Publikationen der Arbeitsgruppe

Hannah Kortman, Hao Fang, Kane A. C. Bastick, Charlotte Völkel, Dominik Oberthür, Peter H. Seeberger, Markus Perbandt, and John J. Molloy, "Fused 3D boron heterocycles via EnT catalysis: synthesis, modification and validation as beta-lactamase inhibitors," Chemical Science 17 (1), 247-254 (2026).

Jonas Klagge, Maria Mazhuga, and John J. Molloy, "A General platform for the light-enabled generation of α-fluoro radicals leveraging simple additives," Helvetica Chimica Acta , e00214 (2025).

Hao Fang, Alejandro García-Eguizábal, Yu-Jen Hsueh, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Ignacio Funes-Ardoiz, and John J. Molloy, "Energy transfer (EnT) catalysis of non-symmetrical borylated dienes: origin of reaction selectivity in competing EnT processes," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 64 (6), e202418651 (2025).

Lewis McGhie, Hannah Kortman, Jenna Rumpf , Peter H. Seeberger, and John J. Molloy, "Light-enabled intramolecular [2 + 2] cycloaddition via photoactivation of simple alkenylboronic esters," Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 21, 854-863 (2025).

John J. Molloy, "Shining a light on boron," Nachrichten aus der Chemie 73 (7-8), 64-65 (2025).

Alessandro Marotta, Hannah Kortman, Chiara Interdonato, Peter H. Seeberger, and John J. Molloy, "Convergent synthesis of bicyclic boronates via a cascade regioselective Suzuki-Miyaura/cyclisation protocol," Chemical Communications 60 (90), 13223-13226 (2024).

Lewis McGhie, Alessandro Marotta, Patrick O. Loftus, Peter H. Seeberger, Ignacio Funes-Ardoiz, and John J. Molloy, "Photogeneration of α-bimetalloid radicals via selective activation of multifunctional C1 units," Journal of the American Chemical Society 146 (23), 15850-15859 (2024).

Alessandro Marotta, Hao Fang, Callum E. Adams, Kailey Sun Marcus, Constantin G. Daniliuc, and John J. Molloy, "Direct light-enabled access to α-boryl radicals: application in the stereodivergent synthesis of allyl boronic esters," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 62 (34), e202307540 (2023).

Youjun Zhang, Lorenz Wiese, Hao Fang, Saleh Alseekh, Leonardo Perez de Souza, Federico Scossa, John J. Molloy, Mathias Christmann, and Alisdair R. Fernie, "Synthetic biology identifies the minimal gene set required for Paclitaxel biosynthesis in a plant chassis," Molecular Plant 16 (12), 1951-1961 (2023).

Alessandro Marotta, Callum E. Adams, and John J. Molloy, "The impact of boron hybridisation on photocatalytic processes," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 61 (38), e202207067 (2022).

Tomáš Neveselý, John J. Molloy, Calum McLaughlin, Linda Brüss, Constantin G. Daniliuc, and Ryan Gilmour, "Leveraging the n→π* Interaction in alkene isomerization by selective energy transfer catalysis," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 61 (2), e202113600 (2022).

Tomáš Neveselý, Max Wienhold, John J. Molloy, and Ryan Gilmour, "Advances in the E → Z isomerization of alkenes using small molecule photocatalysts," Chemical Reviews 122 (2), 2650-2694 (2022).

Julia Soika, Calum McLaughlin, Tomáš Neveselý, Constantin G. Daniliuc, John J. Molloy, and Ryan Gilmour, "Organophotocatalytic N–O bond cleavage of Weinreb amides: mechanism-guided evolution of a PET to ConPET platform," ACS Catalysis 12 (16), 10047-10056 (2022).

Stephanie Meyer, Joel Häfliger, Michael Schäfer, John J. Molloy, Constantin G. Daniliuc, and Ryan Gilmour, "A chiral pentafluorinated isopropyl group via iodine(I)/(III) catalysis," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 60 (12), 6430-6434 (2021).

M. Wienhold, John J. Molloy, C.G. Daniliuc, and R. Gilmour, "Coumarins by direct annulation: β-borylacrylates as ambiphilic C₃-synthons," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 60 (2), 685-689 (2021).

M.W. Ashford, C. Xu, John J. Molloy, C. Carpenter-Warren, A.M.Z. Slawin, A.G. Leach, and A.J.B. Watson, "Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of heterocyclic vicinal fluoroamines by using asymmetric protonation: method development and mechanistic study," Chemistry – A European Journal 26 (53), 12249-12255 (2020).

John J. Molloy, M. Schäfer, M. Wienhold, T. Morack, C.G. Daniliuc, and R. Gilmour, "Boron-enabled geometric isomerization of alkenes via selective energy-transfer catalysis," Science 369 (6501), 302-306 (2020).

D.L. Cain, C. McLaughlin, John J. Molloy, C. Carpenter-Warren, N.A. Anderson, and A.J.B. Watson, "A cascade Suzuki-Miyaura/Diels-Alder protocol: exploring the bifunctional utility of vinyl Bpin," Synlett 30 (7), 787-791 (2019).

S.I. Faßbender, John J. Molloy, C. Mück-Lichtenfeld, and R. Gilmour, "Geometric E→Z isomerisation of alkenyl silanes by selective energy transfer catalysis: stereodivergent synthesis of triarylethylenes via a formal anti-metallometallation," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 58 (51), 18619-18626 (2019).

T. Hostmann, John J. Molloy, K. Bussmann, and R. Gilmour, "Light-enabled enantiodivergence: stereospecific reduction of activated alkenes using a single organocatalyst enantiomer," Organic Letters 21 (24), 10164-10168 (2019).