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PD Dr. Tamis Darbre
Contact
PD Dr. Tamis Darbre
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Berne
Freiestrasse 3
CH-3012 Berne
Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 631 43 70
FAX: +41 31 631 44 99
E-Mail: tamis.darbre@dcb.unibe.ch
Secretary
Sandra Zbinden
E-Mail: sandra.zbinden@dcb.unibe.ch
Phone: +41 31 631 43 11
FAX: +41 31 631 80 57
Current Research Interests
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Chemical models for enzymatic reactions with peptide dendrimers and amino acid-metal complexes
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Catalysis in water
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Asymmetric catalysis
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Mechanism of B12 dependent enzymes
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Prebiotic chemistry
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Born in Brazil
Ph.D. thesis at Rice University, Houston, TX, USA under the direction of Prof. E. Wenkert, 1982.
Postdoctoral work in the ETH-Zürich with Prof. D. Arigoni from 1982 - 1983 and 1985 - 1986.
After five years with my two children, recipient of a Marie Heim-Vögtlin stipend from the SNF for the project "Models for the B12-catalyzed Methylmalonyl-succinyl rearrangement” in the group of
Prof. R. Keese at the University of Bern in 1992.
Habilitation in 2004 (University of Bern), "Chemical Models of Metalloenzymes"
Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry