Publications

Oxidative amination of unactivated alkenes via nitrogen atom insertion into carbon-carbon double bonds

Yannick Brägger§, Ann-Sophie Paschke§, Nima Nasiri, Bence Botlik, Francesco Felician and Bill Morandi*
Science 2025 external page DOI external page Preprint external page Chemistry World


Ligand Design Enables the Palladium-Catalyzed Intermolecular Carbochlorocarbonylation of Alkynes and Cyclopentenone Formation

Elliott Denton, Hendrik Schmitt, Olivera Stepanovic, Patrick Müller, Alexander Müller, Daniel Svoboda, Bill Morandi*
ChemRxiv 2025 external page Preprint

2024

Shuttle HAT for mild alkene transfer hydrofunctionalization

Tanner C. Jankins, Philip M. Blank, Andrea Brugnetti, Philip Boehm, Francoise Aouane, Bill Morandi*
Nat. Commun. 2024, 15, 9397 external page DOI external page Preprint


Coupling of unactivated alkyl electrophiles using frustrated ion pairs

Sven Roediger, Emilien Le Saux, Philip Boehm, Bill Morandi*
Nature 2024 external page DOI external page Preprint


The Divergent Reactivity of Acid Chlorides Under Transition Metal Catalysis

Elliott H. Denton, Olivera Stepanović, Bill Morandi*
Chemistry–A European Journal 2024, e202401852 external page DOI


Olefination of Activated Alkyl Halides with Phosphonium Salts

Sven Roediger‡, Adriana Neves Vieira‡, Cosima L. Brudy, Mischa Trabesinger, Jan Hübscher, Bill Morandi∗
Synthesis 2024 (invited article) external page DOI


Carbon-to-nitrogen atom swap enables direct access to benzimidazoles from drug-like indoles

Ann-Sophie Paschke, Yannick Brägger, Bence Botlik, Erich Staudinger, Ori Green and Bill Morandi*
ChemRxiv 2024 external page Preprint


Streamlining the Synthesis of Pyridones through Oxidative Amination of Cyclopentenones

Bence B. Botlik, Micha Weber, Florian Ruepp, Kazuki Kawanaka, Patrick Finkelstein and Bill Morandi*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202408230 external page DOI external page Preprint


Versatile dehydrogenation of carbonyls enabled by an iodine(III) reagent

Bence B. Botlik, Patrick Finkelstein, Ann-Sophie K. Paschke, Julia C. Reisenbauer, and Bill Morandi*
Chem. Commun. 2024, 60, 9254–9257 external page DOI


Regiodivergent Ring-Expansion of Oxindoles to Quinolinones

Hendrik L. Schmitt, Den Martymianov, Ori Green, Tristan Delcaillau, Young Seo Park Kim, and Bill Morandi*
JACS 2024, 146, 7, 4301–4308 external page DOI


Escaping from directing groups: Enantioselective C–C bond construction from unactivated olefins

Hongyu Zhong, Bill Morandi*
Sci. Bull. 2024, 69, 3, 290-292 external page DOI

2023

Nickel-Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrothiocarbonylation of Cyclopropenes

Song-Zhou Cai, Rongrong Yu, Can Li, Hongyu Zhong, Xichang Dong, Bill Morandi, Juntao Ye, and Xianjie Fang*
Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 48, 8683–8687 external page DOI


Reactivity and Selectivity of Azaspirocycles in Radical C–H Functionalization

Chad N. Ungarean, Egor M. Larin, Dominic T. Egger, Philipp Ziegler, Quentin Lefebvre, Thomas C. Fessard*, and Bill Morandi*
Org. Lett. 2024, 26, 14, 2784–2789 external page DOI


Mechanistic Investigation of the Rhodium-Catalyzed Transfer Hydroarylation Reaction Involving Reversible C–C Bond Activation

Marius D. R. Lutz, Sven Roediger, Miguel A. Rivero-Crespo, and Bill Morandi*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 49, 26657–26666 external page DOI


Direct Access to Quinazolines and Pyrimidines from Unprotected Indoles and Pyrroles through Nitrogen Atom Insertion

Julia C. Reisenbauer, Ann-Sophie K. Paschke, Jelena Krizic, Bence B. Botlik, Patrick Finkelstein, and Bill Morandi*
Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 47, 8419–8423 external page DOI


Nickel(I)–Phenolate Complexes: The Key to Well-Defined Ni(I) Species

Patrick Müller, Patrick Finkelstein, Nils Trapp, Alessandro Bismuto*, Gunnar Jeschke*, and Bill Morandi*
Inorg. Chem. 202362, 41, 16661–16668 external page DOI


Modular Access to Bifunctional Norbornenes and Their Application in Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization

Elliott H. Denton, Minyoung Cho, Bill Morandi, and Tae-Lim Choi*
Macromolecules 2023, 56, 18, 7490–7495 external page DOI


Skeletal metalation of lactams through a carbonyl-to-nickel-exchange logic

Hongyu Zhong, Dominic T. Egger, Valentina C. M. Gasser§, Patrick Finkelstein§, Loris Keim, Merlin Z. Seidel, Nils Trapp and Bill Morandi*
Nat. Commun. 2023, 14:5273 external page DOI external page Preprint external page Research Highlight


Late-Stage Molecular Editing Enabled by Ketone Chain-Walking Isomerization

Yannick Brägger, Ori Green, Benjamin N. Bhawal*, and Bill Morandi*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023145, 36, 19496–19502 external page DOI


EveRplot: A Web-Based Shiny Application for Creating Energy vs Reaction Coordinate Diagrams

Michael K. Bogdos and Bill Morandi
J. Chem. Educ. 2023100, 9, 3641–3644 external page DOI Link to application external page GitHub external page Zenodo


Mechanistic Investigation of the Nickel-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrocyanation of Alkynes

Julia C. Reisenbauer, Patrick Finkelstein, Marc-Olivier Ebert, and Bill Morandi
ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 11548–11555 external page DOI external page Synfacts


Direct Synthesis of Unprotected Indolines Through Intramolecular sp3 C–H Amination Using Nitroarenes as Aryl Nitrene Precursors

Giedre Sirvinskaite, Celine S. Nardo, Patrick Müller, Aurelio C. Gasser, Bill Morandi
Chem. Eur. J. 2023, e202301978 external page DOI


Ni-catalyzed mild hydrogenolysis and oxidations of C–O bonds via carbonate redox tags

Georgios Toupalas, Loélie Ribadeau-Dumas, Bill Morandi*
Nat. Commun. 2023, 14, 2604 external page DOI external page Preprint


Synthesis and Reversible H2 Activation by Coordinatively Unsaturated Rhodium NHC Complexes

Marius D. R. Lutz, Hongyu Zhong, Nils Trapp, Bill Morandi*
Helv. Chim. Acta 2023,106, e202200199 external page DOI  


Azide-Free Synthesis of N-Alkyliminophosphoranes from Phosphines and Hydroxylamine Derivatives

Eric Falk, Allegra Franchino, Teresa Horak, Laura Gürtler, and Bill Morandi*
Org. Lett. 2023 25, 1695–1700 external page DOI  


Nitrogen atom insertion into indenes to access isoquinolines

Patrick Finkelstein, Julia C. Reisenbauer, Bence B. Botlik, Ori Green, Andri Florin, and Bill Morandi*
Chem. Sci. 2023 14, 2954-2959 external page DOI external page Preprint external page Chemistry World


Deaminative coupling of benzylamines and arylboronic acids

Giedre Sirvinskaite, Julia C. Reisenbauer and Bill Morandi*
Chem. Sci. 2023 14, 1709-1714 external page DOI


Intermolecular Pauson–Khand-Type Reaction of Vinyl Iodides with Alkynes and a CO Surrogate

Philip Boehm, Elliott H. Denton, Joel Wick, and Bill Morandi*
J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 8, 5069–5077 external page DOI


Structural Evidence for Aromatic Heterocycle N–O Bond Activation via Oxidative Addition

Michael K. Bogdos§, Patrick Müller§, Bill Morandi*
Organometallics 2023 42, 3, 211–217 external page DOI external page Cover Picture external page Preprint  

2022

Rhodium-catalyzed Anti-Markovnikov Transfer Hydroiodination of Terminal Alkynes

Philip Boehm, Niklas Kehl, Bill Morandi*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022 e202214071 external page DOI external page Preprint


Controlling Selectivity in Shuttle Hetero-difunctionalization Reactions: Electrochemical Transfer Halo-thiolation of Alkynes

Xichang Dong, Martin Klein, Siegfried R. Waldvogel*, Bill Morandi*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 62, e20221363 external page DOI external page Cover Picture


Mechanistically informed selection rules for competing β-hydride and β-heteroatom eliminations

Michael K. Bogdos, Olivera Stepanović, Alessandro Bismuto, Mauro G. Luraschi, Bill Morandi*
Nat. Synth 2022, 1, 787–793 external page DOI external page Preprint external page Nat. Synth News & Views


Late-stage diversification of indole skeletons through nitrogen atom insertion

Julia C. Reisenbauer§, Ori Green§, Allegra Franchino, Patrick Finkelstein, Bill Morandi*
Science 2022, 377, 1104-1109 external page DOI external page Preprint ETH News external page Chemistry World


The advent of electrophilic hydroxylamine-derived reagents for the direct preparation of unprotected amines

Valentina C. M. Gasser§, Szabolcs Makai§ and Bill Morandi *
Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 9991-10003 external page DOI


Mechanistic Investigation of the Nickel-Catalyzed Metathesis between Aryl Thioethers and Aryl Nitriles

Philip Boehm§, Patrick Müller§, Patrick Finkelstein, Miguel A. Rivero-Crespo, Marc-Olivier Ebert, Nils Trapp, and Bill Morandi*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 13096–13108 external page DOI


Pd-Catalyzed Direct Deoxygenative Arylation of Non-π-Extended Benzyl Alcohols with Boronic Acids via Transient Formation of Non-Innocent Isoureas

Georgios Toupalas, Gianin Thomann, Lukas Schlemper, Miguel A. Rivero-Crespo, Hendrik L. Schmitt, and Bill Morandi*
ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 8147–8154 external page DOI external page Synfacts


Nickel-catalysed diversification of phosphine ligands by formal substitution at phosphorus

Sven Roediger, Sebastian Leutenegger, Bill Morandi
Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 7914–7919 external page DOI external page Synfacts external page Preprint


Palladium-Catalyzed Carbothiolation of Alkenes and Alkynes for the Synthesis of Heterocycles

Tristan Delcaillau§, Hendrik L. Schmitt§, Philip Boehm, Eric Falk, and Bill Morandi*
ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 6081–6091 external page DOI external page Synfacts


Activity-Based Approach for Selective Molecular CO2 Sensing

Ori Green§, Patrick Finkelstein§, Miguel A. Rivero-Crespo, Marius D. R. Lutz, Michael K. Bogdos, Michael Burger, Jean-Christophe Leroux, and Bill Morandi*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 8717–8724 external page DOI


Non-innocent electrophiles unlock exogenous base-free coupling reactions

Georgios Toupalas & Bill Morandi
Nature Catalysis 2022, 5, 324-333 external page DOI external page Behind the Paper external page Preprint


News & Views: Carbon–carbon bond formation in reverse

Hongyu Zhong and Bill Morandi
Nature Synthesis 2022, 1, 264-266 external page DOI


Development of an Operationally Simple, Scalable, and HCN-Free Transfer Hydrocyanation Protocol Using an Air-Stable Nickel Precatalyst

Julia C. Reisenbauer, Benjamin N. Bhawal, Nicola Jelmini, and Bill Morandi*
Org. Process Res. Dev. 2022, 26, 1165-1173 external page DOI


A Combined Spectroscopic and Computational Study on the Mechanism of Iron-Catalyzed Aminofunctionalization of Olefins Using Hydroxylamine Derived N–O Reagent as the “Amino” Source and “Oxidant”

Sayanti Chatterjee*, Ingolf Harden, Giovanni Bistoni, Rebeca G. Castillo, Sonia Chabbra, Maurice van Gastel, Alexander Schnegg, Eckhard Bill, James A. Birrell, Bill Morandi, Frank Neese*, and Serena DeBeer*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 2637-2656 external page DOI

2021

Preparation of Recyclable and Versatile Porous Poly(aryl thioether)s by Reversible Pd-Catalyzed C–S/C–S Metathesis

Miguel A. Rivero-Crespo, Georgios Toupalas, and Bill Morandi*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 21331-21339 external page DOI external page Preprint


The Journey of Ni(I) Chemistry

Alessandro Bismuto, Patrick Finkelstein, Patrick Müller, Bill Morandi
Helv. Chim. Acta 2021, 104, e202100177. external page DOI


Nickel-Catalyzed Cyanation of Aryl Thioethers

Tristan Delcaillau§, Adrian Woenckhaus-Alvarez§, and Bill Morandi*
Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 18, 7018-7022. external page DOI


Catalytic Carbochlorocarbonylation of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons via C–COCl Bond Cleavage

Elliott H. Denton§, Yong Ho Lee§, Sven Roediger, Philip Boehm, Maximillian Fellert and Bill Morandi*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 23435-23443. external page Preprint external page DOI external page Synfacts


One to Find Them All: A General Route to Ni(I)–Phenolate Species

Alessandro Bismuto§, Patrick Müller§, Patrick Finkelstein, Nils Trapp, Gunnar Jeschke*, and Bill Morandi*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021 143, 10642–10648. external page DOI


Palladium-Catalyzed Decarbonylative Iodination of Aryl Carboxylic Acids Enabled by Ligand-Assisted Halide Exchange

Philip Boehm§, Tristano Martini§, Yong Ho Lee, Bastien Cacherat, Bill Morandi*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021 60, 17211–17217. external page DOI


Nickel-Catalyzed Thiolation of Aryl Nitriles

Tristan Delcaillau, Bill Morandi
Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 11823-11826 external page Preprint external page DOI


Shuttle Arylation by Rh(I) Catalyzed Reversible Carbon–Carbon Bond Activation of Unstrained Alcohols

Marius D. R. Lutz, Valentina C. M. Gasser and Bill Morandi
Chem 2021, 7, 1108–1119. external page DOI external page Preprint external page Chem Previews


A Site-selective and Stereospecific Cascade Suzuki-Miyaura Annulation of Alkyl 1,2-Bisboronic Esters and 2,2’-Dihalo 1,1’-Biaryls

Suzanne Willems, Georgios Toupalas, Julia C. Reisenbauer, and Bill Morandi
Chem. Commun. 202157, 3909. external page DOI


Nickel-Catalyzed Reversible Functional Group Metathesis betweenAryl Nitriles and Aryl Thioethers

Tristan Delcaillau, Philip Boehm, and Bill Morandi
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 3723−3728. external page DOI external page Preprint external page Synfacts


Synthesis of N-Alkyl Anilines from Arenes via Iron-Promoted Aromatic C–H Amination

Eric Falk, Valentina C. M. Gasser, and Bill Morandi
Org. Lett. 2021. 23, 1422-1426. external page DOI


Palladium-catalysed carboformylation of alkynes using acid chlorides as a dual carbon monoxide and carbon source

Yong Ho Lee, Elliott Denton and Bill Morandi
Nat. Chem. 2021, 13, 123-130. external page DOI external page Preprint
external page Nat. Chem. News & Views external page Behind the Paper external page Synfact of the Month


Merging shuttle reactions and paired electrolysis for reversible vicinal dihalogenations

Xichang Dong*, Johannes L. Roeckl*, Siegfried R. Waldvogel and Bill Morandi
Science 2021. 371, 507-514. external page DOI external page Preprint
external page Nat. Cat. Research Highlight ETH News


Ru‐catalyzed Dehydrogenation Through an Intermolecular Hydrogen Atom Transfer Mechanism

Lin Huang, Alessandro Bismuto, Simon Rath, Nils Trapp and Bill Morandi
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021. 60, 2-9. external page DOI


Hydroxylamine-derived Reagent as a Dual Oxidant and Amino Group Donor for the Iron Catalyzed Preparation of Unprotected Sulfinamides from Thiols

Sayanti Chatterjee, Szabolcs Makai and Bill Morandi
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021. 60, 758. external page DOI


Metal-Catalyzed Carbon–Carbon Bond Cleavage of Unstrained Alcohols

Marius Lutz and Bill Morandi
Chem. Rev. 2021. 121, 300–326 external page DOI

2020

Direct Synthesis of Unprotected 2-Azidoamines from Alkenes via an Iron-Catalyzed Difunctionalization Reaction

Szabolcs Makai, Eric Falk and Bill Morandi
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020. 142, 21548–21555. external page DOI external page Preprint external page Synfacts


Modular Cyclopentenone Synthesis through the Catalytic Molecular Shuffling of Unsaturated Acid Chlorides and Alkynes

Yong Ho Lee, Elliott H. Denton and Bill Morandi
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020142, 20948–20955. external page DOI


New Catalysis Concepts for Molecular Design and Feedstocks Valorization

Philip Boehm and Bill Morandi
CHIMIA 202074, 724-729. external page DOI


Preparation of O-Pivaloyl hydroxylamine triflic acid

Szabolcs Makai, Eric Falk and Bill Morandi
Org. Synth. 2020, 97, 207-216 external page DOI


Design and scalable synthesis of novel N‐alkyl‐hydroxylamine reagents for the direct, Fe‐catalyzed installation of medicinally relevant amines

Eric Falk, Szabolcs Makai, Tristan Delcaillau, Laura Gürtler and Bill Morandi
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 202059, 21064. external page Preprint external page DOI


Palladium‐catalyzed Chlorocarbonylation of Aryl (pseudo)Halides through in situ Generation of Carbon Monoxide

Philip Boehm,  Sven Roediger, Alessandro Bismuto and Bill Morandi
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 17887. external page DOI external page Synfacts


Nickel-catalyzed Amination of Aryl Thioethers: A Combined Synthetic and Mechanistic Study

Alessandro Bismuto*, Tristan Delcaillau*, Patrick Müller and Bill Morandi
ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 4630-4639. external page DOI


Overcoming Selectivity Issues in Reversible Catalysis – A Transfer Hydrocyanation Exhibiting High Kinetic Control

Benjamin N. Bhawal, Julia C. Reisenbauer, Christian Ehinger and Bill Morandi
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 10914. external page DOI external page Preprint


A Reversible, Transfer Hydrocyanation Manifold

Benjamin N. Bhawal and Bill Morandi
Trends in Chemistry, 2020, 2, 1034-1035 (Mechanism of the Month). external page DOI


Iridium‐Catalyzed Hydrochlorination and Hydrobromination of Alkynes via Shuttle Catalysis

Peng Yu, Alessandro Bismuto and Bill Morandi
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 2904. external page DOI


Nickel-Catalyzed Inter- and Intramolecular Carbon-Sulfur Bond Metathesis by Reversible Arylation

Tristan Delcaillau, Alessandro Bismuto, Zhong Lian and Bill Morandi
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 2110. external page DOI external page Preprint

2019

Nickel-Catalyzed Cascade Annulation for the Rapid Synthesis of Carbocyclic Nitriles

Xianjie Fang, Peng Yu, Suzanne Willems and Bill Morandi
HCA 2019102external page DOI


Palladium‐Catalyzed Intermolecular Aryliodination of Internal Alkynes

Yong Ho Lee and Bill Morandi
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 201958, 6444. external page DOI


Transition metal-mediated metathesis between P–C and M–C bonds: Beyond a side reaction

Yong Ho Lee and Bill Morandi
Coord. Chem. Rev. 2019, 386, 96-118. external page DOI

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Catalytic isofunctional reactions – expanding the repertoire of shuttle and metathesis reactions

Benjamin N Bhawal and Bill Morandi
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 10074. external page DOI

2018

Efficient access to unprotected primary amines by iron-catalyzed aminochlorination of alkenes

Luca Legnani*, Gabriele Prina-Cerai*, Tristan Delcaillau, Suzanne Willems and Bill Morandi
Science 2018, 362, 434-439. external page DOI


Metathesis-active ligands enable a catalytic functional group metathesis between aroyl chlorides and aryl iodides

Yong Ho Lee and Bill Morandi
Nat. Chem. 2018, 10, 1016–1022. external page DOI


Iron-Catalyzed Ring-Closing C–O/C–O Metathesis of Aliphatic Ethers

Tobias Biberger, Szabolcs Makai, Zhong Lian and Bill Morandi
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 6940–6944. external page DOI


Isodesmic Reactions in Catalysis – Only the Beginning?

Benjamin N. Bhawal and Bill Morandi
Isr. J. Chem. 2018, 58, 94–103 (invited Essay article) external page DOI


Computational Study of B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Selective Deoxygenation of 1,2-Diols: Cyclic and Noncyclic Pathways

Gui-Juan Cheng, Nikolaos Drosos, Bill Morandi and Walter Thiel
ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 1697–1702. external page DOI


C–H carbonylation: In situ acyl triflates ace it

Yong Ho Lee and Bill Morandi
Nat. Chem. 2018, 10, 116–117 (News & Views article). external page DOI

2017

Nickel-Catalyzed Cyanation of Aryl Chlorides and Triflates Using Butyronitrile: Merging Retro-Hydrocyanation with Cross-coupling

Peng Yu and Bill Morandi
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 15693–15697. external page DOI


Continuous Flow Synthesis of Morpholines and Oxazepanes with Silicon Amine Protocol (SLAP) Reagents and Lewis Acid Facilitated Photoredox Catalysis

Moritz K. Jackl, Luca Legnani, Bill Morandi and Jeffrey W. Bode
Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 4696-4699. external page DOI


Catalytic Reductive Pinacol-Type Rearrangement of Unactivated 1,2-diols through a Concerted, Stereoinvertive Mechanism

Nikolaos Drosos, Gui-Juan Cheng, Erhan Ozkal, Bastien Cacherat, Walter Thiel and Bill Morandi
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 13377-13381. external page DOI


Ether synthesis through reductive cross-coupling of ketones with alcohols using Me2SiHCl as both reductant and Lewis acid

Yong Ho Lee and Bill Morandi
Synlett 2017, 28, 2425-2428 (invited Cluster article). external page DOI


CO- and HCl-free synthesis of acid chlorides from unsaturated hydrocarbons via shuttle catalysis

Xianjie Fang, Bastien Cacherat and Bill Morandi
Nat. Chem. 2017, 9, 1105-1109. external page DOI


Palladium-catalyzed carbon-sulfur or carbon-phosphorus bond metathesis by reversible arylation

Zhong Lian, Benjamin N. Bhawal, Peng Yu and Bill Morandi
Science 2017, 356, 1059-1063. external page DOI


Shuttle Catalysis - New Strategies in Organic Synthesis

Benjamin N. Bhawal and Bill Morandi
Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 12004–12013 (invited Concept article). external page DOI


Recent Developments in the Direct Synthesis of Unprotected Primary­ Amines

Luca Legnani, Benjamin N. Bhawal and Bill Morandi
Synthesis 2017, 49, 776-789 (invited Short review). external page DOI

2016

Direct and Practical Synthesis of Primary Anilines through Iron-Catalyzed C–H Bond Amination

Luca Legnani, Gabriele Prina Cerai and Bill Morandi
ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 8162-8165. external page DOI


Catalytic Transfer Functionalization through Shuttle Catalysis

Benjamin N. Bhawal and Bill Morandi
ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 7528-7535 (invited Perspective article). external page DOI


Unlocking Mizoroki-Heck Type Reactions of Aryl Cyanides Using Transfer Hydrocyanation as a Turnover-Enabling Step

Xianjie Fang+, Peng Yu+, Gabriele Prina Cerai and Bill Morandi
Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 15629-15633. external page DOI


Chemo- and Regioselective Functionalization of Polyols through Catalytic C(sp3)−C(sp3) Kumada-Type Coupling of Cyclic Sulfate Esters

Rodrigo Ramírez-Contreras and Bill Morandi
Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 3718-3721. external page DOI


Atom-economical cobalt-catalysed regioselective coupling of epoxides and aziridines with alkenes

Gabriele Prina Cerai and Bill Morandi
Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 9769-9772. external page DOI


Catalytic Selective Deoxygenation of Polyols Using the B(C6F5)3/Silane System

Nikolaos Drosos, Erhan Ozkal and Bill Morandi
Synlett 2016, 27, 1760-1764 (invited Synfacts article). external page DOI


Catalytic Reversible Alkene-Nitrile Interconversion Through Controllable Transfer Hydrocyanation

Xianjie Fang, Peng Yu and Bill Morandi
Science 2016, 351, 832-836. external page DOI


Direct Catalytic Synthesis of Unprotected 2-Amino-1-Phenylethanols from Alkenes by Using Iron(II) Phthalocyanine

Luca Legnani and Bill Morandi
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 2248-2251. external page DOI

2015

Cobalt(III)-Catalyzed Functionalization of Unstrained Carbon–Carbon Bonds through β-Carbon Cleavage of Alcohols

Erhan Ozkal, Bastien Cacherat and Bill Morandi
ACS Catal., 2015, 5, 6458–6462. ACS Editors' Choice. external page DOI


Boron-Catalyzed Regioselective Deoxygenation of Terminal 1,2-Diols to 2-Alkanols Enabled by the Strategic Formation of a Cyclic Siloxane Intermediate.

Nikolaos Drosos and Bill Morandi
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 8814-8818. external page DOI


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