Institut für Anorganische Chemie | Universität Würzburg | D-97074 Würzburg
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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S. Hagspiel, M. Arrowsmith, F. Fantuzzi, A. Vargas, A. Rempel, A. Hermann, T. Brückner, H. Braunschweig Highly Colored Boron-Doped Thiazolothiazoles from the Reductive Dimerization of Boron Isothiocyanates Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 6446–6450. [pdf]
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J. He, F. Rauch, A. Friedrich, J. Krebs, I. Krummenacher, R. Bertermann,J. Nitsch, H. Braunschweig, M. Finze, T. B. Marder Phenylpyridyl-fused Boroles: A Unique Coordination Mode and Weak B–N Coordination Induced Dual Fluorescence Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 4833–4840. [pdf]
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M. Rang, F. Fantuzzi, M. Arrowsmith, E. Beck, R. Witte, A. Matler, A. Rempel, T. Bischof, K. Radacki, B. Engels, H. Braunschweig Reduction and Rearrangement of a Boron(I) Carbonyl Complex Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 2963–2968. [pdf]
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R. Rausch, M. Roehr, D. Schmid, I. Krummenacher, H. Braunschweig, F. Würthner Tuning phenoxyl-substituted diketopyrrolopyrroles from quinoidal to biradical ground states through (hetero-)aromatic linkers Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 793–802. [pdf]
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G. K. Kole, J. Merz, A. Amar, B. Fontaine, A. Boucekkine, J. Nitsch, S. Lorenzen, A. Friedrich, I. Krummenacher, M. Košćak, H. Braunschweig, I. Piantanida, J.-F. Halet, K. Müller-Buschbaum, T. B. Marder
2- and 2,7-Substituted para-N-Methylpyridinium Pyrenes: Syntheses, Molecular and Electronic Structures,
Photophysical, Electrochemical, and Spectroelectrochemical Properties and Binding to Double Stranded (ds)-DNA
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