Sjoerd Harder

Prof. Dr. Sjoerd Harder, PhD

Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Chair of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Harder)

Room: Room A 3.14
Egerlandstr. 1
91058 Erlangen

Section

Inorganic Chemistry

Research areas

Molecular materials:
Energy

Development of novel heterogeneous catalysts for the storage of hydrogen

Development of fluorine-free non-coordinating anions for early main group metal batteries

Molecular materials:
Sustainability

Homogeneous catalysis with abundant main group metals

Low oxidation state main group metal complexes for activation and conversion of extremely strong bonds

Publications

Latest publications and news can be found at X (Twitter): @harder_research

A full up-to-date publication record can be found at: Scopus

Top-5 recent publications

  1. J. Mai, J. Maurer, J. Langer, S. Harder* Nature Synthesis 2024, 3, 368–377. Heterobimetallic Alkaline-Earth Metal-Metal Bonding https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-023-00451-y
  2. B. Rösch, T. Gentner, J. Eyselein, J. Langer, H. Elsen, S. Harder* Nature 2021, 592, 717-721. Strongly reducing magnesium(0) complexes https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03401-w
  3. B. Rösch, T. Gentner, J. Langer, C. Färber, J. Eyselein, L. Zhao, C. Ding, G. Frenking*, S. Harder* Science 2021, 371, 1125-1128. Dinitrogen complexation and reduction at low-valent calcium https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abf2374
  4. C. Färber, P. Stegner, U. Zenneck, C. Knüpfer, G. Bendt, S. Schulz, S. Harder* Nature Communications 2022, 13, 3210. Teaming up main group metals with metallic iron to boost hydrogenation catalysis https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30840-4
  5. H. Bauer, M. Alonso*, C. Färber, H. Elsen, J. Pahl, A. Causero, G. Ballmann, F. De Proft, S. Harder* Nature Catalysis, 2018, 1, 40-47. Imine Hydrogenation with Simple Alkaline Earth Metal Catalysts 10.1038/s41929-017-0006-0