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Peter Hofmann was affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and contributed extensively to the field of Engineering. Their research primarily focused on Automotive Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Computational Mechanics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's work covered several main topics, including:

  • Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies
  • Combustion and Flame Dynamics
  • Rocket and Propulsion Systems Research
  • Heat Transfer and Supercritical Fluids
  • Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy

Peter Hofmann published numerous papers, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series
  • Konfliktdynamik
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organometallics
  • Forest Ecology and Management

Some of their recent publications included:

  • A Mild One-Pot Reduction of Phosphine(V) Oxides Affording Phosphines(III) and Their Metal Catalysts, 2021, Organometallics
  • Assessing the recovery of Pinus canariensis stands after wildfires and volcanic eruption on La Palma, Canary Islands, 2024, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Expansion of the Operating Range of a Multi-fuel Single-Disk Rotary Engine Using a 2+2-Spark Plug Combustion Process, 2023, SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series
  • Operation of a Compression-Ignition Kerosene Aviation Engine with Sustainable Aviation Fuel: An Experimental Study, 2024, SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series
  • Predictive fuel cell thermal management for fuel cell electric tractors, 2025, Applied Thermal Engineering

Their research collaborations frequently involved the following co-authors:

  • Łukasz Kapuśniak
  • Philipp N. Pleßow
  • Damian Trzybiński
  • Phillip I. Jolly
  • Krzysztof Woźniak

Best Publications

  • Conformational preferences and rotational barriers in polyene-ML3 transition metal complexes

    Thomas A. Albright;Peter Hofmann;Roald Hoffmann

  • Haptotropic rearrangements of polyene―MLn complexes. II: Bicyclic polyene―MCp, ―M(CO)3 systems

    T. A. Albright;P. Hofmann;R. Hoffmann;C. P. Lillya

  • Carbon monoxide activation by biscyclopentadienyl complexes of Group 4 metals and actinides: .eta.2-acyl complexes

    Kazuyuki Tatsumi;Akira Nakamura;Peter Hofmann;Peter Stauffert

  • The First Catalytic Synthesis of an Acrylate from CO2 and an Alkene—A Rational Approach

    Michael L. Lejkowski;Ronald Lindner;Takeharu Kageyama;Gabriella É. Bódizs

  • Bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)germanium und ‐zinn sowie (Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)germanium‐ und ‐zinn‐Kationen: Synthese, Struktur und Bindungsverhältnisse

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  • The First Grubbs‐Type Metathesis Catalyst with cis Stereochemistry: Synthesis of [(η2‐dtbpm)Cl2Ru=CH−CHCMe2] from a Novel, Coordinatively Unsaturated Dinuclear Ruthenium Dihydride

    Sven Michael Hansen;Frank Rominger;Markus Metz;Peter Hofmann

  • Copper(I) Carbenes: The Synthesis of Active Intermediates in Copper‐Catalyzed Cyclopropanation

    Bernd F. Straub;Peter Hofmann

  • Experimental and theoretical investigations on the catalytic hydrosilylation of carbon dioxide with ruthenium nitrile complexes

    Peter Deglmann;Erika Ember;Peter Hofmann;Stephan Pitter

  • The Electronic Origin of Geometrical Deformations in Cyclohexadienyl and Cyclobutenyl Transition Metal Complexes

    Roald Hoffmann;Peter Hofmann

  • Selective Alkylation of Amines with Alcohols by Cp*–Iridium(III) Half-Sandwich Complexes

    Alexander Wetzel;Simone Wöckel;Mathias Schelwies;Marion K. Brinks

  • A New Class of Ruthenium Carbene Complexes: Synthesis and Structures of Highly Efficient Catalysts for Olefin Metathesis.

    S. Michael Hansen;Martin A. O. Volland;Frank Rominger;Frank Eisenträger

  • Metal silylenes generated by double silicon-hydrogen activation: key intermediates in the rhodium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of ketones.

    Nathanaëlle Schneider;Markus Finger;Christian Haferkemper;Stéphane Bellemin‐Laponnaz

  • Alcohol amination with ammonia catalyzed by an acridine-based ruthenium pincer complex: a mechanistic study.

    Xuan Ye;Philipp N Plessow;Marion K Brinks;Mathias Schelwies

  • Vibrational studies of the surface phases of CO on Pt{110} at 300 K

    Simon R. Bare;Peter Hofmann;David A. King

  • Nickel-Catalyzed Direct Carboxylation of Olefins with CO2: One-Pot Synthesis of α,β-Unsaturated Carboxylic Acid Salts

    Nfflria Huguet;Ivana Jevtovikj;Alvaro Gordillo;Michael L. Lejkowski

  • Bis(di-t-butylphosphino)methane complexes of rhodium: homogeneous alkyne hydrosilylation by catalyst-dependent alkyne insertion into RhSi or RhH bonds. Molecular structures of the dimer [(dtbpm)RhCl]2 and of the silyl complex (dtbpm) Rh[Si(OEt)3](PMe3)☆

    Peter Hofmann;Claudia Meier;Wolfgang Hiller;Maximilian Heckel

  • Multiple Reaction Pathways in Rhodium-Catalyzed Hydrosilylations of Ketones

    Nathanaëlle Schneider;Markus Finger;Christian Haferkemper;Stéphane Bellemin-Laponnaz

  • A Neutral Three-Coordinate Alkylrhodium(I) Complex: Stabilization of a 14-Electron Species by gamma-C-H Agostic Interactions with a Saturated Hydrocarbon Group This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 247, Graduate College Fellowship to H.U.), by the BASF AG, by the Degussa-Hüls AG, by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, and by the EU.

    Heiko Urtel;Claudia Meier;Frank Eisenträger;Frank Rominger

  • A remarkably stable copper(I) ethylene complex: synthesis, spectroscopy and structure

    Bernd F. Straub;Frank Eisenträger;Peter Hofmann

  • Geometry of Coordinatively Unsaturated Two-Legged Piano Stool Complexes with 16 Valence Electrons: A Theoretical Study†

    Thomas R. Ward;Olivier Schafer;Claude Daul;Peter Hofmann

  • Novel Platinum Complexes Enable Selective C‐H and C‐Si Activation of Tetramethylsilane at Room Temperature

    Peter Hofmann;Helmut Heiss;Peter Neiteler;Gerhard Müller

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Rominger
Frank Rominger Heidelberg University
Rolf Gleiter
Rolf Gleiter Heidelberg University
Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann Cornell University
Carl Krüger
Carl Krüger Max Planck Society
Peter Jutzi
Peter Jutzi Bielefeld University
Ulrich S. Schubert
Ulrich S. Schubert Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Dieter Vogt
Dieter Vogt TU Dortmund University
Lutz H. Gade
Lutz H. Gade Heidelberg University
Akira Nakamura
Akira Nakamura Osaka University
Ulli Englert
Ulli Englert RWTH Aachen University

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