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LEHNERT GROUP NEWS!!!

Welcome to Luiz, our visiting researcher from Brazil!

Michael and Hai report the first single iron complex capable of direct NO reduction, via an Fe(IV)-oxo intermediate! Congratulations!

M. O. Lengel, H. T. Dong, K. W. Rodriguez, K. K. Meier, N. Lehnert, Nitric Oxide Reduction at a Single Iron Site Facilitated by Second Coordination Sphere Hydrogen Bonding via a Putative Fe(IV)-Oxo Intermediate, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2026, 148, 73-77

Electrocatalytic H₂ production in the presence of O₂ - check it out!

V. A. Larson, N. Lehnert, Covalent Attachment of Cobalt Bis(Benzylaminedithiolate) to Reduced Graphene Oxide as a Thin-Film Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Production with Remarkable Dioxygen Tolerance, ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 192-210. Congratulations, Virginia!

Check out our Chem. Rev. paper on high-valent transition metal-oxo chemistry! See:

N. Pal, N. Fritsch, J. Shearer, N. Lehnert, High-Valent Late Transition Metal-Oxo Complexes: Breaking Boundaries at the Oxo Wall and Beyond, Chem. Rev. 2026, 126, asap.

Dr. habil. Nicolai Lehnert
Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics
Department of Chemistry
The University of Michigan
930 N. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
USA

Office: 2807 CHEM
Phone: (001)-734-615-3673
FAX: (001)-734-647-1179

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Check out our Inorganic Chemistry Forum on Nitric Oxide
and our Chem. Rev. papers on Iron-NO and High-Valent Metal-Oxo chemistry!

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