Dr. Xin Xu

group of Prof. G. Erker

Corrensstr. 40
48149 Münster
Lab. No.: 4.39
Phone: +49 251 83-36527
Email:xinxu[at]uni-muenster.de
Group member since: 05/2011  
Research interest:
Organometallic "Frustrated Lewis Pair" chemistry
   
PhD degree thesis:  
Syntheses and Catalytic Activities of New Rare Earth Metal Alkyl Complexes, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry and East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai (China), 07/2010.
   
Oral presentations:  
“Frustrated Lewis Pairs Chemistry Based on Zr Cation”, 11/2012, 8th Workshop France-Germany, ASMOS 8, Dijon, France.   
   
Publications:  
“Reactions of a Cationic Geminal Zr+/P Pair with Small Molecules”, X. Xu, G. Kehr, C. G. Daniliuc, G. Erker, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, DOI: 10.1021/ja3110076.

“Reactions of a methylzirconocene cation with phosphinoalkynes: an alternative pathway for generating Cp2Zr(II) systems”, X. Xu, R. Fröhlich, C. G. Daniliuc, G. Kehr, G. Erker, Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 6109.

“Well-Defined Soluble P3--Containing Rare-Earth-Metal Compounds”, Y. Lv, X. Xu, Y. Chen, X. Leng, M. V. Borzov, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 11227.

“Rapid Entry to Functionalized Boratabenzene Complexes through Metal-Induced Hydroboration at the Anionic 1-H-Boratabenzene Ligand”, Y. Yuan, X. Wang, Y. Li, L. Fan, X. Xu, Y. Chen. G. Li, W. Xia, Organometallics 2011, 30, 4330.

“Single, Double and Triple Deprotonation of a β-Diketimine Bearing Pendant Pyridine Group and the Corresponding Rare-Earth Metal Complexes”, X. Xu, Y. Chen, G. Zou, J. Sun, Dalton Trans. 2010, 39, 3952.

“Magnesium, Zinc, and Calcium Complexes Based on Tridentate Nitrogen Ligands: Syntheses, Structures, and Reactivities to the Ring Opening Polymerization of rac-Lactide”, X. Xu, Y. Chen, G. Zou, Z. Ma, G. Li, J. Organomet. Chem. 2010, 695, 1155.

“Mono(indenyl) Rare-earth Metal Dialkyl Complexes: Syntheses, Structures and Catalytic Reactivities of (1,3-(SiMe3)2C9H5)Ln(CH2SiMe3)2(THF)”, X. Xu, Y. Chen, J. Feng, G. Zou, J. Sun, Organometallics 2010, 29, 549.

“Polymerization of Naturally Renewable Methylene Butyrolactones by Half-Sandwich Indenyl Rare Earth Metal Dialkyls with Exceptional Activity”, Y. Hu, X. Xu, Y. Zhang, Y. Chen, E. Y. X. Chen, Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9328.

“Indenyl Abstraction vs Alkyl Abstraction of (Indenyl)ScR2(THF) by [Ph3C][B(C6F5)4]: Aspecific and Syndiospecific Styrene Polymerization”, X. Xu, Y. Chen, J. Sun, Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 846.

“Dialkyllanthanide Complexes Containing New Tridentate Monoanionic Ligands with Nitrogen Donors”, X. Xu, X. -Y. Xu, Y. Chen, J. Sun, Organometallics 2008, 27, 758.

“An Unprecedented Lanthanide Phosphinidene Halide: Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity”, P. Cui, Y. Chen, X. Xu, J. Sun, Chem. Commun. 2008, 5547.
   
Miscellaneous:  
Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for postdoc.
   
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