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Franziska Schoenebeck

Franziska Schoenebeck

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66
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World Ranking
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535

Overview

Franziska Schoenebeck is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany, contributing extensively to the fields of chemistry and materials science. Their research spans over 161 publications in chemistry and 71 in materials science, with a primary focus on organic chemistry and materials chemistry, as well as studies in pharmaceutical science, inorganic chemistry, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work emphasizes catalytic and chemical synthesis methodologies, particularly in areas such as catalytic C-H functionalization methods and catalytic cross-coupling reactions. Other significant topics covered include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, fluorine in organic chemistry, organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, and radical photochemical reactions.

The research contributions of Franziska Schoenebeck are published in leading scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Organic Letters

Several notable papers illustrate the scope of their work:

  • "Accelerated dinuclear palladium catalyst identification through unsupervised machine learning" (2021, Science)
  • "Organogermanes as Orthogonal Coupling Partners in Synthesis and Catalysis" (2020, Accounts of Chemical Research)
  • "Gold-Catalyzed Chemoselective Couplings of Polyfluoroarenes with Aryl Germanes and Downstream Diversification" (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Modular and Selective Arylation of Aryl Germanes (C−GeEt3) over C−Bpin, C−SiR3 and Halogens Enabled by Light-Activated Gold Catalysis" (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • "Catalysis with Palladium(I) Dimers" (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)

Franziska Schoenebeck has collaborated frequently with multiple researchers. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Theresa Sperger
  • Samir Bouayad-Gervais
  • Kari Rissanen
  • Jas S. Ward
  • Julian A. Hueffel

Best Publications

  • Computational Studies of Synthetically Relevant Homogeneous Organometallic Catalysis Involving Ni, Pd, Ir, and Rh: An Overview of Commonly Employed DFT Methods and Mechanistic Insights

    Theresa Sperger;Italo A. Sanhueza;Italo A. Sanhueza;Indrek Kalvet;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • Ligand-Controlled Regioselectivity in Palladium-Catalyzed Cross Coupling Reactions

    Franziska Schoenebeck;K N Houk

  • Fundamental Studies and Development of Nickel-Catalyzed Trifluoromethylthiolation of Aryl Chlorides: Active Catalytic Species and Key Roles of Ligand and Traceless MeCN Additive Revealed

    Guoyin Yin;Indrek Kalvet;Ulli Englert;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • Computation and Experiment: A Powerful Combination to Understand and Predict Reactivities.

    Theresa Sperger;Italo A. Sanhueza;Italo A. Sanhueza;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • Solvent Effect on Palladium‐Catalyzed Cross‐Coupling Reactions and Implications on the Active Catalytic Species

    Fabien Proutiere;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • Reactivity and regioselectivity in 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of azides to strained alkynes and alkenes: a computational study.

    Franziska Schoenebeck;Daniel H. Ess;Gavin O. Jones;K. N. Houk

  • Reactivity and Stability of Dinuclear Pd(I) Complexes: Studies on the Active Catalytic Species, Insights into Precatalyst Activation and Deactivation, and Application in Highly Selective Cross-Coupling Reactions

    Fabien Proutiere;Marialuisa Aufiero;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • Direct α-alkylation of primary aliphatic amines enabled by CO 2 and electrostatics

    Juntao Ye;Indrek Kalvet;Franziska Schoenebeck;Tomislav Rovis

  • Factors That Control C-C Cleavage versus C-H Bond Hydroxylation in Copper-Catalyzed Oxidations of Ketones with O2.

    Althea S.-K. Tsang;Ajoy Kapat;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • Experiment and computation: a combined approach to study the reactivity of palladium complexes in oxidation states 0 to iv

    Karl J. Bonney;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • Trifluoromethylthiolation of Aryl Iodides and Bromides Enabled by a Bench-Stable and Easy-To-Recover Dinuclear Palladium(I) Catalyst†

    Guoyin Yin;Indrek Kalvet;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • E-Olefins through intramolecular radical relocation

    Ajoy Kapat;Theresa Sperger;Sinem Guven;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • Remote C−H alkylation and C−C bond cleavage enabled by an in situ generated palladacycle

    Juntao Ye;Zhihao Shi;Theresa Sperger;Yoshifumi Yasukawa

  • Theoretical Bond Dissociation Energies of Halo-Heterocycles: Trends and Relationships to Regioselectivity in Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions

    Yeimy Garcia;Franziska Schoenebeck;Claude Y. Legault;Craig A. Merlic

  • Highly Efficient C ? SeCF3 Coupling of Aryl Iodides Enabled by an Air‐Stable Dinuclear PdI Catalyst

    Marialuisa Aufiero;Marialuisa Aufiero;Theresa Sperger;Althea S.-K. Tsang;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • A Holy Grail in Chemistry: Computational Catalyst Design: Feasible or Fiction?

    Carl Poree;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • Lewis Acid Assisted Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Aryl Methyl Ethers by C-O Bond-Cleaving Alkylation: Prevention of Undesired β-Hydride Elimination.

    Xiangqian Liu;Chien‐Chi Hsiao;Indrek Kalvet;Matthias Leiendecker

  • Accelerated dinuclear palladium catalyst identification through unsupervised machine learning.

    Julian A. Hueffel;Theresa Sperger;Ignacio Funes-Ardoiz;Jas S. Ward

  • Dinuclear Pd(I) complexes—solely precatalysts? Demonstration of direct reactivity of a Pd(I) dimer with an aryl iodide

    Karl J. Bonney;Fabien Proutiere;Fabien Proutiere;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • Reductive Cleavage of Sulfones and Sulfonamides by a Neutral Organic Super-Electron-Donor (S.E.D.) Reagent

    Fransziska Schoenebeck;John A. Murphy;Sheng-ze Zhou;Yoshitaka Uenoyama

  • Dispersion Makes the Difference: Bisligated Transition States Found for the Oxidative Addition of Pd(PtBu3)2 to Ar-OSO2R and Dispersion-Controlled Chemoselectivity in Reactions with Pd[P(iPr)(tBu2)]2

    Eirik Lyngvi;Eirik Lyngvi;Italo A. Sanhueza;Italo A. Sanhueza;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • Palladium‐Catalyzed Decarbonylative Trifluoromethylation of Acid Fluorides

    Sinead T. Keaveney;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • The Generation of Aryl Anions by Double Electron Transfer to Aryl Iodides from a Neutral Ground-State Organic Super-Electron Donor

    John A. Murphy;Sheng-ze Zhou;Douglas W. Thomson;Franziska Schoenebeck

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. Murphy
John A. Murphy University of Strathclyde
Kendall N. Houk
Kendall N. Houk University of California, Los Angeles
Mark Lautens
Mark Lautens University of Toronto
Magnus Rueping
Magnus Rueping King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Tell Tuttle
Tell Tuttle University of Strathclyde
Kari Rissanen
Kari Rissanen University of Jyväskylä
Ulli Englert
Ulli Englert RWTH Aachen University
Gerhard Raabe
Gerhard Raabe RWTH Aachen University

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