Sjoerd Harder

Research areas

• Sustainable Catalysis with main group metals
• Activation of aromatic systems and strong C-H bonds with main group metal cocktails
• Metal hydride chemistry and catalytic (de)hydrogenation
• Synthesis and reactivity of low-valent main group metal complexes
• Application of ball-milling in organometallic chemistry
• Lanthanide chemistry
• Challenging preparative synthetic methods under inert atmosphere

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