Prof. Peter Belser Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry University Fribourg Pérolles 1700 Fribourg Switzerland phone : +41-26-300 87 39 fax : +41-26-300 97 38 E-mail : Peter.Belser@unifr.ch

• 1944 born in Basel
• apprenticeship
• 1970 Dipl. chem. HTL Winterthur
• 1979 Dr. rer. nat. University of Fribourg
• 1992 Associate professor University of Fribourg
• from 1991 lecturer at the University of Bern

Research interests:

International Collaboration

• Prof. Vincenzo Balzani, University of Bologna, Italy
• Prof. Fritz Voegtle, University of Bonn, Germany

Recent Publications:

1997

• Belser, P., Bernhard, S., Jandrasics, E. and Von Zelewsky, A. 'Synthesis and photophysical properties of chiral, binuclear metal complexes.'
  Coord. Chem., 1997, 159, 1.
  
  
• Beyeler, A., Belser, P. and De Cola, L. 'Rhenium Complexes with a Photochemically Variabe Anthracene Subunit : A Molecular Switch.'
  Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 1997, 36, 2779.
  
  

1996

• Muerner, H., Belser, P. and Von Zelewsky, A.
  'New Configurationally Stable Chiral Building Blocks for Polynuclear Coordination Compounds: Ru(Chiragen[X])Cl2.'
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1996, 118, 7989.
  
  
• Bernhard, S. and Belser, P.
  'Preparation of 1,1,3,3-Tetramethylcyclobutane-Bridged Ligands for the Study of Energy- and Electron-Transfer Reactions.'
  Synthetic Communications, 1996, 26, 3559.
  
  
• Frank, M., Nieger, M., Voegtle, F., Belser, P., Von Zelewsky, A., Cola, L. D., Balzani, V., Barigelletti, F. and Flamigni, L.
  'Dinuclear RuII and/or OsII complexes of bis-bipyridine bridging ligands containing adamantane spacers: synthesis, luminescence properties, intercomponent energy and electron transfer processes.'
  Inorg. Chim. Acta, 1996, 242, 281.
  
  
• Breu, J., Belser, P. and Yersin, H.
  'Tris(4,4'-bipyrimidine)ruthenium(II) bis(hexafluorophosphate) acetone solvate.'
  Acta Crystallogr., Sect. C: Cryst. Struct. Commun., 1996, C52, 858.
  
  
• Belser, P., Bernhard, S. and Guerig, U.
  'Synthesis of mono- and dialkylsubstituted 1,10-phenanthrolines.'
  Tetrahedron, 1996, 52, 2937.
  
  
• Bernhard, S. and Belser, P.
  'Synthesis of new rigid, bridging ligands for the study of energy and electron-transfer reactions.'
  Synthesis, 1996, 192.
  
  

1995

• De Cola, L., Balzani, V., Barigelletti, F., Flamigni, L., Belser, P. and Bernhard, S.
  'Photoinduced energy- and electron-transfer processes in dinuclear ruthenium(II) and/or osmium(II) complexes connected by a linear rigid bis-chelating bridge.'
  Recl. Trav. Chim. Pays-Bas, 1995, 114, 534.
  
  
• De Cola, L., Balzani, V., Belser, P., Dux, R. and Baak, M.
  'Electronic energy transfer in supramolecular species. "Self-poisoning" and "self-educating" systems.'
  Supramol. Chem., 1995, 5, 297.
  
  
• Belser, P., Dux, R., Baak, M., De Cola, L. and Balzani, V.
  'Electronic energy transfer in a supramolecular species containing the [Ru(bpy)3]2+, [Os(bpy)3]2+, and anthracene chromophoric units.'
  Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 1995, 34, 595.