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  • 2014 - Alfred-Stock-Gedächtnispreis (Alfred Stock Memorial Prize), German Chemical Society

Overview

Wolfgang Kaim is affiliated with the University of Stuttgart in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on materials science, with a significant output in subfields such as materials chemistry, organic chemistry, oncology, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and inorganic chemistry.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Crystallization and solubility studies
  • X-ray diffraction in crystallography
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry
  • Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds

Kaim has contributed numerous publications, frequently appearing in several established venues. These include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (60 publications)
  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (6 publications)
  • Inorganic Chemistry (3 publications)
  • Dalton Transactions (3 publications)
  • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie (3 publications)

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on silicon-boron and metal complexes. Notable recent publications are:

  • "Selective Route to Stable Silicon-Boron Radicals and Their Corresponding Cations," 2021, Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Diosmium Compounds Containing bis(imidazole)-p-quinone Bridging Ligands," 2022, Dalton Transactions
  • "The Indigo Isomer Epindolidione as a Redox-Active Bridging Ligand for Diruthenium Complexes," 2021, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • "A Neutral Borylene and its Conversion to a Radical by Selective Hydrogen Transfer," 2023, Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Excellent Yield of a Variety of Silicon-Boron Radicals and Their Reactivity," 2022, Dalton Transactions

Frequent collaborators in their work include Brigitte Schwederski, Vasileios Filippou, Stanislav Záliš, Martina Bubrin, and Goutam Kumar Lahiri, reflecting a collaborative research environment.

Wolfgang Kaim was awarded the Alfred-Stock-Gedächtnispreis (Alfred Stock Memorial Prize) by the German Chemical Society in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Non-innocent ligands in bioinorganic chemistry—An overview

    Wolfgang Kaim;Brigitte Schwederski

  • Copper—A “Modern” Bioelement

    Wolfgang Kaim;Jochen Rall

  • Manifestations of noninnocent ligand behavior.

    Wolfgang Kaim

  • Spectroelectrochemistry: the best of two worlds

    Wolfgang Kaim;Jan Fiedler

  • The transition metal coordination chemistry of anion radicals

    Wolfgang Kaim

  • Ligand-Directed Molecular Architectures: Self-Assembly of Two-Dimensional Rectangular Metallacycles and Three-Dimensional Trigonal or Tetragonal Prisms

    Cheng-Yong Su;Yue-Ping Cai;Chun-Long Chen;Mark D. Smith

  • Exploration of mixed-valence chemistry: inventing new analogues of the Creutz-Taube ion.

    Wolfgang Kaim;and Axel Klein;Markus Glöckle

  • Unconventional mixed-valent complexes of ruthenium and osmium

    Wolfgang Kaim;Goutam Kumar Lahiri

  • The coordination chemistry of 1,2,4,5-tetrazines

    Wolfgang Kaim

  • ESR of homo- and heteroleptic mono- and dinuclear tris(.alpha.-diimine)ruthenium radical complexes

    Wolfgang Kaim;Sylvia Ernst;Volker Kasack

  • The Shrinking World of Innocent Ligands: Conventionaland Non‐Conventional Redox‐Active Ligands

    Wolfgang Kaim

  • Selective Catalytic Oxidation of CH Bonds with Molecular Oxygen

    Emil Roduner;Wolfgang Kaim;Biprajit Sarkar;Vlada B. Urlacher

  • The coordination chemistry of TCNE, TCNQ and related polynitrileπ acceptors

    Wolfgang Kaim;Michael Moscherosch

  • Bioinorganic Chemistry: Inorganic Elements in the Chemistry of Life: An Introduction and Guide

    Wolfgang Kaim;Brigitte Schwederski;Axel Klein

  • Energy level tailoring in ruthenium(II) polyazine complexes based on calculated and experimental ligand properties

    Sylvia D. Ernst;Wolfgang Kaim

  • Self-assembly of trigonal-prismatic metallocages encapsulating BF4- or CuI32- as anionic guests: structures and mechanism of formation.

    Cheng-Yong Su;Yue-Peng Cai;Chun-Long Chen;Falk Lissner

  • Separating innocence and non-innocence of ligands and metals in complexes [(L)Ru(acac)2](n) (n = -1, 0, +1; L = o-iminoquinone or o-iminothioquinone).

    Srikanta Patra;Biprajit Sarkar;Shaikh M. Mobin;Wolfgang Kaim

  • Electronic structure of the "molecular light switch" bis(bipyridine)dipyrido[3,2-a:2',3'-c]phenazineruthenium(2+). Cyclic voltammetric, UV/visible and EPR/ENDOR study of multiply reduced complexes and ligands

    Joerg Fees;Wolfgang Kaim;Michael Moscherosch;Walter Matheis

  • Mixed valency in ruthenium complexes—Coordinative aspects

    Wolfgang Kaim;Biprajit Sarkar

  • Complexes with 2,2â²-azobispyridine and related 'S-frame' bridging ligands containing the azo function

    Wolfgang Kaim

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Fiedler
Jan Fiedler Czech Academy of Sciences
Biprajit Sarkar
Biprajit Sarkar University of Stuttgart
Stanislav Záliš
Stanislav Záliš Czech Academy of Sciences
Goutam Kumar Lahiri
Goutam Kumar Lahiri Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Hans Bock
Hans Bock Goethe University Frankfurt
Shaikh M. Mobin
Shaikh M. Mobin Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Vimal K. Jain
Vimal K. Jain University of Mumbai
Herbert W. Roesky
Herbert W. Roesky University of Göttingen
Carole Duboc
Carole Duboc Grenoble Alpes University
Narayan S. Hosmane
Narayan S. Hosmane Northern Illinois University

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