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Serena DeBeer

Serena DeBeer

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
13126
World Ranking
7071
National Ranking
511

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Serena DeBeer is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has an extensive body of research primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their work spans numerous subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Catalysis.

The scientist's research focuses on various major topics, reflecting a broad and interdisciplinary approach. Key areas of work include:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Metalloenzymes and Iron-Sulfur Proteins
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Metal Complexes Synthesis and Properties
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis

Serena DeBeer has authored papers published in a variety of scientific journals with a frequency of contributions evident in venues such as:

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

Recent publications highlighting the diversity of their research include:

  • "Modern X-ray spectroscopy: XAS and XES in the laboratory", 2020, Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • "The Spectroscopy of Nitrogenases", 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • "3D atomic-scale imaging of mixed Co-Fe spinel oxide nanoparticles during oxygen evolution reaction", 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Synthesis and isolation of a triplet bismuthinidene with a quenched magnetic response", 2023, Science
  • "Dual Role of Silver Moieties Coupled with Ordered Mesoporous Cobalt Oxide towards Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction", 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Collaboration plays a significant role in their scientific output, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Sergio A. V. Jannuzzi
  • Liqun Kang
  • George E. Cutsail
  • Maurice van Gastel
  • Frank Neese

In addition to their contributions to scientific literature, Serena DeBeer was awarded the designation of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2011.

Best Publications

  • X-ray Emission Spectroscopy Evidences a Central Carbon in the Nitrogenase Iron-Molybdenum Cofactor

    Kyle M. Lancaster;Michael Roemelt;Patrick Ettenhuber;Yilin Hu

  • Metal oxidation states in biological water splitting

    Vera Krewald;Marius Retegan;Nicholas Cox;Johannes Messinger

  • Probing Valence Orbital Composition with Iron Kβ X-ray Emission Spectroscopy

    Nicole Lee;Taras Petrenko;Uwe Bergmann;Frank Neese

  • A combined DFT and restricted open-shell configuration interaction method including spin-orbit coupling: application to transition metal L-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy.

    Michael Roemelt;Dimitrios Maganas;Serena DeBeer;Serena DeBeer;Frank Neese

  • Characterization of Porphyrin-Co(III)-‘Nitrene Radical’ Species Relevant in Catalytic Nitrene Transfer Reactions

    Monalisa Goswami;Volodymyr Lyaskovskyy;Sérgio R. Domingos;Wybren Jan Buma

  • Modern X-ray spectroscopy: XAS and XES in the laboratory

    Patric Zimmermann;Sergey Peredkov;Paula Macarena Abdala;Serena DeBeer

  • Electronic and molecular structures of the members of the electron transfer series [Cr(tbpy)3]n (n = 3+, 2+, 1+, 0): an X-ray absorption spectroscopic and density functional theoretical study.

    Christopher C. Scarborough;Stephen Sproules;Thomas Weyhermüller;Serena DeBeer;Serena DeBeer

  • Catalytic Hydrogenation Activity and Electronic Structure Determination of Bis(arylimidazol-2-ylidene)pyridine Cobalt Alkyl and Hydride Complexes

    Renyuan Pony Yu;Jonathan M. Darmon;Carsten Milsmann;Grant W. Margulieux

  • Identification of a spin-coupled Mo(III) in the nitrogenase iron–molybdenum cofactor

    Ragnar Bjornsson;Frederico A. Lima;Thomas Spatzal;Thomas Weyhermüller

  • The Spectroscopy of Nitrogenases.

    Casey Van Stappen;Laure Benedicte Decamps;George E. Cutsail Iii;Ragnar Bjornsson

  • Kβ mainline X-ray emission spectroscopy as an experimental probe of metal-ligand covalency.

    Christopher J. Pollock;Mario Ulises Delgado-Jaime;Mihail Atanasov;Frank Neese

  • Valence-to-core X-ray emission spectroscopy: a sensitive probe of the nature of a bound ligand.

    Christopher J. Pollock;Serena DeBeer

  • Revisiting the Mössbauer Isomer Shifts of the FeMoco Cluster of Nitrogenase and the Cofactor Charge.

    Ragnar Bjornsson;Frank Neese;Serena DeBeer;Serena DeBeer

  • Re-evaluating the Cu K pre-edge XAS transition in complexes with covalent metal–ligand interactions

    Neil C. Tomson;Kamille D. Williams;Xuliang Dai;Stephen Sproules

  • 3D atomic-scale imaging of mixed Co-Fe spinel oxide nanoparticles during oxygen evolution reaction

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  • Experimental Fingerprints for Redox-Active Terpyridine in [Cr(tpy)2](PF6)n (n = 3–0), and the Remarkable Electronic Structure of [Cr(tpy)2]1–

    Christopher C. Scarborough;Christopher C. Scarborough;Kyle M. Lancaster;Serena DeBeer;Serena DeBeer;Thomas Weyhermüller

  • Manganese K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy as a probe of the metal-ligand interactions in coordination compounds.

    Michael Roemelt;Martha A. Beckwith;Martha A. Beckwith;Carole Duboc;Marie-Noëlle Collomb

  • Insights into the Geometric and Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Centers from Valence-to-Core X-ray Emission Spectroscopy

    Christopher J. Pollock;Serena DeBeer;Serena DeBeer

  • Bis(imino)pyridine Iron Dinitrogen Compounds Revisited: Differences in Electronic Structure Between Four- and Five-Coordinate Derivatives.

    S. Chantal E. Stieber;Carsten Milsmann;Jordan M. Hoyt;Zoë R. Turner

  • Oxidative addition of carbon-carbon bonds with a redox-active bis(imino)pyridine iron complex.

    Jonathan M. Darmon;Jonathan M. Darmon;S. Chantal E. Stieber;Kevin T. Sylvester;Ignacio Fernández

  • Electronic and Molecular Structures of the Members of the Electron Transfer Series

    C.C. Scarborough;S. Sproules;T. Weyermuller;S. DeBeer

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Neese
Frank Neese Max Planck Society
Thomas Weyhermüller
Thomas Weyhermüller Max Planck Society
Eckhard Bill
Eckhard Bill Max Planck Society
Uwe Bergmann
Uwe Bergmann SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Karl Wieghardt
Karl Wieghardt Max Planck Society
Oliver Einsle
Oliver Einsle University of Freiburg
Carole Duboc
Carole Duboc Grenoble Alpes University
Franc Meyer
Franc Meyer University of Göttingen
Patrick L. Holland
Patrick L. Holland Yale University
Wolfgang Lubitz
Wolfgang Lubitz Max Planck Society

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