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Overview

Dominik Horinek is affiliated with the University of Regensburg in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of chemistry and biochemistry. Their body of work includes studies that span multiple disciplines such as organic chemistry, molecular biology, materials chemistry, spectroscopy, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist has published numerous research papers, with recent contributions including:

  • Hofmeister versus Neuberg: is ATP really a biological hydrotrope? (2021, Cell Reports Physical Science)
  • Extended Hydrogen Bond Networks for Effective Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer (PCET) Reactions: The Unexpected Role of Thiophenol and Its Acidic Channel in Photocatalytic Hydroamidations (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Enzyme-like polyene cyclizations catalyzed by dynamic, self-assembled, supramolecular fluoro alcohol-amine clusters (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Solvation of Nanoions in Aqueous Solutions (2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Hydrogen-Bond-Modulated Nucleofugality of SeIII Species to Enable Photoredox-Catalytic Semipinacol Manifolds (2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)

Their research prominently features topics such as molecular spectroscopy and chirality, protein structure and dynamics, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, surfactants and colloidal systems, radical photochemical reactions, and asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis.

Frequent collaborators include Ruth M. Gschwind and Philipp Dullinger, each with nine joint publications, followed by Patrick Nuernberger and Johannes Gramüller with five coauthored works each, and Werner Kunz with four.

Dominik Horinek's work is published frequently in several well-regarded venues such as:

  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (6 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (3 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie (3 publications)
  • Journal of Molecular Liquids (3 publications)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Artificial Molecular Rotors

    Gregg S. Kottas;Laura I. Clarke;Dominik Horinek;Josef Michl

  • Interfacial water at hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces: slip, viscosity, and diffusion.

    Christian Sendner;Dominik Horinek;Lyderic Bocquet;Roland R. Netz

  • Water slippage versus contact angle: a quasiuniversal relationship.

    David M. Huang;Christian Sendner;Dominik Horinek;Roland R. Netz

  • Reversed anionic Hofmeister series: the interplay of surface charge and surface polarity.

    Nadine Schwierz;Dominik Horinek;Roland R. Netz

  • Rational design of ion force fields based on thermodynamic solvation properties.

    Dominik Horinek;Shavkat I. Mamatkulov;Roland R. Netz

  • Anionic and cationic Hofmeister effects on hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces.

    Nadine Schwierz;Nadine Schwierz;Dominik Horinek;Roland R. Netz

  • Specific ion adsorption at the air/water interface: The role of hydrophobic solvation

    Dominik Horinek;Alexander Herz;Lubos Vrbka;Felix Sedlmeier

  • How to explain microemulsions formed by solvent mixtures without conventional surfactants.

    Thomas N. Zemb;Michael Klossek;Tobias Lopian;Julien Marcus

  • Arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides induce membrane multilamellarity and subsequently enter via formation of a fusion pore.

    Christoph Allolio;Aniket Magarkar;Aniket Magarkar;Piotr Jurkiewicz;Katarína Baxová

  • Dipolar and Nonpolar Altitudinal Molecular Rotors Mounted on an Au(111) Surface

    Xiaolai Zheng;Mary E. Mulcahy;Dominik Horinek;Francesco Galeotti

  • Specific Ion Adsorption at Hydrophobic Solid Surfaces

    Dominik Horinek;Roland R. Netz

  • Peptide adsorption on a hydrophobic surface results from an interplay of solvation, surface, and intrapeptide forces.

    Dominik Horinek;A. Serr;Markus Geisler;Tobias Pirzer

  • Reversed Hofmeister series—The rule rather than the exception

    Nadine Schwierz;Dominik Horinek;Uri Sivan;Roland R. Netz

  • Interaction of carboranes with biomolecules: formation of dihydrogen bonds.

    Jindřich Fanfrlík;Martin Lepšík;Dominik Horinek;Zdeněk Havlas

  • Emergence of surfactant-free micelles from ternary solutions

    S. Schöttl;J. Marcus;O. Diat;D. Touraud

  • Insight into the Molecular Mechanisms of Protein Stabilizing Osmolytes from Global Force-Field Variations

    Emanuel Schneck;Dominik Horinek;Dominik Horinek;Roland R. Netz;Roland R. Netz

  • Unified description of urea denaturation: backbone and side chains contribute equally in the transfer model.

    Beate Moeser;Dominik Horinek

  • On the Origin of the Hydrophobic Water Gap: An X-ray Reflectivity and MD Simulation Study

    Markus Mezger;Felix Sedlmeier;Dominik Horinek;Harald Reichert

  • Molecular dynamics simulation of an electric field driven dipolar molecular rotor attached to a quartz glass surface.

    Dominik Horinek;Josef Michl

  • Spatial Correlations of Density and Structural Fluctuations in Liquid Water: A Comparative Simulation Study

    Felix Sedlmeier;Dominik Horinek;Dominik Horinek;Roland R. Netz

  • Progress in modeling of ion effects at the vapor/water interface.

    Roland R. Netz;Dominik Horinek

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland R. Netz
Roland R. Netz Freie Universität Berlin
Lydéric Bocquet
Lydéric Bocquet École Normale Supérieure
Werner Kunz
Werner Kunz University of Regensburg
Josef Michl
Josef Michl University of Colorado Boulder
Hans Robert Kalbitzer
Hans Robert Kalbitzer University of Regensburg
Richard Buchner
Richard Buchner University of Regensburg
Didier Touraud
Didier Touraud University of Regensburg
Oliver Reiser
Oliver Reiser University of Regensburg
Pavel Jungwirth
Pavel Jungwirth Czech Academy of Sciences
Dominik Marx
Dominik Marx Ruhr University Bochum

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