Timothy A. Ayers

Ligand Electronic Effects in Asymmetric Catalysis: Enhanced Enantioselectivity in the Asymmetric Hydrocyanation of Vinylarenes

Albert L. Casalnuovo, T. V. RajanBabu, Timothy A. Ayers et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1994 · 295 citations

Chemical Engineering, Enantioselective Synthesis, Engineering +12

Carbohydrate Phosphinites as Practical Ligands in Asymmetric Catalysis:  Electronic Effects and Dependence of Backbone Chirality in Rh-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenations. Synthesis of <i>R</i>- or <i>S</i>-Amino Acids Using Natural Sugars as Ligand Precursors

T. V. RajanBabu, Timothy A. Ayers, Gary A. Halliday et al. · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 1997 · 217 citations

Engineering, Amino Acids, Organic Chemistry +17

Electronic Amplification of Selectivity in Rh-Catalyzed Hydrogenations: D-Glucose-Derived Ligands for the Synthesis of D- or L-Amino Acids

T. V. RajanBabu, Timothy A. Ayers, Albert L. Casalnuovo · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1994 · 157 citations

D-glucose-derived Ligands, Molecular Sciences, Engineering +15

Electronic effects in asymmetric catalysis: Hydroformylation of olefins

T. V. RajanBabu, Timothy A. Ayers · Tetrahedron Letters · 1994 · 102 citations

Engineering, Alkene Metathesis, Organic Chemistry +4

Electronic Effects in Asymmetric Catalysis:  Structural Studies of Precatalysts and Intermediates in Rh-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Dimethyl Itaconate and Acetamidocinnamic Acid Derivatives Using <i>C</i>₂-Symmetric Diarylphosphinite Ligands

T. V. RajanBabu, Branko Radetich, Kamfia K. You et al. · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 1999 · 88 citations

Novel Organocatalysts, P Nmr, Engineering +13