Dobrovetsky's Research Group
Main Group Chemistry • Catalysis • Small Molecule Activation
School of Chemistry, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Publications
Shiv Kumar, Deependra Bawari*, Roman Dobrovetsky* Bis(pyridino-o-carboranyl)phosphenium Cation: A Platform for Dual-Site Reactivity. Inorg. Chem. 2026, 65 (27), 15640–15650.
Donia Toami, Roman Dobrovetsky* Structurally Constrained Stibenium: Metallomimetic C− Si Bond Activation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2026, 65 (25), e3059944.
Nardeen Safadi, Vladimir Kampel, and Roman Dobrovetsky* Substituent effects on o-carborane reactivity with cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbenes. Inorg. Chem. Front., 2026, Advance Article.
Deependra Bawari *, Donia Toami, and Roman Dobrovetsky* Advancing metallomimetic catalysis through structural constraints of cationic PIII species. Chem. Commun., 2025, 61, 5871-5882.
Deependra Bawari, Irina Malahov, and Roman Dobrovetsky* Sb-to-P Metathesis - A Direct Route to Structurally Constrained, Cationic PIII Compound. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202419772.
Deependra Bawari, Donia Toami, Kuldeep Jaiswal and Roman Dobrovetsky*,
Hydrogen splitting at a single phosphorus centre and its use for hydrogenation. Nat. Chem., 2024, 1261–1266 (2024).
Itay Raz, Roman Dobrovetsky* Highly Chemoselective Zn(+2)-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Alkynes. Chem. Eur. J., 2023, Accepted Articles
Mohanad Diab, Kuldeep Jaiswal, Deependra 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., 2023, 10.1021/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., 2022, 58 (87), 12176-12179
Solomon Volodarsky, Deependra Bawari, Roman Dobrovetsky* Dual Reactivity of a Geometrically Constrained Phosphenium Cation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202208401
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
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
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. 2021, 426, 131806
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., 2021, 57, 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
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
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.
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., 2020, 56, 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
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
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., 2018, 140, 45, 15375
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
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
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
Zisu Wang, Wenhua Bi, Chris Gendy, Yael Gottlieb, Roman Dobrovetsky*, Thomas Baumgartner* An Unexpected ‘Step-Conjugated’ Biphosphole via Unprecedented P-P Bond Formation, Chem, 2018, 4, 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., 2017, 56, 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., 2015, 54, 10178
Daniel Winkelhaus, Michael H. Holthausen, Roman Dobrovetsky, Douglas W.Stephan*
Phosphine and Carbene Azido-Cations: [(L)N3]+ and [(L)2N3]+
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 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., 2015, 137, 7298-7301
Christopher B. Caputo, Roman Dobrovetsky, Daniel Winkelhaus and Douglas W. Stephan*
Synthesis and Lewis Acidity of Fluorophosphonium Cations. Dalton Transactions, 2015, 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. 2013, 135, 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, 2013, 52, 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 Edition, 2010, 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