Advances in the understanding of molecular beryllium element bonding

Magnus R. Buchner

Chem. Commun., 2025, 61, 11146
DOI: 10.1039/D5CC03056K

Identification of beryllium fluoride complexes in mechanically distorted gels using quadrupolar split 9Be NMR spectra resolved with solution-state selective cross-polarization

Konstantin Romanenko, Stuart J. Elliott, Aleksandr A. Shubin and Philip W. Kuchel

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 16932
DOI: 10.1039/D1CP02515E

Gauging ambiphilicity of pseudo-halidesviaberyllium-trispyrazolylborato compounds

Chantsalmaa Berthold, Matthias Müller, Sergei I. Ivlev, Diego M. Andrada and Magnus R. Buchner

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 13547
DOI: 10.1039/D3DT02857G

Ethylenediamine complexes of the beryllium halides and pseudo-halides

Magnus R. Buchner and Matthias Müller

Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 7246
DOI: 10.1039/D1DT01154E

Recent progress in beryllium organometallic chemistry

Darakshan Parveen, Rahul Kumar Yadav and Dipak Kumar Roy

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 1663
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC04844F

On the nature and limits of alkaline earth–triel bonding

Josef T. Boronski, Liam P. Griffin, Caroline Conder, Agamemnon E. Crumpton, Lewis L. Wales and Simon Aldridge

Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 15377
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC03832K

s-Block chemistry in weakly coordinating solvents

Magnus R. Buchner and Lewis R. Thomas-Hargreaves

Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 16916
DOI: 10.1039/D1DT03443J

Synthesis and characterization of neutral and cationic 1-tris(pyrazolyl)borate organo-beryllium complexes

Chantsalmaa Berthold, Gilles Stebens, Burkhard Butschke, Inga-Alexandra Bischoff, André Schäfer, Chengxiang Ding, Sudip Pan and Magnus R. Buchner

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2025, 12, 2844
DOI: 10.1039/D4QI03234A

N-Heterocyclic carbene, carbodiphosphorane and diphosphine adducts of beryllium dihalides: synthesis, characterisation and reduction studies

Albert Paparo, Aidan J. R. Matthews, Cory D. Smith, Alison J. Edwards, K. Yuvaraj and Cameron Jones

Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 7604
DOI: 10.1039/D1DT01393A

The chemistry of the s- and p-block elements with 2,2′:6′,2′′-terpyridine ligands

Andreas Winter, George R. Newkome and Ulrich S. Schubert

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2024, 11, 342
DOI: 10.1039/D3QI01245J

Alkaline earth metals: homometallic bonding

Josef T. Boronski

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 33
DOI: 10.1039/D3DT03550F

Quinolino[7,8-h]quinoline: a ‘just right’ ligand for beryllium(ii) coordination

Jenna K. Buchanan, Rebecca J. Severinsen, Magnus R. Buchner, Lewis R. Thomas-Hargreaves, Nils Spang, Kevin D. John and Paul G. Plieger

Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 16950
DOI: 10.1039/D1DT03367K

Multinuclear beryllium amide and imide complexes: structure, properties and bonding

Deniz F. Bekiş, Lewis R. Thomas-Hargreaves, Sergei I. Ivlev and Magnus R. Buchner

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 15551
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02269F

Beryllium-centred C–H activation of benzene

Kyle G. Pearce, Michael S. Hill and Mary F. Mahon

Chem. Commun., 2023, 59, 1453
DOI: 10.1039/D2CC06702A

Alkaline earth metals: heterometallic bonding

Liam P. Griffin and Josef T. Boronski

Dalton Trans., 2025, 54, 13020
DOI: 10.1039/D5DT01662B

Ligand exchange at tetra-coordinated beryllium centres

Magnus R. Buchner, Dušan Ćoćić, Sergei I. Ivlev, Nils Spang, Matthias Müller and Ralph Puchta

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 5287
DOI: 10.1039/D3DT00713H

Handling Beryllium, the Safe Way

Magnus R. Buchner and Matthias Müller

ACS Chem. Health Saf., 2023, 30, 36
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chas.3c00003

Exploring the coordination of peptide bonds towards beryllium with carboxamides, esters and ketones

Magnus R. Buchner and Matthias Müller

Zeitschrift anorg allge chemie, 2023, 649
DOI: 10.1002/zaac.202200347

A nucleophilic beryllyl complex via metathesis at [Be–Be]2+

Josef T. Boronski, Agamemnon E. Crumpton, Aisling F. Roper and Simon Aldridge

Nat. Chem., 2024, 16, 1295
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-024-01534-9

Meteoric 10Be speciation in subglacial sediments of East Antarctica

Eiríka Ö. Arnardóttir, Joseph A. Graly, Kathy J. Licht, David L. Bish and Marc W. Caffee

Quaternary Geochronology, 2023, 77, 101458
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2023.101458

Behavior of Lewis Bases toward Diphenylberyllium

Lewis R. Thomas-Hargreaves, Matthias Müller, Nils Spang, Sergei I. Ivlev and Magnus R. Buchner

Organometallics, 2021, 40, 3797
DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.1c00524

The dubious origin of beryllium toxicity

José Elguero and Ibon Alkorta

Struct Chem, 2023, 34, 391
DOI: 10.1007/s11224-023-02130-2

Challenges and Applications of Supramolecular Metalate Chemistry

Joseph G. O'Connell‐Danes, Bryne T. Ngwenya, Carole A. Morrison and Jason B. Love

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2024, 63
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202409834

A Preference for Heterolepticity ‐ Schlenk Type Equilibria in Organometallic Beryllium Systems

Magnus R. Buchner, Lewis R. Thomas‐Hargreaves, Chantsalmaa Berthold, Deniz F. Bekiş and Sergei I. Ivlev

Chemistry A European J, 2023, 29
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202302495

Inducing Nucleophilic Reactivity at Beryllium with an Aluminyl Ligand

Josef T. Boronski, Lewis R. Thomas-Hargreaves, Mathias A. Ellwanger, Agamemnon E. Crumpton, Jamie Hicks, Deniz F. Bekiş, Simon Aldridge and Magnus R. Buchner

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 4408
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c00480

Monomeric Two-coordinate Beryllium Imido and Boryloxide Complexes Featuring Be–N and Be–O Triple Bonds

Christoph Helling, David J. D. Wilson and Cameron Jones

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 16620
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c04320

Ligand Influence on Structural and Spectroscopic Properties of Beryllium Oxocarboxylates

Magnus R. Buchner and Matthias Müller

Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 17379
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02939

Novel Protic Ionic Liquid for Efficient Extraction of Beryllium with a New Sight of Mechanism

Conghao Sun, Yin Li, Yong Ke, Zhiyan Zeng, Weizhen Liu, Zhang Lin and Liyuan Chai

ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2023, 11, 15591
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c03977

Bonding situations in tricoordinated beryllium phenyl complexes

Lewis R. Thomas‐Hargreaves, Yu‐Qian Liu, Zhong‐Hua Cui, Sudip Pan and Magnus R. Buchner

J Comput Chem, 2023, 44, 397
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26950

Mono‐Ortho‐Beryllated Carbodiphosphoranes: Synthesis, Structure, Bonding and Reactivity

Magnus R. Buchner, Lukas K. Kreuzer, Lewis R. Thomas‐Hargreaves, Matthias Müller, Sergei I. Ivlev, Gernot Frenking and Sudip Pan

Chemistry A European J, 2024, 30
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202400966

Hydrolysis and oxidation products of phosphine adducts to beryllium chloride

Magnus R. Buchner, Nils Spang and Sergei I. Ivlev

Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B, 2022, 77, 381
DOI: 10.1515/znb-2022-0015

Behavior of beryllium halides and triflate in acetonitrile solutions

Nils Spang, Matthias Müller, William Augustinov and Magnus R. Buchner

Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B, 2020, 75, 939
DOI: 10.1515/znb-2020-0141

Detailed Investigation of Ligand Exchange Reaction Mechanisms on Solvated Be2+ Cations IX

Dušan Ćoćić, Sarah Volkamer, Andreas Nachtmann, Ralph Puchta and Rudi van Eldik

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2025, 129, 14841
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c03999

An efficient perovskite-type Rb2CaPO4F:Eu2+ phosphor with high brightness towards closing the cyan gap

Rong Zhang and Jian-Feng Sun

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2021, 872, 159698
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.159698

Multinuclear Beryllium Chloro Carboxylates

Magnus R. Buchner, Matthias Müller and Sergei I. Ivlev

Inorg. Chem., 2024, 63, 17901
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c03103

π Back-Donation from a Beryllium Dibromide Fragment at the Expense of Its σ Strength

Lewis R. Thomas-Hargreaves, Sudip Pan, Sergei I. Ivlev, Gernot Frenking and Magnus R. Buchner

Inorg. Chem., 2022, 61, 700
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c03449

Neutral Phosphorus-Based Beryllium Scorpionate Complexes as Spectroscopic Probes for Base Strength and Electron Donation

Chantsalmaa Berthold, Giuliana Hoß, Mark H. Lochte and Magnus R. Buchner

Inorg. Chem., 2024, 63, 24392
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c04565

Dimethylsulfide Adducts of the Beryllium Halides

Magnus R. Buchner, Lewis R. Thomas‐Hargreaves, Lukas K. Kreuzer, Nils Spang and Sergei I. Ivlev

Eur J Inorg Chem, 2021, 2021, 4990
DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202100812

A Second Modification of Beryllium Bromide: β-BeBr2

Magnus R. Buchner, Fabian Dankert, Nils Spang, Florian Pielnhofer and Carsten von Hänisch

Inorg. Chem., 2020, 59, 16783
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02832

Ein neutrales Beryllium(I)‐Radikal

Corinna Czernetzki, Merle Arrowsmith, Felipe Fantuzzi, Annalena Gärtner, Tobias Tröster, Ivo Krummenacher, Fabian Schorr and Holger Braunschweig

Angewandte Chemie, 2021, 133, 20944
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202108405

Transmetalation From Boron to Beryllium in Phosphorus‐Based Scorpionate Complexes

Chantsalmaa Berthold, Mark H. Lochte and Magnus R. Buchner

Chemistry A European J, 2025, 31
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202500673

Synthesis and Derivatives of Beryllium Triflate

William Augustinov, Matthias Müller, Lewis R. Thomas-Hargreaves, Sergei I. Ivlev and Magnus R. Buchner

Inorg. Chem., 2024, 63, 5208
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c00198

A Neutral Beryllium(I) Radical

Corinna Czernetzki, Merle Arrowsmith, Felipe Fantuzzi, Annalena Gärtner, Tobias Tröster, Ivo Krummenacher, Fabian Schorr and Holger Braunschweig

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2021, 60, 20776
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202108405

Challenges and Applications of Supramolecular Metalate Chemistry

Joseph G. O'Connell‐Danes, Bryne T. Ngwenya, Carole A. Morrison and Jason B. Love

Angewandte Chemie, 2024, 136
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202409834

Cesium Reduction of a Lithium Diamidochloroberyllate

Kyle G. Pearce, Michael S. Hill and Mary F. Mahon

Organometallics, 2024, 43, 432
DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.3c00519

Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Bonding of Molecular Heavier Beryllium Chalcogenides

Corinna Czernetzki, Tobias Tröster, Lukas Endres, Franziska Endres, Merle Arrowsmith, Annalena Gärtner, Felipe Fantuzzi and Holger Braunschweig

Chemistry A European J, 2023, 29
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202301418

Schlenk‐Type Equilibria of Grignard‐Analogous Arylberyllium Complexes: Steric Effects**

Christoph Helling and Cameron Jones

Chemistry A European J, 2023, 29
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202302222

CAl4Mg0/−: Global Minima with a Planar Tetracoordinate Carbon Atom

Nisha Job, Maya Khatun, Krishnan Thirumoorthy, Sasanka Sankhar Reddy CH, Vijayanand Chandrasekaran, Anakuthil Anoop and Venkatesan S. Thimmakondu

Atoms, 2021, 9, 24
DOI: 10.3390/atoms9020024

Steric Influence on the Constitution of Beryllium Phosphine Complexes

Magnus R. Buchner and Sergei I. Ivlev

Eur J Inorg Chem, 2023, 26
DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202300199

METTL3 Mediates Wnt/β‐Catenin Pathway in Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition of 16HBE Cells Induced by Beryllium Sulphate

Chenxi Yan, Guilan Li, Lian Huang and Zhaohui Zhang

J of Applied Toxicology, 2025, 45, 1787
DOI: 10.1002/jat.4807

Enhancing the resonance light scattering of DNA by Be2+ ions and in combination with other metals

F.J. Pereira, N. Díaz, R. López, D. Suárez, A.M. Juárez and A.J. Aller

Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 2025, 180, 115013
DOI: 10.1016/j.inoche.2025.115013

Free-standing two-dimensional ruthenium-beryllium nanosheets for alkaline hydrogen evolution

Jie Xu, Sini Wang, Chenglong Yang, Tingting Li, Qiangchun Liu and Xiangkai Kong

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021, 421, 129741
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2021.129741

Beryllium‐Mediated Halide and Aryl Transfer onto Silicon

Magnus R. Buchner, Fabian Dankert, Chantsalmaa Berthold, Matthias Müller and Carsten von Hänisch

Chemistry A European J, 2023, 29
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202302652

Structure and spectroscopic properties of etherates of the beryllium halides

Deniz F. Bekiş, Lewis R. Thomas-Hargreaves, Chantsalmaa Berthold, Sergei I. Ivlev and Magnus R. Buchner

Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B, 2023, 78, 165
DOI: 10.1515/znb-2023-0303

Organomagnesium Crown Ethers and Their Binding Affinities with Li+, Na+, K+, Be2+, Mg2+, and Ca2+ Ions – A Theoretical Study

Saikat Roy, Krishnan Thirumoorthy, Uday Kumar Padidela, Pothiappan Vairaprakash, Anakuthil Anoop and Venkatesan S. Thimmakondu

ChemistrySelect, 2021, 6, 8782
DOI: 10.1002/slct.202102317

Diberyllocene, a stable compound of Be(I) with a Be–Be bond

Josef T. Boronski, Agamemnon E. Crumpton, Lewis L. Wales and Simon Aldridge

Science, 2023, 380, 1147
DOI: 10.1126/science.adh4419

Cationic Phosphino Beryllium Scorpionates and their Reactivity as Lewis Acid–Base Pairs

Chantsalmaa Berthold, Deniz F. Bekiş, Jan Moritz, Gilles Stebens, Burkhard Butschke and Magnus R. Buchner

ChemistryEurope, 2025, 3
DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202500142

Overview on Low-oxidation-state Alkaline Earth Organometallic Chemistry

Rong Chen, Wei and Baosheng

Acta Chimica Sinica, 2025, 83, 139
DOI: 10.6023/A24100325

Electrochemical Behavior and Reclamation of Beryllium Scrap in Molten Salt

Yuzhen Chen, Shaolong Li, Zepeng Lv, Wen Luo, Peng Qiao, Dongxin Wang, Jilin He and Jianxun Song

ChemElectroChem, 2025, 12
DOI: 10.1002/celc.202400710

Formation, Structure and Reactivity of a Beryllium(0) Complex with Mgδ+−Beδ− Bond Polarization

Chantsalmaa Berthold, Johannes Maurer, Lukas Klerner, Sjoerd Harder and Magnus R. Buchner

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2024, 63
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202408422

Formation, Structure and Reactivity of a Beryllium(0) Complex with Mgδ+−Beδ− Bond Polarization

Chantsalmaa Berthold, Johannes Maurer, Lukas Klerner, Sjoerd Harder and Magnus R. Buchner

Angewandte Chemie, 2024, 136
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202408422

Supramolecular Incarceration and Extraction of Tetrafluoroberyllate from Water by Nanojars

Wisam A. Al Isawi, Matthias Zeller and Gellert Mezei

Inorg. Chem., 2022, 61, 8611
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c01198

An approach towards the synthesis of lithium and beryllium diphenylphosphinites

Chantsalmaa Berthold, Lewis R. Thomas-Hargreaves, Sergei I. Ivlev and Magnus R. Buchner

Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B, 2021, 76, 651
DOI: 10.1515/znb-2021-0104

Reactivity of Diphenylberyllium as a Brønsted Base and Its Synthetic Application

Lewis R. Thomas‐Hargreaves, Chantsalmaa Berthold, William Augustinov, Matthias Müller, Sergei I. Ivlev and Magnus R. Buchner

Chemistry A European J, 2022, 28
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202200851