Photocatalysis is a perennial solution that promises to resolve deep-rooted challenges
related to environmental pollution and energy deficit through harvesting the inexhaustible …

The successful isolation of phosphorene (atomic layer thick black phosphorus) in 2014 has
currently aroused the interest of 2D material researchers. In this review, first, the …

The properties of catenated nitrogen molecules, molecules containing internal chains of
bonded nitrogen atoms, is of fundamental scientific interest in chemical structure and …

Black phosphorus (BP) is rediscovered as a 2D layered material. Since its first isolation in
2014, 2D BP has triggered tremendous interest in the fields of condensed matter physics …

This perspective summarizes recent results, which demonstrate that stable carbenes can
activate small molecules (CO, H2, NH3 and P4) and stabilize highly reactive intermediates …

Black phosphorus has an orthorhombic layered structure with a layer-dependent direct band
gap from monolayer to bulk, making this material an emerging material for photodetection …

Phosphorus-containing molecules are ubiquitous in the world around us, and the synthetic
and industrial utilization of phosphorus has prospered for over a century. 1, 2 The industrial …

The coordination chemistry of white phosphorus is nowadays a mature discipline, which
during the last four decades has reached a deep understanding of the mechanisms …

This article highlights recent efforts of this laboratory in the stabilization of highly reactive,
low-oxidation-state, main-group molecules using bulky N-heterocyclic carbene ligands [L …

This Award Article targets the evolving, yet surprisingly fruitful, chemistry of N-heterocyclic
carbenes with low-oxidation-state main-group elements. Specifically, the chemistry of …