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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Eckhard Bill is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research primarily centers on materials science, with a significant focus on materials chemistry and inorganic chemistry. They have contributed to the subfields of renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment, as well as organic chemistry and oncology.

Their academic output includes numerous publications in high-impact journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Chemical Science
  • Science

The main topics of Eckhard Bill's work encompass:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry

Some of their recent notable papers include:

  • Synthesis and isolation of a triplet bismuthinidene with a quenched magnetic response, 2023, Science
  • Mitochondrial [4Fe-4S] protein assembly involves reductive [2Fe-2S] cluster fusion on ISCA1-ISCA2 by electron flow from ferredoxin FDX2, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Identification of the Catalytically Dominant Iron Environment in Iron- and Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Asymmetric counteranion-directed photoredox catalysis, 2023, Science
  • Active Site Identification in FeNC Catalysts and Their Assignment to the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Pathway by In Situ 57Fe Mössbauer Spectroscopy, 2021, Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research

Eckhard Bill has collaborated frequently with several researchers, most notably:

  • Frank Neese
  • Shengfa Ye
  • Thorsten Glaser
  • Maurice van Gastel
  • Hartmut Bögge

Best Publications

  • Electronic Structure of Bis(o-iminobenzosemiquinonato)metal Complexes (Cu, Ni, Pd). The Art of Establishing Physical Oxidation States in Transition-Metal Complexes Containing Radical Ligands

    Phalguni Chaudhuri;Claudio Nazari Verani;Eckhard Bill;Eberhard Bothe

  • N2 Reduction and Hydrogenation to Ammonia by a Molecular Iron-Potassium Complex

    Meghan M. Rodriguez;Eckhard Bill;William W. Brennessel;Patrick L. Holland

  • Electronic structure of bis(imino)pyridine iron dichloride, monochloride, and neutral ligand complexes: a combined structural, spectroscopic, and computational study.

    Suzanne C. Bart;Krzysztof Chłopek;Eckhard Bill;Marco W. Bouwkamp

  • Aerobic Oxidation of Primary Alcohols (Including Methanol) by Copper(II)− and Zinc(II)−Phenoxyl Radical Catalysts

    Phalguni Chaudhuri;Martina Hess;Jochen Müller;Knut Hildenbrand

  • Mononuclear (nitrido)iron(V) and (oxo)iron(IV) complexes via photolysis of [(cyclam-acetato)FeIII(N3)]+ and ozonolysis of [(cyclam-acetato)FeIII(O3SCF3)]+ in water/acetone mixtures.

    Craig A. Grapperhaus;Bernd Mienert;Eckhard Bill;Thomas Weyhermüller

  • 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

  • Neutral bis(alpha-iminopyridine)metal complexes of the first-row transition ions (Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn) and their monocationic analogues: mixed valency involving a redox noninnocent ligand system.

    Connie C. Lu;Eckhard Bill;Thomas Weyhermüller;Eberhard Bothe

  • Weakly ferromagnetic ordered mesoporous Co₃O₄ synthesized by nanocasting from vinyl-functionalized cubic Ia3d mesoporous silica

    Yanqin Wang;Chia-Min Yang;Wolfgang Schmidt;Bernd Spliethoff

  • First principles approach to the electronic structure, magnetic anisotropy and spin relaxation in mononuclear 3d-transition metal single molecule magnets

    Mihail Atanasov;Mihail Atanasov;Daniel Aravena;Elizaveta Suturina;Elizaveta Suturina;Eckhard Bill

  • An Octahedral Coordination Complex of Iron(VI)

    John F. Berry;Eckhard Bill;Eberhard Bothe;Serena DeBeer George

  • Molecular and electronic structure of four- and five-coordinate cobalt complexes containing two o-phenylenediamine- or two o-aminophenol-type ligands at various oxidation levels: an experimental, density functional, and correlated ab initio study.

    Eckhard Bill;Eberhard Bothe;Phalguni Chaudhuri;Krzysztof Chlopek

  • Structural, Spectroscopic, and Computational Study of an Octahedral, Non-Heme {Fe−NO}6-8 Series: [Fe(NO)(cyclam-ac)]2+/+/0

    Ricardo Garcia Serres;Craig A. Grapperhaus;Eberhard Bothe;Eckhard Bill

  • Performance of nonrelativistic and quasi-relativistic hybrid DFT for the prediction of electric and magnetic hyperfine parameters in 57Fe Mössbauer spectra.

    Sebastian Sinnecker;Leonardo D Slep;Eckhard Bill;Frank Neese

  • Carbon monoxide as an intrinsic ligand to iron in the active site of the iron-sulfur-cluster-free hydrogenase H2-forming methylenetetrahydromethanopterin dehydrogenase as revealed by infrared spectroscopy.

    Erica J Lyon;Seigo Shima;Reinhard Boecher;Rudolf K Thauer

  • Molecular and electronic structure of octahedral o-aminophenolato and o-iminobenzosemiquinonato complexes of V(V), Cr(III), Fe(III), and Co(III). Experimental determination of oxidation levels of ligands and metal ions.

    Hyungphil Chun;Claudio Nazari Verani;Phalguni Chaudhuri;Eberhard Bothe

  • Carbon dioxide activation with sterically pressured mid- and high-valent uranium complexes.

    Suzanne C. Bart;Christian Anthon;Frank W. Heinemann;Eckhard Bill

  • Binding of dinitrogen to an iron–sulfur–carbon site

    Ilija Čorić;Brandon Q. Mercado;Eckhard Bill;David J. Vinyard

  • Metallocorroles with Formally Tetravalent Iron

    Emanuel Vogel;Stefan Will;Andreas Schulze Tilling;Ludger Neumann

  • Experimental Evidence for the Noninnocence of o-Aminothiophenolates: Coordination Chemistry of o-Iminothionebenzosemiquinonate(1-) π-Radicals with Ni(II), Pd(II), Pt(II)

    Diran Herebian;Eberhard Bothe;Eckhard Bill;Thomas Weyhermüller

  • Iron-containing proteins and related analogs — complementary Mössbauer, EPR and magnetic susceptibility studies

    Alfred X. Trautwein;Eckhard Bill;Emile L. Bominaar;Heiner Winkler

  • Nanoengineering of a Magnetically Separable Hydrogenation Catalyst.

    An‐Hui Lu;Wolfgang Schmidt;Nina Matoussevitch;Helmut Boennemann

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Weyhermüller
Thomas Weyhermüller Max Planck Society
Karl Wieghardt
Karl Wieghardt Max Planck Society
Alfred X. Trautwein
Alfred X. Trautwein University of Lübeck
Frank Neese
Frank Neese Max Planck Society
Eberhard Bothe
Eberhard Bothe Max Planck Society
Phalguni Chaudhuri
Phalguni Chaudhuri Max Planck Society
Patrick L. Holland
Patrick L. Holland Yale University
Peter Hildebrandt
Peter Hildebrandt Technical University of Berlin
Thorsten Glaser
Thorsten Glaser Bielefeld University
Mihail Atanasov
Mihail Atanasov Max Planck Society

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