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Béla Török is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Boston in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of chemistry and engineering, with over seventy publications in chemistry and more than twenty in engineering. Within these broader disciplines, their work focuses on subfields including organic chemistry, environmental chemistry, biomedical engineering, inorganic chemistry, and archeology.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of areas in chemical and engineering sciences. Key topics include:

  • Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Chemical Synthesis and Reactions
  • Nanomaterials for Catalytic Reactions
  • Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation
  • Multicomponent Synthesis of Heterocycles
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods

Béla Török has published frequently in several scientific journals. The main venues for their work are:

  • Molecules
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica - Natural Sciences in Archaeology
  • Green Chemistry
  • ChemMedChem

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Béla Török include:

  • Structural Features of Small Molecule Antioxidants and Strategic Modifications to Improve Potential Bioactivity, 2023, Molecules
  • Green Synthesis of Aromatic Nitrogen-Containing Heterocycles by Catalytic and Non-Traditional Activation Methods, 2023, Molecules
  • Organofluorine Hydrazone Derivatives as Multifunctional Anti-Alzheimer's Agents with CK2 Inhibitory and Antioxidant Features, 2021, ChemMedChem
  • Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Isoquinoline-Fused Benzimidazoles, 2022, Molecules
  • Recent Advances in the Green Synthesis of Heterocycles: From BuildingBlocks to Biologically Active Compounds, 2021, Current Organic Synthesis

The scientist collaborates regularly with a group of frequent co-authors, including:

  • Christian Schäfer
  • Anne Kokel
  • Marianna Török
  • Guoshu Xie
  • Maxim Mastyugin

Best Publications

  • Environmentally benign synthesis of heterocyclic compounds by combined microwave-assisted heterogeneous catalytic approaches†

    Arif Daştan;Arif Daştan;Aditya Kulkarni;Béla Török

  • Highly enantioselective organocatalytic hydroxyalkylation of indoles with ethyl trifluoropyruvate.

    Béla Török;Mohammed Abid;Gábor London;Joseph Esquibel

  • Efficient Chemoselective Carboxylation of Aromatics to Arylcarboxylic Acids with a Superelectrophilically Activated Carbon Dioxide−Al2Cl6/Al System

    George A Olah;Béla Török;Jens P Joschek;Imre Bucsi

  • Structural Features of Small Molecule Antioxidants and Strategic Modifications to Improve Potential Bioactivity

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  • Microwave-assisted multicomponent domino cyclization–aromatization: an efficient approach for the synthesis of substituted quinolines

    Aditya Kulkarni;Béla Török

  • Application of microwave-assisted heterogeneous catalysis in sustainable synthesis design

    Anne Kokel;Christian Schäfer;Béla Török

  • Organofluorine inhibitors of amyloid fibrillogenesis.

    Marianna Török;Mohammed Abid;Shilpa C. Mhadgut;Béla Török

  • Ionic Liquid and Solid HF Equivalent Amine-Poly(Hydrogen Fluoride) Complexes Effecting Efficient Environmentally Friendly Isobutane−Isobutylene Alkylation

    George A. Olah;Thomas Mathew;Alain Goeppert;Béla Török

  • Enantiodifferentiation in asymmetric sonochemical hydrogenations

    Béla Török;Károly Felföldi;Gerda Szakonyi;Katalin Balázsik

  • Gallium(III) Trifluormethanesulfonate: A Water-Tolerant, Reusable Lewis Acid Catalyst for Friedel-Crafts Reactions

    G.K. Surya Prakash;Ping Yan;Béla Török;Imre Bucsi

  • Solvent-free solid acid-catalyzed electrophilic annelations: A new green approach for the synthesis of substituted five-membered N-heterocycles

    Mohammed Abid;Mohammed Abid;Andrew Spaeth;Béla Török;Béla Török

  • Heteropoly acids immobilized into a silica matrix: characterization and catalytic applications

    Árpád Molnár;Csilla Keresszegi;Béla Török

  • Energy efficiency of heterogeneous catalytic microwave-assisted organic reactions

    Hyejin Cho;Fanni Török;Béla Török

  • Triflic acid-catalyzed highly stereoselective friedel-crafts aminoalkylation of indoles and pyrroles.

    Mohammed Abid;Liliana Teixeira;Béla Török

  • APPLICATION OF CLAY CATALYSTS IN ORGANIC SYNTHESIS. A REVIEW

    Sujaya Dasgupta;Béla Török

  • The Paal–Knorr reaction revisited. A catalyst and solvent-free synthesis of underivatized and N-substituted pyrroles

    Hyejin Cho;Richard Madden;Bilal Nisanci;Béla Török

  • Effectiveness of garlic on the radical activity in radical generating systems.

    B Török;J Belágyi;B Rietz;R Jacob

  • Sulfonamides as multifunctional agents for Alzheimer's disease.

    Seema Bag;Rekha Tulsan;Abha Sood;Hyejin Cho

  • Chemoselective Hydrogenation of Cinnamaldehyde to Cinnamyl Alcohol over Pt/K-10 Catalyst☆

    György Szöllösi;Béla Török;László Baranyi;Mihály Bartók

  • Heterogeneous asymmetric reactions: Part 17. Asymmetric hydrogenation of 2-methyl-2-pentenoic acid over cinchona modified Pd/Al2O3 catalysts

    István Kun;Béla Török;Károly Felföldi;Mihály Bartók;Mihály Bartók

  • Microwave-assisted oxidative coupling of amines to imines on solid acid catalysts

    Shainaz M. Landge;Valentina Atanassova;Muralidhara Thimmaiah;Béla Török;Béla Török

Frequent Co-Authors

Mihály Bartók
Mihály Bartók University of Szeged
G. K. Surya Prakash
G. K. Surya Prakash University of Southern California
George A. Olah
George A. Olah University of Southern California
Árpád Molnár
Árpád Molnár University of Szeged
Harry LeVine
Harry LeVine University of Kentucky
Imre Kiricsi
Imre Kiricsi University of Szeged
Imre Dékány
Imre Dékány University of Szeged
Thomas Mathew
Thomas Mathew University of Southern California
Xudong Huang
Xudong Huang Harvard University
Stephen A. Hackney
Stephen A. Hackney Michigan Technological University

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