1971 – 1975 Primary school in Bensberg-Moitzfeld 1975 – 1984 Secondary School at Staedtisches Gymnasium Bergisch Gladbach-Herkenrath

Organic Chemistry

Organische Chemie

Water-soluble highly charged metalloporphyrins Novel porphyrin systems for the Photodynamic therapy of tumors Crown ether-appended metalloporphyrins

"Multiwalled carbon nanotubes in donor-acceptor nanohybrids-towards long-lived electron transfer products" D. M. Guldi, G. M. A. Rahman, N. Jux, D. Balbinot, N. Tagmatarchis, M. Prato, Chem. Commun. 2005, 2038-2040.

"Trap formation and energy transfer in the hexapyropheophorbide a – fullerene C60 hexaadduct molecular system" E.A. Ermilov, St. Hackbarth, S. Al-Omari, M. Helmreich, N. Jux, A. Hirsch, B. Röder, Optics Communications 2005, 250, 95-104.

"Fullerene-pyropheophorbide a complexes as sensitizer for photodynamic therapy: Uptake and photo-induced cytotoxicity on Jurkat cells" F. Rancan, M. Helmreich, A. Mölich, N. Jux, A. Hirsch, B. Röder, C. Witt, F. Böhm, J. Photochem. Photobiol. B: Biology 2005, 80, 1-8.

"Dissipation of Electronic Excitation Energy within a C60 [6:0]-Hexaadduct Carry-ing 12 Pyropheophorbide a Moieties" M. Helmreich, E. A. Ermilov, M. Meyer, N. Jux, A. Hirsch, B. Röder, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 8376-8385.

"Functional SWNT Nanohybrids – Associating SWNTs with Water Soluble Enzyme Model Systems" D. M. Guldi, G. M. A. Rahman, N. Jux, D. Balbinot, U. Hartnagel, N. Tagmatarchis, M. Prato, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 9830-9838.

"Kinetic and mechanistic studies on the reaction of nitric oxide with a water-soluble octa-anionic FeIII-porphyrin complex" J.-E. Jee, S. Eigler, F. Hampel, N. Jux, M. Wolak, A. Zahl, G. Stochel, R. van Eldik, Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 7717-7731.

"Carbon nanotube nanocomposites: quasi 1-dimensional structures for electron transfer" D. M. Guldi, G. M. A. Rahman, N. Jux, D. Balbinot, U. Hartnagel, N. Tagmatarchis, M. Prato, Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering 2005, 5929, 1-11.

"A comparative mechanistic study of the reversible binding of NO to a water-soluble octa-cationic FeIII porphyrin complex" J.-E. Jee, M. Wolak, D. Balbinot, N. Jux, A. Zahl, R. van Eldik, Inorg. Chem. 2006, 45, 1326-1337.

"Electrophoresis of electrostatically assembled fullerene–porphyrin conjugates" U. Hartnagel, D. Balbinot, N. Jux, A.Hirsch, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2006, 4, 1785-1795.

"The formation and energy transfer in pheophorbide a-DAB-dendrimers and pyropheophorbide a – fullerene C60 hexaadduct molecular systems" B. Röder, E. A. Ermilov, S. Hackbarth, M. Helmreich, N. Jux, Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering 2006, 6192.

"Interactions in SWNT/pyrene/porphyrin nanohybrids" C. Ehli, G. M. A. Rahman, N. Jux, D. Balbinot, D. M. Guldi, F. Paolucci, M. Maraccio, D. Paolucci, M. Melle-Franco, F. Zerbetto, S. Campielli, M. Prato, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 11222-11231.

"Supramolecular Assemblies of Different Carbon Nanotubes for Photoconversion Processes" V. Sgobba, G. M. A. Rahman, D. M. Guldi, N. Jux, S. Campidelli, M. Prato, Adv. Mater. 2006, 18, 2264-2269.

"Novel Synthetic Cyclo-Keto-Tetraphenylporphyrins" S. Jasinski, E. A. Ermilov, N. Jux, B. Röder, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2007, 1075-1084.

"Iron(III) Complex of a Crown Ether-Porphyrin Conjugate and the Reversible Binding of Superoxide" K. Dürr, B. P. Macpherson, R. Warratz, F. Hampel, F. Tuczek, N. Jux, I. Ivanović-Burmazovića, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 4217-4228.

"Influence of an extremely negatively charged porphyrin on the reversible binding kinetics of NO to Fe(III) and the subsequent reductive nitrosylation" J.-E. Jee, S. Eigler, N. Jux, A. Zahl, R. van Eldik, Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 3336-3352.

"Interaction of Co(II)-tetraarylporphyrins with a Ag(111) surface studied with photoelectron spectroscopy" T. Lukasczyk, K. Flechtner, L. R. Merte, N. Jux, F. Maier, J. M. Gottfried, H.-P. Steinrück, J. Phys. Chem. C., 2007, 111, 3090-3098.

"Photoinduced Energy and Electron Transfer Processes in Hexa-pyropheo-phorbide a- fullerene [C60] molecular systems" M. Regehly, E. A. Ermilov, M. Helmreich, A. Hirsch, N. Jux, B. Röder, J. Phys. Chem. B., 2007, 111, 998-1006.

"Synthesis and in vitro testing of a pyropheophorbide-a-fullerene-hexakisadduct immunoconjugate for photodynamic therapy" F. Rancan, M. Helmreich, A. Mölich, E. A. Ermilov, N. Jux, B. Röder, A. Hirsch, F. Böhm, Bioconjugate Chem.; accepted.

"Intracellular uptake and phototoxicity of pyropheophorbide-a fullerene hexaadducts " F. Rancan, M. Helmreich, A. Mölich, N. Jux, A. Hirsch, B. Röder, F. Böhm, Photchemistry and Photobiology, 2007 ; accepted.

"Principle and Mechanism of Direct Porphyrin Metalation: A Joint Experimental and Theoretical Investigation " T. E. Shubina, H. Marbach, K. Flechtner, A. Kretschmann, N. Jux, F. Buchner, H.-P. Steinrück, T. Clark, J. M. Gottfried , J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, accepted.