John G. Verkade

Novel Green Catalysts for Organic Reactions, Organometallic Self-Assembled Systems.
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Selected Publications since 2006

  1. Su, W.; Raders, S.; Verkade, J. G.; Liao, X.; Hartwig, J. F. "Palladium-Catalyzed α-Arylation of Trimethylsilyl Enol Ethers with Aryl Bromides and Chlorides: The Synergistic Effect of Two Metal Fluorides as Additives", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2006, 45, 5852.
  2. Su, Weiping; Kim, Youngjo; Ellern, Arkady; Guzei, Ilia A.; Verkade, John G. "Facile Synthesis of Monomeric Alumatranes", J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 13727-13735.
  3. "R2PN:P(iBuNCH2CH2)3N: A New Bulky Electron-Rich Phosphine for Efficient PD- Assisted Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reactions", J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 2816-2822.
  4. Venkat Reddy, C. V.; Fetterly, B. M.; Verkade, J. G. "Polymer-Supported Azidoproazaphosphatrane: A Recyclable Catalyst for the Room-Temperature Transformation of Triglycerides to Biodiesel", Energy & Fuels 2007, 21, 2466-2472.
  5. Su, W.; Kobayashi, J.; Ellern, A.; Kawashima, T.; Verkade, J. G. "Steric Stabilization of a Monomeric Proalumatrane: Experimental and Theoretical Studies", Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 7953-7959.
  6. Venkat Reddy, C. V.; Kingston, J. V.; Verkade, J. G. "(t-Bu)2PN=P(i-BuNCH2CH2)3N: New Efficient Ligand for Palladium-Assisted C-N Couplings of Aryl Bromides and for Vinyl Bromides at Room Temperature", J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 3047-62.
  7. Kong, X.; Wadhwa, K.; Verkade, J. G.; Schmidt-Rohr, K. "Structure Determination of a Novel Anion Exchange Fuel Cell Membrane by Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy", Macromolecules 2009, 42, 1659-1664.
  8. Wadwha, K.; Verkade, J. G. "P(i-PrNCH2CH2)3N: Efficient Catalyst for Synthesizing β-Hydroxyesters and α,β-Unsaturated Esters using α-Trimethylsilylacetate (TMSEA)", J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 4368-4371.
  9. Raders, S.; Verkade, J. G. "Catalysis of Mukaiyama Aldol Reactions by a Tricyclic Aluminum Alkoxide Lewis Acid", J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 5417-5428.
  10. Raders, S.; Verkade, J. G. "A Tricyclic Aluminum Alkoxide for Aldehyde Trimethylsilylcyanation", Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 5317-1521.
  11. Wadhwa, K.; Chintareddy, V. R.; Verkade, J. G. "P(PhCH2NCH2CH2)3N: An Efficient Lewis-Base Catalyst for the Synthesis of Propargylic Alcohols and Morita-Baylis-Hillman Adducts via Aldehyde Alkynylation", J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 6681-6190.
  12. Raders, S.; Kingston, J. V.; Verkade, J. G. "Advantageous Use of tBu2P-N=P(iBuPCH2CH2)3N in the Hiyama Coupling of Aryl Bromides and Chlorides", J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 1744-1747.
  13. Raders, S. M.; Verkade, J. G. "A New Electron Rich Proazaphosphatrane for Isocyanate Trimerization to Isocyanurates", J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 5308-5311.
  14. Zhou, Y.; Verkade, J. G. "Highly Efficient Ligands for the Pd-Assisted Double N-Arylation of Primary Amines for One-step Construction of Carbazoles", Adv. Synth. Catal. 2010, 352, 616-620.
  15. Grewell, D.; Chand, P.; Verkade, J.; Chintareddy, V. R. "Enhancing Biodiesel Production from Soybean Oil Using Ultrasonics", Energy & Fuels 2010, 24, 2010-2015.
  16. Chintareddy, V. R.; Ellern, A.; Verkade, J. G. "P[N(i-Bu)CH2CH2)3]N: An Efficient Non-Ionic Lewis Base for Promoting the Room-Temperature Synthesis of α,β-Unsaturated Esters, Fluorides, Ketones and Nitriles Using Wadsworth-Emmons Phosphonates", J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 7166-7174.
  17. Zhou, Y.; Armstrong, D.; Zhang, Y.; Verkade, J. G. "First Synthesis of P-chirogenic Phosphatranes", Tetrahedron Lett., in press.