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Kurt Schaffner

Kurt Schaffner

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Chemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
9915
World Ranking
11769
National Ranking
865

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1989 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Kurt Schaffner is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany, a prominent research organization. They have been recognized as a member of Academia Europaea since 1989, marking a notable point in their academic career.

Though specific recent papers, frequent co-authors, and publication venues are not listed for Kurt Schaffner, their professional footprint is associated primarily with the Max Planck Society, an institution known for its focus on fundamental scientific research.

Details about Kurt Schaffner's main fields of study, subfields, and key research topics are not explicitly documented here. Similarly, there is no available information on book publications or frequent academic collaborators.

Given the affiliation and acknowledgment by Academia Europaea, it can be inferred that Kurt Schaffner's work aligns with scientific research at an advanced level, contributing to the broader academic community within their discipline.

Best Publications

  • Synthetic Zinc and Magnesium Chlorin Aggregates as Models for Supramolecular Antenna Complexes in Chlorosomes of Green Photosynthetic Bacteria

    Hitoshi Tamiaki;Masaaki Amakawa;Yoshiyuki Shimono;Rikuhei Tanikaga

  • On the structure of bacteriochlorophyll molecular aggregates in the chlorosomes of green bacteria. A molecular modelling study

    Alfred R. Holzwarth;Kurt Schaffner

  • Protonation state and structural changes of the tetrapyrrole chromophore during the Pr --> Pfr phototransformation of phytochrome: a resonance Raman spectroscopic study.

    Christa Kneip;Peter Hildebrandt;Willi Schlamann;Silvia E. Braslavsky

  • A refined model of the chlorosomal antennae of the green bacterium Chlorobium tepidum from proton chemical shift constraints obtained with high-field 2-D and 3-D MAS NMR dipolar correlation spectroscopy.

    B.-J. van Rossum,‡,§;D. B. Steensgaard;F. M. Mulder;G. J. Boender

  • CP-MAS 13C-NMR Dipolar Correlation Spectroscopy of 13C-Enriched Chlorosomes and Isolated Bacteriochlorophyll c Aggregates of Chlorobium tepidum: The Self-Organization of Pigments Is the Main Structural Feature of Chlorosomes

    T. S. Balaban;A. R. Holzwarth;K. Schaffner;G.-J. Boender

  • Self‐Assembly of an Artificial Light‐Harvesting Antenna: Energy Transfer from a Zinc Chlorin to a Bacteriochlorin in a Supramolecular Aggregate

    Hitoshi Tamiaki;Tomohiro Miyatake;Rikukei Tanikaga;Alfred R. Holzwarth

  • THE PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF PORPHYCENES: POTENTIAL PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY AGENTS*

    Pedro F. Aramendia;Robert W. Redmond;Santiago Nonell;Wolfang Schuster

  • Structural Investigation of the Ground and Excited States of ClRe(CO)3(4,4'-bipyridyl)2 using Vibrational Spectroscopy

    Daniel R. Gamelin;Michael W. George;Paul Glyn;Friedrich-Wilhelm Grevels

  • Tricyclo[3.3.0.02,8]octan‐3‐ones: Photochemically Prepared Building Blocks for Enantiospecific Total Syntheses of Cyclopentanoid Natural Products

    Martin Demuth;Kurt Schaffner

  • Chlorosomes, photosynthetic antennae with novel self-organized pigment structures

    Alfred R. Holzwarth;Kai Griebenow;Kurt Schaffner

  • Fourier-transform resonance Raman spectroscopy of intermediates of the phytochrome photocycle.

    Joerg Matysik;Peter Hildebrandt;Willi Schlamann;Silvia E. Braslavsky

  • Solution Conformations, Photophysics, and Photochemistry of Bile Pigments; Bilirubin and Biliverdin, Dimethyl Esters and Related Linear Tetrapyrroles

    Silvia E. Braslavsky;Alfred R. Holzwarth;Kurt Schaffner

  • Resonance Raman-Spectroscopic Study of Metallochlorin Aggregates - Implications for the Supramolecular Structure in Chlorosomal Bchl-C Antennae of Green Bacteria

    Peter Hildebrandt;Hitoshi Tamiaki;Alfred R. Holzwarth;Kurt Schaffner

  • Models for the Pigment Organization in the Chlorosomes of Photosynthetic Bacteria: Diastereoselective Control of in-vitro Bacteriochlorophyll cs Aggregation

    John Chiefari;Kai Griebenow;Nils Griebenow;T. Silviu Balaban

  • Octaethylhemiporphycene: Synthesis, Molecular Structure and Photophysics†‡

    Emanuel Vogel;Martin Bröring;Steven J. Weghorn;Peter Scholz

  • Autocatalyzed Self-Aggregation of (31R)-[Et,Et]Bacteriochlorophyll cF Molecules in Nonpolar Solvents. Analysis of the Kinetics

    Teodor Silviu Balaban;Johannes Leitich;and Alfred R. Holzwarth;Kurt Schaffner

  • Self-Assembly of Synthetic Zinc Chlorins in Aqueous Microheterogeneous Media to an Artificial Supramolecular Light-Harvesting Device

    Tomohiro Miyatake;Hitoshi Tamiaki;Alfred R. Holzwarth;Kurt Schaffner

  • Artificial Light-Harvesting Antennae: Singlet Excitation Energy Transfer from Zinc Chlorin Aggregate to Bacteriochlorin in Homogeneous Hexane Solution

    Tomohiro Miyatake;Hitoshi Tamiaki;Alfred R. Holzwarth;Kurt Schaffner

  • Energy Transfer in Supramolecular Artificial Antennae Units of Synthetic Zinc Chlorins and Co-aggregated Energy Traps. A Time-Resolved Fluorescence Study†,‡

    V. I. Prokhorenko;A. R. Holzwarth;M. G. MüLLER;K. Schaffner

  • Polylysine-porphycene conjugates as efficient photosensitizers for the inactivation of microbial pathogens.

    Laura Polo;Anna Segalla;Giulio Bertoloni;Giulio Jori

  • Modern Synthetic Methods 1986: Conference Papers of the International Seminar on Modern Synthetic Methods 1986, Interlaken, April 17th/18th 1986

    Kenneth S. Suslick;Kurt Schaffner;Martin Demuth;G. Helmchen

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvia E. Braslavsky
Silvia E. Braslavsky Max Planck Society
Alfred R. Holzwarth
Alfred R. Holzwarth Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Wolfgang Gärtner
Wolfgang Gärtner Leipzig University
Peter Hildebrandt
Peter Hildebrandt Technical University of Berlin
Hitoshi Tamiaki
Hitoshi Tamiaki Ritsumeikan University
Emanuel Vogel
Emanuel Vogel University of Cologne
Kai Griebenow
Kai Griebenow University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
David R. Kearns
David R. Kearns University of California, Riverside
Johann Lex
Johann Lex University of Cologne
Giulio Jori
Giulio Jori University of Padua

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