2006-2010

  1. J. E. Bäckvall, “Selective Oxidation of Amines and Sulfides” chapter in “Modern Oxidation Methods”, 2nd Edition, Ed. J. E. Bäckvall, Wiley-VCH, 2010, pp. 277-313.
  2. E. V. Johnston and J. E. Bäckvall, “Oxidation of Carbonyl Compounds” chapter in “Modern Oxidation Methods”, 2nd Edition, Ed. J. E. Bäckvall, Wiley-VCH, 2010, pp. 353-369.
  3. R. Millet, A. M. Träff, M. L. Petrus, and J. E. Bäckvall ”Enantioselective Synthesis of syn and anti 1,3-Aminoalcohols via β-Amino­ketones and Subsequent Reduction-Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformation” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 15182.
  4. L. K. Thalén, A. Sumic, K. Bogár, J. Norinder, A. K. Å. Persson, and J. E. Bäckvall “Enantioselective Synthesis of a-Methyl Carboxylic Acids via Chemoenzymatic Dynamic Kinetic Resolution” J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 6842.
  5. L. K. Thalén and J. E. Bäckvall, “Development of dynamic kinetic resolution on large scale for (±)-1-Phenylethylamine” Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 823.
  6. E. V. Johnston, K. Bogár, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Synthesis of (R)- Bufuralol via Dynmic Kinetic Resolution in the Key Step” J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 4596.
  7. L.K. Thalén, M. H. Hedberg, J. E. Bäckvall “Recycling of Pipecoloxylidide via Racemization” Tetrahedron Lett. 2010, 51, 6802.
  8. J. Deska, C. del Pozo Ochoa, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Chemoenzymatic Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Axially Chiral Allenes” Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16, 4447.
  9. K. Engström, J. Nyhlén, A. G. Sandström, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Directed Evolution of an Enantioselective Lipase with Broad Substrate Scope for Hydrolysis of α-Substituted Esters” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 7038.
  10. A. K. Å. Persson and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Oxidative Carbocyclization of Aza-Enallenes” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 4624.
  11. M. Shakeri, K. Engström, A. G. Sandström, and J. E. Bäckvall, ”Highly enantioselective resolution of β-amino esters by Candida antarctica lipase A (CalA) immobilized in meso­cellular foam (MCF). Application to dynamic kinetic resolution” ChemCatChem 2010, 2, 534.
  12. P. Krumlinde, K. Bogár, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Asymmetric Synthesis of Bicyclic Diol Derivatives via Metal and Enzyme Catalysis. Application to the Formal Synthesis of Sertraline.” Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16, 4031.
  13. E. V. Johnston, E. A. Karlsson, L.-H. Tran, B. Åkermark, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Efficient Aerobic Ruthenium-Catalyzed Oxidation of Secondary Alcohols by the Use of a Hybrid Electron Transfer Catalyst” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 1971.
  14. K. L. E. Eriksson, W. W. Y. Chow, C. Puglia J. E. Bäckvall, E. Göthelid, and S. Oscarsson, ”Performance of a Biomimetic Oxidation Catalyst Immobilized on Silicon Wafers: Comparison with Its Gold Congener” Langmuir 2010, 26, 16349.
  15. J. B. Åberg, M. C. Warner, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Unexpected Formation of a Cyclopentadienylruthenium Alkoxycarbonyl Complex with a Coordinated C=C Bond” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 13622.
  16. P. Krumlinde, K. Bogár, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Chemoenzymatic Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of a key intermediate in the synthesis of a neonicotinoide derivative” J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 7407.
  17. J. B. Åberg, J. Nyhlén, B Martín-Matute, T. Privalov, and J. E. Bäckvall, ”CO Assistance in Ligand Exchange of a Ruthenium Racemization Catalyst: Identification of an Acyl Intermediate” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 9500.
  18. J. Deska and J. E. Bäckvall “Enzymatic resolution of primary allenic alcohols and its application in the total synthesis and stereochemical assignment of striatisporolide A” Org. Biomol. Chem. 2009, 7, 3379.
  19. E. V. Johnston, E. A. Karlsson, S. A. Lindberg, B. Åkermark, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Efficient Reoxidation of Palladium by a Hybrid Catalyst in Aerobic Palladium-Catalyzed Carbo­cycliza­tion of Enallenes” Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 6799.
  20. A. K. Å. Persson, E. V. Johnston and J. E. Bäckvall, “Copper(I)-Catalyzed N-allenylation of Allylic Sulfon­amides” Org. Lett. 2009, 11, 3814.
  21. A. G. Sandström, K. Engström, J. Nyhlén, A. Kasrayan, J. E. Bäckvall, “Directed Evolution of Candida antarctica Lipase A Using an Episomaly Replicating Yeast Plasmid” Protein Engineering, Design and Selection (PEDS) 2009, 22, 413.
  22. J. Nyhlén, T. Privalov, and J. E. Bäckvall, ”Racemization of Alcohols Catalyzed by (η5-pentaphenylcyclopentadienyl)RuCl(CO)2 – Mechanistic Insights from Theoretical Modeling” Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 5220.
  23. E. V. Johnston, E. A. Karlsson, L-H. Tran, B. Åkermark, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Efficient Synthesis of the Hybrid Hydroquinone-Cobalt Salen-Type Catalyst employed in Biomimetic Aerobic Oxidations” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2009, 3973.
  24. L. Borén, K. Leijondahl and J. E. Bäckvall, “Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformation of 1,4-Diols and Preparation of trans-2,5-Disubstituted pyrrolidines” Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 3237.
  25. S. Watcharinyanon, C. Puglia, E. Göthelid, J. E. Bäckvall, E. Moons, and L. S. O. Johansson, “Molecular orientation of thiol-derivatized tetraphenylporphyrin on gold studied by XPS and NEXAFS” Surface Science 2009, 603, 1026.
  26. L. Borén, K. Leijondahl, J. E. Bäckvall, “Dynamic kinetic asymmetric transformation of 1,4-diols and the preparation of trans-2,5-disubstituted pyrrolidines” Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 3237.
  27. K. Leijondahl, L. Borén, R. Braun and J. E. Bäckvall, “Enzyme-and Ruthenium-Catalyzed Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformation of 1,5-Diols. Application to the Synthesis of (+)-Solenopsin A” J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 1988.
  28. J. S. M. Samec and J. E. Bäckvall, “1-Hydroxy tetraphenylcyclopentadienyl (tetraphenyl-2,4-cyclopentadien-1-one)-m-hydrotetracarbonyldiruthenium(II)” Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, Ed. P. L. Fuchs, Wiley Interscience, 2009, 7, 5557.
  29. L. K. Thalén, D Zhao, J. B Sortais, J. Paetzold, C. Hoben, and J. E. Bäckvall, “A Chemoenzymatic Approach to Enantiomerically Pure Amines Using Dynamic Kinetic Resolution” Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 3403.
  30. A. Träff, K. Bogár, M. Warner, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Highly Efficient Route for Enantioselective Preparation of Chlorohydrins via Dynamic Kinetic Resolution” Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 4807.
  31. J. B. Åberg and J. E. Bäckvall, “Investigation of a Possible Solvent Cage Effect in the Reduction of 4-Aminocyclohexanone by a Hydroxycyclopentadienyl Ruthenium Hydride” Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 9169.
  32. M. Johansson, B. Purse, O. Terasaki, and J. E. Bäckvall, ”Aerobic oxidations catalyzed by a zeolite-encapsulated cobalt salophen complex” Adv. Synth. Catal. 2008, 350, 1807.
  33. A. Alexakis, J. E. Bäckvall, N. Krause, O. Pàmies and M. Diéguez, “Enantioselective copper-catalyzed conjugate addition and allylic substitution reactions” Chem. Rev. 2008, 108, 2796.
  34. E. A. Karlsson and J. E. Bäckvall, “Rationalization of the Recently Observed Facile Nucleophilic Attack by Water on a (π-Allyl)palladium Intermediate” Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 9175.
  35. K. Leijondahl, L. Borén, R. Braun, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Enantiopure 1,5-Diols from Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformation. Useful Synthetic Intermediates for the Preparation of Chiral Heterocycles” Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 2027.
  36. J. Nyhlén, B. Martín-Matute, M. Bocola, A. G. Sandström, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Influence of Remote Functional Groups on the Enantiorecognition of Secondary Alcohols by Candida Antarctica Lipase” ChemBioChem 2008, 9, 1968.
  37. B. W. Purse, L-H. Tran, J. Piera, B. Åkermark, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Synthesis of Novel Hybrid Hydroquinone-Cobalt Salen Catalysts. Efficient Electron Transfer Mediators in Aerobic Oxidations” Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 7500.
  38. C. E. Hoben, L. Kanupp, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Practical Chemoenzymatic Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Primary Amines via Transfer of Readily Removable Benzyloxycarbonyl Group” Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49, 977.
  39. D. J. Ericsson, A. Kasrayan, P. Johansson, T. Bergfors, A. G. Sandström, J. E. Bäckvall, S. L. Mowbray, ”X-ray structure of Candida antarctica lipase A shows a novel lid structure and a likely mode of interfacial activation” J. Mol. Biol. 2008, 376, 109.
  40. B. Martín-Matute and J. E. Bäckvall, “Chemoenzymatic Deracemization Processes” chapter in “Organic Synthesis with Enzymes in Non-Aqueous Media” Ed. S. Riva, Wiley-VCH, 2008, pp. 113–244.
  41. J. Nyhlen, L. Eriksson, and J. E. Bäckvall, ”Synthesis and optical resolution of an allenoic acid by diastereomeric salt formation induced by chiral alkaloids” Chirality 2008, 20, 47.
  42. B. Martín-Matute and J. E. Bäckvall, “Dynamic Kinetic Resolutions” chapter in “Asymmetric Organic Synthesis with Enzymes” Eds. V. Gotor, I. Alfonso, and E. García-Urdiales, Wiley-VCH, 2008, pp. 87-113.
  43. J. Piera and J. E. Bäckvall, “Catalytic Oxidation of Organic Substrates by Molecular Oxygen and Hydrogen Peroxide via Multi-Step Electron Transfer. A Biomimetic Approach” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 3506.
  44. K. Bogár, B. Martín-Matute, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Large Scale Metalloenzymatic Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of (rac)-1-Phenylethanol” Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, 50.
  45. K. Bogár, P. Hoyos Vidal, A. R. Alcántara León and J. E. Bäckvall, “Chemoenzymatic Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Allylic Alcohols: A Highly Enantioselective Route to Acyloin Acetates” Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 3401.
  46. K. Bogár and J. E. Bäckvall, ”High-Yielding Metalloenzymatic Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Fluorinated Aryl Alcohols” Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 5471.
  47. J. Piera, P. Krumlinde, D. Strübing and J. E. Bäckvall, “Gold-Catalyzed Cyclization of Allene-Substituted Malonate Esters:  Synthesis of β,γ-Unsaturated δ-Lactones” Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 2235.
  48. S. Berner, H. Lidbaum, G. Ledung, J. Åhlund, K. Nilson, J. Schiessling, U. Gelius, J. E. Bäckvall, Carla Puglia, and S. Oscarsson “Electronic and structural studies of immobilized thiol-derivatized cobalt porphyrins on gold surfaces” Appl. Surface Science, 2007, 253, 7540.
  49. D. Zhao, M. Johansson, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Tandem Hetero-Diels-Alder Reaction Based on In situ Generation of Nitroso Compounds by Efficient Oxidation of Primary Aromatic Amines with Aqueous Hydrogen Peroxide” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2007, 4431.
  50. J. Piera, A. Persson, X. Caldentey, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Water as Nucleophile in Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Carbohydroxylation of Allene-Substituted Conjugated Dienes”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 14120.
  51. D. Strübing, P. Krumlinde, J. Piera, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Primary Alcohols with an Unfunctionalized Stereogenic Center” Adv. Synth. Catal. 2007, 349, 1577.
  52. J. Norinder, K. Bogár, L. Kanupp, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Enantioselective Synthesis of α -Methyl Carboxylic Acids and Aldehydes via Metal and Enzyme Catalysis” Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 5095.
  53. B. Martín-Matute, J. B. Åberg, M. Edin, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Racemization of Secondary Alcohols Catalyzed by Cyclopentadienylruthenium Complexes. Insight into the Reaction Mechanism.” Chem. Eur. J. 2007, 13, 6063.
  54. B. Martín-Matute and J. E. Bäckvall, “Dynamic Kinetic Resolution catalyzed by Enzymes and Transition Metals” Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2007, 11, 226.
  55. J. Norinder and J. E. Bäckvall, “Dynamic Processes in the Copper-Catalyzed Substitution of Chiral Allylic Acetates Leading to Loss of Chiral Information” Chem. Eur. J. 2007, 13, 4094.
  56. J. D. Carballeira, P. Krumlinde, M. Bocola, A. Vogel, M. T. Reetz, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Directed Evolution and Axial Chirality: Optimization of the Enantioselectivity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lipase Towards the Kinetic Resolution of a Racemic Allene” Chem. Commun. 2007, 1913.
  57. A. Kasrayan, M. Bocola, A. G. Sandström, and J. E. Bäckvall, “Prediction of the Candida antarctica lipase A protein structure by comparative modeling and site directed mutagenesis” ChemBioChem 2007, 8, 1409.
  58. T. Privalov, J. S. M. Samec, and J. E. Bäckvall, “DFT Study of an Inner-Sphere Mechanism in the Hydrogen Transfer from a Hydroxycyclopentadienyl Ruthenium Hydride to Imines” Organometallics 2007, 26, 2840.
  59. J. E. Bäckvall, “Asymmetric Catalysis via Dynamic Kinetic Resolution” in “Asymmetric Synthesis – The Essentials” Eds. Matthias Christmann and Stefan Bräse, Wiley-VCH, 2006, pp 179-184
  60. B. Olofsson, K. Bogár, A. B. L. Fransson and J. E. Bäckvall, “Divergent Asymmetric Synthesis of 3,5-Disubstituted Piperidines” J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 8256.
  61. K. Leijondahl, A. B. L. Fransson and J. E. Bäckvall “Highly Efficient Ruthenium-catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation/Hydrogenation of 1,3-Cycloalkanediones to 1,3-Cycloalkanediols using Controlled Microwave Heating” J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 8622.
  62. J. Piera, K. Närhi and J. E. Bäckvall, ”Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Aerobic Allylic Oxidative Carbocyclization of Allene-Substituted Olefins. Immobilization of Oxygen-Activating Catalyst” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 6914. VIP paper.
  63. J. B. Åberg, J. S. M. Samec and J. E. Bäckvall, “Mechanistic Investigation on the Hydrogenation of Imines by [p-(Me2CH)C6H4Me]­RuH(NH2CHPhCHPhNSO2C6H4–p-CH3). Experimental support for an Ionic Pathway” Chem. Commun. 2006, 2771.
  64. S. Berner, S. Biela, G. Ledung, A. Gogoll, J. E. Bäckvall, C. Puglia and S. Oscarsson, “Activity boost of a biomimetic oxidation catalyst by immobilization onto a gold surface” J. Catal. 2006, 244, 86.
  65. H. K. Cotton, J. Norinder and J. E. Bäckvall, “Screening of ligands in the asymmetric metallocenethiolatocopper(I)-catalyzed allylic substitution with Grignard reagents” Tetrahedron 2006, 62, 5632.
  66. M. Landwehr, L. Hochrein, C. R. Otey, A. Kasrayan, J. E. Bäckvall and F. H. Arnold, “Enantioselective α-Hydroxylation of 2-Arylacetic Acid Derivatives and Buspirone Catalyzed by Engineered Cytochrome P450 BM-3” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 6058.
  67. J. S. M. Samec, A. H. Éll, T. Privalov, L. Eriksson and J. E. Bäckvall “Mechanistic Study of Hydrogen Transfer to Imines from a Hydroxycyclopentadienyl Ruthenium hydride. Experimental Support for a Mechanism Involving Coordination of Imine to Ruthenium prior to Hydrogen Transfer” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 14293.
  68. B. Martín-Matute, M. Edin and J. E. Bäckvall, “Highly Efficient Synthesis of Enantiopure C2-Symmetric Diols by Ruthenium and Enzyme-Catalyzed DYKAT” Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 6053.
  69. M. Edin, B. Martín-Matute and J. E. Bäckvall, ”Ruthenium- and lipase-catalyzed DYKAT of 1,2-diols: an enantioselective synthesis of syn-1,2-diacetates” Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2006, 17, 708.
  70. A. B. L. Fransson, Y. Xu, K. Leijondahl and J. E. Bäckvall, “Enzymatic Resolution, Desymmetrization and Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformation of 1,3-Cycloalkanediols” J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 6309.
  71. K. Närhi, J. Franzén and J. E. Bäckvall, “An Unexpectedly Mild Thermal Alder-Ene type Cyclization of Enallenes” J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 2914.
  72. J. Norinder, J. E. Bäckvall, N. Yoshikai and E. Nakamura, ”Unusual Homo-Coupling in the Reaction of Diorganocuprates with an Allylic Halide” Organometallics 2006, 25, 2129.
  73. J. S. M. Samec, J. E. Bäckvall, P. G. Andersson and Peter Brandt, “Mechanistic Aspects of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Hydrogen Transfer Reactions” Chem. Soc. Rev. 2006, 35, 237.
  74. A. A. Lindén, M. Johansson, N. Hermanns, and J. E. Bäckvall, ”Efficient and Selective Sulfoxidation by Hydrogen Peroxide Using a Recyclable Flavin-[BMIm]PF6 Catalytic System” J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 3849.
  75. A. H. Éll, G. Csjernyik, V. F. Slagt, J. E. Bäckvall, S. Berner, C. Puglia, G. Ledung and Sven Oscarsson, “Synthesis of Thioacetate-Functionalized Cobalt(II) Porphyrins and their Immobilization on Gold Surface. Characterization by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 1193.
  76. L. Borén, B. Martin-Matute, Y. Xu, A. Cordova and J. E. Bäckvall, “(S)-selective kinetic resolution and chemoenzymatic dynamic kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols” Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 225.