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 · 93 citations · Full text

Purification Method, Chemical Engineering, Engineering +14

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 · 76 citations

Engineering, Heterocyclic, Biochemistry +12

Why Are Vinyl Cations Sluggish Electrophiles?

Peter Byrne, Shinjiro Kobayashi, E.‐U. Würthwein et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2017 · 71 citations

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 · 52 citations · Full text

Nmr Spectroscopic Evidence, P=c Bond, Engineering +12

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

Peter Byrne, Y. Ortin, Declan G. Gilheany · Chemical Communications · 2014 · 49 citations · Full text