Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry

Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry

Welcome to the Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry (IOBC)

Our homepage provides you with all the information you need about our experimental and international research programmes in the fields of Organic Synthetic Chemistry, Catalytic Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry and Biomolecular Chemistry.

For all study and research interested, the Institute offers interesting, current research topics from these areas and excellent teaching courses at our Institute, working with the Faculty of Chemistry, who offers Bachelor and Master Chemistry and Biochemistry study courses, as well as doctoral study programmes.

Have a look at the research and course offers at our institute.


Honour for scientific research at the Woehler Research Institute for Sustainable Chemistry (WISCh) at our institute (08.07.2022):

The IOBC warmly congratulates Prof. Dr. Lutz Ackermann on the award of the

SCF French-German "Georg Wittig - Victor Grignard" Prize 2022.

The prize of the Société Chimique de France will be presented at the 2023 SCF conference (SCF23) in Nantes. Prof. Ackermann is awarded for his research in the field of catalytic activation of unreactive C–H bonds using transition metal complexes as well as for his intensive cooperation with French colleagues in this field of research. [more]