Benkő Zoltán (@z_benko) profile picture

Benkő Zoltán

@z_benko

Associate Professor of Chemistry. Interest: Inorganic and Computational Chemistry. Sciex PD Fellow @ETH_DCHAB 2011-14. Bolyai Research Fellow 2015-.@lindaunobel

Joined October 2019
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Interested in substitution at an I2 molecule? The Mechanism of Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions at an Iodine Center: Single-Well or Double-Well Potential Energy Surface? pubs.acs.org/apcach/article/…
The Mechanism of Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions at an Iodine Center: Single-Well or Double-W...

The Mechanism of Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions at an Iodine Center: Single-Well or Double-W...

Abstract. Nucleophilic substitution (SN) reactions belong to the most important transformations in both organic and inorganic chemistry. Although SN reacti

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ChemistryEur@ChemistryEurFeb 13
The Challenging P-Alkylation of Aromatic Phosphorus Heterocycles and Follow-Up Reactions by Zoltan Benko, Christian Müller, and co-workers #OpenAccess chemistry-europe.onlinelibra…
The Challenging P‐Alkylation of Aromatic Phosphorus Heterocycles and Follow‐Up Reactions

The Challenging P‐Alkylation of Aromatic Phosphorus Heterocycles and Follow‐Up Reactions

P-alkylation of λ3σ2-phosphinines is hindered by weak nucleophilicity and scarce synthetic access, previously requiring multistep routes or extreme electrophiles. A direct ambient-condition method...

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Interested in constant chemical potential simulations at interfaces? We developed a simple method that allows DFT-quality constant chemical potential simulations. Congrats @soyemiademola. Thank you @ENERGY for funding. arxiv.org/abs/2506.01050
A Simple Iterative Approach for Constant Chemical Potential...

A Simple Iterative Approach for Constant Chemical Potential...

Chemical potential of species in solution is essential for understanding various chemical processes at interfaces. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, constrained by fixed compositions, cannot...

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Kelsie Wentz@kek_kelsie28 May 2025
The Wentz lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow! Applicants excited about joining a brand new research group and interested in the synthesis of new functional main-group based heterocyles and polymers can apply at the link below. Please share! indiana.peopleadmin.com/post…
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Having a time at the EWPC-21 in Innsbruck!
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Phosphetene-Based Polyaromatics: Structure-Property Relationships and Chiroptical Tuning (Muriel Hissler and co-workers) @chimie_ISCR #OpenAccess @PABouit @z_benko onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Phosphetene‐Based Polyaromatics: Structure‐Property Relationships and Chiroptical Tuning

Phosphetene‐Based Polyaromatics: Structure‐Property Relationships and Chiroptical Tuning

The synthesis of phosphetene rings (4-membered P-ring) flanked with PAH systems is described. Although neither the P centre nor the four-membered ring participate in the frontier orbitals, both...

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Great work Ademola, Tristan, and Benjamin!
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Great paper, congrats!
Nathan Coles (@sheepy1193) profile pictureNathan Coles@sheepy119314 Mar 2024
Out now in @ChemicalScience the reversible activation of water by a tetrapyridyl phosphinine. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti… Thanks ever so much to @SamENeale for the computational insights and the hard work of all the students from my time with @GroupMullerFU
Highly selective, reversible water activation by P,N-cooperativity in pyridyl-functionalized...

Highly selective, reversible water activation by P,N-cooperativity in pyridyl-functionalized...

Tetrapyridyl-functionalized phosphinines were prepared and structurally characterized. The donor-functionalized aromatic phosphorus heterocycles react high

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It was a great meeting, thank so much for organizing! See you latest next year!
Helten Group (@HeltenGroupJMU) profile pictureHelten Group@HeltenGroupJMU6 Mar 2024
What a bunch of good looking phosphorus chemists! Thanks to all of you who participated in the 20th European Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry, it was a great pleasure to meet so many of you in Würzburg. We're looking forward to meeting you again in Innsbruck!
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Congrats, Robert!
Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. (@RJGilliard) profile pictureRobert J. Gilliard, Jr.@RJGilliard21 Feb 2024
Our manuscript on the #boron-doped triangular clip of graphene, boraphenalenyl, is now published in @J_A_C_S! Chunlin unveils its multi-redox properties that mirror the charges states of the hydrocarbon analogue-cation, radical, anion isolated! pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.102… #maingroup
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Highlights in main group chemistry 2023. Our article with the @FiMalte group now online! #Chemie #gdch #Chemistry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Trendbericht Anorganik 2024: Hauptgruppen‐ und Molekülchemie

Trendbericht Anorganik 2024: Hauptgruppen‐ und Molekülchemie

Hauptgruppen- und Molekülchemie: Die leichteste Metall-Metall-Bindung im Bisberyllocen; ein doppeltes Highlight in der Carbenchemie: C zweifach oxidiert mit formal vier Valenzelektronen und Bor-Fla...

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Interested in the steric and electronic effects influencing the stabilities and structures of phosphonyl radicals? Check our hot article now published in Dalton Transactions pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
A quest for stable phosphonyl radicals: limitations and possibilities of carbocyclic backbones and...

A quest for stable phosphonyl radicals: limitations and possibilities of carbocyclic backbones and...

Although phosphonyl radicals play an important role as transient species in many chemical transformations, such as photoinitiated polymerisation reactions,

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Wow, 100! Congrats 🥳 #chemnobel onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Electron Transfer Reactions in Chemistry: Theory and Experiment (Nobel Lecture)

Electron Transfer Reactions in Chemistry: Theory and Experiment (Nobel Lecture)

Extremely fruitful in many fields of chemistry, the theory Marcus developed in the fifties and sixties describes thermal electron transfer reactions. In his Nobel lecture, Marcus gives a short...

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Lives in Chemistry (@livesinchem) profile pictureLives in Chemistry
@livesinchem21 Jul 2023
🎁HBT Nobel Laureate Rudolph A. “Rudy” Marcus whose name is forever linked to the #MarcusTheory explaining the #electrontransfer within solvated #molecules. Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, he spent all his professional life in the US, the last 45 years of which at @Caltech. #ElectronTransferReactions #EnergyConversion #ChemicalKinetics #NobelPrize #Chemistry
Rudolph A. Marcus 1995 in Lindau, Germany · photo by Ralf Hahn/Scripta Scientium

ALT Rudolph A. Marcus 1995 in Lindau, Germany · photo by Ralf Hahn/Scripta Scientium

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Bismuth-Catalyzed Amide Reduction (Josep Cornella and co-workers) @CornellaLab @BuresGroup #openaccess thanks to #projektDEAL ow.ly/Pj3S50P19bM
Bismuth‐Catalyzed Amide Reduction

Bismuth‐Catalyzed Amide Reduction

We report a protocol for the reduction of amides to amines using a cationic BiIII catalyst with a tridentate ligand framework in combination with a simple and cheap silane as the reducing agent....

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Congrats!
LichtenbergLab (@LabLichtenberg) profile pictureLichtenbergLab@LabLichtenberg31 May 2023
Small molecule activation: @KaiOberdorf's article in @ChemCommun highlights how heavy p-block elements can make valuable contributions to this field: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…. Congratulations! Hope this will help to inspire future research with heavy main group elements!
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Great paper on special interactions!
Pietschnig Lab (@PLabKassel) profile picturePietschnig Lab@PLabKassel29 Jun 2023
Nice work, Suby!
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I just taught the Van Arkel–Ketelaar triangle in a #ChemBond course. Is it common knowledge? Did you study it in college?
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Pietschnig Lab@PLabKassel15 Jun 2023
Check out the reductive post-synthetic functionalization of phospholes published in the special issue on pnictogen compounds in @ChemPlusChem. Thanks @HeyHawkins, @LabLichtenberg and @GroupMullerFU for the invitation. Congratulations to @Getfert_K for her first paper.
ChemPlusChem (@ChemPlusChem) profile pictureChemPlusChem@ChemPlusChem15 Jun 2023
Pietschnig and co-workers @PLabKassel @Getfert_K @uni_kassel report on a comparative study of the reduction behavior of ferrocenyl vs. phenyl substituted phospholes #Pnictogens for which pronounced differences have been observed. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Great paper Congratulations
ChemEurJ: Chemistry - A European Journal (@ChemEurJ) profile pictureChemEurJ: Chemistry - A European Journal@ChemEurJ14 Jun 2023
Organophosphorus Intrinsically Switchable Electroactive Fluorophores (Jacquemin, Bouit et al.) @T_SANGCHAI @chimie_ISCR #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Nice to have some wine after the Inorganic Chemistry Symposium with my students and the Kelemen group @BMECarborane
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