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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Yitzhak Apeloig is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. Their research spans primarily the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a particular concentration in Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. Apeloig's work includes contributions to subfields such as Inorganic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics focus on areas including crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and the synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic and organometallic compounds. Additional topics covered in their work are organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis, coordination chemistry and organometallics, organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, and advancements in battery materials.

Recent publications illustrate a diverse range of study within these topics:

  • Alkylated LixSiyOz Coating for Stabilization of Li-rich Layered Oxide Cathodes, 2020, Energy Storage Materials
  • A High Yield Synthesis of an Octastannacubane and a Bis(silyl) Stannylene via Reductive Elimination of a Silane, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • The First Planar, Not Twisted, Distannene − A Structural Alkene Analog. Synthesis, Isolation and X-ray Crystallography Characterization, 2023, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Synthesis of Genuine Germenyl Lithiums and the First Persistent Germenyl Radicals, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Synthesis of Silyl Aluminum Reagents: Relevance Toward Atomic Layer Deposition of Metal Silicides and the Serendipitous Synthesis of a Novel Al-Hydride Cluster, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry

Apeloig has published extensively in several prominent scientific venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in the following journals:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (30 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (6 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie (6 publications)
  • European Journal of Organic Chemistry (3 publications)
  • Energy Storage Materials (1 publication)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii (45 joint publications)
  • Roman Bashkurov (34 joint publications)
  • Natalia Fridman (34 joint publications)
  • Alexander Kaushansky (15 joint publications)
  • Yosi Kratish (13 joint publications)

Throughout their career, Apeloig has been recognized through memberships and fellowships in prestigious scientific academies:

  • Member of Academia Europaea, since 2016
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, since 2010
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), since 2009

Best Publications

  • The chemistry of organic silicon compounds

    Zvi Rappoport;Yitzhak Apeloig

  • Stabilization of planar tetracoordinate carbon

    John B. Collins;James D. Dill;Eluvathingal D. Jemmis;Yitzhak Apeloig

  • On the Question of Stability, Conjugation, and “Aromaticity” in Imidazol-2-ylidenes and Their Silicon Analogs†

    Christoph Heinemann;Thomas Müller;Yitzhak Apeloig;Helmut Schwarz

  • A theoretical survey of unsaturated or multiply bonded and divalent silicon compounds. Comparison with carbon analogs

    B. T. Luke;J. A. Pople;M. B. Krogh-Jespersen;Y. Apeloig

  • Mechanism of the Acid-Catalyzed Si−O Bond Cleavage in Siloxanes and Siloxanols. A Theoretical Study

    and Marek Cypryk;Yitzhak Apeloig

  • Bonding and coupling of C1 fragments on metal surfaces

    Chong. Zheng;Yitzhak. Apeloig;Roald. Hoffmann

  • A theoretical survey of singly bonded silicon compounds. Comparison of the structures and bond energies of silyl and methyl derivatives

    B. T. Luke;J. A. Pople;M. B. Krogh-Jespersen;Y. Apeloig

  • SUBSTITUENT EFFECTS ON THE CARBON-SILICON DOUBLE BOND. MONOSUBSTITUTED SILENES

    Y. Apeloig;M. Karni

  • DILITHIUM DERIVATIVE OF TETRAPHENYLSILOLE : AN ETA 1-ETA 5 DILITHIUM STRUCTURE

    Robert West;Honglae Sohn;Uwe Bankwitz;Joseph Calabrese

  • The Dianion of Tetraphenylgermole is Aromatic

    Robert West;Honglae Sohn;Douglas R. Powell;Thomas Müller

  • Reversible Transformation between a Diaminosilylene and a Novel Disilene

    Thomas A. Schmedake;Michael Haaf;Yitzhak Apeloig;Thomas Müller

  • Substituent effects on the geometries and energies of the silicon-silicon double bond

    Miriam Karni;Yitzhak Apeloig

  • Why Is Methylene a Ground State Triplet while Silylene Is a Ground State Singlet

    Yitzhak Apeloig;Ruben Pauncz;Miriam Karni;Robert West

  • Novel Stable Silenes via a Sila-Peterson-type Reaction. Molecular Structure and Reactivity

    Yitzhak Apeloig;Michael Bendikov;Michael Yuzefovich;Moshe Nakash

  • Si=X multiple bonding with four-coordinate silicon? Insights into the nature of the Si=O and Si=S double bonds in stable silanoic esters and related thioesters: a combined NMR spectroscopic and computational study.

    Jan. D. Epping;Shenglai Yao;Miriam Karni;Yitzhak Apeloig

  • The Search for an Isolable Silyl Cation Must Continue

    Paul von Ragué Schleyer;Peter Buzek;Thomas Müller;Yitzhak Apeloig

  • Chemical Shift Tensors and NICS Calculations for Stable Silylenes

    Robert West;Jarrod J. Buffy;Michael Haaf;Thomas Müller

  • Theoretical Aspects of Organosilicon Compounds

    Yitzhak Apeloig

  • (tBu2MeSi)2Sn=Sn(SiMetBu2)2: a distannene with a >Sn=Sn< double bond that is stable both in the solid state and in solution.

    Vladimir Ya Lee;Tomohide Fukawa;Masaaki Nakamoto;Akira Sekiguchi

  • Dimers of Diaminosilylenes: Doubly Bonded or Bridged? The Dimers of (i-Pr2N)2Si:

    Masae Takahashi;Shinobu Tsutsui;Kenkichi Sakamoto;Mitsuo Kira

  • Molecular orbital theory of the electronic structure of molecules. 33. The effect of .alpha.-electropositive substituents on the stabilities of carbenium ions

    Yitzhak Apeloig;Paul v. R. Schleyer;J. A. Pople

Frequent Co-Authors

Zvi Rappoport
Zvi Rappoport Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Helmut Schwarz
Helmut Schwarz Technical University of Berlin
Robert West
Robert West University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul v. R. Schleyer
Paul v. R. Schleyer University of Georgia
Peter J. Stang
Peter J. Stang University of Utah
Thomas Müller
Thomas Müller Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Akira Sekiguchi
Akira Sekiguchi University of Tsukuba
John A. Pople
John A. Pople Stanford University
Roland Boese
Roland Boese University of Duisburg-Essen
Sason Shaik
Sason Shaik Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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