Research Areas
- Computational Chemistry
- Theoretical Organic Chemistry
- Organic Reaction Mechanisms
- Non Covalent Interactions
- Cooperativity in Chemistry
Latest Publications
- . . ‘Divergent access to fused N -heterocycle-thiazolines by solvent-dependent reaction of isoquinolinium thiolates with silylketene acetals.’ Chemical Communications (London) 59: 6032–6035. doi: 10.1039/D3CC00781B.
- . . ‘Photocatalytic phosphine-mediated water activation for radical hydrogenation.’ Nature 619: 506–513. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06141-1.
- 10.1038/s41586-023-06407-8. . ‘Light-enabled deracemization of cyclopropanes by Al-salen photocatalysis.’ Nature 621: 753–759. doi:
- 10.1038/s41570-023-00525-7. . ‘Molecular pyramids — from tetrahedranes to [6]pyramidanes.’ Nature Reviews Chemistry 7, No. 10: 732–746. doi:
- 10.1038/s41557-023-01344-5. . ‘Regioselective, catalytic 1,1-difluorination of enynes.’ Nature Chemistry 15: 1515–1522. doi:
- . . ‘Synthesis and Reactivity of a Neutral Homocyclic Silylene.’ Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 61, No. 5: e202114485. doi: 10.1002/anie.202114485.
- . . ‘Photoswitchable Nitrogen Superbases: Using Light for Reversible Carbon Dioxide Capture.’ Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 61, No. 3: e202112344. doi: 10.1002/anie.202112344.
- 10.1021/jacs.2c01727. . ‘Borole/Borapyramidane Relationship.’ Journal of the American Chemical Society 144: 7815–7821. doi:
- . . ‘Synthesis and physical chemical properties of CF3O-containg secondary amines—Perspective building blocks for drug discovery.’ Journal of Fluorine Chemistry 257-258: 109990. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluchem.2022.109990.
- . . ‘Formation of a Hybrid 1‐Bora‐3‐boratabenzene Heteroarene Anion Derivative.’ Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 61, No. 31: e202205565. doi: 10.1002/anie.202205565.
- . . ‘Direct Formation and Reactivity of a Bromo- and Amido-Substituted Cyclotrisilene.’ Organometallics 41: 2146–2153. doi: 10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00245.
- . . ‘Azodioxy compounds as precursors for C-radicals and their application in thermal styrene difunctionalization.’ Chemical science 13: 9749–9754. doi: 10.1039/D2SC03860A.
- . . ‘Asymmetric Addition of Allylsilanes to Aldehydes: A Cr/Photoredox Dual Catalytic Approach Complementing the Hosomi–Sakurai Reaction.’ ACS Catalysis 12: 12281–12290. doi: 10.1021/acscatal.2c03960.
- . . ‘Solvent-free photochemical decomposition of sulfur hexafluoride by phosphines: formation of difluorophosphoranes as versatile fluorination reagents.’ Green Chemistry 24: 8054–8061. doi: 10.1039/D2GC02172B.
- . . ‘Benzotriazolium Salts: Emergent Readily Accessible Bench-Stable Lewis Acid Catalysts.’ Organic letters 24: 6105–6110. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c01697.
- . . ‘Oxy‐Borylenes as Photoreductants: Synthesis and Application in Dehalogenation and Detosylation Reactions.’ Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 61, No. 42: e202209391. doi: 10.1002/anie.202209391.
- . . ‘Desymmetrization of Prochiral Cyclobutanones via Nitrogen Insertion: A Concise Route to Chiral γ‐Lactams.’ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60: 9719–9723. doi: 10.1002/anie.202100642.
- . . ‘High Aluminum Ordering in SSZ-59: Residual 1H-27Al Dipolar Coupling Effects in 1H MAS NMR Spectra of Brønsted Acid Sites in Zeolites.’ J. Phys. Chem. C 125: 4869–4877. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c11379.
- . . ‘Insights into Ergochromes of the Plant Pathogen Claviceps purpurea.’ J. Nat. Prod. 84: 2630–2643. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.1c00264.
- . . ‘Preparation and Characterization of Pentafluoro-λ6-sulfanyldifluoromethane and Pentafluoro-λ6-sulfanyl-1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane.’ Helvetica Chimica Acta 104, No. 10: e2100138. doi: 10.1002/hlca.202100138.
- . . ‘The Bis(η 6 ‐benzene)lithium Cation: A Fundamental Main‐Group Organometallic Species.’ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60: 22879–22884. doi: 10.1002/anie.202108376.
- . . ‘Enantiodivergent Prenylation via Deconjugative Isomerization.’ ACS Catal. 11: 11929–11937. doi: 10.1021/acscatal.1c03089.
- . . ‘Mechanism of the Arene‐Limited Nondirected C−H Activation of Arenes with Palladium**.’ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60: 15641–15649. doi: 10.1002/anie.202105092.
- . . ‘Trifluorinated Tetralins via I(I)/I(III)‐Catalysed Ring Expansion: Programming Conformation by [CH 2 CH 2 ] → [CF 2 CHF] Isosterism.’ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60: 13647–13651. doi: 10.1002/anie.202102222.
- . . ‘Radical Aryl Migration from Boron to Carbon.’ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143: 9320–9326. doi: 10.1021/jacs.1c04217.
- . . ‘Synthesis of Stannylated Aryl Imines and Amines via Aryne Insertion Reactions into Sn−N Bonds.’ Chem. Eur. J. 27: 9281–9285. doi: 10.1002/chem.202101124.
- . . ‘Approaching Electrochemical Limits of MgxClyz+ Complex-Based Electrolytes for Mg Batteries by Tailoring the Solution Structure.’ Journal of The Electrochemical Society 167, No. 16: 160505. doi: 10.1149/1945-7111/abc7e4.
- . . ‘Design of Ru(II)-NHC-Diamine Precatalysts Directed by Ligand Cooperation: Applications and Mechanistic Investigations for Asymmetric Hydrogenation.’ Journal of the American Chemical Society 142, No. 15: 7100–7107. doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c00985.
- . . ‘Reaction of Vinyl Aziridines with Arynes: Synthesis of Benzazepines and Branched Allyl Fluorides.’ Chemistry – A European Journal 26, No. 7: 1501–1505. doi: 10.1002/chem.201904727.
- . . ‘Hydrogen Bond Formation of Brønsted Acid Sites in Zeolites.’ Chemistry of Materials 32: 1564–1574. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b04714.
- . . ‘Mild C−F Activation in Perfluorinated Arenes through Photosensitized Insertion of Isonitriles at 350 nm.’ Adv. Synth. Catal. 362: 376–383. doi: 10.1002/adsc.201901126.
- . . ‘A Stable Silanol Triad in the Zeolite Catalyst SSZ‐70.’ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59: 10939–10943. doi: 10.1002/anie.202001364.
- . . ‘Using the Secondary PH/BH Functional Groups of an Active Geminal Frustrated Lewis Pair for Carbon Monoxide Reduction and Reactions with Nitriles and Isonitriles.’ Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 59, No. 30: 12477–12483. doi: 10.1002/anie.202000612.
- . . ‘A rare olefin 1,1-carboboration reaction opens a synthetic pathway to an unusually structured frustrated Lewis pair.’ Chemical communications 56: 8806–8809. doi: 10.1039/D0CC01255F.
- . . ‘Cyclobutene Formation by Borane Catalyzed [2+2] Cycloaddition of a Vinylphosphane with Conjugated Ynones.’ European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2020, No. 23: 2270–2272. doi: 10.1002/ejic.202000293.
- . . ‘1,n-Bisborylalkanes via Radical Boron Migration.’ Journal of the American Chemical Society 142, No. 20: 9119–9123. doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c03058.
- . . ‘A highly unsaturated six-vertex amido-substituted silicon cluster.’ Chemical science 11: 5895–5901. doi: 10.1039/D0SC01427C.
- . . ‘A BH Borenium-Derived Thioxoborane, Its Persulfide, and Their Li + -Induced Reactions with Alkynes and with Carbon Dioxide.’ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142: 19763–19771. doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c10078.
- . . ‘Contra-thermodynamic E → Z isomerization of cinnamamides via selective energy transfer catalysis.’ Tetrahedron 76: 131198–. doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2020.131198.
- . . ‘Approaching Electrochemical Limits of Mg x Cl y z + Complex-Based Electrolytes for Mg Batteries by Tailoring the Solution Structure.’ J. Electrochem. Soc. 167: 160505. doi: 10.1149/1945-7111/abc7e4.
- . . ‘The [(NHC)B(H)C6F5]+ Cations and Their [B](H)−CO Borane Carbonyls.’ Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 59, No. 48: 21460–21464. doi: 10.1002/anie.202009353.
- . . ‘Reductive Cleavage of the CO Molecule by a Reactive Vicinal Frustrated PH/BH Lewis Pair.’ Journal of the American Chemical Society 142, No. 41: 17260–17264. doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c07161.
- . . ‘Conformational Analysis of Acyclic α‐Fluoro Sulfur Motifs.’ Chemistry - A European Journal 26: 13704–13715. doi: 10.1002/chem.202003361.
- . . ‘Geometric E → Z Isomerisation of Alkenyl Silanes by Selective Energy Transfer Catalysis: Stereodivergent Synthesis of Triarylethylenes via a Formal anti -Metallometallation.’ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58: 18619–18626. doi: 10.1002/anie.201910169.
- . . ‘Hydrogen Atom Transfer Induced Boron Retaining Coupling of Organoboronic Esters and Organolithium Reagents.’ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 141: 14126–14130. doi: 10.1021/jacs.9b07960.
- . . ‘Carbon–carbon bond forming reactions of acetylenic esters and ketones within frustrated phosphane/borane Lewis pair frameworks.’ Dalton Trans. 48: 11921–11926. doi: 10.1039/C9DT02624J.
- . . ‘Formation of an NHC-stabilized heterocyclic housane and its isomerization into a cyclopentenyl anion analogue.’ Chemical communications 55: 12896–12899. doi: 10.1039/C9CC07109A.
- . . ‘Multi-Component Synthesis of Rare 1,3-Dihydro-1,3-azaborinine Derivatives: Application of a Bora-Nazarov Type Reaction.’ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58: 15377–15380. doi: 10.1002/anie.201909530.
- . . ‘Inverting Small Molecule-Protein Recognition by the Fluorine Gauche Effect: Selectivity Regulated by Multiple H→F Bioisosterism.’ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58: 10990–10994. doi: 10.1002/anie.201905452.
- . . ‘Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative γ-Arylation for the Synthesis of Tetrasubstituted Chiral Allenes.’ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58: 6545–6548. doi: 10.1002/anie.201901848.
- . . ‘Synthesis, structural characterisation, and synthetic application of stable seleniranium ions.’ Org. Biomol. Chem. 17: 3181–3185. doi: 10.1039/C9OB00078J.
- . . ‘Facile Access to an NHC-Coordinated Silicon Ring Compound with a Si=N Group and a Two-Coordinate Silicon Atom.’ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58: 4395–4399. doi: 10.1002/anie.201813674.
- 10.1039/C8GC02952K. . ‘Reversible CO 2 fixation by N-heterocyclic imines forming water-stable zwitterionic nitrogen-base–CO 2 adducts.’ Green Chem. 21: 640–648. doi:
- . . ‘Bioinspired Radical Stetter Reaction: Radical Umpolung Enabled by Ion-Pair Photocatalysis.’ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58: 1208–1212. doi: 10.1002/anie.201809601.
- . . ‘Transition Metal-Free 1,2-Carboboration of Unactivated Alkenes.’ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140: 6221–6225. doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b03333.
- . . ‘Remote C−H functionalization using radical translocating arylating groups.’ Nat Commun 9: 2808. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05193-6.
- . . ‘Crystalline, room-temperature stable phosphine–SO 2 adducts: generation of sulfur monoxide from sulfur dioxide.’ Dalton Trans. 47: 10420–10424. doi: 10.1039/C8DT01484A.
- . . ‘Nucleophilic Activation of Sulfur Hexafluoride: Metal-Free, Selective Degradation by Phosphines.’ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57: 4951–4955. doi: 10.1002/anie.201713206.
- . . ‘Formation of Reactive π-Conjugated Frustrated N/B Pairs by Borane-Induced Propargyl Amine Rearrangement.’ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140: 3635–3643. doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b11958.
- . . ‘Hierarchical Self-Assembly of BODIPY Dyes as a Tool to Improve the Antitumor Activity of Capsaicin in Prostate Cancer.’ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57: 17235–17239. doi: 10.1002/anie.201804783.