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Overview

Peter Comba is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a specialized focus on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Oncology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The research topics covered by Comba's work include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes

Comba has published in several scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Nuclear Medicine and Biology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter Comba include:

  • "Mn2+Bispidine Complex Combining Exceptional Stability, Inertness, and MRI Efficiency" (2022) published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Exceptional Manganese(II) Stability and Manganese(II)/Zinc(II) Selectivity with Rigid Polydentate Ligands**" (2022) published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "A Metal-Free Direct Arene C−H Amination" (2021) published in Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
  • "Ru0 or RuII: A Study on Stabilizing the "Activated" Form of Ru-PNP Complexes with Additional Phosphine Ligands in Alcohol Dehydrogenation and Ester Hydrogenation" (2020) published in Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Spin state and reactivity of iron(iv)oxido complexes with tetradentate bispidine ligands" (2020) published in Dalton Transactions

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Hubert Wadepohl
  • Katharina Bleher
  • Gunasekaran Velmurugan
  • Michael Gast
  • Patrick Cieslik

Best Publications

  • Part I. Theory

    Peter Comba;Trevor W. Hambley

  • Molecular modeling of inorganic compounds

    Peter Comba;Trevor W. Hambley

  • Purple acid phosphatase: a journey into the function and mechanism of a colorful enzyme

    Gerhard Schenk;Gerhard Schenk;Nataša Mitić;Graeme R. Hanson;Peter Comba

  • Template syntheses involving carbon acids. Synthesis and characterization of (3,10-dimethyl-3,10-dinitro-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane)copper(II) and (1,9-diamino-5-methyl-5-nitro-3,7-diazanonane)copper(II) cations and nitro group reduction products

    Peter Comba;Neil F. Curtis;Geoffrey A. Lawrance;Alan M. Sargeson

  • The relation between ligand structures, coordination stereochemistry, and electronic and thermodynamic properties

    Peter Comba

  • Catalytic epoxidation and 1,2-dihydroxylation of olefins with bispidine-iron(II)/H2O2 systems

    Michael R. Bukowski;Peter Comba;Achim Lienke;Christian Limberg

  • Nonheme oxoiron(IV) complexes of pentadentate N5 ligands: spectroscopy, electrochemistry, and oxidative reactivity

    Dong Wang;Kallol Ray;Michael J. Collins;Michael J. Collins;Erik R. Farquhar

  • MOLECULAR MECHANICS CALCULATIONS OF TRANSITION-METAL COMPLEXES

    Paul V. Bernhardt;Peter Comba

  • Biomimetic High‐Valent Non‐Heme Iron Oxidants for the cis‐Dihydroxylation and Epoxidation of Olefins

    Jochen Bautz;Peter Comba;Carlos Lopez de Laorden;Matthias Menzel

  • An Oxocobalt(IV) Complex Stabilized by Lewis Acid Interactions with Scandium(III) Ions

    Florian Felix Pfaff;Subrata Kundu;Marcel Risch;Shanthi Pandian

  • Direct Asymmetric Ruthenium-Catalyzed Reductive Amination of Alkyl–Aryl Ketones with Ammonia and Hydrogen

    Joan Gallardo-Donaire;Marko Hermsen;Jedrzej Wysocki;Martin Ernst

  • Bispidine Coordination Chemistry

    Peter Comba;Marion Kerscher;Wolfgang Schiek

  • Computation of structures and properties of transition metal compounds

    Peter Comba;Marion Kerscher

  • Iron coordination chemistry with tetra-, penta- and hexadentate bispidine-type ligands

    Heidi Börzel;Peter Comba;Karl S Hagen;Yaroslaw D Lampeka

  • The titanyl question revisited

    Peter Comba;Andre Merbach

  • Fit and misfit between ligands and metal ions

    Peter Comba;Wolfgang Schiek

  • Coordination compounds in the entatic state

    Peter Comba

  • Abiotic methanogenesis from organosulphur compounds under ambient conditions

    Frederik Althoff;Kathrin Benzing;Peter Comba;Colin McRoberts

  • Proceedings of the Chemical Society. June 1958

    Sam P. de Visser;Matthew G. Quesne;Bodo Martin;Peter Comba

  • Strains and stresses in coordination compounds

    Peter Comba

  • Ligand and complex for catalytically bleaching a substrate

    Heidi Boerzel;Peter Comba;Ronald Hage;Marion Kerscher

Frequent Co-Authors

Trevor W. Hambley
Trevor W. Hambley University of Sydney
Hubert Wadepohl
Hubert Wadepohl Heidelberg University
Hans Pritzkow
Hans Pritzkow Heidelberg University
Geoffrey A. Lawrance
Geoffrey A. Lawrance University of Newcastle Australia
Lawrence R. Gahan
Lawrence R. Gahan University of Queensland
Paul V. Bernhardt
Paul V. Bernhardt University of Queensland
Graeme R. Hanson
Graeme R. Hanson University of Queensland
Mihail Atanasov
Mihail Atanasov Max Planck Society
Gerhard Schenk
Gerhard Schenk University of Queensland
Allan H. White
Allan H. White University of Western Australia

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