Researcher Info

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Katharina Bica

University Assistant
Vienna University of Technology
Stereoselective and Sustainable Chemistry
Getreidemarkt 9/163
1060 Vienna
Austria
WG 3: Application of ILs
http://www.ias.tuwien.ac.at/staff/3291109/

Research Expertise

  • Green and Sustainable Chemistry with a special focus on ionic liquids
  • Catalysis in ionic liquids (transition metal catalysis, micellar catalysis & catalysis in microemulsions)
  • Synthesis in and of ionic liquids
  • Chiral ionic liquids and their application in asymmetric synthesis/separation sciences

Equipment you can share

  • Equipment for modern synthetic chemistry including microwave reactors, continous flow systems and scale-up facilities
  • Chromatographic facilities (4 GC, 2 GC-MS, 3 HPLC with PDA-UV, RI, ELSD or Fluorescence detection, 1 HPLC-MS, 1 UPLC)
  • Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (including a HPLC-NMR-MS coupling)

Placements Offered

  • 2 open PhD positions (3 years, starting earliest 01-10-13) in the project "Micellar catalysis with surface active ionic liquids"