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  • 2017 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Erhard Kemnitz is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their research concentrates on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science, Organic Chemistry, and Catalysis, with a particular focus on inorganic fluorides and related compounds.

Kemnitz's recent publications include the article "Nano metal fluorides: small particles with great properties" (2020) in ChemTexts, "Dopant ion concentration-dependent upconversion luminescence of cubic SrF2:Yb3+,Er3+ nanocrystals prepared by a fluorolytic sol-gel method" (2022) in Nanoscale, and "A HF Loaded Lewis-Acidic Aluminium Chlorofluoride for Hydrofluorination Reactions" (2020) published in Chemistry - A European Journal. Other notable works include "Termite resistance of pine wood treated with nano metal fluorides" (2020) in European Journal of Wood and Wood Products, and "Breakthrough synthesis of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene via hydrogen-assisted selective dehydrochlorination of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoro-2-chloropropane over nickel phosphides" (2020) in Journal of Catalysis.

Their frequent coauthors include Franziska Emmerling, Thoralf Krahl, Gudrun Scholz, Steffen Zänker, and Stefan Mahn, with collaborations ranging from 3 to 8 joint publications.

Kemnitz's work has been published recurrently in several venues, with notable frequencies in The Cambridge Structural Database, The European Physical Journal Applied Physics, ChemNanoMat, ChemTexts, and Nanoscale.

The scientist's research topics cover:

  • Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds
  • Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Fluorine in Organic Chemistry
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes

Erhard Kemnitz was recognized as a Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Best Publications

  • ESCA, XRD, and IR Characterization of Aluminum Oxide, Hydroxyfluoride, and Fluoride Surfaces in Correlation with Their Catalytic Activity in Heterogeneous Halogen Exchange Reactions

    A. Hess;E. Kemnitz;A. Lippitz;W.E.S. Unger

  • Amorphous Metal Fluorides with Extraordinary High Surface Areas

    Erhard Kemnitz;Udo Groß;Stephan Rüdiger;Chandra S. Shekar

  • Application of calcined Mg-Al hydrotalcites for Michael additions : an investigation of catalytic activity and acid-base properties

    Hillary A. Prescott;Zhi-Jian Li;Erhard Kemnitz;Annette Trunschke

  • Fluorinated metal oxides and metal fluorides as heterogeneous catalysts

    Erhard Kemnitz;Dirk-Henning Menz

  • Synthesis and Structure of the Highly Chlorinated [60]Fullerene C60Cl30 with a Drum‐Shaped Carbon Cage

    Pavel A. Troshin;Rimma N. Lyubovskaya;Ilya N. Ioffe;Natalia B. Shustova

  • Properties of modified zirconia used as friedel-crafts-acylation catalysts

    V. Quaschning;J. Deutsch;P. Druska;H.-J. Niclas

  • Non-aqueous sol–gel synthesis of nano-structured metal fluorides

    Stephan Rüdiger;Udo Groß;Erhard Kemnitz

  • The fluorolytic sol-gel route to metal fluorides--a versatile process opening a variety of application fields.

    Stephan Rüdiger;Erhard Kemnitz

  • New magnesium oxide fluorides with hydroxy groups as catalysts for Michael additions

    Hillary A. Prescott;Zhi-Jian Li;Erhard Kemnitz;Jens Deutsch

  • Novel Sol–Gel Synthesis of Acidic MgF2−x(OH)x Materials

    Stefan Wuttke;Simona M. Coman;Simona M. Coman;Gudrun Scholz;Holm Kirmse

  • Non-aqueous synthesis of high surface area aluminium fluoride: a mechanistic investigation

    Stephan K. Ruediger;Udo Groß;Michael Feist;Hillary A. Prescott

  • Two Isomers of C60F48: An Indented Fullerene

    Sergei I. Troyanov;Pavel A. Troshin;Olga V. Boltalina;Ilya N. Ioffe

  • Characterization of catalytically active sites on aluminum oxides, hydroxyfluorides, and fluorides in correlation with their catalytic behavior

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  • Analysis of highly resolved x‐ray photoelectron Cr 2p spectra obtained with a Cr2O3 powder sample prepared with adhesive tape

    E. Ünveren;E. Ünveren;E. Kemnitz;S. Hutton;A. Lippitz

  • C 1s and Au 4f7/2 referenced XPS binding energy data obtained with different aluminium oxides, -hydroxides and -fluorides

    O. Böse;E. Kemnitz;A. Lippitz;W. E. S. Unger

  • Ceria-based fluorite-like oxide solid solutions as catalysts of methane selective oxidation into syngas by the lattice oxygen: synthesis, characterization and performance

    V.A. Sadykov;T.G. Kuznetsova;G.M. Alikina;Y.V. Frolova

  • Real sol-gel synthesis of catalytically active aluminium fluoride

    Stephan Rüdiger;Gehan Eltanany;Udo Groß;Erhard Kemnitz

  • Catalytic hydrodefluorination of fluoromethanes at room temperature by silylium-ion-like surface species.

    Mike Ahrens;Gudrun Scholz;Thomas Braun;Erhard Kemnitz

  • The very strong solid Lewis acids aluminium chlorofluoride (ACF) and bromofluoride (ABF)—Synthesis, structure, and Lewis acidity

    Thoralf Krahl;Erhard Kemnitz

  • Consecutive Transformations of Tetrafluoropropenes: Hydrogermylation and Catalytic C−F Activation Steps at a Lewis Acidic Aluminum Fluoride

    Gisa Meißner;Konrad Kretschmar;Thomas Braun;Erhard Kemnitz

  • Total oxidation of methane at low temperature over Pd/TiO2/Al2O3: effects of the support and residual chlorine ions

    W Lin;Y.X Zhu;N.Z Wu;Y.C Xie

  • Sol–gel-fluorination synthesis of amorphous magnesium fluoride

    J. Krishna Murthy;Udo Groß;Stephan Rüdiger;Erhard Kemnitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergey I. Troyanov
Sergey I. Troyanov Lomonosov Moscow State University
Shangfeng Yang
Shangfeng Yang University of Science and Technology of China
Stefan Wuttke
Stefan Wuttke Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures
Wolfgang E. S. Unger
Wolfgang E. S. Unger Federal Institute For Materials Research and Testing
Thomas Braun
Thomas Braun Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Vasile I. Parvulescu
Vasile I. Parvulescu University of Bucharest
Nicola Pinna
Nicola Pinna Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Pavel A. Troshin
Pavel A. Troshin Russian Academy of Sciences
Alexey A. Popov
Alexey A. Popov Leibniz Association
Stylianos G. Neophytides
Stylianos G. Neophytides Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas

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