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2026

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D-Index
113
Citations
53155
World Ranking
699
National Ranking
51

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

Helmut Schwarz is affiliated with the Technical University of Berlin in Germany. Their research spans several intersecting fields primarily focusing on catalysis, materials chemistry, and chemical physics. The scientist's work is distributed across key subfields including Catalysis, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Spectroscopy.

Research topics addressed by Helmut Schwarz include:

  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis

The scientific contributions are frequently published in several specialized venues. The most common publication sources are:

  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Nachrichten aus der Chemie
  • Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
  • Mass Spectrometry Reviews

Helmut Schwarz has coauthored numerous papers with several researchers, the most frequent collaborators being:

  • Thomas Weiske
  • Jilai Li
  • Caiyun Geng
  • Mingfei Zhou
  • Jun Li

Recent published works by Helmut Schwarz include:

  • Counter-Intuitive Gas-Phase Reactivities of [V2]+ and [V2O]+ towards CO2 Reduction: Insight from Electronic Structure Calculations, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • On the Crucial Role of Isolated Electronic States in the Thermal Reaction of ReC+ with Dihydrogen, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • On the Crucial Role of Isolated Electronic States in the Thermal Reaction of ReC+ with Dihydrogen, 2020, Angewandte Chemie
  • Revisiting the Intriguing Electronic Features of the BeOBeC Carbyne and Some Isomers: A Quantum-Chemical Assessment, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Counter-Intuitive Gas-Phase Reactivities of [V2]+ and [V2O]+ towards CO2 Reduction: Insight from Electronic Structure Calculations, 2020, Angewandte Chemie

Best Publications

  • Two-State Reactivity as a New Concept in Organometallic Chemistry§

    Detlef Schröder;Sason Shaik;Helmut Schwarz

  • Organometallic chemistry in the gas phase

    Karsten. Eller;Helmut. Schwarz

  • Gas-phase catalysis by atomic and cluster metal ions: the ultimate single-site catalysts.

    Diethard K. Böhme;Helmut Schwarz

  • The singlet and triplet states of phenyl cation. A hybrid approach for locating minimum energy crossing points between non-interacting potential energy surfaces

    Jeremy N. Harvey;Massimiliano Aschi;Helmut Schwarz;Wolfram Koch

  • Chemistry with Methane: Concepts Rather than Recipes

    Helmut Schwarz

  • CH and CC Bond Activation by Bare Transition‐Metal Oxide Cations in the Gas Phase

    Detlef Schröder;Helmut Schwarz

  • Thermal hydrogen-atom transfer from methane: the role of radicals and spin states in oxo-cluster chemistry.

    Nicolas Dietl;Maria Schlangen;Helmut Schwarz;Helmut Schwarz

  • On the Question of Stability, Conjugation, and “Aromaticity” in Imidazol-2-ylidenes and Their Silicon Analogs†

    Christoph Heinemann;Thomas Müller;Yitzhak Apeloig;Helmut Schwarz

  • Relativistic effects in gas-phase ion chemistry: An experimentalist's view

    Helmut Schwarz

  • GENERATION, STABILITY, AND REACTIVITY OF SMALL, MULTIPLY CHARGED IONS IN THE GAS PHASE

    Detlef Schröder;Helmut Schwarz

  • On the spin-forbiddeness of gas-phase ion–molecule reactions: a fruitful intersection of experimental and computational studies

    Helmut Schwarz

  • Electronic Structure Makes a Difference: Cytochrome P-450 Mediated Hydroxylations of Hydrocarbons as a Two-State Reactivity Paradigm

    Sason Shaik;Michael Filatov;Detlef Schröder;Helmut Schwarz

  • GAS-PHASE CHEMISTRY OF COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED IONS

    K. Levsen;H. Schwarz

  • Two-state reactivity mechanisms of hydroxylation and epoxidation by cytochrome P-450 revealed by theory.

    Sason Shaik;Samuël P de Visser;François Ogliaro;Helmut Schwarz

  • Two‐State Reactivity in Organometallic Gas‐Phase Ion Chemistry

    Sason Shaik;David Danovich;Andreas Fiedler;Detlef Schröder

  • Endohedral Cluster Compounds: Inclusion of Helium within C 60•⊕ and C 70•⊕ through Collision Experiments

    Thomas Weiske;Diethard K. Böhme;Jan Hrušák;Wolfgang Krätschmer

  • Electronic Structures and Gas-Phase Reactivities of Cationic Late-Transition-Metal Oxides

    A. Fiedler;D. Schroder;S. Shaik;H. Schwarz

  • Cationic Gold(I) Complexes of Xenon and of Ligands Containing the Donor Atoms Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur †

    Detlef Schröder;Helmut Schwarz;and Jan Hrušák;Pekka Pyykkö

  • Activation of hydrogen and methane by thermalized FeO+ in the gas phase as studied by multiple mass spectrometric techniques

    Detlef Schröder;Helmut Schwarz;David E. Clemmer;Yumin Chen

  • Gas-phase activation of methane by ligated transition-metal cations

    Detlef Schröder;Helmut Schwarz

  • Collisional Activation Mass Spectrometry—A New Probe for Determining the Structure of Ions in the Gas Phase

    Karsten Levsen;Helmut Schwarz

Frequent Co-Authors

Detlef Schröder
Detlef Schröder Czech Academy of Sciences
Wolfram Koch
Wolfram Koch German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker)
Ferdinand Bohlmann
Ferdinand Bohlmann Technical University of Berlin
Carlito B. Lebrilla
Carlito B. Lebrilla University of California, Davis
Christoph A. Schalley
Christoph A. Schalley Freie Universität Berlin
Jana Roithová
Jana Roithová Radboud University
Diethard K. Bohme
Diethard K. Bohme York University
Xiaoyan Sun
Xiaoyan Sun University of Science and Technology of China
Xinhao Zhang
Xinhao Zhang Peking University

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