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Thomas Müller is affiliated with the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a particular focus on Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. The scientist's work also extends into Inorganic Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Spectroscopy.

The main topics addressed in Müller's research include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds
  • Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry
  • Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions

Müller has contributed to a number of publication venues, with the most frequent including:

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

The researcher has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, notably:

  • Marc Schmidtmann
  • A. Eich
  • Thomas Wolf
  • C. Paulmann
  • K. Friese

Selected recent papers by Thomas Müller include:

  • Silylium Ions: From Elusive Reactive Intermediates to Potent Catalysts, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • Trialkylsilyl-Substituted Silole and Germole Dianions as Precursors for Unusual Silicon and Germanium Compounds, 2020, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • A germaaluminocene, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Radicals and Anions of Siloles and Germoles, 2021, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Chiral Chalcogenyl-Substituted Naphthyl- and Acenaphthyl-Silanes and Their Cations, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal

Best Publications

  • On the Question of Stability, Conjugation, and “Aromaticity” in Imidazol-2-ylidenes and Their Silicon Analogs†

    Christoph Heinemann;Thomas Müller;Yitzhak Apeloig;Helmut Schwarz

  • Promiscuity and specificity in BMP receptor activation

    Thomas D. Mueller;Joachim Nickel

  • Hydrogen- and fluorine-bridged disilyl cations and their use in catalytic C-F activation.

    Robin Panisch;Michael Bolte;Thomas Müller

  • Silylium Ions: From Elusive Reactive Intermediates to Potent Catalysts.

    Hendrik F. T. Klare;Lena Albers;Lars Süsse;Sebastian Keess

  • A new synthesis of triarylsilylium ions and their application in dihydrogen activation.

    André Schäfer;Matti Reißmann;Annemarie Schäfer;Wolfgang Saak

  • DILITHIUM DERIVATIVE OF TETRAPHENYLSILOLE : AN ETA 1-ETA 5 DILITHIUM STRUCTURE

    Robert West;Honglae Sohn;Uwe Bankwitz;Joseph Calabrese

  • Annulation via alkylation-Alder ene cyclizations. Palladium-catalyzed cycloisomerization of 1,6-enynes

    Barry M. Trost;M. Lautens;C. Chan;D. J. Jebaratnam

  • Cations of Group 14 Organometallics

    Thomas Müller

  • Silyl Cation Mediated Conversion of CO2 into Benzoic Acid, Formic Acid, and Methanol

    André Schäfer;Wolfgang Saak;Detlev Haase;Thomas Müller

  • The Dianion of Tetraphenylgermole is Aromatic

    Robert West;Honglae Sohn;Douglas R. Powell;Thomas Müller

  • Ruthenium Catalyzed Synthesis of Butenolides and Pentenolides via Contra-Electronic .alpha.-Alkylation of Hydroxyalkynoates

    Barry M. Trost;Thomas J. J. Mueller;Jose Martinez

  • The X-ray structure of a vinyl cation.

    Thomas Müller;Mark Juhasz;Christopher A. Reed

  • The Search for an Isolable Silyl Cation Must Continue

    Paul von Ragué Schleyer;Peter Buzek;Thomas Müller;Yitzhak Apeloig

  • Chemical Shift Tensors and NICS Calculations for Stable Silylenes

    Robert West;Jarrod J. Buffy;Michael Haaf;Thomas Müller

  • Quantitative Assessment of the Lewis Acidity of Silylium Ions

    Henning Großekappenberg;Matti Reißmann;Marc Schmidtmann;Thomas Müller

  • The Mechanism of the Titanium‐Catalyzed Hydroaminoalkylation of Alkenes

    Insa Prochnow;Patrick Zark;Thomas Müller;Sven Doye

  • A Stable Heterocyclic Amino(phosphanylidene‐σ4‐phosphorane) Germylene

    Natalia Del Rio;Antoine Baceiredo;Nathalie Saffon‐Merceron;Daisuke Hashizume

  • NMR structure of the Wnt modulator protein Sclerostin

    Stella E. Weidauer;Peter Schmieder;Monika Beerbaum;Werner Schmitz

  • Synthesis and reactivity of N-aryl substituted N-heterocyclic silylenes

    P. Zark;A. Schäfer;A. Mitra;D. Haase

  • Silylium Ion/Phosphane Lewis Pairs

    Matti Reißmann;André Schäfer;Sebastian Jung;Thomas Müller

  • Unusually Stable Vinyl Cations

    Thomas Müller;Rita Meyer;Dirk Lennartz;Hans-Ullrich Siehl

  • Chemistry of the Aromatic 9-Germafluorenyl Dianion and Some Related Silicon and Carbon Species

    Yuxia Liu;David Ballweg;Thomas Müller;Ilia A. Guzei

  • Dihydrogen activation by a silylium silylene frustrated Lewis pair and the unexpected isomerization reaction of a protonated silylene.

    Annemarie Schäfer;Matti Reißmann;André Schäfer;Marc Schmidtmann

  • Dispersion energy enforced dimerization of a cyclic disilylated plumbylene.

    Henning Arp;Judith Baumgartner;Christoph Marschner;Patrick Zark

  • A Cyclic Disilylated Stannylene: Synthesis, Dimerization, and Adduct Formation

    Henning Arp;Judith Baumgartner;Christoph Marschner;Thomas Müller

  • A silyl cation with a three-center si-h-si bond.

    Thomas Müller

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Saak
Wolfgang Saak Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Yitzhak Apeloig
Yitzhak Apeloig Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Robert West
Robert West University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael Bolte
Michael Bolte Goethe University Frankfurt
Mitsuo Kira
Mitsuo Kira Hangzhou Normal University
Martin Oestreich
Martin Oestreich Technical University of Berlin
Douglas R. Powell
Douglas R. Powell University of Oklahoma
Christian Steidl
Christian Steidl University of British Columbia
Peter Valent
Peter Valent Medical University of Vienna
Ulrich Stangier
Ulrich Stangier Goethe University Frankfurt

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