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2025

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National Ranking
76

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Martin Lutz is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their primary research focus spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a notable emphasis on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, as well as Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

Lutz's work covers a range of topics predominantly related to crystallization and solubility studies, as well as X-ray diffraction in crystallography. Additional research interests include asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis, metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, and catalytic cross-coupling reactions.

Their recent published papers include the following:

  • Direct Diels-Alder reactions of furfural derivatives with maleimides, 2020, Green Chemistry
  • Aromatic C−H Hydroxylation Reactions with Hydrogen Peroxide Catalyzed by Bulky Manganese Complexes, 2021, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
  • Dynamic Trapping as a Selective Route to Renewable Phthalide from Biomass-Derived Furfuryl Alcohol, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Tuning the Optical Characteristics of Diketopyrrolopyrrole Molecules in the Solid State by Alkyl Side Chains, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Tuning the Bonding of a μ-Mesityl Ligand on Dicopper(I) through a Proton-Responsive Expanded PNNP Pincer Ligand, 2020, Organometallics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lutz include:

  • Marc-Etienne Moret
  • Robertus J. M. Klein Gebbink
  • Daniël L. J. Broere
  • Emily C. Monkcom
  • Shengfa Ye

Their research has been published across several venues, with multiple contributions to:

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

Best Publications

  • Electrocatalytic CO2 conversion to oxalate by a copper complex.

    Raja Angamuthu;Philip Byers;Martin Lutz;Anthony L. Spek

  • Organoplatinum crystals for gas-triggered switches

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

  • Origin of the Bite Angle Effect in Rhodium Diphosphine Catalyzed Hydroformylation.

    L.A. van der Veen;H. Keeven;G.C. Schoemaker;J.N.H. Reek

  • A 'Dendritic Effect' in Homogeneous Catalysis with Carbosilane-Supported Arylnickel (II) Catalysts: Observation of Active-Site Proximity Effects in Atom-Transfer Radical Addition

    G. van Koten;A.W. Kleij;R.A. Gossage;R.J.M. Klein Gebbink

  • End-on and side-on peroxo derivatives of non-heme iron complexes with pentadentate ligands: models for putative intermediates in biological iron/dioxygen chemistry.

    Gerard Roelfes;Vladislav Vrajmasu;Kui Chen;Raymond Y.N. Ho

  • 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

  • Alcoholysis of acylpalladium(II) complexes relevant to the alternating copolymerization of ethene and carbon monoxide and the alkoxycarbonylation of alkenes: the importance of Cis-coordinating phosphines.

    Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen;Martin A. Zuideveld;Bert H. G. Swennenhuis;Zoraida Freixa

  • Self-assembled biomimetic [2Fe2S]-hydrogenase-based photocatalyst for molecular hydrogen evolution

    A. M. Kluwer;R. Kapre;F. Hartl;M. Lutz

  • ZnII–Salphen Complexes as Versatile Building Blocks for the Construction of Supramolecular Box Assemblies

    Arjan W. Kleij;M. Kuil;Duncan M. Tooke;Martin Lutz

  • Preorganized frustrated Lewis pairs.

    F. Bertini;V. Lyaskovskyy;B.J.J. Timmer;F.J.J. de Kanter

  • New antitumor-active azole-bridged dinuclear platinum(II) complexes: synthesis, characterization, crystal structures, and cytotoxic studies.

    Seiji Komeda;Martin Lutz;Anthony L. Spek;Masahiko Chikuma

  • A Novel Isomerization on Interaction of Antitumor-Active Azole-Bridged Dinuclear Platinum(II) Complexes with 9-Ethylguanine. Platinum(II) Atom Migration from N2 to N3 on 1,2,3-Triazole

    Seiji Komeda;Martin Lutz;Anthony L. Spek;Yasuyuki Yamanaka

  • Cyclometalated ruthenium complexes for sensitizing nanocrystalline TiO2 solar cells

    Sipke H. Wadman;Jan M. Kroon;Klaas Bakker;Martin Lutz

  • Non‐Pincer‐Type Manganese Complexes as Efficient Catalysts for the Hydrogenation of Esters

    Robbert van Putten;Evgeny A. Uslamin;Marcel Garbe;Chong Liu

  • Construction of adjacent quaternary and tertiary stereocenters via an organocatalytic allylic alkylation of Morita-Baylis-Hillman carbonates

    Dirk Jan V. C. van Steenis;Tommaso Marcelli;Martin Lutz;Anthony L. Spek

  • Consequences of N,C,N'- and C,N,N'-coordination modes on electronic and photophysical properties of cyclometalated aryl ruthenium(II) complexes.

    S.H. Wadman;M. Lutz;D.M. Tooke;A.L. Spek

  • The coordination behaviour of large natural bite angle diphosphine ligands towards methyl and 4-cyanophenylpalladium(II) complexes †

    Martin A. Zuideveld;Bert H. G. Swennenhuis;Maarten D. K. Boele;Yannick Guari

  • Intramolecular redox-active ligand-to-substrate single-electron transfer: radical reactivity with a palladium(II) complex.

    Daniël L. J. Broere;Bas de Bruin;Joost N. H. Reek;Martin Lutz

  • The impact of metal–ligand cooperation in hydrogenation of carbon dioxide catalyzed by ruthenium PNP pincer

    Georgy A. Filonenko;Matthew P. Conley;Christophe Copéret;Martin Lutz

  • Tunable Hemilabile Ligands for Adaptive Transition Metal Complexes

    R. Lindner;B. van den Bosch;M. Lutz;J.N.H. Reek

  • Transcyclometalation Processes with Late Transition Metals: CarylH Bond Activiation via Noncovalent CHCl Interactions

    G. van Koten;Albrecht;P. Dani;M.H. Lutz

  • Two Examples of Novel and Unusual Double-Layered, Two-Dimensional CuII Compounds with Bridging 1,3-Bis(1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)propane

    Gerard A. van Albada;Reinier C. Guijt;Jaap G. Haasnoot;Martin Lutz

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony L. Spek
Anthony L. Spek Utrecht University
Gerard van Koten
Gerard van Koten Utrecht University
Koop Lammertsma
Koop Lammertsma University of Johannesburg
Andreas W. Ehlers
Andreas W. Ehlers University of Amsterdam
Christian Müller
Christian Müller Freie Universität Berlin
Joost N. H. Reek
Joost N. H. Reek University of Amsterdam
Jan Reedijk
Jan Reedijk Leiden University
Bas de Bruin
Bas de Bruin University of Amsterdam
Dieter Vogt
Dieter Vogt TU Dortmund University

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