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Biography
Manfred Bochmann is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. He officially retired in 2019, held a part-time Professorial Fellowship since 2019 and in 2023 became Emeritus.
Professor Bochmann gained his Diploma Degree at Marburg University, Germany (1977), and his Ph.D. at Imperial College London, with Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (1979). After a spell in industry he moved to a lectureship at UEA and became Professor of Chemistry in 1994. From 1995 -2000 he was Head of the Inorganic and Structural at the University of Leeds. He returned to UEA in April 2000. From 2006 – 2009 he was Head of the School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy and 2009-2011 Head of the School of Chemistry.
He is the recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry Medal for Organometallic Chemistry (2003) and the RSC Applied Inorganic Chemistry Award (2017). He was a vice-president of the RSC Dalton Division Council, an editorial board member of Dalton Transactions and the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry and a volume editor of a major reference work, “Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III” and Associate Editor of the ACS journal Organometallics 2006 - 2015. He is the author of two popular “Chemistry Primer” teaching texts in Organometallic Chemistry, co-author of the textbook Cotton, Wilkinson, Murillo and Bochmann: “Advanced Inorganic Chemistry”, 6th ed. (Wiley 1999), and author of the textbook "Organometallics and Catalysis: An Introduction" (OUP, 2014).
He was a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow (2011-12) and an ERC Advanced Grant awardee (2014-2019).
Professor Bochmann’s research centres broadly around synthetic organometallic and coordination chemistry directed towards homogeneous catalysis. He has published >300 papers and patents in this area which have attracted over 14,000 citations, h-index 63. He was coordinator of the EC Research Training Network on new polyolefin materials and a partner in an EU-funded consortium including DSM, Sabic and Lanxess on catalyst activators. The ERC Advanced Grant supported synthetic gold chemistry, including coinage metal-based photoemissive complexes for light emitting diodes. His work has been supported by the ERC, EPSRC, Royal Society, British Council, European Commission, BP Chemicals, Bayer AG, BASF, Samsung, Lanxess Inc., Canada and SABIC Global Technologies.
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ORCID ID 0000-0001-7736-5428
Selected Publications
Recent Advances in Gold(III) Chemistry: Structure, Bonding, Reactivity and Role in Homogeneous Catalysis. L. Rocchigiani, M. Bochmann, Chem. Rev. 2021, 120, 8364–8451.
Highly Efficient Blue Host-Free and Host-Guest Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Carbene-Metal-Amides. P. J. Conaghan, C. S. B. Matthews, F. Chotard, S. T. E. Jones, N. C. Greenham, M. Bochmann, D. Credgington, A. S. Romanov, Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 1758. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15369-8
Carbene Metal Amide Photoemitters: Tailoring Conformationally Flexible Amides for Full Color Range Emissions Including White-Emitting OLED. A. S. Romanov, S. T. E. Jones, Q. Gu, P. J. Conaghan, B. H. Drummond, J. Feng, F. Chotard, L. Buizza, M. Foley,M. Linnolahti, D. Credgington, M. Bochmann, Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 435-446. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9SC04589A
Unlocking Structural Diversity in Gold(III) Hydrides: Unexpected Interplay of cis /trans-Influence on Stability, Insertion Chemistry and NMR Chemical Shifts. L. Rocchigiani, J. Fernandez–Cestau, I. Chambrier, P. Hrobarik, M. Bochmann, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 8287−8302.
High-performance light-emitting diodes based on carbene-metal-amides. D. Di, A. S. Romanov, L. Yang, J. M. Richter, J. P. H. Rivett, S. Jones, T. H. Thomas, M. A. Jalebi, R. H. Friend, M. Linnolahti, M. Bochmann, D. Credgington, Science 2017, 356, 159–163. DOI: 10.1126/science.aah4345
D.-A. Roşca, J. Fernandez-Cestau, J. Morris, J. A. Wright, M. Bochmann.
Gold(III) CO and CO2 Complexes and Their Role in the Water-Gas Shift Reaction
Sci. Adv. 2015, 1, e1500761.
Reviews:
An element through the looking glass: Exploring the Au-C, Au-H and Au-O energy landscape
D.-A. Roşca, J. A. Wright and M. Bochmann, Dalton Transactions 2015, 44, 20785 – 20807
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5DT03930D
The Chemistry of Catalyst Activation: The Case of Group 4 Polymerization Catalysts.
M. Bochmann, Organometallics 2010, 29, 4711 – 4740.
DOI: 10.1021/ar100044s
Key Research Interests
Synthetic inorganic, organometallic and coordination chemistry
Invention of new molecules
Identification of active species in homogeneous catalysts
Olefin polymerisation catalysis, leading to process optimisation
Organometallic chemistry of gold
Luminescent coinage metal complexes for use in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)
Areas of Expertise
Keywords
- Chemistry
- inorganic chemistry
- coordination chemistry
- synthetic chemistry
- organometallic chemistry
- homogeneous catalysis
- polymerisation catalysis
- gold chemistry
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 16 Finished
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Enhanced single-crystal X-ray diffraction facilities
Bochmann, M., Fabian, L., Fielden, J., Khimyak, Y. & Wright, J.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
15/11/18 → 14/11/21
Project: Research
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Follow on work with Cambridge - Industrial funded - 36 months
Bochmann, M. & Romanov, A.
Samsung Electronics Company Limited
1/02/18 → 18/12/19
Project: Research
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Highly Efficient Photoemitters for Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Intramolecular Rotation
Bochmann, M. & Romanov, A.
1/07/17 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
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Novel OLED materials for energy-efficient displays
Bochmann, M. & Romanov, A.
1/02/17 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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Gold-Catalysed Heck Reaction: Fact or Fiction?
Budzelaar, P. H. M., Bochmann, M., Landrini, M. & Rocchigiani, L., 10 Jan 2024, ChemRxiv.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Gold-catalysed Heck reaction: Fact or fiction? Correspondence on “Unlocking the Chain Walking Process in Gold Catalysis”
Budzelaar, P. H. M., Bochmann, M., Landrini, M. & Rocchigiani, L., 18 Nov 2024, In: Angewandte Chemie-International Edition. 63, 47, 6 p., e202317774.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Phosphorescent carbene-gold-arylacetylide materials as emitters for near UV-OLEDs
Brannan, A. C., Cho, H-H., Reponen, A-P. M., Linnolahti, M., Bochmann, M., Greenham, N. C. & Romanov, A. S., 1 Feb 2024, In: Advanced Materials. 36, 5, 2306249.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Luminescent Au(III)−M(I) (M = Cu, Ag) aggregates based on dicyclometalated bis(alkynyl) gold anions
Lara Garnica, R., Jimenez Rama, R., Chambrier, I., Agonigi, G., Hughes, D. L., Lalinde, E., Bochmann, M. & Fernandez-Cestau, J., 14 Aug 2023, In: Inorganic Chemistry. 62, 32, p. 12683−12696 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Metal complexes with charge-compensating ligands
Bochmann, M., Romanov, A. & Chotard, F., 14 Jun 2023, Patent No. GB 2582252 , Priority date 18 Feb 2019Research output: Patent
Prizes
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Bochmann, Manfred (Recipient), 1993
Prize: Election to learned society
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Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
Bochmann, Manfred (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Royal Society of Chemistry Medal for Applied Inorganic Chemistry
Bochmann, Manfred (Recipient), 2017
Prize: National/international honour
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Royal Society of Chemistry Medal for Organometallic Chemistry
Bochmann, Manfred (Recipient), 2003
Prize: National/international honour
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Royal Society: Newton Advanced Fellowships Panel (External organisation)
Manfred Bochmann (Member)
2015 → 2019Activity: Membership › Peer review panel
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Division of Organometallic Chemistry (External organisation)
Manfred Bochmann (UK Representative)
2014 → 2019Activity: Membership › External research organisation
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Royal Society: Industry Fellowships Panel (External organisation)
Manfred Bochmann (Member)
2011 → 2014Activity: Membership › Peer review panel
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Organometallics (Journal)
Manfred Bochmann (Associate Editor)
2006 → 2015Activity: Editorial work › Publication editorial role
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Elsevier (Publisher)
Manfred Bochmann (Editor)
2006 → 2007Activity: Editorial work › Publication editorial role