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Herbert W. Roesky

Herbert W. Roesky

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Chemistry
Germany
2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
101
Citations
50012
World Ranking
1200
National Ranking
92

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Herbert W. Roesky is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of chemistry, with a focus primarily on organic and inorganic chemistry. Their research spans several subfields including Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Process Chemistry and Technology, and Molecular Biology.

The primary topics of Herbert W. Roesky's work include:

  • Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds
  • Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics
  • N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Inorganic Chemistry and Materials

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Roesky are:

  • Regine Herbst-Irmer (36 collaborations)
  • Dietmar Stalke (36 collaborations)
  • Mohd Nazish (17 collaborations)
  • Samir Kumar Sarkar (13 collaborations)
  • Zhi Yang (10 collaborations)

Roesky has published numerous articles in several prominent scientific journals. The most frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Dalton Transactions (11 publications)
  • Chemistry - A European Journal (9 publications)
  • Inorganic Chemistry (8 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (5 publications)
  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (4 publications)

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Herbert W. Roesky include:

  • "Recent Advances in the Domain of Cyclic (Alkyl)(Amino) Carbenes," 2022, Chemistry - An Asian Journal
  • "Recent Advances in Aluminum Compounds for Catalysis," 2022, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Donor-Stabilized Antimony(I) and Bismuth(I) Ions: Heavier Valence Isoelectronic Analogues of Carbones," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "An Electron-Rich Cyclic (Alkyl)(Amino)Carbene on Au(111), Ag(111), and Cu(111) Surfaces," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Nature inspired singlet oxygen generation to access α-amino carbonyl compounds via 1,2-acyl migration," 2020, Green Chemistry

Best Publications

  • The interplay of coordinative, hydrogen bonding and π–π stacking interactions in sustaining supramolecular solid-state architectures.

    Herbert W Roesky;Marius Andruh

  • Hetero- and Metallasiloxanes Derived from Silanediols, Disilanols, Silanetriols, and Trisilanols

    Ramaswamy Murugavel;Andreas Voigt;Mrinalini Ganapati Walawalkar;Herbert W. Roesky

  • Synthesis and Structure of a Monomeric Aluminum(I) Compound [{HC(CMeNAr)2}Al] (Ar=2,6–iPr2C6H3): A Stable Aluminum Analogue of a Carbene

    Chunming Cui;Herbert W. Roesky;Hans-Georg Schmidt;Mathias Noltemeyer

  • Lewis Base Stabilized Dichlorosilylene

    Rajendra S. Ghadwal;Herbert W. Roesky;Sebastian Merkel;Julian Henn

  • The Chemistry of Aluminum(I), Silicon(II), and Germanium(II)

    Selvarajan Nagendran;Herbert W. Roesky

  • Synthesis and Characterization of [PhC(NtBu)2]SiCl: A Stable Monomeric Chlorosilylene†

    Cheuk-Wai So;Herbert W. Roesky;Jörg Magull;Rainer B. Oswald

  • Organometallic Fluorides: Compounds Containing Carbon−Metal−Fluorine Fragments of d-Block Metals†

    Eamonn F. Murphy;Ramaswamy Murugavel;Herbert W. Roesky

  • High Yield Access to Silylene RSiCl (R = PhC(NtBu)2) and Its Reactivity toward Alkyne: Synthesis of Stable Disilacyclobutene

    Sakya S. Sen;Herbert W. Roesky;Daniel Stern;Julian Henn

  • Transformations of molecules and secondary building units to materials: a bottom-up approach.

    R. Murugavel;M. G. Walawalkar;Meenakshi Dan;H. W. Roesky

  • A Simple Synthesis of [(Cp*Al)4] and Its Conversion to the Heterocubanes [(Cp*AlSe)4] and [(Cp*AlTe)4] (Cp* = η5‐C5(CH3)5)

    Stephan Schulz;Herbert W. Roesky;Hans Joachim Koch;George M. Sheldrick

  • A Stable Singlet Biradicaloid Siladicarbene: (L:)2Si

    Kartik Chandra Mondal;Herbert W. Roesky;Martin C. Schwarzer;Gernot Frenking

  • Cyclic Alkyl(amino) Carbene Stabilized Complexes with Low Coordinate Metals of Enduring Nature.

    Sudipta Roy;Kartik Chandra Mondal;Herbert W. Roesky

  • Synthesis and Structures of Monomeric Divalent Germanium and Tin Compounds Containing a Bulky Diketiminato Ligand

    Yuqiang Ding;Herbert W. Roesky;and Mathias Noltemeyer;Hans-Georg Schmidt

  • Acyclic Germylones: Congeners of Allenes with a Central Germanium Atom

    Yan Li;Kartik Chandra Mondal;Herbert W Roesky;Hongping Zhu

  • Discrete Silanetriols: Building Blocks for Three-Dimensional Metallasiloxanes

    Ramaswamy Murugavel;Vadapalli Chandrasekhar;Herbert W. Roesky

  • Group 14 hydrides with low valent elements for activation of small molecules.

    Swadhin K Mandal;Herbert W Roesky

  • Dichlorosilylene: a high temperature transient species to an indispensable building block.

    Rajendra S. Ghadwal;Ramachandran Azhakar;Herbert W. Roesky

  • An Aluminum Hydride That Functions like a Transition-Metal Catalyst

    Zhi Yang;Mingdong Zhong;Xiaoli Ma;Susmita De

  • Oxidative Addition of Ammonia at a Silicon(II) Center and an Unprecedented Hydrogenation Reaction of Compounds with Low-Valent Group 14 Elements Using Ammonia Borane

    Anukul Jana;Carola Schulzke;Herbert W. Roesky

  • Molecular Phosphonate Cages: Model Compounds and Starting Materials for Phosphate Materials‡

    Mrinalini G. Walawalkar;Herbert W. Roesky;Ramaswamy Murugavel

  • The synthesis and structure of lithium derivatives of the sterically encumbered β-diketiminate ligand [{(2,6-Pri2H3C6)N(CH3)C}2CH]−, and a modified synthesis of the aminoimine precursor

    Matthias Stender;Robert J. Wright;Barrett E. Eichler;Jörg Prust

Frequent Co-Authors

Mathias Noltemeyer
Mathias Noltemeyer University of Göttingen
Dietmar Stalke
Dietmar Stalke University of Göttingen
Hans-Georg Schmidt
Hans-Georg Schmidt University of Göttingen
George M. Sheldrick
George M. Sheldrick University of Göttingen
Regine Herbst-Irmer
Regine Herbst-Irmer University of Göttingen
Ramaswamy Murugavel
Ramaswamy Murugavel Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Frank T. Edelmann
Frank T. Edelmann Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Peter G. Jones
Peter G. Jones Technische Universität Braunschweig
Gernot Frenking
Gernot Frenking Philipp University of Marburg
Birger Dittrich
Birger Dittrich Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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