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50
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National Ranking
40

Overview

Mats Tilset is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and works primarily in the field of Materials Science, with a focus on subfields including Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Oncology, Inorganic Chemistry, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

Their research covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes

Tilset has published papers in several venues with some frequency, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • Dalton Transactions
  • European Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Accounts of Chemical Research

Frequent co-authors of Mats Tilset include:

  • Sigurd Øien-Ødegaard
  • Knut Tormodssønn Hylland
  • David S. Wragg
  • Ainara Nova
  • Isabelle Gerz

Significant recent papers authored with others include:

  • Catalytic studies of cyclometalated gold(III) complexes and their related UiO-67 MOF (2020) published in Molecular Catalysis
  • Structural Elucidation, Aggregation, and Dynamic Behaviour of N,N,N,N-Copper(I) Schiff Base Complexes in Solid and in Solution: A Combined NMR, X-ray Spectroscopic and Crystallographic Investigation (2021) published in European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • Organometallic chemistry in aqua regia: metal and ligand based oxidations of (NHC)AuCl complexes (2020) published in Dalton Transactions
  • The Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling as the Key Step in the Synthesis of 2-Aminobiphenyls and 2,2'-Diaminobiphenyls: Application in the Synthesis of Schiff Base Complexes of Zn (2020) published in European Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Cyclometalated (N,C) Au(III) Complexes: The Impact of Trans Effects on Their Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity (2023) published in Accounts of Chemical Research

Best Publications

  • Synthesis and Stability of Tagged UiO-66 Zr-MOFs

    Mathivathani Kandiah;Merete Hellner Nilsen;Sandro Usseglio;Søren Jakobsen

  • Mechanistic Aspects of C−H Activation by Pt Complexes

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  • Post-synthetic modification of the metal–organic framework compound UiO-66

    Mathivathani Kandiah;Sandro Usseglio;Stian Svelle;Unni Olsbye

  • Solution homolytic bond dissociation energies of organotransition-metal hydrides

    Mats Tilset;Vernon D. Parker

  • Structural determination of a highly stable metal-organic framework with possible application to interim radioactive waste scavenging: Hf-UiO-66

    Søren Jakobsen;Diego Gianolio;David S. Wragg;Merete Hellner Nilsen

  • Mechanistic Investigation of Benzene C−H Activation at a Cationic Platinum(II) Center: Direct Observation of a Platinum(II) Benzene Adduct

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  • A thermally stable Pt/Y-based metal-organic framework: Exploring the accessibility of the metal centers with spectroscopic methods using H2O, CH3OH, and CH3CN as probes.

    Kai Chung Szeto;Karl Petter Lillerud;Mats Tilset;Morten Bjørgen

  • Hydrocarbon Activation at a Cationic Platinum(II) Diimine Aqua Complex under Mild Conditions in a Hydroxylic Solvent

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  • Chemical and electrochemical oxidation of group 6 cyclopentadienylmetal hydrides. First estimates of 17-electron metal-hydride cation-radical thermodynamic acidities and their decomposition of 17-electron neutral radicals

    Olav B. Ryan;Mats Tilset;Vernon D. Parker

  • Electrode potentials and the thermodynamics of isodesmic reactions

    Vernon D. Parker;Kishan L. Handoo;Frode Roness;Mats Tilset

  • Insight into the efficiency of cinnamyl-supported precatalysts for the Suzuki-Miyaura reaction: observation of Pd(I) dimers with bridging allyl ligands during catalysis.

    Damian P. Hruszkewycz;David Balcells;Louise M. Guard;Nilay Hazari

  • UiO-67-type Metal–Organic Frameworks with Enhanced Water Stability and Methane Adsorption Capacity

    Sigurd Øien-Ødegaard;Boris Bouchevreau;Knut Hylland;Lianpao Wu

  • Evidence for associative methane loss following protonation of (diimine)Pt(II)(Ch(3))(2): three-coordinate 14-electron cations l(2)Pt(Ch(3))(+) are not necessarily intermediates in C-H activation at cationic Pt complexes.

    Lars Johansson;Mats Tilset

  • Theoretical Investigations on the Chemical Bonding, Electronic Structure, And Optical Properties of the Metal−Organic Framework MOF-5

    Li-Ming Yang;Ponniah Vajeeston;Ponniah Ravindran;Helmer Fjellvåg

  • Computational Exploration of Newly Synthesized Zirconium Metal-Organic Frameworks UiO-66, 67, 68 and Analogues

    Li-Ming Yang;Eric D. Ganz;Stian Svelle;Mats Tilset

  • Theoretical, thermodynamic, spectroscopic, and structural studies of the consequences of one-electron oxidation on the Fe-X bonds in 17- and 18-electron Cp*Fe(dppe)X complexes (X = F, Cl, Br, I, H, CH3).

    Mats Tilset;Irene Fjeldahl;Jean-René Hamon;Paul Hamon

  • Thermodynamics of heterolytic and homolytic metal-hydrogen bond cleavage reactions of 18-electron and 17-electron group 6 hydridotris(pyrazolyl)borate metal hydrides

    Vidar Skagestad;Mats Tilset

  • Characterization of a New Porous Pt-Containing Metal-Organic Framework Containing Potentially Catalytically Active Sites: Local Electronic Structure at the Metal Centers

    Kai Chung Szeto;Carmelo Prestipino;Carlo Lamberti;Adriano Zecchina

  • Facile proton transfer reactions of N,N-dimethylaniline cation radicals

    Vernon D. Parker;Mats Tilset

  • A Combined Experimental and Density Functional Theory Investigation of Hydrocarbon Activation at a Cationic Platinum(II) Diimine Aqua Complex under Mild Conditions in a Hydroxylic Solvent

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  • An Estimate of the Reduction Potential of B(C6F5)3 from Electrochemical Measurements on Related Mesityl Boranes

    Sarah A. Cummings;Masanori Iimura;C. Jeff Harlan;Rebecca J. Kwaan

  • Design, synthesis and characterization of a Pt–Gd metal–organic framework containing potentially catalytically active sites

    Kai C. Szeto;Kjell Ove Kongshaug;Søren Jakobsen;Mats Tilset

  • Designing Heterogeneous Catalysts by Incorporating Enzyme-Like Functionalities into MOFs

    Karl Petter Lillerud;Unni Olsbye;Mats Tilset

  • Ab initio investigations on the crystal structure, formation enthalpy, electronic structure, chemical bonding, and optical properties of experimentally synthesized isoreticular metal–organic framework-10 and its analogues: M-IRMOF-10 (M = Zn, Cd, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba)

    Li-Ming Yang;Ponniah Ravindran;Ponniah Vajeeston;Mats Tilset

  • Organometallic Catalysts and Olefin Polymerization

    Richard Blom;Arild Follestad;Erling Rytter;Mats Tilset

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl Petter Lillerud
Karl Petter Lillerud University of Oslo
Unni Olsbye
Unni Olsbye University of Oslo
Ponniah Ravindran
Ponniah Ravindran Central University of Tamil Nadu
Odile Eisenstein
Odile Eisenstein University of Montpellier
Kenneth G. Caulton
Kenneth G. Caulton Indiana University
Karl W. Törnroos
Karl W. Törnroos University of Bergen
Stian Svelle
Stian Svelle University of Oslo
Karen I. Goldberg
Karen I. Goldberg University of Pennsylvania
Joseph W. DePierre
Joseph W. DePierre Stockholm University
Silvia Bordiga
Silvia Bordiga University of Turin

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