Publications

L. Xu, R. Kraus, D. Rombach*

A Bench-Stable Reagent for Divergent Synthesis and Storage of SF₅X

JACS Au, 2026. DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.6c01204.

(see ChemRXiv 2026, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.15003704/v1.)

M. Flügge, S. Klehenz, S. Leidenheimer, D. Rombach*, H.-A. Wagenknecht*

Photoredox Catalytic Hydropentafluorosulfanylation of Alkynes by Sulfur Hexafluoride

JACS Au 2026, 6 (2), 965-972.

(see ChemRXiv 2025, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-vbvcz.)                                                                                                                

L. Xu, D. Rombach*

Enabling Cross-Coupling Reactivity of α-Pentafluorosulfanyl Compounds with a Thermally Stable Organozinc α-SF₅ Reagent

Chem. Eur. J. 2026, e71510.

(see ChemRXiv 2025 , DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-zz2qx.)

P. Bohn, R. Kraus, L. Xu, S. Pinus, M. Flügge, A. Bütikofer, S. Wolf, D. Rombach*

Silyl Chloroalkenyl and Alkynyl Sulfur Pentafluorides as versatile reagents to access novel fundamental SF₅ building blocks

ACS Org. Inorg. Au 2026, DOI: 10.1021/acsorginorgau.6c00084.

(see ChemRXiv 2025 , DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-jmfh6.)

H. Kucher, J. O. Wenzel, D. Rombach*

Hydrothiolation of Triisopropylsilyl Acetylene Sulfur Pentafluoride - Charting the chemical space of β-SF₅ vinyl sulfides

ChemPlusChem, 2024, 89, e202400168.

(see ChemRxiv 2022, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-01jhn)

D. Steuernagel, D. Rombach, H.-A. Wagenknecht*

Photoredox Catalytic Access to N,O-Acetals from Enamides by Means of Electron-Poor Perylene Bisimides

Chem. Eur. J. 2024, e202400247.

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J. O. Wenzel, F. Jester, A. Togni, D. Rombach*

Hydroamination of Triisopropylsilyl Acetylene Sulfur Pentafluoride - a Bench-top Route to Pentafluorosulfanylated Enamines

Chem. Eur. J. 2023 , e202304015.  

(see ChemRxiv 2022, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-brg1w).

D. Steuernagel, D. Rombach, M. Koos, B. Luy, H.-A.Wagenknecht*

Photoredox Catalytic Activation of Trichlorofluoromethane and Addition to Styrenes

ChemPhotoChem, 2023, 7, e202200289.

D. Rombach*, H.-A. Wagenknecht*  

Photochemical activation of sulfur hexafluoride – a tool for fluorination and pentafluorosulfanylation reactions‍

‍Synthesis, 2022, 54(22), 4883-4894.   

(invited short review)

K. Zhang^†, D. Rombach^†, N. Noetel, G. Jeschke, D. Katayev*

Radical Trifluoroacetylation of AlkenesTriggered by a Visible-Light-Promoted C−O Bond Fragmentation of Trifluoroacetic Anhydride

Angew. Chem. Intern. Ed. 2021, 60, 22487.    (highlighted in Synfacts 2021, 17, 1104.)

D. Rombach*, B. Birenheide, H.-A. Wagenknecht*

Photoredoxcatalytic pentafluorosulfanylative domino cyclization of α-substituted alkenes to oxaheterocycles using SF₆

Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 8088 - 8093.    (highlighted as inside cover feature).

P. Liebig*, C. R. Pitts, M. Reimann, N. Trapp, D. Rombach, D. Bornemann, M. Kaupp, A. Togni

‍The Supramolecular Structural Chemistry of Pentafluorosulfanyl and Tetrafluorosulfanylene Compounds

Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 6086.

R. Calvo, A. Le Tellier, T. Nauser, D. Rombach, D. Nater, D. Katayev*‍

A hypervalent iodine-based nitrooxylating reagent for the synthesis of new classes of organic nitrates

Angew. Chem. Intern. Ed. 2020, 59, 17162.

 D. Rombach, H.-A. Wagenknecht*

‍Photoredox Catalytic a-Alkoxypentafluorosulfanylation of α-methyl- and α-phenyl-styrene using SF₆

_‍Angew. Chem. Intern. Ed. 2020,59, 300.

F. Speck, D. Rombach, H.-A. Wagenknecht*‍

N-Arylphenothiazinesas strong donors – nucleophilic addition of alcohols to non-activated alkenes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15,52-59.

D. Rombach, H.-A. Wagenknecht*

‍Photoredox catalytic activation of sulfur hexafluoride for pentafluorosulfanylation of α-methyl and α-phenylstyrene

ChemCatChem 2018, 10, 2955.

C. Demmer, D. Rombach, N. Liu, B. Nielsen, D. Pickering, L. Bunch*

‍Revisiting the Quinoxalinedione scaffold in the Construction of New Ligands for the Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors

ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2017, 8 (11), 2477-2495.

(highlighted as cover picture in ACS Chemical Neuroscience).

 R.Hofsäß, D. Rombach, H.-A.Wagenknecht*

‍The Influence of Electron-Withdrawing Groups at the 2- and 2′-Positions of Dibenzothienylethenes on Molecular Switching

Synlett 2017, 28, A-E.