ORG. ELEM. Chem. LaB.

Research Interest

"Creation of new chemical species based on main-group elements and their applications"

Although there are many reports on “new compounds”, in which for example a substituent on a chemical species has been changed, reports on “new chemical species” are much rarer, as the discovery of such fundamentally unprecedented entities usually requires a careful synthetic strategy based on a profound understanding of the characteristics of the elements involved. However, the slow progress of the development of new chemical species also limits the development of advanced functional materials that serve the needs of modern society as well as the exploration of unknown areas of the chemical space. For example, many new chemical species that contain element-specific unprecedented forms of bonding can be conceived and some of these may actually be occurring naturally. Yet, it remains a highly challenging research task to synthesize, isolate, characterize, and apply such species in order to push the current boundaries of synthetic chemistry.