Prof Uta Wille

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FEATURED Journal article

Reactions of a distonic peroxyl radical anion influenced by SOMO-HOMO conversion: an example of anion-directed channel switching

Uta Wille's selected work

Connecting Soil Nitrogen And Plant Uptake For Greener Agriculture

NEWS ARTICLE

Reaction of Distonic Aryl and Alkyl Radical Cations with Amines: The Role of Charge and Sp..

Journal article

Connecting Soil Nitrogen And Plant Uptake For Greener Agriculture

Research Grant

Women in research rewarded for taking a risk

NEWS ARTICLE

1,2-Addition versus homoconjugate addition reactions of indoles and electron-rich arenes t..

Projects

Displaying the 36 most recent projects by Uta Wille.

Connecting Soil Nitrogen And Plant Uptake For Greener Agriculture

2020 - 2023

Active

Connecting Soil Nitrogen And Plant Uptake For Greener Agriculture

2020 - 2023

Active

ARC Training Centre For The Chemical Industries (UOM Contribution)

The ARC Training Centre for the Chemical Industries will foster a world-class environment of transformative innovative research in Australia..

2018 - 2023

Active

ARC Training Centre For The Chemical Industries (Arc-Qiao Child)

The ARC Training Centre for the Chemical Industries will foster a world-class environment of transformative innovative research in Australia..

2018 - 2023

Active

New Synthetic Strategies To Small Cyclic Peptides

This project aims to invent new synthetic strategies that enable chemical manipulation of small cyclic peptides, a promising class of biolog..

2018 - 2021

Active

New Fertiliser Technologies For Sustained Food Security

This project aims to provide fundamental research to develop next-generation fertiliser products that will improve nitrogen use efficiency, ..

2017 - 2020

Active

New Fertiliser Technologies For Sustained Food Security

This project aims to provide fundamental research to develop next-generation fertiliser products that will improve nitrogen use efficiency, ..

2017 - 2020

Active

New Fertiliser Technologies For Sustained Food Security

This project aims to provide fundamental research to develop next-generation fertiliser products that will improve nitrogen use efficiency, ..

2017 - 2020

Active

Decoding The Mechanism Of Environmental Polymer Degradation

This project will use the powerful combination of mass spectrometry and computational chemistry to tease out key aspects of polymer degradat..

2017 - 2019

Completed

Extending Frontiers Of Structural Chemistry And Biology Through High Resolution Pulsed Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

Multifrequency high resolution pulsed Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) instrumentation will provide forefront technologies in identifyi..

2013 - 2013

Completed

Extending Frontiers Of Structural Chemistry And Biology Through High Resolution Pulsed Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

Multifrequency high resolution pulsed Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) instrumentation will provide forefront technologies in identifyi..

2013 - 2014

Completed

Radical Intermediates In Photo-Catalysis With Visible Light

2013 - 2014

Completed

Advanced Characterisation Of Materials By Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Advanced characterisation of materials by nuclear magnetic resonance will support a broad range of research possibilities for development of..

2011 - 2012

Completed

Improving Energy Efficiency Through Cool Polymers In Building Materials

The advantages of using cool polymers in industrial applications such as building materials are significant. Cooler buildings are a positive..

2009 - 2012

Completed

Improving Energy Efficiency Through Cool Polymers In Building Materials

The advantages of using cool polymers in industrial applications such as building materials are significant. Cooler buildings are a positive..

2009 - 2012

Completed

Enhanced Capacity In Ultra-Trace Level Detection And Speciation Of Compounds Of Environmental, Biological And Materials Science Interest

The proposed integrated facility will strongly support collaborative research in areas of high national priority. These are environmental su..

2009 - 2009

Completed

Development Of New Pathways For The Oxidative Transformation Of Alkynes Into Highly Reactive Carbonyl Compounds.

2008 - 2010

Completed

Computational Studies On The Role Of Dual Orbital Interactions On The Regioselectivity Of Radical Reactions With Systems

2007 - 2008

Completed

Centre For Free Radical Chemistry And Biotechnology

2005 - 2015

Completed

X-Ray Molecular Structure Elucidation Facility (Msef)

X-ray diffraction plays a key role in identification and molecular characterization. X-ray techniques are the single most widely used analyt..

Oxidative Damage Of Airway Surfaces: Understanding The Synergistic Effects Arising From Exposure To The Air Pollutants, Nitrogen Dioxide And Ozone

Completed

Atmospheric Free-Radicals: Exploring The Role Of Nitrate Radicals In The Oxidative Damage Of Bio-Surfaces

This project falls within the National Research Priority 2 (Promoting and Maintaining Good Health) as identified by the ARC, specifically Pr..

Reaction Kinetics Analysis Facility

This proposal will establish a world-class resource to support major research efforts in a wide range of applications associated with the st..

Enhanced Capacity In Ultra-Trace Level Detection And Speciation Of Compounds Of Environmental, Biological And Materials Science Interest

The proposed integrated facility will strongly support collaborative research in areas of high national priority. These are environmental su..

Exploring The Frontiers Of Free-Radical Chemistry: Self-Terminating Radical Reactions

Self-terminating free-radical reactions are a new concept in the chemist's synthetic armory. This innovative technique, invented by the chie..

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 103 most recent scholarly works by Uta Wille.

Reactions of a distonic peroxyl radical anion influenced by SOMO-HOMO conversion: an example of anion-directed channel switching

Sui So, Benjamin B Kirk, Uta Wille, Adam J Trevitt, Stephen J Blanksby, Gabriel da Silva

Journal article | 2020 | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

In free radicals the singly occupied molecular orbital (SOMO) typically has the highest energy. Recent examples of distonic radica..

Reaction of Distonic Aryl and Alkyl Radical Cations with Amines: The Role of Charge and Spin Revealed by Mass Spectrometry, Kinetic Studies, and DFT Calculations

Benjamin Andrikopoulos, Parvinder K Sidhu, Bethany Taggert, Joses G Nathanael, Richard AJ O'Hair, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2020 | ChemPlusChem

1,2-Addition versus homoconjugate addition reactions of indoles and electron-rich arenes to alpha-cyclopropyl N-acyliminium ions: synthetic and computational studies

Greg M Ryder, Uta Wille, Anthony C Willis, Stephen G Pyne

Journal article | 2019 | Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

An investigation of the reactivity of α-cyclopropyl N-acyliminium ions towards indoles has resulted in the unprecedented synthesis..

Oxidative Damage in Aliphatic Amino Acids and Di- and Tripeptides by the Environmental Free Radical Oxidant NO3 center dot: The Role of the Amide Bond Revealed by Kinetic and Computational Studies

Joses G Nathanael, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2019 | The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Photophysical insights and guidelines for blue "turn-on" fluorescent probes for the direct detection of nitric oxide (NO center dot) in biological systems

Mina Barzegar Amiri Olia, Amber N Hancock, Carl H Schiesser, Lars Goerigk, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2019 | Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry

Photoisomerization of Methyl Vinyl Ketone and Methacrolein in the Troposphere: A Theoretical Investigation of Ground-State Reaction Pathways

Sui So, Uta Wille, Gabriel da Silva

Journal article | 2018 | ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Reversible Photoisomerization of the Isolated Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophore

Eduardo Carrascosa, James N Bull, Michael S Scholz, Neville JA Coughlan, Seth Olsen, Uta Wille, Evan J Bieske

Journal article | 2018 | The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Amide Neighbouring-Group Effects in Peptides: Phenylalanine as Relay Amino Acid in Long-Distance Electron Transfer

Joses G Nathanael, Luke F Gamon, Meike Cordes, Paul R Rablen, Thomas Bally, Katharina M Fromm, Bernd Giese, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2018 | ChemBioChem

Environmental Polymer Degradation: Using the Distonic Radical Ion Approach to Study the Gas-Phase Reactions of Model Polyester Radicals

Bethany I Taggert, Richard AJ O'Hair, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2017 | The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Nitrosonium-Mediated Phenol-Arene Cross-Coupling Involving Direct C-H Activation

Anna Eisenhofer, Uta Wille, Burkhard Koenig

Journal article | 2017 | Australian Journal of Chemistry

Reaction of Amino Acids, Di- and Tripeptides with the Environmental Oxidant NO3 center dot: A Laser Flash Photolysis and Computational Study

Joses G Nathanael, Amber N Hancock, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2016 | Chemistry - An Asian Journal

Oxidative Damage of Biomolecules by the Environmental Pollutants NO2 center dot and NO3 center dot

Luke F Gamon, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2016 | Accounts of Chemical Research

Synthesis of Peptides by Silver-Promoted Coupling of Carboxylates and Thioamides: Mechanistic Insight from Computational Studies

Craig A Hutton, Jing Shang, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2016 | Chemistry - A European Journal

Synthesis of Bridged Heterocycles via Sequential 1,4-and 1,2-Addition Reactions to alpha,beta-Unsaturated N-Acyliminium Ions: Mechanistic and Computational Studies

Arife Yazici, Uta Wille, Stephen G Pyne

Journal article | 2016 | The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Oxidation of cholesterol and O-protected derivatives by the environmental pollutant NO2 center dot

AN Zalewski, JG Nathanael, JM White, U Wille

Journal article | 2016 | Chemical Communications

What Are the Potential Sites of Protein Arylation by N-Acetyl-p-benzoquinone Imine (NAPQI)?

Michael G Leeming, Luke F Gamon, Uta Wille, William A Donald, Richard AJ O'Hair

Journal article | 2015 | Chemical Research in Toxicology

Fragmentation-Rearrangement of Peptide Backbones Mediated by the Air Pollutant NO2 center dot

Luke F Gamon, Joses G Nathanael, Bethany I Taggert, Fraser A Henry, Jana Bogena, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2015 | Chemistry - A European Journal

A Theoretical Study of the Photoisomerization of Glycolaldehyde and Subsequent OH Radical-Initiated Oxidation of 1,2-Ethenediol

Sui So, Uta Wille, Gabriel da Silva

Journal article | 2015 | The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

The role of peroxyl radicals in polyester degradation - a mass spectrometric product and kinetic study using the distonic radical ion approach

BD Gervasoni, GN Khairallah, RAJ O'Hair, U Wille

Journal article | 2015 | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Visible light photooxidation of nitrate: the dawn of a nocturnal radical

T Hering, T Slanina, A Hancock, U Wille, B Koenig

Journal article | 2015 | Chemical Communications

Ion Mobility Unlocks the Photofragmentation Mechanism of Retinal Protonated Schiff Base

NJA Coughlan, BD Adamson, KJ Catani, U Wille, EJ Bieske

Journal article | 2014 | The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Atmospheric Chemistry of Enols: A Theoretical Study of the Vinyl Alcohol OH O-2 Reaction Mechanism

Sui So, Uta Wille, Gabriel da Silva

Journal article | 2014 | Environmental Science & Technology

Mass Spectrometric and Computational Studies on the Reaction of Aromatic Peroxyl Radicals with Phenylacetylene Using the Distonic Radical Ion Approach

George N Khairallah, Richard AJ O'Hair, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2014 | Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Photoisomerization action spectrum of retinal protonated Schiff base in the gas phase

NJA Coughlan, KJ Catani, BD Adamson, U Wille, EJ Bieske

Journal article | 2014 | Journal of Chemical Physics

Reduction of C X to CH_XH by Dissolving Metals and Related Methods

U Wille

Book Chapter | 2014

Unimolecular reaction chemistry of a charge-tagged beta-hydroxyperoxyl radical

Sui So, Benjamin B Kirk, Adam J Trevitt, Uta Wille, Stephen J Blanksby, Gabriel da Silva

Journal article | 2014 | Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

Oxidative damage of aromatic dipeptides by the environmental oxidants NO2 center dot and O-3

LF Gamon, JM White, U Wille

Journal article | 2014 | Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Physical Organic Chemistry

Uta Wille

Journal article | 2014 | Australian Journal of Chemistry

Perylene-based profluorescent nitroxides for the rapid monitoring of polyester degradation upon weathering: An assessment

Paul D Sylvester, Helen E Ryan, Craig D Smith, Aaron S Micallef, Carl H Schiesser, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2013 | Polymer Degradation and Stability

Damage of polyesters by the atmospheric free radical oxidant NO3 center dot: a product study involving model systems

Catrin Goeschen, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2013 | Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

Reaction of Aromatic Peroxyl Radicals with Alkynes: A Mass Spectrometric and Computational Study Using the Distonic Radical Ion Approach

Cong H Li, George N Khairallah, Adrian KY Lam, Richard AJ O'Hair, Benjamin B Kirk, Stephen J Blanksby, Gabriel da Silva, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2013 | Chemistry - An Asian Journal

Radical Cascades Initiated by Intermolecular Radical Addition to Alkynes and Related Triple Bond Systems

Uta Wille

Journal article | 2013 | Chemical Reviews

Reaction of Peroxyl Radicals with Alkynes: A Mass Spectrometric and Computational Study Using the Distonic Radical Ion Approach

C LI, G Khairallah, A LAM, RA O'Hair, B Kirk, S Blanksby, GR Da Silva, U Wille

Journal article | 2013 | Chemistry - An Asian Journal

Synthesis of cyclic peptide hemicryptophanes: enantioselective recognition of a chiral zwitterionic guest

James R Cochrane, Aline Schmitt, Uta Wille, Craig A Hutton

Journal article | 2013 | Chemical Communications

Total Synthesis of Mycocyclosin

James R Cochrane, Jonathan M White, Uta Wille, Craig A Hutton

Journal article | 2012 | Organic Letters

Radical Photochemistry

U Wille

Book Chapter | 2012

Reaction mechanisms: radical and radical ion reactions

Uta Wille

Journal article | 2012 | Royal Society of Chemistry. Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry. Section B: Organic Chemistry

Oxidative Damage of Pyrimidine Nucleosides by the Environmental Free Radical Oxidant NO3 center dot in the Absence and Presence of NO2 center dot and Other Radical and Non-Radical Oxidants

Catrin Goeschen, Jonathan M White, Robert W Gable, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2012 | Australian Journal of Chemistry

Gas-phase reactions of aryl radicals with 2-butyne: an experimental and theoretical investigation employing the N-methyl-pyridinium-4-yl radical cation

Adrian KY Lam, Cong Li, George Khairallah, Benjamin B Kirk, Stephen J Blanksby, Adam J Trevitt, Uta Wille, Richard AJ O'Hair, Gabriel da Silva

Journal article | 2012 | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Oxidative Damage of Pyrimidine Nucleosides by the Environmental Free Radical Oxidant NO3 in the Absence and Presence of NO2 and Other Radical and Non-Radical Oxidants

C Goeschen, JM White, RW Gable, U Wille

Journal article | 2012 | Australian Journal of Chemistry

'Self-terminating radical cyclizations' - new insight into the mechanism of the termination step from computational studies

Uta Wille

Journal article | 2011 | Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry

Damage of aromatic amino acids by the atmospheric free radical oxidant NO3 center dot in the presence of NO2 center dot, N2O4, O-3 and O-2

Catrin Goeschen, Natalia Wibowo, Jonathan M White, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2011 | Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Chemistry

A Blackmann, S BOTTLE, S Schmid, M Mocerino, U Wille

Book | 2011

Oxidative Damage of Thymidines by the Atmospheric Free-Radical Oxidant NO3 center dot

Uta Wille, Catrin Goeschen

Journal article | 2011 | Australian Journal of Chemistry

Reaction mechanisms: radical and radical ion reactions

Uta Wille

Journal article | 2011 | Royal Society of Chemistry. Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry. Section B: Organic Chemistry

Self-Terminating Radical Cyclizations: How Are Thiyl Radicals Performing?

Kristine J Tan, Jonathan M White, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2010 | European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Very Low Energy Electrons Transform the Cyclobutane-Pyrimidine Dimer into a Highly Reactive Intermediate

Achim Edtbauer, Stephan Denifl, Violaine Vizcaino, Lukas An der Lan, Katherine Russell, Joerg Taubitz, Uta Wille, Linda Feketeova, Richard AJ O'Hair, Tilmann D Maerk, Eugen Illenberger, Paul Scheier

Journal article | 2010 | ChemPhysChem

Intermolecular Radical Additions to Alkynes: Cascade-Type Radical Cyclizations

U Wille

Book Chapter | 2010

Formation of pyrimidine dimer radical anions in the gas phase

Achim Edtbauer, Katherine Russell, Linda Feketeova, Joerg Taubitz, Christian Mitterdorfer, Stephan Denifl, Richard AJ O'Hair, Tilmann D Maerk, Paul Scheier, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2009 | Chemical Communications

A computational study of multicomponent orbital interactions during the cyclization of silyl, germyl, and stannyl radicals onto C-N and C-O multiple bonds

Uta Wille, Jeremy C-S Tan, Eva-Katrin Mucke

Journal article | 2008 | Journal of Organic Chemistry

Can the night-time atmospheric oxidant NO(3)(center dot) damage aromatic amino acids?

Duanne CE Sigmund, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2008 | Chemical Communications

N-centered radicals in self-terminating radical cyclizations: Experimental and computational studies

Uta Wille, Gerold Heugert, Christian Jargstorff

Journal article | 2008 | Journal of Organic Chemistry

Activation of molecular oxygen by S-radicals: experimental and computational studies on a novel oxidation of alkynes to alpha-diketones

Kristine J Tan, Uta Wille

Journal article | 2008 | Chemical Communications

Houben-Weyl Science of Synthesis Vol 40b: N-Haloamines

U WILLE

Book Chapter | 2008

Radicals masquerading as electrophiles: Dual orbital effects in nitrogen-philic acyl radical cyclization and related addition reactions

Carl H Schiesser, Uta Wille, Hiroshi Matsubara, Ilhyong Ryu

Journal article | 2007 | Accounts of Chemical Research

Dual orbital effects in N-philic cyclizations of silyl radicals onto imines

U Wille, EK Mucke

Journal article | 2007 | Chemistry Letters

Dual orbital effects in N-philic cyclizations of silyl radicals onto imines

Uta Wille, Eva-Katrin Mucke

Journal article | 2007 | CHEMISTRY LETTERS

The cutting edge - Free Radicals: a highly reactive species.

U WILLE

Book | 2007

Oxidation of aromatic alkynes with nitrate radicals (NO3 center dot): An experimental and computational study on a synthetically highly versatile radical

Uta Wille, Jilliarne Andropof

Journal article | 2007 | Australian Journal of Chemistry

Oxidation of aromatic alkynes with nitrate radicals (NO3 center dot): An experimental and computational study on a synthetically highly versatile radical (vol 60, pg 420, 2007)

Uta Wille, Jilliarne Andropof

Journal article | 2007 | Australian Journal of Chemistry

Chemistry Australasia

A Blackmann, S Bottle, M Mocerino, S Schmid, U WILLE

Book | 2007

Computational study on the 1,2-rearrangement in beta-(nitroxy)vinyl and beta-(acetoxy) vinyl radicals

Uta Wille

Journal article | 2006 | Journal of Organic Chemistry

Mechanistic insights into NO3 center dot induced self-terminating radical oxygenations, Part 1: A computational study on NO3 center dot and its addition to alkynes

U Wille, T Dreessen

Journal article | 2006 | Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Polarity-reversal-catalyzed hydrostannylation reactions: Benzeneselenol-mediated homolytic hydrostannylation of electron-rich olefins

Leigh Ford, Uta Wille, Carl H Schiesser

Journal article | 2006 | Helvetica Chimica Acta

Unexpected dual orbital effects in radical addition reactions involving acyl, silyl and related radicals

CH Schiesser, H Matsubara, I Ritsner, U Wille

Journal article | 2006 | Chemical Communications

Erratum: Alkoxyl radicals as O-synthons in self-terminating radical oxygenations: An experimental and theoretical study (Synthesis (2005) (1437))

D Sigmund, CH Schiesser, U Wille

Journal article | 2005 | Synthesis

Alkoxyl radicals as O-synthons in self-terminating radical oxygenations: An experimental and theoretical study

D Sigmund, CH Schiesser, U Wille

Journal article | 2005 | Synthesis

Self-terminating, oxidative radical cyclizations

T Dreessen, C Jargstorff, L Lietzau, C Plath, A Stademann, U Wille

Journal article | 2004 | Molecules

Oxidative splitting of pyrimidine cyclobutane dimers

U WILLE

Book Chapter | 2004

Dissociative electron transfer to and from pyrimidine cyclobutane dimers: An electrochemical study

F Boussicault, O Kruger, M Robert, U Wille

Journal article | 2004 | Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

NO3 center dot induced self-terminating radical oxygenations: Diastereoselective synthesis of anellated pyrrolidines

A Stademann, U Wille

Journal article | 2004 | Australian Journal of Chemistry

Self-terminating radical oxygenations: Probing of the scope of the concept by use of various organic O-centered radicals

C Jargstorff, U Wille

Journal article | 2003 | European Journal of Organic Chemistry