Uta Wille

Oxidative Damage of S‐Containing Amino Acids by the Environmental Radical NO 3 . : A Kinetic, Product and Computational Study

Jiaxing Cui, Joses G Nathanael, Uta Wille

Journal article  |  2021  |  ChemistrySelect

Synthesis of spirocyclic heterocycles from alpha,beta-unsaturated N-acyliminium ions

Thanphat Thaima, Arife Yazici, Chiramet Auranwiwat, Anthony C Willis, Uta Wille, Thunwadee Limtharakul, Stephen G Pyne

Journal article  |  2021  |  Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

The reactions of α,β-unsaturated N-acyliminium ions, generated in situ from 4(S)-O-substitutedhydroxy-5-hydroxy-5-vinyl-N-alkylpyr..

Ring Expansion of Thiolactams via Imide Intermediates: An Amino Acid Insertion Strategy

Jing Shang, Varsha J Thombare, Carlie L Charron, Uta Wille, Craig A Hutton

Journal article  |  2020  |  Chemistry - A European Journal

The AgI -promoted reaction of thiolactams with N-Boc amino acids yields an N-(α-aminoacyl) lactam that can rearrange through an ac..

Oxidative damage of proline residues by nitrate radicals (NO3): a kinetic and product study

Joses G Nathanael, Jonathan M White, Annika Richter, Madison R Nuske, Uta Wille

Journal article  |  2020  |  Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Tertiary amides, such as in N-acylated proline or N-methyl glycine residues, react rapidly with nitrate radicals (NO3˙) with absol..

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

Gas‐phase reaction of the aromatic distonic radical cations 4‐Pyr+. and 3‐Pyr+. with amines led to formation of the corresponding ..

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

Kinetic and computational data reveal a complex behavior of the important environmental free radical oxidant NO3• in its reactions..

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

The ground-state rearrangement and decomposition of methyl vinyl ketone (MVK) and methacrolein (MACR) has been investigated using ..