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Thomas Strassner

Thomas Strassner

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Chemistry

D-Index
50
Citations
8600
World Ranking
14409
National Ranking
1056

Overview

Thomas Strassner is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemistry, with significant contributions to the subfields of materials chemistry, organic chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, catalysis, and inorganic chemistry.

Their work spans a range of topics, including:

  • Crystallization and solubility studies
  • X-ray diffraction in crystallography
  • Organic light-emitting diodes research
  • N-Heterocyclic carbenes in organic and inorganic chemistry
  • Organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis
  • Catalytic cross-coupling reactions
  • Ionic liquids properties and applications

Strassner has published in several prominent scientific journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry

Among recently published papers associated with their work are:

  • Platinum(II) Complexes with Bis(pyrazolyl)borate Ligands: Increased Molecular Rigidity for Bidentate Ligand Systems, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • C^C* Platinum(II) Complexes with Electron-Withdrawing Groups and Beneficial Auxiliary Ligands: Efficient Blue Phosphorescent Emission, 2021, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Photophysical Properties of Phosphorescent Mono- and Bimetallic Platinum(II) Complexes with CC* Cyclometalating NHC Ligands, 2021, Organometallics
  • Metallophilic Interactions in Bimetallic Cyclometalated Platinum(II) N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes, 2021, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of Monometallic C^C* Platinum(II) Formamidinate Complexes using Sterically Demanding Ligands, 2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Strassner include:

  • Sergej Stipurin
  • Piermaria Pinter
  • Johannes Soellner
  • Swantje Lerch
  • Felix Wurl

Best Publications

  • New Catalyst Systems for the Catalytic Conversion of Methane into Methanol

    Michael Muehlhofer;Thomas Strassner;Wolfgang A. Herrmann

  • Green–Blue Emitters: NHC-Based Cyclometalated [Pt(C^C*)(acac)] Complexes†

    Yvonne Unger;Dirk Meyer;Oliver Molt;Christian Schildknecht

  • Experimental and Theoretical Kinetic Isotope Effects for Asymmetric Dihydroxylation. Evidence Supporting a Rate-Limiting “(3 + 2)” Cycloaddition

    A. J. DelMonte;J. Haller;K. N. Houk;K. B. Sharpless

  • Extension of the Alkane Bridge in BisNHC-Palladium-Chloride Complexes. Synthesis, Structure, and Catalytic Activity

    Sebastian Ahrens;Alexander Zeller;Maria Taige;Thomas Strassner

  • Phosphorescent Platinum(II) Complexes with C∧C* Cyclometalated NHC Ligands

    Thomas Strassner

  • Tunable Aryl Alkyl Ionic Liquids (TAAILs): The Next Generation of Ionic Liquids

    Sebastian Ahrens;Anke Peritz;Thomas Strassner

  • Palladium Complexes with Pyrimidine-Functionalized N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Synthesis, Structure and Catalytic Activity

    Dirk Meyer;Maria A. Taige;Alexander Zeller;Konrad Hohlfeld

  • Blue phosphorescent emitters: new N-heterocyclic platinum(II) tetracarbene complexes

    Yvonne Unger;Alexander Zeller;Sebastian Ahrens;Thomas Strassner

  • The counterion influence on the CH-activation of methane by palladium(II) biscarbene complexes – structures, reactivity and DFT calculations

    Thomas Strassner;Michael Muehlhofer;Alexander Zeller;Eberhardt Herdtweck

  • Multielectron atom transfer reactions of perchlorate and other substrates catalyzed by rhenium oxazoline and thiazoline complexes: reaction kinetics, mechanisms, and density functional theory calculations.

    Lee D. Mcpherson;Markus Drees;Saeed I. Khan;Thomas Strassner

  • Detour-free synthesis of platinum-bis-NHC chloride complexes, their structure and catalytic activity in the CH activation of methane

    Sebastian Ahrens;Thomas Strassner

  • 1,2,4-Triazole-based tunable aryl/alkyl ionic liquids.

    Dirk Meyer;Thomas Strassner

  • Structure and Dynamics of Neutral β-H Agostic Nickel Alkyls: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study

    Elzbieta Kogut;Alexander Zeller;Timothy H. Warren;Thomas Strassner

  • Near-UV phosphorescent emitters: N-heterocyclic platinum(II) tetracarbene complexes

    Yvonne Unger;Alexander Zeller;Maria A. Taige;Thomas Strassner

  • Alkane C–H Functionalization and Oxidation with Molecular Oxygen

    Dominik Munz;Thomas Strassner

  • Tetraphenylhexaazaanthracene: A Case for Dominance of Cyanine Ion Stabilization Overwhelming 16π Antiaromaticity

    Katherine Hutchison;Gordana Srdanov;Robin Hicks;Huinan Yu

  • Synthesis and structural characterization of novel bridged platinum(II) biscarbene complexes

    Michael Muehlhofer;Thomas Strassner;Eberhardt Herdtweck;Wolfgang A Herrmann

  • Enlarging the π system of phosphorescent (C^C*) cyclometalated platinum(II) NHC complexes.

    Alexander Tronnier;Alexander Pöthig;Stefan Metz;Gerhard Wagenblast

  • Use of transition metal-carbene complexes which do not comprise any cyclometallation via non-carbenes in OLEDs

    Evelyn Fuchs;Oliver Molt;Christian Lennartz;Jens Rudolph

  • Enantioselective [6π]-photocyclization reaction of an acrylanilide mediated by a chiral host. Interplay between enantioselective ring closure and enantioselective protonation

    Thorsten Bach;Benjamin Grosch;Thomas Strassner;Eberhardt Herdtweck

  • Predictions of geometries and multiplicities of the manganese-oxo intermediates in the Jacobsen epoxidation.

    Thomas Strassner;K. N. Houk

  • Models for Stereoselective Additions to Chiral Allylic Ethers: Osmium Tetroxide Bis-hydroxylations

    Jan Haller;Thomas Strassner;K. N. Houk

Frequent Co-Authors

Eberhardt Herdtweck
Eberhardt Herdtweck Technical University of Munich
Wolfgang A. Herrmann
Wolfgang A. Herrmann Technical University of Munich
Ivana Císařová
Ivana Císařová Charles University
Thorsten Bach
Thorsten Bach Technical University of Munich
Gert Bernhard
Gert Bernhard Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Sergey P. Verevkin
Sergey P. Verevkin University of Rostock
Stefan Stolte
Stefan Stolte TU Dresden
John I. Brauman
John I. Brauman Stanford University
Jan J. Weigand
Jan J. Weigand TU Dresden
Fred Wudl
Fred Wudl University of California, Santa Barbara

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