The Braunschweig Group
Research in the Braunschweig group covers a wide range of organometallic and main group element chemistry. Motivation for our work arises from the fundamental interest in novel molecular species, and much emphasis lies with the elucidation of their detailed electronic structure and reactivity patterns, thus disclosing potential applications in organic synthesis, catalysis, or materials science. Commonly, sophisticated synthetic protocols, as well as state-of-the-art analytical and computational methods are applied to meet these goals. Significant achievements over the past decades were made in various independent, highly topical and competitive sub-areas of (i) organometallic chemistry such as metal boron complexes (borane, boryl, borylene, boride, oxoboryl), metallo-arenophanes, or metal-only Lewis pairs, and (ii) main group element chemistry such as novel boron heterocycles (boroles, azaborinines, etc.) and boron boron multiple bonded species (diborenes, diborynes).
Selected Recent Publications
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M.-A. Légaré, M. Rang, G. Bélanger-Chabot, J. I. Schweizer, I. Krummenacher, R. Bertermann, M. Arrowsmith, M. C. Holthausen, H. Braunschweig The reductive coupling of dinitrogen Science 2019, 363, 1329–1332. [pdf]
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A. Deißenberger, E. Welz, R. Drescher, I. Krummenacher, R. D. Dewhurst, B. Engels, H. Braunschweig A New Class of Neutral Boron-Based Diradicals Spanned by a Two-Carbon-Atom Bridge Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 1842–1846. [pdf]
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M. Arrowsmith, J. I. Schweizer, M. Heinz, M. Härterich, I. Krummenacher, M. C. Holthausen, H. Braunschweig Synthesis and Reduction Chemistry of Mixed-Lewis-Base-Stabilized Chloroborylenes Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 5095–5103. [pdf]
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J. H. Müssig, M. Thaler, R. D. Dewhurst, V. Paprocki, J. Seufert, J. D. Mattock, A. Vargas, H. Braunschweig Phosphine-Stabilized Diiododiborenes: Isolable Diborenes with Six Labile Bonds Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 4405–4409. [pdf]
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Y.-M. Tian, X.-N. Guo, M. Kuntze-Fechner, I. Krummenacher, H. Braunschweig, U. Radius, A. Steffen, T. B. Marder
Selective Photocatalytic C-F Borylation of Polyfluoroarenes by Rh/Ni Dual Catalysis Providing Valuable Fluorinated Arylboronate Esters |
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