Bioinorganic Photochemistry and Catalysis
Dr. Knör

• Group Research Interests
• Contact Person
• Main Topics
• Further Topics
• Recent Publications

Group Research Interests

The research interests of Dr. Knör's group focus very strongly on porphyrins and phthalocyanines. More than 50% of his papers cover photochemical aspects of metalloporphyrin chemistry (see list below). He is a member of the "Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines".

Contact Person

• PD Dr. Günther Knör
  Universitat Regensburg
  Institut für Anorganische Chemie
  93040 Regensburg
  Germany (European Union)

• Tel: +49 941/943-4484
  Fax: +49 941/943-4488
  
  
• E-mail: Guenther.Knoer@Chemie.Uni-Regensburg.de
  Internet: http://www.chemie.uni-regensburg.de/Anorganische_Chemie/Knoer/index_eng.html

Main Topics

• Photochemistry
• Photocatalysis

Further Topics

• Metalloporphyrins, Catalysis
• Electronic Spectra, Luminescence
• Materials, Photophysics, Photonics, Sensors
• Bioinorganic Chemistry, Enzymes, Heme
• Artificial photosynthesis

Some Recent Papers

• Günther Knör
  Intramolecular charge transfer excitation of meso-tetrakis (1-pyrenyl) porphyrinato gold(III) acetate. Photosensitized oxidation of guanine
  Inorganic Chemistry Communications 2001, 4, p160-163 (pdf)
  
  
• Günther Knör
  Spontaneous nucleophilic addition of hydroxide ions to the meso-position of high-valent antimony-oxo porphyrin complexes
  Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 2001, 84, p297-299 (pdf)
  
  
• Günther Knör
  Reductive fluorescence quenching of the photoexcited dihydroxy antimony(V) tetraphenylporphine cation in acetonitrile solution
  Chemical Physics Letters 2000, 330, p383-388 (pdf)
  
  
• Günther Knör
  Evidence for the Photochemical Formation of a High-Valent 2A2u Antimony Porphyrin p-Radical Cation
  Inorganic Chemistry Communications 2000, 3, p505-507
  
  
• Günther Knör
  Photocatalytic Reactions of Porphyrin-Based Multielectron Transfer Photosensitizers (Review)
  Coord. Chem. Rev. 1998, 171, p61-70
  
  
• Günther Knör
  Synthesis and Solution Spectral Properties of Antimony (III) Phthalocyanine and Dihydroxo Antimony (V) Phthalocyanine Complexes
  Inorganic Chemistry 1996, 35, p7916-7918
  
  
• G. Knör, A. Vogler, S. Roffia, F. Paolucci, V. Balzani
  Switchable Photoreduction Pathways of Antimony(V) Tetraphenylporphyrin. A Potential Multielectron Transfer Photosensitizer
  Chemical Communications 1996, p1643-1644
  
  
• Günther Knör
  Selective Axial Bond Cleavage of a High-Valent Metalloid Porphyrin Following Charge Transfer Excitation
  J. Inf. Recording 1996, 23, p89-91
  
  
• G. Knör, A. Vogler
  Photochemistry and Photophysics of Antimony(III) Hyper Porphyrins. Activation of Dioxygen Induced by a Reactive sp Excited State
  Inorganic Chemistry 1994, 33, p314-318