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Deependra BawariDonia ToamiKuldeep Jaiswal and Roman Dobrovetsky,*

Hydrogen splitting at a single phosphorus centre and its use for hydrogenation. Nat. Chem., 2024, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-024-01569-y

Itay Raz, Roman DobrovetskyHighly Chemoselective Zn(+2)-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Alkynes. Chem. Eur. J., 2023, Accepted Articles

 

Mohanad DiabKuldeep JaiswalDeependra Bawari and Roman Dobrovetsky,*

The Chemistry of [1,1′-bis(o-Carboranyl)]Borane η2-σ-Silane Adduct. Isr. J. Chem.2023, e202300010

Karina Chulsky, Irina Malahov, Deependra Bawari and Roman Dobrovetsky* Metallomimetic Chemistry of a Cationic, Geometrically Constrained Phosphine in the Catalytic Hydrodefluorination and Amination of Ar–F Bonds.  J. Am. Chem. Soc.202310.1021/jacs.2c13318 

Deependra Bawari , Solomon Volodarsky , Yael Ginzburg , Kuldeep Jaiswal , Pooja Joshi and Roman Dobrovetsky*  Intramolecular C−N Bond Activation by Geometrically Constrained PIII-Centre. Chem. Commun., 202258 (87), 12176-12179

Solomon Volodarsky, Deependra Bawari, Roman Dobrovetsky * Dual Reactivity of a Geometrically Constrained Phosphenium Cation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 202261, e202208401

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Solomon Volodarsky ,   Irina Malahov,   Deependra Bawari,   Mohand Diab,   Naveen Malik,   Boris Tumanskii  and  Roman Dobrovetsky * Geometrically Constrained Square Pyramidal Phosphoranide. Chemical Science 2022, 13 (20), 5957-5963

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Kuldeep Jaiswal, Kristina Groutchik, Deependra Bawari and Roman Dobrovetsky* An “On-Demand”, Selective Dehydrogenative Borylation or Hydroboration of Terminal Alkynes Using Zn+2-based Catalyst.  ChemCatChem 2022, ASAP

Deependra Bawari,   Solomon Volodarsky ,   Yael Ginzburg,   Kuldeep Jaiswal,   Pooja Joshi  and   Roman Dobrovetsky* Phosphorus Mediated Imidazolinium to Oxazolium Ring Rearrangement.  Dalton Trans. 2021, 50, 16478-16482

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Jagadish Das, Daniel Shem-Tov, Shuaizhong Wang, Lei Zhang*, Eli Flaxer, Shijie Zhang, Jörg Stierstorfer, Kangcai Wang, Qi-Long Yan, Roman Dobrovetsky*, Michael Gozin* Hydride- and Boron-free Solid Hypergolic H2O2-Ignitophores. Chem. Eng. J. 2021426, 131806

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Daniel Shem-Tov, Natan Petrutik, Maximilian H. H. Wurzenberger, Melanie Meincke, Eli Flaxer, Boris Tumanskii, Lei Zhang, Roman Dobrovetsky, Sharly Fleischer*, Thomas M. Klapötke* and Jörg Stierstorfer* Low-Power Laser Ignition of an Antenna-Type Secondary Energetic Copper Complex: Synthesis, Characterization, Evaluation, and Ignition Mechanism Studies. Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 10909-10922

Lucas C. Torres , Roman Dobrovetsky and Christopher B. Caputo*  Allenic Phosphonium Borate Zwitterions via a Phosphonium Allenylidene Intermediate Chem. Commun., 202157, 8272-8275

Kuldeep Jaiswal, Naveen Malik, Boris Tumanskii*, Gabriel Ménard, Roman Dobrovetsky*

 Carborane Stabilized “19-Electron” Molybdenum Metalloradical, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 26, 9842–9848

Anthony Wong, Arunavo Chakraborty, Deependra Bawari, Guang Wu, Roman Dobrovetsky, Gabriel Ménard*  Facile proton-coupled electron transfer enabled by coordination-induced E–H bond weakening to boron Chem. Commun., 2021,  57, 6903-6906

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Kristina Groutchik,   Kuldeep Jaiswal  and  Roman Dobrovetsky*  Air-Stable, Zn+2 - Based Catalyst for Hydrosilylation of Alkenes and Alkynes. Org. Biomol. Chem., 2021, 19, 5544-5550

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Abhishek Baheti, Roman Dobrovetsky, Arkadi Vigalok*  Fluorophore-Appendant 5, 5′-Bicalixarene Scaffolds for Host–Guest Sensing of Nitric Oxide. Org. Lett., 2020, 22, 24, 9706–9711.

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Roman Dobrovetsky (2020). Boron‐Based Frustrated Lewis Pairs in Organic Transformations. In PATAI'S Chemistry of Functional Groups, Z. Rappoport (Ed.). doi:10.1002/9780470682531.pat0981

Anthony Wong, Jiaxiang Chu, Guang Wu, Joshua Telser, Roman Dobrovetsky, and Gabriel Ménard*

 Redox-Controlled Reactivity at Boron: Parallels to Frustrated Lewis/Radical Pair Chemistry. Inorg. Chem., 2020, Accepted

Kuldeep Jaiswal, Karina Chulsky, Mark Gandelman, and Roman Dobrovetsky*  O-Carboranylene Versus Phenylene Backbones in Cyclization Reactions of 1,2 Di-ketones with Hydrosilanes. Organometallics, 2020, Accepted

Natali Ashush, Reut Fallek, Amit Fallek, Roman Dobrovetsky, Moshe Portnoy*  Base- and Catalyst-induced Orthogonal Site-selectivities in Acylation of Amphiphilic Diols. Org. Lett., 2020, ASAP

Amit Fallek, Mor Weiss-Shtofman, Maria Kramer, Roman Dobrovetsky* and Moshe Portnoy*  Phosphorylation Organocatalysts Highly Active by Design. Org. Lett., 2020, ASAP

Yulia Livshits-Kritsman,   Boris L. Tumanskii,   Gabriel Menard  and  Roman Dobrovetsky*  Isolable Cyclic (Alkyl)(amino)carbene−Phosphonyl Radical Adducts. Chem. Commun., 202056, 1341-1344 (Chosen for Hot Article in Chem Comm)

Megan Keener, Camden Hunt, Timothy G. Carroll, Vladimir Kampel, Roman Dobrovetsky, Trevor W. Hayton, Gabriel Ménard,* Redox-switchable carboranes for uranium capture and release. Nature 2020, 577 (7792), 652-655.

Kuldeep Jaiswal,  Solomon Volodarsky ,  Vladimir Kampel and Roman Dobrovetsky* A Self-Catalyzed Reaction of 1,2-Dibenzoyl o-Carborane with Hydrosilanes – Formation of New Hydrofuranes. Chem. Commun., 2019, 55 (70), 10448-10451

Timothy G. Carroll,  Camden Hunt,  Rachel Garwick,  Guang Wu, Roman Dobrovetsky and Gabriel Ménard* An untethered C3v-symmetric triarylphosphine oxide locked by intermolecular hydrogen bonding, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55 (26), 3761-3764

Dana Kaizerman-Kane, Maya Hadar, Noam Tal, Roman Dobrovetsky,* Yossi Zafrani,* Yoram Cohen* pH‐Responsive Pillar[6]arene‐based Water‐Soluble Supramolecular Hexagonal Boxes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019 58 (16), 5302-5306

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Shira Wexler, Hilla Schayek, Kandhikonda Rajendar, Iris Tal, Eilon Shani,  Yasmine Meroz, Roman Dobrovetsky and Roy Weinstain* Characterizing gibberellin flow in planta using photocaged gibberellins. Chem. Sci. 2019, 10 (5), 1500-1505  

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Karina Chulsky and Roman Dobrovetsky* Metal-Free Catalytic Reductive Cleavage of Enol Ethers. Org. Lett. 2018 20, 21, 6804

Jiaxiang Chu, Timothy G. Carroll, Guang Wu, Joshua Telser, Roman Dobrovetsky* and Gabriel Ménard* Investigating the Proposed C–H Reactivity of Vanadium Phosphate Oxide P=O Bonds Using a Silyl Radical Transfer Reagent: Analogies to PCET, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 201814045, 15375

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Kangcai Wang, Ajay Kumar Chinnam, Natan Petrutik, Eswaravara Prasadarao Komarala, Qinghua Zhang,* Qi-Long Yan,* Roman Dobrovetsky,* and Michael Gozin* Iodocuprate-containing Ionic Liquids as Promoters for Green Propulsion, J. Mat. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 22819

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Ajay  Chinnam, Nathan  Petrutik, Kangcai Wang, Avital Shlomovich, Olga  Shamis, Daniel Shem Tov, Qi-Long Yan,* Roman Dobrovetsky *, Michael Gozin * Effects of closo-Icosahedral Periodoborane Salts on Hypergolic Reaction  of 70% H2O2 with Energetic Ionic Liquid, J. Mat. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 19989 

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Arseni Kostenko and Roman Dobrovetsky* The Role of the Fluoro- Hydrido- Phosphorane Intermediate in Catalytic Hydrosilylation of Acetophenone: Computational Study, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2019 (2-3), 318-322

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Zisu Wang, Wenhua Bi, Chris Gendy, Yael Gottlieb, Roman Dobrovetsky*, Thomas Baumgartner* An Unexpected ‘Step-Conjugated’ Biphosphole via Unprecedented P-P Bond Formation, Chem, 20184, 11, 2628

Solomon Volodarsky and Roman Dobrovetsky* Ambiphilic Geometrically Constrained Phosphenium Cation. Chem Comm.2018, 54, 6931

Karina Chulsky and Roman Dobrovetsky* B(C6F5)3 Catalyzed Selective Chlorination of Hydrosilanes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.201756, 4744

Thorsten vom Stein, Manuel Peréz, Roman Dobrovetsky, Daniel Winkelhaus, Christopher B. Caputo, and Douglas W. Stephan* Electrophilic Fluorophosphonium Cations in FLP Hydrogen Activation and Catalytic Hydrogenation of Olefins. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.201554, 10178

Daniel Winkelhaus, Michael H. Holthausen, Roman Dobrovetsky, Douglas W.Stephan*

Phosphine and Carbene Azido-Cations: [(L)N3]+ and [(L)2N3]+

Chem. Sci.20156, 6367

Michael H. Holthausen, Julia M. Bayne, Ian Mallov, Roman Dobrovetsky, and Douglas W. Stephan,* 1,2-Diphosphonium Dication: A Strong Lewis Acid for FLP-type B−H, Si−H, C−H and H−H Bond Activation. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2015137, 7298-7301

Christopher B. Caputo,  Roman Dobrovetsky, Daniel Winkelhaus and Douglas W. Stephan*

Synthesis and Lewis Acidity of Fluorophosphonium Cations. Dalton Transactions2015, 12256-12264

Manuel Pérez, Zheng-Wang Qu, Christopher B. Caputo,  Vitali Podgorny, Lindsay J. Hounjet, Andreas Hansen, Roman Dobrovetsky, Stefan Grimme,* and Douglas W. Stephan*

Hydrosilylation of Ketones, Imines, and Nitriles Catalyzed by Electrophilic Phosphonium Cations: Functional Group Selectivity and Mechanistic Considerations. Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, 6491 –6500

 

Roman Dobrovetsky, Katsuhiko Takeuchi, Douglas W. Stephan,*

Metal-free Lewis Acid Mediated Dehydrocoupling of Phosphines and Concurrent Hydrogenation. Chem. Comm, 2015, 51, 2396-2398

Roman Dobrovetsky, Douglas W. Stephan,*

tBu3P/ZnR2 (R = Et, I) Frustrated Lewis Pairs Catalyzed Functionalization and Reduction of CO2 Israel Journal of Chemistry, 2014, 206-209

Manuel Pérez, Christopher B. Caputo, Roman Dobrovetsky, Douglas W. Stephan,*

Metal-Free Transfer Hydrogenation of Olefins via Dehydrocoupling Catalysis.

PNAS 2014, 111, 10917–10921

Manuel Pérez, Lindsay J. Hounjet, Christopher B. Caputo, Roman Dobrovetsky, Douglas W. Stephan,* Olefin Isomerization and Hydrosilylation Catalysis by Lewis Acidic Organofluorophosphonium Salts.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013135, 18308–18310.

Christopher B. Caputo, Lindsay J. Hounjet, Roman Dobrovetsky, Douglas W. Stephan*

Lewis Acidity of Organofluorophosphonium Salts: Hydrodefluorination by a Saturated Acceptor.

Science, 2013, 341, 1374 

Roman Dobrovetsky, Douglas W. Stephan,*

Stoichiometric Metal-Free Reduction of CO in Syn-Gas

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135 (13), 4974–4977

Roman Dobrovetsky, Douglas W. Stephan,*

Catalytic Reduction of CO2 to CO Using Zn(II) and In situ Generated Carbodiphosphoranes 

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 201352, 2516 –2519

Lieby Zborovsky, Roman Dobrovetsky, Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii,* Mark Botoshansky and Yitzhak Apeloig,*

Synthesis of Silenyllithiums Li(R′3Si)Si=C(SiR3)(1-Ad) via Transient Silyne−Silylidene Intermediates

J. Am. Chem. Soc.2012, 134, 18229−18232

Roman Dobrovetsky, Yosi Kratish, Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii,* Mark Botashansky and Yitzhak Apeloig,*

Radical Activation of Si-H Bonds, by Organozinc and Silylzinc Reagents: Synthesis Geminal Dizinciosilanes and Zinciolithiosilanes

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2012, 51, 4671 –4675

Roman Dobrovetsky, Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii,* Boris Tumanskii, Mark Botashansky and Yitzhak Apeloig,*

Synthesis, Isolation, and Characterization of 1,1-diGrignard and 1,1-Dizincio Silanes

Angewandte Chemie International Edition2010, 49, 7086 - 7088

Roman Dobrovetsky, Lieby Zborovsky, Dennis Sheberla, Mark Botoshansky, Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii* and Yitzhak Apeloig,*

The First Isolated Silenolate (R3Si)2Si=C(OLi)1-Ad with a Doubly-Bonded Silicon Atom

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2010, 49, 4084 - 4087

Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii,* Roman Dobrovetsky, Dmitry Nemirovsky, Victoria Molev, Michael Bendikov, Gregory Molev, Mark Botashansky and Yitzhak Apeloig,*

The Synthesis and Isolation of the First Metal Substituted Bis(Silene)

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2008, 47, 4343-4345

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