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Karl Kirchner

Karl Kirchner

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Chemistry

D-Index
65
Citations
12442
World Ranking
7815
National Ranking
46

Overview

Karl Kirchner is affiliated with TU Wien in Austria and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their research output encompasses 148 publications in Materials Science and 91 in Chemistry, with a strong emphasis on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry. They also have work related to Process Chemistry and Technology as well as Oncology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties

Karl Kirchner has published frequently in several scientific venues, with a high number of contributions to The Cambridge Structural Database (71 publications), Organometallics (10 publications), ACS Catalysis (6 publications), Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly (6 publications), and ChemCatChem (3 publications).

Their recent papers include:

  • Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation to Formate Catalyzed by a Bench-Stable, Non-Pincer-Type Mn(I) Alkylcarbonyl Complex, 2021, Organometallics
  • Manganese-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Silylation of Alkenes Following Two Parallel Inner-Sphere Pathways, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Manganese-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Ketones under Mild and Base-free Conditions, 2021, Organometallics
  • E-Selective Manganese-Catalyzed Semihydrogenation of Alkynes with H 2 Directly Employed or In Situ-Generated, 2022, ACS Catalysis
  • Hydroboration of Terminal Alkenes and trans -1,2-Diboration of Terminal Alkynes Catalyzed by a Manganese(I) Alkyl Complex, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Coauthorship is an important part of their scientific collaborations. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Berthold Stöger (64 co-publications)
  • Luís F. Veiros (50 co-publications)
  • Jan Pecak (32 co-publications)
  • Daniel Himmelbauer (28 co-publications)
  • W. Ernst Eder (25 co-publications)

Karl Kirchner has also contributed to academic literature through book publications. Notably, one book published with Springer Science+Business Media is titled Metal-Ligand Co-operativity (2021), which has garnered citations reflecting its influence within the field.

Best Publications

  • Modularly designed transition metal PNP and PCP pincer complexes based on aminophosphines: synthesis and catalytic applications.

    David Benito-Garagorri;Karl Kirchner

  • Sustainable Synthesis of Quinolines and Pyrimidines Catalyzed by Manganese PNP Pincer Complexes.

    Matthias Mastalir;Mathias Glatz;Ernst Pittenauer;Günter Allmaier

  • Isoelectronic Manganese and Iron Hydrogenation/Dehydrogenation Catalysts: Similarities and Divergences

    Nikolaus Gorgas;Karl Kirchner

  • Divergent Coupling of Alcohols and Amines Catalyzed by Isoelectronic Hydride MnI and FeII PNP Pincer Complexes

    Matthias Mastalir;Mathias Glatz;Nikolaus Gorgas;Berthold Stöger

  • Mechanism for the cyclotrimerization of alkynes and related reactions catalyzed by CpRuCl.

    Karl Kirchner;Maria José Calhorda;Roland Schmid;Luís F Veiros

  • Achiral and Chiral Transition Metal Complexes with Modularly Designed Tridentate PNP Pincer-Type Ligands Based on N-Heterocyclic Diamines

    † David Benito-Garagorri;Eva Becker;Julia Wiedermann;Wolfgang Lackner

  • RUTHENIUM-CATALYZED DIMERIZATION OF TERMINAL ALKYNES INITIATED BY A NEUTRAL VINYLIDENE COMPLEX

    Christian Slugovc;Kurt Mereiter;Erich Zobetz;Roland Schmid

  • Stable, Yet Highly Reactive Nonclassical Iron(II) Polyhydride Pincer Complexes: Z-Selective Dimerization and Hydroboration of Terminal Alkynes.

    Nikolaus Gorgas;Luis G. Alves;Berthold Stöger;Ana M. Martins

  • Carbon dioxide hydrogenation catalysed by well-defined Mn(i) PNP pincer hydride complexes.

    Federica Bertini;Mathias Glatz;Nikolaus Gorgas;Berthold Stöger

  • Co(II) PCP Pincer Complexes as Catalysts for the Alkylation of Aromatic Amines with Primary Alcohols

    Matthias Mastalir;Gerald Tomsu;Ernst Pittenauer;Günter Allmaier

  • Manganese-Catalyzed Aminomethylation of Aromatic Compounds with Methanol as a Sustainable C1 Building Block

    Matthias Mastalir;Ernst Pittenauer;Günter Allmaier;Karl Kirchner

  • Ruthenium Tris(pyrazolyl)borate Complexes. 1. Synthesis and Reactivity of Ru(HB(pz)3)(COD)X (X = Cl, Br) and Ru(HB(pz)3)(L2)Cl (L = Nitrogen and Phosphorus Donor Ligands)

    Christian Gemel;Gregor Trimmel;Christian Slugovc;Sabine Kremel

  • Chemoselective Hydrogenation of Aldehydes under Mild, Base-Free Conditions: Manganese Outperforms Rhenium

    Mathias Glatz;Berthold Stöger;Daniel Himmelbauer;Luis F. Veiros

  • Efficient and Mild Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation to Formate Catalyzed by Fe(II) Hydrido Carbonyl Complexes Bearing 2,6-(Diaminopyridyl)diphosphine Pincer Ligands

    Federica Bertini;Nikolaus Gorgas;Berthold Stöger;Maurizio Peruzzini

  • Non-precious metal complexes with an anionic PCP pincer architecture

    Sathiyamoorthy Murugesan;Karl Kirchner

  • Stereospecific and reversible CO binding at iron pincer complexes

    David Benito-Garagorri;Michael Puchberger;Kurt Mereiter;Karl Kirchner

  • Efficient Hydrogenation of Ketones and Aldehydes Catalyzed by Well-Defined Iron(II) PNP Pincer Complexes: Evidence for an Insertion Mechanism

    Nikolaus Gorgas;Berthold Stöger;Luis F. Veiros;Ernst Pittenauer

  • Enantioselective Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by a Manganese Complex Containing an Unsymmetrical Chiral PNP′ Tridentate Ligand

    Afrooz Zirakzadeh;Sara R. M. M. de Aguiar;Berthold Stöger;Michael Widhalm

  • Highly Efficient and Selective Hydrogenation of Aldehydes: A Well-Defined Fe(II) Catalyst Exhibits Noble-Metal Activity.

    Nikolaus Gorgas;Berthold Stöger;Luis F. Veiros;Karl Kirchner

  • Chemistry of coordinatively unsaturated organoruthenium amidinates as entry to homogeneous catalysis

    Hideo Nagashima;Hideo Kondo;Taizo Hayashida;Yoshitaka Yamaguchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis F. Veiros
Luis F. Veiros Instituto Superior Técnico
Christian Slugovc
Christian Slugovc Graz University of Technology
Roland M. Schmid
Roland M. Schmid Technical University of Munich
Christian Gemel
Christian Gemel Technical University of Munich
Maria José Calhorda
Maria José Calhorda University of Lisbon
Maurizio Peruzzini
Maurizio Peruzzini National Research Council (CNR)
Hideo Nagashima
Hideo Nagashima Kyushu University
Luca Gonsalvi
Luca Gonsalvi National Research Council (CNR)

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