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Udo Radius is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with particular emphasis on Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry at the subfield level.

The scientist's recent work includes publications on organoboron chemistry and catalytic processes, with notable papers such as:

  • Photoinduced Borylation for the Synthesis of Organoboron Compounds (2021, Chemical Reviews)
  • First-Row d-Block Element-Catalyzed Carbon-Boron Bond Formation and Related Processes (2021, Chemical Reviews)
  • Ni-Catalyzed Traceless, Directed C3-Selective C-H Borylation of Indoles (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Visible-Light-Induced Ni-Catalyzed Radical Borylation of Chloroarenes (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Copper-Catalyzed Synthesis of Stereodefined Cyclopropyl Bis(boronates) from Alkenes with CO as the C1 Source (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)

Their main topics of research cover a range of crystallographic and synthetic chemistry areas, including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry
  • Crystallography and Molecular Interactions
  • Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Inorganic/Organometallic Compounds

Udo Radius frequently publishes in several specialized venues, notably:

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

Co-authorship is a significant aspect of their work, collaborating regularly with several researchers including:

  • Todd B. Marder
  • Mirjam J. Krahfuß
  • Maik Finze
  • Luis Werner
  • Lukas Tendera

Best Publications

  • Catalytic C-C bond formation accomplished by selective C-F activation of perfluorinated arenes.

    Thomas Schaub;Marc Backes;Udo Radius

  • Efficient C-F and C-C activation by a novel N-heterocyclic carbene-nickel(0) complex.

    Thomas Schaub;Udo Radius

  • Photoinduced Borylation for the Synthesis of Organoboron Compounds.

    Ya-Ming Tian;Xiao-Ning Guo;Holger Braunschweig;Udo Radius

  • First-Row d-Block Element-Catalyzed Carbon-Boron Bond Formation and Related Processes.

    Shubhankar Kumar Bose;Lujia Mao;Laura Kuehn;Udo Radius

  • C-F activation of fluorinated arenes using NHC-stabilized nickel(0) complexes: selectivity and mechanistic investigations.

    Thomas Schaub;Peter Fischer;Andreas Steffen;Thomas Braun

  • Nickel(0) Complexes of N-Alkyl-Substituted N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Their Use in the Catalytic Carbon−Carbon Bond Activation of Biphenylene

    Thomas Schaub;Marc Backes;Udo Radius

  • Preparing (Multi)Fluoroarenes as Building Blocks for Synthesis: Nickel-Catalyzed Borylation of Polyfluoroarenes via C–F Bond Cleavage

    Jing Zhou;Maximilian W. Kuntze-Fechner;Rüdiger Bertermann;Ursula S. D. Paul

  • Alternatives to the CO Ligand: Coordination of the Isolobal Analogues BF, BNH2, BN(CH3)2, and BO− in Mono‐ and Binuclear First‐Row Transition Metal Complexes

    Andreas W. Ehlers;Evert Jan Baerends;F. Matthias Bickelhaupt;Udo Radius

  • IS CO A SPECIAL LIGAND IN ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY? THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF AB, FE(CO)4AB, AND FE(AB)5 (AB = N2, CO, BF, SIO)

    U. Radius;F.M. Bickelhaupt;A.W. Ehlers;N. Goldberg

  • Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of Anionic sp(2) -sp(3) Diboron Compounds: Readily Accessible Boryl Nucleophiles.

    Sabrina Pietsch;Emily C. Neeve;David C. Apperley;Ruediger Bertermann

  • 25 years of N-heterocyclic carbenes: activation of both main-group element–element bonds and NHCs themselves

    Sabrina Würtemberger-Pietsch;Udo Radius;Todd B. Marder

  • Decisive Steps of the Hydrodefluorination of Fluoroaromatics using [Ni(NHC)2]

    Peter Fischer;Kathrin Götz;Antonius Eichhorn;Udo Radius

  • What Wanzlick Did Not Dare To Dream: Cyclic (Alkyl)(amino)carbenes (cAACs) as New Key Players in Transition‐Metal Chemistry

    Ursula S. D. Paul;Udo Radius

  • Bonding capabilities of imidazol-2-ylidene ligands in group-10 transition-metal chemistry

    Udo Radius;F. Matthias Bickelhaupt

  • C-N bond cleavage and ring expansion of N-heterocyclic carbenes using hydrosilanes.

    David Schmidt;Johannes H. J. Berthel;Sabrina Pietsch;Udo Radius

  • Selective Photocatalytic C-F Borylation of Polyfluoroarenes by Rh/Ni Dual Catalysis Providing Valuable Fluorinated Arylboronate Esters.

    Ya-Ming Tian;Xiao-Ning Guo;Maximilian W Kuntze-Fechner;Ivo Krummenacher

  • Efficient nickel mediated carbon-carbon bond cleavage of organonitriles.

    Thomas Schaub;Christian Döring;Udo Radius

  • NHC Nickel-Catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reactions of Aryl Boronate Esters with Perfluorobenzenes

    Jing Zhou;Johannes H. J. Berthel;Maximilian W. Kuntze-Fechner;Alexandra Friedrich

  • Ligand versus Complex: C-F and C-H Bond Activation of Polyfluoroaromatics at a Cyclic (Alkyl)(Amino)Carbene.

    Ursula S. D. Paul;Udo Radius

  • Synthesis and reactivity of calix[4]arene-supported group 4 imido complexes

    Stuart R. Dubberley;Andreas Friedrich;David A. Willman;Philip Mountford

Frequent Co-Authors

Todd B. Marder
Todd B. Marder University of Würzburg
Holger Braunschweig
Holger Braunschweig University of Würzburg
Jörg Sundermeyer
Jörg Sundermeyer Philipp University of Marburg
F. Matthias Bickelhaupt
F. Matthias Bickelhaupt Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gerhard Bringmann
Gerhard Bringmann University of Würzburg
Peter Fischer
Peter Fischer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Frank Breher
Frank Breher Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann Cornell University
David C. Apperley
David C. Apperley Durham University
Xiang-Yun Guo
Xiang-Yun Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences

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