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Overview

Karl Kleinermanns is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Physics and Astronomy. Within these fields, their work focuses on specific subfields including Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Environmental Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Science.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics, with notable emphasis on Origins and Evolution of Life, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Protein Structure and Dynamics, and Chemical Reactions and Isotopes.

Kleinermanns has published frequently in venues such as Frontiers in Microbiology, Goldschmidt2021 abstracts, Nature Ecology & Evolution, FEBS Letters, and FEBS Journal.

Recent papers include:

  • A hydrogen-dependent geochemical analogue of primordial carbon and energy metabolism (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • The ambivalent role of water at the origins of life (2020, FEBS Letters)
  • Energy at Origins: Favorable Thermodynamics of Biosynthetic Reactions in the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) (2021, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • Role of geochemical protoenzymes (geozymes) in primordial metabolism: specific abiotic hydride transfer by metals to the biological redox cofactor NAD + (2021, FEBS Journal)
  • The Autotrophic Core: An Ancient Network of 404 Reactions Converts H2, CO2, and NH3 into Amino Acids, Bases, and Cofactors (2021, Microorganisms)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kleinermanns include William Martin, Martina Preiner, Andrey do Nascimento Vieira, Harun Tüysüz, and Delfina P. Henriques Pereira. These collaborations reflect a multidisciplinary approach intersecting chemistry, biology, and geosciences.

Best Publications

  • Pairing of isolated nucleic-acid bases in the absence of the DNA backbone

    Eyal Nir;Karl Kleinermanns;Mattanjah S. de Vries;Mattanjah S. de Vries

  • HIGH RESOLUTION UV SPECTROSCOPY OF PHENOL AND THE HYDROGEN BONDED PHENOL/WATER CLUSTER

    Giel Berden;W. Leo Meerts;Michael Schmitt;Karl Kleinermanns

  • A nomenclature for Λ‐doublet levels in rotating linear molecules

    M. H. Alexander;P. Andresen;R. Bacis;R. Bersohn

  • A hydrogen-dependent geochemical analogue of primordial carbon and energy metabolism

    Martina Preiner;Kensuke Igarashi;Kamila B. Muchowska;Mingquan Yu

  • Properties of isolated DNA bases, base pairs and nucleosides examined by laser spectroscopy

    E. Nir;Ch. Plützer;K. Kleinermanns;M. de Vries

  • On the Photochemistry of Purine Nucleobases

    Eyal Nir;Karl Kleinermanns;Louis Grace;Mattanjah S. de Vries

  • Excited state dynamics of DNA bases

    Karl Kleinermanns;Dana Nachtigallová;Mattanjah S. de Vries

  • Tautomers and electronic states of jet-cooled adenine investigated by double resonance spectroscopy

    Chr. Plützer;K. Kleinermanns

  • Characterization of laser-ablated and chemically reduced silver colloids in aqueous solution by UV/VIS spectroscopy and STM/SEM microscopy

    R. Brause;H. Möltgen;K. Kleinermanns

  • Guanine tautomerism revealed by UV–UV and IR–UV hole burning spectroscopy

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  • Pairing of the nucleobase guanine studied by IR–UV double-resonance spectroscopy and ab initio calculations

    Eyal Nir;Christoph Janzen;Petra Imhof;Karl Kleinermanns

  • Pairing of the nucleobases guanine and cytosine in the gas phase studied by IR–UV double-resonance spectroscopy and ab initio calculations

    E. Nir;Ch. Janzen;P. Imhof;K. Kleinermanns

  • IR–UV double-resonance spectroscopy of the nucleobase adenine

    Chr. Plützer;E. Nir;M. S. de Vries;K. Kleinermanns

  • Conformers of the peptides glycine-tryptophan, tryptophan-glycine and tryptophan-glycine-glycine as revealed by double resonance laser spectroscopy

    I. Hünig;K. Kleinermanns

  • Photoinduced Dynamics of Guanosine Monophosphate in Water from Broad-Band Transient Absorption Spectroscopy and Quantum-Chemical Calculations

    Venugopal Karunakaran;K. Kleinermanns;R. Improta;S. A. Kovalenko

  • Structure and vibrations of phenol(H2O)2

    M. Gerhards;K. Kleinermanns

  • Pairing of Isolated Nucleobases: Double Resonance Laser Spectroscopy of Adenine–Thymine

    Christian Plützer;Isabel Hünig;Karl Kleinermanns;Eyal Nir

  • Gas-phase FT-IR-spectra of natural amino acids

    Rolf Linder;Michael Nispel;Thomas Häber;Karl Kleinermanns

  • The structure of phenol(H2O) obtained by microwave spectroscopy

    Markus Gerhards;Michael Schmitt;Karl Kleinermanns;Wolfgang Stahl

  • The nucleobase cytosine and the cytosine dimer investigated by double resonance laser spectroscopy and ab initio calculations

    E. Nir;I. Hünig;K. Kleinermanns;M. S. de Vries

  • Phenothiazinyl rhodanylidene merocyanines for dye-sensitized solar cells.

    Tim Meyer;Daniel Ogermann;Andrea Pankrath;Karl Kleinermanns

  • Structure and vibrations of phenol(H2O)7,8 studied by infrared-ultraviolet and ultraviolet-ultraviolet double-resonance spectroscopy and ab initio theory

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Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Wolfrum
Jürgen Wolfrum Heidelberg University
Mattanjah S. de Vries
Mattanjah S. de Vries University of California, Santa Barbara
William Martin
William Martin Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
W. Leo Meerts
W. Leo Meerts Radboud University
Christof Schulz
Christof Schulz University of Duisburg-Essen
Siegfried Hess
Siegfried Hess Technical University of Berlin
Harald Tschesche
Harald Tschesche Bielefeld University
Sergey A. Kovalenko
Sergey A. Kovalenko Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Peter Fischer
Peter Fischer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Martin Kröger
Martin Kröger ETH Zurich

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