2011-2015

  1. C. Zhu, B. Yang and J. E. Bäckvall, “Highly Selective Cascade C-C Bond Formation Via Palladium- Catalyzed Oxidative Carbonylation-Carbocyclization-Carbonylation-Alkynylation of Enallenes“ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 11868.
  2. J. Mazuela, D. Banerjee and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Tandem Oxidative Acetoxylation/Ortho C-H Activation/Carbocyclization of Arylallenes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 9559.
  3. C. Zhu, B. Yang, T. Jiang and J. E. Bäckvall, “Olefin-Directed Palladium-Catalyzed Regio- and Stereoselective Oxidative Arylation of Allenes“ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 9066.
  4. O. Pàmies, M. Diéguez and J. E. Bäckvall “Artificial Metalloenzymes in Asymmetric Catalysis: Key Developments and Future Directions” Adv. Synth. Catal. 2015, 357, 1567.
  5. T. Jiang, T. Bartholomeyzik, J. Mazuela, J. Willersinn and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium(II)/Bronsted Acid-Catalyzed Enantioselective Oxidative Carbocyclization-Borylation of Enallenes” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 6024.
  6. O. Verho, T. Åkermark, E. V. Johnston, K. P. Gustafson, C. W. Tai, H. Svengren, M. D. Kärkäs, J. E. Bäckvall and B. Åkermark, “Well-Defined Palladium Nanoparticles Supported on Siliceous Mesocellular Foam as Heterogeneous Catalysts for the Oxidation of Water” Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 5909.
  7. A. Volkov, K. P. Gustafson, C. W. Tai, O. Verho, J. E. Bäckvall and H. Adolfsson, “Mild Deoxygenation of Aromatic Ketones and Aldehydes over Pd/C Using Polymethylhydrosiloxane as the Reducing Agent” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 5122.
  8. O. Verho and J. E. Bäckvall, “Chemoenzymatic Dynamic Kinetic Resolution: A Powerful Tool for the Preparation of Enantiomerically Pure Alcohols and Amines” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 3996.
  9. M. C. Warner and J. E. Bäckvall, “Racemization of Olefinic Alcohols by a Carbonyl(cyclopentadienyl)ruthenium Complex: Inhibition by the Carbon–Carbon Double Bond” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 2388.
  10. K. Eriksson, O. Verho, L. Nyholm, S. Oscarsson and J. E. Bäckvall, “Dispersed Gold Nanoparticles Supported in the Pores of Siliceous Mesocellular Foam: A Catalyst for Cycloisomerization of Alkynoic Acids to γ-Alkylidene Lactones” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 2250.
  11. Y. Wikmark, M. Svedendahl Humble and J. E. Bäckvall, “Combinatorial Library Based Engineering of Candida Antarctica Lipase a for Enantioselective Transacylation of Sec-Alcohols in Organic Solvent” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 4284.
  12. N. Gigant, F. Quintin and J. E. Bäckvall, “Preparation of Tetrasubstituted Olefins Using Mono or Double Aerobic Direct C-H Functionalization Strategies: Importance of Steric Effects” J. Org. Chem. 2015, 80, 2796.
  13. P. Kočovský and J. E. Bäckvall, “The syn/anti-Dichotomy in the Palladium-Catalyzed Addition of Nucleophiles to Alkenes” Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 36.
  14. O. Verho, K. P. J. Gustafson, and J.-E. Bäckvall, “Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of a Primary Amine by an Efficient Bifunctional Pd-CALB Hybrid Catalyst. A Metalloenzyme Mimic for Enhanced Cooperative Catalysis” chapter in  “Practical Methods in Biocatalysis and Biotransformations”, Eds J. Whittall, P. W. Sutton and W. Kroutil, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, 2015, pp 50-53.
  15. C. M. Sapu, T. Gorbe, R. Lihammar, J. E. Bäckvall and J. Deska, “Migratory Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Carbocyclic Allylic Alcohols” Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 5952.
  16. O. Verho, F. Gao, E. V. Johnston, W. Wan, A. Nagendiran, H. Zheng, J. E. Bäckvall and X. Zou, “Mesoporous silica nanoparticles applied as a support for Pd and Au nanocatalysts in cycloisomerization reactions” APL Mater. 2014, 2, 113316.
  17. R. Lihammar, J. Ronnols, G. Widmalm and J. E. Bäckvall, “Epimerization of Glycal Derivatives by a Cyclopentadienylruthenium Catalyst: Application to Metalloenzymatic DYKAT” Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 14756.
  18. O. Verho, K. P. J. Gustafson, A. Nagendiran, C. W. Tai and J. E. Bäckvall, “Mild and Selective Hydrogenation of Nitro Compounds using Palladium Nanoparticles Supported on Amino-Functionalized Mesocellular Foam” ChemCatChem 2014, 6, 3153.
  19. B. Yang, R. Lihammar and J. E. Bäckvall, “Investigation of the Impact of Water on the Enantioselectivity Displayed by Calb in the Kinetic Resolution of Delta-Functionalized Alkan-2-ol Derivatives” Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 13517.
  20. J. Malmgren, A. Nagendiran, C. W. Tai, J. E. Bäckvall and B. Olofsson, “C-2 Selective Arylation of Indoles with Heterogeneous Nanopalladium and Diaryliodonium Salts” Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 13531.
  21. N. Gigant and J. E. Bäckvall, “Aerobic Direct C-H Arylation of Nonbiased Olefins” Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 4432.
  22. A. Bermejo Gómez, P. Holmberg, J. E. Bäckvall and B. Martín-Matute, “Transition metal-catalyzed redox isomerization of codeine and morphine in water“ RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 39519.
  23. C. M. Volla and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Domino Carbocyclization-Carbonylation-Alkynylation of Enallenes” Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 4174.
  24. K. Engelmark Cassimjee, M. Kadow, Y. Wikmark, M. Svedendahl Humble, M. L. Rothstein, D. M. Rothstein and J. E. Bäckvall, “A General Protein Purification and Immobilization Method on Controlled Porosity Glass: Biocatalytic Applications” Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 9134.
  25. T. Bartholomeyzik, J. Mazuela, R. Pendrill, Y. Deng and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Arylating Carbocyclization of Allenynes: Control of Selectivity and Role of H2O“ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 8696.
  26. C. M. Volla, J. Mazuela and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Carbocyclization-Carbonylation of Allenynes and Enallenes” Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 7608.
  27. K. P. Gustafson, R. Lihammar, O. Verho, K. Engstrom and J. E. Bäckvall, “Chemoenzymatic Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Primary Amines Using a Recyclable Palladium Nanoparticle Catalyst Together with Lipases“ J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 3747.
  28. F. Tinnis, O. Verho, K. P. Gustafson, C. W. Tai, J. E. Bäckvall and H. Adolfsson, “Efficient Palladium-Catalyzed Aminocarbonylation of Aryl Iodides Using Palladium Nanoparticles Dispersed on Siliceous Mesocellular Foam” Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 5885.
  29. E. Bratt, O. Verho, M. J. Johansson and J. E. Bäckvall, “A General Suzuki Cross-Coupling Reaction of Heteroaromatics Catalyzed by Nanopalladium on Amino-Functionalized Siliceous Mesocellular Foam” J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 3946.
  30. N. Gigant and J. E. Bäckvall, “Aerobic Double Dehydrogenative Cross Coupling between Cyclic Saturated Ketones and Simple Arenes” Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 5890.
  31. N. Gigant and J. E. Bäckvall, “Access to Cinnamyl Derivatives from Arenes and Allyl Esters by a Biomimetic Aerobic Oxidative Dehydrogenative Coupling” Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 1664.
  32. S. K. Alamsetti, A. K. Persson and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Hydroamination of Propargylic Carbamates and Carbamothioates” Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 1434.
  33. A. Nagendiran, O. Verho, C. Haller, E. V. Johnston and J. E. Bäckvall, “Cycloisomerization of Acetylenic Acids to Gamma-Alkylidene Lactones Using a Palladium(II) Catalyst Supported on Amino-Functionalized Siliceous Mesocellular Foam” J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 1399.
  34. M. Kadow, K. Balke, A. Willetts, U. T. Bornscheuer and J. E. Bäckvall, “Functional assembly of camphor converting two-component Baeyer–Villiger monooxygenases with a flavin reductase from E. coli“ Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 2014, 98, 3975.
  35. O. Verho, A. Nagendiran, C. W. Tai, E. V. Johnston and J. E. Bäckvall, “Nanopalladium on Amino-Functionalized Mesocellular Foam as an Efficient and Recyclable Catalyst for the Selective Transfer Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes to Anilines” ChemCatChem 2014, 6, 205.
  36. H. Chen, Y. Deng, Z. Yu, H. Zhao, Q. Yao, X. Zou, J. E. Bäckvall and J. Sun, “3D Open-Framework Vanadoborate as a Highly Effective Heterogeneous Pre-catalyst for the Oxidation of Alkylbenzenes” Chem. Mater. 2013, 25, 5031.
  37. C. M. Volla and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Domino Oxidative Carbocyclization-Alkynylation of Allenynes” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 14209.
  38. R. Lihammar, R. Millet and J. E. Bäckvall, “Enzyme- and Ruthenium-Catalyzed Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Functionalized Cyclic Allylic Alcohols“ J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 12114.
  39. K. Engstrom, E. V. Johnston, O. Verho, K. P. Gustafson, M. Shakeri, C. W. Tai and J. E. Bäckvall, “Co-Immobilization of an Enzyme and a Metal into the Compartments of Mesoporous Silica for Cooperative Tandem Catalysis: An Artificial Metalloenzyme” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 14006.
  40. S. K. Alamsetti, A. K. Persson, T. Jiang and J. E. Bäckvall, “Scalable Synthesis of Oxazolones from Propargylic Alcohols through Multistep Palladium(II) Catalysis: β-Selective Oxidative Heck Coupling of Cyclic Sulfonyl Enamides and Aryl Boroxines” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 13745.
  41. M. C. Warner, G. A. Shevchenko, S. Jouda, K. Bogar and J. E. Bäckvall, “Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Homoallylic Alcohols: Application to the Synthesis of Enantiomerically Pure 5,6-Dihydropyran-2-ones and δ-Lactones” Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 13859.
  42. N. Gigant and J. E. Bäckvall, “Synthesis of Conjugated Dienes Via a Biomimetic Aerobic Oxidative Coupling of Two C(Vinyl)-H Bonds“ Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10799.
  43. M. C. Warner and J. E. Bäckvall, “Mechanistic Aspects on Cyclopentadienylruthenium Complexes in Catalytic Racemization of Alcohols“ Acc. Chem. Res. 2013, 46, 2545.
  44. Y. Deng, T. Bartholomeyzik and J. E. Bäckvall, “Control of Selectivity in Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Carbocyclization/Borylation of Allenynes” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 6283.
  45. M. Jiang and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Regio- and Diastereoselective Diarylating Carbocyclization of Dienynes” Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 6571.
  46. K. Eriksson, E. Göthelid, C. Puglia, J. E. Bäckvall and S. Oscarsson, “Performance of a biomimetic oxidation catalyst immobilized on silica particles” J. Catal. 2013, 303, 16.
  47. B. P. Babu, X. Meng and J. E. Bäckvall, “Aerobic Oxidative Coupling of Arenes and Olefins through a Biomimetic Approach” Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 4140.
  48. Y. Deng and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Acyloxylation/Carbocyclization of Allenynes” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 3217.
  49. O. Verho, M. D. Dilenstam, M. D. Kärkäs, E. V. Johnston, T. Åkermark, J. E. Bäckvall and B. Åkermark, “Application and Mechanistic Studies of a Water-Oxidation Catalyst in Alcohol Oxidation by Employing Oxygen-Transfer Reagents” Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 16947.
  50. B. Stewart, J. Nyhlen, B. Martin-Matute, J. E. Bäckvall and T. Privalov, “A Computational Study of the CO Dissociation in Cyclopentadienyl Ruthenium Complexes Relevant to the Racemization of Alcohols” Dalton Trans. 2013, 42, 927.
  51. A. Joosten, A. K. Persson, R. Millet, M. T. Johnson and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Oxidative Cyclization of Allylic Tosylcarbamates: Scope, Derivatization, and Mechanistic Aspects” Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 15151.
  52. M. C. Warner, A. Nagendiran, K. Bogar and J. E. Bäckvall, “Enantioselective Route to Ketones and Lactones from Exocyclic Allylic Alcohols Via Metal and Enzyme Catalysis” Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 5094.
  53. O. Verho, A. Nagendiran, E. V. Johnston, C. W. Tai and J. E. Bäckvall, “Nanopalladium on Amino-Functionalized Mesocellular Foam: An Efficient Catalyst for Suzuki Reactions and Transfer Hydrogenations” ChemCatChem 2013, 5, 612.
  54. Y. Endo and J. E. Bäckvall, “Biomimetic Oxidative Coupling of Benzylamines and 2-Aminophenols: Synthesis of Benzoxazoles” Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 13609.
  55. Y. Deng, A. K. Persson and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Carbocyclizations” Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 11498.
  56. E. V. Johnston, O. Verho, M. D. Kärkäs, M. Shakeri, C. W. Tai, P. Palmgren, K. Eriksson, S. Oscarsson and J. E. Bäckvall, “Highly Dispersed Palladium Nanoparticles on Mesocellular Foam: An Efficient and Recyclable Heterogeneous Catalyst for Alcohol Oxidation“ Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 12202.
  57. B. P. Babu, Y. Endo and J. E. Bäckvall, “Biomimetic Aerobic Oxidation of Amino Alcohols to Lactams” Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 11524.
  58. M. Jiang, T. Jiang and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Diarylating Carbocyclization of Enynes“ Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 3538.
  59. K. Engström, M. Vallin, K. Hult and J. E. Bäckvall, “Kinetic resolution of diarylmethanols using a mutated variant of lipase CALB” Tetrahedron 2012, 68, 7613.
  60. Y. Deng, T. Bartholomeyzik, A. K. Persson, J. Sun and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Arylating Carbocyclization of Allenynes” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 2703.
  61. J. von Langermann, M. Kaspereit, M. Shakeri, H. Lorenz, M. Hedberg, M. J. Jones, K. Larson, B. Herschend, R. Arnell, E. Temmel, J. E. Bäckvall, A. Kienle and A. Seidel-Morgenstern, “Design of an Integrated Process of Chromatography, Crystallization and Racemization for the Resolution of 2′,6′-Pipecoloxylidide (PPX)” Org. Process Res. Dev., 2012, 16, 343.
  62. A. G. Sandstrom, Y. Wikmark, K. Engstrom, J. Nyhlen and J. E. Bäckvall, “Combinatorial Reshaping of the Candida Antarctica Lipase a Substrate Pocket for Enantioselectivity Using an Extremely Condensed Library” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2012, 109, 78.
  63. M. Shakeri, C. W. Tai, E. Gothelid, S. Oscarsson and J. E. Bäckvall, “Small Pd Nanoparticles Supported in Large Pores of Mesocellular Foam: An Excellent Catalyst for Racemization of Amines” Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 13269.
  64. E. A. Karlsson, B. L. Lee, T. Åkermark, E. V. Johnston, M. D. Kärkäs, J. Sun, O. Hansson, J. E. Bäckvall and B. Åkermark, “Photosensitized Water Oxidation by Use of a Bioinspired Manganese Catalyst” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 11715.
  65. T. Jiang, A. K. Persson and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Carbocyclization/Arylation of Enallenes” Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 5838.
  66. Y. Endo and J. E. Bäckvall, “Aerobic Lactonization of Diols by Biomimetic Oxidation” Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 12596.
  67. C. Manzuna Sapu, J. E. Bäckvall and J. Deska, “Enantioselective Enzymatic Desymmetrization of Prochiral Allenic Diols“ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 9731.
  68. O. Verho, E. V. Johnston, E. Karlsson and J. E. Bäckvall, “Tuning of the Electronic Properties of a Cyclopentadienylruthenium Catalyst to Match Racemization of Electron-Rich and Electron-Deficient Alcohols” Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 11216.
  69. R. Lihammar, R. Millet and J. E. Bäckvall “An Efficient Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of N-Heterocyclic 1,2-Amino Alcohols” Adv. Synth. Catal. 2011, 353, 2321.
  70. A. Träff, C. E. Solarte and J. E. Bäckvall, “Chemoenzymatic dynamic kinetic resolution as a key step in the enantioselective synthesis of (S)-salbutamol” Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 2011, 76, 919.
  71. C. Ramstadius, A. M. Träff, P. Krumlinde, J. E. Bäckvall and I. Cumpstey, “Ruthenium-Catalysed Epimerisation of Carbohydrate Alcohols as a Method to Determine the Equilibria for Epimer Interconversion in Hexopyranosides” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2011, 4455.
  72. K. Bogár, P. Krumlinde, Z. Bacsik, N. Hedin and J. E. Bäckvall, “Heterogenized Wilkinson-Type Catalyst for Transfer Hydrogenation of Carbonyl Compounds” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2011, 4409.
  73. M. D. Kärkäs, E. V. Johnston, E. A. Karlsson, B. L. Lee, T. Åkermark, M. Shariatgorji, L. Ilag, O. Hansson, J. E. Bäckvall and B. Åkermark, “Light-Induced Water Oxidation by a Ru Complex Containing a Bio-Inspired Ligand” Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 7953.
  74. A. K. Persson, T. Jiang, M. T. Johnson and J. E. Bäckvall, “Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Borylative Carbocyclization of Enallenes” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 6155.
  75. M. C. Warner, C. P. Casey and J. E. Bäckvall, “Shvo’s Catalyst in Hydrogen Transfer Reactions” chapter in “Bifunctional Molecular Catalysis”, Eds. T. Ikariya, M. Shibasaki, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 85-125.
  76. A. Träff, R. Lihammar and J. E. Bäckvall, “A Chemoenzymatic Dynamic Kinetic Resolution Approach to Enantiomerically Pure (R)- and (S)-Duloxetine“ J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 3917.
  77. M. C. Warner, O. Verho and J. E. Bäckvall, “CO Dissociation Mechanism in Racemization of Alcohols by a Cyclopentadienyl Ruthenium Dicarbonyl Catalyst” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 2820.
  78. K. Engström, M. Shakeria and J. E. Bäckvall, “Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of β-Amino Esters by a Heterogeneous System of a Palladium Nanocatalyst and Candida antarctica Lipase A” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2011, 1827.
  79. B. Wieczorek, A. Träff, P. Krumlinde, H. P. Dijkstra, M. R. Egmond, G. van Koten, J. E. Bäckvall and R. J. M. Klein Gebbink, “Covalent anchoring of a racemization catalyst to CALB-beads: towards dual immobilization of DKR catalysts” Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 1601.
  80. K. Engström, M. Vallin, P. O. Syrén, K. Hult and J. E. Bäckvall, “Mutated variant of Candida antarcticalipase B in (S)-selective dynamic kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols” Org. Biomol. Chem. 2011, 9, 81.