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Stefan Lochbrunner

Stefan Lochbrunner

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Chemistry

D-Index
48
Citations
8707
World Ranking
15202
National Ranking
1112

Overview

Stefan Lochbrunner is affiliated with the University of Rostock in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a strong focus on Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry as subfields. Additional areas of study include Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist has contributed notably to several key research topics: crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, radical photochemical reactions, magnetism in coordination complexes, photochemistry and electron transfer studies, catalytic C-H functionalization methods, and porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry.

Frequent publication venues for their work include The Cambridge Structural Database, with 28 publications, followed by Inorganic Chemistry with 7, Chemical Communications with 4, the Journal of the American Chemical Society with 3, and Chemistry - A European Journal with 3 publications.

Stefan Lochbrunner's research output includes a range of recent papers such as:

  • A Vanadium(III) Complex with Blue and NIR-II Spin-Flip Luminescence in Solution, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • A Photoreactive Iron(II) Complex Luminophore, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Janus-type emission from a cyclometalated iron(iii) complex, 2023, Nature Chemistry
  • Ultrafast and long-time excited state kinetics of an NIR-emissive vanadium(iii) complex I: synthesis, spectroscopy and static quantum chemistry, 2021, Chemical Science
  • Ground- and Excited-State Properties of Iron(II) Complexes Linked to Organic Chromophores, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers. Among their most frequent coauthors are Matthias Bauer, Miguel A. Argüello Cordero, Roland Schoch, Katja Heinze, and Ayla Päpcke.

Best Publications

  • Mechanism and dynamics of azobenzene photoisomerization.

    Thomas Schultz;Jason Quenneville;Benjamin Levine;Alessandro Toniolo

  • Exciton Trapping in π-Conjugated Materials: A Quantum-Chemistry-Based Protocol Applied to Perylene Bisimide Dye Aggregates

    Reinhold F. Fink;Joachim Seibt;Volker Engel;Manuel Renz

  • Boosting Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution with an Integrated Nickel Phosphide–Carbon Nitride System

    Arindam Indra;Amitava Acharjya;Prashanth W. Menezes;Christoph Merschjann

  • Photocatalytic Water Reduction with Copper‐Based Photosensitizers: A Noble‐Metal‐Free System

    Shu-Ping Luo;Shu-Ping Luo;Esteban Mejía;Aleksej Friedrich;Alexandra Pazidis

  • Microscopic Mechanism of Ultrafast Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer: A 30-fs Study of 2-(2‘-Hydroxyphenyl)benzothiazole†

    Stefan Lochbrunner;and Alexander J. Wurzer;Eberhard Riedle

  • Ultrafast excited-state proton transfer and subsequent coherent skeletal motion of 2-(2′-hydroxyphenyl)benzothiazole

    Stefan Lochbrunner;A. J. Wurzer;Eberhard Riedle

  • Ultrafast internal conversion pathway and mechanism in 2-(2'-hydroxyphenyl)benzothiazole: a case study for excited-state intramolecular proton transfer systems.

    Mario Barbatti;Adélia J. A. Aquino;Hans Lischka;Christian Schriever

  • Complementing Graphenes: 1D Interplanar Charge Transport in Polymeric Graphitic Carbon Nitrides.

    Christoph Merschjann;Christoph Merschjann;Stefanie Tschierlei;Stefanie Tschierlei;Tobias Tyborski;Kamalakannan Kailasam

  • One-dimensional exciton diffusion in perylene bisimide aggregates.

    Henning Marciniak;Xue-Qing Li;Frank Würthner;Stefan Lochbrunner

  • Dynamics of excited-state proton transfer systems via time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy

    S. Lochbrunner;T. Schultz;M. Schmitt;J. P. Shaffer

  • A noble-metal-free system for photocatalytic hydrogen production from water.

    Esteban Mejía;Shu-Ping Luo;Michael Karnahl;Aleksej Friedrich

  • Pathway approach to ultrafast photochemistry: potential surfaces, conical intersections and isomerizations of small polyenes

    W Fuß;S Lochbrunner;A.M Müller;T Schikarski

  • Ultrafast exciton relaxation in microcrystalline pentacene films.

    H. Marciniak;M. Fiebig;M. Huth;S. Schiefer

  • Ultrafast Exciton Self-Trapping upon Geometry Deformation in Perylene-Based Molecular Aggregates.

    Alexander Schubert;Volker Settels;Wenlan Liu;Frank Würthner

  • Biphasic Self-Assembly Pathways and Size-Dependent Photophysical Properties of Perylene Bisimide Dye Aggregates

    Franziska Fennel;Steffen Wolter;Zengqi Xie;Per-Arno Plötz

  • Ultrafast singlet and triplet dynamics in microcrystalline pentacene films

    Henning Marciniak;Igor Pugliesi;Bert Nickel;Stefan Lochbrunner

  • Photoswitching of Enzyme Activity by Laser-Induced pH-Jump

    Stefanie Kohse;Antje Neubauer;Alexandra Pazidis;Stefan Lochbrunner

  • The interplay of skeletal deformations and ultrafast excited-state intramolecular proton transfer: Experimental and theoretical investigation of 10-hydroxybenzo[ h]quinoline

    Christian Schriever;Mario Barbatti;Kai Stock;Adélia J.A. Aquino

  • Hydrogen bonding in ionic liquids probed by linear and nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy

    C Roth;S Chatzipapadopoulos;D Kerlé;F Friedriszik

  • Structure–Activity Relationships in Bulk Polymeric and Sol–Gel-Derived Carbon Nitrides during Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production

    Dirk Hollmann;Michael Karnahl;Stefanie Tschierlei;Kamalakannan Kailasam

  • Low-Temperature Photochemistry of Previtamin D: A Hula-Twist Isomerization of a Triene.

    Astrid M. Müller;Stefan Lochbrunner;Wolfram E. Schmid;Werner Fuß

Frequent Co-Authors

Henrik Junge
Henrik Junge Leibniz Institute for Catalysis
Frank Würthner
Frank Würthner University of Würzburg
Alexander Villinger
Alexander Villinger University of Rostock
Katja Heinze
Katja Heinze Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Ralf Ludwig
Ralf Ludwig University of Rostock
Michael Schmitt
Michael Schmitt Northwestern University
Anke Spannenberg
Anke Spannenberg Leibniz Institute for Catalysis
Bert Nickel
Bert Nickel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Albert Stolow
Albert Stolow University of Ottawa
Axel Schulz
Axel Schulz University of Rostock

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