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  • 2014 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Andreas A. Danopoulos is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research spans the fields of chemistry and materials science, with a particular focus on organic chemistry, materials chemistry, and inorganic chemistry. Their work also covers process chemistry and technology as well as the study of electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Pierre Braunstein
  • Sofie M. P. Vanden Broeck
  • Nikolaos V. Tzouras
  • Kristof Van Hecke
  • Büşra Dereli

Publications by Andreas A. Danopoulos have appeared in several journals, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemical Reviews
  • Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • ChemPhysChem

Recent research papers authored or co-authored by the scientist include:

  • "Transition Metal Chain Complexes Supported by Soft Donor Assembling Ligands" (2021, Chemical Reviews)
  • "N-heterocyclic carbenes as bridgehead donors in metal pincer complexes" (2024, Coordination Chemistry Reviews)
  • "'Pincer' Pyridine-Dicarbene-Iridium and -Ruthenium Complexes and Derivatives Thereof" (2020, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry)
  • "N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: A Benchmark Study on their Singlet-Triplet Energy Gap as a Critical Molecular Descriptor" (2025, ChemPhysChem)
  • "Gold complexes with remote-substituted amino N-heterocyclic carbenes" (2023, Dalton Transactions)

Andreas A. Danopoulos was recognized as a member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Metal complexes with ‘pincer’-type ligands incorporating N-heterocyclic carbene functionalities

    David Pugh;Andreas A. Danopoulos

  • N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Copper, Nickel, and Cobalt

    Andreas A Danopoulos;Andreas A Danopoulos;Thomas Simler;Pierre Braunstein

  • Iron-phosphine, -phosphite, -arsine, and -carbene catalysts for the coupling of primary and secondary alkyl halides with aryl Grignard reagents.

    Robin B. Bedford;Michael Betham;Duncan W. Bruce;Andreas A. Danopoulos

  • N-Functionalised heterocyclic carbene complexes of silver

    Arran A. D. Tulloch;Andreas A. Danopoulos;Scott Winston;Sven Kleinhenz

  • Structural Diversity in Pyridine-N-Functionalized Carbene Copper(I) Complexes

    Arran A. D. Tulloch;Andreas A. Danopoulos;Sven Kleinhenz;Mark E. Light

  • N-Heterocyclic Pincer Dicarbene Complexes of Iron(II): C-2 and C-5 Metalated Carbenes on the Same Metal Center

    Andreas A. Danopoulos;Nikolaos Tsoureas;Joseph A. Wright;Mark E. Light

  • Chiral 2,6-lutidinyl-biscarbene complexes of palladium

    Arran A. D. Tulloch;Andreas A. Danopoulos;Graham J. Tizzard;Simon J. Coles

  • Stable N-functionalised ‘pincer’ bis carbene ligands and their ruthenium complexes; synthesis and catalytic studies

    Andreas A. Danopoulos;Scott Winston;William B. Motherwell

  • Cationic Nickel(II) Complexes of Chelating N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

    Richard E. Douthwaite;Daniel Haüssinger;and Malcolm L. H. Green;Peter J. Silcock

  • Chelating and 'pincer' dicarbene complexes of palladium; synthesis and structural studies

    Andreas A. Danopoulos;Arran A. D. Tulloch;Scott Winston;Graham Eastham

  • (Diphenylphosphino)alkyl-functionalized nucleophilic carbene complexes of palladium

    Nikolaos Tsoureas;Andreas A. Danopoulos;and Arran A. D. Tulloch;Mark E. Light

  • Equilibria in the B(C6F5)3–H2O system: synthesis and crystal structures of H2O·B(C6F5)3 and the anions [HOB(C6F5)3]– and [(F5C6)3B(µ-OH)B(C6F5)3]–

    Andreas A. Danopoulos;Jane R. Galsworthy;Malcolm L. H. Green;Linda H. Doerrer

  • N-heterocyclic 'pincer' dicarbene complexes of cobalt(I), cobalt(II), and cobalt(III)

    Andreas A. Danopoulos;Joseph A. Wright;William B. Motherwell;Simon Ellwood

  • Molecular N2 complexes of iron stabilised by N-heterocyclic ‘pincer’ dicarbene ligands

    Andreas A. Danopoulos;Joseph A. Wright;William B. Motherwell

  • Migratory insertion in N-heterocyclic carbene complexes of palladium; an experimental and DFT study

    Andreas A. Danopoulos;Nikolaos Tsoureas;Jennifer C. Green;Michael B. Hursthouse

  • Pyridine functionalised N-heterocyclic carbene complexes of palladium

    Arran A. D. Tulloch;Andreas A. Danopoulos;Robert P. Tooze;Sean M. Cafferkey

  • ‘Pincer’ dicarbene complexes of some early transition metals and uranium

    David Pugh;Joseph A. Wright;Sandra Freeman;Andreas A. Danopoulos

  • “Pincer” Pyridine-Dicarbene-Iridium Complexes: Facile C-H Activation and Unexpected η2-Imidazol-2-ylidene Coordination

    Andreas A. Danopoulos;David Pugh;Joseph A. Wright

  • Structural and reactivity studies of "pincer" pyridine dicarbene complexes of Fe0: experimental and computational comparison of the phosphine and NHC donors

    Andreas A Danopoulos;David Pugh;Hayley Smith;Jörg Sassmannshausen

  • C–H activation with N-heterocyclic carbene complexes of iridium and rhodium

    Andreas A. Danopoulos;Scott Winston;Michael B. Hursthouse

  • Phosphine- and Pyridine-Functionalized N-Heterocyclic Carbene Methyl and Allyl Complexes of Palladium. Unexpected Regiospecificity of the Protonation Reaction of the Dimethyl Complexes

    Andreas A. Danopoulos;Nikolaos Tsoureas;Stuart A. Macgregor;Christopher Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Braunstein
Pierre Braunstein University of Strasbourg
Michael B. Hursthouse
Michael B. Hursthouse University of Southampton
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Geoffrey Wilkinson Imperial College London
Paul Kögerler
Paul Kögerler RWTH Aachen University
William B. Motherwell
William B. Motherwell University College London
Mark E. Light
Mark E. Light University of Southampton
Duncan W. Bruce
Duncan W. Bruce University of York
Malcolm L. H. Green
Malcolm L. H. Green University of Oxford
Robin B. Bedford
Robin B. Bedford University of Bristol
Luisa De Cola
Luisa De Cola University of Strasbourg

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