Of the new building complex "Chemical Institutes", the section for the Institute of Physical Chemistry was completed in 1974 after a construction period of five years.

After having been located "opposite Stollwerck" for 47 years, the Chemical Institute moved to Luxemburger Strasse. Before the start of summer term 1975, the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and the Institute of Organic Chemistry moved into their respective wings of the building complex on Luxemburger Strasse and Greinstrasse and started using the shared lecture theatre section, which also hosts the chemistry library. The building was designed by architect Prof. Willi Kreuer, Berlin, who received in 1970 the Prize for Architecture of the City of Cologne for the similarly structured Physical Institutes, Zülpicher Strasse.

In 1989 Prof. Dieter Naumann succeeded Prof. Marianne Baudler as chair of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry II. In 1991 Prof. Georg Hohlneicher succeeded Prof. Dieter Hummel as chair of Physical Chemistry II.

In 1996 Prof. Gerd Meyer followed Prof. Schuster, who died in 1994, as chair of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry I. In the same year, Prof. Dietmar Schomburg took over the chair previously held by professor emeritus Lothar Jaennicke and was able to commence his research in the finally completed new institute on the premises of the old Augusta Hospital, Zülpicher Strasse 47.

1997 saw three appointments of C4 professorships: Prof. Reinhard Strey succeeded Prof. Dietrich Woermann as chair of Physical Chemistry I, Prof. Albrecht Berkessel followed Prof. Emmanuel Vogel as chair of Organic Chemistry I and Prof. Reinhard Krämer was appointed professor for the second, newly created C4 professorship at the Institute of Biochemistry.

In 1999 Prof. Hans-Günther Schmalz was appointed the second chair in Organic Chemistry and in 2002 Prof. Klaus Meerholz became holder of the chair in Physical Chemistry II. It was also in 2002 that the newly founded Institute of Theoretical Chemistry was able to commence its research under the direction of Prof. Franz Michael Dolg.

Prof. Axel Griesbeck und Dr. Klaus Glinka 

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