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David Scheschkewitz

David Scheschkewitz

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Chemistry

D-Index
48
Citations
6945
World Ranking
15394
National Ranking
1127

Overview

David Scheschkewitz is affiliated with Saarland University in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemistry, with a significant body of work contributing to subfields such as materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and physical and theoretical chemistry.

Their research topics cover a broad range of areas including crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic and organometallic compounds, organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis, organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, coordination chemistry and organometallics, and crystallography and molecular interactions.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Volker Hüch, Michael Zimmer, Bernd Morgenstern, Nadine E. Poitiers, and Luisa Giarrana.

Their work has been published extensively in various academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include The Cambridge Structural Database, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Angewandte Chemie, Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by David Scheschkewitz are:

  • Molecular Silicon Clusters, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • Equilibrium Formation of Stable All-Silicon Versions of 1,3-Cyclobutanediyl, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Metathesis of Ge=Ge double bonds, 2021, Nature Chemistry
  • Exohedral functionalizationvs.core expansion of siliconoids with Group 9 metals: catalytic activity in alkene isomerization, 2020, Chemical Science
  • A Mixed Heavier Si=Ge Analogue of a Vinyl Anion, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

  • Singlet diradicals: from transition states to crystalline compounds.

    David Scheschkewitz;Hideki Amii;Heinz Gornitzka;Wolfgang W. Schoeller

  • A Tricyclic Aromatic Isomer of Hexasilabenzene

    Kai Abersfelder;Andrew J. P. White;Henry S. Rzepa;David Scheschkewitz

  • Reactivity in the periphery of functionalised multiple bonds of heavier group 14 elements

    Carsten Präsang;David Scheschkewitz

  • A silicon analogue of vinyllithium: structural characterization of a disilenide.

    David Scheschkewitz

  • A T‐Shaped Platinum(II) Boryl Complex as the Precursor to a Platinum Compound with a Base‐Stabilized Borylene Ligand

    Holger Braunschweig;Krzysztof Radacki;Daniela Rais;David Scheschkewitz

  • A molecular silicon cluster with a "naked" vertex atom*.

    David Scheschkewitz

  • Two Si-Si double bonds connected by a phenylene bridge.

    Iulia Bejan;David Scheschkewitz

  • Anionic Reagents with Silicon‐Containing Double Bonds

    David Scheschkewitz

  • A Stable Derivative of the Global Minimum on the Si6H6 Potential Energy Surface

    Kai Abersfelder;Kai Abersfelder;Andrew J. P. White;Raphael J. F. Berger;Henry S. Rzepa

  • The Versatile Chemistry of Disilenides : Disila Analogues of Vinyl Anions as Synthons in Low-valent Silicon Chemistry

    David Scheschkewitz

  • Equilibrium between a cyclotrisilene and an isolable base adduct of a disilenyl silylene

    Michael J. Cowley;Volker Huch;Henry S. Rzepa;David Scheschkewitz;David Scheschkewitz

  • Syntheses of trisila analogues of allyl chlorides and their transformations to chlorocyclotrisilanes, cyclotrisilanides, and a trisilaindane.

    Kai Abersfelder;David Scheschkewitz

  • Ein T‐förmiger Platin(II)borylkomplex als Vorstufe für einen Platinkomplex mit einem basenstabilisierten Borylenliganden

    Holger Braunschweig;Krzysztof Radacki;Daniela Rais;David Scheschkewitz

  • NHC-stabilized silagermenylidene: a heavier analogue of vinylidene.

    Anukul Jana;Volker Huch;David Scheschkewitz

  • Boron as a bridging ligand.

    Holger Braunschweig;George R. Whittell

  • Reversible Base Coordination to a Disilene

    Kinga Leszczyńska;Kai Abersfelder;Andreas Mix;Beate Neumann

  • Boron as a Bridging Ligand

    Holger Braunschweig;Krzysztof Radacki;David Scheschkewitz;George R. Whittell

  • Ein Siliciumanalogon des Vinyllithiums: strukturelle Charakterisierung eines Disilenids†

    David Scheschkewitz

  • Activation of a SiSi Bond by η1-Coordination to a Transition Metal

    Thi-loan Nguyen;David Scheschkewitz

  • σ‐Bond Stretching: A Static Approach for a Dynamic Process

    David Scheschkewitz;David Scheschkewitz;Hideki Amii;Heinz Gornitzka;Wolfgang W. Schoeller

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Huch
Volker Huch Saarland University
Henry S. Rzepa
Henry S. Rzepa Imperial College London
Vadapalli Chandrasekhar
Vadapalli Chandrasekhar Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Guy Bertrand
Guy Bertrand University of California, San Diego
Andrew J. P. White
Andrew J. P. White Imperial College London
Werner Massa
Werner Massa Philipp University of Marburg
Holger Braunschweig
Holger Braunschweig University of Würzburg
Krzysztof Radacki
Krzysztof Radacki University of Würzburg
Akira Sekiguchi
Akira Sekiguchi University of Tsukuba
Didier Bourissou
Didier Bourissou Paul Sabatier University

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