40. Synthesis and Reactions of Borazines

Ishita Neogi* and Alex M. Szpilman*

Synthesis, 2021, In Press

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39. Solar and Visible Light Assisted Peptide Synthesis

Abhaya K. Mishra, Galit Parvari, Sourav K. Santra, Andrii Bazylevich Ortal Dorfman, Jonatan Rahamim, Yoav Eichen,* and Alex M. Szpilman*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, 60, 12406-12412

Selected a HOT paper, Featured on the Inside Cover

Highlighted in Synform and Synfact of the Month for November 2021

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38. Visible-Spectrum Solar-Light-Mediated Benzylic C–H Oxygenation Using 9,10-Dibromoanthracene As an Initiator

Sourav K. Santra, and Alex M. Szpilman*

The Journal of Organic Chemistry , 2021, 86, 1164–1171

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37. The Application of Nitroxides in Organic Synthesis

Lenin Kumar Verdhi and Alex M. Szpilman*

Book Chapter in Nitroxides: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications, 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

36. Direct Umpolung Morita‐Baylis‐Hillman like α‐Functionalization of Enones

via Enolonium Species

Shlomy Arava, Sourav K. Santra, Gulab K. Pathe, Raja, Kapanaiah, and Alex M. Szpilman*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 15171-15175

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Selected a HOT paper

35. Indium(III) Catalyzed Reactions of Vinyl Azides and Indoles

Atul A. More and Alex M. Szpilman*

Organic Letters, 2020, 10, 3759–3764

34. Azido-Enolonium Species in C–C and C–N Bond-Forming Coupling Reactions

Atul A. More, Sourav K. Santra  and Alex M. Szpilman*

Organic Letters, 2020, 22, 768-771

33. First α-Deuterium Nitroxides; Synthesis and EPR Study

Hila Toledo, Boris L. Tumanski,* Denis S. Sabirov, Alexander Kaushansky, Natalia Fridman, and Alex M. Szpilman*

Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2019, 17, 7000-7006

32. Amine-tetrachloromethane charge transfer complexes: a structural and computational study

Abhaya K. Mishra, Galit Parvari, Irit Cohen, Natalie Fridman, Yoav Eichen, and Alex M. Szpilman*

Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 2018, 71, 2082-2089

31. A Two-step Protocol for Umpolung Functionalization of Ketones via Enolonium Species

Shlomy Arava, Shimon Maksymenko, Keshaba N. Parida, Atul A. More, Gulab K. Pathe,Yuriy B. Lipisa  and Alex M. Szpilman*   

Journal of Visualized Experiments 2018, (138), e57916

30. Cross-Coupling of Dissimilar Ketone Enolates via Enolonium Species to afford Non-symmetrical 1,4-Diketones

Keshaba N. Parida, Shimon Maksymenko, Gulab K. Pathe, and Alex M. Szpilman*   

Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2018, 14, 992–997 (Special Issue on Hypervalent iodine in Synthesis)

29. α-N-Heteroarylation and α-Azidation of Ketones via Enolonium Species

Atul A. More, Gulab K. Pathe, Keshaba N. Parida,Shimon Maksymenko, Yuriy B. Lipisa  and Alex M. Szpilman*   

The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2018, 83, 2442–2447

28. Transition Metal-Free Intermolecular Arylation of Ketones via Enolonium Species

Shimon Maksymenko, Keshaba N. Parida, Gulab K. Pathe, Atul A. More, Yuriy B. Lipisa  and Alex M. Szpilman*   

Organic Letters, 2017, 19, 6312-6315

27. Solar Assisted Direct Amidation via a Charge-Transfer Complex

Irit Cohen, Abhay K. Mishra, Galit Parvari, Rachel Edrei, Mauricio Dantus, Yoav Eichen, and Alex M. Szpilman*

Chemical Communications, 2017, 53, 10128-10131

26. Enolonium Species – Umpoled Enolates

Shlomy Arava, Jayprakash N. Kumar, Shimon Maksymenko, Mark A. Iron, Keshaba N. Parida, and Alex M. Szpilman*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2017, 56, 2599-2603

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25. Mechanism of the Copper/TEMPO Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols

Mark A. Iron and Alex M. Szpilman*   

Chemistry a European Journal, 2017, 23, 1368-1378

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Selected a HOT paper

Highlighted in ChemistryViews

24. Novel water-soluble amphotericin B-PEG conjugates with reduced low toxicity and potent in vivo efficacy

Asaf Halperin, Yana Shadkchan, Evgeni Pisarevsky, Alex M. Szpilman,* Hannah Sandovsky, Nir Osherov,* Itai Benhar*

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2016, 59, 1197-1206

​​​23. Synthesis and Stability of α-Hydrogen Nitroxides

Hila Toledo, Michal Amar, Sukanta Bar, Mark A. Iron, Boris Tumanskii, Natalia Fridman, Linda J. W. Shimon, Mark Botoshansky, and Alex M. Szpilman*

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2015, 13, 10726 - 10733

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Selected a HOT paper by the reviewers

22. Catalytic Activity of Recoverable IAPNO α-Hydrogen Nitroxyl Radicals in the Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols

Sukanta Bar, Jayprakash N. Kumar, Michal Amar, Hila Toledo, Rami J. Batrice and Alex M. Szpilman*

ChemCatChem 2015, 7, 1129-1135.

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Highlighted in ChemInform

21. Design Concept for α-Hydrogen Substituted Nitroxyl Radicals

Michal Amar, Sukanta Bar, Mark A. Iron, Hila Toledo, Boris Tumanskii, Linda J. W. Shimon, Mark Botoshansky, Natalia Fridman and Alex M. Szpilman*   

Nature Communications, 2015, 6, 6070

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20. Oxidative Asymmetric Umpolung Alkylation of Evans’ β-Keto Imides by Dialkylzinc

Tom Targel, Jayprakash N. Kumar, O. Svetlana Shneider, Sukanta Bar, Natalia Fridman, Shimon Maximenko,  and Alex M. Szpilman*

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2015, 13, 2546-2549

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Chosen as a HOT paper by the reviewers

Highlighted in ChemInform

​​​19. Oxidative Umpolung α-Alkylation of Carbonyl Compounds

O. Svetlana Shneider, Evgeni Pisarevsky, Peter Fristrup and Alex M. Szpilman*

Organic Letters 2015, 17, 282-285

One of the most downloaded Organic Letters of January 2015 (>1000 downloads).

Highlighted in: Paul Knochel, Jeffrey M. Hammann Synfacts 2015, 11, 303.

and in ChemInform

Choosen as TCI-Chemicals “Paper of the Week” for 25. May to 1 June 2015

18. Synthesis of Axially Chiral 1,8-Diarylnapthalene Ligands and Application in Asymmetric Catalysis - An Intriguing Fluorine Effect

Harisadhan Ghosh, Ravishashidhar Vavilala and Alex M. Szpilman*

Tetrahedron; Asymmetry, 2015, 26, 79-84

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This article was one of the most downloaded papers from the Journal during February to May 2015

17. Synthetic and Mechanistic study of the Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of primary β-Amino Ketones from Enones and a Fluorinated Gabriel Reagent

Shlomit Avidan-Shlomovich, Harisadhan Ghosh and Alex M. Szpilman*

ACS Catalysis, 2015, 5, 336-342

16. Organometallic Complexes of Vanadium

Orel S. Shneider and Alex M. Szpilman*

Science of Synthesis, 2014, Knowledge Updates vol. 2¸139-165.

15. Organocatalytic Oxidation of Aldehydes to Mixed Anhydrides

Hila Toledo, Evgeni Pisarevsky, Adi Abramovich and Alex M. Szpilman*

Chemical Communications, 2013, 49, 4367-4369

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Selected for inclusion in the 2013 Young Investigator issue

Highlighted in: ChemInform

14. Organocatalytic Oxidative Dimerization of Alcohols to Esters

Adi Abramovich, Hila Toledo, Evgeni Pisarevsky and Alex M. Szpilman*

Synlett, 2012, 23, 2261-2265

Highlighted in: ChemInform

13. Cycloadditions (Bookchapter)

Alex M. Szpilman* and Erick M. Carreira* in Silver in Organic Synthesis Ed. Michael Harmata, Wiley, 41 pages 2010

This book was given an honor able mention for the 2010 Prose Awards

The chapter was highlighted in: ChemInform

12. Probing the Biology of Natural Products: Molecular Editing by Diverted Total Synthesis

Alex M. Szpilman* and Erick M. Carreira*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2010, 49, 9592–9628 (Contributed review)

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Highlighted in: ChemInform and ChemistryViews