Research Group Publications

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 in English 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).

John J. Molloy, T. Morack, and R. Gilmour, "Positional and geometrical isomerisation of alkenes: the pinnacle of atom economy," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 58 (39), 13654-13664 (2019).

John J. Molloy, K.M. O'rourke, C.P. Frias, N.L. Sloan, M.J. West, S.L. Pimlott, A. Sutherland, and A.J.B. Watson, "Mechanism of Cu-catalyzed aryl boronic acid halodeboronation using electrophilic halogen: Development of a base-catalyzed iododeboronation for radiolabeling applications," Organic Letters 21 (7), 2488-2492 (2019).

John J. Molloy, J.B. Metternich, C.G. Daniliuc, A.J.B. Watson, and R. Gilmour, "Contra-thermodynamic, photocatalytic E→Z isomerization of styrenyl boron species: vectors to facilitate exploration of two-dimensional chemical space," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 57 (12), 3168-3172 (2018).

John J. Molloy, C.P. Seath, M.J. West, C. McLaughlin, N.J. Fazakerley, A.R. Kennedy, D.J. Nelson, and A.J.B. Watson, "Interrogating Pd(II) anion metathesis using a bifunctional chemical probe: a transmetalation switch," Journal of the American Chemical Society 140 (1), 126-130 (2018).

F. Scheidt, M. Schäfer, J.C. Sarie, C.G. Daniliuc, John J. Molloy, and R. Gilmour, "Enantioselective, catalytic vicinal difluorination of alkenes," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 57 (50), 16431-16435 (2018).

John J. Molloy, T.A. Clohessy, C. Irving, N.A. Anderson, G.C. Lloyd-Jones, and A.J.B. Watson, "Chemoselective oxidation of aryl organoboron systems enabled by boronic acid-selective phase transfer," Chemical Science 8 (2), 1551-1559 (2017).

C.P. Seath, J.W.B. Fyfe, John J. Molloy, and A.J.B. Watson, "Synthesis of oxindoles and benzofuranones via oxidation of 2-Heterocyclic BMIDAs," Synthesis 49 (4), 891-898 (2017).