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Lutz H. Gade is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on materials science and chemistry. Within these broad domains, Gade has contributed extensively to materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallography and Molecular Interactions
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry

Gade has published research in various scientific venues, frequently appearing in:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Their recent scientific papers showcase a broad interest in organometallic and inorganic catalysis, as well as structural motifs in coordination chemistry. These include:

  • "Reaction Pathways and Redox States in α-Selective Cobalt-Catalyzed Hydroborations of Alkynes" (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • "Phosphines and N-Heterocycles Joining Forces: an Emerging Structural Motif in PNP-Pincer Chemistry" (2020, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry)
  • "3d Metal Complexes in T-shaped Geometry as a Gateway to Metalloradical Reactivity" (2022, Accounts of Chemical Research)
  • "Opening up the Valence Shell: A T-Shaped Iron(I) Metalloradical and Its Potential for Atom Abstraction" (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • "Toward a Neutral Single-Component Amidinate Iodide Aluminum Catalyst for the CO2 Fixation into Cyclic Carbonates" (2020, Inorganic Chemistry)

Frequent collaborators in Gade's work indicate interdisciplinary engagement within the field. These coauthors include:

  • Hubert Wadepohl
  • Clemens K. Blasius
  • Jonas C. Ott
  • Joachim Ballmann
  • Tim Bruckhoff

Best Publications

  • Chiral N-heterocyclic carbenes as stereodirecting ligands in asymmetric catalysis

    Vincent César;Stéphane Bellemin-Laponnaz;Lutz H. Gade

  • Highly Polar Metal-Metal Bonds in "Early-Late" Heterodimetallic Complexes.

    Lutz H. Gade

  • Mixed oxazoline-carbenes as stereodirecting ligands for asymmetric catalysis

    Lutz H. Gade;Stéphane Bellemin-Laponnaz

  • Chiral bis(pyridylimino)isoindoles: a highly modular class of pincer ligands for enantioselective catalysis.

    Björn K. Langlotz;Hubert Wadepohl;Lutz H. Gade

  • A modular assembly of chiral oxazolinylcarbene-rhodium complexes: efficient phosphane-free catalysts for the asymmetric hydrosilylation of dialkyl ketones.

    Lutz H. Gade;Vincent César;Stéphane Bellemin-Laponnaz

  • Enantioselective Iron-Catalyzed Azidation of β-Keto Esters and Oxindoles

    Qing-Hai Deng;Tim Bleith;Hubert Wadepohl;Lutz H. Gade

  • Highly enantioselective copper-catalyzed electrophilic trifluoromethylation of β-ketoesters.

    Qing-Hai Deng;Hubert Wadepohl;Lutz H. Gade

  • Transforming Surface Coordination Polymers into Covalent Surface Polymers: Linked Polycondensed Aromatics through Oligomerization of N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Intermediates

    Manfred Matena;Till Riehm;Meike Stöhr;Thomas A. Jung

  • Direct Coupling of Oxazolines and N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: A Modular Approach to a New Class of C−N Donor Ligands for Homogeneous Catalysis

    Vincent César;and Stéphane Bellemin-Laponnaz;Lutz H. Gade

  • Taming early transition metals: the use of polydentate amido-donor ligands to create well defined reactive sites in reagents and catalysts

    Lutz H. Gade

  • New transition metal imido chemistry with diamido-donor ligands

    Lutz H Gade;Philip Mountford

  • Van der Waals interactions and the limits of isolated atom models at interfaces

    Shigeki Kawai;Adam S. Foster;Torbjörn Björkman;Torbjörn Björkman;Sylwia Nowakowska

  • Controlling molecular assembly in two dimensions: the concentration dependence of thermally induced 2D aggregation of molecules on a metal surface

    Meike Stöhr;Markus Wahl;Christian H. Galka;Till Riehm

  • C3 chirality in polymerization catalysis: a highly active dicationic scandium(III) catalyst for the isoselective polymerization of 1-hexene.

    Benjamin David Ward;Stephane Bellemin-Laponnaz;Lutz H. Gade

  • Copper–Boxmi Complexes as Highly Enantioselective Catalysts for Electrophilic Trifluoromethylthiolations

    Qing‐Hai Deng;Christoph Rettenmeier;Hubert Wadepohl;Lutz H. Gade

  • The nature of the catalytically active species in olefin dioxygenation with PhI(OAc)2: metal or proton?

    Yan-Biao Kang;Lutz H. Gade

  • Band Formation from Coupled Quantum Dots Formed by a Nanoporous Network on a Copper Surface

    Jorge Lobo-Checa;Manfred Matena;Kathrin Müller;Jan Hugo Dil;Jan Hugo Dil

  • Tripodal amido complexes: molecular "claws" in main group and transition metal chemistry.

    Lutz H. Gade

  • The synthesis of a new class of chiral pincer ligands and their applications in enantioselective catalytic fluorinations and the Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi reaction.

    Qing‐Hai Deng;Hubert Wadepohl;Lutz H. Gade

  • Iron achieves noble metal reactivity and selectivity: highly reactive and enantioselective iron complexes as catalysts in the hydrosilylation of ketones.

    Tim Bleith;Hubert Wadepohl;Lutz H. Gade

Frequent Co-Authors

Hubert Wadepohl
Hubert Wadepohl Heidelberg University
Mary McPartlin
Mary McPartlin University of Cambridge
Stéphane Bellemin-Laponnaz
Stéphane Bellemin-Laponnaz University of Strasbourg
Thomas A. Jung
Thomas A. Jung Paul Scherrer Institute
Jack Lewis
Jack Lewis University of Cambridge
Philip Mountford
Philip Mountford University of Oxford
Brian F. G. Johnson
Brian F. G. Johnson University of Cambridge
Dominic S. Wright
Dominic S. Wright University of Cambridge
Matti Haukka
Matti Haukka University of Jyväskylä
Hagen Klauk
Hagen Klauk Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

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