Simon B. Davies

Dirhodium(II) Tetrakis[methyl 2-oxaazetidine-4-carboxylate]:  A Chiral Dirhodium(II) Carboxamidate of Exceptional Reactivity and Selectivity

Michael P. Doyle, Simon B. Davies, Wenhao Hu · Organic Letters · 2000 · 145 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry +17

Chemoenzymatic Asymmetric Synthesis of Pregabalin Precursors via Asymmetric Bioreduction of β-Cyanoacrylate Esters Using Ene-Reductases

Christoph K. Winkler, Dorina Clay, Simon B. Davies et al. · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 2013 · 91 citations · Full text

Engineering, Biochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry +17

Convenient in situ synthesis of nonracemic N-protected β-amino aldehydes from β-amino acids. Applications in Wittig reactions and heterocycle synthesis

Simon B. Davies, M. Anthony McKervey · Tetrahedron Letters · 1999 · 47 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry +8

Evaluation of Several Routes to Advanced Pregabalin Intermediates: Synthesis and Enantioselective Enzymatic Reduction Using Ene-Reductases

Sébastien Debarge, Paul McDaid, P.M. O'Neill et al. · Organic Process Research & Development · 2013 · 45 citations

Pharmacy, Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry +13

Optimization of enantiocontrol in cis-selective cyclopropanation reactions catalyzed by dirhodium(ii) tetrakis[alkyl 2-oxaazetidine-4(S)-carboxylates]

Michael P. Doyle, Simon B. Davies, Wenhao Hu · Chemical Communications · 2000 · 44 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Catalysis +9