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Antonio Togni

Antonio Togni

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Chemistry

D-Index
81
Citations
23887
World Ranking
3239
National Ranking
78

Overview

Antonio Togni is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with a significant number of publications devoted to Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. Additional subfields in their work include Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The main topics covered by Antonio Togni's research include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Fluorine in Organic Chemistry
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Synthesis and Biological Evaluation
  • Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms
  • Various Chemistry Research Topics

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Organic Letters

Key recent publications by Antonio Togni feature the following titles and venues:

  • Palladium(II)-η3-Allyl Complexes Bearing N-Trifluoromethyl N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: A New Generation of Anticancer Agents that Restrain the Growth of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Tumoroids, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Oxidative Fluorination of Heteroatoms Enabled by Trichloroisocyanuric Acid and Potassium Fluoride, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Chemoproteomic Profiling by Cysteine Fluoroalkylation Reveals Myrocin G as an Inhibitor of the Nonhomologous End Joining DNA Repair Pathway, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Radical α-Trifluoromethoxylation of Ketones under Batch and Flow Conditions by Means of Organic Photoredox Catalysis, 2021, Organic Letters
  • Fluorine: A Very Special Element and Its Very Special Impacts on Chemistry, 2021, The Journal of Organic Chemistry

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Fabian Brüning
  • Hansjörg Grützmacher
  • Cody Ross Pitts
  • Dustin Bornemann
  • Lionel Wettstein

Best Publications

  • Electrophilic Trifluoromethylation by Use of Hypervalent Iodine Reagents

    Julie Charpentier;Natalja Früh;Antonio Togni

  • A Novel Easily Accessible Chiral Ferrocenyldiphosphine for Highly Enantioselective Hydrogenation, Allylic Alkylation, and Hydroboration Reactions

    Antonio Togni;Claude Breutel;Anita Schnyder;Felix Spindler

  • Nitrogen donors in organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis

    Antonio Togni;Luigi M. Venanzi

  • Ferrocenes : homogeneous catalysis, organic synthesis, materials science

    Antonio Togni;民生 林

  • Novel 10‐I‐3 Hypervalent Iodine‐Based Compounds for Electrophilic Trifluoromethylation

    Patrick Eisenberger;Sebastian Gischig;Antonio Togni

  • Mild electrophilic trifluoromethylation of carbon- and sulfur-centered nucleophiles by a hypervalent iodine(III)-CF3 reagent.

    Iris Kieltsch;Patrick Eisenberger;Antonio Togni

  • Planar-Chiral Ferrocenes: Synthetic Methods and Applications

    Antonio Togni

  • Solvias Josiphos Ligands: From Discovery to Technical Applications

    Hans-Ulrich Blaser;Walter Brieden;Benoit Pugin;Felix Spindler

  • Catalytic Enantioselective Fluorination of β-Ketoesters.

    Lukas Hintermann;Antonio Togni

  • The [IrCl(Diphosphine)]2/Fluoride System. Developing Catalytic Asymmetric Olefin Hydroamination

    Romano Dorta;Patrick Egli;and Fabio Zürcher;Antonio Togni

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Amination Using Ferrocenyl Pyrazole Ligands: Steric Control of η3-Allyl Configuration and Site-Selective Nucleophilic Attack

    Antonio Togni;Urs Burckhardt;Volker Gramlich;Paul. S. Pregosin

  • Zinc-mediated formation of trifluoromethyl ethers from alcohols and hypervalent iodine trifluoromethylation reagents.

    Raffael Koller;Kyrill Stanek;Daniel Stolz;Raphael Aardoom

  • Dendrimers Containing Chiral Ferrocenyl Diphosphine Ligands for Asymmetric Catalysis

    Christoph Köllner;Benoît Pugin;Antonio Togni

  • Enantioselective halogenation reactions

    Hasim Ibrahim;Antonio Togni

  • Pyridinium Salts as Redox-Active Functional Group Transfer Reagents.

    Simon L. Rössler;Benson J. Jelier;Emmanuel Magnier;Guillaume Dagousset

  • Electrophilic trifluoromethylation of arenes and N-heteroarenes using hypervalent iodine reagents

    Matthias S. Wiehn;Ekaterina V. Vinogradova;Antonio Togni

  • Ni(II) complexes containing chiral tridentate phosphines as new catalysts for the hydroamination of activated olefins.

    Luca Fadini;Antonio Togni

  • Chiral cooperativity: the nature of the diastereoselective and enantioselective step in the gold(I)-catalyzed aldol reaction utilizing chiral ferrocenylamine ligands

    Antonio Togni;Stephen D. Pastor

  • Synthesis of an Optically Active Platinum(II) Complex Containing a New Terdentate P-C-P Ligand and Its Catalytic Activity in the Asymmetric Aldol Reaction of Methyl Isocyanoacetate. X-ray Crystal Structure of [2,6-Bis[(1'S,2'S)-1'-(diphenylphosphino)-2',3'-O-isopropylidene-2',3'-dihydroxypropyl]phenyl](.eta.1-nitrato)platinum(II)

    Fabrizio Gorla;Antonio Togni;Luigi M. Venanzi;Alberto Albinati

  • Toward an alkene hydroamination catalyst: static and dynamic ab initio DFT studies

    Hans Martin Senn;Peter E. Blöchl;Antonio Togni

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Luc Renaud
Jean-Luc Renaud Université de Caen Normandie
Alberto Albinati
Alberto Albinati University of Milan
Pierluigi Barbaro
Pierluigi Barbaro National Research Council (CNR)
Claudio Bianchini
Claudio Bianchini University of Bologna
Giuliano Giambastiani
Giuliano Giambastiani University of Strasbourg
Kazushi Mashima
Kazushi Mashima Osaka University
Aaron D. Sadow
Aaron D. Sadow Iowa State University

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