M. Pätzel, J. Schwarz, S. Hecht, Improving the fatigue resistance of diarylethene switches, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015, 137, 2738.
R. Göstl, S. Hecht, Controlling covalent connection and disconnection by light, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2014, 53, 8784.
D. Bléger, J. Schwarz, A. M. Brouwer, S. Hecht, o-fluoroazobenzenes as readily synthesized photoswitches offering nearly quantitative two-way isomerization with visible light, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2012, 134, 20597.
L. Grill, M. Dyer, L. Lafferentz, M. Persson, M. V. Peters, S. Hecht, Construction of covalently bound molecular nano-architectures, Nature Nanotechnology 2007, 2, 687.
Patents
S. Hecht, M. Peters, R. S. Stoll, Photoschaltbare Katalysatoren, 2006, DE102006057612A1.
