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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Overview

Curt Wentrup is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and has a significant body of work in the field of Chemistry, with a total of 47 publications. Their research primarily focuses on Physical and Theoretical Chemistry as well as Organic Chemistry, each representing 21 of the total contributions. Additional areas of study include Environmental Chemistry, History and Philosophy of Science, and Spectroscopy.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum, including Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms, History and advancements in chemistry, Various Chemistry Research Topics, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

Some of the notable recent papers authored by Wentrup are:

  • Origins of Organic Chemistry and Organic Synthesis, 2022, European Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Bunsen the Geochemist: Icelandic Volcanism, Geyser Theory, and Gas, Rock and Mineral Analyses, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • When a "Dimroth Rearrangement" Is Not a Dimroth Rearrangement, 2021, The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Frequent collaborators include Avat Taherpour, Didier Bégué, M. Saeed Mirzaei, Alain Dargelos, and Jérémy Marchais. The collaboration counts range from two to five joint publications, indicating sustained research partnerships.

The scientist has published extensively in several academic journals, with the highest number of publications appearing in The Journal of Organic Chemistry (8 publications), followed by the Australian Journal of Chemistry (6 publications). Additional contributions have been made to Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ChemPlusChem, and The Chemical Record.

Among the recognitions received is the fellowship awarded by the Australian Academy of Science in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Reactive Molecules: The Neutral Reactive Intermediates in Organic Chemistry

    Curt Wentrup

  • Benzyne, cyclohexyne, and 3-azacyclohexyne and the problem of cycloalkyne versus cycloalkylideneketene genesis

    Curt. Wentrup;Rodney. Blanch;Horst. Briehl;Gerhard. Gross

  • Rearrangements and interconversions of carbenes and nitrenes.

    Curt Wentrup

  • Carbenes and Nitrenes: Recent Developments in Fundamental Chemistry

    Curt Wentrup

  • Interconversions of Phenylcarbene, Cycloheptatetraene, Fulvenallene, and Benzocyclopropene. A Theoretical Study of the C7H6 Energy Surface

    Ming Wah Wong;Curt Wentrup

  • Flash Vacuum Pyrolysis of Azides, Triazoles, and Tetrazoles

    Curt Wentrup

  • Tautomeric equilibrium and hydrogen shifts of tetrazole in the gas phase and in solution

    Ming Wah Wong;Regis Leung-Toung;Curt Wentrup

  • Nitrile Imines: Matrix Isolation, IR Spectra, Structures, and Rearrangement to Carbodiimides

    Didier Bégué;Greg GuangHua Qiao;Curt Wentrup

  • Nitrile Imines: From Matrix Characterization to Stable Compounds

    Guy Bertrand;Curt Wentrup

  • Nitrenes, carbenes, diradicals, and ylides. Interconversions of reactive intermediates.

    Curt Wentrup

  • α-Oxoketenes - Preparation and Chemistry

    Curt Wentrup;Werner Heilmayer;Gert Kollenz

  • Hetarylnitrenes—II : Azido/tetrazoloazine tautomerisation, and evidence for nitrene formation in the gas-phase

    C. Wentrup

  • REACTIVE NITROGENOUS MOLECULES FROM MELDRUM′S ACID DERIVATIVES, PYRROLE-2,3-DIONES, AND ISOXAZOLONES

    Horst Briehl;Adelheid Lukosch;Curt Wentrup

  • Isolation of diazacycloheptatetraenes from thermal nitrene-nitrene rearrangements

    Curt Wentrup;Hans Wilhelm Winter

  • Pyrolysis of 1(H)-triazoloarenes

    C. Wentrup;W.D. Crow

  • Carbenes and Nitrenes in Heterocyclic Chemistry: Intramolecular Reactions

    Curt Wentrup

  • ESR Observation of Thermally Produced Triplet Nitrenes and Photochemically Produced Triplet Cycloheptatrienylidenes

    Martin Kuzaj;Holger Lüerssen;Curt Wentrup

  • The Benzyne Story

    Curt Wentrup

  • N-Sulfides. Dinitrogen sulfide, thiofulminic acid, and nitrile sulfides

    Curt. Wentrup;Peter. Kambouris

  • Imidoylketene-oxoketenimine interconversion. Rearrangement of a carbomethoxyketenimine to a methoxyimidoylketene and 2-methoxy-4-quinolone

    Belinda E. Fulloon;Curt Wentrup

  • Rate Studies of Cyclic Phosphinates, Phosphonates and Phosphates.

    Gunnar Aksnes;Knut Bergesen;Arne Holm;Curt Wentrup

Frequent Co-Authors

Ming Wah Wong
Ming Wah Wong National University of Singapore
C. Oliver Kappe
C. Oliver Kappe University of Graz
Paul V. Bernhardt
Paul V. Bernhardt University of Queensland
Richard A. Evans
Richard A. Evans Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Greg G. Qiao
Greg G. Qiao University of Melbourne
Sophie Laurent
Sophie Laurent University of Mons
Carl Djerassi
Carl Djerassi Stanford University
Ruth Records
Ruth Records Stanford University
Edward Bunnenberg
Edward Bunnenberg Stanford University
Josef Michl
Josef Michl University of Colorado Boulder

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