The Olofsson Research Group

 

Reviews and Books

Most cited - Papers - Reviews & books - Conferences  - Coworker publications  

Cyclopropenium functionalisation
Sayad Doobary* and Berit Olofsson*
Nature Chemistry 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41557-024-01541-w. Link (open access link)
A News & Views text on Waser's cool paper about cyclopropenium benziodoxoles.

Regioselective Arylations via Aryne Intermediates (Mechanism of the month)
Shobhan Mondal, and Berit Olofsson*
Trends in Chemistry 2023, 5, 404-405. Link (open access) PDF

Patai's Chemistry of Functional Groups: The Chemistry of Hypervalent Halogen Compounds

Ed: Berit Olofsson, Ilan Marek, Zvi Rappoport, 2019. Link

The chapters are separately available online.

Piret Villo and Berit Olofsson*
Arylations promoted by hypervalent iodine reagents

In Patai's Chemistry of Functional Groups: The Chemistry of Hypervalent Halogen Compounds
Ed: Berit Olofsson, Ilan Marek, Zvi Rappoport, 2018
DOI: 10.1002/9780470682531.pat0950. Link

Berit Olofsson*
Arylation with Diaryliodonium Salts
In Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry (Ed.: T. Wirth); Topics in Current Chemistry, Springer International Publishing, 2016, 373, 135-166. Link to the chapter; Link to the book.

Vittorio Pace,* Wolfgang Holzer and Berit Olofsson*
Increasing the Reactivity of Amide Bonds towards Organometallic Reagents: An Overview

Adv. Synth. Catal. 2014, 356, 3697-3736. Link
Cover page: Adv. Synth. Catal. 2014, 356, 3686. Link

 

Marinus J. Bouma and Berit Olofsson*
α-Oxygenation of Carbonyl Compounds

In Comprehensive Organic Synthesis 2nd Ed., Vol. 7, Eds. G. A. Molander and P. Knochel, Oxford: Elsevier; 2014, 213-241. Link 

 

Frithjof C. Kuepper,* Martin C. Feiters, Berit Olofsson, Tatsuo Kaiho, Shozo Yanagida, Michael B. Zimmermann, Lucy J. Carpenter, George W. Luther III, Zunli Lu, Mats Jonsson and Lars Kloo
Purple fumes: the importance of iodine

Science in School, 2013, Issue 27. PDF (open access)  

Frithjof C. Kuepper,* Martin C. Feiters, Berit Olofsson, Tatsuo Kaiho, Shozo Yanagida, Michael B. Zimmermann, Lucy J. Carpenter, George W. Luther III, Zunli Lu, Mats Jonsson and Lars Kloo*
Commemorating two centuries of iodine research: An interdisciplinary overview of current research

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 11598-11620. Link 


Luiz F. Silva, Jr.* and Berit Olofsson
Hypervalent Iodine Reagents in the Total Synthesis of Natural Products
Nat. Prod. Rep. 2011, 28, 1722-1754. Link  

 

Eleanor A. Merritt and Berit Olofsson*
α-Functionalization of Carbonyl Compounds using Hypervalent Iodine Reagents
Synthesis 2011, 517-538. Link  

Eleanor A. Merritt and Berit Olofsson*
Diaryliodonium salts - a Journey from Obscurity to Fame

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 9052-9070. Link  
Angew. Chem. 2009, 121, 9214-9234. Link  

 

Berit Olofsson and Peter Somfai*
Vinylepoxides in Organic Synthesis
In Aziridines and Epoxides in Organic Synthesis; Ed. A. Yudin; Wiley-VCH: Weinheim, 2006.
Link
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Berit Olofsson
A Regio- and Stereodivergent Route to all Isomers of vic-Amino Alcohols

Doctoral Thesis, 2002. SwePub

 

Berit Olofsson
A Regio- and Stereodivergent Synthesis of vic-Amino Alcohols

Licentiate Thesis, 2000. SwePub

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