Matthias Driess

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• N-heterocyclic carbene analogues with low-valent group 13 and group 14 elements: syntheses, structures, and reactivities of a new generation of multitalented ligands.

  Matthew Asay;Cameron Jones;Matthias Driess

  1594
  Citations

• Unification of catalytic water oxidation and oxygen reduction reactions: amorphous beat crystalline cobalt iron oxides.

  Arindam Indra;Prashanth W. Menezes;Nastaran Ranjbar Sahraie;Arno Bergmann

  686
  Citations

• Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles with Defects

  Vladislav Ischenko;Sebastian Polarz;Dirk Grote;Victorina Stavarache

  619
  Citations

• The Pitfalls of Using Potentiodynamic Polarization Curves for Tafel Analysis in Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

  Sengeni Anantharaj;Suguru Noda;Matthias Driess;Prashanth W. Menezes

  523
  Citations

• Strategies and Perspectives to Catch the Missing Pieces in Energy-Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Media

  Sengeni Anantharaj;Suguru Noda;Vasanth Rajendiran Jothi;Sung Chul Yi

  479
  Citations

• Self-Supported Electrocatalysts for Practical Water Electrolysis

  Hongyuan Yang;Matthias Driess;Prashanth W. Menezes

  461
  Citations

• Uncovering the Nature of Active Species of Nickel Phosphide Catalysts in High-Performance Electrochemical Overall Water Splitting

  Prashanth W. Menezes;Arindam Indra;Chittaranjan Das;Carsten Walter

  409
  Citations

• Zwitterionic and Donor-Stabilized N-Heterocyclic Silylenes (NHSis) for Metal-Free Activation of Small Molecules

  Shenglai Yao;Yun Xiong;Matthias Driess

  407
  Citations

• A new type of N-heterocyclic silylene with ambivalent reactivity.

  Matthias Driess;Shenglai Yao;Markus Brym;Christoph van Wüllen

  394
  Citations

• Main Group Element Analogues of Carbenes, Olefins, and Small Rings

  Matthias Driess;Hansjörg Grützmacher

  378
  Citations

• New vistas in N-heterocyclic silylene (NHSi) transition-metal coordination chemistry: syntheses, structures and reactivity towards activation of small molecules.

  Burgert Blom;Miriam Stoelzel;Matthias Driess

  315
  Citations

• Active Mixed‐Valent MnOx Water Oxidation Catalysts through Partial Oxidation (Corrosion) of Nanostructured MnO Particles

  Arindam Indra;Prashanth W. Menezes;Ivelina Zaharieva;Elham Baktash

  309
  Citations

• Boosting Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution with an Integrated Nickel Phosphide–Carbon Nitride System

  Arindam Indra;Amitava Acharjya;Prashanth W. Menezes;Christoph Merschjann

  303
  Citations

• High-Performance Oxygen Redox Catalysis with Multifunctional Cobalt Oxide Nanochains: Morphology-Dependent Activity

  Prashanth W. Menezes;Arindam Indra;Diego González-Flores;Nastaran Ranjbar Sahraie

  287
  Citations

• Copper-catalyzed intermolecular amidation and imidation of unactivated alkanes.

  Ba L. Tran;Bijie Li;Bijie Li;Matthias Driess;John F. Hartwig

  283
  Citations

• Cobalt–Manganese‐Based Spinels as Multifunctional Materials that Unify Catalytic Water Oxidation and Oxygen Reduction Reactions

  Prashanth W. Menezes;Arindam Indra;Nastaran Ranjbar Sahraie;Arno Bergmann

  277
  Citations

• On the Role of Oxygen Defects in the Catalytic Performance of Zinc Oxide

  Sebastian Polarz;Jennifer Strunk;Vladislav Ischenko;Maurits W. E. van den Berg

  273
  Citations

• A cyclic silylone ("siladicarbene") with an electron-rich silicon(0) atom.

  Yun Xiong;Shenglai Yao;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Jan Dirk Epping

  270
  Citations

• From Bis(silylene) and Bis(germylene) Pincer-Type Nickel(II) Complexes to Isolable Intermediates of the Nickel-Catalyzed Sonogashira Cross-Coupling Reaction

  Daniel Gallego;Andreas Brück;Elisabeth Irran;Florian Meier

  268
  Citations

• Steering S−H and N−H Bond Activation by a Stable N-Heterocyclic Silylene: Different Addition of H2S, NH3, and Organoamines on a Silicon(II) Ligand versus Its Si(II)→Ni(CO)3 Complex

  Antje Meltzer;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Carsten Präsang;Matthias Driess

  255
  Citations

• An isolable NHC-supported silanone.

  Yun Xiong;Shenglai Yao;Matthias Driess

  252
  Citations