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Overview

Martin Albrecht is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple areas within materials science and chemistry, focusing particularly on catalysis and crystallography. With over 203 publications in materials science and 157 in chemistry, they contribute extensively to both main fields and specialized subfields including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, and process chemistry and technology.

Their main topics of research cover a wide array of specialized areas such as crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, N-heterocyclic carbenes in organic and inorganic chemistry, crystallography and molecular interactions, carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis, and catalytic cross-coupling reactions.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Catalyst design for highly efficient carbon dioxide hydrogenation to formic acid under buffering conditions," 2020, Journal of Catalysis
  • "Donor-Flexible Bis(pyridylidene amide) Ligands for Highly Efficient Ruthenium-Catalyzed Olefin Oxidation," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "An Iron-Mesoionic Carbene Complex for Catalytic Intramolecular C-H Amination Utilizing Organic Azides," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "A Low-Coordinate Iridium Complex with a Donor-Flexible O,N-Ligand for Highly Efficient Formic Acid Dehydrogenation," 2022, ACS Catalysis
  • "N-Heterocyclic carbene iron complexes catalyze the ring-opening polymerization of lactide," 2022, Catalysis Science & Technology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Wowa Stroek, J. W. Niemantsverdriet, Simone Bertini, Marta Olivares, and Martin Keilwerth. This reflects a diverse collaborative network that supports interdisciplinary approaches within their work.

Their publications are commonly featured in prominent venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Dalton Transactions, Organometallics, Chemistry - A European Journal, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Platinum Group Organometallics Based on “Pincer” Complexes: Sensors, Switches, and Catalysts

    Martin Albrecht;Gerard van Koten

  • Beyond Conventional N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Abnormal, Remote, and Other Classes of NHC Ligands with Reduced Heteroatom Stabilization

    Oliver Schuster;Liangru Yang;Helgard G Raubenheimer;Martin Albrecht

  • Cyclometalation Using d-Block Transition Metals: Fundamental Aspects and Recent Trends

    Martin Albrecht

  • Beyond catalysis: N-heterocyclic carbene complexes as components for medicinal, luminescent, and functional materials applications.

    Laszlo Mercs;Martin Albrecht;Martin Albrecht

  • Catalytic Activity of Faceted Gold Nanoparticles Studied by a Model Reaction: Evidence for Substrate-Induced Surface Restructuring

    Stefanie Wunder;Yan Lu;Martin Albrecht;Matthias Ballauff

  • Organoplatinum crystals for gas-triggered switches

    Martin Albrecht;Martin Lutz;Anthony L. Spek;Gerard van Koten

  • 1,2,3-Triazolylidenes as versatile abnormal carbene ligands for late transition metals.

    Paulson Mathew;Antonia Neels;Martin Albrecht

  • Mesoionic and Related Less Heteroatom-Stabilized N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes: Synthesis, Catalysis, and Other Applications.

    Ángela Vivancos;Candela Segarra;Candela Segarra;Martin Albrecht

  • Palladium Complexes with Tridentate Pincer Bis-Carbene Ligands as Efficient Catalysts for C−C Coupling

    Jennifer A. Loch;Martin Albrecht;Eduardo Peris;José Mata

  • Water Oxidation Catalyzed by Strong Carbene‐Type Donor‐Ligand Complexes of Iridium

    Ralte Lalrempuia;Neal Donald McDaniel;Helge Müller-Bunz;Stefan Bernhard

  • Application of 1,2,3-triazolylidenes as versatile NHC-type ligands: synthesis, properties, and application in catalysis and beyond

    Kate F. Donnelly;Ana Petronilho;Martin Albrecht

  • Chelated Iridium(III) Bis-carbene Complexes as Air-Stable Catalysts for Transfer Hydrogenation

    Martin Albrecht;John R. Miecznikowski;Amanda Samuel;Jack W. Faller

  • Abnormal Ligand Binding and Reversible Ring Hydrogenation in the Reaction of Imidazolium Salts with IrH5(PPh3)2

    Stephan Gründemann;Anes Kovacevic;Martin Albrecht;Jack W. Faller

  • Tridentate Carbene CCC and CNC Pincer Palladium(II) Complexes: Structure, Fluxionality, and Catalytic Activity

    Stephan Gründemann;Martin Albrecht;Jennifer A. Loch;and Jack W. Faller

  • C4-bound imidazolylidenes: from curiosities to high-impact carbene ligands.

    Martin Albrecht

  • Abnormal binding in a carbene complex formed from an imidazolium salt and a metal hydride complex

    Gründemann S;Kovacevic A;Albrecht M;Faller Jw

  • Diagnostic organometallic and metallodendritic materials for SO2 gas detection: reversible binding of sulfur dioxide to arylplatinum(II) complexes

    Martin Albrecht;Robert A. Gossage;Martin Lutz;Anthony L. Spek

  • Oxidations and Oxidative Couplings Catalyzed by Triazolylidene Ruthenium Complexes

    Amparo Prades;Amparo Prades;Eduardo Peris;Martin Albrecht

  • Metallorganische Pinzetten-Komplexe von Elementen der Platingruppe: Sensoren, Schalter und Katalysatoren

    Martin Albrecht;Gerard van Koten

  • Piano-stool iron(II) complexes as probes for the bonding of N-heterocyclic carbenes: Indications for pi-acceptor ability

    Laszlo Mercs;Gaël Labat;Antonia Neels;and Andreas Ehlers

Frequent Co-Authors

Helge Müller-Bunz
Helge Müller-Bunz University College Dublin
Gerard van Koten
Gerard van Koten Utrecht University
Antonia Neels
Antonia Neels Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Stefan Bernhard
Stefan Bernhard Carnegie Mellon University
Anthony L. Spek
Anthony L. Spek Utrecht University
Robert H. Crabtree
Robert H. Crabtree Yale University
Helen Stoeckli-Evans
Helen Stoeckli-Evans University of Neuchâtel
Martin Lutz
Martin Lutz Utrecht University
Jack W. Faller
Jack W. Faller Yale University
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson Trinity College Dublin

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