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Armin Börner is affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with focused subfields including Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Process Chemistry and Technology, and Analytical Chemistry.

The scientist's body of work encompasses several main topics related to catalysis and chemical synthesis. Key areas of investigation include:

  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses

Armin Börner has published extensively in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Catalysis from A to Z
  • Catalysis Science & Technology
  • Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems
  • ChemTexts

The following recent papers illustrate the scope of their research contributions:

  • Hydroformylation, 2021, ChemTexts
  • Rh-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydroaminomethylation of α-Substituted Acrylamides: Application in the Synthesis of RWAY, 2020, Organic Letters
  • Interplay between Catalyst Complexes and Dormant States: In Situ Spectroscopic Investigations on a Catalyst System for Alkene Hydroformylation, 2023, ACS Catalysis
  • (In situ) spectroscopic studies on state-of-the-art Pd(ii) catalysts in solution for the alkoxycarbonylation of alkenes, 2022, Catalysis Science & Technology
  • New P-chirogenic tert.-butyl-xantphos ligands and their application in asymmetric hydrogenation and alkylation, 2020, Tetrahedron

Key collaborators frequently working with Armin Börner include:

  • Christoph Kubis
  • Anke Spannenberg
  • Robert Franke
  • Mathias Sawall
  • Klaus Neymeyr

Best Publications

  • Applied hydroformylation.

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  • Fluorinated Alcohols as Solvents, Cosolvents and Additives in Homogeneous Catalysis

    Ivan A. Shuklov;Natalia V. Dubrovina;Armin Börner

  • Propylene Carbonate as a Solvent for Asymmetric Hydrogenations

    Jerome Bayardon;Jens Holz;Benjamin Schäffner;Vasyl Andrushko

  • Practical Imidazole‐Based Phosphine Ligands for Selective Palladium‐Catalyzed Hydroxylation of Aryl Halides

    Thomas Schulz;Christian Torborg;Benjamin Schäffner;Jun Huang

  • Isomerization–Hydroformylation Tandem Reactions

    Marcelo Vilches-Herrera;Lutz Domke;Armin Börner

  • Approaching Highly Enantioselective Reductive Amination

    Vitali I. Tararov;Armin Börner

  • Enantioselective Catalysis with Chiral Phosphine Oxide Preligands

    Natalia V. Dubrovina;Armin Börner

  • A General Palladium-Catalyzed Amination of Aryl Halides with Ammonia

    Thomas Schulz;Christian Torborg;Stephan Enthaler;Benjamin Schäffner

  • The Synthesis of Chiral Phosphorus Ligands for use in Homogeneous Metal Catalysis

    Susan Lühr;Jens Holz;Armin Börner

  • BORANE COMPLEXES OF TRIVALENT ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS. VERSATILE PRECURSORS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF CHIRAL PHOSPHINE LIGANDS FOR ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS

    M. Ohff;J. Holz;M. Quirmbach;A. Börner

  • The first highly enantioselective homogeneously catalyzed asymmetric reductive amination: Synthesis of α-N-benzylamino acids

    Renat Kadyrov;Thomas H. Riermeier;Uwe Dingerdissen;Vitali Tararov

  • Production of alcohols via hydroformylation

    Galina Morales Torres;Robin Frauenlob;Robert Franke;Robert Franke;Armin Börner

  • Improved palladium-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling reactions of aryl chlorides.

    Christian Torborg;Jun Huang;Thomas Schulz;Benjamin Schäffner

  • Iridium phosphite-oxazoline catalysts for the highly enantioselective hydrogenation of terminal alkenes.

    Javier Mazuela;J. Johan Verendel;Mercedes Coll;Benjamín Schäffner

  • Synthesis of a New Chiral Bisphospholane Ligand for the Rh(I)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Isomeric β-Acylamido Acrylates

    Jens Holz;Axel Monsees;Haijun Jiao;Jinsong You

  • Organic Carbonates as Alternative Solvents for Palladium‐Catalyzed Substitution Reactions

    Benjamin Schäffner;Jens Holz;Sergey P. Verevkin;Armin Börner

  • Hydroformylation in the Realm of Scents

    Elena V. Gusevskaya;Jhonny Jiménez-Pinto;Armin Börner

  • On the reductive amination of aldehydes and ketones catalyzed by homogeneous Rh(I) complexes

    Vitali I. Tararov;Renat Kadyrov;Thomas H. Riermeier;Armin Börner

  • Synthesis of a New Class of Functionalized Chiral Bisphospholane Ligands and the Application in Enantioselective Hydrogenations

    Jens Holz;Michael Quirmbach;Ute Schmidt;Detlef Heller

  • Amination of Aliphatic Alcohols and Diols with an Iridium Pincer Catalyst

    Natalia Andrushko;Vasyl Andrushko;Peter Roose;Kristof Moonen

  • Highly Enantioselective or Not?-Chiral Monodentate Monophosphorus Ligands in the Asymmetric Hydrogenation.

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  • Palladium-Catalyzed Amination of Aryl Halides with Ammonia

    T. Schulz;C. Torborg;S. Enthaler;B. Schäffner

Frequent Co-Authors

Anke Spannenberg
Anke Spannenberg Leibniz Institute for Catalysis
Robert Franke
Robert Franke Ruhr University Bochum
Wolfgang Baumann
Wolfgang Baumann University of Rostock
Sergey P. Verevkin
Sergey P. Verevkin University of Rostock
Ralf Ludwig
Ralf Ludwig University of Rostock
Vadim A. Davankov
Vadim A. Davankov A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds
Rhett Kempe
Rhett Kempe University of Bayreuth
Henri B. Kagan
Henri B. Kagan University of Paris-Saclay
Stephan Enthaler
Stephan Enthaler Universität Hamburg
Alexander Zapf
Alexander Zapf University of Rostock

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