Selected Publications covering the following research topics:
1. Photoswitchable Rotaxanes
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Pseudorotaxanes and Rotaxanes containing Cycloheptatrienyl Stations: Synthesis and Co-conformation
L. Grubert, D. Jacobi, K. Buck, W. Abraham, C. Mügge, E. Krause: Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2001, 3921-3932
A Photoswitchable Rotaxane with a Folded Molecular Thread
Werner Abraham, Lutz Grubert, Ulrich W. Grummt, Karin Buck: Chem. Eur. J. 2004, 10, 3562-3568.
Pseudorotaxanes and Rotaxanes Incorporating Diarylcycloheptatriene Stations
W. Abraham, L. Grubert, S. Schmidt-Schäffer, K. Buck: Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2005, 374-386
A photoswitchable rotaxane with an unfolded molecular thread
Sebastian Schmidt-Schäffer, Lutz Grubert, Ulrich W. Grummt, Karin Buck, and Werner Abraham:
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 378-398
Novel Photoswitchable Rotaxanes
W. Abraham, K. Buck, M. Orda-Zgadzaj, S. Schmidt-Schäffer, U. Grummt: Chem. Commun. 2007, 3094-3096
Photoswitchable Rotaxanes Using the Photolysis of Alkoxyacridanes
W. Abraham, A. Wlosnewski, K. Buck, S. Jacob: Org. Biomol. Chem. 2009, 142-154.
Controlling Ring Translation of Rotaxanes
A. Vetter, W. Abraham:Org. Biomol. Chem. 2010, 4166-4681
Photoswitchable rotaxanes on gold nanoparticles
Yingxin Duo, Sabine Jacob and Werner Abraham: Org. Biomol. Chem. 2011, 3549-3559,
2. Photoswitches
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Review: W. Abraham, Stabilized Carbocations Generated by Photoheterolysis in CRC Handbook of Photochemistry and Photobiology, 3th ed. (eds. A. Griesbeck, M Oelgemöller, F. Ghetti), CRC Press 2012, p 419-445.
The photogeneration of aryl tropylium ions: a potential photoswitch for supramolecular assemblies based on donor-acceptor-interaction
U. Pischel, W. Abraham, W. Schnabel, U. Müller: J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun. 1997, 1383
Molecular photoswitches based on spiro-acridans.
A. Raskosova, R. Stößer and W.Abraham: Chem. Commun. 2013, 3964- 966.
3. Calixarene Hosts
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Reviews: W. Abraham, Inclusion of Organic Cations by Calix[n]arenes
J. Incl. Phenom. 43 (2002) 159-74
W. Abraham, L. Grubert, Organic Cations in Constrained Systems
in: Molecular Encapsulation: Organic Reactions in Constrained Systems (ed. U. Brinker, J.-L. Mieusset), pp. 327-360, Wiley 2010
Inclusion of Organic Cations by Calix[4]arenes bearing 1,3,5-Cycloheptatrienyl Substituents
M. Orda-Zgadzaj, V. Wendel, M. Fehlinger, B. Ziemer, and W. Abraham: Eur. J. Org. Chem, 2001, 1549-1561
Calix[4]arenes Bearing a Tropylium Substituent as Hosts for Organic Cations
M. Fehlinger, W. Abraham: J. Incl. Phenom. Macrocycl. Chem., 2007, 58, 263-274
Photoswitchable calix[4]arenes bearing dihydroacridine substituents at the upper rim
Lutz Grubert, Werner Abraham: Tetrahedron, 2007, 63, 10778-10787.
Photo, proton and metal ion responsive wide-rim acridane substituted calx[4]arenes
L. Grubert, H. Hennig, W. Abraham: Tetrahedron 2009, 65, 5936-5944.
Photo switchable ionophores based on 1,3 alternate calix[4]arenes bearing acridane units at the wide rim and bridged at the narrow rim by glycol chains
L. Grubert, H. Hennig, U.-W. Grummt, W. Abraham: Tetrahedron 2009, 65, 8402-8406.
4. Photochemistry of Arylcycloheptatrienes
Review: W. Abraham, V. Kharlanov: Photochemistry of Cycloheptatrienes and their related Tropylium Ions
in Handbook of Photochemistry and Photobiology (Ed. H. S. Nalwa) p. 299, Am. Sci. Publ. 2003
Photochromie an substituierten Cycloheptatrienen - Photovalenztautomerie
W. Abraham; K. Buck, D. Kreysig: Tetrahedron Letters 1978, 4109
Photochemie substituierter Cycloheptatriene VI.Diarylsubstituierte Cycloheptatriene
W. Abraham; W. Paulick, D. Kreysig: Tetrahedron 35 (1979) 2269
Photochemie substituierter Cycloheptatriene; X.The Interpretation of the Electronic Spectra of
Arylsubstituted Cycloheptatrienes and the Relation to the Photochemical Reactivity
W. Paulick, W. Abraham, Ch. Jung, D. Kreysig: J. Mol. Photochem. 9 (1979) 443
Sigmatrope Wasserstoffverschiebung an Arylcycloheptatrienen
W. Abraham, K. Buck, Ch. Csongár, E. Henke, D. Kreysig: J. prakt. Chem. 321 (1979) 117
Photochemie substituierter Cycloheptatriene; VII. Zum Photogleichgewicht der sigmatropen
Wasserstoffwanderung in Diarylcycloheptatrienen
W. Abraham; W. Paulick, D. Kreysig: J. prakt. Chem. 322 (1980) 499
Photochemie substituierter Cycloheptatriene; IX. Zum photoreaktiven Zustand der sigmatropen
Wasserstoffverschiebung.
W. Abraham; Ch. Csongár, D. Kreysig: J. prakt. Chem. 323 (1981) 420
Photochemie substituierter Cycloheptatriene; XI. Cyclisierung und Cycloreversion
W. Abraham; W. Paulick, D. Kreysig: J. prakt. Chem. 323 (1981) 427
Photochemie substituierter Cycloheptatriene; XIII. The Dependence of Quantum Yields for
Sigmatropic Hydrogen Shifts on the Excitation Energy
W. Abraham; H. Otto, D. Kreysig: J. Photochem. 16 (1981) 261
Photochemie substituierter Cycloheptatriene; XIV. Wasserstoffverschiebung in
1-(p-Dimethylaminophenyl)-7-cyano-cycloheptatrien.
W. Abraham; K. Buck, D. Kreysig: Z. Chem. 21 (1981) 290
Photochemistry of Arylsubstituted Cycloheptatrienes IXX. Oxidation of Aryl-Substituted Cycloheptatrienes by Electrochemical and Photoinduced Electron Transfer
D. Jacobi, W. Abraham, U. Pischel, L. Grubert, W. Schnabel: J. .Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2, 1999, 1695
Photochemistry of Arylsubstituted Cycloheptatrienes XX. Generation of Tropylium Ions from the Corresponding Bitropyls by Electrochemical and Photoinduced Electron Transfer
D. Jacobi, W. Abraham, U. Pischel, L. Grubert, W. Schnabel: J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2, 1999, 1241
Reduction of Aryltropylium Ions by Thermal Hydride Transfer and Photoinduced Electron Transfer
D. Jacobi, W. Abraham, U. Pischel, R. Stößer, W. Schnabel: J. Photochem Photobiol. A: Chemistry, 128 (1999) 75
5. Aryltropylium Ions
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Fluoreszenzlöschung von Aryltropyliumionen.
W. Abraham; B. Dreher, K. Buck, D. Kreysig: J. prakt. Chem. 324 (1982) 925
Bildung von Aryltropyliumkationen aus Arylcycloheptatrienen durch die Photolyse
von Tetrabrommethan
W. Abraham; B. Dreher, R. Stößer, B. Pritze, D. Kreysig: J. Inf. Rec. Mater. 6 (1985) 401
EPR-Untersuchungen zur Photolyse halogenierter organischer Verbindungen
I. Reine Phasen halogenierter Verbindungen (CBr4, CHBr3, CCl4, CHCl3)
W. Abraham; R. Stößer, B. Pritze, B. Dreher, D. Kreysig: J. prakt. Chem. 327 (1985) 310
Deactivation Behaviour of Photoexcited Aryltropylium Ions IV. Influence of Ion Pair Formation
W. Abraham; B. Dreher, D. Kreysig, N. A. Sadovskij, M. G. Kuzmin: J. prakt. Chem. 329 (1987) 569
EPR-Untersuchungen zur Photolyse halogenierter organischer Verbindungen. II. CHBr3 und CBr4 in glasartiger und polykristalliner Matrix
W. Abraham; R. Stößer, B. Pritze, B. Dreher, D. Kreysig: J. prakt. Chem. 329 (1987) 317
Reduction of Aryltropylium Ions by Thermal Hydride Transfer and Photoinduced Electron Transfer
D. Jacobi, W. Abraham, U. Pischel, R. Stößer, W. Schnabel: J. Photochem Photobiol. A: Chemistry, 128 (1999) 75
Photophysics of Arylsubstituted Tropylium Ions
V. A. Kharlanov, W. Abraham, W. Rettig: J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chemistry, 143 (2001) 109
6. Photochemistry of Acylazides - Acylnitrenes
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Reviews: W. Abraham, Generation and Use of Aroylnitrenes
Trends in Photochemistry & Photobiology 4 (1997) 13
W. Abraham, Photogenerated nitrene addition to p-bonds, in Molecular and Supramolecular Photochemistry, in Synthetic Organic Photochemistry, eds. A. Griesbeck and J. Mattay, Volume 12, Marcel Dekker, Inc. 2005, pp. 391-416.
The Deactivation Behaviour of Photoexcited
2,6-Diphenyl-4-(p-dimethylaminophenyl)-benzoylimino-pyridinium Ylide
W. Abraham; A. Henrion, D. Kreysig: J. Photochem. 35 (1986) 311
Photochemie von Acylaziden I. Photo- und Thermochemie von 5-Azidocarbonyldibenz[b,f]azepin aund seines Dimeren
W. Abraham; K. Dreher, K. Buck, D. Kreysig: J. prakt. Chem. 330 (1988) 217
Photochemie von Acylaziden II. Wellenlängenabhängige Photochemie von 1-Azidocarbonyl-1.2-diazepinen
W. Abraham; E. Rehak, D. Kreysig: Z. Chem. 28 (1988) 18
Photochemie von Acylaziden III. Direkte und sensibilisierte Photolyse von p-Trimethylsilylbenzoylazid in fluider Phase und in polymeren Schichten
W. Abraham; St. Siegert, D. Kreysig: J. prakt. Chem. 331 (1989) 177
Photochemistry of Acyl Azides V. Sensitization of Decomposition of p-Trimethylsilylbenzoyl Azide
W. Abraham; St. Siegert, K. Buck, Ch. Csongár, W. Helmstreit, U.-W. Grummt: J. prakt. Chem. 333 (1991) 73
Photochemistry of Acyl Azides VI. Radical Induced Decomposition of p-Trimethylsilylbenzoyl Azide
W. Abraham; St. Siegert, G. Kluger, Ch. Csongar, U. Prösch: J. Photochem. Photobiol. A. Chem. 54 (1992) 289
Photochemistry of Acyl Azides, VII. Aroyl Azide Decomposition by Photoinduced Electron Transfer
W. Abraham; M. Buchallik, Q. Q. Zhu, W. Schnabel: J. Photochem. Photobiol. A Chem. 71 (1993) 119
Photochemistry of Acyl Azides, VIII. Reagieren Acylnitrene wie 1,3-Dipole?
W. Abraham; K. Buck, Y. Plögert: J. prakt. Chem 336 (1994) 678
Addition of Photochemically Generated Acylnitrens to C60. Synthesis of Fulleroaziridines and
Thermal Rearrangemant to Fullerooxazoles
W. Abraham; J. Averdung, J. Mattay, D. Jacobi: Tetrahedron 51 (1995) 2543
Synthesis of 1,2-(2,3-Dihydro-1H-azirino)-[c60NH), the Parent Fulleroaziridine
W. Abraham; J. Averdung, H. Luftmann, J. Mattay, K.-U. Clauß: Tetrahedron Letters 36 (1995) 2957
The Photochemistry of Acyl Azides IX. Direct and Sensitized Photolytic Generation of Acylnitrenes for Cycloaddition Reactions
W. Abraham; K.-U. Clauß, K. Buck: Tetrahedron 51 (1995) 7181
Exohedral Functionalization of Fullerenes by [2+3] and [2+1]Cycloaddition Reactions: Addition of 2H-Azirines, Arylazides and Acylnitrenes
J. Averdung, E. Albrecht, H. Luftmann, I. Schlachter, J. Mattay, K.-U. Clauß, D. Jacobi, W. Abraham: in Fullerenes, R. S. Ruoff and K. M. Kadisk (Eds.), The Electrochemical. Soc. Pennington, N.J., 1995 1164
The Photochemistry of Acyl Azides. X. Aroylnitrenes for Heterocycle Synthesis
Y. Röske, W. Abraham: Synthesis, 2001, 1125-1132
7. Photolithography
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Die photochemische Spaltung des Cyclobutanringes dimerer Dibenz[b,f]azepine als photolithographisches Wirkprinzip
W. Abraham; K. Dreher, D. Kreysig: Z. Chem. 28 (1988) 65
Trends in der Entwicklung, Anwendung und Verarbeitung organischer Photoresiste II. Trocken entwickelbare Photoresiste
W. Abraham; D. Kreysig, St. Siegert, L. Eggert: J. Inf. Rec. Mater. 16 (1988) 467
Desilylation by Ether Cleavage
W. Abraham; A. Glänzel, R. Stößer, U.-W. Grummt, H. Köppel: J. Photochem., Photobiol. A 51 (1990) 359
Thermisches Verhalten von 2-Diazo-1,2-dihydronaphthalen-1-onen
W. Abraham; M. Feist, Ch. Csongár, M. Schirmer: J. prakt. Chem. 332 (1990) 113
Submicrometer Photolithography by Surface Imaging – Experiment and Simulation
L. Bauch, U. Jagdhold, J. Bauer, B. Dietrich, W. Hoppner, H. Erzgraber, H. Dreger, G. Heller, K. Richter, E. Roll, G. Mehliß, W. Abraham: Microelectr. Eng. 13 (1991) 89
Siliciumhaltige Photokopierlacke für die Mikroelektronik
W. Abraham, Ch. Csongár, W. Mehliß, G. Menz, C. Luck, St. Siegert, K. Buck, E. Renger,
R. Kunze, M. Wäsche: J. Inf. Rec. Mater. 20 (1992) 169