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Carsten Milsmann Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Carsten Milsmann coauthored electronic-structure studies of cobalt pincer complexes. Comparing intact and modified ligand frameworks connects electronic descriptions with experimentally characterized chemical transformations.
Formal metal oxidation states are useful bookkeeping, but they do not alone specify where electrons are distributed in a metal-ligand system. This makes combined structural and electronic evidence valuable in coordination chemistry.[ref]
Four-Coordinate Cobalt Pincer Complexes: Electronic Structure Studies and Ligand Modification by Homolytic and Heterolytic Pathways by Scott P. Semproni and others. Research topic and author attribution in the primary publication
Scott P. Semproni, Carsten Milsmann and Paul J. Chirik, Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (2014), 9211–9224. Characterizes intact and modified cobalt pincer frameworks, including the modified-ligand dinitrogen complex.