Anastasios Polyzos

Flow-Assisted Synthesis of Alkyl Citrate Natural Products

Nikolai Piers Rossouw, Mark A Rizzacasa, Anastasios Polyzos

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

The development of a flow-assisted synthesis of alkyl citrate natural products is described. The flow route harnesses a number of ..

A Solid-Phase Assisted Flow Approach to In Situ Wittig-Type Olefination Coupling

Joseph Tadros, Christian Dankers, Janice R Aldrich-Wright, Anastasios Polyzos, Christopher P Gordon

Journal article  |  2021  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Described herein is the development of a continuous flow, solid-phase triphenylphosphine (PS-PPh3) assisted protocol to facilitate..

Reductive Activation and Hydrofunctionalization of Olefins by Multiphoton Tandem Photoredox Catalysis

Milena L Czyz, Mitchell S Taylor, Tyra H Horngren, Anastasios Polyzos

Journal article  |  2021  |  ACS CATALYSIS

The conversion of olefin feedstocks to architecturally complex alkanes represents an important strategy in the expedient generatio..

Fluorinated Ketones as Trapping Reagents for Visible-Light-Induced Singlet Nucleophilic Carbenes

Daniel L Priebbenow, Rowan L Pilkington, Kyle N Hearn, Anastasios Polyzos

Journal article  |  2021  |  ORGANIC LETTERS

Singlet nucleophilic carbenes (SNCs) containing only one heteroatom donor remain underutilized in chemical synthesis. We recently ..

Enone-promoted decarboxylation of trans-4-hydroxy-l-proline in flow: a side-by-side comparison to batch

Rowan L Pilkington, Madeleine A Dallaston, G Paul Savage, Craig M Williams, Anastasios Polyzos

Journal article  |  2021  |  REACTION CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING

An efficient and scalable enone-promoted method for the decarboxylation of trans-4-hydroxy-proline has been developed in flow to p..

A Two-Step Catalytic Cycle for the Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Ethane by Group 10 Metal Complexes: Role of the Metal in Reactivity and Selectivity

Kevin Parker, Geethika K Weragoda, Allan J Canty, Anastasios Polyzos, Victor Ryzhov, Richard AJ O'Hair

Journal article  |  2020  |  Organometallics

Acceptorless dehydrogenation of ethane was achieved in the gas phase via a two-step catalytic cycle involving ternary cationic met..

Gas-Phase Models for the Nickel- and Palladium-Catalyzed Deoxygenation of Fatty Acids

Kevin Parker, Geethika K Weragoda, Victoria Pho, Allan J Canty, Anastasios Polyzos, Richard AJ O'Hair, Victor Ryzhov

Journal article  |  2020  |  CHEMCATCHEM

Using fatty acids as renewable sources of biofuels requires deoxygenation. While a number of promising catalysts have been develop..

Tandem Photoredox Catalysis: Enabling Carbonylative Amidation of Aryl and Alkylhalides

Jose A Forni, Nenad Micic, Timothy U Connell, Geethika Weragoda, Anastasios Polyzos

Journal article  |  2020  |  ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

We report a new visible-light-mediated carbonylative amidation of aryl, heteroaryl, and alkyl halides. A tandem catalytic cycle of..

Photoexcited Pd(ii) auxiliaries enable light-induced control in C(sp(3))-H bond functionalisation

Milena L Czyz, Geethika K Weragoda, Tyra H Horngren, Timothy U Connell, Daniel Gomez, Richard AJ O'Hair, Anastasios Polyzos

Journal article  |  2020  |  CHEMICAL SCIENCE

Herein we report the photophysical and photochemical properties of palladacycle complexes derived from 8-aminoquinoline ligands, c..

A Visible Light Photoredox Catalysed Radical Pictet-Spengler Reaction*

Theerada Seehamongkol, Tyra H Horngren, Mohammed AM Alhajji, Joshua Almond-Thynne, Milena L Czyz, Anthony J Barrett, Anastasios Polyzos

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

A methodology for a radical Pictet-Spengler reaction promoted by visible light photoredox catalysis is described. This strategy fu..