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Shigeyoshi Inoue is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields with a strong emphasis on materials science and chemistry. Within these broad domains, their work notably intersects subfields such as materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, process chemistry and technology, and biomedical engineering.

The main research topics covered by Inoue include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic and organometallic compounds, organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis, coordination chemistry and organometallics, and N-heterocyclic carbenes in organic and inorganic chemistry.

Their publication record features papers in highly specialized chemistry and materials science venues. Frequent publication venues for Inoue include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Chemical Science

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Inoue demonstrate an active engagement with topics related to main-group chemistry, small molecule activation, and catalysis. These include:

  • Recent advances of group 14 dimetallenes and dimetallynes in bond activation and catalysis, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Carbon Monoxide in Main-Group Chemistry, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Small Molecule Activation by Two-Coordinate Acyclic Silylenes, 2020, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • Dialumenes - aryl vs. silyl stabilisation for small molecule activation and catalysis, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Silylated silicon-carbonyl complexes as mimics of ubiquitous transition-metal carbonyls, 2020, Nature Chemistry

Inoue frequently collaborates with a core group of researchers, indicating an active research network. Notable frequent coauthors include Franziska Hanusch, Arseni Kostenko, Philipp Frisch, Florian S. Tschernuth, and Catherine Weetman.

Best Publications

  • NHCs in Main Group Chemistry.

    Vitaly Nesterov;Dominik Reiter;Prasenjit Bag;Philipp Frisch

  • The Road Travelled: After Main‐Group Elements as Transition Metals

    Catherine Weetman;Shigeyoshi Inoue

  • A cyclic silylone ("siladicarbene") with an electron-rich silicon(0) atom.

    Yun Xiong;Shenglai Yao;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Jan Dirk Epping

  • Steering S−H and N−H Bond Activation by a Stable N-Heterocyclic Silylene: Different Addition of H2S, NH3, and Organoamines on a Silicon(II) Ligand versus Its Si(II)→Ni(CO)3 Complex

    Antje Meltzer;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Carsten Präsang;Matthias Driess

  • A cyclic germadicarbene ("germylone") from germyliumylidene.

    Yun Xiong;Shenglai Yao;Gengwen Tan;Shigeyoshi Inoue

  • Applications of N-heterocyclic imines in main group chemistry

    Tatsumi Ochiai;Daniel Franz;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Shigeyoshi Inoue

  • Bis(silylenyl)- and Bis(germylenyl)-Substituted Ferrocenes: Synthesis, Structure, and Catalytic Applications of Bidentate Silicon(II)–Cobalt Complexes

    Wenyuan Wang;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Stephan Enthaler;Matthias Driess

  • A Stable Neutral Compound with an Aluminum-Aluminum Double Bond.

    Prasenjit Bag;Amelie Porzelt;Philipp J. Altmann;Shigeyoshi Inoue

  • From Si(II) to Si(IV) and Back: Reversible Intramolecular Carbon-Carbon Bond Activation by an Acyclic Iminosilylene

    Daniel Wendel;Amelie Porzelt;Fabian A. D. Herz;Debotra Sarkar

  • Highly Electron-Rich Pincer-Type Iron Complexes Bearing Innocent Bis(metallylene)pyridine Ligands: Syntheses, Structures, and Catalytic Activity

    Daniel Gallego;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Burgert Blom;Matthias Driess

  • Carbon Monoxide in Main-Group Chemistry.

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  • Silicon and Oxygen’s Bond of Affection: An Acyclic Three-Coordinate Silanone and Its Transformation to an Iminosiloxysilylene

    Daniel Wendel;Dominik Reiter;Amelie Porzelt;Philipp J. Altmann

  • Electron-rich N-heterocyclic silylene (NHSi)-iron complexes: synthesis, structures, and catalytic ability of an isolable hydridosilylene-iron complex.

    Burgert Blom;Stephan Enthaler;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Elisabeth Irran

  • Disilenyllithium from Tetrasila-1,3-butadiene: A Silicon Analogue of a Vinyllithium

    Masaaki Ichinohe;Kaori Sanuki;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Akira Sekiguchi

  • Recent advances of group 14 dimetallenes and dimetallynes in bond activation and catalysis

    Franziska Hanusch;Lisa Groll;Shigeyoshi Inoue

  • An isolable bis-silylene oxide ("disilylenoxane") and its metal coordination.

    Wenyuan Wang;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Shenglai Yao;Matthias Driess

  • Synthesis and unexpected coordination of a silicon(II)-based SiCSi pincerlike arene to palladium.

    Wenyuan Wang;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Elisabeth Irran;Matthias Driess

  • A fragile zwitterionic phosphasilene as a transfer agent of the elusive parent phosphinidene (:PH).

    Kerstin Hansen;Tibor Szilvási;Burgert Blom;Shigeyoshi Inoue

  • An ylide-like phosphasilene and striking formation of a 4π-electron, resonance-stabilized 2,4-disila-1,3-diphosphacyclobutadiene.

    Shigeyoshi Inoue;Wenyuan Wang;Carsten Präsang;Matthew Asay

  • Isolable Anion Radical of Blue Disilene (tBu2MeSi)2SiSi(SiMetBu2)2 Formed upon One-Electron Reduction: Synthesis and Characterization

    Akira Sekiguchi;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Masaaki Ichinohe;Yoriko Arai

  • Aromatic Ylide‐Stabilized Carbocyclic Silylene

    Matthew Asay;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Matthias Driess

  • Formation of a Donor-Stabilized Tetrasilacyclobutadiene Dication by a Lewis Acid Assisted Reaction of an N-Heterocyclic Chloro Silylene

    Shigeyoshi Inoue;Jan D. Epping;Elisabeth Irran;Matthias Driess

  • Experimental Realisation of Elusive Multiple-Bonded Aluminium Compounds: A New Horizon in Aluminium Chemistry.

    Prasenjit Bag;Catherine Weetman;Shigeyoshi Inoue

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Driess
Matthias Driess Technical University of Berlin
Stephan Enthaler
Stephan Enthaler Universität Hamburg
Akira Sekiguchi
Akira Sekiguchi University of Tsukuba
Shenglai Yao
Shenglai Yao Technical University of Berlin
Yun Xiong
Yun Xiong Technical University of Berlin
Bernhard Rieger
Bernhard Rieger Technical University of Munich
David Scheschkewitz
David Scheschkewitz Saarland University
Karsten Meyer
Karsten Meyer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Yun-Dong Wu
Yun-Dong Wu Peking University
Eric Rivard
Eric Rivard University of Alberta

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