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Citations
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1061
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81

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

Frank Rominger is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on chemistry, with a strong emphasis on organic chemistry. They have published extensively in several specialized subfields including organic chemistry, materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, inorganic chemistry, and polymers and plastics.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Catalytic Alkyne Reactions
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions

Rominger has contributed to numerous papers published in well-known chemistry journals. Some recent publications include:

  • Chiral Self-sorting of Giant Cubic [8+12] Salicylimine Cage Compounds, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Bio-orthogonal Red and Far-Red Fluorogenic Probes for Wash-Free Live-Cell and Super-resolution Microscopy, 2021, ACS Central Science
  • Highly Selective Adsorption of Perfluorinated Greenhouse Gases by Porous Organic Cages, 2022, Advanced Materials
  • Depolymerization of Technical-Grade Polyamide 66 and Polyurethane Materials through Hydrogenation, 2020, ChemSusChem
  • Visible-Light-Induced Radical Carbo-Cyclization/gem-Diborylation through Triplet Energy Transfer between a Gold Catalyst and Aryl Iodides, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Throughout their career, Rominger has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Collaboration has been a significant aspect of Rominger's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • A. Stephen K. Hashmi
  • Matthias Rudolph
  • Uwe H. F. Bunz
  • Jan Freudenberg
  • Michael Mastalerz

Best Publications

  • The Role of Gold Acetylides as a Selectivity Trigger and the Importance of gem-Diaurated Species in the Gold-Catalyzed Hydroarylating-Aromatization of Arene-Diynes

    A. Stephen K. Hashmi;Ingo Braun;Matthias Rudolph;Frank Rominger

  • Gold-Catalyzed C-H Annulation of Anthranils with Alkynes: A Facile, Flexible, and Atom-Economical Synthesis of Unprotected 7-Acylindoles.

    Hongming Jin;Long Huang;Jin Xie;Matthias Rudolph

  • Gold catalysis: isolation of vinylgold complexes derived from alkynes.

    A. Stephen K. Hashmi;Andreas M. Schuster;Frank Rominger

  • Simple gold-catalyzed synthesis of benzofulvenes--gem-diaurated species as "instant dual-activation" precatalysts.

    A. Stephen K. Hashmi;Ingo Braun;Pascal Nösel;Johannes Schädlich

  • Cyclization of Propargylic Amides: Mild Access to Oxazole Derivatives

    Jan P. Weyrauch;A. Stephen K. Hashmi;Andreas Schuster;Tobias Hengst

  • From Noncovalent Chalcogen-Chalcogen Interactions to Supramolecular Aggregates: Experiments and Calculations.

    Rolf Gleiter;Gebhard Haberhauer;Daniel B. Werz;Frank Rominger

  • Synthesis, structure and reactivity of organogold compounds of relevance to homogeneous gold catalysis

    A. Stephen K. Hashmi;Tanuja Dondeti Ramamurthi;Frank Rominger

  • Gold-Catalyzed Highly Selective Photoredox C(sp2)−H Difluoroalkylation and Perfluoroalkylation of Hydrazones

    Jin Xie;Tuo Zhang;Fei Chen;Nina Mehrkens

  • Photosensitizer-Free Visible-Light-Mediated Gold-Catalyzed 1,2-Difunctionalization of Alkynes

    Long Huang;Matthias Rudolph;Frank Rominger;A. Stephen K. Hashmi;A. Stephen K. Hashmi

  • Gold-Catalyzed Synthesis of Dibenzopentalenes – Evidence for Gold Vinylidenes

    A. Stephen K. Hashmi;Marcel Wieteck;Ingo Braun;Pascal Nösel

  • Nanotube Formation Favored by Chalcogen−Chalcogen Interactions

    Daniel B Werz;Rolf Gleiter;Frank Rominger

  • Concise syntheses of meridianins by carbonylative alkynylation and a four-component pyrimidine synthesis.

    Alexei S. Karpov;Eugen Merkul;Frank Rominger;Thomas J. J. Müller

  • Carbenes Made Easy: Formation of Unsymmetrically Substituted N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Palladium(II), Platinum(II) and Gold(I) from Coordinated Isonitriles and their Catalytic Activity

    A. Stephen K. Hashmi;Christian Lothschütz;Constantin Böhling;Tobias Hengst

  • Gold vinylidene complexes: intermolecular C(sp3)-H insertions and cyclopropanations pathways.

    A. Stephen K. Hashmi;Marcel Wieteck;Ingo Braun;Matthias Rudolph

  • A general access to organogold(iii) complexes by oxidative addition of diazonium salts.

    Long Huang;Frank Rominger;Matthias Rudolph;A. Stephen K. Hashmi;A. Stephen K. Hashmi

  • Gold-Catalyzed Synthesis of Quinolines from Propargyl Silyl Ethers and Anthranils through the Umpolung of a Gold Carbene Carbon

    Hongming Jin;Bin Tian;Xinlong Song;Jin Xie

  • 1,6-Carbene transfer: gold-catalyzed oxidative diyne cyclizations.

    Pascal Nösel;Laura Nunes dos Santos Comprido;Tobias Lauterbach;Matthias Rudolph

  • New and Easily Accessible Nitrogen Acyclic Gold(I) Carbenes: Structure and Application in the Gold‐Catalyzed Phenol Synthesis as well as the Hydration of Alkynes

    A. Stephen K. Hashmi;Tobias Hengst;Christian Lothschütz;Frank Rominger

  • Mechanistic Switch in Dual Gold Catalysis of Diynes: C(sp3)–H Activation through Bifurcation—Vinylidene versus Carbene Pathways

    Max M. Hansmann;Matthias Rudolph;Frank Rominger;A. Stephen K. Hashmi

  • Monofluoroalkenylation of Dimethylamino Compounds through Radical-Radical Cross-Coupling.

    Jin Xie;Jintao Yu;Matthias Rudolph;Frank Rominger

  • Stable hexacenes through nitrogen substitution.

    Benjamin D. Lindner;Jens U. Engelhart;Olena Tverskoy;Anthony Lucas Appleton

Frequent Co-Authors

A. Stephen K. Hashmi
A. Stephen K. Hashmi Heidelberg University
Matthias Rudolph
Matthias Rudolph Heidelberg University
Rolf Gleiter
Rolf Gleiter Heidelberg University
Uwe H. F. Bunz
Uwe H. F. Bunz Heidelberg University
Michael Mastalerz
Michael Mastalerz Heidelberg University
Peter Hofmann
Peter Hofmann Heidelberg University
Thomas J. J. Müller
Thomas J. J. Müller Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Daniel B. Werz
Daniel B. Werz Technische Universität Braunschweig
Andreas Dreuw
Andreas Dreuw Heidelberg University
Jin Xie
Jin Xie Nanjing University

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