Our Research
The Mayer lab is a new junior group starting at TUM in January 2024. Our research is conducted at the interface of physical organic and computational chemistry. By obtaining deep mechanistic insights into the investigated chemistries through the synergy of experimental and computational tools, we aim to uncover general principles that contribute to our understanding of the chemical origin of life, biochemistry, and catalytic organic transformations.
News
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Getting ready for fast measurements!
With a double-mixing stopped-flow spectrometer, another dedicated instrument made it onto the lab’s bench. This instrument will allow to follow fast reactions from the millisecond to second time region. Read more
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Andrew joins the lab
Visiting from the Boekhoven lab, the Andrew+ pipetting robot started occupying the bench of the Mayer lab this week. Andrew will set up many of the lab’s experiments and will be used to prepare large-scale… Read more
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Start at TUM in January 2024
Thanks to the generous funding from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, we will start our endeavors into physical organic chemistry and the emergence of life at Technische Universität München in January 2024. The Mayer lab… Read more
Recent Publications
Pyridinium-Derived Mesoionic N-Heterocyclic Olefins (py-mNHOs)
Q. Sun, A. Eitzinger, R. Esken, P. W. Antoni, R. J. Mayer,* A. R. Ofial,* M. M. Hansmann,* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed 2024, e202318283
Metal Ions Turn on a Stereoselective Nonenzymatic Reduction of Keto Acids by the Coenzyme NADH
R. J. Mayer,* J. Moran,* ChemRxiv 2023
Mayer lab at Technische Universität München 