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Albrecht Berkessel

Albrecht Berkessel

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Chemistry

D-Index
65
Citations
15687
World Ranking
7634
National Ranking
547

Overview

Albrecht Berkessel is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of chemistry and materials science. Their body of work includes 57 publications in each of these primary disciplines.

Their research covers a range of subfields including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, molecular biology, inorganic chemistry, and oncology. Among these, materials chemistry and organic chemistry are the most prominent areas documented in Berkessel's work.

The main topics addressed in their research include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, N-heterocyclic carbenes in organic and inorganic chemistry, catalytic cross-coupling reactions, synthetic organic chemistry methods, carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis, and oxidative organic chemistry reactions.

Berkessel has published in a variety of scientific venues, with multiple papers appearing in the following outlets:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent collaborators in Berkessel's research efforts include Jörg-M. Neudörfl, Mathias Schäfer, Wacharee Harnying, Giel Berden, and Jonathan Martens.

Significant recent publications demonstrate the breadth of Berkessel's research focus:

  • "Efficient epoxidation over dinuclear sites in titanium silicalite-1," 2020, Nature
  • "N-Heterocyclic Carbene/Carboxylic Acid Co-Catalysis Enables Oxidative Esterification of Demanding Aldehydes/Enals, at Low Catalyst Loading," 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Metabolite Identification Using Infrared Ion SpectroscopyNovel Biomarkers for Pyridoxine-Dependent Epilepsy," 2021, Analytical Chemistry
  • "Olefin Epoxidation Catalyzed by Titanium-Salalen Complexes: Synergistic H2O2 Activation by Dinuclear Ti Sites, Ligand H-Bonding, and π-Acidity," 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • "Enantioselective Bifunctional Ammonium Salt-Catalyzed Syntheses of 3-CF3S-, 3-RS-, and 3-F-Substituted Isoindolinones," 2021, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis

Best Publications

  • Asymmetric Organocatalysis: From Biomimetic Concepts to Applications in Asymmetric Synthesis

    Albrecht Berkessel;Harald Gröger

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  • Unveiling the “Booster Effect” of Fluorinated Alcohol Solvents: Aggregation-Induced Conformational Changes and Cooperatively Enhanced H-Bonding

    Albrecht Berkessel;Jens A Adrio;Daniel Hüttenhain;Jörg M Neudörfl

  • Highly Efficient Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Azlactones by Urea‐Based Bifunctional Organocatalysts

    Albrecht Berkessel;Felix Cleemann;Santanu Mukherjee;Thomas N. Müller

  • Efficient epoxidation over dinuclear sites in titanium silicalite-1.

    Christopher P. Gordon;Hauke Engler;Amadeus Samuel Tragl;Milivoj Plodinec

  • Proline-Derived N-Sulfonylcarboxamides: Readily Available, Highly Enantioselective and Versatile Catalysts for Direct Aldol Reactions

    Albrecht Berkessel;Burkhard Koch;Johann Lex

  • Toxicokinetics of acrylamide in humans after ingestion of a defined dose in a test meal to improve risk assessment for acrylamide carcinogenicity.

    Uwe Fuhr;Melanie I. Boettcher;Martina Kinzig-Schippers;Alexandra Weyer

  • Dramatic acceleration of olefin epoxidation in fluorinated alcohols: activation of hydrogen peroxide by multiple h-bond networks.

    Albrecht Berkessel;Jens A. Adrio

  • Umpolung by N‐Heterocyclic Carbenes: Generation and Reactivity of the Elusive 2,2‐Diamino Enols (Breslow Intermediates)

    Albrecht Berkessel;Silvia Elfert;V. Reddy Yatham;Jörg-M. Neudörfl

  • Schiff-base ligands carrying two elements of chirality: Matched-mismatched effects in the vanadium-catalyzed sulfoxidation of thioethers with hydrogen peroxide

    Alexander H. Vetter;Albrecht Berkessel

  • Mntrimethyltriazacyclononane/ascorbic acid: a remarkably efficient catalyst for the epoxidation of olefins and the oxidation of alcohols with hydrogen peroxide

    Albrecht Berkessel;Christoph A. Sklorz

  • pKa Values of Chiral Brønsted Acid Catalysts: Phosphoric Acids/Amides, Sulfonyl/Sulfuryl Imides, and Perfluorinated TADDOLs (TEFDDOLs)

    Philipp Christ;Anita G. Lindsay;Sonja S. Vormittag;Jörg‐M. Neudörfl

  • Second-generation organocatalysts for the highly enantioselective dynamic kinetic resolution of azlactones

    Albrecht Berkessel;Santanu Mukherjee;Felix Cleemann;Thomas N. Müller

  • Hydrogenation without a transition-metal catalyst: on the mechanism of the base-catalyzed hydrogenation of ketones.

    Albrecht Berkessel;Thomas J. S. Schubert;Thomas N. Müller

  • Catalytic asymmetric addition of carbon dioxide to propylene oxide with unprecedented enantioselectivity.

    Albrecht Berkessel;Marc Brandenburg

  • Asymmetric Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction catalyzed by isophoronediamine-derived bis(thio)urea organocatalysts.

    Albrecht Berkessel;Katrin Roland;Jörg M. Neudörfl

  • Characterization of the Key Intermediates of Carbene-Catalyzed Umpolung by NMR Spectroscopy and X-Ray Diffraction: Breslow Intermediates, Homoenolates, and Azolium Enolates

    Albrecht Berkessel;Veera Reddy Yatham;Silvia Elfert;Jörg-M. Neudörfl

  • Sequential and modular synthesis of chiral 1,3-diols with two stereogenic centers: access to all four stereoisomers by combination of organo- and biocatalysis.

    Katrin Baer;Marina Krausser;Edyta Burda;Werner Hummel

  • A biomimetic catalyst for the asymmetric epoxidation of unfunctionalized olefins with hydrogen peroxide

    Thomas Schwenkreis;Albrecht Berkessel

  • Aldehyde umpolung by N-heterocyclic carbenes: NMR characterization of the Breslow intermediate in its keto form, and a spiro-dioxolane as the resting state of the catalytic system.

    Albrecht Berkessel;Silvia Elfert;Kerstin Etzenbach-Effers;J. Henrique Teles

  • Lipase/aluminum-catalyzed dynamic kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols.

    Albrecht Berkessel;M. Luisa Sebastian-Ibarz;Thomas N. Müller

Frequent Co-Authors

Harald Gröger
Harald Gröger Bielefeld University
Johann Lex
Johann Lex University of Cologne
Werner Hummel
Werner Hummel Bielefeld University
Hartmut Laatsch
Hartmut Laatsch University of Göttingen
Michael Bolte
Michael Bolte Goethe University Frankfurt
Jos Oomens
Jos Oomens Radboud University
Giel Berden
Giel Berden Radboud University
Jan W. Bats
Jan W. Bats Goethe University Frankfurt
Jürgen Hescheler
Jürgen Hescheler University of Cologne
Rainer Haag
Rainer Haag Freie Universität Berlin

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