Award for Research into Exotic Substances – University of Innsbruck
At the Chemistry Days 2022 of the Austrian Chemical Society (GÖCH) in Vienna, which took place from September 19th to 22nd, the presentation of the own research of the Innsbruck doctoral student Leonard Pasqualini was honored with a poster prize.
die chemistry days took place again in person for the first time after being postponed due to the pandemic. From September 19th to 22nd, chemists from all over Austria met in Vienna under the motto “Green Chemistry for a Sustainable Europe” to discuss current research results and topics.
A total of 205 different research projects were presented in the form of posters. The three best posters were awarded a poster prize International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) awarded, one of which goes to the Innsbruck doctoral student Leonard Pasqualini from the Working group of Hubert Huppertz at the Institute for General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry.
As part of his doctoral thesis, Leonard Pasqualini is doing basic research and is exploratively looking for new, as yet unknown compounds. He used extreme conditions, such as smoking sulfuric acid, or in the case of the award-winning results, extreme pressures that prevail several hundred kilometers below the surface of the earth. After synthesis, the structures of these substances are elucidated and their properties are examined in more detail.