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Wolfram Sander is a researcher affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Chemistry and Physics and Astronomy. Within these broader fields, their work is particularly concentrated in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their scientific contributions address a range of topics including Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms, Advanced Chemical Physics Studies, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure, Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies, and Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Wolfram Sander include Tim Schleif, Enrique Mendez-Vega, Adrián Portela-González, Elsa Sánchez-García, and Karina Morgenstern.

The researcher has published extensively in various scientific journals. Their most common publication venues are:

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry

Among recent publications, key papers include:

  • "Solvation Effects in Organic Chemistry," 2022, The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • "Solvation Effects on Quantum Tunneling Reactions," 2022, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Heavy-Atom Tunneling in Semibullvalenes: How Driving Force, Substituents, and Environment Influence the Tunneling Rates," 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • "The Mystery of the Benzene-Oxide/Oxepin Equilibrium-Heavy-Atom Tunneling Reversed by Solvent Interactions," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Micro- vs Macrosolvation in Reichardt's Dyes," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

  • One century of aryne chemistry.

    Hans Henning Wenk;Michael Winkler;Wolfram Sander

  • Watching hydrogen-bond dynamics in a β-turn by transient two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy

    Christoph Kolano;Jan Helbing;Mariusz Kozinski;Wolfram Sander

  • Carbenes in matrixes: spectroscopy, structure, and reactivity

    Wolfram. Sander;Goetz. Bucher;Stefan. Wierlacher

  • Carbonyl Oxides: Zwitterions or Diradicals?

    Wolfram Sander

  • m-Benzyne and p-Benzyne

    Wolfram Sander

  • 100 Jahre Didehydroaromaten

    Hans Henning Wenk;Michael Winkler;Wolfram Sander

  • Dimerization of formic acid--an example of a "noncovalent" reaction mechanism

    M. Gantenberg;M. Halupka;W. Sander

  • 1H-Bicyclo[3.1.0]hexa-3,5-dien-2-one. A strained 1,3-bridged cyclopropene

    Wolfram Sander;Goetz Bucher;Felix Reichel;Dieter Cremer

  • Reaction of diphenylmethylene and phenylmethylene with oxygen: a matrix isolation study

    Wolfram W. Sander

  • Photochemistry of Fluorinated Phenyl Nitrenes: Matrix Isolation of Fluorinated Azirines.

    Jens Morawietz;Wolfram Sander

  • Carbonylation Reactions of Intramolecular Vicinal Frustrated Phosphane/Borane Lewis Pairs

    Muhammad Sajid;Arunlibertsen Lawzer;Weishi Dong;Christoph Rosorius

  • Vibrational spectrum of m-benzyne: a matrix isolation and computational study.

    Wolfram Sander;Michael Exner;Michael Winkler;Andreas Balster

  • 3,5-Pyridyne--a heterocyclic meta-benzyne derivative.

    Michael Winkler;Bayram Cakir;Wolfram Sander

  • The Structure of meta-Benzyne RevisitedA Close Look into σ-Bond Formation

    Michael Winkler and;Wolfram Sander

  • Hydrogen bonding switches the spin state of diphenylcarbene from triplet to singlet.

    Paolo Costa;Wolfram Sander

  • Infrared, UV/Vis, and W-band EPR spectroscopic characterization and photochemistry of triplet mesitylphosphinidene.

    Götz Bucher;Mark L. G. Borst;Andreas W. Ehlers;Koop Lammertsma

  • A CCSD(T) and DFT investigation of m-benzyne and 4-hydroxy- m-benzyne

    Elfi Kraka;Dieter Cremer;Götz Bucher;Holger Wandel

  • Direct observation of the cyclopropene-vinylcarbene rearrangement. Matrix isolation of bicyclo[3.1.0]hexa-3,5-dien-2-ones

    Goetz Bucher;Wolfram Sander

  • A SIMPLE METHOD FOR THE MATRIX ISOLATION OF MONOMERIC AND DIMERIC CARBOXYLIC ACIDS

    M Halupka;W Sander

  • Photoinduced interactions between oxidized and reduced lipoic acid and riboflavin (vitamin B2).

    Changyuan Lu;Götz Bucher;Wolfram Sander

  • 1,3‐Didehydrobenzene (m‐Benzyne)

    Ralph Marquardt;Wolfram Sander;Elfi Kraka

Frequent Co-Authors

Dieter Cremer
Dieter Cremer Southern Methodist University
Elfi Kraka
Elfi Kraka Southern Methodist University
Rolf Gleiter
Rolf Gleiter Heidelberg University
Walter Thiel
Walter Thiel Max Planck Society
Helge Willner
Helge Willner University of Wuppertal
Ralf I. Kaiser
Ralf I. Kaiser University of Hawaii at Manoa
Holger F. Bettinger
Holger F. Bettinger University of Tübingen
Henning Hopf
Henning Hopf Technische Universität Braunschweig
Peter G. Jones
Peter G. Jones Technische Universität Braunschweig
Martina Havenith
Martina Havenith Ruhr University Bochum

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