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Peter H. M. Budzelaar

Peter H. M. Budzelaar

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Chemistry

D-Index
62
Citations
12419
World Ranking
8918
National Ranking
244

Overview

Peter H. M. Budzelaar is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with significant involvement in subfields such as Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Process Chemistry and Technology, and Biomaterials.

The scientist's work covers several main research topics, including:

  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods
  • Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science

Frequent collaborators in their research include Roberta Cipullo, Vincenzo Busico, Christian Ehm, Antonio Vittoria, and Alceo Macchioni.

They have published extensively, with frequent contributions to venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Dalton Transactions, ACS Catalysis, Inorganic Chemistry, and Polymers.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Reactivity Trends of Lewis Acidic Sites in Methylaluminoxane and Some of Its Modifications, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Methylaluminoxane's Molecular Cousin: A Well-defined and "Complete" Al-Activator for Molecular Olefin Polymerization Catalysts, 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • An Integrated High Throughput Experimentation/Predictive QSAR Modeling Approach to ansa-Zirconocene Catalysts for Isotactic Polypropylene, 2020, Polymers
  • ansa-Zirconocene Catalysts for Isotactic-Selective Propene Polymerization at High Temperature: A Long Story Finds a Happy Ending, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • A Systematic Study of the Temperature-Induced Performance Decline of ansa-Metallocenes for iPP, 2020, Macromolecules

Best Publications

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Alternating Copolymerization of Alkenes and Carbon Monoxide.

    Eite Drent;Peter H. M. Budzelaar

  • Efficient palladium catalysts for the carbonylation of alkynes

    E. Drent;P. Arnoldy;P.H.M. Budzelaar

  • Ligand-centred reactivity in diiminepyridine complexes.

    Quinten Knijnenburg;Sandro Gambarotta;Peter H. M. Budzelaar

  • β-Diiminato Complexes of VIII and TiIII – Formation and Structure of Stable Paramagnetic Dialkylmetal Compounds

    Peter H. M. Budzelaar;A. Bart van Oort;A. Guy Orpen

  • Homogeneous catalysis by cationic palladium complexes. Precision catalysis in the carbonylation of alkynes

    E. Drent;P. Arnoldy;P.H.M. Budzelaar

  • The Electronic Structure of (Diiminopyridine)cobalt(I) Complexes

    Quinten Knijnenburg;Dennis Hetterscheid;T. Martijn Kooistra;Peter H. M. Budzelaar

  • Olefin hydrogenation using diimine pyridine complexes of Co and Rh

    Quinten Knijnenburg;Andrew D. Horton;Harry van der Heijden;T. Martijn Kooistra

  • Participation of the α,α‘-Diiminopyridine Ligand System in Reduction of the Metal Center during Alkylation

    Hiroyasu Sugiyama;Ghazar Aharonian;Sandro Gambarotta;Glenn P. A. Yap

  • Olefin Polymerization with [{bis(imino)pyridyl}CoIICl2]: Generation of the Active Species Involves CoI

    T. Martijn Kooistra;Quinten Knijnenburg;Jan M. M. Smits;Andrew D. Horton

  • Mechanism of Ethene Trimerization at an ansa-(Arene)(cyclopentadienyl) Titanium Fragment

    Arno N. J. Blok;Peter H. M. Budzelaar;Anton W. Gal

  • The Ability of the α,α′‐Diiminopyridine Ligand System to Accept Negative Charge: Isolation of Paramagnetic and Diamagnetic Trianions

    David Enright;Sandro Gambarotta;Glenn P. A. Yap;Peter H. M. Budzelaar

  • Functional Models for Rhodium-Mediated Olefin-Oxygenation Catalysis

    Bas de Bruin;Peter H. M. Budzelaar;Anton W. Gal

  • Redox-Active Ligands and Organic Radical Chemistry

    Di Zhu;Indira Thapa;Ilia Korobkov;Sandro Gambarotta

  • Trends in Cyclopentadienyl - Main-Group-Metal Bonding

    P.H.M. Budzelaar;J.J. Engelberts;J.H. van Lenthe

  • Formation of a Paramagnetic Al Complex and Extrusion of Fe during the Reaction of (Diiminepyridine)Fe with AlR3 (R = Me, Et)

    Jennifer Scott;Sandro Gambarotta;Ilia Korobkov;Quinten Knijnenburg

  • Metal versus ligand alkylation in the reactivity of the (bis-iminopyridinato)Fe catalyst.

    Jennifer Scott;Sandro Gambarotta;Ilia Korobkov;Peter H. M. Budzelaar

  • Metal-to-ligand electron transfer in diiminopyridine complexes of Mn-Zn. A theoretical study.

    Peter H. M. Budzelaar;Bas de Bruin;Anton W. Gal;Karl Wieghardt

  • A periodic hybrid DFT approach (including dispersion) to MgCl2-supported Ziegler–Natta catalysts – 1: TiCl4 adsorption on MgCl2 crystal surfaces

    Maddalena D’Amore;Raffaele Credendino;Peter H.M. Budzelaar;Mauro Causá

  • Dinitrogen activation, partial reduction, and formation of coordinated imide promoted by a chromium diiminepyridine complex

    Indu Vidyaratne;Jennifer Scott;Sandro Gambarotta;Peter H. M. Budzelaar

  • Rh-mediated polymerization of carbenes: mechanism and stereoregulation.

    Erica Jellema;Peter H. M. Budzelaar;Joost N. H. Reek;Bas De Bruin

  • C−H Bonds Are Not Elongated by Coordination to Lanthanide Metals: Single-Crystal Neutron Diffraction Structures of (C5Me5)Y(OC6H3tBu2)CH(SiMe3)2 at 20 K and (C5Me5)La{CH(SiMe3)2}2 at 15 K

    Wim T. Klooster;Lee Brammer;Colin. J. Schaverien;Peter H. M. Budzelaar

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincenzo Busico
Vincenzo Busico University of Naples Federico II
Roberta Cipullo
Roberta Cipullo University of Naples Federico II
Jaap Boersma
Jaap Boersma Utrecht University
Paul v. R. Schleyer
Paul v. R. Schleyer University of Georgia
Sandro Gambarotta
Sandro Gambarotta University of Ottawa
Ilia Korobkov
Ilia Korobkov Saudi Arabia Basic Industries (Saudi Arabia)
Bas de Bruin
Bas de Bruin University of Amsterdam
Alceo Macchioni
Alceo Macchioni University of Perugia
Michael C. Baird
Michael C. Baird Queen's University
Manfred Bochmann
Manfred Bochmann University of East Anglia

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