Dr. Dominik Halter
Liebig Fellow (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie)
Electrocatalytic Transfer Hydrogenation with Water for Energy Storage and Electro-Organic Synthesis
Academic Career and Research Areas
Dr. Halter studied chemistry at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, where he obtained his PhD in 2017 with Prof. Karsten Meyer, developing molecular f-element electrocatalysts for H2 production. After a short postdoctoral stint with Prof. F. Geoffrey N. Cloke (University of Sussex, UK), Dr. Halter joined the lab of Prof. Jeffrey R. Long (UC Berkeley, USA) in 2018 as a Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), to study metal-organic framework materials (MOFs) for H2 storage and heterogeneous catalysis. In 2021 Dr. Halter started his independent research group focused on H2-free direct electrocatalytic hydrogenation of organic substrates at the TU Munich as a Liebig Fellow (FCI).
Dr. Dominik Halter (b. 1988) is an inorganic chemist with interest in the design of molecular organometallic and material-based electrocatalysts for electro-organic synthesis and energy storage. His research targets the development and in depth understanding of new strategies for electrocatalytic hydrogenation of organic compounds and biological feedstocks, to produce liquid chemical energy carriers and value-added products.
Awards
- Liebig Fellowship by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (2021)
- Reaxys PhD Prize Finalist (2019)
- Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2018)
- Researcher Mobility Grant by the Royal Society of Chemistry (2018)
- Deutschlandstipendium (2012)
Key Publications (all publications)
Halter, D.P.; Klein, A.R.; Boreen, M.A.; Trump, B.A; Brown C.M.; Long, J.R.:
"Self-Adjusting Binding Pockets Enhance H2 and CH4 Adsorption in a Uranium-Based Metal–Organic Framework". Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 6709-6716.
AbstractHalter, D.P.; Heinemann, F.W.; Maron, L.; Meyer, K.:
"The Role of Uranium–Arene Bonding in H2O Reduction Catalysis" Nat. Chem. 2018, 10, 259-267.
AbstractHalter, D.P.; Palumbo, C.T.; Ziller, J.W.; Gembicky, M.; Rheingold, A.L.; Evans, W.J.; Meyer, K.:
"Electrocatalytic H2O Reduction with f-Elements: Mechanistic Insight and Overpotential Tuning in a Series of Lanthanide Complexes". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 2587-2594.
AbstractKurogi, T.; Miehlich, M.E.; Halter, D.P.; Mindiola, D.J.:
"1,2-CH Bond Activation of Pyridine Across a Transient Titanium Alkylidene Radical and Reformation of the Ti=CHtBu Moiety". Organometallics 2018, 37, 165-167.
AbstractHalter, D.P.; Heinemann, F.W.; Bachmann, J.; Meyer, K.:
"Uranium-Mediated Electrocatalytic Dihydrogen Production from Water". Nature 2016, 530, 317-321.
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