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Armin R. Ofial is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with a focus on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Inorganic Chemistry, and Spectroscopy.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Chemical Reaction Mechanisms
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms
  • Organic Chemistry Cycloaddition Reactions
  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Chemical Synthesis and Reactions

Armin R. Ofial has published extensively, with notable papers such as:

  • "Lewis Acidity Scale of Diaryliodonium Ions toward Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Halogen Lewis Bases," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "From Carbodiimides to Carbon Dioxide: Quantification of the Electrophilic Reactivities of Heteroallenes," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Basicities and Nucleophilicities of Pyrrolidines and Imidazolidinones Used as Organocatalysts," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Lewis Acidic Boranes, Lewis Bases, and Equilibrium Constants: A Reliable Scaffold for a Quantitative Lewis Acidity/Basicity Scale," 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • "Electrophilic reactivities of cyclic enones and α,β-unsaturated lactones," 2021, Chemical Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with the scientist include:

  • Robert J. Mayer
  • Andreas Eitzinger
  • Herbert Mayr
  • Nathalie Hampel
  • Péter Mayer

The scientist's publications appear frequently in several academic venues, including:

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

Best Publications

  • π-Nucleophilicity in Carbon−Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions

    Herbert Mayr;Bernhard Kempf;Armin R. Ofial

  • Reference Scales for the Characterization of Cationic Electrophiles and Neutral Nucleophiles

    Herbert Mayr;Thorsten Bug;Matthias F. Gotta;Nicole Hering

  • Do general nucleophilicity scales exist

    Herbert Mayr;Armin R. Ofial

  • Kinetics of electrophile-nucleophile combinations: A general approach to polar organic reactivity

    Herbert Mayr;Armin R. Ofial

  • Farewell to the HSAB Treatment of Ambident Reactivity

    Herbert Mayr;Martin Breugst;Armin R. Ofial

  • Palladium-catalyzed dehydrogenative cross-couplings of benzazoles with azoles.

    Wei Han;Peter Mayer;Armin R. Ofial

  • Structure-nucleophilicity relationships for enamines.

    Bernhard Kempf;Nathalie Hampel;Armin R. Ofial;Herbert Mayr

  • Quantification and Theoretical Analysis of the Electrophilicities of Michael Acceptors

    Dominik S. Allgäuer;Harish Jangra;Haruyasu Asahara;Zhen Li

  • Iron catalyzed oxidative cyanation of tertiary amines

    Wei Han;Armin R. Ofial

  • The Reactivity–Selectivity Principle: An Imperishable Myth in Organic Chemistry

    Herbert Mayr;Armin R. Ofial

  • Iron-Catalyzed Oxidative Mono- and Bis-Phosphonation of N,N-Dialkylanilines

    Wei Han;Peter Mayer;Armin R. Ofial

  • Towards a Comprehensive Hydride Donor Ability Scale

    Markus Horn;Ludwig H. Schappele;Gabriele Lang-Wittkowski;Herbert Mayr

  • Iron-catalyzed dehydrogenative phosphonation of N,N-dimethylanilines

    Wei Han;Armin R. Ofial

  • A quantitative approach to nucleophilic organocatalysis

    Herbert Mayr;Sami Lakhdar;Biplab Maji;Armin R Ofial

  • Nucleophilic Reactivities of Pyrroles

    Tobias A. Nigst;Martin Westermaier;Armin R. Ofial;Herbert Mayr

  • Philicities, Fugalities, and Equilibrium Constants

    Herbert Mayr;Armin R. Ofial

  • Reactions of carbocations with unsaturated hydrocarbons: electrophilic alkylation or hydride abstraction?

    Herbert Mayr;Gabriele Lang;Armin R. Ofial

  • Can One Predict Changes from SN1 to SN2 Mechanisms

    Thanh Binh Phan;Christoph Nolte;Shinjiro Kobayashi;Armin R. Ofial

  • Reactivities and selectivities of free and metal-coordinated carbocations

    Herbert Mayr;M. Patz;M. F. Gotta;A. R. Ofial

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Quinone Methides: Reference Electrophiles for the Construction of Nucleophilicity Scales

    Dorothea Richter;Nathalie Hampel;Thomas Singer;Armin R. Ofial

  • Lewis Acidity Scale of Diaryliodonium Ions toward Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Halogen Lewis Bases

    Robert J Mayer;Armin R Ofial;Herbert Mayr;Claude Y Legault

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert Mayr
Herbert Mayr Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Peter Mayer
Peter Mayer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hendrik Zipse
Hendrik Zipse Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jin-Pei Cheng
Jin-Pei Cheng Nankai University
Stephan A. Sieber
Stephan A. Sieber Technical University of Munich
Kurt Polborn
Kurt Polborn Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Benedetta Mennucci
Benedetta Mennucci University of Pisa
Shunichi Fukuzumi
Shunichi Fukuzumi Osaka University
Hartmut Fuess
Hartmut Fuess Technical University of Darmstadt
Rudolf Faust
Rudolf Faust University of Massachusetts Lowell

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