Carbanions as Functional Groups and Building Blocks for Novel Reagents, Catalysts and Materials

Project Information

CarbFunction

Grant agreement ID: 101086951

DOI

10.3030/101086951

EC signature date 23 February 2023

Start date 1 July 2023

End date 30 June 2028

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM
Germany

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Publications

Other (2)

Ligand Exchange at Carbon: Synthetic Entry to Elusive Species and Versatile Reagents

Author(s): Felix Krischer; Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: JACS Au, 2024
Publisher: ACS
DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.4c00112

Phosphinoyl-Substituted Ketenyl Anions: Synthesis and Substituent Effects on the Structural Properties

Author(s): Mike Jörges; Sunita Mondal; Manoj Kumar; Prakash Duari; Felix Krischer; Julian Löffler; Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Organometallics, 2024
DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.3c00530

Peer reviewed articles (20)

The Cyanoketene Anion [NC3O]-

Author(s): Felix Krischer; Varre S. V. S. N. Swamy; Kai-Stephan Feichtner; Robert J. Ward; Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/ANIE.202403766

Harnessing Organopotassium Reagents for Cross-Coupling with YPhos-Pd Catalysts: Opportunities, Applications, and Challenges

Author(s): Daniel Knyszek, Julian Löffler, David E. Anderson, Eva Hevia, Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, ISSN 1520-5126
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/JACS.4C18073

Reactivity of ketenyl anions towards ammonia

Author(s): Prakash Duari; Mike Jörges; Sunita Mondal; Kai-Stephan Feichtner; Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Chemical Communications, 2025, ISSN 1364-548X
Publisher: The Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.26434/CHEMRXIV-2025-HXNBB

Isolation and Structure Elucidation of the Heterocumulene Anions [NCC-L]− (L=CO, CS, N2)

Author(s): Quentin Le Dé, Yihao Zhang, Lili Zhao, Felix Krischer, Kai-Stephan Feichtner, Gernot Frenking, Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/ANIE.202422496

Chemistry - A European Journal

Author(s): Lennart Hensle; Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Chemistry – A European Journal, 2025, ISSN 0947-6539
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
DOI: 10.1002/CHEM.202502814

An Azide-Free Synthesis of Metallodiazomethanes Using Nitrous Oxide

Author(s): Robert J. Ward; Mike Jörges; Henning Remm; Elias Kiliani; Felix Krischer; Quentin Le Dé; Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, ISSN 1520-5126
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/JACS.4C07999

Base-stabilized acyclic amino(ylidyl)silylenes: electron-rich donors for the stabilization of silicon-element multiple bonds

Author(s): Felix Krischer; Stephan Mayer; Lennart Hensle; Daniel Knyszek; Heidar Darmandeh; Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Chemical Science, 2025, ISSN 2041-6539
Publisher: The Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/D5SC01812A

The Pyridylketenyl Anion: Entry to Diverse N-Heterocycles

Author(s): Stephan Mayer, Felix Krischer, Kristin Wulff, Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 148, 2026, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/JACS.6C03327

Increasing the Donor Strength of Alkenylphosphines by Twisting the C=C Double Bond

Author(s): Cheng‐Han Yu, Yu‐Wen Hsiao, Julian Löffler, Nicolas Kaiser, Bo‐Hong Huang, Chao‐Hsien Lee, Chen‐Hsun Hung, Jiun‐Shian Shen, Glenn P. A. Yap, Viktoria H. Gessner, Tiow‐Gan Ong
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 64, 2025, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ANIE.202416764

Carbon‐Based Weakly Coordinating Anions: Molecular Design, Synthesis and Applications

Author(s): Leif Kelling, Julian Eßer, Daniel Knyszek, Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 63, 2024, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ANIE.202405936

Isolation of base-coordinated 1,4-disilaquinones

Author(s): Leif Kelling, Mike Jörges, Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Organometallics, ISSN 1520-6041
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.ORGANOMET.6C00081

Rethinking carbanion chemistry from donor substituents to weakly coordinating carbanions

Author(s): Arpan Das; Quentin Le Dé; Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2025, ISSN 2397-3358
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41570-025-00725-3

Kohlenstoff‐Basierte Schwach Koordinierende Anionen: Molekulares Design, Synthese und Anwendung

Author(s): Leif Kelling; Julian Eßer; Daniel Knyszek; Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Angewandte Chemie, 2024, ISSN 0044-8249
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/ANGE.202405936

Isolation of a Lewis acid-base stabilized stannanone

Author(s): Mike Jörges; Daniel Knyszek; Manoj Kumar; Varre S. V. S. N. Swamy; Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Chemical Science, 2025, ISSN 2041-6539
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/D5SC06549F

Isolation of Anionic <i>N</i> ‐Heterocyclic Olefins and Their Versatile Reactivity

Author(s): Prakash Duari, Alexander Linke, Margarita Shishkova, Quentin Le Dé, Arpan Das, Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 64, 2026, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ANIE.202516374

Impact of the Substitution Pattern in <i>N</i>–heterocyclic Olefin‐Substituted Phosphines on Palladium Catalysis

Author(s): Nicolas Kaiser, Aya Alhaddad, Julian Löffler, Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Advanced Synthesis &amp; Catalysis, Issue 367, 2025, ISSN 1615-4150
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ADSC.202500270

Palladium-Catalyzed Monoarylation of Cyclopropylamine

Author(s): Nicolas Kaiser, Lea Räkow, Jens Handelmann, Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Issue 90, 2025, ISSN 0022-3263
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.JOC.5C01233

Coordination chemistry of a weakly coordinating carbanion

Author(s): Leif Kelling, Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Polyhedron, 2024, ISSN 1873-3719
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/J.POLY.2024.117283

European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Author(s): Daniel Knyszek; Margarita Shishkova; Leif Kelling; Henning Steinert; Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: A crystalline ylide-stabilized stibenium cation, 2026, ISSN 1434-1948
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/EJIC.70201

PPh3/Isocyanide and N2/Isocyanide Exchange: Pathways to Isolable Alkali Metal Keteniminyl Anions

Author(s): Sunita Mondal; Yihao Zhang; Kai-Stephan Feichtner; Arpan Das; Lili Zhao; Gernot Frenking; Viktoria H. Gessner
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/ANIE.202504325