Kinetics, mechanism, and selectivity of rapid electrophilic processes ContactEmail: P.H.Helou-De-Oliveira@sms.ed.ac.ukSponsored by Eastman PersonalPedro was born in Goiânia (Brazil) and moved to Germany to study at the RWTH Aachen University, where he has conducted research under the supervision of Prof. Franziska Schoenebeck on the reactivity of different Palladium cross-coupling catalysts for his bachelor's thesis. His master's thesis was on the mechanism of copper-catalyzed kinetic resolution of alcohols through silylation under Prof. Martin Oestreich (TU Berlin).During his master's degree he undertook research projects in computational homogeneous catalysis (Prof. Walter Leitner, 2019) and in mechanistic studies on the silylation of acidic arenes (Prof. Guy Lloyd-Jones FRS, 2019).Pedro joined the Lloyd-Jones group as a PhD student in February 2021. Prizes and Awards06/2025Runner Up Oral Presentation Prize RSC Physical Organic Chemistry Meeting (AstraZeneca, UK)03/2024RSC Researcher Development and Travel Grant BOSS XVIII 07/2023RSC Researcher Development and Travel Grant European Symposium of Organic Chemistry (ESOC 2023) PublicationsThe Rauhut-Currier Reaction: Why Phosphines Are Efficient Catalysts, Christina Wartmann, Pedro H. Helou de Oliveira, and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones*, ACS Catalysis, 15, 15834−15843, 2025Kinetics of Sulfur-Transfer from Titanocene (Poly)Sulfides to Sulfenyl Chlorides: Rapid Metal-Assisted Concerted Substitution, Pedro H. Helou de Oliveira, Patrick J. Boaler, Guoxiong Hua, Nathan M. West, Robert T. Hembre, Jonathan M. Penney, Malik H. Al-Afyouni, J. Derek Woolins, Andrés García-Domínguez* and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones*, Chem. Sci., 15, 11875–11883, 2024 Mechanism of Anion-Catalyzed C-H Silylation using TMSCF3: Kinetically-Controlled CF3-anionoid Partitioning as a Key Parameter, Andrés García-Domínguez, Pedro H. Helou de Oliveira, Gilian T. Thomas, Arnau R. Sugranyes and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones*, ACS Catal., 11, 3017–3025, 2021 This article was published on 2025-04-17
