Studies: Chemistry and Philosophy at the Universities of Braunschweig and Göttingen 1978 - 1983 Graduation: Chemistry and Philosophy 1983 Zivildienst: Universitätsklinikum Göttingen 1983 - 1985 Dissertation: Dr. rer. nat. (Universität Göttingen, Prof. U. Klingebiel) 1985 - 1987 Titel: Lithiumfluorosilylamine – from the tricycle to the iminosilane Post-Docs: Prof. P. von Ragué Schleyer, Erlangen, and 1989 Dr. R. Snaith and Dr. P. R. Raithby, Cambridge, England 1991 Habilitation: venia legendi in Inorganic Chemistry (University of Göttingen, Prof. G. M. Sheldrick) 1987 - 1993 Titel: Syntheses and structural determination of reactive and thermally labile alkali metalorganic intermediates

Our research is currently focused on

Lithiumorganics Low valent silicon Design of Phosphorus Centred Ligands Design of Sulfur Centred Ligands Charge density distribution from high resolution X-ray diffraction data NMR- Bridge across the Styx between the solid and solution Low Temperature Crystal Manipulation and Application

Thomas Niklas, Dietmar Stalke, Michael John "Single-Shot Titrations and Reaction Monitoring by Slice-Selective NMR Spectroscopy" Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 1275-1277. Julia Matussek, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Dietmar Stalke "Novel Lithium Complexes of asymmetric Hydrogen Tetraimido Sulfate" Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 166-170. Sudipta Roy, Peter Stollberg, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Dietmar Stalke, Diego M. Andrada, Gernot Frenking, Herbert W. Roesky "Carbene-Dichlorosilylene Stabilized Phosphinidenes Exhibiting Strong Intramolecular Charge Transfer Transition" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 150-153. Susanne Löffler, Jens Lübben, Lennard Krause, Dietmar Stalke, Birger Dittrich, Guido H. Clever "Triggered Exchange of Anionic for Neutral Guests inside a Cationic Coordination Cage" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, online, just accepted manuscript (DOI: 10.1021/ja5130379). Lennard Krause, Regine Herbst-Irmer, George M. Sheldrick, Dietmar Stalke "Comparison of silver and molybdenum microfocus X-ray sources for single crystal structure determination" J. Appl. Cryst. 2015, 48, online (DOI: 10.1107/s1600676714022985). Hilke Wolf, Mads R. V. Jørgensen, Yu-Sheng Chen, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Dietmar Stalke "Charge Density Investigations on [2,2]-Paracyclophane - In data we trust" Acta Crystallogr. Sect. B 2015, 71,online (DOI: 10.1107/s2052520614026080). Wolfgang Scherer, Andrew C. Dunbar, José E. Barquera-Lozada, Dominik Schmitz, Georg Eickerling, Daniel Kratzert, Dietmar Stalke, Arianna Lanza, Piero Macchi, Nicola P. M. Casati, Jihaan Ebad-Allah, Christine Kuntscher "Anagostic Interactions under Pressure: Attractive or Repulsive?" Angew. Chem. 2015, 126, online (DOI: 10.10002/ange.201410532); Angew. Chem. Int. Ed 2015, 53, online (DOI: 10.10002/anie.201410532);

Hilke Wolf, Nina Lock, Stewart F. Parker, Dietmar Stalke "Direct Spectroscopic Evidence of the Mechanism behind the Phase Transition of [2,2]-Paracyclophane" Chem. Eur. J. 2015, in production (ms ID chem.201405948).