AK Schnöckel

Keywords

matrixisolation spectroscopy, cocondensation technique, metalloid clusters, mass spectroscopy, naked metal atom clusters, organometallic synthesis, formation process of Grignard reagents

Research activities

  • spectroscopy, bonding and reactivity of high-temperature molecules in solid Ar (matrix isolation spectroscopy) and in a synthetic scale
  • synthesis, structure, bonding and properties of metalloid Al/Ga clusters
  • FT-ICR-MS investigation of naked Aln-/Gan- clusters (superatoms)
  • molecules with Mg-Mg bonds, Mg(I) chemistry and primary steps in the formation process of Grignard regents

Highlights

  • Die tetramere Aluminium(I)-Verbindung [{Al(η5-C5Me5)}4], Angew. Chem., 1991, 103, 594 (link)
  • Synthesis and structural characterization of an AI77 cluster, Nature, 1997, 387, 379 (link)
  • Synthesis and Structure of a Ga84R204− Cluster-A Link between Metalloid Clusters and Fullerenes?, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2001, 40, 711 (link)
  • Spin Conservation Accounts for Aluminum Cluster Anion Reactivity Pattern with O2, Science, 2008, 319 (5862), 438 (link)