“…His research interests combined all three fields, with a focus on homogeneous catalysis with transition metal complexes. Bidentate donor ligands with a small bite angle such as bis(di- tert -butylphosphino)methane (dtbpm) were a unique feature of his work [61,67,70–72
80–81
84,86,93–94
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103,107,124,128,148–149] that ultimately enabled C–Si activation of organosilanes and the C–C activation of oxiranes by coordinatively unsaturated platinum species [66,149]. In the mechanism of the Dötz reaction, he found that chromacyclobutene structures were unrealistic intermediates and instead proposed vinylcarbene complexes as much more stable isomers [64,68,88].…”