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Overview

Andrew D. Smith is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research encompasses extensive work in chemistry and materials science, with particular emphasis on organic chemistry, materials chemistry, molecular biology, inorganic chemistry, and spectroscopy.

The scientist's recent research outputs include notable publications across prominent journals. These papers include:

  • Generation and Reactivity of C(1)-Ammonium Enolates by Using Isothiourea Catalysis, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Recent developments in enantioselective photocatalysis, 2020, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Isothiourea-Catalyzed Atropselective Acylation of Biaryl Phenols via Sequential Desymmetrization/Kinetic Resolution, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • A Mechanistically and Operationally Simple Route to Metal-N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Complexes, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • α,β-Unsaturated acyl ammonium species as reactive intermediates in organocatalysis: an update, 2021, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Frequent collaborators in Andrew D. Smith's body of work include Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, David B. Cordes, Claire M. Young, Kevin Kasten, and Mark D. Greenhalgh.

The venues where Andrew D. Smith has most commonly published are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemical Science
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

Smith's research themes concentrate on distinct specific topics within the broader chemical sciences. These main topics include:

  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Axial and Atropisomeric Chirality Synthesis
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Chemical Synthesis and Reactions

The scholar has contributed over one hundred ninety publications in the field of chemistry and nearly eighty in materials science. Their subfield expertise includes organic chemistry with 167 publications and materials chemistry with 76 publications. Additional focus areas contain molecular biology, inorganic chemistry, and spectroscopy.

Andrew D. Smith's research is characterized by multidisciplinary approaches combining synthetic methodologies, catalysis, and crystallographic techniques to explore chemical reactivity and molecular structures.

Best Publications

  • NHCs in Asymmetric Organocatalysis: Recent Advances in Azolium Enolate Generation and Reactivity

    James Douglas;Gwydion Churchill;Andrew D. Smith

  • The conjugate addition of enantiomerically pure lithium amides as homochiral ammonia equivalents: scope, limitations and synthetic applications

    Stephen G. Davies;Andrew D. Smith;Paul. D. Price

  • Organocatalytic functionalization of carboxylic acids: isothiourea-catalyzed asymmetric intra- and intermolecular Michael addition--lactonizations.

    Dorine Belmessieri;Louis C. Morrill;Carmen Simal;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin

  • N-Heterocyclic carbene catalysed β-lactam synthesis

    Nicolas Duguet;Craig D. Campbell;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;Andrew D. Smith

  • Organocatalytic Lewis base functionalisation of carboxylic acids, esters and anhydrides via C1-ammonium or azolium enolates

    Louis C. Morrill;Andrew D. Smith

  • Dihydropyridones: Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis, N‐ to C‐Sulfonyl Transfer, and Derivatizations

    Carmen Simal;Tomas Lebl;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;Andrew D. Smith

  • Isothiourea-catalyzed enantioselective carboxy group transfer.

    Caroline Joannesse;Craig P. Johnston;Carmen Concellón;Carmen Simal

  • Proton transfer reactions of triazol-3-ylidenes : kinetic acidities and carbon acid pKa values for twenty triazolium salts in aqueous solution.

    Richard S. Massey;Christopher J. Collett;Anita G. Lindsay;Andrew D. Smith

  • An Isothiourea-Catalyzed Asymmetric [2,3]-Rearrangement of Allylic Ammonium Ylides

    Thomas H. West;David S. B. Daniels;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;Andrew D. Smith

  • Anhydrides as α,β-unsaturated acyl ammonium precursors: isothiourea-promoted catalytic asymmetric annulation processes

    Emily R. T. Robinson;Charlene Fallan;Carmen Simal;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin

  • Mechanistic insights into the triazolylidene-catalysed Stetter and benzoin reactions : role of the N-aryl substituent.

    Christopher J. Collett;Richard S. Massey;Oliver R. Maguire;Andrei S. Batsanov

  • Catalytic Stereoselective [2,3]-Rearrangement Reactions

    Thomas Henry West;Stephanie Suzanne Madeleine Spoehrle;Kevin Kasten;James Edward Taylor

  • The Importance of 1,5-Oxygen・・・Chalcogen Interactions in Enantioselective Isochalcogenourea Catalysis

    Claire Mary Young;Alex Elmi;Dominic J. Pascoe;Rylie K. Morris

  • Non-bonding 1,5-S⋯O interactions govern chemo- and enantioselectivity in isothiourea-catalyzed annulations of benzazoles

    Emily R. T. Robinson;Daniel M. Walden;Charlene Fallan;Mark D. Greenhalgh

  • α-Aroyloxyaldehydes: scope and limitations as alternatives to α-haloaldehydes for NHC-catalysed redox transformations

    Kenneth B. Ling;Andrew D. Smith

  • Efficient N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed O- to C-acyl transfer.

    Jennifer E. Thomson;and Kathryn Rix;Andrew D. Smith

  • A C=O⋅⋅⋅Isothiouronium Interaction Dictates Enantiodiscrimination in Acylative Kinetic Resolutions of Tertiary Heterocyclic Alcohols.

    Mark D. Greenhalgh;Samuel M. Smith;Daniel M. Walden;James E. Taylor

  • Asymmetric synthesis of N,O,O,O-tetra-acetyl d-lyxo-phytosphingosine, jaspine B (pachastrissamine), 2-epi-jaspine B, and deoxoprosophylline via lithium amide conjugate addition.

    E Abraham;E A Brock;J I Candela-Lena;S G Davies

  • Highly enantioselective organocatalysis of the Hajos–Parrish–Eder–Sauer–Wiechert reaction by the β-amino acid cispentacin

    Stephen G. Davies;Ruth L. Sheppard;Andrew D. Smith;James E. Thomson

  • Asymmetric synthesis of vicinal amino alcohols: xestoaminol C, sphinganine and sphingosine.

    Elin Abraham;Stephen G. Davies;Nicholas L. Millican;Rebecca L. Nicholson

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandra M. Z. Slawin
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin University of St Andrews
Stephen G. Davies
Stephen G. Davies University of Oxford
Steven D. Bull
Steven D. Bull University of Bath
David B. Cordes
David B. Cordes University of St Andrews
Steven P. Nolan
Steven P. Nolan Ghent University
Douglas Philp
Douglas Philp University of St Andrews
Simon Jones
Simon Jones Microsoft (United States)
Kendall N. Houk
Kendall N. Houk University of California, Los Angeles
James H. Naismith
James H. Naismith Rosalind Franklin Institute
Timothy D. W. Claridge
Timothy D. W. Claridge University of Oxford

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