Inoue Group

Sebastian has successfully defended his PhD viva! Congratulations! Many thanks to Prof. Roman Dobrovetsky @DobrovetskyG (for joining despite the current challenging circumstances) and Dr. Alexander Pöthig for their commitment and support. AK Inoue PhD #23!

Happy to share that Xufang’s latest work on the isolation of the radical cation and dication of a dialumene has just been published in @NatureComms! Congratulations to the team, and many thanks to Prof. Meyer’s group for the excellent collaboration! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Huaiyuan’s new paper on the silylene-mediated sequential homo- and hetero-coupling of isocyanides and CO is now out in @angew_chem! Congratulations to the whole team! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

A bit late to post, but Huaiyuan’s recent work on metalated phosphasilenes and their reactivities was published in @angew_chem Many thanks to Shicheng Dong and Jun Zhu for their nice contributions! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Moritz and Johannes’ recent paper on the activation, hydrosilylation, and reductive coupling of CO by alumanyl silanides is now out in @ChemicalScience Congratulations to the entire team, and special thanks to @PetraVasko for her fantastic contributions! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Daniel and Tommy’s recent work on neutral silicon Lewis superacids for catalytic reductions of phosphine oxides, sulfoxides, and amides is just out in @InorgChemFront! Congrats to the entire team! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Many congrats to Moritz on his successful PhD viva! Wishing you all the very best for an exciting next career chapter Down Under! Huge thanks to Prof. Guy Bertrand (UC San Diego), Prof. Tom Nilges, and Prof. Jennifer Strunk for doing the honors and for an inspiring discussion!

Congratulations to Fiona on the successful defense of her PhD thesis on disilene chemistry today! Many thanks to Prof. Jesús Campos @CamposGroup and Prof. Matthias Feige for serving as committee members!

Sebastian’s recent paper on silyliumylidene ions in the catalytic hydrosilylation of CO₂, carried out in collaboration with Prof. Lutz Greb, is now published in @ChemCatChem! Congratulations! …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cc…

💬 🧪 Behind the Science Interview with Johannes Voigtland & Moritz Ludwig @InoueGroupTUM : How main-group elements can fine-tune transition-metal reactivity and deepen our understanding of silicon's interactions with coinage metals doi.org/10.1002/chemv.…

Congratulations to Simone on successfully defending her PhD thesis! A big thank you as well to the committee members, Prof. Nicole Strittmatter and Prof. Gabriel Ménard (University of Calgary), for their valuable contributions!

Synthesis of Alumanyl Silyl Coinage Metal Complexes and their Reactivity Toward CO2 by Shigeyoshi Inoue and co-workers (@InoueGroupTUM, @TU_Muenchen) #OpenAccess 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ce…

Huge congratulations to John! His latest paper on the neutral alumene obtained via CO reduction by tetra-silyl alumane and subsequent CO homologation is now out in @NatureSynthesis! nature.com/articles/s4416…

Congratulations to Xufang on her recent paper on the selective transfer hydrogenation of quinolines mediated by dialumene, now published in Nature Comm @NatureComms Kudos as well to the entire team for this achievement! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Fiona’s latest work on the reversible CO insertion into the Si=Si double bond and further functionalization is now out in @J_A_C_S! Congrats, Fiona! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Huaiyuan’s perspective article about NHCPs in main group chemistry is now out in Chem @Chem_CP!

Congratulations to Martin, who successfully defended his PhD thesis!! Huge thanks to Prof. Klaus Köhler, Prof. Angela Casini, and Prof. Jose Goicoechea (online) for doing the honors! AK INOUE PhD No 19.

Congratulations Dechuang! He successfully defended his PhD thesis. Many thanks to Prof. Christopher Stein and Prof. Moumita Majumdar@Moumita_CHEM for doing the honors! Also, thanks @Moumita_CHEM for visiting us and giving a great lecture about cationic group 14 and 15 compounds!

Martin’s latest work on the substituent-effect in NHCP-plumylenes is just out just out in @angew_chem! Many thanks to Prof. Arturo Espinosa Ferao (Universidad de Murcia) for the computational support, and all the team for their contributions! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Congratulations to Dechuang and all the team (@DebotraSarkar, @XuHuihui6)!! His recent work on the catalytic CO2 hydrosilylation by an NHC-stannyliumylidene is out in @ChemicalScience! pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…