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André B. Charette

André B. Charette

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Chemistry
Canada
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
87
Citations
22484
World Ranking
2464
National Ranking
53

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2018 - Chemical Institute of Canada Medal
  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2002 - Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry, Royal Society of Canada
  • 1996 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

André B. Charette is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in chemistry and materials science, focusing on organic chemistry and materials chemistry.

Their recent published papers include the following works:

  • Asymmetric Synthesis of Fluoro, Fluoromethyl, Difluoromethyl, and Trifluoromethylcyclopropanes, 2021, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Synthesis of Fluoro-, Monofluoromethyl-, Difluoromethyl-, and Trifluoromethyl-Substituted Three-Membered Rings, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Modern Cyclopropanation via Non-Traditional Building Blocks, 2024, ChemCatChem
  • Process Intensive Synthesis of Propofol Enabled by Continuous Flow Chemistry, 2022, Organic Process Research & Development
  • Rhodium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Cyclopropanation of Trifluoromethyl- and Pentafluorosulfanyl-Substituted Allylic Cyanodiazoacetates, 2023, Organic Letters

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Léa Thai-Savard
  • Morgane Sayes
  • Josiane Perreault-Dufour
  • Gang Hong
  • Lucille A. Wells

Key publication venues where their work appears most frequently are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organic Letters
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Chemical Communications
  • Synthesis

The main fields of study for this scientist are:

  • Chemistry
  • Materials Science

Subfields of research include:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Pharmaceutical Science
  • Molecular Biology

Their primary research topics cover:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms
  • Fluorine in Organic Chemistry
  • Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods

Throughout their career, they have received several awards, including:

  • Chemical Institute of Canada Medal, 2018
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2007 (Academy of Science)
  • Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry, Royal Society of Canada, 2002
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1996

Best Publications

  • Stereoselective Cyclopropanation Reactions

    Hélène Lebel;Jean-Francois Marcoux;Carmela Molinaro;André B. Charette

  • Synthesis of Pyridine and Dihydropyridine Derivatives by Regio- and Stereoselective Addition to N-Activated Pyridines

    James A. Bull;James J. Mousseau;Guillaume Pelletier;André B. Charette

  • Structure and Reactivity of “Unusual” N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Palladium Complexes Synthesized from Imidazolium Salts

    Hélène Lebel;Marc K. Janes;and André B. Charette;Steven P. Nolan

  • Total Synthesis of Bryostatin 2

    David A. Evans;Percy H. Carter;Erick M. Carreira;André B. Charette

  • Highly chemoselective metal-free reduction of tertiary amides.

    Guillaume Barbe;André B Charette

  • Controlled and Chemoselective Reduction of Secondary Amides

    Guillaume Pelletier;William S. Bechara;André B. Charette

  • Direct Functionalization Processes: A Journey from Palladium to Copper to Iron to Nickel to Metal-Free Coupling Reactions

    James J. Mousseau;André B. Charette

  • Chemoselective synthesis of ketones and ketimines by addition of organometallic reagents to secondary amides

    William S. Bechara;Guillaume Pelletier;André B. Charette

  • Experimental Evidence for the All-Up Reactive Conformation of Chiral Rhodium(II) Carboxylate Catalysts: Enantioselective Synthesis of cis-Cyclopropane α-Amino Acids

    Vincent N. G. Lindsay;Wei Lin;André B. Charette

  • Catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation of N-iminopyridinium ylides: expedient approach to enantioenriched substituted piperidine derivatives.

    Claude Y. Legault;André B. Charette

  • Enantioselective Cyclopropanation of Allylic Alcohols with Dioxaborolane Ligands: Scope and Synthetic Applications

    André B. Charette;Hélène Juteau;Hélène Lebel;Carmela Molinaro

  • Cycloadditions of aromatic azomethine imines with 1,1-cyclopropane diesters.

    Christian Perreault;Sébastien R Goudreau;Lucie E Zimmer;André B Charette

  • Doubly activated cyclopropanes as synthetic precursors for the preparation of 4-nitro- and 4-cyano-dihydropyrroles and pyrroles.

    Ryan P Wurz;André B Charette

  • Palladium-catalyzed direct C-h arylation of N-iminopyridinium ylides: application to the synthesis of (+/-)-anabasine.

    Alexandre Larivée;James J Mousseau;André B Charette

  • Design of Amphoteric Bifunctional Ligands: Application to the Enantioselective Simmons-Smith Cyclopropanation of Allylic Alcohols

    Andre B. Charette;Helene Juteau

  • Potassium tert-butoxide promoted intramolecular arylation via a radical pathway.

    Daniela Sustac Roman;Yoko Takahashi;André B. Charette

  • Asymmetric, Catalytic Synthesis of α-Chiral Amines Using a Novel Bis(phosphine) Monoxide Chiral Ligand

    Alessandro A. Boezio;Julien Pytkowicz;and Alexandre Côté;André B. Charette

  • Iron-Catalyzed Direct Arylation through an Aryl Radical Transfer Pathway

    Frédéric Vallée;James J. Mousseau;André B. Charette

  • Expedient synthesis of cyclopropane alpha-amino acids by the catalytic asymmetric cyclopropanation of alkenes using iodonium ylides derived from methyl nitroacetate.

    Benoît Moreau;André B Charette

  • A mild procedure for the Lewis acid-catalyzed ring-opening of activated cyclopropanes with amine nucleophiles.

    Olga Lifchits;André B. Charette

Frequent Co-Authors

Xavier Pannecoucke
Xavier Pannecoucke Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen
David A. Evans
David A. Evans Harvard University
Mark Lautens
Mark Lautens University of Toronto
Gary D. Enright
Gary D. Enright National Research Council Canada
Steven P. Nolan
Steven P. Nolan Ghent University
Scott E. Denmark
Scott E. Denmark University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gary A. Molander
Gary A. Molander University of Pennsylvania
Brian O. Patrick
Brian O. Patrick University of British Columbia
Michael Foley
Michael Foley La Trobe University

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