The Olofsson Research Group

 

Publications

Papers  -  Books, reviews etc.  -  Conferences   

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15. Marcin Bielawski, David Aili and Berit Olofsson
"Regiospecific One-Pot Synthesis of Diaryliodonium Tetrafluoroborates from Arylboronic Acids and Aryl Iodides"
J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 4602-4607. PDF
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14. Mingzhao Zhu, Nazli Jalalian and Berit Olofsson
"One-Pot Synthesis of Diaryliodonium Salts using Toluenesulphonic Acid: A Fast Entry to Electron-Rich Diaryliodonium Tosylates and Triflates"
Synlett, 2008, 592-596. PDF
13. Marcin Bielawski, Mingzhao Zhu and Berit Olofsson
"Efficient and General One-Pot Synthesis of Diaryliodonium Triflates: Optimization, Scope and Limitations"
Adv. Synth. Catal. 2007, 349, 2610-2618. PDF
12. Marcin Bielawski and Berit Olofsson
"High-Yielding One-Pot Synthesis of Diaryliodonium Triflates from Arenes and Iodine or Aryl Iodides"
Chem. Commun. 2007, 2521-2523. PDF
11.
Berit Olofsson, Krisztián Bogár, Ann-Britt L. Fransson and Jan-E. Bäckvall
"Divergent Asymmetric Synthesis of 3,5-Disubstituted Piperidines"
J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 8256-8260. PDF
10.
Berit Olofsson and Varinder K. Aggarwal
"Synthesis of Novel Heteroaryl Iodonium Salts and Enantioselective α-Arylation of Cyclohexanones"
Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Hypervalent Iodine, 2006, 47-50. PDF
9.
Josefin E. Utas, Berit Olofsson and Björn Åkermark
"Efficient Synthesis of 2-Substituted Imidazoles by Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling with Benzylzinc Reagents"
Synlett 2006, 1965-1967. PDF
8. Varinder K. Aggarwal and Berit Olofsson
"Enantioselective α-Arylation of Cyclohexanones with Diaryl Iodonium Salts: Application to the Synthesis of (–)-Epibatidine"
Angew. Chem. 2005, 117, 5652-5655; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 5516-5519. PDF
7. Berit Olofsson and Peter Somfai
"Divergent Synthesis of D-erythro-Sphingosine, L-threo-Sphingosine and their Regioisomers"
J. Org. Chem. 2003, 68, 2514-2517. PDF
6. Berit Olofsson and Peter Somfai
"Determination of the Relative Configuration of vic-Amino Alcohols"
Tetrahedron Lett. 2003, 44, 1279-1281. PDF
5. Berit Olofsson and Peter Somfai
"A Regio- and Stereodivergent Route to all Isomers of vic-Amino Alcohols"
J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 8574-8583. PDF
4.
Berit Olofsson, Roel Wijtmans and Peter Somfai
"Synthesis of N-H Vinylaziridines: A Comparative Study"
Tetrahedron 2002, 58, 5979-5982. PDF
3. Berit Olofsson and Peter Somfai
"A Regio- and Stereodivergent Route to all Isomers of vic-Amino Alcohols"
Latvias J. Chem
. 2002, 1, 69-78. PDF
2. Berit Olofsson, Uttam Khamrai and Peter Somfai
"A Regio- and Stereodivergent Synthesis of vic-Amino Alcohols"
Org. Lett. 2000, 2, 4087-4089. PDF
1. Ulf M. Lindström, Berit Olofsson and Peter Somfai
"Microwave-Assisted Aminolysis of Vinylepoxides"
Tetrahedron Lett. 1999, 40, 9273-9276. PDF

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Books, reviews etc

3.
Berit Olofsson and Peter Somfai
"Vinylepoxides in Organic Synthesis"
In Aziridines and Epoxides in Organic Synthesis; Ed. A. Yudin; Wiley-VCH: Weinheim, 2006. Info   Review
2.
Berit Olofsson
"A Regio- and Stereodivergent Route to all Isomers of vic-Amino Alcohols"
Doctoral Thesis, 2002. PDF
1.
Berit Olofsson
"A Regio- and Stereodivergent Synthesis of vic-Amino Alcohols"
Licentiate Thesis, 2000. Info

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Conferences

14. Berit Olofsson
"Efficient and General One-Pot Synthesis of Diaryliodonium Triflates: Scope and Limitations"
The 10th Symposium on the Society of Iodine Science, Chiba University, Japan 2007
invited lecture
13. Berit Olofsson
"High-Yielding One-Pot Synthesis of Diaryliodonium Triflates from Arenes and Iodine or Aryl Iodides"
12th Brazilian Meeting on Organic Synthesis, Ipanema, Brazil 2007
lecture
12. Krisztián Bogár , Berit Olofsson, Ann-Britt L. Fransson and Jan-E. Bäckvall "Asymmetric synthesis of 3,5-disubstituted piperidines by enzyme-metal combo catalysis"
Enzymatic Synthesis, Stockholm, Sweden 2006
poster
11.

Berit Olofsson and Varinder K. Aggarwal
"Enantioselective α-Arylation of Ketones: Application to the Synthesis of (–)-Epibatidine"
Organikerdagarna, Kalmar, Sweden 2006

oral presentation & poster
10.

Berit Olofsson and Varinder K. Aggarwal
"Synthesis of Novel Heteroaryl Iodonium Salts and Enantioselective α-Arylation of Cyclohexanones"
2nd International Conference on Hypervalent Iodine, Thessaloniki, Greece 2006

oral presentation
9.
Berit Olofsson and Varinder K. Aggarwal
"Enantioselective α-Arylation of Ketones: Application to the Synthesis of (–)-Epibatidine"
Sterochemistry, Bürgenstock, Switzerland 2006
poster
8.
Green Chemistry, Lund, Sweden 2004 participant
7.
Bristol Synthesis Meeting, UK 2004 participant
6.
Bristol Synthesis Meeting, UK 2003 participant
5.

Berit Olofsson and Peter Somfai
"A Regio- and Stereodivergent Synthesis of vic-Amino Alcohols"
Organikerdagarna, Sundsvall, Sweden 2002

oral presentation
4.

Berit Olofsson and Peter Somfai
"A Regio- and Stereodivergent Synthesis of vic-Amino Alcohols"
2nd European Catalysis Symposium, Pisa, Italy 2001

oral presentation
3.

Berit Olofsson and Peter Somfai
"A Regio- and Stereodivergent Synthesis of vic-Amino Alcohols"
1st International Conference on Organic Chemistry, Cape Town, South Africa 2001

poster
2.

Berit Olofsson, Uttam Khamrai and Peter Somfai
"Regio- och stereodivergent syntes av vicinala aminoalkoholer"
Organikerdagarna, Stockholm, Sweden 2000

oral presentation
1.

Berit Olofsson, Ulf M. Lindström and Peter Somfai
"A stereodivergent synthesis of vic-amino alcohols"
ESOC 11, Gothenburg, Sweden 1999

oral presentation

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