Main-group and p-block chemistry

Alexander M. Spokoyny

Alexander M. Spokoyny is an American inorganic and materials chemist, a professor and chair of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA since 2023, known for carborane cluster chemistry.

Alfred Stock (1876–1946) was a German inorganic chemist who founded boron hydride chemistry, invented the high-vacuum technique, created the Stock oxidation-state nomenclature, and studied mercury poisoning.

Christopher A. Reed

Christopher A. Reed is an inorganic chemist known for carborane superacids, weakly coordinating anions, and silylium ions; he taught at USC and the University of California, Riverside.

David Scheschkewitz

David Scheschkewitz, born 1971 in Aurich, Germany, is a German inorganic chemist holding the Krupp Chair at Saarland University, known for siliconoids and all-silicon aromatic rings.

Egon Wiberg

Egon Wiberg (1901–1976) was a German inorganic chemist who held the chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Munich from 1951 and co-edited Holleman-Wiberg, the standard German inorganic chemistry textbook.

Holger Braunschweig

Holger Braunschweig is a German inorganic chemist at the University of Würzburg whose boron compounds bind and reduce dinitrogen like transition metals, work honored with the 2009 Leibniz Prize.

Ingo Krossing

Ingo Krossing is a German inorganic chemist, professor at the University of Freiburg since 2006, known for weakly coordinating anions and unified acidity and redox scales.

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James L. Dye

James L. Dye (1927–2021) was an American inorganic chemist at Michigan State University who discovered alkalides and electrides, compounds with alkali metals or electrons as anions.

Jan J. Weigand

Jan J. Weigand is an inorganic molecular chemist who has held the Chair of Inorganic Molecular Chemistry at TU Dresden since 2013, working on cationic phosphorus chemistry.

Jean’ne M. Shreeve

Jean'ne M. Shreeve is an American fluorine and energetic-materials chemist who joined the University of Idaho in 1961 and is known for nitrogen-rich energetic salts and ionic liquids.

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John L. Margrave

John L. Margrave (1924–2003) was an American inorganic and fluorine chemist at Rice University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1974, who pioneered direct fluorination.

José M. Goicoechea

José M. Goicoechea is an inorganic chemist working on reactive main-group compounds, professor at Indiana University since 2023 after sixteen years at the University of Oxford.

Lawrence R. Sita

Lawrence R. Sita is an American inorganic and materials chemist, a professor at the University of Maryland since 2002 known for nitrogen fixation catalysis and living polymerization of polyolefins.

Lutz Greb

Lutz Greb is an inorganic chemist who has been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Heidelberg University since 2022, working on Lewis superacids and silicon chemistry.

Manfred Scheer

Manfred Scheer (born 1955) is a German inorganic chemist who held the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Regensburg and is known for phosphorus and arsenic chemistry.

Michael F. Lappert

Michael F. Lappert (1928–2014) was a British inorganic chemist, born in Brno, who fled to England on a Kindertransport in 1939 and pioneered low-valent main-group chemistry at Sussex.

Otto Ruff

Otto Ruff (1871–1939) was a German inorganic chemist who became the leading authority on fluorine chemistry after Moissan's death, preparing new fluorides including uranium hexafluoride.

Paul Lebeau

Paul Lebeau (Paul Marie Alfred Lebeau, 1868–1959) was a French inorganic chemist known for fluorine chemistry, including sulfur hexafluoride, discovered with Henri Moissan in 1900, and bromine trifluoride.

Rei Kinjo

Rei Kinjo (金城玲, born 1979) is a Japanese chemist at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, known for his 2011 Science paper on tricoordinate organoboron compounds.

Robert W. Parry

Robert W. Parry (1917–2006) was an American inorganic chemist and pre-eminent boron chemist who taught at Michigan and Utah, led the American Chemical Society in 1982, and won its Priestley Medal in 1993.

Simon Aldridge

Simon Aldridge is a British inorganic chemist, Professor of Main Group Chemistry at Oxford, known for a nucleophilic aluminyl anion and diberyllocene, the first stable beryllium-beryllium bond.

Slavi C. Sevov

Slavi C. Sevov is a chemistry professor at the University of Notre Dame who studies main-group metals, Zintl phases, and deltahedral Zintl ions, and joined Notre Dame in 1995.

Susan M. Kauzlarich

Susan M. Kauzlarich is an American materials chemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UC Davis since 1987, known for work on Zintl phases, thermoelectrics, and silicon nanoparticles.

Takeaki Iwamoto

Takeaki Iwamoto (岩本武明) is a Japanese organosilicon chemist, professor at Tohoku University since 2009, known for stable silicon–silicon double-bond compounds and, in 2026, the first all-silicon cyclopentadienides.

Thomas Edward Thorpe

Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845–1925) was a British chemist known for discovering phosphorus compounds, determining atomic weights of silicon and gold, and directing the Government Laboratory from 1894 to 1909.

Thomas F. Fässler

Thomas F. Fässler (born 1959) is a German inorganic chemist who has held the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich since 2003.