Dr Dominikus Heift
Faculties, deparments and locations
- 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:
- d.heift@kingston.ac.uk
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
Qualifications
- FHEA
Courses taught
I am interested in the synthesis and characterisation of molecular Main Group compounds and developing novel strategies to stabilise highly reactive species through rational design of tuneable ligand frameworks. Our focus is on Pnictogen (group 15) chemistry. We are developing new precursors for catalysts and molecular building blocks for heterocycles and functional materials. Currently we are investigating the potential of "pnictogen bonding" for catalysis and material design.
Publications
Trendbericht Anorganik 2024 : Hauptgruppen‐ und Molekülchemie
Fischer, Malte and Heift, Dominikus, 2024, Nachrichten aus der Chemie (72), 2, pp 46-57
Trendbericht Anorganische Chemie 2023 : Hauptgruppen
Heift, Dominikus and Fischer, Malte, 2023, Nachrichten aus der Chemie (71), 2, pp 46-57
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, 2023, Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie (ZACC) = Journal of Inorganic and General Chemistry (649), 14
Trendbericht Anorganik 2022 Teil 1 : Hauptgruppen
Fischer, Malte and Heift, Dominikus, 2022, Nachrichten aus der Chemie (70), 2, pp 40-51
Dibismuthates as linking units for bis-zwitterions and coordination polymers
Fekete, Csilla, Barrett, Jamie, Benkő, Zoltán and Heift, Dominikus, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry (59), 18, pp 13270-13280
Tweaking the charge transfer : bonding analysis of Bismuth(III) complexes with a flexidentate phosphane ligand
Mokrai, Réka, Barrett, Jamie, Apperley, David C., Zoltán, Benkő and Heift, Dominikus, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry (59), 13, pp 8916-8924
Iron sulfide materials : catalysts for electrochemical hydrogen evolution
Heift, Dominikus, 2019, Inorganics (7), 6, pp 75
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
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
An isolable magnesium diphosphaethynolate complex
Gilliard Jr., Robert J., Heift, Dominikus, Benko, Zoltán, Keiser, Jerod M., Rheingold, Arnold L., Grutzmacher, Hansjörg and Protasiewicz, John D., 2018, Dalton Transactions (47), 3, pp 666-669
The reactivity of acyl chlorides towards sodium phosphaethynolate, Na(OCP) : a mechanistic case study
Heift, Dominikus, Benkő, Zoltán, Suter, Riccardo, Verel, René and Grützmacher, Hansjörg, 2016, Chemical Science (7), 9, pp 6125-6131
Cyclo-oligomerization of isocyanates with Na(PH[sub]2) or Na(OCP) as "P-" anion sources
Heift, Dominikus, Benkő, Zoltán, Grützmacher, Hansjörg, Jupp, Andrew R. and Goicoechea, Jose M., 2015, Chemical Science (6), 7, pp 4017-4024
Phosphaketenes as building blocks for the synthesis of triphospha heterocycles
Heift, Dominikus, Benkő, Zoltán and Grützmacher, Hansjörg, 2014, Chemistry - A European Journal (20), 36, pp 11326-11330
Redox-triggered reversible interconversion of a monocyclic and a bicyclic phosphorus hetercycle
Heift, Dominikus, Benkő, Zoltán and Grützmacher, Hansjörg, 2014, Angewandte Chemie International Edition (53), 26, pp 6757-6761
Is the phosphaethynolate anion, (OCP)−, an ambident nucleophile? A spectroscopic and computational study
Heift, Dominikus, Benkő, Zoltán and Grützmacher, Hansjörg, 2014, Dalton Transactions (43), 15, pp 5920-5928
Coulomb repulsion versus cycloaddition : formation of anionic four-membered rings from sodium phosphaethynolate, Na(OCP)
Heift, Dominikus, Benkő, Zoltán and Grützmacher, Hansjörg, 2014, Dalton Transactions (43), 2, pp 831-840
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, Benkő, Zoltán, Grützmacher, Hansjörg, Caporali, Maria, Gonsalvi, Luca, Rossin, Andrea and Peruzzini, Maurizio, 2012, Chemistry - A European Journal (18), 46, pp 14805-14811
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 Bertagnoli, Helmut, 2012, Polyhedron (31), 1, pp 649-656
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