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Rainer Herges

Rainer Herges

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Chemistry

D-Index
59
Citations
14527
World Ranking
10045
National Ranking
725

Overview

Rainer Herges is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a strong focus on subfields including Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Biomedical Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The primary topics covered in their work include Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry, Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry, and Surface Chemistry and Catalysis.

They have contributed extensively to multiple high-profile publication venues, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

Their recent papers illustrate the range and focus of their research work. These include the 2022 publication "Light-Powered Dissipative Assembly of Diazocine Coordination Cages" in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the 2020 paper "Efficient Conversion of Light to Chemical Energy: Directional, Chiral Photoswitches with Very High Quantum Yields" published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and "Photoswitchable Azo- and Diazocine-Functionalized Derivatives of the VEGFR-2 Inhibitor Axitinib" from 2020 featured in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Further recent contributions include the 2023 article "Breaking the photoswitch speed limit" in Nature Communications and "Light-Controlled Destruction and Assembly: Switching between Two Differently Composed Cage-Type Complexes" published in 2022 also in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Rainer Herges include Christian Näther, Richard Berndt, Jan-Bernd Hövener, Andrey N. Pravdivtsev, and Arne Brahms, each with multiple joint publications reflecting ongoing collaborative research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Anisotropy of the Induced Current Density (ACID), a General Method To Quantify and Visualize Electronic Delocalization

    Daniel Geuenich;Kirsten Hess;Felix Köhler;Rainer Herges

  • Highly efficient reversible Z-E photoisomerization of a bridged azobenzene with visible light through resolved S(1)(n pi*) absorption bands.

    Ron Siewertsen;Hendrikje Neumann;Bengt Buchheim-Stehn;Rainer Herges

  • Magnetic bistability of molecules in homogeneous solution at room temperature.

    S. Venkataramani;U. Jana;M. Dommaschk;F. D. Sönnichsen

  • Topology in chemistry: designing Möbius molecules.

    Rainer Herges

  • Synthesis of a Möbius aromatic hydrocarbon

    D. Ajami;O. Oeckler;A. Simon;R. Herges

  • Identification of flavonoids and hydroxycinnamic acids in pak choi varieties (Brassica campestris L. ssp. chinensis var. communis) by HPLC-ESI-MSn and NMR and their quantification by HPLC-DAD.

    Britta Harbaum;Eva Maria Hubbermann;Christian Wolff;Rainer Herges

  • Heterodiazocines: Synthesis and Photochromic Properties, Trans to Cis Switching within the Bio-optical Window

    Melanie Hammerich;Christian Schütt;Cosima Stähler;Pascal Lentes

  • Mounting freestanding molecular functions onto surfaces: the platform approach.

    Belinda Baisch;Diego Raffa;Ulrich Jung;Olaf M. Magnussen

  • The first porous MOF with photoswitchable linker molecules

    Antje Modrow;Dordaneh Zargarani;Rainer Herges;Norbert Stock

  • Light-Induced Spin Change by Photodissociable External Ligands: A New Principle for Magnetic Switching of Molecules

    Steffen Thies;Hanno Sell;Christian Schütt;Claudia Bornholdt

  • Photoswitching in Two-Component Surface-Mounted Metal–Organic Frameworks: Optically Triggered Release from a Molecular Container

    Lars Heinke;Murat Cakici;Murat Cakici;Marcel Dommaschk;Sylvain Grosjean

  • Introducing a photo-switchable azo-functionality inside Cr-MIL-101-NH2 by covalent post-synthetic modification.

    Antje Modrow;Dordaneh Zargarani;Rainer Herges;Norbert Stock

  • Light-Powered Dissipative Assembly of Diazocine Coordination Cages

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  • Nitrogen Bridged Diazocines: Photochromes Switching within the Near-Infrared Region with High Quantum Yields in Organic Solvents and in Water

    Pascal Lentes;Eduard Stadler;Fynn Röhricht;Arne Brahms

  • Photoswitchable Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast by Improved Light-Driven Coordination-Induced Spin State Switch

    Marcel Dommaschk;Morten Peters;Florian Gutzeit;Christian Schütt

  • Deciphering the mechanistic dichotomy in the cyclization of 1-(2-ethynylphenyl)-3,3-dialkyltriazenes: competition between pericyclic and pseudocoarctate pathways.

    David B. Kimball;Timothy J. R. Weakley;Rainer Herges;Michael M. Haley

  • Ring-Expanding Metathesis of Tetradehydro-anthracene—Synthesis and Structure of a Tubelike, Fully Conjugated Hydrocarbon

    Stefan Kammermeier;Peter G. Jones;Rainer Herges

  • Coordination‐Induced Spin Crossover (CISCO) through Axial Bonding of Substituted Pyridines to Nickel–Porphyrins: σ‐Donor versus π‐Acceptor Effects

    Steffen Thies;Claudia Bornholdt;Felix Köhler;Frank D. Sönnichsen

  • Two unusual, competitive mechanisms for (2-ethynylphenyl)triazene cyclization: pseudocoarctate versus pericyclic reactivity.

    David B. Kimball;Rainer Herges;Michael M. Haley

  • Organizing Principle of Complex Reactions and Theory of Coarctate Transition States

    Rainer Herges

  • Magnetic Properties of Aromatic Transition States: The Diels–Alder Reactions

    Rainer Herges;Haijun Jiao;Paul von Ragué Schleyer

  • Anisotropy of the Induced Current Density (ACID), a General Method to Quantify and Visualize Electronic Delocalization

    Daniel Geuenich;Kirsten Hess;Felix Koehler;Rainer Herges

Frequent Co-Authors

Olaf M. Magnussen
Olaf M. Magnussen Kiel University
Christian Näther
Christian Näther Kiel University
Peter G. Jones
Peter G. Jones Technische Universität Braunschweig
Richard Berndt
Richard Berndt Kiel University
Frank D. Sönnichsen
Frank D. Sönnichsen Kiel University
Michael M. Haley
Michael M. Haley University of Oregon
Thomas Strunskus
Thomas Strunskus Kiel University
Ivar Ugi
Ivar Ugi Technical University of Munich
Franz Faupel
Franz Faupel Kiel University
Yoshio Okamoto
Yoshio Okamoto Nagoya University

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