Research interests
organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis, synthesis of new organic ligands (NHCs) and new inorganic and organometallic compounds, spectrometric methods in organometallic chemistry, green chemistry, white biotechnology
Publications
- Alexandrina D. Rusu, Synthesis and Catalytic Applications of Carbene-Functionalized Hybrid Catalysts, ISBN 978-3-86853-181-7, Verlag Dr Hut, Muenchen, 2009.
- Alexandrina D. Tanase, Eberhardt Herdtweck, Wolfgang A. Herrmann and Fritz E. Kuehn, A Palladium (II) Complex Containing Imidazoles Moieties. Synthesis and Structural Examinations, (special issue in the memory of Pr. Dr. Ivar Ugi) Heterocycles, 73, (2007) 651-659.
- Alexandrina D. Tanase, Guido.D. Frey, Eberhardt Herdtweck, Stefan.D. Hoffmann and Wolfgang A. Herrmann, Preparation of NHC-substituted phosphitepalladacycles, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 692 (2007) 3316- 3327.
- Alexandrina D. Tanase, Wolfgang A. Herrmann and Fritz E. Kuehn, New O and N-Functionalized N-heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Palladium(II): Synthesis, Characterization and Their Properties in Suzuki-Miyaura Catalysis, at the 23rd International Conference on Organometallics Chemistry (ICOMC) Rennes, 13-18 July 2008 (poster presentation).
- Cristian Silvestru, Alexandrina D. Tanase, Laura Opris, Dana Ban, Hans J. Breunig, Organoantimony(III) Metallacycles Containing Sb-E-Sb Fragments (E = Chalcogen), In: Book of Abstracts: 11th International Symposium on Inorganic Ring Systems, IRIS XI, Oulu, Finland, 30 July-4 August. (Toim.) Hormi, Osmo., 2006, 104.
- Alexandrina D. Tanase, Cristian Silvestru, Hypervalent organoantimony (III) compounds containing [2-(R2NCH2)C6H4] groups: solution behavior and solid state structure, at the 1st International Conference Advanced Spectroscopies on Biomedical and Nanostructured Systems, Cluj-Napoca, 19-22 Sep. 2004.
- Alexandrina D. Tanase, Cristian Silvestru, New organoantimony (III) calcogenides containing intramolecular interactions N-Sb. Synthesis and characterization, at the XXVIIIrd National Conference of Chemistry, Calimanesti-Caciulata, Valcea, 6-8 Oct. 2004 (oral presentation).
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Pictures
The successful PhD candidate Dr. Alexandrina Rusu (née Tanase) is listening to the toast of Prof. Herrmann (right: Prof. em. Beck is member of the exam commitee).

Chair of Inorganic Chemistry group picture - Christmas 2008.

Members of the Kuehn and the Herrmann research groups together with Prof. Kuehn in one of the new students labs.

Together with Prof. D.G. Nocera and Prof. R.R. Schrock from MIT.

