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Rolf Gleiter is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemistry, with a significant emphasis on materials chemistry as a subfield. The scientist's work spans additional areas including physical and theoretical chemistry, organic chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and inorganic chemistry.

The scope of their research covers several main topics related to crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and crystallography and molecular interactions. Their investigations also extend to metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications, organic chemistry cycloaddition reactions, organic and molecular conductors research, and organoselenium and organotellurium chemistry.

Rolf Gleiter has published in various scientific venues. The frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Organic Materials
  • Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)

The scientist has contributed to multiple papers reflecting themes of molecular recognition and chalcogen bonding. Notable recent publications include:

  • The Nature of Strong Chalcogen Bonds Involving Chalcogen-Containing Heterocycles, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • The Carbonyl⋅⋅⋅Tellurazole Chalcogen Bond as a Molecular Recognition Unit: From Model Studies to Supramolecular Organic Frameworks, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Bifurcated Chalcogen Bonds Based on One σ-Hole, 2022, Organic Materials
  • Die Carbonyl⋅⋅⋅Tellurazol-Chalkogenbindung als molekulare Erkennungseinheit: Von Modellstudien zu supramolekularen organischen Gerüstverbindungen, 2020, Angewandte Chemie
  • Die Natur starker Chalkogenbindungen unter Beteiligung chalkogenhaltiger Heterocyclen, 2020, Angewandte Chemie

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Gebhard Haberhauer, Saber Mehrparvar, Christoph Wölper, Bill Appelbe, and M. J. Brunger. These collaborations often address topics related to molecular interactions and organic framework materials.

Best Publications

  • Theoretical Investigations on Chalcogen−Chalcogen Interactions: What Makes These Nonbonded Interactions Bonding?

    Christian Bleiholder;Daniel B. Werz;Horst Köppel;Rolf Gleiter

  • Modern Cyclophane Chemistry: GLEITER:CYCLOPHANE O-BK

    Rolf Gleiter;Henning Hopf

  • Stabilizing a singlet methylene

    Rolf Gleiter;Roald Hoffmann

  • From Noncovalent Chalcogen-Chalcogen Interactions to Supramolecular Aggregates: Experiments and Calculations.

    Rolf Gleiter;Gebhard Haberhauer;Daniel B. Werz;Frank Rominger

  • Modern cyclophane chemistry

    Rolf Gleiter;Henning Hopf

  • Nanotube Formation Favored by Chalcogen−Chalcogen Interactions

    Daniel B Werz;Rolf Gleiter;Frank Rominger

  • Interaction of nonconjugated double bonds

    Roald Hoffmann;Edgar Heilbronner;Rolf Gleiter

  • Photoelectron Spectra of Azabenzenes and Azanaphthalenes: I. Pyridine, diazines, s‐triazine and s‐tetrazine

    R. Gleiter;E. Heilbronner;V. Hornung

  • Theoretical investigations on heteronuclear chalcogen-chalcogen interactions: on the nature of weak bonds between chalcogen centers.

    Christian Bleiholder;Rolf Gleiter;Daniel B. Werz;Horst Köppel

  • Interactions between nonconjugated .pi.-systems

    Rolf Gleiter;Wolfgang Schaefer

  • A CNDO/INDO molecular orbital formalism for the elements H to Br. theory

    Michael C. Böhm;Rolf Gleiter

  • Electronic control of stereoselectivity. 4. Effects of neighboring fused bicyclic frameworks on the stereochemical outcome of Diels-Alder cycloadditions to cyclopentadiene rings

    Michael C. Boehm;Richard V. C. Carr;Rolf Gleiter;Leo A. Paquette

  • ′THROUGH-BOND′-WECHSELWIRKUNGSEFFEKTE

    Rolf Gleiter

  • Decamethylsilicocene — The first stable silicon(II) compound: Synthesis, structure, and bonding

    Peter Jutzi;Udo Holtmann;Dieter Kanne;Carl Krüger

  • Effects of Through-Bond Interaction

    Rolf Gleiter

  • The chemistry of vicinal polycarbonyl compounds.

    Mordecai B. Rubin;Rolf Gleiter

  • Darstellung, Reaktionen und Struktur von tert-Butyl(tert-butylimino)boran

    Peter Paetzold;Christoph Von Plotho;Günter Schmid;Roland Boese

  • A World Beyond Hydrogen Bonds?—Chalcogen–Chalcogen Interactions Yielding Tubular Structures

    Rolf Gleiter;Daniel B. Werz;Bernhard J. Rausch

  • Planarized Intramolecular Charge Transfer: A Concept for Fluorophores with both Large Stokes Shifts and High Fluorescence Quantum Yields.

    Gebhard Haberhauer;Rolf Gleiter;Christoph Burkhart

  • Potential surface for a nonconcerted reaction. Tetramethylene

    Roald Hoffmann;Srinivasan Swaminathan;Brian G. Odell;Rolf Gleiter

  • Non-least-motion potential surfaces. Dimerization of methylenes and nitroso compounds

    Roald Hoffmann;Rolf Gleiter;Frank B. Mallory

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Rominger
Frank Rominger Heidelberg University
Daniel B. Werz
Daniel B. Werz Technische Universität Braunschweig
Bernhard Nuber
Bernhard Nuber Heidelberg University
Leo A. Paquette
Leo A. Paquette The Ohio State University
Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann Cornell University
Armin de Meijere
Armin de Meijere University of Göttingen
Dwaine O. Cowan
Dwaine O. Cowan Johns Hopkins University
Hans Pritzkow
Hans Pritzkow Heidelberg University
Peter Hofmann
Peter Hofmann Heidelberg University
Emanuel Vogel
Emanuel Vogel University of Cologne

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