Personal

• e-mail: gabor.london [at] org.chem.ethz.ch

Education:

• 2001-2006: MSc in Chemistry, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary (Dr. György Szöllősi).
• 2006-2011: PhD in Chemistry, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands (Prof. Ben L. Feringa) .
• 2011-present: Post-doctoral research, ETH-Zurich (Prof. Fran�ois Diederich)

Polycyclic conjugated systems

The use of organic molecules in electronic devices is attractive due to the ability to tune molecular and electronic properties over a broad range through molecular design and chemical synthesis.

The aim of this research is to design and construct polycyclic conjugated systems for electronic and opto-electronic applications.

Publications

1. G. T. Carroll, G. London, T. Fernández Landaluce, P. Rudolf and B. L. Feringa, ACS Nano 2011, 5, 622-630. Adhesion of Photon-driven Molecular Motors to Surfaces via 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions: Effect of Interfacial Interactions on Molecular Motion.
2. F. Bonardi, G. London, N. Nouwen, B. L. Feringa and A. J. M. Driessen, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 122, 7392-7396. Light induced control of protein translocation via the SecYEG complex.
3. T. Fernández Landaluce, G. London, M. M. Pollard, P. Rudolf and B. L. Feringa, J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 5323-5325. Rotary Molecular Motors: A Large Increase in Speed through a Small Change in Design.
4. G. London, G. T. Carroll, T. Fernández Landaluce, M. M. Pollard, P. Rudolf and B. L. Feringa, Chem. Commun. 2009, 1712-1714. Light-driven altitudinal molecular motors on surfaces.
5. G. London, G. Szöllősi and M. Bartók, J. Mol. Catal. A: Chemical 2007, 237, 98-101. Organocatalytic direct aldol reaction between acetone and a-substituted �-keto esters.
6. B. Török, M. Abid, G. London, J. Esquibel, M. Török, S. C. Mhadgut, P. Yan and G. K. S. Prakash, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 3086-3089. Highly Enantioselective Organocatalytic Hydroxyalkylation of Indoles with Ethyl Trifluoropyruvate.
7. G. Szöllősi, G. London, L. Baláspiri, C. Somlai and M. Bartók, Chirality 2003, 15, 90-96. Enantioselective Direct Aldol-Addition of Acetone to Aliphatic Aldehydes.
8. B. Török, G. London and M. Bartók, Synlett 2000, 5, 631-632. Reduction of Carbonyl Compounds to Hydrocarbons by Catalytic Hydrogenation: A Novel One-Pot Method Using Pt/K-10 Montmorillonite Catalyst.