Selected Articles

Here, we present selected publications, articles and books, published by scientists of the MPI Magdeburg.

2020

Cover Feature: Light-Driven ATP Regeneration in Diblock/Grafted Hybrid Vesicles (ChemBioChem 15/2020)

A light-driven ATP regeneration module has been created through bottom-up assembly of small building blocks such as proteins, lipids and polymers. The use of polymer hybrid compartments instead of conventional liposomes significantly increased the long-term stability of the module. This could play an important role especially when using the module as an energy supply to drive cell-like functions within artificially created reaction compartments like protocells. More information can be found in the full paper by Tanja Vidaković-Koch et al.

Speeding up Viedma Deracemization through Water‐catalyzed and Reactant Self‐catalyzed Racemization

The Cover Feature in ChemPhysChem, Volume 21, Issue 16, August 18, 2020, summarizes the results of a joint computational and experimental study demonstrating that faster racemization through water‐catalyzed enolization could result in faster deracemization of a scalemic slurry of a chiral hydrazine derivative.

This paper has been published with the project partners at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg as part of the CORE ITN Project by the European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program.

Preparative Chromatography

The third edition of this popular work is revised to include the latest developments in this fast-changing field. Its interdisciplinary approach elegantly combines the chemistry and engineering to explore the fundamentals and optimization processes involved.

Summary

The book starts with a short history of chromatography and outlines future developments. The focus is preparative chromatography i.e. to isolate and purify products in high quality and yield by optimal and cost‐effective processes. It is the aim to provide and develop access to chromatographic purification concepts through the eyes of both engineers and chemists. This includes the fundamentals of natural science and design of materials and functionalities as well as mathematical modeling, simulation and process design supplemented by process operation and plant design.

"This special volume is essential for chemists and engineers working in chemical and pharmaceutical industries, as well as for food technologies, due to the interdisciplinary nature of these preparative chromatographic processes." Advances in Food Sciences

Purification of Curcumin from Ternary Extract-Similar Mixtures of Curcuminoids in a Single Crystallization Step

Highlight on the Front Cover of Crystals 2020, 10(3), 206; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst10030206