Curriculum vitae:

Born 1963 in Wilster, Germany

Education: Education: Study of Chemistry, TU Berlin, Berlin (1983 – 1989), Doctoral Thesis TU Berlin, Berlin (1989 – 1992).

Positions: Institut für Organische Chemie, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, scientific researcher (1989-1993), Institut für Chemie, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, senior scientific researcher (from 1993), Department of Organic Structure Analysis, IOCB, Prague, senior scientific researcher (since 2006).

Experiences abroad: Prof. P. B. Armentrout, Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, U.S.A. (1995 and 1999, one month), Maitre de Conference, Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay, France (1999, one month), Synchrotron measurements at LURE, Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay, France (2000 – 2004), Infrared laser measurements at CLIO, Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay, France (2005).

Research Interests: All facets of gas-phase ion chemistry, ranging from fundamental questions related with collision phenomena in atomic or diatomic systems via the investigation of reaction mechanisms in organic and organometallic ions as well as the generation of elusive neutral species in the gas phase to transition-metal catalysis and model systems for complex real catalysts with either technological relevance or biochemical importance. Of particular interest are all variants of oxidation reactions, being them either those which involve main-group elements only or systems in which transition-metal mediated oxidation is crucial.

Another major field of my research concerns the physics and in particular the chemistry of multiply charged ions, being these either di- or trications or multiply charged anions. The key interest in this direction of research is to unravel reactions in which multiply charged ions can serve as building block for the formation of new chemical bonds in processes which so far are impossible with either neutral or singly charged species. A central role in this respect plays the solvens-stabilization of multiply charged ions, and thereby this aspect forms an important part of the research.

Other interests concern redox energetics in low- and high-energy collisions, inner-sphere electron transfer processes in ion/molecule complexes, reaction kinetics and the associated isotope effects. Insight achieved in recent years also led to the development of algebraic schemes for the elaborate treatment of rather complex reaction kinetics and the underlying mechanistic models. Last but not at all at least is a continuous interest in fundamental questions of organic ion chemistry, and some hitherto unresolved puzzles could be resolved in recent years.

All these questions are tackled by means of all possible methods of contemporary gas-phase ion chemistry, ranging from classical tandem mass-spectrometry over photoionization methods as well as infrared spectroscopy of gaseous ions to hyphenations with more recent techniques such as electrospray ionization.

Awards: „Jugend forscht“-Preis (1979), Klaus-Koch-Award of the TU Berlin (1988), Schering-Preis (1992), Mattauch-Herzog-Preis (1997)

Teaching: Organic Chemistry I, Organic Chemistry II, Reaction mechanisms, Modern methods for structure elucidation, Laboratory courses in Organic Chemistry (all: Institut für Chemie, TU Berlin, Berlin)

Memberships: Gesellschaft deutscher Chemiker, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Massen-spektrometrie, Sonderforschungsbereich 546 (vice speaker)

 

Recent publications and selected reviews:

M. Fitzgerald, A. M. McAnoy, J. H. Bowie, D. Schröder, H. Schwarz: Neutral cumulene oxide CCCCO is accessible by one-electron oxidation of [CCCCO]-• in the gas phase Org. Biomol. Chem. 2005, 3, 901.

J. Roithová, D. Schröder, J. Loos, H. Schwarz, H.-C. Jankowiak, R. Berger, R. Thissen, O. Dutuit 'Revision of the second ionization energy of toluene' J. Chem. Phys. 2005, 122, 094306.

D. Schröder, H. Schwarz, S. Polarz , M. Driess Consecutive fragmentations of the cubane-like zinc cluster [CH3Zn(O-i-C3H7)]4 upon electron ionization Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2005, 7, 1049-1053.

D. Schröder, C. van Wüllen, H. Schwarz, T. M. Klapötke Stability of gaseous thallium fluoride TlF0, TlF+, and TlF2+ Angew. Chem. 2005, 117, 4326; Angew. Chem. It. Ed. 2005, 44, 4254.

J. Roithová, D. Schröder, H. Schwarz Generation of the elusive meta-benzoquinone in the gas phase Angew. Chem. 2005, 117, 3152; Angew. Chem. It. Ed. 2005, 44, 3092.

J. Roithová, D. Schröder, H. Schwarz Decomposition of Neutral, singly, and Doubly Protonated Benzoquinone in the Gas Phase Chem. Eur. J. 2005, 11, 627 (Erratum: Chem. Eur. J. 2005, 11, 3795).

C. Trage, D. Schröder, H. Schwarz Coordination of iron(III) cations to b-keto esters as studied by electrospray mass spectrometry: Implications for iron-catalyzed Michael additions Chem. Eur. J. 2005, 11, 618.

D. Schröder, J. Loos, H. Schwarz, R. Thissen und O. Dutuit Protonated Benzene: A Case for Structural Memory Effects? J. Phys. Chem. A 2004, 108, 9931.

D. Schröder, M. C. Holthausen, H. Schwarz Radical-like activation of alkanes by the ligated copper-oxide cation (phen)CuO+ J. Phys. Chem. B 2004, 108, 14407.

D. Schröder Coulomb explosions and more of multiply charged ions Angew. Chem. 2004, 116, 1351; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 1329.

D. Schröder, H. Schwarz, S. Schenk, E. Anders A gas-phase reaction as a functional model for the activation of carbon dioxide by carbonic anhydrase Angew. Chem. 2003, 115, 5241; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 5087.

K. Koszinowski, D. Schröder, H. Schwarz Probing cooperative effects in bimetallic clusters: C-N coupling of methane and ammonia mediate by the cluster ion PtAu+ in the gas phase J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 3676.

D. Schröder und H. Schwarz Diastereoselective effects in gas-phase ion chemistry Top. Curr. Chem. 2003, 225, 133.

D. Schröder, R. Brown, P. Schwerdtfeger, X.-B. Wang, X. Yang, L.-S. Wang, H. Schwarz Gold dichloride and gold dibromide in three different oxidation states Angew. Chem. 2003, 115, 323, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 311.

M. Reiher und D. Schröder The route from Cp*2P6 to neutral hexaphosphorus in the gas phase Chem. Eur. J. 2002, 8, 5501.

M. Brönstrup, D. Schröder, I. Kretzschmar, H. Schwarz und J. N. Harvey Platinum dioxide cation: Easy to generate experimentally but difficult to describe theoretically J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 142.

D. Schröder News from Oxgen Angew. Chem. 2002, 114, 593; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2002, 41, 573.

C. A. Schalley, G. Hornung, D. Schröder, H. Schwarz Neutralisation-Reionisation Mass Spectrometry: An Ionic Approach to Neutrals' Reactivity Chem. Soc. Rev. 1998, 27, 91.

D. Schröder und H. Schwarz Generation, Stability, and Reactivity of Small, Multiply Charged Ions in the Gas Phase J. Phys. Chem. A 1999, 103, 7385.

D. Schröder, S. Shaik , H. Schwarz 'Two-state reactivity as a new concept in organometallic chemistry' Acc. Chem. Res. 2000, 33, 139.

D. Schröder, H. Schwarz: C-H and C-C Bond Activation by Ionic Transition-Metal Oxides in the Gas Phase Angew. Chem. 1995, 107, 2126; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1995, 34, 1973.