Peter Byrne

A convenient and mild chromatography-free method for the purification of the products of Wittig and Appel reactions

Peter Byrne, Kamalraj V. Rajendran, Jimmy Muldoon et al. · Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry · 2012 · 95 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Green Chemistry +6

Unequivocal Experimental Evidence for a Unified Lithium Salt-Free Wittig Reaction Mechanism for All Phosphonium Ylide Types: Reactions with β-Heteroatom-Substituted Aldehydes Are Consistently Selective for <i>cis</i>-Oxaphosphetane-Derived Products

Peter Byrne, Declan G. Gilheany · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2012 · 77 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Catalysis +11

Why Are Vinyl Cations Sluggish Electrophiles?

Peter Byrne, Shinjiro Kobayashi, E.‐U. Würthwein et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2017 · 72 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Chemical Kinetics +13

The Mechanism of Phosphonium Ylide Alcoholysis and Hydrolysis: Concerted Addition of the O−H Bond Across the P=C Bond

Peter Byrne, Declan G. Gilheany · Chemistry - A European Journal · 2016 · 56 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +10

First ever observation of the intermediate of phosphonium salt and ylide hydrolysis: P-hydroxytetraorganophosphorane

Peter Byrne, Y. Ortin, Declan G. Gilheany · Chemical Communications · 2014 · 52 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +6