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Gregor Schnakenburg

Gregor Schnakenburg

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Chemistry

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8842
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Overview

Gregor Schnakenburg is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany. Their research spans across multiple disciplines within chemistry and materials science, focusing on both fundamental and applied aspects. They have a substantial publication record primarily in materials chemistry and various subfields of chemistry.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Materials Science
  • Chemistry

Their subfields of study cover:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

The primary research topics addressed in Schnakenburg's work include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry
  • Organophosphorus compounds synthesis
  • N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry

Gregor Schnakenburg's frequently published venues reflect their interdisciplinary research approach and include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "Planar Tetracoordinated Silicon (ptSi): Room-Temperature Stable Compounds Containing Anti-van't Hoff/Le Bel Silicon" (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Fragmentation and [4 + 3] cycloaddition in sodorifen biosynthesis" (2023), Nature Chemistry
  • "A General Iron-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Oxygenation of Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids" (2024), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "A Facile Synthesis of Ligands for the von Hippel-Lindau E3 Ligase" (2020), Synthesis
  • "Substituted pyridine-quinoline ligands as building blocks for neutral rhodium(III) complexes. Synthesis, structural characterization studies and anti-platelet activity towards the Platelet-Activating Factor (PAF)" (2020), Polyhedron

The scientist collaborates regularly with multiple co-authors, including:

  • Rainer Streubel
  • Arturo Espinosa Ferao
  • Renè T. Boeré
  • Zsolt Kelemen

Best Publications

  • Efficient anodic and direct phenol-arene C,C cross-coupling: the benign role of water or methanol.

    Axel Kirste;Bernd Elsler;Gregor Schnakenburg;Siegfried R. Waldvogel

  • Anodic phenol-arene cross-coupling reaction on boron-doped diamond electrodes.

    Axel Kirste;Gregor Schnakenburg;Florian Stecker;Andreas Fischer

  • SiBr2(Idipp): a stable N-heterocyclic carbene adduct of dibromosilylene.

    Alexander C. Filippou;Oleg Chernov;Gregor Schnakenburg

  • Silicon-oxygen double bonds: a stable silanone with a trigonal-planar coordinated silicon center.

    Alexander C. Filippou;Bernhard Baars;Oleg Chernov;Yury N. Lebedev

  • Stable N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Adducts of Arylchlorosilylenes and Their Germanium Homologues

    Alexander C. Filippou;Oleg Chernov;Burgert Blom;Kai W. Stumpf

  • Metal–Silicon Triple Bonds: The Molybdenum Silylidyne Complex [Cp(CO)2Mo≡Si‐R]

    Alexander C. Filippou;Oleg Chernov;Kai W. Stumpf;Gregor Schnakenburg

  • Silicon(II) Coordination Chemistry: N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Si2+ and SiI+

    Alexander C. Filippou;Yury N. Lebedev;Oleg Chernov;Martin Straßmann

  • Pyridine-bridged benzimidazolium salts: synthesis, aggregation, and application as phase-transfer catalysts.

    Tao Tu;Wilfried Assenmacher;Herwig Peterlik;Gregor Schnakenburg

  • SiSi Double Bonds: Synthesis of an NHC‐Stabilized Disilavinylidene

    Priyabrata Ghana;Marius I. Arz;Ujjal Das;Gregor Schnakenburg

  • Diastereoselective self-assembly of dinuclear heterochiral metallosupramolecular rhombs in a self-discriminating process.

    Torsten Weilandt;Ulf Kiehne;Gregor Schnakenburg;Arne Lützen

  • Homochiral supramolecular M2L4 cages by high-fidelity self-sorting of chiral ligands.

    Christoph Gütz;Rainer Hovorka;Gregor Schnakenburg;Arne Lützen

  • Lahorenoic acids A–C, ortho-dialkyl-substituted aromatic acids from the biocontrol strain Pseudomonas aurantiaca PB-St2

    S. Mehnaz;R. S. Z. Saleem;B. Yameen;I. Pianet

  • Chromium-silicon multiple bonds: the chemistry of terminal N-heterocyclic-carbene-stabilized halosilylidyne ligands.

    Alexander C. Filippou;Oleg Chernov;Gregor Schnakenburg

  • Metal Activation of a Germylenoid, a New Approach to Metal–Germanium Triple Bonds: Synthesis and Reactions of the Germylidyne Complexes [Cp(CO)2M≡Ge–C(SiMe3)3] (M = Mo, W)

    Alexander C. Filippou;Kai W. Stumpf;Oleg Chernov;Gregor Schnakenburg

  • Diversity‐Oriented Synthesis of Polycyclic Scaffolds by Modification of an Anodic Product Derived from 2,4‐Dimethylphenol

    Joaquin Barjau;Gregor Schnakenburg;Siegfried R. Waldvogel

  • 4-exo cyclizations by template catalysis.

    Andreas Gansäuer;Dennis Worgull;Karsten Knebel;Inga Huth

  • Self-discriminating self-assembly of dinuclear heterochiral rhombs from Tröger's base derived bis(pyridyl) ligands.

    Torsten Weilandt;Ulf Kiehne;Jens Bunzen;Gregor Schnakenburg

  • Triple Bond to Lead: Synthesis and Characterization of the Plumbylidyne Complex <i>trans</i>‐[Br(PMe<sub>3</sub>)<sub>4</sub>MoPbC<sub>6</sub>H<sub>3</sub>‐2,6‐Trip<sub>2</sub>]

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  • Anodic Coupling of Guaiacol Derivatives on Boron-Doped Diamond Electrodes

    Axel Kirste;Gregor Schnakenburg;Siegfried R. Waldvogel

  • Anodische Phenol-Aren-Kreuzkupplung an bordotierten Diamantelektroden

    Axel Kirste;Gregor Schnakenburg;Florian Stecker;Andreas Fischer

  • SiP Double Bonds: Experimental and Theoretical Study of an NHC‐Stabilized Phosphasilenylidene

    Daniel Geiß;Marius I. Arz;Martin Straßmann;Gregor Schnakenburg

Frequent Co-Authors

Siegfried R. Waldvogel
Siegfried R. Waldvogel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Michael Gütschow
Michael Gütschow University of Bonn
Stefan Grimme
Stefan Grimme University of Bonn
Olav Schiemann
Olav Schiemann University of Bonn
László Nyulászi
László Nyulászi Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Martin Nieger
Martin Nieger University of Helsinki
Anthony J. Arduengo
Anthony J. Arduengo University of Alabama
Andreas J. Meyer
Andreas J. Meyer University of Bonn
Antonio Frontera
Antonio Frontera University of the Balearic Islands
Karl Heinz Dötz
Karl Heinz Dötz University of Bonn

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