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This is a research group in structural chemistry led by Dr. Yury V. Vishnevsky at Bielefeld University.

We develop experimental and theoretical sides of gas electron diffraction and methods for molecular structure refinement. This includes such aspects as instrumental work in the laboratory, data measurement and processing, scientific software development, quantum-chemical calculations, refinement of molecular parameters. As supplementary information we use data from mass-spectrometry, vibrational and microwave spectroscopy. The primary goal is the determination of accurate and precise structures for inorganic, organic and organometallic compounds. On the basis of this data theoretical approximations are calibrated and structures of other molecules are calculated. Accordingly, our main scientific interests are

  • gas-phase molecular structures

  • molecular spectroscopy

  • gas electron diffraction

  • computational chemistry

Recent results

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J. Krieft, P. C. Trapp, Y. V. Vishnevskiy, B. Neumann, H.-G. Stammler, J.-H. Lamm, & N. W. Mitzel, A geminal antimony(III)/phosphorus(III) frustrated Lewis pair. Chem. Sci., 15 (2024) 12118–12125. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SC02785J.

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Y. V. Vishnevskiy, Y. Heider, & D. Scheschkewitz, Experimental molecular structures in the gas phase at the upper size limit: The case of Si6Tip6. J. Chem. Phys., 161 (2024) 054307. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0219926.

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P. Heinrichs, Y. V. Vishnevskiy, B. Neumann, H.-G. Stammler, & N. W. Mitzel, Syntheses and Conformations of a Trinuclear Gold(I) System Based on a Triethinyl-trisilacyclohexane Scaffold. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 27 (2024) e202400151. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202400151.

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H. Steffenfauseweh, Y. V. Vishnevskiy, B. Neumann, H.-G. Stammler, B. de Bruin, & R. S. Ghadwal, N-Heterocyclic Carbene Analogues of Wittig Hydrocarbon. Chem. Eur. J., 30 (2024) e202400879. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202400879.

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K. Tölke, S. Porath, Y. V. Vishnevskiy, B. Neumann, H.-G. Stammler, N. W. Mitzel, & B. Hoge, Water Adducts of the Lewis Superacids: Tris(pentafluoroethyl)gallane and -indane. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 27 (2024) e202300759. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202300759.

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A. Merschel, Y. V. Vishnevskiy, B. Neumann, H.-G. Stammler, & R. S. Ghadwal, Access to a peri-Annulated Aluminium Compound via C−H Bond Activation by a Cyclic Bis-Aluminylene. Chem. Eur. J., 30 (2024) e202400293. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202400293.

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A. Merschel, Y. V. Vishnevskiy, B. Neumann, H.-G. Stammler, & R. S. Ghadwal, Boosting the π-Acceptor Property of Mesoionic Carbenes by Carbonylation with Carbon Monoxide. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 63 (2024) e202318525. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202318525.

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F. Ebeler, Y. V. Vishnevskiy, B. Neumann, H.-G. Stammler, & R. S. Ghadwal, Isolation of an Anionic Dicarbene Embedded Sn2P2 Cluster and Reversible CO2 Uptake. Adv. Sci., 11 (2024) 2305545. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202305545.

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A. Merschel, Y. V. Vishnevskiy, B. Neumann, H.-G. Stammler, & R. S. Ghadwal, Ring-Opening of 1,3-Imidazole Based Mesoionic Carbenes (iMICs) and Ring-Closing Clicks: Facile Access to iMIC-Compounds. Chem. Eur. J., 30 (2024) e202303652. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202303652.

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J. L. Beckmann, J. Krieft, Y. V. Vishnevskiy, B. Neumann, H.-G. Stammler, & N. W. Mitzel, Poly-pnictogen bonding: trapping halide ions by a tetradentate antimony(III) Lewis acid. Chem. Sci., 14 (2023) 13551–13559. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SC04594C.

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J. L. Beckmann, J. Krieft, Y. V. Vishnevskiy, B. Neumann, H.-G. Stammler, & N. W. Mitzel, A Bidentate Antimony Pnictogen Bonding Host System. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 62 (2023) e202310439. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202310439.

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Y. V. Vishnevskiy, RotGT-2023: A benchmark data set of rotational g tensors. J. Chem. Phys., 159 (2023) 164307. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0173313.

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D. S. Tikhonov & Y. V. Vishnevskiy, Describing nuclear quantum effects in vibrational properties using molecular dynamics with Wigner sampling. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 25 (2023) 18406–18423. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CP01007D.

Supported by

Uni-Bielfeld, Chemistry department

German Research Foundation

Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universität zu Köln

Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation