Additionally, I would like to thank the institutes workshops for always helping out with any issues that came up. Here, I would like to especially thank Reinhard Hildebrandt and Mike Zippert of the mechanical workshop. The former helped to design a custom heat-exchanger and the latter helped with the acquisition of new pressure regulators. Furthermore, I would also like to thank Rainer Oswald for helping out when problems arose with the Chemie-Cluster and making quantum-chemistry programs available as modules. Thanks also go to Stefan Grimme who allowed for the use of the xTB and CREST programs on the Chemie-Cluster which have been developed by his group. Special thanks also goes to Laura N. Schiebel, for whom I had the pleasure to supervise her bachelor thesis. She also continued researching open questions of her bachelor project as a research assistant (Junior Bencher), funded by the DFG as part of the RTG. I would also like to thank her for proof-reading large parts of this work.Furthermore, I would like to thank the entire Suhm group for the great atmosphere, be it during conferences, table football games, group trips or game nights. I am also grateful I to Robert Medel for proof-reading the monomer chapter and providing computational data for tri-tert-butyl-methanol. Further thanks go to Maxim Gawrilow, Arman Nejad, Sophie Schweer and Taija Fischer for help and advise regarding experimental and nonexperimental work. Additionally, I would like to thank the entire Schnell Group for the warm welcome during my research stay in Hamburg.Last but not least, I would like to thank my family and friends for their support.