
Dr. Friederike Ratsch
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Office38C 132
Research interests
– Polyoxazolidinones as new High-Performance Thermoplastics
– Monomer synthesis, purification and characterization
– Polymer synthesis from renewable resources
– Techniques: NMR, FTIR, DSC, TGA, GPC, GC-MS
– Organic Synthesis and Catalysis
Curriculum vitae and education
February 2022 – present
Postdoctoral Fellow at CAT Catalytic Center at ITMC, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
January 2021 – December 2021
Postdoctoral research at Aalto University, Espoo (FIN)
Topic: Photocatalysis
July 2020 – September 2020
Scientific researcher at University of Cologne
June 2017 – July 2020
Ph.D. Student at the University of Cologne
Topic: Stereo-controlled cleavage of cyclobutanols through Ir-catalyzed C-C bond activation: Mechanistic studies and application in the total synthesis of (R,R,R)-α-tocopherol (supervisor: Prof. H.-G. Schmalz)
October 2014 – April 2017
M. Sc. Chemistry at the University of Cologne
September 2015 – February 2016
ERASMUS semester at the University Paris-Sud
October 2011 – October 2014
B. Sc. Chemistry at the University of Cologne
Selected publications
01) Enantioselective Cleavage of Cyclobutanols through Ir-Catalyzed C-C Bond Activation: Mechanistic and Synthetic Aspects
F. Ratsch, J. P. Strache, W. Schlundt, J.-M. Neudörfl, A. Adler, S. Aziz, B. Goldfuss, H.-G. Schmalz
Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 4640 – 4652
2) Total Synthesis of α‐Tocopherol through Enantioselective Iridium‐Catalyzed Fragmentation of a Spiro‐Cyclobutanol Intermediate
F. Ratsch, W. Schlundt, D. Albat, A. Zimmer, J.-M. Neudörfl, T. Netscher, H.-G. Schmalz
Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 4941 – 4945
3) An Atom-Economic and Stereospecific Access to Trisubstituted Olefins through Enyne Cross Metathesis Followed by 1,4-Hydrogenation
F. Ratsch, H.-G. Schmalz
Synlett 2018, 29, 785 – 792
4) Intermolecular dearomative C2-arylation of N-Ac indoles activated by FeCl3
R. K. Nandi, F. Ratsch, R. Beaud, R. Guillot, C. Kouklovsky, G. Vincent, Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 5328 – 5331
Awards + Scholarships
June 2021 Kurt-Alder-Award 2020 (Dissertation Award) of the University of Cologne
June 2021 CHEM Research Day 2021 Outstanding Poster Award
Aalto University Espoo, Finland
October 2013 to April 2017
Scholarship of the „Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes“
October 2011 to September 2013
NRW Stipendium (scholarship of the state NRW)