Reiner Lomoth group

Electron transfer and catalysis in molecular systems
Our research
Reiner Lomoth's research is focused on redox reactions and catalysis in molecular systems and their mechanistic investigation using spectroscopic and electrochemical methods.
Most of this work seeks to develop fundamental insight in photo- and electrochemical processes with pertinence to the conversion of visible light into electrical or chemical energy (solar energy conversion and storage) or to radical-based transformations in organic chemistry (photoredox catalysis). In this context, we are studying molecular catalysts for hydrogen evolution and investigate the reactivity of photoactive iron complexes.
Research projects
Group members
Publications
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Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 22697-22704, 2025
- DOI for Unraveling Bifurcating Pathways for CO and HCOOH Formation: Insights from Stopped-Flow FTIR Spectroscopy of a Second-Sphere Modified Mn Catalyst
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Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, 2025
- DOI for Base-promoted homolytic aromatic substitution (BHAS) reactions and hydrodehalogenations driven by green light and an iron(III)-NHC photoredox catalyst
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Base-mediated alkynyl-cubane to Cu8-alkynide cluster transformation
Part of Chemical Communications, p. 18673-18676, 2025
- DOI for Base-mediated alkynyl-cubane to Cu8-alkynide cluster transformation
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Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 3586-3590, 2025
- DOI for Shining light on the ferrous analogue: Excited state dynamics of an Fe(II) hexa-carbene scorpionate complex
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Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, 2025
- DOI for Tuning the 2LMCT Deactivation of Cyclometalated Iron Carbene Complexes with Electronic Substituent Effects
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Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 12120-12131, 2025
- DOI for Iron N-Heterocyclic Carbene Photoactive Complexes with Rigid Phenylethynyl Substituents as Ligand Ï-System Extensions
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Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 16324-16334, 2024
- DOI for Direct Detection of Key Intermediates during the Product Release in Rhenium Bipyridine-Catalyzed CO2 Reduction Reaction
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Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024
- DOI for Introducing Phosphorus into the Overcrowded Thiele's hydrocarbon Family: Unveiling Contorted Main Group Diradicaloids with Dynamic Redox Behavior
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Aminomethylations of electron-deficient compounds: bringing iron photoredox catalysis into play
Part of Chemical Science, p. 12077-12085, 2024
- DOI for Aminomethylations of electron-deficient compounds: bringing iron photoredox catalysis into play
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Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 4461-4473, 2024
- DOI for How Rigidity and Conjugation of Bidentate Ligands Affect the Geometry and Photophysics of Iron N-Heterocyclic Complexes: A Comparative Study
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Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 2909-2918, 2024
- DOI for Tailoring the Photophysical Properties of a Homoleptic Iron(II) Tetra N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complex by Attaching an Imidazolium Group to the (Câ§Nâ§C) Pincer Ligand-A Comparative Study
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Part of Chemical Science, p. 10129-10139, 2023
- DOI for Ferrous and ferric complexes with cyclometalating N-heterocyclic carbene ligands: a case of dual emission revisited
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High-Efficiency Photoinduced Charge Separation in Fe(III)carbene Thin Films
Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 19171-19176, 2023
- DOI for High-Efficiency Photoinduced Charge Separation in Fe(III)carbene Thin Films
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A Bidirectional Bioinspired [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Model
Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 3614-3625, 2022
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Part of Chemical Science, p. 9165-9175, 2022
- DOI for Photoredox catalysis via consecutive 2LMCT- and 3MLCT-excitation of an Fe(iii/ii)–N-heterocyclic carbene complex
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Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 17515-17526, 2022
- DOI for Photophysical Integrity of the Iron(III) Scorpionate Framework in Iron(III)-NHC Complexes with Long-Lived 2LMCT Excited States
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Part of Chemical Communications, p. 5351-5354, 2022
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Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 10816-10821, 2021
- DOI for The Carbene Cannibal: Photoinduced Symmetry-Breaking Charge Separation in an Fe(III) N-Heterocyclic Carbene
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Part of Chemical Science, p. 16035-16053, 2021
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Using Surface Amide Couplings to Assemble Photocathodes for Solar Fuel Production Applications
Part of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, p. 4501-4509, 2020
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A Stable Homoleptic Organometallic Iron(IV) Complex
Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, p. 12728-12732, 2020
- DOI for A Stable Homoleptic Organometallic Iron(IV) Complex
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Part of Chemical Science, p. 5582-5588, 2019
- DOI for Metal vs. ligand protonation and the alleged proton-shuttling role of the azadithiolate ligand in catalytic H-2 formation with FeFe hydrogenase model complexes
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Luminescence and reactivity of a charge-transfer excited iron complex with nanosecond lifetime
Part of Science, p. 249-253, 2019
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Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, p. 11135-11140, 2019
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Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, p. 459-463, 2018
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Accelerating proton-coupled electron transfer of metal hydrides in catalyst model reactions
Part of Nature Chemistry, p. 881-887, 2018
- DOI for Accelerating proton-coupled electron transfer of metal hydrides in catalyst model reactions
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Probing the elementary steps of PCET catalysis
Part of Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 2018
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Structural and Kinetic Studies of Intermediates of a Biomimetic Diiron Proton-Reduction Catalyst
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 768-776, 2018
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A low-spin Fe(III) complex with 100-ps ligand-to-metal charge transfer photoluminescence
Part of Nature, p. 695-+, 2017
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Photochemistry of iron(III) carbenes
Part of Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 2017
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Capturing intermediates of molecular solar fuels catalysts by time-resolved mid-IR spectroscopy
Part of Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 2017
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Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 4907-4911, 2017
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Following [FeFe] Hydrogenase Active Site Intermediates by Time-Resolved Mid-IR Spectroscopy
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, p. 3290-3293, 2016
- DOI for Following [FeFe] Hydrogenase Active Site Intermediates by Time-Resolved Mid-IR Spectroscopy
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Catalyst solvent interactions in a dinuclear Ru-based water oxidation catalyst
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 19024-19033, 2016
- DOI for Catalyst solvent interactions in a dinuclear Ru-based water oxidation catalyst
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Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 19537-19546, 2016
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Iron sensitizer converts light to electrons with 92% yield
Part of Nature Chemistry, p. 883-889, 2015
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Part of Journal of Materials Chemistry C, p. 10023-10030, 2015
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Redox hysteresis on carbon electrodes covalently modified with a bistable ruthenium complex
Part of Journal of Materials Chemistry C, p. 6260-6265, 2015
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Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, p. 3628-3639, 2015
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Sensitizer-Catalyst Assemblies for Water Oxidation
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 2742-2751, 2015
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Redox Switching in Ethenyl- Bridged Bisphospholes
Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, p. 16083-16087, 2014
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Mechanistic investigations and detection of intermediates of molecular proton reduction catalysts
Part of Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 2014
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Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 17366-17369, 2014
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Pyrene–Azobenzene Dyads and Their Photochemistry
Part of European Journal of Organic Chemistry, p. 966-972, 2014
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Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, p. 1972-1976, 2013
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Part of Chemical Communications, p. 6412-6414, 2013
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Redox-Stimulated Motion and Bistability in Metal Complexes and Organometallic Compounds
Part of Antioxidants and Redox Signaling, p. 1803-1814, 2013
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Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 5128-5137, 2013
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Part of Chemical Communications, p. 8638-8640, 2013
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Synthesis, Structure, and Electronic Properties of RuN(6) Dinuclear Ru-Hbpp Complexes
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 320-327, 2012
Contact
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