Departement für Chemie, Biochemie und Pharmazie

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Our main field of research is method development in quantum crystallography and application of the new methods to bonding analysis in inorganic and bio-organic chemistry.

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University of Bern

  • Dr. Ana Stucki-Mafud
  • Sergey Fisher
    now at Free University of Amsterdam
  • Sinas Furan
    now at the University of Bremen
  • Dr Ravish Sankolli
  • Dr Michał Andrzejewski
    now at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI
  • Dr Florian Kleemiß
    now at the University of Regensburg
  • Vasyl Stotskyi
    now at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI

University of Bremen

  • Dr Pim Puylaert
    now at the University of Bremen
  • Arta Safari
    now at MPI for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
  • Dr Malte Fugel
    now at TÜV Nord, Hanover
  • Dr Rumpa Pal
    subsequently University of Tsukuba
  • Erna Wieduwilt
    now at the University of Lorraine
  • Justin Bergmann
    now at European Spallation Source, Lund
  • Anneke Dittmer
    now at MPI für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Dr Maksym Ponomarenko
  • Dr Emanuel Hupf
    now at the University of Bremen
  • Dr Maxie F. Hesse
    subsequently University of Bremen

The University of Western Australia

  • Mingwen Shi
  • Dr Joanna M. Krzeszczakowska, née Bąk
    now at Jozef Poniatowski Fifth Secondary Comprehensive School, Warsaw

 

Research

Our main field of research is method development in quantum crystallography and application of the new methods to bonding analysis in inorganic and bio-organic chemistry.

Method Development: X-ray Wavefunction Refinement

Conventional methods for structure determination using single-crystal X-ray diffraction data neglect the deformation of the valence electron density, but only model atoms with spherical electron densities. However, it is exactly those valence deformations into bonding and lone-pair regions that are the heart of chemistry. Therefore methods were developed to determine the total electron density experimentally (multipole model, maximum entropy methods), which are unfortunately only accessible to experts. Our new method X-ray wavefunction refinement (XWR) employs quantum chemistry in order to interpret the diffraction experiment in a simple fashion. Its first step Hirshfeld Atom Refinement (HAR) makes localisation of hydrogen atoms from the X-ray data as precise and accurate as from neutron-diffraction data. The second step X-ray constrained wavefunction (XCW) fitting allows to extract crystal field effects, electron correlation and relativistic effects from the experimental data. We continuously improve XWR and work on a corresponding software (HARt implemented into Olex2).

Relativistic Effects in the Electron Density

In order to extract relativistic effects with our new method XWR from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data, we synthesise and crystallise organo-metallic molecular compounds bearing heavy elements of the 6th period (e.g., Pt, Au, Hg, Tl, Pb, Bi). Crystal quality must be exceedingly good, so that ultra-high resolution data sets can be measured at the synchrotron SPring-8 in Japan at very low temperatures (< 20K). Subsequently, the data are treated with the method IOTC (infinit order two component) during the crystallographic refinement. Moreover, we carry out many theoretical calculations on test molecules in order to separate effects such as electron correlation, polarisation, core deformation and relativistics from each other.

Electron-Density – Property Relationships in Inorganic Chemistry

We synthesise systematic arrays of compounds that only vary in a single substituent in order to correlate geometric with electron-density parameters across the array. This way, reactions or other chemical processes can be simluated through static crystallographic snapshots along a pseudo-coordinate. Each of these snapshots exhibits a complete experimental electron-density study so that deep insights into the electronic nature of the processes can be gained. Currently we work on penta-coordinated silyl naphtalene compounds peri-substituted with amines that represent an attacking group in a nucleophilic substitution reaction with the varying substituent at the silicon atom representing the leaving group. Other compounds of recent interest are siloxanes where we investigate the change of basicity relative to the Si-O-Si bond angle. The concept can be extended to many other systems and chemical processes.

CV

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Academic Positions

  • since 08/2019: Research Group Leader and Privatdozent at the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Bern
  • 10/2015 – 07/2019: Extraordinary Professor at the University of Bremen
  • 09/2014 – 07/2019: Emmy Noether Research Group Leader at the University of Bremen
  • 01/2014 – 08/2014: Assistant Research Professor at the University of Western Australia
  • 01/2011 – 01/2014: Australian Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Western Australia
  • 10/2006 – 12/2010: Research assistent at the Free University of Berlin

Education

  • 10/2019: Habilitation in Physical Chemistry (venia docendi) at the University of Bern
  • 04/2019: Habilitation in Physical Chemistry (venia legendi) at the University of Bremen
  • 10/2006 – 12/2010: Doctoral studies and dissertation (Prof Dr Peter Luger): "New Methods in the Analysis of Electron Density and Electron Localizability - Applications to X-O-X Systems (X = C, Si)", Free University of Berlin
  • 10/2001 – 09/2006: Studies of chemistry (diploma) at the Free University of Berlin

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Publications

For a full list of publications, also see:
Researcher ID: H-6014-2012
ORCID: 0000-0002-3377-9474

Publications recorded in BORIS (Bern Open Repository and Information System): 

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2024

Stroek, Wowa; Keilwerth, Martin; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Grabowsky, Simon; Meyer, Karsten; Albrecht, Martin (2024). Deciphering Iron‐Catalyzed C−H Amination with Organic Azides: N 2 Cleavage from a Stable Organoazide Complex. Chemistry – A European Journal, 30(4) European Chemical Societies Publishing 10.1002/chem.202303410

Fisher, Sergey; Malaspina, Lorraine A; Martínez, Cristian Gozálvez; Prescimone, Alessandro; Balmohammadi, Yaser; Grabowsky, Simon; Šolomek, Tomáš (2024). Leveraging Halogen Interactions for a Supramolecular Nanotube. Chemistry: a European journal, 30(27), e202400295. Wiley 10.1002/chem.202400295

Nikulshin, Pavel V; Makarov, Alexander Yu; Koskin, Igor P; Becker, Christina S; Kazantzev, Maksim S; Beckmann, Jens; Balmohammadi, Yaser; Grabowsky, Simon; Mebs, Stefan; Naumova, Olga V; Protasov, Dmitry Yu; Svit, Kirill A; Irtegova, Irina G; Radiush, Ekaterina A; Bagryanskaya, Irina Yu; Shundrin, Leonid A; Zibarev, Andrey V (2024). 1,2,3,4-Tetrafluorobiphenylene: A Prototype Janus-Headed Scaffold for Ambipolar Materials. ChemPlusChem, 89(5), e202300692. Wiley 10.1002/cplu.202300692

Singh, Ashi; Avinash, Kiran; Malaspina, Lorraine A; Banoo, Masoumeh; Alhameedi, Khidhir; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Grabowsky, Simon; Thomas, Sajesh Pynadath (2024). Dynamic Covalent Bonds in the Ebselen Class of Antioxidants Probed by X-ray Quantum Crystallography. Chemistry: a European journal, 30(14), e202303384. Wiley 10.1002/chem.202303384

McMonagle, Charles J; Fuller, Chloe A; Hupf, Emanuel; Malaspina, Lorraine A; Grabowsky, Simon; Chernyshov, Dmitry (2024). Lattice response to the radiation damage of molecular crystals: radiation-induced versus thermal expansivity. Acta crystallographica Section B, 80(Pt 1), pp. 13-18. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052520623010636

2023

Yanai, Hikaru; Terajima, Yoshihiko; Kleemiss, Florian; Grabowsky, Simon; Matsumoto, Takashi (2023). Reversing the Bond Length Alternation Order in Conjugated Polyenes by Substituent Effects. Chemistry: a European journal, 29(15), e202203538. Wiley 10.1002/chem.202203538

Hupf, Emanuel; Kleemiss, Florian; Borrmann, Tobias; Pal, Rumpa; Krzeszczakowska, Joanna M.; Woińska, Magdalena; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Genoni, Alessandro; Grabowsky, Simon (2023). The effects of experimentally obtained electron correlation and polarization on electron densities and exchange-correlation potentials. The journal of chemical physics, 158(12), p. 124103. American Institute of Physics AIP 10.1063/5.0138312

Chulanova, Elena A.; Radiush, Ekaterina A.; Balmohammadi, Yaser; Beckmann, Jens; Grabowsky, Simon; Zibarev, Andrey V. (2023). New charge-transfer complexes of 1,2,5-chalcogenadiazoles with tetrathiafulvalenes. CrystEngComm, 25(3), pp. 391-402. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/d2ce01385a

Balmohammadi, Yaser; Grabowsky, Simon (2023). Arsenic-Involving Intermolecular Interactions in Crystal Structures: The Dualistic Behavior of As(III) as Electron-Pair Donor and Acceptor. Crystal growth & design, 23(2), pp. 1033-1048. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.cgd.2c01195

Feige, Felix; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Kleemiss, Florian; Kögel, Julius F.; Ketkov, Sergey; Hupf, Emanuel; Grabowsky, Simon; Beckmann, Jens (2023). An investigation into the Brønsted acidity of the perfluorinated alkoxy silanes {(F 3 C) 3 CO} 3 SiH and {(F 6 C 5 ) 3 CO} 2 Si(Cl)H. Dalton transactions, 52(18), pp. 5918-5925. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/D3DT00299C

Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Frerichs, Nils; Adler, Christian; Schmidtmann, Marc; Beckhaus, Rüdiger; Grabowsky, Simon (2023). Quantum Crystallography and Complementary Bonding Analysis of Agostic Interactions in Titanium Amides. Helvetica chimica acta, 106(6) Wiley 10.1002/hlca.202300012

2022

Borys, Andryj M; Malaspina, Lorraine A; Grabowsky, Simon; Hevia Freire, Eva (2022). Towards Hexagonal Planar Nickel: A Dispersion-Stabilised Tri-Lithium Nickelate. Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), 61(39), e202209797. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/anie.202209797

Pawlędzio, Sylwia; Malinska, Maura; Kleemiss, Florian; Grabowsky, Simon; Woźniak, Krzysztof (2022). Influence of modelling disorder on Hirshfeld atom refinement results of an organo-gold(I) compound. IUCrJ, 9(Pt 4), pp. 497-507. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052252522005309

Grabowsky, Simon; Spackman, Mark A (2022). Structure correlation and dynamics in crystals - a tribute to Hans-Beat Bürgi. Acta crystallographica Section B, 78(Pt 3 Pt 1), pp. 281-282. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052520622005248

Pawlȩdzio, Sylwia; Malinska, Maura; Kleemiss, Florian; Grabowsky, Simon; Woźniak, Krzysztof (2022). Aurophilic Interactions Studied by Quantum Crystallography. Inorganic chemistry, 61(10), pp. 4235-4239. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c03333

Appiarius, Yannik; Gliese, Philipp J; Segler, Stephan A W; Rusch, Pascal; Zhang, Jiangbin; Gates, Paul J; Pal, Rumpa; Malaspina, Lorraine A; Sugimoto, Kunihisa; Neudecker, Tim; Bigall, Nadja C; Grabowsky, Simon; Bakulin, Artem A; Staubitz, Anne (2022). BN-Substitution in Dithienylpyrenes Prevents Excimer Formation in Solution and in the Solid State. Journal of physical chemistry. C, 126(9), pp. 4563-4576. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c08812

Pal, Rumpa; Jelsch, Christian; Momma, Koichi; Grabowsky, Simon (2022). π-Hole bonding in a new co-crystal hydrate of gallic acid and pyrazine: static and dynamic charge density analysis. Acta crystallographica Section B, 78(2), pp. 231-246. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052520622001457

Somerville, Rosie J.; Borys, Andryj M.; Perez-Jimenez, Marina; Nova, Ainara; Balcells, David; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Grabowsky, Simon; Carmona, Ernesto; Hevia, Eva; Campos, Jesús (2022). Unmasking the constitution and bonding of the proposed lithium nickelate “Li 3 NiPh 3 (solv) 3 ”: revealing the hidden C 6 H 4 ligand. Chemical Science, 13(18), pp. 5268-5276. The Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/d2sc01244h

Davidson, Max L.; Grabowsky, Simon; Jayatilaka, Dylan (2022). X-ray constrained wavefunctions based on Hirshfeld atoms. I. Method and review. Acta crystallographica Section B, 78(3), pp. 312-332. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052520622004097

Davidson, Max L.; Grabowsky, Simon; Jayatilaka, Dylan (2022). X-ray constrained wavefunctions based on Hirshfeld atoms. II. Reproducibility of electron densities in crystals of α-oxalic acid dihydrate. Acta crystallographica Section B, 78(3), pp. 397-415. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052520622004103

Duvinage, Daniel; Puylaert, Pim; Wieduwilt, Erna K.; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Edwards, Alison J.; Lork, Enno; Mebs, Stefan; Hupf, Emanuel; Grabowsky, Simon; Beckmann, Jens (2022). Nickel and Palladium Complexes of a PP(O)P Pincer Ligand Based upon a peri -Substituted Acenaphthyl Scaffold and a Secondary Phosphine Oxide. Inorganic chemistry, 61(22), pp. 8406-8418. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c03266

Duvinage, Daniel; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Grabowsky, Simon; Mebs, Stefan; Beckmann, Jens (2022). Lewis Superacidic Divalent Bis( m ‐terphenyl)element Cations [(2,6‐Mes 2 C 6 H 3 ) 2 E] + of Group 13 Revisited and Extended (E=B, Al, Ga, In, Tl). European journal of inorganic chemistry, 26(1) Wiley-VCH 10.1002/ejic.202200482

2021

Feige, Felix; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Rychagova, Elena; Ketkov, Sergey; Grabowsky, Simon; Hupf, Emanuel; Beckmann, Jens (2021). Perfluorinated Trialkoxysilanol with Dramatically Increased Brønsted Acidity. Chemistry - a European journal, 27(64), pp. 15898-15902. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.202103177

Kleemiss, Florian; Dolomanov, Oleg V.; Bodensteiner, Michael; Peyerimhoff, Norbert; Midgley, Laura; Bourhis, Luc J.; Genoni, Alessandro; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Spencer, John L.; White, Fraser; Grundkötter-Stock, Bernhard; Steinhauer, Simon; Lentz, Dieter; Puschmann, Horst; Grabowsky, Simon (2021). Accurate crystal structures and chemical properties from NoSpherA2. Chemical Science, 12(5), pp. 1675-1692. The Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/d0sc05526c

Holsten, Sebastian; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Kleemiss, Florian; Mebs, Stefan; Hupf, Emanuel; Grabowsky, Simon; Beckmann, Jens (2021). Different Reactivities of (5-Ph 2 P-Ace-6-) 2 MeSiH toward the Rhodium(I) Chlorides [(C 2 H 4 ) 2 RhCl] 2 and [(CO) 2 RhCl] 2 . Hirshfeld Atom Refinement of a Rh–H···Si Interaction. Organometallics, 40(13), pp. 2027-2038. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00804

Fugel, Malte; Dittmer, Anneke; Kleemiss, Florian; Grabowsky, Simon (2021). On the Role of Hydrogen Bonding in Gas-Phase S N 2 Reactions at Silicon. Journal of physical chemistry. A, 125(19), pp. 4070-4078. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c00601

Schwickert, Kevin; Andrzejewski, Michal; Grabowsky, Simon; Schirmeister, Tanja (2021). Synthesis, X-ray Structure Determination, and Comprehensive Photochemical Characterization of (Trifluoromethyl)diazirine-Containing TRPML1 Ligands. The Journal of organic chemistry, 86(9), pp. 6169-6183. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.joc.0c02993

Kleemiss, Florian; Wieduwilt, Erna K.; Hupf, Emanuel; Shi, Ming W.; Stewart, Scott G.; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Turner, Michael J.; Sugimoto, Kunihisa; Nishibori, Eiji; Schirmeister, Tanja; Schmidt, Thomas C.; Engels, Bernd; Grabowsky, Simon (2021). Similarities and differences between crystal and enzyme environmental effects on the electron density of drug molecules. Chemistry - a European journal, 27(10), pp. 3407-3419. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.202003978

Podhorský, Michal; Bučinský, Lukáš; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Grabowsky, Simon (2021). HgH 2 meets relativistic quantum crystallography. How to teach relativity to a non-relativistic wavefunction. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, 77(1), pp. 54-66. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2053273320014837

Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Genoni, Alessandro; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Turner, Michael J.; Sugimoto, Kunihisa; Nishibori, Eiji; Grabowsky, Simon (2021). The advanced treatment of hydrogen bonding in quantum crystallography. Journal of applied crystallography, 54(3), pp. 718-729. Wiley 10.1107/S1600576721001126

Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Genoni, Alessandro; Grabowsky, Simon (2021). lamaGOET : an interface for quantum crystallography. Journal of applied crystallography, 54(3), pp. 987-995. Wiley 10.1107/S1600576721002545

Pawlędzio, Sylwia; Malinska, Maura; Woińska, Magdalena; Wojciechowski, Jakub; Malaspina, Lorraine Andrade; Kleemiss, Florian; Grabowsky, Simon; Woźniak, Krzysztof (2021). Relativistic Hirshfeld atom refinement of an organo-gold(I) compound. IUCrJ, 8(4), pp. 608-620. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052252521004541

Kleemiss, Florian; Puylaert, Pim; Duvinage, Daniel; Fugel, Malte; Sugimoto, Kunihisa; Beckmann, Jens; Grabowsky, Simon (2021). Ibuprofen and sila-ibuprofen: polarization effects in the crystal and enzyme environments. Acta crystallographica Section B, 77(6), pp. 892-905. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052520621009379

Novelli, Giulia; McMonagle, Charles J.; Kleemiss, Florian; Probert, Michael; Puschmann, Horst; Grabowsky, Simon; Maynard-Casely, Helen E.; McIntyre, Garry J.; Parsons, Simon (2021). Accurate H-atom parameters for the two polymorphs of L -histidine at 5, 105 and 295 K. Acta crystallographica Section B, 77(5), pp. 785-800. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S205252062100740X

Midgley, Laura; Bourhis, Luc J.; Dolomanov, Oleg V.; Grabowsky, Simon; Kleemiss, Florian; Puschmann, Horst; Peyerimhoff, Norbert (2021). Vanishing of the atomic form factor derivatives in non-spherical structural refinement – a key approximation scrutinized in the case of Hirshfeld atom refinement. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, 77(6), pp. 519-533. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2053273321009086

2020

Meyer, Fabio; Hupf, Emanuel; Lork, Enno; Grabowsky, Simon; Mebs, Stefan; Beckmann, Jens (2020). Bis(6-diphenylphosphino-acenaphth-5-yl)sulfoxide. A New Ligand for Late Transition Metal Complexes. European journal of inorganic chemistry, 2020(40), pp. 3829-3836. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/ejic.202000610

Kleemiss, Florian; Justies, Aileen; Duvinage, Daniel; Watermann, Patrick; Ehrke, Eric; Sugimoto, Kunihisa; Fugel, Malte; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Dittmer, Anneke; Kleemiss, Torsten; Puylaert, Pim; King, Nelly R.; Staubitz, Anne; Tzschentke, Thomas M.; Dringen, Ralf; Grabowsky, Simon; Beckmann, Jens (2020). Sila-Ibuprofen. Journal of medicinal chemistry, 63(21), pp. 12614-12622. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00813

Damgaard-Møller, Emil; Krause, Lennard; Lassen, Helene; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Grabowsky, Simon; Bamberger, Heiko; McGuire, Jake; Miras, Haralampos N.; Sproules, Stephen; Overgaard, Jacob (2020). Investigating Complex Magnetic Anisotropy in a Co(II) Molecular Compound: A Charge Density and Correlated Ab Initio Electronic Structure Study. Inorganic chemistry, 59(18), pp. 13190-13200. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01489

Sanjuan-Szklarz, W. Fabiola; Woińska, Magdalena; Domagała, Sławomir; Dominiak, Paulina M.; Grabowsky, Simon; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Gutmann, Matthias; Woźniak, Krzysztof (2020). On the accuracy and precision of X-ray and neutron diffraction results as a function of resolution and the electron density model. IUCrJ, 7(5), pp. 920-933. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052252520010441

Rohdenburg, Markus; Yang, Zheng; Su, Pei; Bernhardt, Eduard; Yuan, Qinqin; Apra, Edoardo; Grabowsky, Simon; Laskin, Julia; Jenne, Carsten; Wang, Xue-Bin; Warneke, Jonas (2020). Properties of gaseous closo -[B 6 X 6 ] 2− dianions (X = Cl, Br, I). Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 22(31), pp. 17713-17724. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/d0cp02581j

Duvinage, Daniel; Lork, Enno; Grabowsky, Simon; Mebs, Stefan; Beckmann, Jens (2020). Synthesis, Structure and Bonding Analysis of the Zwitterionic PPP-Pincer Complex (6-Ph2P-Ace-5-)2P(O)AuCl2. Crystals, 10(7), p. 564. MDPI 10.3390/cryst10070564

Pal, Rumpa; Jelsch, Christian; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Edwards, Alison J.; Murshed, M. Mangir; Grabowsky, Simon (2020). Syn and anti polymorphs of 2,6-dimethoxy benzoic acid and its molecular and ionic cocrystals: Structural analysis and energetic perspective. Journal of Molecular Structure, 1221, p. 128721. Elsevier 10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.128721

Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Hoser, Anna A.; Edwards, Alison J.; Woińska, Magdalena; Turner, Michael J.; Price, Jason R.; Sugimoto, Kunihisa; Nishibori, Eiji; Bürgi, Hans-Beat; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Grabowsky, Simon (2020). Hydrogen atoms in bridging positions from quantum crystallographic refinements: influence of hydrogen atom displacement parameters on geometry and electron density. CrystEngComm, 22(28), pp. 4778-4789. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/d0ce00378f

Mayer, Martin; Rohdenburg, Markus; van Lessen, Valentin; Nierstenhöfer, Marc C.; Aprà, Edoardo; Grabowsky, Simon; Asmis, Knut R.; Jenne, Carsten; Warneke, Jonas (2020). First steps towards a stable neon compound: observation and bonding analysis of [B 12 (CN) 11 Ne] −. Chemical communications, 56(33), pp. 4591-4594. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/d0cc01423k

Schlüter, Dirk; Kleemiss, Florian; Fugel, Malte; Lork, Enno; Sugimoto, Kunihisa; Grabowsky, Simon; Harmer, Jeffrey R.; Vogt, Matthias (2020). Non‐Oxido‐Vanadium(IV) Metalloradical Complexes with Bidentate 1,2‐Dithienylethene Ligands – Observation of Reversible Cyclization of the Ligand Scaffold in Solution. Chemistry - a European journal, 26(6), pp. 1335-1343. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.201904103

Grabowsky, Simon; White, Allan H.; Healy, Peter C.; Lapere, Kim M.; Ng, Seik Weng; Skelton, Brian W.; Wild, Duncan A.; Bowmaker, Graham A.; Hanna, John V. (2020). Solid-State NMR, X-Ray Diffraction, and Theoretical Studies of Neutral Mononuclear Molecular Bis(triphenylphosphine)silver(i) Mono-Carboxylate and -Nitrate Systems. Australian journal of chemistry, 73(6), p. 556. CSIRO Publishing 10.1071/CH19616

Wieduwilt, Erna K.; Macetti, Giovanni; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Grabowsky, Simon; Genoni, Alessandro (2020). Post-Hartree-Fock methods for Hirshfeld atom refinement: are they necessary? Investigation of a strongly hydrogen-bonded molecular crystal. Journal of Molecular Structure, 1209, p. 127934. Elsevier 10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.127934

Grabowsky, Simon; Genoni, Alessandro; Thomas, Sajesh P.; Jayatilaka, Dylan (2020). The Advent of Quantum Crystallography: Form and Structure Factors from Quantum Mechanics for Advanced Structure Refinement and Wavefunction Fitting. In: Mingos, D. Michael P.; Raithby, Paul R. (eds.) 21st Century Challenges in Chemical Crystallography II: Structural Correlations and Data Interpretation. Structure and Bonding: Vol. 186 (pp. 65-144). Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/430_2020_62

2019

Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Wieduwilt, Erna K.; Bergmann, Justin; Kleemiss, Florian; Meyer, Benjamin; Ruiz-López, Manuel F.; Pal, Rumpa; Hupf, Emanuel; Beckmann, Jens; Piltz, Ross O.; Edwards, Alison J.; Grabowsky, Simon; Genoni, Alessandro (2019). Fast and Accurate Quantum Crystallography: From Small to Large, from Light to Heavy. The journal of physical chemistry letters, 10(22), pp. 6973-6982. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02646

Fugel, Malte; Ponomarenko, Maksym V.; Hesse, Maxie F.; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Kleemiss, Florian; Sugimoto, Kunihisa; Genoni, Alessandro; Röschenthaler, Gerd-Volker; Grabowsky, Simon (2019). Complementary bonding analysis of the N–Si interaction in pentacoordinated silicon compounds using quantum crystallography. Dalton transactions, 48(43), pp. 16330-16339. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/C9DT02772F

Bučinský, Lukáš; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Grabowsky, Simon (2019). Relativistic quantum crystallography of diphenyl- and dicyanomercury. Theoretical structure factors and Hirshfeld atom refinement. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, 75(5), pp. 705-717. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2053273319008027

Yanai, Hikaru; Suzuki, Takumi; Kleemiss, Florian; Fukaya, Haruhiko; Dobashi, Yasuo; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Grabowsky, Simon; Matsumoto, Takashi (2019). Chemical Bonding in Polarised Push-Pull Ethylenes. Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), 58(26), pp. 8839-8844. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/anie.201904176

Mayer, Martin; van Lessen, Valentin; Rohdenburg, Markus; Hou, Gao-Lei; Yang, Zheng; Exner, Rüdiger M.; Aprà, Edoardo; Azov, Vladimir A.; Grabowsky, Simon; Xantheas, Sotiris S.; Asmis, Knut R.; Wang, Xue-Bin; Jenne, Carsten; Warneke, Jonas (2019). Rational design of an argon-binding superelectrophilic anion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS, 116(17), pp. 8167-8172. National Academy of Sciences NAS 10.1073/pnas.1820812116

Fugel, Malte; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Pal, Rumpa; Thomas, Sajesh P.; Shi, Ming W.; Spackman, Mark A.; Sugimoto, Kunihisa; Grabowsky, Simon (2019). Revisiting a Historical Concept by Using Quantum Crystallography: Are Phosphate, Sulfate and Perchlorate Anions Hypervalent? Chemistry - a European journal, 25(26), pp. 6523-6532. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.201806247

Köhling, Jonas; Kozel, Volodymyr; Jovanov, Vladislav; Pajkert, Romana; Tverdomed, Sergey N.; Gridenco, Oleg; Fugel, Malte; Grabowsky, Simon; Röschenthaler, Gerd-Volker; Wagner, Veit (2019). Synthesis and Characterization of Oxazaborinin Phosphonate for Blue OLED Emitter Applications. ChemPhysChem, 20(5), pp. 665-671. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/cphc.201801087

Hupf, Emanuel; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Holsten, Sebastian; Kleemiss, Florian; Edwards, Alison J.; Price, Jason R.; Kozich, Valeri; Heyne, Karsten; Mebs, Stefan; Grabowsky, Simon; Beckmann, Jens (2019). Proximity Enforced Agostic Interactions Involving Closed-Shell Coinage Metal Ions. Inorganic chemistry, 58(24), pp. 16372-16378. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01845

2018

Ramirez y Medina, Isabel-Maria; Rohdenburg, Markus; Mostaghimi, Farzin; Grabowsky, Simon; Swiderek, Petra; Beckmann, Jens; Hoffmann, Jonas; Dorcet, Vincent; Hissler, Muriel; Staubitz, Anne (2018). Tuning the Optoelectronic Properties of Stannoles by the Judicious Choice of the Organic Substituents. Inorganic chemistry, 57(20), pp. 12562-12575. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01649

Grabowsky, Simon; Mallow, Ole; Pal, Rumpa; Pergandé, Yves; Lork, Enno; Näther, Christian; Beckmann, Jens (2018). Conformational trimorphism of bis(2,6-dimesitylphenyl)ditelluride. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, 233(9-10), pp. 707-721. De Gruyter 10.1515/zkri-2018-2077

Fugel, Malte; Hesse, Maxie F.; Pal, Rumpa; Beckmann, Jens; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Turner, Michael J.; Karton, Amir; Bultinck, Patrick; Chandler, Graham S.; Grabowsky, Simon (2018). Covalency and Ionicity Do Not Oppose Each Other-Relationship Between Si−O Bond Character and Basicity of Siloxanes. Chemistry - a European journal, 24(57), pp. 15275-15286. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.201802197

Pal, Rumpa; Reddy, M. B. Madhusudana; Dinesh, B.; Venkatesha, Manjunath A.; Grabowsky, Simon; Jelsch, Christian; Guru Row, Tayur N. (2018). Syn vs Anti Carboxylic Acids in Hybrid Peptides: Experimental and Theoretical Charge Density and Chemical Bonding Analysis. Journal of physical chemistry. A, 122(14), pp. 3665-3679. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b10939

Pal, Rumpa; Mebs, Stefan; Shi, Ming W.; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Krzeszczakowska, Joanna M.; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Wiecko, Michal; Luger, Peter; Hesse, Malte; Chen, Yu-Sheng; Beckmann, Jens; Grabowsky, Simon (2018). Linear MgCp*2 vs Bent CaCp*2 : London Dispersion, Ligand-Induced Charge Localizations, and Pseudo-Pregostic C–H···Ca Interactions. Inorganic chemistry, 57(9), pp. 4906-4920. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b03079

Fugel, Malte; Beckmann, Jens; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Gibbs, Gerald V.; Grabowsky, Simon (2018). A Variety of Bond Analysis Methods, One Answer? An Investigation of the Element−Oxygen Bond of Hydroxides HnXOH. Chemistry - a European journal, 24(23), pp. 6248-6261. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.201800453

Fugel, Malte; Kleemiss, Florian; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Pal, Rumpa; Spackman, Peter R.; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Grabowsky, Simon (2018). Investigating the Resonance in Nitric Acid and the Nitrate Anion Based on a Modern Bonding Analysis. Australian journal of chemistry, 71(4), pp. 227-237. CSIRO Publishing 10.1071/CH17583

2017

Woińska, Magdalena; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Dittrich, Birger; Flaig, Ralf; Luger, Peter; Woźniak, Krzysztof; Dominiak, Paulina M.; Grabowsky, Simon (2017). Validation of X-ray Wavefunction Refinement. ChemPhysChem, 18(23), pp. 3334-3351. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/cphc.201700810

Pushkarevsky, Nikolay A.; Petrov, Pavel A.; Grigoriev, Denis S.; Smolentsev, Anton I.; Lee, Lucia M.; Kleemiss, Florian; Salnikov, Georgy E.; Konchenko, Sergey N.; Vargas-Baca, Ignacio; Grabowsky, Simon; Beckmann, Jens; Zibarev, Andrey V. (2017). Nature of Bonding in Donor-Acceptor Interactions Exemplified by Complexes of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes with 1,2,5-Telluradiazoles. Chemistry - a European journal, 23(46), pp. 10987-10991. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.201703018

Malaspina, Lorraine A.; White, Allan H.; Wege, Dieter; Tolmie, Michael B.; Skelton, Brian W.; Grabowsky, Simon (2017). Tautomerism in acyl-pyrazolones and in a novel photolysis product—importance and impact of the accurate localization of hydrogen atoms in crystal structures. Structural chemistry, 28(5), pp. 1343-1357. Springer 10.1007/s11224-017-1005-0

Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Edwards, Alison J.; Woińska, Magdalena; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Turner, Michael J.; Price, Jason R.; Herbst-Irmer, Regine; Sugimoto, Kunihisa; Nishibori, Eiji; Grabowsky, Simon (2017). Predicting the Position of the Hydrogen Atom in the Short Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond of the Hydrogen Maleate Anion from Geometric Correlations. Crystal growth & design, 17(7), pp. 3812-3825. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.cgd.7b00390

Hupf, Emanuel; Olaru, Marian; Raţ, Ciprian I.; Fugel, Malte; Hübschle, Christian B.; Lork, Enno; Grabowsky, Simon; Mebs, Stefan; Beckmann, Jens (2017). Mapping the Trajectory of Nucleophilic Substitution at Silicon Using a peri-Substituted Acenaphthyl Scaffold. Chemistry - a European journal, 23(44), pp. 10568-10579. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.201700992

Rohdenburg, Markus; Mayer, Martin; Grellmann, Max; Jenne, Carsten; Borrmann, Tobias; Kleemiss, Florian; Azov, Vladimir A.; Asmis, Knut R.; Grabowsky, Simon; Warneke, Jonas (2017). Superelectrophilic Behavior of an Anion Demonstrated by the Spontaneous Binding of Noble Gases to [B 12 Cl 11] −. Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), 56(27), pp. 7980-7985. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/anie.201702237

Grabowsky, Simon; Genoni, Alessandro; Bürgi, Hans-Beat (2017). Quantum crystallography. Chemical Science, 8(6), pp. 4159-4176. The Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/c6sc05504d

Bulut, Aysun; Wörle, Michael; Zorlu, Yunus; Kirpi, Erdogan; Kurt, Huseyin; Zubieta, Jon; Grabowsky, Simon; Beckmann, Jens; Yücesan, Gündoğ (2017). A potential Cu/V-organophosphonate platform for tailored void spaces via terpyridine mold casting. Acta crystallographica Section B, 73(2), pp. 296-303. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052520617000245

Shi, Ming W.; Stewart, Scott G.; Sobolev, Alexandre N.; Dittrich, Birger; Schirmeister, Tanja; Luger, Peter; Hesse, Malte; Chen, Yu-Sheng; Spackman, Peter R.; Spackman, Mark A.; Grabowsky, Simon (2017). Approaching an experimental electron density model of the biologically active trans-epoxysuccinyl amide group-Substituent effects vs. crystal packing. Journal of physical organic chemistry, 30(11), e3683. Wiley 10.1002/poc.3683

Chulanova, Elena A.; Pritchina, Elena A.; Malaspina, Lorraine A.; Grabowsky, Simon; Mostaghimi, Farzin; Beckmann, Jens; Bagryanskaya, Irina Yu.; Shakhova, Margarita V.; Konstantinova, Lidia S.; Rakitin, Oleg A.; Gritsan, Nina P.; Zibarev, Andrey V. (2017). New Charge-Transfer Complexes with 1,2,5-Thiadiazoles as Both Electron Acceptors and Donors Featuring an Unprecedented Addition Reaction. Chemistry - a European journal, 23(4), pp. 852-864. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.201604121

2016

Grabowsky, Simon (2016). Das Wechselspiel von Theorie und Kristallographie. Nachrichten aus der Chemie, 64(12), pp. 1155-1158. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/nadc.20164052794

Bučinský, Lukáš; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Grabowsky, Simon (2016). Importance of Relativistic Effects and Electron Correlation in Structure Factors and Electron Density of Diphenyl Mercury and Triphenyl Bismuth. Journal of physical chemistry. A, 120(33), pp. 6650-6669. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b05769

Ponomarenko, Maksym V.; Grabowsky, Simon; Pal, Rumpa; Röschenthaler, Gerd-Volker; Fokin, Andrey A. (2016). SF5 -Enolates in Ti(IV)-Mediated Aldol Reactions. Journal of organic chemistry, 81(15), pp. 6783-6791. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.joc.6b00946

Woińska, Magdalena; Grabowsky, Simon; Dominiak, Paulina M.; Woźniak, Krzysztof; Jayatilaka, Dylan (2016). Hydrogen atoms can be located accurately and precisely by x-ray crystallography. Science Advances, 2(5), e1600192. American Association for the Advancement of Science 10.1126/sciadv.1600192

2015

Ayers, P. W.; Boyd, R. J.; Bultinck, P; Caffarel, M; Carbo-Dorca, R; Causa, M; Cioslowski, J; Contreras-Garcia, J; Cooper, D. L.; Coppens, P; Gatti, C; Grabowsky, Simon; Lazzeretti, P; Macchi, Piero; Martin Pendas, A; Popelier, P. L. A.; Ruedenberg, K; Rzepa, H; Savin, A; Sax, A; ... (2015). Six Questions on Topology in Theoretical Chemistry. Computational and theoretical chemistry, 1053, pp. 2-16. Elsevier 10.1016/j.comptc.2014.09.028

Schütrumpf, Alexandra; Kirpi, Erdoğan; Bulut, Aysun; Morel, Flavien L.; Ranocchiari, Marco; Lork, Enno; Zorlu, Yunus; Grabowsky, Simon; Yücesan, Gündoğ; Beckmann, Jens (2015). Tetrahedral Tetraphosphonic Acids. New Building Blocks in Supramolecular Chemistry. Crystal growth & design, 15(10), pp. 4925-4931. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00811

Schneider, Thomas H.; Rieger, Max; Ansorg, Kay; Sobolev, Alexandre N.; Schirmeister, Tanja; Engels, Bernd; Grabowsky, Simon (2015). Vinyl sulfone building blocks in covalently reversible reactions with thiols. New journal of chemistry, 39(7), pp. 5841-5853. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/C5NJ00368G

Shi, Ming W.; Sobolev, Alexandre N.; Schirmeister, Tanja; Engels, Bernd; Schmidt, Thomas C.; Luger, Peter; Mebs, Stefan; Dittrich, Birger; Chen, Yu-Sheng; Bąk, Joanna M.; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Bond, Charles S.; Turner, Michael J.; Stewart, Scott G.; Spackman, Mark A.; Grabowsky, Simon (2015). Electrostatic complementarity in pseudoreceptor modeling based on drug molecule crystal structures: the case of loxistatin acid (E64c). New journal of chemistry, 39(3), pp. 1628-1633. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/C4NJ01503G

2014

Turner, Michael J.; Grabowsky, Simon; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Spackman, Mark A. (2014). Accurate and Efficient Model Energies for Exploring Intermolecular Interactions in Molecular Crystals. The journal of physical chemistry letters, 5(24), pp. 4249-4255. American Chemical Society 10.1021/jz502271c

Woińska, Magdalena; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Spackman, Mark A.; Edwards, Alison J.; Dominiak, Paulina M.; Woźniak, Krzysztof; Nishibori, Eiji; Sugimoto, Kunihisa; Grabowsky, Simon (2014). Hirshfeld atom refinement for modelling strong hydrogen bonds. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, 70(5), pp. 483-498. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2053273314012443

Capelli, Silvia C.; Bürgi, Hans-Beat; Dittrich, Birger; Grabowsky, Simon; Jayatilaka, Dylan (2014). Hirshfeld atom refinement. IUCrJ, 1(5), pp. 361-379. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2052252514014845

Mallow, Ole; Bolsinger, Jens; Finke, Pamela; Hesse, Malte; Chen, Yu-Sheng; Duthie, Andrew; Grabowsky, Simon; Luger, Peter; Mebs, Stefan; Beckmann, Jens (2014). Oxygen Transfer from an Intramolecularly Coordinated Diaryltellurium Oxide to Acetonitrile. Formation and Combined AIM and ELI-D Analysis of a Novel Diaryltellurium Acetimidate. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136(31), pp. 10870-10873. American Chemical Society 10.1021/ja505648x

Lübben, Jens; Volkmann, Christian; Grabowsky, Simon; Edwards, Alison; Morgenroth, Wolfgang; Fabbiani, Francesca P. A.; Sheldrick, George M.; Dittrich, Birger (2014). On the temperature dependence of H-U iso in the riding hydrogen model. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, 70(4), pp. 309-316. International Union of Crystallography 10.1107/S2053273314010626

Chan, Eric J.; Grabowsky, Simon; Harrowfield, Jack M.; Shi, Ming W.; Skelton, Brian W.; Sobolev, Alexandre N.; White, Allan H. (2014). Hirshfeld surface analysis of crystal packing in aza-aromatic picrate salts. CrystEngComm, 16(21), pp. 4508-4538. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/C4CE00095A

2013

Beckmann, Jens; Do, Truong Giang; Grabowsky, Simon; Hupf, Emanuel; Lork, Enno; Mebs, Stefan (2013). Peri-Interactions in 8-Diphenylphosphino-1-bromonaphthalene, 6-Diphenylphosphino-5-bromoacenaphthene, and Derivatives. Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, 639(12-13), pp. 2233-2249. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/zaac.201300272

Grabowsky, Simon; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Fink, Reinhold F.; Schirmeister, Tanja; Engels, Bernd (2013). Can Experimental Electron-Density Studies be Used as a Tool to Predict Biologically Relevant Properties of Low-Molecular Weight Enzyme Ligands? Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, 639(11), pp. 1905-1921. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/zaac.201200518

Bąk, Joanna M.; Effendy, H.; Grabowsky, Simon; Lindoy, Leonard F.; Price, Jason R.; Skelton, Brian W.; White, Allan H. (2013). True and quasi-isomorphism in tetrakis(acetonitrile)coinage metal(i) salts. CrystEngComm, 15(6), pp. 1125-1138. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/C2CE26824H

2012

Mebs, Stefan; Chilleck, Maren A.; Grabowsky, Simon; Braun, Thomas (2012). Hapticity Uncovered: Real-Space Bonding Indicators for Zincocene Chemistry. Chemistry - a European journal, 18(37), pp. 11647-11661. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.201200870

Grabowsky, Simon; Beckmann, Jens; Luger, Peter (2012). The Nature of Hydrogen Bonding Involving the Siloxane Group. Australian journal of chemistry, 65(7), pp. 785-795. CSIRO Publishing 10.1071/CH11468

Grabowsky, Simon; Luger, Peter; Buschmann, Jürgen; Schneider, Thomas; Schirmeister, Tanja; Sobolev, Alexandre N.; Jayatilaka, Dylan (2012). The Significance of Ionic Bonding in Sulfur Dioxide: Bond Orders from X-ray Diffraction Data. Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), 51(27), pp. 6776-6779. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/anie.201200745

Grabowsky, Simon; Dean, Pamela M.; Skelton, Brian W.; Sobolev, Alexandre N.; Spackman, Mark A.; White, Allan H. (2012). Crystal packing in the 2-R,4-oxo-[1,3-a/b]-naphthodioxanes – Hirshfeld surface analysis and melting point correlation. CrystEngComm, 14(3), pp. 1083-1093. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/C2CE06393J

2011

Chęcińska, Lilianna; Grabowsky, Simon; Małecka, Magdalena; Rybarczyk-Pirek, Agnieszka J.; Jóźwiak, Andrzej; Paulmann, Carsten; Luger, Peter (2011). Experimental and theoretical electron-density study of three isoindole derivatives: topological and Hirshfeld surface analysis of weak intermolecular interactions. Acta crystallographica. Section B - Structural science, 67(6), pp. 569-581. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1107/S0108768111041747

Grabowsky, Simon; Weber, Manuela; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Chen, Yu-Sheng; Grabowski, Matthias T.; Brehme, Rainer; Hesse, Malte; Schirmeister, Tanja; Luger, Peter (2011). Reactivity Differences between α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyls and Hydrazones Investigated by Experimental and Theoretical Electron Density and Electron Localizability Analyses. Journal of physical chemistry. A, 115(45), pp. 12715-12732. American Chemical Society 10.1021/jp203677c

Weber, Manuela; Grabowsky, Simon; Hazra, Abhijit; Naskar, Subhendu; Banerjee, Sukdeb; Mondal, Nirup B.; Luger, Peter (2011). Electron Density of Two Bioactive Oligocyclic Indole and Oxindole Derivatives Obtained from Low-Order X-Ray Data and Invariom Application. Chemistry - an Asian journal, 6(6), pp. 1390-1397. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/asia.201000650

Mebs, Stefan; Kalinowski, Roman; Grabowsky, Simon; Förster, Diana; Kickbusch, Rainer; Justus, Eugen; Morgenroth, Wolfgang; Paulmann, Carsten; Luger, Peter; Gabel, Detlef; Lentz, Dieter (2011). Charge Transfer via the Dative N−B Bond and Dihydrogen Contacts. Experimental and Theoretical Electron Density Studies of Four Deltahedral Boranes. Journal of physical chemistry. A, 115(8), pp. 1385-1395. American Chemical Society 10.1021/jp109576a

Grabowsky, Simon; Schirmeister, Tanja; Paulmann, Carsten; Pfeuffer, Thomas; Luger, Peter (2011). Effect of Electron-Withdrawing Substituents on the Epoxide Ring: An Experimental and Theoretical Electron Density Analysis of a Series of Epoxide Derivatives. Journal of organic chemistry, 76(5), pp. 1305-1318. American Chemical Society 10.1021/jo102125n

Mebs, Stefan; Kalinowski, Roman; Grabowsky, Simon; Förster, Diana; Kickbusch, Rainer; Justus, Eugen; Morgenroth, Wolfgang; Paulmann, Carsten; Luger, Peter; Gabel, Detlef; Lentz, Dieter (2011). Real-Space Indicators for Chemical Bonding. Experimental and Theoretical Electron Density Studies of Four Deltahedral Boranes. Inorganic chemistry, 50(1), pp. 90-103. American Chemical Society 10.1021/ic1013158

2010

Grabowsky, Simon; Jayatilaka, Dylan; Mebs, Stefan; Luger, Peter (2010). The Electron Localizability Indicator from X-Ray Diffraction Data-A First Application to a Series of Epoxide Derivatives. Chemistry - a European journal, 16(43), pp. 12818-12821. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.201002061

Mebs, Stefan; Grabowsky, Simon; Förster, Diana; Kickbusch, Rainer; Hartl, Monika; Daemen, Luke L.; Morgenroth, Wolfgang; Luger, Peter; Paulus, Beate; Lentz, Dieter (2010). Charge Transfer via the Dative N−B Bond and Dihydrogen Contacts. Experimental and Theoretical Electron Density Studies of Small Lewis Acid−Base Adducts. Journal of physical chemistry. A, 114(37), pp. 10185-10196. American Chemical Society 10.1021/jp100995n

Grabowsky, Simon; Weber, Manuela; Chen, Yu-Sheng; Lentz, Dieter; Schmidt, Bernd M.; Hesse, Malte; Luger, Peter (2010). Electron Density of Corannulene from Synchrotron Data at 12 K, Comparison with Fullerenes. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B, 65(4), pp. 452-460. de Gruyter 10.1515/znb-2010-0403

2009

Dittrich, Birger; Weber, Manuela; Kalinowski, Roman; Grabowsky, Simon; Hübschle, Christian B.; Luger, Peter (2009). How to easily replace the independent atom model – the example of bergenin, a potential anti-HIV agent of traditional Asian medicine. Acta crystallographica. Section B - Structural science, 65(6), pp. 749-756. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1107/S0108768109046060

Grabowsky, Simon; Kalinowski, Roman; Weber, Manuela; Förster, Diana; Paulmann, Carsten; Luger, Peter (2009). Transferability and reproducibility in electron-density studies – bond-topological and atomic properties of tripeptides of the type L-alanyl-X-L-alanine. Acta crystallographica. Section B - Structural science, 65(4), pp. 488-501. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1107/S0108768109016966

Grabowsky, Simon; Hesse, Maxie F.; Paulmann, Carsten; Luger, Peter; Beckmann, Jens (2009). How to Make the Ionic Si−O Bond More Covalent and the Si−O−Si Linkage a Better Acceptor for Hydrogen Bonding. Inorganic chemistry, 48(10), pp. 4384-4393. American Chemical Society 10.1021/ic900074r

2008

Hübschle, Christian B.; Dittrich, Birger; Grabowsky, Simon; Messerschmidt, Marc; Luger, Peter (2008). Comparative experimental electron density and electron localization function study of thymidine based on 20 K X-ray diffraction data. Acta crystallographica. Section B - Structural science, 64(3), pp. 363-374. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1107/S0108768108005776

Grabowsky, Simon; Pfeuffer, Thomas; Morgenroth, Wolfgang; Paulmann, Carsten; Schirmeister, Tanja; Luger, Peter (2008). A comparative study on the experimentally derived electron densities of three protease inhibitor model compounds. Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 6(13), pp. 2295-2307. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/b802831a

Grabowsky, Simon; Weber, Manuela; Buschmann, Jürgen; Luger, Peter (2008). Experimental electron density study of ethylene oxide at 100 K. Acta crystallographica. Section B - Structural science, 64(3), pp. 397-400. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1107/S0108768108010197

2007

Beckmann, Jens; Grabowsky, Simon (2007). Supramolecular Silanol Chemistry in the Gas Phase. Topological (AIM) and Population (NBO) Analyses of Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes between H 3 SiOH and Selected O- and N-Acceptor Molecules. Journal of physical chemistry. A, 111(10), pp. 2011-2019. American Chemical Society 10.1021/jp0672712

Grabowsky, Simon; Pfeuffer, Thomas; Chęcińska, Lilianna; Weber, Manuela; Morgenroth, Wolfgang; Luger, Peter; Schirmeister, Tanja (2007). Electron-Density Determination of Electrophilic Building Blocks as Model Compounds for Protease Inhibitors. European journal of organic chemistry, 2007(17), pp. 2759-2768. Wiley-VCH 10.1002/ejoc.200601074

Teaching / Lehre

Herbst 2024

Inorganic Chemistry I (with Prof Eva Hevia Freire) - undergraduate course, lectures and excercises

Inorganic Chemistry II (in groups) - undergraduate course, lab class

Chemical Crystallography - graduate course, lectures

Symmetrielehre (mit Prof. Dr. Natalie Banerji) - Vorlesung im Bachelor-Studium

 

Frühjahr 2024

Quantenchemie (mit Prof. Dr. Natalie Banerji) - Vorlesung im Bachelor-Studium

Pharmazeutische Analytik (mit Prof. Dr. Stefan Schürch, Prof. Dr. Sönke Szidat, Prof. Dr. Julien Furrer) -  Workshop zu Fallstudien

 

Universität Bremen

Allgemeine Chemie - Vorlesung im Bachelor-Studium

Theorie der Chemischen Bindungen - Vorlesung und Übung im Bachelor-Studium

Anwendung der Theoretischen Chemie - Vorlesung im Master-Studium

Quantum Crystallography - graduate course, lab

Quantenchemie - Übung im Bachelor-Studium

The University of Western Australia

Theoretical Chemistry - undergraduate course, tutorials

Structure Determination in Chemistry - undergraduate course, tutorials

Freie Universität Berlin

Mathematik I und II - Übung im Bachelor-Studium

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News

Simon's keynote lecture

At the XX. Sagamore Conference, Simon held a keynote lecture on quantum crystallography in Delhi, India.

15.11.2024

Reunion at the University of Bremen

Five years after leaving the University of Bremen, Simon returned for a reunion with Lorraine Malaspina, Maksym Ponomarenko, Pim Puylaert, Malte Fugel, Dylan Jayatilika, Florian Kleemiß and Emanuel Hupf.

25.10.2024

Annual BBQ with AG Grabowsky & friends

Every summer, Simon invites his group, their families as well as Georgia and her group to a BBQ. Everyone enjoyed the diverse contributions to the buffet - from homemade Italian foccacia to Korean watermelon Hwachae.

16.08.2024

Maibummel at Reichenbach Falls

For our annual team excursion we followed in the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes and hiked to the Reichenbach Falls in Berner Oberland.

23.05.2024

Kang's strong first year

Just in time for his first anniversary at the University of Bern, Kang had a major breakthrough in postdoc project.

01.03.2024

Welcome Back, Eduardo!

For his masters thesis, Eduardo Metry has returned to our group and is happy to have received the chemicals for his project.

01.02.2024

Public lecture at BioChemie am Samstag

Simon held a public lecture for more than a hundred people on electrons and how to make them visible. Many school students took the opportunity to get a taste of university science and ask questions.

18.11.2023

New Trends in Microscopy

As a new member of the Microscopy Imaging Center, Simon attended the symposium in Bern and listened to Nobel Prize laureate Stefan Hell's talk.

17.11.2023

Zukunftstag: Children at work

For this year's national Zukunftstag, Simon had a visitor at work who built a glucose model, smashed leaves and searched for honey crystals under the microscope.

09.11.2023

The first diffractometer

At Deutsches Museum in Munich, Simon inspected the original Ewald/Friedrich/Knipping diffractometer from 1912.

11.11.2023

Talking quantum crystallography at IUCr keynote lecture

Simon held a compelling keynote lecture on quantum crystallography in front of more than 300 scientists at the International Union of Crystallography in Melbourne.

25.08.2023

Working at the University of Western Australia

For a week, Simon returns to UWA as a visiting scientist.

07.08.2023

Taking quantum crystallography to the US

With session chairs Yu-Sheng Chen, Florian Kleemiss and Krzysztof Wozniak, Simon presented the latest trends in quantum crystallography at the annual meeting of the American Crystallographic Association in Baltimore.

11.07.2023

Beamtime in Grenoble

Lorraine, Simon and Yaser joined forces with Florian Kleemiß (now RWTH Aachen) and Florian Meurer (Uni Regensburg) to perform synchroton X-ray diffraction experiments. To work around the clock at the ESRF in Grenoble, at least one person always had to catch up on sleep - in this case Florian Meurer missed the photo.

30.06.2023

Bernese Chemical Society's archive

The Bernese Chemical Society's archive dates back to 1887. From now on, the State Archive of the Canton of Bern will preserve documents and make them available for research.

22.06.2023

Deepening international collaboration

Thanks to a Hans Sigrist Foundation Supplementary Grant, Dylan Jayatilaka of the University of Western Australia could join Simon Grabowsky of the University of Bern. Half way through the stay, they have furthered crystallographic research.

31.05.2023

Live Programming with Alessandro Genoni

Alessandro Genoni from the Université de Lorraine joined Dylan Jayatilaka's live programming

25.05.2023

Maibummel to Trümmelbach Falls

For this year's traditional May excursion, we went to Trümmelbach Falls in Bernese Oberland. Our whole group and visiting scientist Dylan had a fantastic day out.

23.05.2023

Dylan Jayatilaka visiting University of Bern

Australian quantum crystallographer Dylan Jayatilaka has come to Bern for an extended scientific stay.

30.04.2023

Beamtime at SPring-8

Together with Georgia Cametti, Yaser, Lorraine and Simon travelled to Japan for round-the-clock beamtime at SPring-8.

23.04.2023

First guest to our growing work group

Jens Beckmann was the first guest to our group of eight scientists including Prof em. Hans-Beat Bürgi. Together we enjoyed a night out at the Irish Pub in Bern.

09.03.2023

Jens Beckmann in Bern

Professor for inorganic chemistry, Jens Beckmann from the University of Bremen talked about donor-free pnictogenium ions to the Bernese Chemical Society... and to Albert Einstein.

07.03.2023

Welcome Kang

Kanghyun Chu has joined our team as postdoctoral researcher and will work on quantum crystallography under periodic boundary conditions.

02.03.2023

Celebrating 100 papers

Since starting as a PhD student in 2006, Simon has published 100 peer-reviewed papers. A great reason to celebrate with today's team.

26.01.2023

Anomalous dispersion in Regensburg

Simon and Hans-Beat went to Regensburg to discuss theoretical and practical questions of anomalous dispersion with Michael Bodensteiner, Florian Kleemiß and Florian Meurer.

13.01.2023

Escape Christmas

For our Christmas party, we puzzled outside the box and escaped thanks to our mechanical skills.

19.12.2022

New diffractometer

Rigaku setting up our new diffractometer for crystallography and mineralogy

12.12.2022

Ethics in Chemistry

Simon moderated the meeting of the Bernese Chemical Society. Prof. Edwin Constable and Prof. Antonio Togni discussed ethical question like equating integrity with best practice and orchestrating relevance as a questionable trait of modern publication culture.

21.11.2022

Versailles Conference: ECM 2022

To meet colleagues from across the continent, Simon and Lorraine travelled to the European Crystallographic Meeting in Versailles and felt quite royal.

25.08.2022

Aarhus with Dylan

During the International Charge Density Meeting, we visited the the rainbow panorama at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum with our Australian colleague Dylan Jayatilaka.

traditional Maibummel

For a traditional Swiss Maibummel (May stroll) we took a cruise across three lakes from Biel.

20.05.2022

Prussian blues: Andrew Goodwin in Bern

Prof Andrew Goodwin of Oxford University gave a talk on the structural complexities in Prussian blues to the Bernese Chemical Society. It was also an opportunity for him to meet Andreas Ludi, professor emeritus of Uni Bern and pioneer of Prussian blues.

11.05.2022

Congratulations, Dr Simone!

Simone Dolabella successfully defended his PhD thesis on novel monolithic Si NEM at the Université de Fribourg with Simon Grabowsky assisting in the defense committee.

12.04.2022

Amsterdam

For a fortnight, Simon works with F. Matthias Bickelhaupt's group as HPC-Europa visiting professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

31.01.2022

Beamtime in Grenoble

At the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, we measured our crystals under high pressure at the ID15-B. Anna Makal from the University of Warsaw helped make our beamtime a success.

08.11.2021

Schynige Platte with our colleagues from Regensburg

After the conference in Fribourg, we took Michael Bodensteiner and Florian Kleemiß (University Regensburg) as well as Michelle Ernst (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies) as local guide, up to Schynige Platte. After enjoying spectacular views of Eiger, Mönch and (cloudy) Jungfrau, we ended the day with our annual BBQ.

03.09.2021

Welcome Sinas!

Sinas Furan from the University of Bremen has joined our team while Ravish Sankolli has finished his project with us. Sinas will look after our lab as research associate. Welcome to Bern!

02.08.2021

Group Outing in Areuse Gorge

We had a wonderful day hiking through the magnificient Areuse gorge in Neuchâtel's Jura range.

11.06.2021

Farewell and welcome!

While our trusted technician Dr Michał Andrzejewski will join the Paul Scherrer Institute, Yaser Balmohammadi has commenced his PhD studies in our group. We wish both them all the best for their ventures.

11.05.2021

New book

Simon Grabowsky's new book "Complementary Bonding Analysis" has arrived in print. Thank you to all contributors for turning the 2019 workshop "Tools of Chemical Bonding" into a fantastic book!

29.04.2021

Welcome Ravish!

Ravish Sankolli has joined our team for a post-doc project.

08.02.2021

Congratulations Florian!

Florian Kleemiß has successfully defended his thesis in a video conference followed by scientists across four continents.

14.12.2020

Sylwia Pawlędzio in Bern

Sylwia Pawlędzio from the University of Warsaw has come to Bern and spoke about her PhD project.

18.09.2020

Welcome Lorraine!

Lorraine Andrade Malaspina has joined our group and will work as a technician for the single crystal X-ray diffraction.

01.09.2020

Moving to Bern

The group of Prof. Simon Grabowsky will be moving to the DCB at the beginning of August 2019.

06.06.2019

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