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Researcher

Carl Mensch

  • Research Expertise:Computational chemistry tries to provide efficient solutions for scientific challenges that are not solved using only experiments. In my research quantum chemical calculations were exploited to fully understand experimental spectroscopy and therefore further develop applications of biological relevance. Spectroscopic techniques such as IR, VCD, Raman and ROA go hand in hand with computational chemistry. For the development of novel synthetic methodologies for the sustainable production of components for pharmaceuticals or materials, we often encounter unexpected chemical reactions. By studying these newly discovered reactions with computer simulations, we gain fundamental insights. In that way, we understand the chemistry at a molecular level, which we can translate to new experiments and new synthetics pathways and reactions.
  • Keywords:SPECTROSCOPY (VIBRATIONAL ), COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Mathematics
  • Disciplines:Structural biology
  • Research techniques:Computational chemistry including molecular simulations, DFT, applications in organic chemistry and spectroscopy. Infrared spectroscopy and vibrational circular dichroism (VCD), UV and electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectroscopy, Raman and Raman optical activity (ROA) High performance computing
  • Users of research expertise:Researchers with an interest in high performance computing, organic chemistry and molecular spectroscopy.