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Volker Schünemann is affiliated with the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Materials Science, with a specialization in Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's work addresses several key subfields, including:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Electron Spin Resonance Studies
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications

Frequent publication venues for Volker Schünemann's work are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Hyperfine Interactions
  • Chemical Science
  • Dalton Transactions
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Schünemann cover a range of topics related to chemistry and materials:

  • The unusual structure of Ruminococcin C1 antimicrobial peptide confers clinical properties, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A free boratriptycene-type Lewis superacid, 2021, Chemical Science
  • Iron Insertion at the Assembly Site of the ISCU Scaffold Protein Is a Conserved Process Initiating Fe-S Cluster Biosynthesis, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Active Sites of the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO by NH3 over Fe-ZSM-5: Combining Reaction Kinetics with Postcatalytic Mössbauer Spectroscopy at Cryogenic Temperatures, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Mechanism and structural dynamics of sulfur transfer during de novo [2Fe-2S] cluster assembly on ISCU2, 2024, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Schünemann include:

  • Juliusz A. Wolny
  • Marek Weselski
  • Marcin Kaźmierczak
  • Miłosz Siczek
  • Robert Bronisz

Best Publications

  • Magnetically Separable Nanocatalysts: Bridges between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis

    Sankaranarayanapillai Shylesh;Volker Schünemann;Werner R. Thiel

  • Nanoscale Fe2O3-based catalysts for selective hydrogenation of nitroarenes to anilines.

    Rajenahally V. Jagadeesh;Annette-Enrica Surkus;Henrik Junge;Marga-Martina Pohl

  • Archimedean synthesis and magic numbers: "Sizing" giant molybdenum-oxide-based molecular spheres of the Keplerate type

    Achim Müller;Sabyasachi Sarkar;Syed Qaiser Nazir Shah;Hartmut Bögge

  • Iron, neuromelanin and ferritin content in the substantia nigra of normal subjects at different ages: consequences for iron storage and neurodegenerative processes.

    Luigi Zecca;Mario Gallorini;Volker Schünemann;Alfred X. Trautwein

  • Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction from Heat-Treated Iron(III) Tetramethoxyphenylporphyrin Chloride: Structure and Stability of Active Sites

    Hendrik Schulenburg;Svetoslav Stankov;Volker SCHüNEMANN;Jörg Radnik

  • A comparative study of the physicochemical properties of iron isomaltoside 1000 (Monofer), a new intravenous iron preparation and its clinical implications.

    Markus R. Jahn;Hans B. Andreasen;Sören Fütterer;Thomas Nawroth

  • Iron-binding characteristics of neuromelanin of the human substantia nigra.

    Kay L. Double;Manfred Gerlach;Volker Schünemann;Alfred X. Trautwein

  • FhuF, part of a siderophore-reductase system.

    Berthold F. Matzanke;Stefan Anemüller;Volker Schünemann;and Alfred X. Trautwein

  • Physiologically relevant reconstitution of iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis uncovers persulfide-processing functions of ferredoxin-2 and frataxin.

    Sylvain Gervason;Djabir Larkem;Amir Ben Mansour;Thomas Botzanowski

  • The presence of an iron-sulfur cluster in adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate reductase separates organisms utilizing adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate and phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate for sulfate assimilation.

    Stanislav Kopriva;Thomas Büchert;Günter Fritz;Marianne Suter

  • Is the corrolate macrocycle innocent or noninnocent? Magnetic susceptibility, Mössbauer, 1H NMR, and DFT investigations of chloro- and phenyliron corrolates.

    Olga Zakharieva;Volker Schünemann;Michael Gerdan;Silvia Licoccia

  • Structural organization of essential iron-sulfur clusters in the evolutionarily highly conserved ATP-binding cassette protein ABCE1

    Dominik Barthelme;Urte Scheele;Stephanie Dinkelaker;Adam Janoschka

  • Identifying active sites for fast NH3-SCR of NO/NO2 mixtures over Fe-ZSM-5 by operando EPR and UV–vis spectroscopy

    Roxana Pérez Vélez;Inga Ellmers;Heming Huang;Ursula Bentrup

  • Magnetisch abtrennbare Nanokatalysatoren: Brücken zwischen homogener und heterogener Katalyse

    Sankaranarayanapillai Shylesh;Volker Schünemann;Werner R. Thiel

  • Nanoparticle Supported, Magnetically Recoverable Oxodiperoxo Molybdenum Complexes: Efficient Catalysts for Selective Epoxidation Reactions

    Sankaranarayanapillai Shylesh;Julia Schweizer;Serhiy Demeshko;Volker Schünemann

  • The {FeIII[FeIII(L1)2]3} star-type single-molecule magnet

    Rolf W. Saalfrank;Andreas Scheurer;Ingo Bernt;Frank W. Heinemann

  • Structure and dynamics of biomolecules studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy

    Volker Schünemann;Heiner Winkler

  • A New Type of Supramolecular Compound: Molybdenum-Oxide-Based Composites Consisting of Magnetic Nanocapsules with Encapsulated Keggin-Ion Electron Reservoirs Cross-Linked to a Two-Dimensional Network

    Achim Müller;Samar K. Das;Paul Kögerler;Hartmut Bögge

  • Tyrosine radical formation in the reaction of wild type and mutant cytochrome P450cam with peroxy acids : a multifrequency EPR study of intermediates on the millisecond time scale

    Volker Schünemann;Friedhelm Lendzian;Christiane Jung;Jörg Contzen

  • Vibrational spectrum of the spin crossover complex [Fe(phen)2(NCS)2] studied by IR and Raman spectroscopy, nuclear inelastic scattering and DFT calculations

    Kate L. Ronayne;Hauke Paulsen;Andreas Höfer;Andrew C. Dennis

  • Magnetically Separable Nanocatalysts: Bridges Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis

    Sankaranarayanapillai Shylesh;Volker Schuenemann;Werner R. Thiel

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfred X. Trautwein
Alfred X. Trautwein University of Lübeck
Mario Ruben
Mario Ruben Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Yann Garcia
Yann Garcia Université Catholique de Louvain
Rolf W. Saalfrank
Rolf W. Saalfrank University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Annie K. Powell
Annie K. Powell Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Christopher E. Anson
Christopher E. Anson Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
F. Ann Walker
F. Ann Walker University of Arizona
Frank Hampel
Frank Hampel University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Peter J. Sadler
Peter J. Sadler University of Warwick
Anne-Laure Barra
Anne-Laure Barra Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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