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Andreas Gansäuer

Andreas Gansäuer

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Chemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
9174
World Ranking
10881
National Ranking
784

Overview

Andreas Gansäuer is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany and has a research focus that spans Chemistry and Materials Science. Their work primarily explores subfields including Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Inorganic Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Science.

The scientist's research extensively covers topics such as Radical Photochemical Reactions, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions, Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis, CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts, and Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods.

Frequent publication venues for their work include The Cambridge Structural Database, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Angewandte Chemie, Chemistry - A European Journal, and ChemCatChem.

Selected recent papers represent key contributions to the field:

  • "Titanocenes as Photoredox Catalysts Using Green-Light Irradiation" (2020), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "A Guide to Low-Valent Titanocene Complexes as Tunable Single-Electron Transfer Catalysts for Applications in Organic Chemistry" (2022), ChemCatChem
  • "Titanocene(III)-Catalyzed Precision Deuteration of Epoxides" (2021), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Titanocenes as Photoredox Catalysts Using Green-Light Irradiation" (2020), Angewandte Chemie
  • "Oxidation Under Reductive Conditions: From Benzylic Ethers to Acetals with Perfect Atom-Economy by Titanocene(III) Catalysis" (2020), Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Collaboration plays a significant role in their output. Frequent coauthors include Tobias Hilche, Hendrik Weißbarth, Tim Krebs, Gregor Schnakenburg, and Fabian Lang.

Best Publications

  • Reagent-Controlled Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Radical Reactions

    Andreas Gansäuer;Harald Bluhm

  • Emergence of a Novel Catalytic Radical Reaction: Titanocene-Catalyzed Reductive Opening of Epoxides

    Andreas Gansäuer;Harald Bluhm;Marianna Pierobon

  • Catalytic, Highly Regio‐ and Chemoselective Generation of Radicals from Epoxides: Titanocene Dichloride as an Electron Transfer Catalyst in Transition Metal Catalyzed Radical Reactions

    Andreas Gansäuer;Marianna Pierobon;Harald Bluhm

  • Strained heterocycles in radical chemistry.

    Andreas Gansäuer;Thorsten Lauterbach;Sanjay Narayan

  • Anti-Markovnikov alcohols via epoxide hydrogenation through cooperative catalysis

    Chengbo Yao;Tobias Dahmen;Andreas Gansäuer;Jack Norton

  • Titanocene-Catalyzed Regiodivergent Epoxide Openings

    Andreas Gansäuer;Chun-An Fan;Florian Keller;Jutta Keil

  • Reductive C–C Bond Formation after Epoxide Opening via Electron Transfer

    Andreas Gansäuer;José Justicia;Chun-An Fan;Dennis Worgull

  • A Catalytic Enantioselective Electron Transfer Reaction: Titanocene-Catalyzed Enantioselective Formation of Radicals from meso-Epoxides.

    Andreas Gansäuer;Thorsten Lauterbach;Harald Bluhm;Mathias Noltemeyer

  • Mechanism of titanocene-mediated epoxide opening through homolytic substitution.

    Andreas Gansäuer;Andriy Barchuk;Florian Keller;Martin Schmitt

  • Metal-Catalyzed β-Functionalization of Michael Acceptors through Reductive Radical Addition Reactions.

    Jan Streuff;Andreas Gansäuer

  • Reagent‐Controlled Stereoselectivity in Titanocene‐Catalyzed Epoxide Openings: Reductions and Intermolecular Additions to α,β‐Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds

    Andreas Gansäuer;Harald Bluhm;Björn Rinker;Sanjay Narayan

  • Pinacol coupling of aromatic aldehydes catalysed by a titanocenecomplex: a transition metal catalysed radical reaction

    Andreas Gansäuer

  • Bioinspired terpene synthesis: a radical approach

    José Justicia;Luis Álvarez de Cienfuegos;Araceli G. Campaña;Delia Miguel

  • A radical tandem reaction with homolytic cleavage of a Ti-O bond.

    Andreas Gansäuer;Björn Rinker;Marianna Pierobon;Stefan Grimme

  • Regiodivergent Catalysis: A Powerful Tool for Selective Catalysis

    Nico Funken;Yong-Qiang Zhang;Andreas Gansäuer

  • Catalytic, Atom-Economical Radical Arylation of Epoxides

    Andreas Gansäuer;Maike Behlendorf;Daniel von Laufenberg;André Fleckhaus

  • Catalytic enantioselective radical cyclization via regiodivergent epoxide opening.

    Andreas Gansäuer;Lei Shi;Matthias Otte

  • Sustainable radical reduction through catalytic hydrogen atom transfer.

    Andreas Gansäuer;Chun-An Fan;Frederik Piestert

  • Catalytic Hydrogen Atom Transfer (HAT) for Sustainable and Diastereoselective Radical Reduction

    Andreas Gansäuer;Max Klatte;Gerhard M. Brändle;Joachim Friedrich

  • Catalysis via Homolytic Substitutions with C−O and Ti−O Bonds: Oxidative Additions and Reductive Eliminations in Single Electron Steps

    Andreas Gansäuer;André Fleckhaus;Manuel Alejandre Lafont;Andreas Okkel

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Grimme
Stefan Grimme University of Bonn
Juan M. Cuerva
Juan M. Cuerva University of Granada
Robert A. Flowers
Robert A. Flowers Lehigh University
Christian Mück-Lichtenfeld
Christian Mück-Lichtenfeld University of Münster
Kim Daasbjerg
Kim Daasbjerg Aarhus University
Martin Nieger
Martin Nieger University of Helsinki
Gregor Schnakenburg
Gregor Schnakenburg University of Bonn
Frank Neese
Frank Neese Max Planck Society
Martin Oestreich
Martin Oestreich Technical University of Berlin
Michael Dolg
Michael Dolg University of Cologne

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