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Peter R. Schreiner

Peter R. Schreiner

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Chemistry

D-Index
85
Citations
31162
World Ranking
2632
National Ranking
195

Overview

Peter R. Schreiner is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of chemistry with a focus on materials science. The scientist's body of work encompasses several subfields, including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, atomic and molecular physics, and inorganic chemistry.

Schreiner's research covers multiple main topics, among them crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, advanced chemical physics studies, chemical reactions and mechanisms, crystallography and molecular interactions, chemical reactions and isotopes, and molecular spectroscopy and structure.

Frequently publishing in well-regarded academic venues, Schreiner has authored numerous papers in The Cambridge Structural Database, Angewandte Chemie, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Chemistry - A European Journal.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Quantum Mechanical Tunneling Is Essential to Understanding Chemical Reactivity, 2020, Trends in Chemistry
  • A silicon-carbonyl complex stable at room temperature, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • London Dispersion Interactions Rather than Steric Hindrance Determine the Enantioselectivity of the Corey-Bakshi-Shibata Reduction, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Catalytic enantiocontrol over a non-classical carbocation, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • Intramolecular London Dispersion Interactions Do Not Cancel in Solution, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

In addition to journal articles, Schreiner has contributed to book publications, including a work published by Schwabe Verlag eBooks titled Interweaving Histories - Itineraries between Switzerland and India (1900-1950) in 2023.

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Schreiner's research activity. The scientist has frequently co-authored papers with several colleagues, including Jonathan Becker, Andrey A. Fokin, Vladyslav V. Bakhonsky, and Artur Mardyukov.

Best Publications

  • Metal-free organocatalysis through explicit hydrogen bonding interactions

    Peter R. Schreiner

  • (Thio)urea organocatalysis—What can be learnt from anion recognition?

    Zhiguo Zhang;Peter R. Schreiner

  • Encyclopedia of computational chemistry

    Peter R. Schreiner;Norman L. Allinger;Terry W. Clark;Johann Gasteiger

  • London Dispersion in Molecular Chemistry—Reconsidering Steric Effects

    J. Philipp Wagner;Peter R. Schreiner

  • The Lipophilic Bullet Hits the Targets: Medicinal Chemistry of Adamantane Derivatives

    Lukas Wanka;Khalid Iqbal;Peter R. Schreiner

  • Metal-free, noncovalent catalysis of diels-alder reactions by neutral hydrogen bond donors in organic solvents and in water.

    Alexander Wittkopp;Peter R. Schreiner;Peter R. Schreiner

  • Diamonds are a Chemist's Best Friend: Diamondoid Chemistry Beyond Adamantane

    Hartmut Schwertfeger;Andrey A. Fokin;Peter R. Schreiner

  • H-Bonding Additives Act Like Lewis Acid Catalysts

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  • Selective alkane transformations via radicals and radical cations: insights into the activation step from experiment and theory.

    and Andrey A. Fokin;Peter R. Schreiner

  • Overcoming lability of extremely long alkane carbon–carbon bonds through dispersion forces

    Peter R. Schreiner;Lesya V. Chernish;Pavel A. Gunchenko;Evgeniya Yu. Tikhonchuk

  • Methylhydroxycarbene: Tunneling Control of a Chemical Reaction

    Peter R. Schreiner;Hans Peter Reisenauer;David Ley;Dennis Gerbig

  • How accurate are DFT treatments of organic energies

    Matthew D. Wodrich;Clémence Corminboeuf;Peter R. Schreiner;and Andrey A. Fokin

  • Organocatalytic enantioselective acyl transfer onto racemic as well as meso alcohols, amines, and thiols.

    Christian E. Müller;Peter R. Schreiner

  • Many density functional theory approaches fail to give reliable large hydrocarbon isomer energy differences.

    Peter R. Schreiner;Andrey A. Fokin;and Robert A. Pascal;Armin de Meijere

  • Capture of hydroxymethylene and its fast disappearance through tunnelling

    Peter R. Schreiner;Hans Peter Reisenauer;Frank C. Pickard;Andrew C. Simmonett

  • Steric Crowding Can Stabilize a Labile Molecule: Solving the Hexaphenylethane Riddle

    Stefan Grimme;Peter R. Schreiner

  • Monochromatic Electron Photoemission from Diamondoid Monolayers

    W. L. Yang;J. D. Fabbri;T. M. Willey;J. R. I. Lee

  • Thio)urea organocatalyst equilibrium acidities in DMSO.

    Gergely Jakab;Carlo Tancon;Zhiguo Zhang;Katharina M Lippert

  • Evolution of asymmetric organocatalysis: multi- and retrocatalysis

    Raffael C. Wende;Peter R. Schreiner

  • Consequences of Triplet Aromaticity in 4nπ-Electron Annulenes: Calculation of Magnetic Shieldings for Open-Shell Species

    Valentin Gogonea;Paul von Ragué Schleyer;Peter R. Schreiner

  • Organocatalytic Enantioselective Acyl Transfer onto Racemic as well as meso Alcohols, Amines, and Thiols

    Christian E. Mueller;Peter R. Schreiner

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry F. Schaefer
Henry F. Schaefer University of Georgia
Hans Peter Reisenauer
Hans Peter Reisenauer University of Giessen
Armin de Meijere
Armin de Meijere University of Göttingen
Paul v. R. Schleyer
Paul v. R. Schleyer University of Georgia
Nicholas A. Melosh
Nicholas A. Melosh Stanford University
Robert M. K. Carlson
Robert M. K. Carlson Stanford University
Zhi-Xun Shen
Zhi-Xun Shen Stanford University
Wesley D. Allen
Wesley D. Allen University of Georgia
Henning Hopf
Henning Hopf Technische Universität Braunschweig
Holger F. Bettinger
Holger F. Bettinger University of Tübingen

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