Nicholas A. White

Enantioselective N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Catalyzed β-Hydroxylation of Enals Using Nitroarenes: An Atom Transfer Reaction That Proceeds via Single Electron Transfer

Nicholas A. White, Tomislav Rovis · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2014 · 205 citations

Chemical Engineering, Cross-coupling Reaction, Nhc Catalysis +15

Breaking the Base Barrier: An Electron-Deficient Palladium Catalyst Enables the Use of a Common Soluble Base in C–N Coupling

Joseph M. Dennis, Nicholas A. White, Richard Y. Liu et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2018 · 167 citations · Full text

Oxidatively Initiated NHC-Catalyzed Enantioselective Synthesis of 3,4-Disubstituted Cyclopentanones from Enals

Nicholas A. White, Tomislav Rovis · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2015 · 133 citations · Full text

Cross-coupling Reaction, Engineering, Unprecedented N-heterocyclic Carbene +14

Asymmetric N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed Addition of Enals to Nitroalkenes: Controlling Stereochemistry via the Homoenolate Reactivity Pathway To Access δ-Lactams

Nicholas A. White, Daniel A. DiRocco, Tomislav Rovis · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2013 · 105 citations · Full text

Derivatives, δ-Nitroester Pathway, Engineering +13

Use of a Droplet Platform To Optimize Pd-Catalyzed C–N Coupling Reactions Promoted by Organic Bases

Lorenz M. Baumgartner, Joseph M. Dennis, Nicholas A. White et al. · Organic Process Research & Development · 2019 · 86 citations

Chemical Engineering, Cross-coupling Reaction, Engineering +15