New flavins and their application to chemical photocatalysis [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Harald Schmaderer

New Flavins and Their Application to Chemical Photocatalysis Dissertation Zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Naturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat.) an der Fakultät für Chemie und Pharmazie der Universität Regensburg vorgelegt von Harald Schmaderer aus Cham Regensburg – 2009 The experimental work was carried out between November 2005 and February 2009 at the University of Regensburg, Institute of Organic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Burkhard König. The PhD–thesis was submitted on: 23. February 2009 Date of the colloquium: 20. March 2009 Board of Examiners: Prof. Dr. Rainer Winter (Chairman) Prof. Dr. Burkhard König (1st Referee) Prof. Dr. Hans-Achim Wagenknecht (2nd Referee) Prof. Dr. Alfons Penzkofer (Examiner) A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions. Frederick Seitz Acknowledgement I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Burkhard König for the opportunity to work in his group, for a fascinating and open topic, for always being optimistic and giving me the freedom to develop my work, and for always saying “yes” when I asked for “some minutes”. The DFG Graduate College GRK 640 and the DFG Priority Programme SPP 1118 supported my work financially.