Publications

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Benjamin S. Grills, Jennifer A. Garden, Benjamin N. Bhawal

"Integration of Proximal Alkoxide and Lewis Acidic Cations To Boost Nickel-Catalyzed Borylation"

Organic Letters, 2026, 28, 1436–1440.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.5c05326

Reaction scheme

Benjamin S. Grills, Benjamin N. Bhawal

"The roles of Lewis acids in nickel catalysis"

Organometallic Chemistry, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2024, 41, 73–92.

https://doi.org/10.1039/9781837676200-00073


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.

https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c05680

 

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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.

https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202212893

 

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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.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.1c00442

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.

https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c03184

 

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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.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trechm.2020.04.006


Benjamin N. Bhawal, Bill Morandi*

“Catalytic isofunctional reactions – expanding the repertoire of shuttle and metathesis reactions”

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58, 10074–10103.

https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201803797

Catalytic isofunctional reactions

Benjamin N. Bhawal, Bill Morandi*

"Isodesmic reactions in catalysis – only the beginning?"

Israel Journal of Chemistry, 2018, 58, 94–103.

https://doi.org/10.1002/ijch.201700116


Zhong Lian, Benjamin N. Bhawal, Peng Yu, Bill Morandi*

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

Science, 2017, 356, 1059–1063.

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aam9041

 

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Benjamin N. Bhawal, Bill Morandi*

"Shuttle catalysis − new strategies in organic synthesis"

Chemistry – A European Journal, 2017, 23, 12004–12013.

https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201605325

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Luca Legnani, Benjamin N. Bhawal, Bill Morandi*

"Recent developments in the direct synthesis of unprotected primary amines"

Synthesis, 2017, 49, 776–789.

http://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1588371


Benjamin N. Bhawal, Bill Morandi*

"Catalytic transfer functionalization through shuttle catalysis"

ACS Catalysis, 2016, 6, 7528–7535.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.6b02333

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.

https://doi.org/10.1002/ijch.201300049


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.

https://doi.org/10.1039/c2dt12415g

Targeting lithium phosphidocuprates