Rainer Herges

Research interests

Publications

• Light-Powered Dissipative Assembly of Diazocine Coordination Cages

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2022 · 10.1021/jacs.1c12011

• Nitrogen Bridged Diazocines: Photochromes Switching within the Near-Infrared Region with High Quantum Yields in Organic Solvents and in Water

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2019 · 10.1021/jacs.9b06104

• Reversible coordination-induced spin-state switching in complexes on metal surfaces

  Nature Nanotechnology · 2019 · 10.1038/s41565-019-0594-8

• Heterodiazocines: Synthesis and Photochromic Properties, Trans to Cis Switching within the Bio-optical Window

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2016 · 10.1021/jacs.6b05846

• Indacenodibenzothiophenes: synthesis, optoelectronic properties and materials applications of molecules with strong antiaromatic character

  Chemical Science · 2016 · 10.1039/c6sc00950f

• Photoswitchable Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast by Improved Light-Driven Coordination-Induced Spin State Switch

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2015 · 10.1021/jacs.5b00929

• Photoswitching in Two-Component Surface-Mounted Metal–Organic Frameworks: Optically Triggered Release from a Molecular Container

  ACS Nano · 2014 · 10.1021/nn405469g

• Introducing a photo-switchable azo-functionality inside Cr-MIL-101-NH2 by covalent post-synthetic modification

  Dalton Transactions · 2012 · 10.1039/c2dt30672g

• Photoswitchable Azoheterocycles via Coupling of Lithiated Imidazoles with Benzenediazonium Salts

  The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 2012 · 10.1021/jo202688x

• The first porous MOF with photoswitchable linker molecules

  Dalton Transactions · 2011 · 10.1039/c0dt01629b

• Light-Induced Spin Change by Photodissociable External Ligands: A New Principle for Magnetic Switching of Molecules

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2011 · 10.1021/ja206812f

• Magnetic Bistability of Molecules in Homogeneous Solution at Room Temperature

  Science · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1201180

• Coordination‐Induced Spin Crossover (CISCO) through Axial Bonding of Substituted Pyridines to Nickel–Porphyrins: σ‐Donor versus π‐Acceptor Effects

  Chemistry - A European Journal · 2010 · 10.1002/chem.201000603

• Highly Efficient Reversible Z−E Photoisomerization of a Bridged Azobenzene with Visible Light through Resolved S 1 (nπ*) Absorption Bands

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja906547d

• Mounting Freestanding Molecular Functions onto Surfaces: The Platform Approach

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2008 · 10.1021/ja807923f

• Identification of Flavonoids and Hydroxycinnamic Acids in Pak Choi Varieties ( Brassica campestris L. ssp. chinensis var. communis) by HPLC–ESI-MS n and NMR and Their Quantification by HPLC–DAD

  Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry · 2007 · 10.1021/jf071314+

• Topology in Chemistry: Designing Möbius Molecules

  Chemical Reviews · 2006 · 10.1021/cr0505425

• Synthesis and Properties of the First Möbius Annulenes

  Chemistry - A European Journal · 2006 · 10.1002/chem.200600215

• Anisotropy of the Induced Current Density (ACID), a General Method To Quantify and Visualize Electronic Delocalization

  Chemical Reviews · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1021/cr0300901

• Synthesis of a Möbius aromatic hydrocarbon

  Nature · 2003 · 10.1038/nature02224

• Deciphering the Mechanistic Dichotomy in the Cyclization of 1-(2-Ethynylphenyl)-3,3-dialkyltriazenes: Competition between Pericyclic and Pseudocoarctate Pathways

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2002 · 10.1021/ja027809r

• Delocalization of Electrons in Molecules

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry A · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1021/jp0034426

• Ring‐Expanding Metathesis of Tetradehydro‐anthracene—Synthesis and Structure of a Tubelike, Fully Conjugated Hydrocarbon

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 1996 · 10.1002/anie.199626691

• Magnetic Properties of Aromatic Transition States: The Diels–Alder Reactions

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 1994 · 10.1002/anie.199413761

• Computer‐Assisted Solution of Chemical Problems—The Historical Development and the Present State of the Art of a New Discipline of Chemistry

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 1993 · 10.1002/anie.199302011

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