Dr Benedek Stadler

MSci (Imperial, 2021); PhD (Imperial, 2025)

I graduated from Imperial College London in 2021 and did my MSci project with Dr F. Mark Chadwick investigating titanium pincer complexes. Staying at Imperial, I completed my PhD in 2025 studying the fundamental reactivity of iron-aluminium heterometallic complexes under the supervision of Professor Mark R. Crimmin. In the same year, I was awarded an independent Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, which I took up with the group of Professor Mike L. Neidig.

I am interested in studying the structure and fundamental reactivity heterometallic complexes, with a focus on low oxidation state iron, primarily towards C-H and C-C activation and functionalisation.

C(sp2)–H Bond Activation with a Heterometallic Nickel---Aluminium Complex
J. A. Zurakowski,† B. Stadler,† M. W. Drover,* M. R. Crimmin* †equal contribution
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202512684, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202512684.

Dyotropic Rearrangement of an Iron–Aluminium Complex
B. Stadler, N. Gorgas, S. J. Elliott, M. R. Crimmin*
Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202408257, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202408257.

Vinylic C–H Activation of Styrenes by an Iron–Aluminum Complex
N. Gorgas,* B. Stadler, A. J. P. White, M. R. Crimmin*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 6, 4252–4259, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c14281.

PCP Pincer Complexes of Titanium in the +3 and +4 Oxidation States
B. Stadler,† H. H. Y. Meng,† S. Belazregue, L. Webster, A. Collauto, K. M. Byrne, T. Krämer, F. M. Chadwick* †equal contribution
Organometallics 2023, 42 (12), 1278–1285, DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00662.

Double Deprotonation of CH3CN by an Iron-Aluminium Complex
B. Stadler, N. Gorgas,* A. J. P. White, M. R. Crimmin*
Angew. Chemie Int. Ed. 2023, 62 (16), e202219212, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202219212.