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Matthias Tamm is affiliated with Technische Universität Braunschweig in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with significant contributions in subfields such as materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, and process chemistry and technology.

Their work spans several main topics, including:

  • Crystallization and solubility studies
  • X-ray diffraction in crystallography
  • N-Heterocyclic carbenes in organic and inorganic chemistry
  • Catalytic cross-coupling reactions
  • Organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic and organometallic compounds

Matthias Tamm has published extensively in several scientific journals, with notable frequent publication venues including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie
  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by Matthias Tamm are:

  • Cobalt(I)-Catalyzed Transformation of Si-H Bonds: H/D Exchange in Hydrosilanes and Hydrosilylation of Olefins, 2023, ACS Catalysis
  • Hydroboration of Aldehydes, Ketones, and Carbodiimides Promoted by Mono(imidazolin-2-iminato) Hafnium Complexes, 2020, European Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Iridium(I) Complexes with Anionic N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands as Catalysts for H/D Exchange in Nonpolar Media, 2020, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
  • Halogen Complexes of Anionic N-Heterocyclic Carbenes, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Stabilization of a bismuth-bismuth double bond by anionic N-heterocyclic carbenes, 2021, Dalton Transactions

Throughout their career, Matthias Tamm has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors. The most frequent collaborators include:

  • Thomas Bannenberg
  • Luong Phong Ho
  • Dirk Bockfeld
  • Marvin Koneczny
  • Jenni Frosch

Best Publications

  • N-Heterocyclic Carbene Adducts of Main Group Elements and Their Use as Ligands in Transition Metal Chemistry.

    Adinarayana Doddi;Marius Peters;Matthias Tamm

  • Heterolytic Dihydrogen Activation by a Frustrated Carbene-Borane Lewis Pair

    Dirk Holschumacher;Thomas Bannenberg;Cristian G. Hrib;Peter G. Jones

  • Transition metal complexes supported by highly basic imidazolin-2-iminato and imidazolin-2-imine N-donor ligands

    Xian Wu;Matthias Tamm

  • A Bis(carbene)-Proton Complex: Structure of a C-H-C Hydrogen Bond

    Anthony J. Iii Arduengo;Siegfried F. Gamper;Matthias Tamm;Joseph C. Calabrese

  • Anionic N-heterocyclic carbenes: Synthesis, coordination chemistry and applications in homogeneous catalysis

    Alexandre Nasr;Andrea Winkler;Matthias Tamm

  • Reactions of β-functional phenyl isocyanides

    Matthias Tamm;F. Ekkehardt Hahn

  • Adducts of Carbenes with Group II and XII Metallocenes

    Anthony J. Arduengo;Fredric Davidson;Roland Krafczyk;William J. Marshall

  • Structural and theoretical investigation of 2-iminoimidazolines--carbene analogues of iminophosphoranes.

    Matthias Tamm;Dejan Petrovic;Sören Randoll;Stephan Beer

  • Efficient room-temperature alkyne metathesis with well-defined imidazolin-2-iminato tungsten alkylidyne complexes.

    Stephan Beer;Cristian G. Hrib;Peter G. Jones;Kai Brandhorst

  • C−H Insertion Reactions of Nucleophilic Carbenes

    Anthony J. Arduengo;J. C. Calabrese;Fredric Davidson;H. V. Rasika Dias

  • Imidazolin-2-iminato titanium complexes: synthesis, structure and use in ethylene polymerization catalysis

    Matthias Tamm;Sören Randoll;Eberhardt Herdtweck;Nina Kleigrewe

  • Titanium complexes with imidazolin-2-iminato ligands.

    Matthias Tamm;Sören Randoll;Thomas Bannenberg;Eberhardt Herdtweck

  • Reactivity of a Frustrated Lewis Pair and Small-Molecule Activation by an Isolable Arduengo Carbene ? B{3,5-(CF3)2C6H3}3 Complex

    Eugene L. Kolychev;Thomas Bannenberg;Matthias Freytag;Constantin G. Daniliuc

  • Anionic N‐Heterocyclic Carbenes That Contain a Weakly Coordinating Borate Moiety

    Sabrina Kronig;Eileen Theuergarten;Constantin G. Daniliuc;Peter G. Jones

  • Dihydrogen activation by frustrated carbene-borane Lewis pairs: an experimental and theoretical study of carbene variation.

    Sabrina Kronig;Eileen Theuergarten;Dirk Holschumacher;Thomas Bannenberg

  • Recent advances in the development of alkyne metathesis catalysts

    Xian Wu;Matthias Tamm

  • Synthesis and reactivity of functionalized cycloheptatrienyl–cyclopentadienyl sandwich complexes

    Matthias Tamm

  • Heterolytic Dihydrogen Activation by a Frustrated Carbene–Borane Lewis Pair

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  • Rare-earth metal alkyl, amido, and cyclopentadienyl complexes supported by imidazolin-2-iminato ligands: synthesis, structural characterization, and catalytic application.

    Alexandra G. Trambitas;Tarun K. Panda;Jelena Jenter;Peter W. Roesky

  • Carbene-Lanthanide Complexes

    Anthony J. Arduengo;Matthias Tamm;Stephan J. McLain;Joseph C. Calabrese

  • Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Catalytic Alkyne Cross-Metathesis with Imidazolin-2-iminato Tungsten Alkylidyne Complexes

    Stephan Beer;Kai Brandhorst;Cristian G. Hrib;Xian Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter G. Jones
Peter G. Jones Technische Universität Braunschweig
Constantin G. Daniliuc
Constantin G. Daniliuc University of Münster
F. Ekkehardt Hahn
F. Ekkehardt Hahn University of Münster
Marc D. Walter
Marc D. Walter Technische Universität Braunschweig
Kotohiro Nomura
Kotohiro Nomura Tokyo Metropolitan University
Roland Fröhlich
Roland Fröhlich University of Münster
Moris S. Eisen
Moris S. Eisen Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Eberhardt Herdtweck
Eberhardt Herdtweck Technical University of Munich
Anthony J. Arduengo
Anthony J. Arduengo University of Alabama
Thomas Steiner
Thomas Steiner Freie Universität Berlin

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