Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bohumil Stibr

Profile

Research fieldsInorganic Molecular Chemistry

Current contact address

CountryCzech Republic
CityRez
InstitutionCzech Academy of Sciences (CAS)
InstituteInstitute of Inorganic Chemistry

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Max HerberholdLabor für Anorganische Chemie, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Prof. Dr. Bernd WrackmeyerLabor für Anorganische Chemie, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2001

Programme(s)

2000Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Most of the scientific work of Prof. Bohumil Stibr is concerend with carboranes. Carboranes are cage or cluster compounds in which boron and carbon atoms build the structures. Reports on the first carboranes were published only about 40 years ago, and after this, the bonding modes of carbon had to be reconsidered in terms of high connectivity of carbon atoms with coordination numbers of five or six. Prof. Stibr has discovered numerous new carboranes, he has optimised their synthesis and he has described elegant methods for their conversion into other carborane clusters and metalla-carboranes. Exactly in this field he wants to work in Bayreuth, taking advatage of the nuclear magnetic resonance facilities available in order to further characterise the novel structures.

Publications (partial selection)

2001Bohumil Stibr, J. Holub, M. Bakardjiev, I. Cisarova, O. L. Tok. B. Wrackmeyer: Isomeric complexes [eta5-C5H5-closo-FePC2B8H10], ferrocene analogues. EUROBORON 2. 2001. O18
2001Bohumil Stibr et al.: Monocarbaborane chemistry. Preparation and characterisation of [4-CB8H9]-, the 'missing' closo-carbaborane anion . In: Chem. Commun., 2001, 1756-1757
2001Bohumil Stibr, B. Wrackmeyer: New developments in carborane chemistry. EUROBORON 2. 2001. L5