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| 2024 |
| Hypervalent iodine chemistry with a mechanochemical twist Sayad Doobary,* Miguel M. de Vries Ibáñez and Berit Olofsson* Green Chem. 2024, 26, 11518-11523. Link (open access) PDF Selected as 2024 HOT Green Chemistry article!  |
Nanocellulose: New Horizons in Organic Chemistry and Beyond (Perspective) |
Transition Metal-Free C-Diarylations to reach All-Carbon Quaternary Centers |
| Cyclopropenium functionalisation Sayad Doobary* and Berit Olofsson* Nature Chemistry 2024, 16, 847-848. Link (open access link) A News & Views text on Waser's cool paper about cyclopropenium benziodoxoles. 
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| Structure-reactivity analysis of novel hypervalent iodine reagents in S-vinylation of thiols Sayad Doobary, Ester Maria Di Tommaso, Alexandru Postole, A. Ken Inge and Berit Olofsson* Front. Chem. 2024, 12:1376948. Link (open access) PDF Invited paper to special issue of Women in Chemistry 2023  |
| 2023 |
| Synthesis of Complex Diarylamines through a Ring-Opening Difunctionalization Strategy Erika Linde and Berit Olofsson* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202310921. Link (open access) PDF Angew. Chem. 2023, e202310921. Preliminary version in ChemRxiv 2023. Link (open access)  |
| 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 
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Advancements in the synthesis of diaryliodonium salts: updated protocols |
Ortho-Functionalization of Azobenzenes via Hypervalent Iodine Reagents |
Stereoselective Photoredox-Catalyzed Vinylations to Functionalized Alkenes and C-Glycosides |
Transition Metal-Free Difunctionalization of Sulfur Nucleophiles |
| 2022 |
| A One-Pot Cascade Protocol for Diarylation of Amines and Water Erika Linde and Berit Olofsson* STAR Protocols, 2022, 3, 101700. Link (open access) PDF Invited paper based on the methodology presented in our Chem paper.  |
Synthesis of Cyclic and Acyclic ortho-Aryloxy Diaryliodonium Salts for Chemoselective Functionalizations |
Explaining Regio-Divergent Vinylations with Vinylbenziodoxolones |
Diarylation of N- and O-nucleophiles through a metal-free cascade reaction
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| 2021 |
| Metal-Free N-Arylation of Amino Acid Esters Gabriella Kervefors, Leonard Kersting and Berit Olofsson* Hot paper in Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 5790-5795. Link (open access) PDF
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Biological Studies of O-Aryl Galactosides as Galectin Inhibitors
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| 2020 |
| Transition Metal-Free and Regioselective Vinylation of Phosphine Oxides and H-Phosphinates with VBX reagents Laura Castoldi,‡ Adam A. Rajkiewicz‡ and Berit Olofsson* Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 14389-14392. Link (open access) PDF
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Electrophilic Vinylation of Thiols under Mild and Transition Metal-Free Conditions
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| 2019 |
Edited book: Patai's Chemistry of Functional Groups: The Chemistry of Hypervalent Halogen Compounds The chapters are separately available online.
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Serena Monticelli, Wolfgang Holzer, Thierry Langer, Alexander Roller, Berit Olofsson,* Vittorio Pace* |
Sustainable Asymmetric Organolithium Chemistry: Enantio- and Chemoselective Acylations through Recycling of Solvent, Sparteine and Weinreb “Amine” |
| 2018 |
Piret Villo, Gabriella Kervefors and Berit Olofsson* |
Transition Metal-Free, Chemoselective Arylation of Thioamides Yielding Aryl Thioimidates or |
Arylations promoted by hypervalent iodine reagents (Book chapter) In Patai's Chemistry of Functional Groups: The Chemistry of Hypervalent Halogen Compounds |
Regiospecific N-Arylation of Aliphatic Amines under Mild and Metal-Free Reaction Conditions |
Metal-Free Formal Synthesis of Phenoxazine |
Synthesis of Phenols and Aryl Silyl Ethers via Arylation of Complimentary Hydroxide Surrogates |
| 2017 |
| One-Pot Synthesis of Unsymmetric Diaryliodonium Salts from Iodine and Arenes Erik Lindstedt, Marcus Reitti and Berit Olofsson* J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 11909–11914 (invited for Special issue). Link Article on Request  |
Competing Pathways in O-Arylations with Diaryliodonium Salts - Mechanistic Insights |
| 2016 |
Arylation with Diaryliodonium Salts (Book chapter) 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.  |
| Synthesis, Characterization and Unusual Reactivity of Vinylbenziodoxolones - Novel Hypervalent Iodine Reagents Elin Stridfeldt, Alexandra Seemann, Marinus J. Bouma, Chandan Dey, Anne Ertan and Berit Olofsson* "Hot Paper" in Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 16066-16070. Link  |
Mild Synthesis of Sterically Congested Alkyl Aryl Ethers |
Efficient O-Functionalization of Carbohydrates with Electrophilic Reagents |
One-Pot C-H Functionalization of Arenes via Diaryliodonium Salts |
| 2015 |
| Metal-Free C-Arylation of Nitro Compounds with Diaryliodonium Salts Chandan Dey,‡ Erik Lindstedt‡ and Berit Olofsson* Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 4554-4557. Link (Article on Request) Highlighted in Organic Chemistry Portal.  |
Synthesis of Chiral Diaryliodonium Salts |
Metal-Free Arylation of Amides at Room Temperature |
| 2014 |
Increasing the Reactivity of Amide Bonds towards Organometallic Reagents: An Overview (Review) Adv. Synth. Catal. 2014, 356, 3697-3736. Link |
C-2 Selective Arylation of Indoles with Heterogeneous Nanopalladium and Diaryliodonium Salts
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Metal-Free One-Pot Synthesis of Benzofurans
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Room Temperature, Metal-Free Arylation of Aliphatic Alcohols
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Metal-Free Synthesis of N-Aryloxyimides and Aryloxyamines
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Marinus J. Bouma and Berit Olofsson* In Comprehensive Organic Synthesis 2nd Ed., Vol. 7, Eds. G. A. Molander and P. Knochel, Oxford: Elsevier; 2014, 213-241. Link |
One-Pot Synthesis and Applications of N-Heteroaryl Iodonium Salts
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| 2013 |
Purple fumes: the importance of iodine (Popular scientific review) Science in School, 2013, Issue 27. PDF (open access)
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| Metal-Free Synthesis of Aryl Ethers in Water Erik Lindstedt, Raju Ghosh and Berit Olofsson* Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 6070-6073. Link (Article on request) Highlighted in Organic Chemistry Portal.
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Oxidative Rearrangement of Alkenes using In Situ Generated Iodine(III) Reagents
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Immunogenic and antioxidant effects of a pathogen-associated prenyl pyrophosphate in Anopheles gambiae |
Arylation with Unsymmetrical Diaryliodonium Salts – a Chemoselectivity Study
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Synthesis of Koser's Reagent & Derivatives
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| 2012 |
| General One-Pot Synthesis of Alkynyliodonium Salts and Alkynyl Benziodoxolones from Aryl Iodides Marinus J. Bouma and Berit Olofsson* Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 14242-14245. Link
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Metal-Free Arylation of Oxygen Nucleophiles with Diaryliodonium Salts
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| 2011 |
Commemorating two centuries of iodine research: An interdisciplinary overview of current research (Review) 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* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 11598-11620. Link |
Hypervalent Iodine Reagents in the Total Synthesis of Natural Products (Review) |
α-Functionalization of Carbonyl Compounds using Hypervalent Iodine Reagents (Review)
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Metal-Free Synthesis of Indanes by Iodine(III)-Mediated Ring Contraction of 1,2-Dihydronaphthalenes
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Metal-Free Synthesis of Aryl Esters from Carboxylic Acids and Diaryliodonium Salts |
Synthesis of a Range of Iodine(III) Compounds Directly from Iodoarenes
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Room Temperature, Metal-Free Synthesis of Diaryl Ethers with Use of Diaryliodonium Salts
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| 2010 |
| Facile Synthesis of Koser's Reagent & Derivatives from Iodine or Aryl Iodides Eleanor A. Merritt, Vania M. T. Carneiro, Luiz F. Silva Jr. and Berit Olofsson* J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 7416-7419. Link Highligted in Organic Chemistry Portal.
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α-Arylation by Rearrangement: On the Reaction of Enolates with Diaryliodonium Salts
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Design and Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Diaryliodonium Salts
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| 2009 |
Diaryliodonium salts - a Journey from Obscurity to Fame (Review) Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 9052-9070. Link |
| Synthesis of Diaryliodonium Triflates using Environmentally Benign Oxidizing Agents Eleanor A. Merritt, Joel Malmgren, Felix J. Klinke and Berit Olofsson* Synlett 2009, 2277-2280. Link
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Efficient One-pot Synthesis of Bis(4-tert-Butylphenyl)Iodonium Triflate
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| 2008 |
| Regiospecific One-Pot Synthesis of Diaryliodonium Tetrafluoroborates from Arylboronic Acids and Aryl Iodides Marcin Bielawski, David Aili and Berit Olofsson* J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 4602-4607. Link Highligted in Organic Chemistry Portal.
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One-Pot Synthesis of Diaryliodonium Salts using Toluenesulphonic Acid: A Fast Entry to Electron-Rich Diaryliodonium Tosylates and Triflates
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| 2007 |
| Efficient and General One-Pot Synthesis of Diaryliodonium Triflates: Optimization, Scope and Limitations Marcin Bielawski, Mingzhao Zhu and Berit Olofsson* Adv. Synth. Catal. 2007, 349, 2610-2618. Link
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High-Yielding One-Pot Synthesis of Diaryliodonium Triflates from Arenes and Iodine or Aryl Iodides
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| As Post Doc |
Vinylepoxides in Organic Synthesis (book chapter) In Aziridines and Epoxides in Organic Synthesis; Ed. A. Yudin; Wiley-VCH: Weinheim, 2006. |
Divergent Asymmetric Synthesis of 3,5-Disubstituted Piperidines Berit Olofsson, Krisztián Bogár, Ann-Britt L. Fransson and Jan-E. Bäckvall* J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 8256-8260. Link
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Synthesis of Novel Heteroaryl Iodonium Salts and Enantioselective α-Arylation of Cyclohexanones
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Efficient Synthesis of 2-Substituted Imidazoles by Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling with Benzylzinc Reagents
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Enantioselective α-Arylation of Cyclohexanones with Diaryl Iodonium Salts: Application to the Synthesis of (–)-Epibatidine
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| As PhD Student |
Divergent Synthesis of D-erythro-Sphingosine, L-threo-Sphingosine and their Regioisomers
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Determination of the Relative Configuration of vic-Amino Alcohols
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Berit Olofsson Doctoral Thesis, 2002. SwePub |
A Regio- and Stereodivergent Route to all Isomers of vic-Amino Alcohols
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Synthesis of N-H Vinylaziridines: A Comparative Study
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A Regio- and Stereodivergent Route to all Isomers of vic-Amino Alcohols
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Berit Olofsson Licentiate Thesis, 2000. SwePub |
A Regio- and Stereodivergent Synthesis of vic-Amino Alcohols
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Microwave-Assisted Aminolysis of Vinylepoxides
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