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List of works by Stephen J Connon

(S)-Proline-Derived Catalysts for the Acylative Kinetic Resolution of Alcohols: A Remote Structural Change Allows a Complete Selectivity Switch

A DFT mechanistic study of the organocatalytic asymmetric reaction of aldehydes and homophthalic anhydride

scientific article published on 01 August 2017

A Magnetic-Nanoparticle-Supported 4-N,N-Dialkylaminopyridine Catalyst: Excellent Reactivity Combined with Facile Catalyst Recovery and Recyclability

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

A catalytic asymmetric reaction involving enolizable anhydrides

scientific article published on 26 March 2012

A new class of urea-substituted cinchona alkaloids promote highly enantioselective nitroaldol reactions of trifluoromethylketones

scientific article published on 21 February 2011

A novel C-5' substituted cinchona alkaloid-derived catalyst promotes additions of alkyl thiols to nitroolefins with excellent enantioselectivity

scientific article published on 10 February 2012

A practical aryl unit for azlactone dynamic kinetic resolution: orthogonally protected products and a ligation-inspired coupling process

scientific article published on 25 November 2014

A reductase-mimicking thiourea organocatalyst incorporating a covalently bound NADH analogue: efficient 1,2-diketone reduction with in situ prosthetic group generation and recycling

scientific article published on 30 January 2007

A solid-supported phosphine-free ruthenium alkylidene for olefin metathesis in methanol and water

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Acrylamide in the Baylis-Hillman reaction: expanded reaction scope and the unexpected superiority of DABCO over more basic tertiary amine catalysts

scientific article published in September 2004

Aerobic oxidation of NHC-catalysed aldehyde esterifications with alcohols: benzoin, not the Breslow intermediate, undergoes oxidation

scientific article published on 14 June 2013

Asymmetric acyl-transfer promoted by readily assembled chiral 4-N,N-dialkylaminopyridine derivatives

scientific article published on 20 June 2006

Asymmetric catalysis with bifunctional cinchona alkaloid-based urea and thiourea organocatalysts

scientific article published on 21 February 2008

Asymmetric organocatalytic reductions mediated by dihydropyridines.

scientific article published on 11 September 2007

Catalytic Asymmetric Cycloadditions between Aldehydes and Enolizable Anhydrides: cis-Selective Dihydroisocoumarin Formation

scientific article published on 10 December 2018

Catalytic Asymmetric γ-Lactam Synthesis from Enolisable Anhydrides and Imines

scientific article published on 02 May 2019

Catalytic asymmetric Tamura cycloadditions

scientific article published on 07 February 2014

Catalytic asymmetric Tamura cycloadditions involving nitroalkenes

scientific article published on 23 January 2017

Catalytic formal cycloadditions between anhydrides and ketones: excellent enantio and diastereocontrol, controllable decarboxylation and the formation of adjacent quaternary stereocentres.

scientific article published on 18 February 2016

Catalytic, enantio- and diastereoselective synthesis of γ-butyrolactones incorporating quaternary stereocentres

scientific article published on 23 May 2012

Chiral phosphoric acids: powerful organocatalysts for asymmetric addition reactions to imines

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Computational study-led organocatalyst design: a novel, highly active urea-based catalyst for addition reactions to epoxides

scientific article published on 4 January 2008

Concise synthesis and CDK/GSK inhibitory activity of the missing 9-azapaullones.

scientific article published on 15 June 2010

Conformational control of nonplanar free base porphyrins: towards bifunctional catalysts of tunable basicity

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Diaminocyclopropenylidene organocatalysts: beyond N-heterocyclic carbenes

scientific article published on 28 November 2013

Direct, efficient NHC-catalysed aldehyde oxidative amidation: in situ formed benzils as unconventional acylating agents

scientific article published in September 2017

Divergent Synthesis of γ-Amino Acid and γ-Lactam Derivatives from meso-Glutaric Anhydrides

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Dynamic kinetic resolution of bis-aryl succinic anhydrides: enantioselective synthesis of densely functionalised γ-butyrolactones

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

Enantioselective Alkylation of 2-Oxindoles Catalyzed by a Bifunctional Phase-Transfer Catalyst: Synthesis of (-)-Debromoflustramine B.

scientific article published on 7 March 2018

Enantioselective Alkylative Kinetic Resolution of 2-Oxindole-Derived Enolates Promoted by Bifunctional Phase Transfer Catalysts

scientific article published on 4 October 2016

Enantioselective N-heterocyclic carbene-catalysed intermolecular crossed benzoin condensations: improved catalyst design and the role of <i>in situ</i> racemisation

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

Enantioselective acyl-transfer catalysis by fluoride ions

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Highly Enantio- and Diastereoselective Catalytic Asymmetric Tamura Cycloaddition Reactions

scientific article published on 02 May 2019

Highly Enantioselective Catalytic Kinetic Resolution of α-Branched Aldehydes through Formal Cycloaddition with Homophthalic Anhydrides

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

Highly chemoselective direct crossed aliphatic-aromatic acyloin condensations with triazolium-derived carbene catalysts.

scientific article published on 27 October 2010

Highly chemoselective intermolecular cross-benzoin reactions using an ad hoc designed novel N-heterocyclic carbene catalyst.

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Highly chemoselective, sterically sensitive NHC-catalysed amine acylation with pyridil

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Highly enantioselective benzoin condensation reactions involving a bifunctional protic pentafluorophenyl-substituted triazolium precatalyst

scientific article published in December 2009

Highly enantioselective desymmetrization of meso anhydrides by a bifunctional thiourea-based organocatalyst at low catalyst loadings and room temperature

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Highly enantioselective ylide-mediated synthesis of terminal epoxides

scientific article published on 02 July 2012

Highly tunable arylated cinchona alkaloids as bifunctional catalysts.

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In vivo modification of tRNA with an artificial nucleobase leads to full disease remission in an animal model of multiple sclerosis

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Kinetic resolution of sec-alcohols using a new class of readily assembled (S)-proline-derived 4-(pyrrolidino)-pyridine analogues

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NHC-catalysed aerobic aldehyde-esterifications with alcohols: no additives or cocatalysts required

scientific article published on 14 June 2013

Nonenzymatic acylative kinetic resolution of Baylis-Hillman adducts

scientific article published on 03 August 2007

Novel amine-catalysed hydroalkoxylation reactions of activated alkenes and alkynes

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Organocatalysis mediated by (thio)urea derivatives.

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Organocatalytic asymmetric addition of alcohols and thiols to activated electrophiles: efficient dynamic kinetic resolution and desymmetrization protocols.

scientific article published on 23 July 2008

Readily accessible 9-epi-amino cinchona alkaloid derivatives promote efficient, highly enantioselective additions of aldehydes and ketones to nitroolefins

scientific article published on 23 January 2007

Recent developments in olefin cross-metathesis

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Selenide ions as catalysts for homo- and crossed-Tishchenko reactions of expanded scope

scientific article published on 03 February 2012

Stereoselective synthesis of highly functionalized nitrocyclopropanes via organocatalyic conjugate addition to nitroalkenes

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Synergistic organocatalysis in the kinetic resolution of secondary thiols with concomitant desymmetrization of an anhydride.

scientific article published on 14 March 2010

Synthesis of α-alkylated γ-butyrolactones with concomitant anhydride kinetic resolution using a sulfamide-based catalyst

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The asymmetric synthesis of terminal aziridines by methylene transfer from sulfonium ylides to imines

scientific article published on 18 April 2013

The catalytic asymmetric Strecker reaction: ketimines continue to join the fold

scientific article published in January 2008

The catalytic versatility of low toxicity dialkyltriazolium salts: in situ modification facilitates diametrically opposed catalysis modes in one pot.

scientific article published in June 2013

The dynamic kinetic resolution of azlactones with thiol nucleophiles catalyzed by arylated, deoxygenated cinchona alkaloids

scientific article published on 22 February 2012

The enantioselective benzoin condensation promoted by chiral triazolium precatalysts: stereochemical control via hydrogen bonding

scientific article published on 10 July 2009

The first catalytic asymmetric cycloadditions of imines with an enolisable anhydride

scientific article published on 06 July 2016

The first magnetic nanoparticle-supported chiral DMAP analogue: highly enantioselective acylation and excellent recyclability.

scientific article published in June 2009

The immobilisation of chiral organocatalysts on magnetic nanoparticles: the support particle cannot always be considered inert

scientific article published on 11 October 2011

The thiolate-catalyzed intermolecular crossed Tishchenko reaction: highly chemoselective coupling of two different aromatic aldehydes

scientific article published on 26 September 2012

Tunable bromomagnesium thiolate Tishchenko reaction catalysts: intermolecular aldehyde-trifluoromethylketone coupling

scientific article published on 01 April 2010

Unexpected catalysis: aprotic pyridinium ions as active and recyclable Brønsted acid catalysts in protic media

scientific article published on 07 October 2008

Urea derivatives are highly active catalysts for the base-mediated generation of terminal epoxides from aldehydes and trimethylsulfonium iodide

scientific article published on 5 March 2008