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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
77
Citations
20683
World Ranking
4031
National Ranking
97

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Bas de Bruin is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Molecular Biology.

De Bruin's work covers a range of main research topics, including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis

The researcher has published extensively in several journals and venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Among their recent papers are:

  • Dioxazolones: Stable Substrates for the Catalytic Transfer of Acyl Nitrenes, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Transition Metal Catalysis Controlled by Hydrogen Bonding in the Second Coordination Sphere, 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • A platinum(ii) metallonitrene with a triplet ground state, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • Electrochemical Aziridination of Internal Alkenes with Primary Amines, 2020, Chem
  • Photoinduced Halogen-Atom Transfer by N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Ligated Boryl Radicals for C(sp3)-C(sp3) Bond Formation, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Bas de Bruin collaborates frequently with a number of coauthors, with the most frequent being:

  • Nicolaas P. van Leest
  • Joost N. H. Reek
  • Felix J. de Zwart
  • Peter Coburger
  • Robert Wolf

Best Publications

  • Redox Non-Innocent Ligands: Versatile New Tools to Control Catalytic Reactions

    Volodymyr Lyaskovskyy;Bas de Bruin

  • Transition metal catalysis in confined spaces

    Stefan H. A. M. Leenders;Rafael Gramage-Doria;Bas de Bruin;Joost N. H. Reek

  • Synthesis of functional ‘polyolefins’: state of the art and remaining challenges

    Nicole M. G. Franssen;Joost N. H. Reek;Bas de Bruin

  • Molecular and electronic structures of bis(pyridine-2,6-diimine)metal complexes [ML2](PF6)n (n = 0, 1, 2, 3; M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn).

    Bas de Bruin;Eckhard Bill;Eberhard Bothe;and Thomas Weyhermüller

  • Hydrogenation of carboxylic acids with a homogeneous cobalt catalyst

    Ties J. Korstanje;Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt;Cornelis J. Elsevier;Bas de Bruin

  • 'Carbene radicals' in Co-II(por)-catalyzed olefin cyclopropanation

    Wojciech I. Dzik;Xue Xu;X. Peter Zhang;Joost N. H. Reek

  • Mechanism of Cobalt(II) Porphyrin-Catalyzed C–H Amination with Organic Azides: Radical Nature and H-Atom Abstraction Ability of the Key Cobalt(III)–Nitrene Intermediates

    Volodymyr Lyaskovskyy;Alma I. Olivos Suarez;Hongjian Lu;Huiling Jiang

  • Ligands that Store and Release Electrons during Catalysis

    Wojciech I. Dzik;Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt;Joost N. H. Reek;Bas de Bruin

  • Experimental Evidence for Cobalt(III)-Carbene Radicals: Key Intermediates in Cobalt(II)-Based Metalloradical Cyclopropanation

    Hongjian Lu;Wojciech I. Dzik;Xue Xu;Lukasz Wojtas

  • Complexes with Nitrogen‐Centered Radical Ligands: Classification, Spectroscopic Features, Reactivity, and Catalytic Applications

    Alma I. Olivos Suarez;Volodymyr Lyaskovskyy;Joost N. H. Reek;Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt

  • Dioxazolones: Stable Substrates for the Catalytic Transfer of Acyl Nitrenes

    Kaj M. van Vliet;Bas de Bruin

  • Characterization of Porphyrin-Co(III)-‘Nitrene Radical’ Species Relevant in Catalytic Nitrene Transfer Reactions

    Monalisa Goswami;Volodymyr Lyaskovskyy;Sérgio R. Domingos;Wybren Jan Buma

  • Transition Metal Catalysis Controlled by Hydrogen Bonding in the Second Coordination Sphere

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  • Nitrene Radical Intermediates in Catalytic Synthesis

    Petrus F. Kuijpers;Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt;Sven Schneider;Bas de Bruin

  • Closed-shell and open-shell square-planar iridium nitrido complexes

    Markus G. Scheibel;Bjorn Askevold;Frank W. Heinemann;Edward J. Reijerse

  • Redox Noninnocence of Carbene Ligands: Carbene Radicals in (Catalytic) C−C Bond Formation

    Wojciech I. Dzik;X. Peter Zhang;Bas de Bruin

  • Olefin hydrogenation using diimine pyridine complexes of Co and Rh

    Quinten Knijnenburg;Andrew D. Horton;Harry van der Heijden;T. Martijn Kooistra

  • Catalytic Synthesis of 2H-Chromenes

    Nilanjana Majumdar;Nanda D. Paul;Sutanuva Mandal;Bas de Bruin

  • Catalytic Synthesis of N-Heterocycles via Direct C(sp3)–H Amination Using an Air-Stable Iron(III) Species with a Redox-Active Ligand

    Bidraha Bagh;Daniël L. J. Broere;Vivek Sinha;Petrus F. Kuijpers

  • C1 polymerisation and related C–C bond forming ‘carbene insertion’ reactions

    Erica Jellema;Anna L. Jongerius;Joost N. H. Reek;Bas de Bruin

  • Functional Models for Rhodium-Mediated Olefin-Oxygenation Catalysis

    Bas de Bruin;Peter H. M. Budzelaar;Anton W. Gal

Frequent Co-Authors

Joost N. H. Reek
Joost N. H. Reek University of Amsterdam
Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt
Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt University of Amsterdam
Martin Lutz
Martin Lutz Utrecht University
Maxime A. Siegler
Maxime A. Siegler Johns Hopkins University
Anthony L. Spek
Anthony L. Spek Utrecht University
Sven Schneider
Sven Schneider University of Göttingen
Peter H. M. Budzelaar
Peter H. M. Budzelaar University of Naples Federico II
František Hartl
František Hartl University of Reading
Andreas W. Ehlers
Andreas W. Ehlers University of Amsterdam

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