AG PLAJER
FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN
Publications
Ring-opening terpolymerisation of phthalic thioanhydride with carbon dioxide and epoxides
Merlin R. Stühler, Cesare Gallizioli, Susanne M. Rupf and Alex J. Plajer
October 2023, Polymer Chemistry
Cover article: Precise construction of weather-sensitive poly(ester-alt-thioesters) from phthalic thioanhydride and oxetane
Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Merlin R. Stühler, Cesare Gallizioli, Bhargav R. Manjunatha, Volker Wachtendorf, Bernhard Schartel and Alex J. Plajer
August 2023, Chemical Communications
Precise cooperative sulfur placement leads to semi-crystallinity and selective depolymerisability in CS2/oxetane copolymers
Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Bhargav R. Manjunatha, Merlin R. Stühler, Cesare Gallizioli, Carsten Müller, Patrick Pröhm and Alex J. Plajer
July 2023, Nature Communications
Mechanistic mapping of (CS2/CO2)/epoxide copolymerization catalysis leads to terpolymers with improved degradability
Jenny Stephan, Merlin R. Stühler, Susanne M. Rupf, Sam Neale and Alex J. Plajer
July 2023, Cell Reports Physical Science
Cover article: Lithium catalysed sequence selective ring opening terpolymerisation: a mechanistic study
Peter Deglmann, Sara Machleit, Cesare Gallizioli, Susanne M. Rupf and Alex J. Plajer
April 2023, Catalysis Science and Technology
Sequence Selective Ring-opening Terpolymerisation Facilitates Higher Order Switchable Catalysis
Alex J. Plajer
September 2022, ChemCatChem
Thioanhydride/isothiocyanate/epoxide ring-opening terpolymerisation: sequence selective enchainment of monomer mixtures and switchable catalysis
Dorothee Silbernagl, Heinz Sturm, Alex J. Plajer
June 2022, Polymer Chemistry
Lithium achieves sequence selective ring-opening terpolymerization (ROTERP) of ternary monomer mixtures
Susanne Rupf, Patrick Pröhm, Alex J. Plajer
May 2022, Chemical Science
Prior publications
“Templation and concentration drive conversion between a FeII12L12 pseudoicosahedron, a FeII4L4 tetrahedron, and a FeII2L3 helicate"
D. Zhang, Q. Gan, A. J. Plajer, R. Lavendomme, T. K. Ronson, Z. Lu, J. D. Jensen, B. W. Laursen, J. R. Nitschke
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 1106-1112
"Heterocycle/heteroallene ring‐opening copolymerization: selective catalysis delivering alternating copolymers"
A. J. Plajer, C. K. Williams
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202104495
"Heterotrinuclear ring opening copolymerization catalysis: structure–activity relationships"
A. J. Plajer, C. K. Williams
ACS Catalysis 2021, 11, 14819-14828
"Synthesis of tris(3-pyridyl)aluminate ligand and its’ unexpected stability against hydrolysis: revealing cooperativity effects in heterobimetallic pyridyl aluminates"
Á. García-Romero, J. M. Martín-Álvarez, A. L. Colebatch, A. J. Plajer, D. Miguel, C. M. Álvarez, R. García-Rodríguez
Dalton Trans. 2021, 50, 13059-13065
"Heterotrimetallic CO2 copolymerization and switchable catalysts: sodium is the key to high activity and unusual selectivity"
A. J. Plajer, C. K. Williams
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 13372–13379
"Recent advances in the synthesis and application of tris(pyridyl) ligands containing (semi)metallic p-block bridgeheads"
A. J. Peel, A. J. Plajer, J. E. Waters, R. García-Rodríguez, D. S. Wright
Adv. Organomet. Chem. 2021, 75, 193-213
"Coordination chemistry of the tris-2-pyridyl pnictogen ligands [E(6-Me-2-py)3] (E = As, As=O, Sb)"
A. J. Plajer*, D. Crusius, R. B. Jethwa, A. D. Bond, R. García-Rodríguez*, D. S. Wright*
Dalton Trans. 2021, 50, 2393-2402
"Towards a converged strategy for including microsolvation in reaction mechanism calculations"
P. Deglman, M. el Mahdali, A. J. Plajer, R. Sure
J. Comput. Aid. Mol. Des. 2021, 35, 473–492
"The coordination chemistry of N‐donor substituted phosphazanes"
A. J. Plajer*, A. D. Bond, D. S. Wright*
Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 289–297
"Oxidation-triggered guest ejection from an Fe4L6 twisted parallelogram"
A. J. Plajer, F. J. Rizzuto, L. K. S. von Krbek, Y. Gisbert, V. Martínez-Agramunt, J. R. Nitschke
Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 10399–10404
"Tris(2-pyridyl) bismuthines: coordination chemistry, reactivity, and anion-triggered pyridyl coupling"
Á. García-Romero, A. J. Plajer, D. Miguel, D. S. Wright, A. D. Bond, C. M. Álvarez, R. García-Rodríguez*
Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 10, 7103–7116
"Charge-assisted phosph(V)azane anion receptors"
A. J. Plajer*, S. Lee, A. D. Bond, J. M. Goodman, D. S. Wright*
Dalton Trans. 2020, 49, 3403-3407
"Conformational control in main group phosphazane anion receptors and transporters"
A. J. Plajer*, J. Zhu, P. Pröhm, F. J. Rizzuto, U. F. Keyser, D. S. Wright*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 2, 1029–1037
"A tris(3-pyridyl)stannane as a building block for heterobimetallic coordination polymers and cages"
E. S. Yang, A. J. Plajer, Á. García-Romero, A. D. Bond, R. García-Rodríguez, A. L. Colebatch, D. S. Wright
Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 14003–14009
"Guest binding via N-H•••π-bonding and kinetic entrapment by an inorganic macrocycle"
A. J. Plajer, F. J. Rizzuto, H.-C. Niu, S. Lee, J. M. Goodman, D. S. Wright
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 10655–10659
"Deprotonation, insertion and isomerisation in the post-functionalisation of tris-pyridyl aluminates"
A. J. Plajer, S. Kopf, A. L. Colebatch, A. D. Bond, R. García‐Rodríguez, D. S. Wright
Dalton Trans. 2019, 48, 5692-5697
"Tailoring the binding properties of phosphazane anion receptors"
A. J. Plajer, J. Zhu, P. Pröhm, A. D. Bond, U. F. Keyser, D. S. Wright
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141 (22), 8807-8815
"Fluorometric recognition of nucleotides within a water‐soluble tetrahedral capsule"
A. J. Plajer, E. G. Percástegui, M. Santella, F. J. Rizzuto, Q. Gan, B. W. Laursen, J. R. Nitschke
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 4200-4204
"Hydrogen-bond-assisted symmetry breaking in a network of chiral metal-organic assemblies"
F. J. Rizzuto, P. Pröhm, A. J. Plajer, J. L. Greenfield, J. R. Nitschke
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 1707–1715
"Waterproof architectures through subcomponent self-assembly"
E. G. Percástegui, J. Mosquera, T. K. Ronson, A. J. Plajer, M. Kieffer, J. R. Nitschke
Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 2006-2018
"Post‐functionalisation of tris‐pyridyl aluminate ligands: chirality, coordination and supramolecular chemistry"
Á. García-Romero, A. J. Plajer, L. Álvarez-Miguel, A. D. Bond, D. S. Wright, R. García-Rodríguez
Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17019–17026
"Different selectivities in the insertions into C(sp2)‐H bonds ‐ benzofulvenes by dual gold catalysis"
A. J. Plajer, L. Ahrens, M. Wieteck, D. M. Lustosa, R. B. Ahmadi, B. Yates, M. Rudolph, F. Rominger, A .S. K. Hashmi
Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 10766–10772
"The coordination chemistry of the neutral tris-2-pyridyl silicon ligand [PhSi(6-Me-2-py)3]"
A. J. Plajer, A. L. Colebatch, M. Enders, Á. García-Romero, A. D. Bond, R. García-Rodríguez, D. S. Wright
Dalton Trans. 2018, 47, 7036-7043
"Formation and selection of the macrocycle [{(tBuN=)P(μ-NtBu)}2(μ-Se)2{P(μ-NtBu)}2]3"
A. J. Plajer, H.-C. Niu, F. J. Rizzuto, D. S. Wright
Dalton Trans. 2018, 47, 6675-6678
"How changing the bridgehead can affect the properties of tripodal ligands"
A. J. Plajer, A. L. Colebatch, F. J. Rizzuto, P. Pröhm, A. D. Bond, R. García‐Rodríguez, D. S. Wright
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 6648-6652
"Designing the macrocyclic dimension in main group chemistry"
H. ‐C. Niu, A. J. Plajer, R. Garcia‐Rodriguez, S. Singh, D. S. Wright
Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 3037-3082
"Flexible bonding of the phosph(V)azane dianions [S(E)=P(μ‐NtBu)]22−"
A. J. Plajer, R. Garcia‐Rodriguez, F. J. Rizzuto, D. S. Wright
Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 2013-2019
"Isomerisation, reactivity and coordination chemistry of a new hybrid, multi-functional phosphazane"
A. J. Plajer, K. Bold, F. J. Rizzuto, R. García-Rodríguez, T. K. Ronson, D. S. Wright
Dalton Trans. 2017, 46, 12775-12779
"A modular approach to inorganic phosphazane macrocycles"
A. J. Plajer, R. García‐Rodríguez, C. G. M. Benson, P. D. Matthews, A. D. Bond, S. Singh, L. H. Gade, D. S. Wright
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 9087-9090
"A versatile hard–soft N/S-ligand for metal coordination and cluster formation"
C. G. M. Benson, A. J. Plajer , R. García-Rodríguez, A. D. Bond, S. Singh, L. H. Gade, D. S. Wright
Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 9683-9686