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Overview

Oliver Trapp is a researcher affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their work primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with a focus on several specific subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and Molecular Biology.

Their research addresses a variety of scientific topics including:

  • Origins and Evolution of Life
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Molecular spectroscopy and chirality
  • Axial and Atropisomeric Chirality Synthesis
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics

Oliver Trapp has published extensively in notable scientific venues. Among the most frequent publication venues are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chirality
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • ChemSystemsChem
  • Communications Chemistry

Some of the recent papers by Oliver Trapp include:

  • In Situ Mass Spectrometric and Kinetic Investigations of Soai's Asymmetric Autocatalysis, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Mineral-mediated carbohydrate synthesis by mechanical forces in a primordial geochemical setting, 2020, Communications Chemistry
  • Chiral stationary phases and applications in gas chromatography, 2022, Chirality
  • Prebiotic Nucleoside Synthesis: The Selectivity of Simplicity, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Nonlinear Effects in Asymmetric Catalysis by Design: Concept, Synthesis, and Applications, 2022, Accounts of Chemical Research

Oliver Trapp frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, indicating a strong network of research partnerships. These frequent co-authors include:

  • Alexander F. Siegle
  • Andreas N. Baumann
  • Felix Reiners
  • Dorian Didier
  • Anna C. Closs

Best Publications

  • Determination of enantiomerization barriers by dynamic and stopped-flow chromatographic methods.

    Oliver Trapp;Gabriele Schoetz;Volker Schurig

  • Unified equation for access to rate constants of first-order reactions in dynamic and on-column reaction chromatography

    Oliver Trapp

  • Quasi-homogeneous methanol synthesis over highly active copper nanoparticles

    Sascha Vukojević;Oliver Trapp;Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt;Christoph Kiener

  • Imaging the Absolute Configuration of a Chiral Epoxide in the Gas Phase

    Philipp Herwig;Kerstin Zawatzky;Manfred Grieser;Oded Heber

  • Surface Patterning via Thiol-Yne Click Chemistry: An Extremely Fast and Versatile Approach to Superhydrophilic-Superhydrophobic Micropatterns

    Wenqian Feng;Wenqian Feng;Linxian Li;Linxian Li;Erica Ueda;Junsheng Li;Junsheng Li

  • Direct Asymmetric Ruthenium-Catalyzed Reductive Amination of Alkyl–Aryl Ketones with Ammonia and Hydrogen

    Joan Gallardo-Donaire;Marko Hermsen;Jedrzej Wysocki;Martin Ernst

  • High-throughput screening of catalysts by combining reaction and analysis.

    Oliver Trapp;Sven K. Weber;Sabrina Bauch;Werner Hofstadt

  • Direct Synthesis of Primary Amines via Ruthenium-Catalysed Amination of Ketones with Ammonia and Hydrogen

    Joan Gallardo-Donaire;Martin Ernst;Oliver Trapp;Thomas Schaub

  • ChromWin--a computer program for the determination of enantiomerization barriers in dynamic chromatography.

    Oliver Trapp;Volker Schurig

  • Fast and precise access to enantiomerization rate constants in dynamic chromatography

    O. Trapp

  • Gas chromatographic high-throughput screening techniques in catalysis.

    Oliver Trapp

  • Temperature‐Controlled Bidirectional Enantioselectivity in a Dynamic Catalyst for Asymmetric Hydrogenation

    Golo Storch;Oliver Trapp

  • Approximation function for the direct calculation of rate constants and Gibbs activation energies of enantiomerization of racemic mixtures from chromatographic parameters in dynamic chromatography.

    Oliver Trapp;Volker Schurig

  • A novel software tool for high throughput measurements of interconversion barriers: DCXplorer.

    Oliver Trapp

  • Discrimination of organic acids using a three molecule array based upon cruciform fluorophores.

    Evan A. Davey;Anthony J. Zucchero;Oliver Trapp;Uwe H. F. Bunz

  • Reactive superhydrophobic surface and its photoinduced disulfide-ene and thiol-ene (bio)functionalization.

    Junsheng Li;Linxian Li;Linxian Li;Xin Du;Xin Du;Wenqian Feng;Wenqian Feng

  • Boosting the Throughput of Separation Techniques by “Multiplexing”

    Oliver Trapp

  • Stereoisomeric separation of flavanones and flavanone-7-O-glycosides by capillary electrophoresis and determination of interconversion barriers

    Dorothee Wistuba;Oliver Trapp;Nuria Gel-Moreto;Rudolf Galensa

  • Selectivity issues in targeted metabolomics: Separation of phosphorylated carbohydrate isomers by mixed-mode hydrophilic interaction/weak anion exchange chromatography

    Helmut Hinterwirth;Michael Lämmerhofer;Beatrix Preinerstorfer;Andrea Gargano

  • Direct Prebiotic Pathway to DNA Nucleosides

    Jennifer S. Teichert;Jennifer S. Teichert;Florian M. Kruse;Oliver Trapp;Oliver Trapp

  • High-throughput kinetic study of hydrogenation over palladium nanoparticles: combination of reaction and analysis.

    Oliver Trapp;Sven K. Weber;Sabrina Bauch;Tobias Bäcker

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Schurig
Volker Schurig University of Tübingen
Frank Rominger
Frank Rominger Heidelberg University
Pavel A. Levkin
Pavel A. Levkin Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Richard N. Zare
Richard N. Zare Stanford University
Facundo M. Fernández
Facundo M. Fernández Georgia Institute of Technology
Martin Quack
Martin Quack ETH Zurich
Peter Augat
Peter Augat Paracelsus Medical University
Philip J. Marriott
Philip J. Marriott Monash University
Nina Berova
Nina Berova Columbia University
Michael Grunze
Michael Grunze Max Planck Society

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