Publications

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Benjamin S. Grills, Benjamin N. Bhawal, "The roles of Lewis acids in nickel catalysis", Organometallic Chemistry, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017, 41, 73–92.


Yannick Brägger, Ori Green, Benjamin N. Bhawal,* and Bill Morandi*, "Late-stage molecular editing enabled by ketone chain-walking isomerization", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145, 19496–19502.

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Late-stage molecular editing enabled by ketone chain-walking isomerization

David Fabian León Rayo, Ali Mansour, Wenbin Wu, Benjamin N. Bhawal, Fabien Gagosz*, "Steric, electronic and conformational synergistic effects in the gold(I)-catalyzed α-C-H bond functionalization of tertiary amines", Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, e202212893.

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Steric, electronic and conformational synergistic effects

Julia C. Reisenbauer, Benjamin N. Bhawal, Nicola Jelmini, Bill Morandi*, "Development of an operationally simple, scalable, and HCN-free transfer hydrocyanation protocol using an air-stable nickel precatalyst", Organic Process Research & Development, 2022, 26, 1165–1173.

Development of an operationally simple, scalable, and HCN-free transfer hydrocyanation protocol

Benjamin N. Bhawal, Julia C. Reisenbauer, Christian Ehinger, Bill Morandi*, “Overcoming selectivity issues in reversible catalysis – a transfer hydrocyanation exhibiting high kinetic control”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020, 142, 10914–10920.

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Overcoming selectivity issues in reversible catalysis

Benjamin N. Bhawal, Bill Morandi*, “A reversible, transfer hydrocyanation manifold”, Trends in Chemistry, 2020, 2, 1034–1035.


Benjamin N. Bhawal, Bill Morandi*, “Catalytic isofunctional reactions – expanding the repertoire of shuttle and metathesis reactions”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58, 10074–10103. 

Catalytic isofunctional reactions

Benjamin N. Bhawal, Bill Morandi*, "Isodesmic reactions in catalysis – only the beginning?", Israel Journal of Chemistry, 2018, 58, 94–103.


Palladium-catalyzed carbon–sulfur or carbon–phosphorus bond metathesis by reversible arylation

Benjamin N. Bhawal, Bill Morandi*, "Shuttle catalysis − new strategies in organic synthesis", Chemistry – A European Journal, 2017, 23, 12004–12013.

Space shuttle graphic

Luca Legnani, Benjamin N. Bhawal, Bill Morandi*, "Recent developments in the direct synthesis of unprotected primary amines", Synthesis, 2017, 49, 776–789.


Benjamin N. Bhawal, Bill Morandi*, "Catalytic transfer functionalization through shuttle catalysis", ACS Catalysis, 2016, 6, 7528–7535.

Catalytic transfer functionalization through shuttle catalysis

Claudio Battilocchio, Benjamin N. Bhawal, Rajeev Chorghade, Benjamin J. Deadman, Joel M. Hawkins and Steven V. Ley*, "Flow-based, cerium oxide enhanced, low-level palladium Sonogashira and Heck coupling reactions by perovskite catalysts", Israel Journal of Chemistry, 2014, 54, 371–380.


Philip J. Harford, Joanna Haywood, Matthew R. Smith, Benjamin N. Bhawal, Paul R. Raithby, Masanobu Uchiyama, Andrew E. H. Wheatley*, "Expanding the tools available for direct ortho cupration – targeting lithium phosphidocuprates", Dalton Transactions, 2012, 41, 6148–6154.

Targeting lithium phosphidocuprates