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Konrad Seppelt is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Their research spans several areas within the chemical sciences, focusing primarily on chemistry, materials science, and pharmacology, toxicology, and pharmaceutics.

The scientist's work is concentrated in several subfields, including materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, pharmaceutical science, and physical and theoretical chemistry. Their research topics cover a range of specialized areas such as fluorine in organic chemistry, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, organoselenium and organotellurium chemistry, inorganic fluorides and related compounds, crystallography and molecular interactions, and metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications.

Seppelt's recent publications illustrate a focus on inorganic chemistry and crystallographic studies. Notable papers include:

  • From Missing Links to New Records: A Series of Novel Polychlorine Anions (2020) published in European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • Attempts to Synthesize a Thiirane, Selenirane, and Thiirene by Dealkylation of Chalcogeniranium and Thiirenium Salts (2020) published in Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Cover Feature: Attempts to Synthesize a Thiirane, Selenirane, and Thiirene by Dealkylation of Chalcogeniranium and Thiirenium Salts (Chem. Eur. J. 2/2021) (2020) published in Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Professor Alois Haas - Obituary (2024) published in Journal of Fluorine Chemistry
  • CCDC 2031712: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination (2021) published in The Cambridge Structural Database

The scientist frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, which includes Moritz Malischewski, Patrick Voßnacker, Thomas Keilhack, Nico Schwarze, and Karsten Sonnenberg, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Seppelt's research findings have appeared repeatedly in a number of publication venues, with significant contributions to The Cambridge Structural Database, Chemistry - A European Journal, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, and the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Xenon as a Complex Ligand: The Tetra Xenono Gold(II) Cation in AuXe42+(Sb2F11−)2

    Stefan Seidel;Konrad Seppelt

  • Crystal and Molecular Structures of Hexamethyltungsten and Hexamethylrhenium

    Valerie Pfennig;Konrad Seppelt

  • Introduction: Fluorine Chemistry

    Veronique Gouverneur;Konrad Seppelt

  • Electrochemical, Spectroscopic, and DFT Study of C60(CF3)n Frontier Orbitals (n = 2−18): The Link between Double Bonds in Pentagons and Reduction Potentials

    Alexey A. Popov;Ivan E. Kareev;Natalia B. Shustova;Evgeny B. Stukalin

  • Isolation and structural and electronic characterization of salts of the decamethylferrocene dication

    M. Malischewski;M. Adelhardt;J. Sutter;K. Meyer

  • Trifluoromethyl Derivatives of Insoluble Small-HOMO−LUMO-Gap Hollow Higher Fullerenes. NMR and DFT Structure Elucidation of C2-(C74-D3h)(CF3)12, Cs-(C76-Td(2))(CF3)12, C2-(C78-D3h(5))(CF3)12, Cs-(C80-C2v(5))(CF3)12, and C2-(C82-C2(5))(CF3)12

    Natalia B. Shustova;Igor V. Kuvychko;Robert D. Bolskar;Konrad Seppelt

  • Synthesis, structure, and 19F NMR spectra of 1,3,7,10,14,17,23,28,31,40-C60(CF3)10.

    Ivan E. Kareev;Igor V. Kuvychko;Sergey F. Lebedkin;Susie M. Miller

  • “Noncoordinating” Anions, II†

    Konrad Seppelt

  • Trifluoromethanol (CF3OH) and trifluoromethylamine (CF3NH2)

    Gerhard Kloeter;Konrad Seppelt

  • Synthesis and X-ray or NMR/DFT structure elucidation of twenty-one new trifluoromethyl derivatives of soluble cage isomers of C76, C78, C84, and C90.

    Ivan E. Kareev;Alexey A. Popov;Igor V. Kuvychko;Natalia B. Shustova

  • The Xe 2+ Ion—Preparation and Structure

    Thomas Drews;Konrad Seppelt

  • Tris((trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl)methane, HC(SO2CF3)3

    Lutz Turowsky;Konrad Seppelt

  • Molecular Hexafluorides

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  • First detection of a selenenyl fluoride ArSe-F by NMR spectroscopy: The nature of Ar2Se2/XeF2 and ArSe-SiMe3/XeF2 reagents

    Helmut Poleschner;Konrad Seppelt

  • Gold Pentafluoride: Structure and Fluoride Ion Affinity This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Fond der Chemischen Industrie.

    In-Chul Hwang;Konrad Seppelt

  • Reactions of the “Naked” Fluoride Ion: Syntheses and Structures of SeF and BrF

    Ali Reza Mahjoub;Xiongzhi Zhang;Konrad Seppelt

  • Stability of xenon(II) compounds. Pentafluorooxyselenium and pentafluorooxytellurium radicals. Bis(pentafluorotellurium) peroxide and chlorine pentafluoroorthotellurate

    Konrad Seppelt;Dietrich Nothe

  • Preparation and Structures of [W(CH3)6], [Re(CH3)6], [Nb(CH3)6]−, and [Ta(CH3)6]−

    Sven Kleinhenz;Valérie Pfennig;Konrad Seppelt

  • The Two Structures of the Hexafluorobenzene Radical Cation C6F6.

    Hashem Shorafa;Doreen Mollenhauer;Beate Paulus;Konrad Seppelt

  • Isolation and Structure of the OCNCO+ Ion

    Ingrid Bernhardi;Thomas Drews;Konrad Seppelt

  • Trifluoroethylidynesulfur trifluoride, CF3C.tplbond.SF3, and its dimer

    Brigitte Poetter;Konrad Seppelt;Arndt Simon;Eva Maria Peters

  • Crystal Structure Determination of the Pentagonal-Pyramidal Hexamethylbenzene Dication C6 (CH3 )62.

    Moritz Malischewski;K. Seppelt

  • Stabilization of Unusual Oxidation and Coordination States by the Ligands OSF5, OSeF5, and OTeF5

    Konrad Seppelt

  • Discovering and Verifying Elusive Fullerene Cage Isomers: Structures of C2‒p11-(C74-D3h)(CF3)12 and C2‒p11‒(C78‒D3h(5))(CF3)12†

    Natalia B. Shustova;Brian S. Newell;Susie M. Miller;Oren P. Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven H. Strauss
Steven H. Strauss Colorado State University
Hans Pritzkow
Hans Pritzkow Heidelberg University
Olga V. Boltalina
Olga V. Boltalina Colorado State University
Peter Luger
Peter Luger Freie Universität Berlin
Alexey A. Popov
Alexey A. Popov Leibniz Association
Arndt Simon
Arndt Simon Max Planck Society
Helge Willner
Helge Willner University of Wuppertal
David H. Templeton
David H. Templeton University of California, Berkeley
Ali Reza Mahjoub
Ali Reza Mahjoub Tarbiat Modares University
James E. Boggs
James E. Boggs The University of Texas at Austin

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