Robert Pollice

#RobSelects paper of the week #J_A_C_S: Amino-trifluoromethylation of alkenes with ammonium salts and the Togni reagent II enabled by carbonyl catalysis. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c18373

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Formation of oxazolines from carboxylic acids and primary amines catalyzed by phosphoryl-substituted boronic acids. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15010757/v1

#RobSelects paper of the week #angew_chem: Atroposelective iodination of aminopyrimidines and anilines via chiral Brønsted base catalysis. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.7073485

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Direct photochemical aminomethylation of tetrahedral carbon-hydrogen bonds via hydrogen atom transfer. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15010233/v1

#RobSelects paper of the week #NatureChemistry: Radical-radical cross-coupling of alkyl carboxylic acids and alkyl boronic acids enabled by redox-matched alternating polarity electrolysis #catalysis https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-026-02237-z

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Formal diastereoselective deoxygenative dialkylation of enantioenriched vinyl epoxides through two consecutive organocopper-mediated substitutions. #orgchem https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15009886/v1

#RobSelects paper of the week #J_A_C_S: Photocatalytic conditions for Wolff-Kishner reduction without strong base. #catalyst https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c16630

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: A foundation model for proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. #aichem https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15007823/v2

#RobSelects paper of the week #J_A_C_S: 4-Dimethylaminopyridine-trapped hydroxycarbenes as nucleophiles reacting with aldehydes to form cross-benzoin products. #orgchem https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c14714

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Mimicking human solid manipulation with a bimanual robot platform. #autochem https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15009421/v1

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Electron-transfer-catalyzed dearomative bis-silylation of diarylketones. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15008908/v1

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: An efficient, reciprocal-space, and rotationally invariant power spectrum descriptor for crystalline materials. #cheminf https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15008615/v1

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Intermolecular photocatalyzed aza-Paternò-Büchi reaction between n-phosphinyl imines and unactivated alkenes. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15007906/v1

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: A thio-Mannich type three-component reaction with a carbon nucleophile and a sulfur nucleophile using sodium hydroxymethylsulfinate as one-carbon source. #orgchem https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15007512/v1

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Phenoxythiazoline-supported cobalt-catalyzed cross-coupling of aryl bronic acids with alkyl halides promoted by triisopropyl borate. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15007381/v1

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Reformulating g-xTB in the overlapping subsystem-based divide-and-conquer approach. #compchem https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15007156/v1

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Dithiophosphoric acids as organocatalysts for radical chemistry. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15006758/v1

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Mitsunobu reaction via iminophosphoranes formed in situ from aryl azides and trialkyl phosphines. #orgchem https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15006188/v2

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Nickel-catalyzed enantioselective cross-coupling of alpha-bromo amides with alkylzirconocenes under blue light irradiation #catalysis https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15005912/v1

#RobSelects paper of the week #angew_chem: Deaminative alkynylation of aliphatic primary amines with alkynyl bromides. #orgchem https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.1809869

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Nickel(0)-olefin pincer-catalyzed hydrogenation of carbonyls under mild conditions. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15005286/v1

#RobSelects paper of the week #angew_chem: Chiral phosphine-ligated enantioselective palladium-catalyzed aminoarylation of protected ortho-allyl anilines with aryl bromides. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.8602143

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Telemetry enables continuous thermometric and calorimetric monitoring of chemical reactions. #autochem https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15005162/v1

#RobSelects paper of the week #Chem: Copper-catalyzed enantioconvergent coupling of alkyl radicals with secondary phosphine oxides. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2026.103100

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Photocatalyzed sulfonylative Pauson-Khand type reaction on 1,6-enynes. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15004788/v1

#RobSelects paper of the week #NatureChemistry: Switchable copper-catalyzed N-alpha or N-beta arylation of 3-substituted pyrazoles via ligand choice #catalysis https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-026-02148-z

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: A density functional approximation incorporating a multilayer perceptron having integrals of local descriptors as features. #theochem https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15004450/v2

#RobSelects paper of the week #J_A_C_S: Ortho-carbon-hydrogen-alyklation of bromoarenes catalyzed by an imidazole-olefin-ligated palladium complex. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c02010

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Multi-agent framework for planning and evaluating safety in chemistry and materials laboratories. #aichem https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15004378/v1

#RobSelects paper of the week #OrgLett: Isothiourea-catalyzed enantioselective higher-order cycloaddition of photochemically generated ketenes with triflate-substituted tropolones. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.6c01642

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Reaction of iron carbenes with diazenes to form metallacyclobutanes that undergo subsequent cycloreversion. #orgmet https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-10kzk/v2

#RobSelects paper of the week #J_A_C_S: Pincer-ligated cobalt-catalyzed four-component carbocarbonylation to form unsymmetric aliphatic ketones. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c06343

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Nickel-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura cross coupling of ketones with boronic esters via in-situ ketone derivatization. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15003005/v1

#RobSelects paper of the week #J_A_C_S: Coupling between two tetrahedral carbon centers from an amine and a carboxylic acid catalyzed by an iron porphyrin forming quaternary carbons. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c05065

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Palladium-copper co-catalyzed carbenylative Buchwald-Hartwig coupling between aryl halides, N-tosylhydrazones, and anilines. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15002705/v1

#RobSelects paper of the week #JCTC: Incorporating neural networks into the PBE functional for local density-dependent reparameterization of exchange and correlation terms. #aichem https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.6c00270

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Stereoselective nickel metallaphotoredox-catalyzed carbon-carbon cross-coupling of alcohols with gem-dibromoalkenes. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15002635/v1

#RobSelects paper of the week ScienceMagazine: Diastereoselective silver-catalyzed carbon-hydrogen activation and carbon-nitrogen bond formation with chiral sulfonimidamide reactants. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aee3321

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Addition of hydroxylamines across cyclooctynes to form nitrones. #orgchem https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15002347/v1

#RobSelects paper of the week #NatureCatalysis: Atroposelective nucleophilic aromatic substitution of fluoronaphthalenes with phenols catalyzed by a chiral phosphonium salt. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-026-01522-x

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Integrating deep generative models into automated transition state discovery workflows. #aichem https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15002135/v1

#RobSelects paper of the week #ScienceMagazine: Carbazole-substituted pyridine bis(oxazoline) complexes as a readily accessible family of potent chiral photocatalysts. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aeb5832

#RobSelects preprint of the week #ChemRxiv: Methylbutyl boronate salt as methylation reagent in Suzuki-Miyaura cross couplings. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15001572/v1

#RobSelects paper of the week #J_A_C_S: Excited-state nucleophilic aromatic substitution of nitroarenes. #orgchem https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c21841

#RobSelects paper of the week #ScienceMagazine: Approaching a liquid-liquid critical point in supercooled water via infrared ultrafast laser pulses. #physchem https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aec0018

#RobSelects paper of the week J_A_C_S: Discovering approximate non-iterative algorithms for matrix-based electronic structure calculations via symbolic regression. #compchem https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c22323

#RobSelects paper of the week J_A_C_S: Discovering approximate non-iterative algorithms for matrix-based electronic structure calculations via symbolic regression. #compchem https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c22323

#RobSelects paper of the week #J_A_C_S: Asymmetric Sm-catalyzed carbon-carbon coupling between alkenes and ketones forming tertiary alcohols. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c20884

#RobSelects paper of the week #ScienceMagazine: Intramolecular peptide-catalyst-controlled stereoselective Michael addition between the enamine of an aldehyde and a ketovinylester. #catalysis https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aec8992

#RobSelects paper of the week #ScienceMagazine: Single-molecule vibrational spectroscopy via tunable femtosecond infrared excitation and cryogenic ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy. #physchem https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adz6643