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Franc Meyer is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and specializes in materials science, with a focus on materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and renewable energy, sustainability and the environment.

The scientist's research encompasses various topics including:

  • Crystallization and solubility studies
  • X-ray diffraction in crystallography
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms
  • Lanthanide and transition metal complexes
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry

Franc Meyer has authored several recent papers that reflect ongoing work in these fields. Notable publications include:

  • "Combining Valence-to-Core X-ray Emission and Cu K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopies to Experimentally Assess Oxidation State in Organometallic Cu(I)/(II)/(III) Complexes," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Janus-type emission from a cyclometalated iron(iii) complex," 2023, Nature Chemistry
  • "Single-molecule magnets within polyoxometalate-based frameworks," 2021, Dalton Transactions
  • "Photoinduced NO and HNO Production from Mononuclear {FeNO}6 Complex Bearing a Pendant Thiol," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Record Quantum Tunneling Time in an Air-Stable Exchange-Bias Dysprosium Macrocycle," 2024, Journal of the American Chemical Society

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues including Serhiy Demeshko, Sebastian Dechert, Joanne Wong, Krishnayan Basuroy, and Simone Techert.

Franc Meyer's publications have appeared primarily in venues such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology)
  • Dalton Transactions

Meyer's body of work significantly intersects disciplines that involve the study of coordination complexes, crystallography techniques, and magnetic materials. Their research outputs contribute to understanding the structural and magnetic properties of metal complexes, as well as their synthesis and catalytic behaviors.

Best Publications

  • Halogen Bonding in Supramolecular Chemistry

    Pierangelo Metrangolo;Franck Meyer;Tullio Pilati;Giuseppe Resnati

  • Thermochemistry of Transition Metal Benzene Complexes: Binding Energies of M(C6H6)x+ (x = 1, 2) for M = Ti to Cu

    Franc Meyer;Franc Meyer;Farooq A. Khan;Farooq A. Khan;P. B. Armentrout

  • Anion−π Interactions in a Carousel Copper(II)−Triazine Complex

    Serhiy Demeshko;Sebastian Dechert;Franc Meyer

  • Surface-initiated controlled polymerization as a convenient method for designing functional polymer brushes: From self-assembled monolayers to patterned surfaces

    Aurore Olivier;Franck Meyer;Jean-Marie Raquez;Pascal Damman

  • Tuning the activity of catechol oxidase model complexes by geometric changes of the dicopper core

    Jens Ackermann;Franc Meyer;Elisabeth Kaifer;Hans Pritzkow

  • Engineering functional materials by halogen bonding

    Pierangelo Metrangolo;Giuseppe Resnati;Tullio Pilati;Rosalba Liantonio

  • Nickel-centred proton reduction catalysis in a model of [NiFe] hydrogenase

    Deborah Brazzolotto;Marcello Gennari;Nicolas Queyriaux;Trevor R. Simmons

  • Polynuclear transition metal complexes of metal⋯metal-bridging compartmental pyrazolate ligands

    Julia Klingele;Julia Klingele;Sebastian Dechert;Franc Meyer

  • Halogen bonding at work: recent applications in synthetic chemistry and materials science

    Franck Meyer;Philippe Dubois

  • Entfernen von Sauerstoff aus Gasen mittels aktiven Kupfers

    F.‐R. Meyer;Grete Ronge

  • SEQUENTIAL BOND ENERGIES OF CU(CO)X+ AND AG(CO)X+ (X = 1-4)

    Franc Meyer;Yu Min Chen;P. B. Armentrout

  • Electronic structure and slow magnetic relaxation of low-coordinate cyclic alkyl(amino) carbene stabilized iron(I) complexes.

    Prinson P Samuel;Kartik Chandra Mondal;Nurul Amin Sk;Herbert W Roesky

  • A Tetracarbene–Oxoiron(IV) Complex

    Steffen Meyer;Iris Klawitter;Serhiy Demeshko;Eckhard Bill

  • New Powerful and Oxidatively Rugged Dinuclear Ru Water Oxidation Catalyst: Control of Mechanistic Pathways by Tailored Ligand Design

    Sven Neudeck;Somnath Maji;Isidoro López;Steffen Meyer

  • Genuine Redox Isomerism in a Rare‐Earth‐Metal Complex

    Igor L. Fedushkin;Olga V. Maslova;Alexander G. Morozov;Sebastian Dechert

  • Cooperative Transformations of Small Molecules at a Dinuclear Nickel(II) Site

    Franc Meyer;Elisabeth Kaifer;Peter Kircher;Katja Heinze

  • A Double-Switching Multistable Fe4 Grid Complex with Stepwise Spin-Crossover and Redox Transitions†

    Benjamin Schneider;Serhiy Demeshko;Sebastian Dechert;Franc Meyer

  • The Ligand Field of the Azido Ligand: Insights into Bonding Parameters and Magnetic Anisotropy in a Co(II)–Azido Complex

    David Schweinfurth;Michael G Sommer;Mihail Atanasov;Mihail Atanasov;Serhiy Demeshko

  • Highly interpenetrated supramolecular networks supported by N...I halogen bonding

    Pierangelo Metrangolo;Franck Meyer;Tullio Pilati;Davide M. Proserpio

  • Design of Cross‐Linked Semicrystalline Poly(ε‐caprolactone)‐Based Networks with One‐Way and Two‐Way Shape‐Memory Properties through Diels–Alder Reactions

    Jean-Marie Raquez;Sophie Vanderstappen;Franck Meyer;Pierre Verge

  • Effect of Zn...Zn separation on the hydrolytic activity of model dizinc phosphodiesterases.

    Bernhard Bauer-Siebenlist;Franc Meyer;Etelka Farkas;Denis Vidovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Serhiy Demeshko
Serhiy Demeshko University of Göttingen
Sebastian Dechert
Sebastian Dechert University of Göttingen
Hans Pritzkow
Hans Pritzkow Heidelberg University
Eckhard Bill
Eckhard Bill Max Planck Society
Frank Neese
Frank Neese Max Planck Society
Biprajit Sarkar
Biprajit Sarkar University of Stuttgart
Matti Haukka
Matti Haukka University of Jyväskylä
Christian Brückner
Christian Brückner University of Connecticut
Mihail Atanasov
Mihail Atanasov Max Planck Society
Laszlo Zsolnai
Laszlo Zsolnai Heidelberg University

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