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Dr Dominikus Heift

Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education
Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry
Penrhyn Road

Senior Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry

[email protected]

About

I completed my undergraduate chemistry studies at the University of Cologne (Diploma) in 2008 before undertaking a PhD in Phosphorus Chemistry under the supervision of Professor Grützmacher at ETH Zurich. Here I worked on the development of atom economical phosphorus transfer reagents, with a focus on new phosphorus building blocks for heterocyclic molecular frameworks.

Subsequently, in 2014, I decided to explore a totally different field of chemistry and worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr Chaudret (INSA Toulouse) on the design and synthesis of innovative magnetic nanoparticles for applications in Fischer-Tropsch processes and hyperthermia cancer therapy.

In May 2016, I was awarded an EU-COFUND Junior Research Fellowship at Durham University and started establishing my own field of research in Main Group chemistry. In addition to my own research projects at Durham University I worked as Technical Development Support on an ERDF project between Durham University and CPI (Centre for Process Innovation). The project supported SMEs in the UK to design nanomaterials for a range of applications and helped me establishing several industrial collaborations.

I was appointed as Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at Kingston University in 2020.

Twitter: @DominikusHeift

Qualifications

Diploma in Chemistry
PhD
MRSC
FHEA

Domains

Publications

Exploring the solid lubrication potential of 2D black phosphorus

Boidi, Guido, Zambrano, Dario F., Varga, Markus, Heift, Dominikus and Rosenkranz, Andreas, 2024, Applied Surface Science (665), Published

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Tribology of 2D black phosphorus: current state-of-the-art and future potential

Boidi, Guido, Ronai, Bettina, Heift, Dominikus, Benini, Francesca, Varga, Markus, Righi, Maria Clelia and Rosenkranz, Andreas, 2024, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science (328), Published

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Trendbericht Anorganik 2024: Hauptgruppen- und Molekülchemie

Fischer, Malte and Heift, Dominikus, 2024, Nachrichten aus der Chemie (72), 2 pp 46-57, Published

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Trendbericht Anorganische Chemie 2023: Hauptgruppen

Heift, Dominikus and Fischer, Malte, 2023, Nachrichten aus der Chemie (71), 2 pp 46-57, Published

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A comparative meta-analysis of gains in efficiency in Pb- and Sn- based perovskite solar cells over the last decade

Huang, Chengou, Gajewiak, Emil, Wright, Aidan, Rodriguez-Kazeem, William, Heift, Dominikus and Bear, Joseph C., 2023, Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie (ZACC) = Journal of Inorganic and General Chemistry (649), 14, Published

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Trendbericht Anorganik 2022 Teil 1: Hauptgruppen

Fischer, Malte and Heift, Dominikus, 2022, Nachrichten aus der Chemie (70), 2 pp 40-51, Published

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Dibismuthates as linking units for bis-zwitterions and coordination polymers

Fekete, Csilla, Barrett, Jamie, Benkö, Zoltán and Heift, Dominikus, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry (59), 18 pp 13270-13280, Published

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Tweaking the charge transfer: bonding analysis of Bismuth(III) complexes with a flexidentate phosphane ligand

Mokrai, Réka, Barrett, Jamie, Apperley, David C., Benkö, Zoltán and Heift, Dominikus, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry (59), 13 pp 8916-8924, Published

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Iron sulfide materials: catalysts for electrochemical hydrogen evolution

Heift, Dominikus, 2019, Inorganics (7), 6, Published

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Weak pnictogen bond with bismuth: experimental evidence based on Bi-P through-space coupling.

Mokrai, Réka, Barrett, Jamie, Apperley, David C., Batsanov, Andrei S., Benkő, Zoltán and Heift, Dominikus, 2019, Chemistry - A European Journal (25), 16 pp 4017-4024, Published

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Controlling the sulfidation process of iron nanoparticles: accessing iron-iron sulfide core-shell structures

Heift, Dominikus, Lacroix, Lise Marie, Lecante, Pierre, Fazzini, Pier Francesco and Chaudret, Bruno, 2018, ChemNanoMat (4), 7 pp 663-669, Published

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An isolable magnesium diphosphaethynolate complex

Heift, Dominikus, Gilliard Jr., Robert J., Benko, Zoltán, Keiser, Jerod M., Rheingold, Arnold L., Grutzmacher, Hansjörg and Protasiewicz, John D., 2018, Dalton Transactions (47), 3 pp 666-669, Published

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The reactivity of acyl chlorides towards sodium phosphaethynolate, Na(OCP): a mechanistic case study

Heift, Dominikus, Benk, Zoltán, Suter, Riccardo, Verel, René and Grützmacher, Hansjörg, 2016, Chemical Science (7), 9 pp 6125-6131, Published

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Cyclo-oligomerization of isocyanates with Na(PH[sub]2) or Na(OCP) as "P-" anion sources

Heift, Dominikus, Benko, Zoltán, Grützmacher, Hansjörg, Jupp, Andrew R. and Goicoechea, Jose M., 2015, Chemical Science (6), 7 pp 4017-4024, Published

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Phosphaketenes as building blocks for the synthesis of triphospha heterocycles

Heift, Dominikus, Benḱ, Zoltán and Grützmacher, Hansjörg, 2014, Chemistry - A European Journal (20), 36 pp 11326-11330, Published

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Redox-triggered reversible interconversion of a monocyclic and a bicyclic phosphorus hetercycle

Heift, Dominikus, Benko, Zoltán and Grützmacher, Hansjörg, 2014, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition (53), 26 pp 6757-6761, Published

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Is the phosphaethynolate anion, (OCP)-, an ambident nucleophile? A spectroscopic and computational study

Heift, Dominikus, Benko, Zoltán and Grützmacher, Hansjörg, 2014, Dalton Transactions (43), 15 pp 5920-5928, Published

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Coulomb repulsion versus cycloaddition: formation of anionic four-membered rings from sodium phosphaethynolate, Na(OCP)

Heift, Dominikus, Benko, Zoltán and Grützmacher, Hansjörg, 2014, Dalton Transactions (43), 2 pp 831-840, Published

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Synthesis and characterization of terminal [Re(XCO)(CO)[sub]2(triphos)] (X=N, P): isocyanate versus phosphaethynolate complexes

Alidori, Simone, Heift, Dominikus, Santiso-Quinones, Gustavo, Benkå, Zoltán, Grützmacher, Hansjörg, Caporali, Maria, Gonsalvi, Luca, Rossin, Andrea and Peruzzini, Maurizio, 2012, Chemistry - A European Journal (18), 46 pp 14805-14811, Published

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Oxido-pincer complexes of copper(II) - An EXAFS and EPR study of mono- and binuclear [(pydotH[sub]2)CuCl[sub]2][sub]n (n = 1 or 2)

Klein, Axel, Butsch, Katharina, Elmas, Sait, Biewer, Christian, Heift, Dominikus, Nitsche, Sara, Schlipf, Irene and Bertagnolli, Helmut, 2012, Polyhedron (31), 1 pp 649-656, Published

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Phosphination of carbon monoxide: a simple synthesis of sodium phosphaethynolate (NaOCP)

Puschmann, Florian Frank, Stein, Daniel, Heift, Dominikus, Hendriksen, Coenradus, Gal, Zoltan A., Grützmacher, Hans Friedrich and Grützmacher, Hansjörg, 2011, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition (50), 36 pp 8420-8423, Published

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