Publications
Fluoride Recovery in Degradable Fluorinated Polyesters
Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Merlin R. Stühler, Alexandre Millanvois, Luca Steiner, Christiane Weimann, Dorothee Silbernagl, Heinz Sturm, Beate Paulus, Alex J. Plajer*, June 2024, Chemical Communications
Easy Synthetic Access to High-Melting Sulfurated Copolymers and their Self-Assembling Block Polymers from Phenylisothiocyanate and Oxetane
Jenny Stephan, Jorge L Olmedo-Martínez, Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Merlin Stühler, Mathias Dimde, Daniel Braatz, Robert Langer, Alejandro J Müller, Holger Schmalz, Alex J. Plajer*, March 2024, Angewandte Chemie
Ring-Opening Terpolymerisation of Elemental Sulfur Waste with Propylene Oxide and Carbon Disulfide via Lithium Catalysis
Cesare Gallizioli, David Battke, Helmut Schlaad, Peter Deglmann, Alex J. Plajer*, February 2024, Angewandte Chemie
Improved access to polythioesters by heterobimetallic aluminium catalysis
Bhargav R. Manjunatha, Merlin R. Stühler, Luise Quick, Alex J. Plajer*, March 2024, Chemical Communications
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
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39951-y
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
DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101510
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
Publications prior to independent career:
“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