Abteilung für Metallorganische Chemie

Research Areas Didactical Activities Publications Team

Prof. Dr. Christian Ganter   Institut für Anorganische Chemie Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Universitätsstraße 1 Gebäude 26.42, Raum U1.32 D-40225 Düsseldorf Tel.:  + 49 211 81 12288  Fax:  + 49 211 81 11854 E-mail: christian.ganter@uni-duesseldorf.de

Member of the Sonderforschungsbereich 380 - "Asymmetric Syntheses with chemical and biological Methods"

Member of the Graduate Program" Methods in Asymmetric Syntheses "

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  Didactical Activities

     at the RWTH Aachen:

• Lecture General Chemistry for first-year-students of Biology
• Practical Course in Inorganic Chemistry for advanced students of Chemistry
• Seminar about NMR-spectroscopy for advanced students of Chemistry
• Lecture   Organometallic Chemistry  for advanced students of Chemistry
• Lecture Inorganic Chemistry II for students of chemistry (3. Semester)

     at the Universität Düsseldorf:

• Lecture Anorganische Chemie II (Chemie der Nichtmetalle), Sommersemester 2003
  

Ungesättigte C₃ B₂-Ringe mit benachbarten Boratomen: Derivate von 4-Methylen-1,2-diboracyclopentan, Dilithium-2,3-diboratafulven und 1,2-Dibora-3-cyclopenten
Herberich, G. E., Ganter, C., Wesemann, L., Boese, R.,
Angew. Chem. 1990, 102, 914-915; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1990, 29, 912-913.

A novel slipped tripledecker complex with a 3,4-diborafulvene as bridging ligand
Herberich, G. E., Ganter, C., Wesemann, L., Boese,
J. Organomet. Chem. 1990, 394, C1-C5.

Borylation of dicarbanions: synthesis of new five- and eight-membered boron-carbon rings
Herberich, G. E.,  Eigendorf, U., Ganter, C., J. Organomet. Chem. 1991, 402, C17-C19.

Synthesen neuer bororganischer Ringe mit zwei Bor-Atomen durch Borylierung des Trimethylenmethan-Dianions
Herberich, G. E., Englert, U., Ganter, C., Wesemann, L., Chem. Ber. 1992, 125, 23-29.

Synthesis and Reactions of 1,6-Diphosphabicyclo[4.4.0]decane and Related Molecules
Alder, R. W., Ganter, C., Harris, C. J., Orpen, A. G.,
J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1992, 1170-1172.

The Preparation and Reactions of 1,6-Diphosphatricyclo[4.4.0]-tetradecanediium Ditrifluoromethanesulfonate
Alder, R. W., Ganter, C., Harris, C. J., Orpen, A. G., J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1992, 1172-1174.

The reactions of Me₃ SiCHN₂ with [PtX ₂ (S,S-skewphos)]: highly diastereoselective carbene insertions into Pt-Cl bonds, and Me₃SiCHN ₂ as a CH₂N₂ equivalent
Bergamini, P., Costa, E., Sostero, S., Ganter, C., Hogg, J., Orpen, A. G., Pringle, P. G.,
J. Organomet. Chem. 1993, 455, C13-C16.

Tri- and tetra-nuclear m -alkyne clusters from [Ru₂( m-CO)(m-C₂ R₂)(h-C ₅H₅) ₂ ] (R = Ph or CF₃)
Adams, K. J., Barker, J. J., Charmant, J. P. H., Ganter, C., Klatt, G., Knox ,S. A. R., Orpen,  A. G., Ruile, S.,
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 1994, 477-484.

A new orthorhombic crystal form of dichloro[(-)-( R,R)-2,2-dimethyl-4,5-bis(diphenylphosphinomethyl)-1,3-dioxolane-P,P']platinum, [{(R,R)diop}PtCl₂]
Ganter, C.,  Orpen, A. G., Bergamini, P., Costa, E., Acta Crystallogr., Sect. C, 1994, C50, 507-510.

Highly stereospecific carbene insertions into platinum-halide bonds. Crystal structure of [PtCl(S-CHClSiMe ₃ )(S,S-Ph₂PCHMeCH ₂CHMePPh₂)]
Orpen, A. G., Bergamini, P., Costa, E., Ganter, C., Pringle, P. G.,
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 1994, 651-655.

Polymerization of a-Olefins and Butadiene and Catalytic Cyclotrimerization of 1-Alkynes by a New Class of Group IV Catalysts. Control of Molecular Weight and  Polymer Microstructure via Ligand Tuning in Sterically Hindered Chelating Phenoxide  Titanium and Zirconium Species
van der Linden, A., Schaverien, C. J., Meijboom, N., Ganter, C., Orpen, A. G.,
J. Am. Chem Soc. 1995, 117, 3008-3021.

A Novel Approach to Ferrocenes with Planar Chirality
Ganter, C., Wagner, T., Chem. Ber. 1995, 128, 1157-1161 .

Diastereoselective Synthesis of Tricarbonyl(thiophene)chromium Complexes
Ganter, C., Brassat, L., Ganter, B., Chem. Ber. 1997, 130, 659-662 .

A new Concept for Chelate Ligands with Planar Chirality
Ganter, C., Brassat, L., Glinsböckel, C., Ganter, B.,
Organometallics 1997, 16, 2862-2867.

Enantiomerically Pure Phosphaferrocenes with Planar Chirality
Ganter, C., Brassat, L., Ganter, B.,
Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 1997, 8, 2607-2611.

Phosphanyl Substituted Phosphaferrocenes as P,P -Chelate Ligands
Ganter, C., Brassat, L., Ganter, B., Chem. Ber. 1997, 130, 1771-1776.

Medium-ring diphosphines from diphosphabicyclo[ k.l.0]alkanes: stereoselective syntheses, structure and properties
Alder, R. W., Ganter, C., Gil, M., Gleiter, R., Harris, C. J., Harris, S. E., Lange, H., Orpen, A. G., Taylor, P.,
J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1 1998, 1643-1655 .

New P,N-Chelate Ligands Based on Pyridyl-Substituted Phosphaferrocenes
Ganter, C., Glinsböckel, C., Ganter, B., Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 1998, 1163-1168.

Fulven-like Cationic Phosphaferrocene Species as Synthetic Valuable Intermediates: Preparative and Mechanistic Aspects of the Diastereoselective Formation of a-Phosphanyl Substituted 2-Ethylphosphaferrocenes
Brassat, L., Ganter, B., Ganter, C., Chem. Eur. J. 1998 , 4, 2148-2153.

New chiral tricarbonyl( h⁶ -arene)chromium(0) complexes: synthesis and  preliminary application in asymmetric catalysis
Bolm, C., Muñiz, K., Ganter, C., New J. Chem. 1998, 1371-1376.

Acid Catalysed Rearrangements of the Thevinols: The Mechanism of Furanocodide Formation
Grivas, K., Breeden, S. W., Ganter, C., Husbands, S. M., Lewis, J. W., Tetrahedron Letters 1999, 40, 1795-1798.

Phosphaferrocenes containing the chiral pinene-fused cyclopentadienyl ligand PCp
Pala, C., Podewils, F., Salzer, A., Englert, U., Ganter, C., Tetrahedron 2000, 56, 17-20.

Cyclopentadienyl substituted Phosphaferrocenes: Synthesis of a Bis(phosphaferrocene)-P,P-Chelate Ligand
Ganter, C., Kaulen, C., Englert, U., Organometallics 1999 , 18, 5444-5446.

h ⁵-Phospholyl and h⁵ -polyphospholyl complexes as hydroformylation catalysts
Ahlers, W., Mackewitz, T., Röper, M., Mathey, F., Ganter, C., Breit, B., Ger. Offen. (2000), DE 19921730.

Contribution to the Chemistry of Metal Complexes with Stereogenic Metal Centers: Diastereoselective Formation of Ru-Halfsandwich Complexes
Kaulen, C., Pala, C., Hu, C., Ganter, C., Organometallics 2001 , 20, 1614-1619.

The Chemistry of Chiral Heterometallocenes (Review)
Ganter, C., J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2001, 3541-3548.

Titanium Mediated Reductive Coupling of Chiral Formylphosphaferrocenes: Formation of Bis(phosphaferrocenyl) Substituted Ethylenes and Pinacols
Agustsson, O., Englert, U., Hu, C. , Marx, T. , Wesemann, L. , Ganter, C., Organometallics 2002, 21, 2993-3000.

Chiral organometallic half-sandwich complexes with defined metal configuration
Ganter, C., Chem. Soc. Rev. 2003, 32, in press.

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The Aachen-team (2002)

Present members of the group:

Former coworker:

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Organometallic Chemistry - topics
1    Cp-Verbindungen
    1.1  Übersicht und Systematik
    1.2  Synthesen
    1.3  Struktur und Bindung (Kristallfeld- und MO-Betrachtung)
    1.4  Reaktivität
        1.4.1  Ferrocen
        1.4.2  Cobaltocen
        1.4.3  Nickelocen
    1.5  Metallocendrivate
        1.5.1  Cp-Carbonylkomplexe
        1.5.2  Cp-Hydridkomplexe
    1.6  Abschließende Bermerkungen
2   Systematik der Liganden
     gerade und ungerade, offene und geschlossene Systeme
3   Cyclobutadienkomplexe
4   Arenkomplexe
5   Olefinkomplexe
6   Acetylenkomplexe
7   Allylkomplexe
8   Übergangsmetallkomplexe mit s -gebundenen C-Liganden, Alkylkomplexe
9   Komplexe mit M-C-Mehrfachbindungen, Carbenkomplexe
10  Die Isolobalanalogie
11  wichtige Reaktionstypen der metallorganischen Chemie
    11.1  Substitutionsreaktionen
    11.2  oxidierende Addition und reduzierende Eliminierung
    11.3  oxidierende Kopplung und reduzierende Entkopplung
    11.4  Insertion und Desinsertion bzw. Eliminierung
12  Angewandte metallorganische Chemie: homogene Katalyse
 

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