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Christian Wolf is a researcher affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their work primarily lies within the field of Chemistry, with a focus on several subfields including Spectroscopy, Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Pharmaceutical Science.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas such as:

  • Molecular spectroscopy and chirality
  • Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
  • Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
  • Fluorine in Organic Chemistry
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis

Christian Wolf has contributed to various journals and publication venues. The most frequent venues where their work appears are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Synthesis

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Asymmetric synthesis with ynamides: unique reaction control, chemical diversity and applications" (2020), Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Circular Dichroism Sensing: Strategies and Applications" (2024), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Discoidin Domain Receptor 1 is a therapeutic target for neurodegenerative diseases" (2020), Human Molecular Genetics
  • "High-Throughput Determination of Enantiopurity by Microplate Circular Dichroism" (2020), The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • "Quantitative Chirality and Concentration Sensing of Alcohols, Diols, Hydroxy Acids, Amines and Amino Alcohols using Chlorophosphite Sensors in a Relay Assay" (2020), Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Christian Wolf has also published a book titled Das Lehr-Zyklotron COLUMBUS in 2020 through Springer Nature.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Kaluvu Balaraman
  • Jeffrey S. S. K. Formen
  • F. Yushra Thanzeel
  • Ciarán C. Lynch
  • Jeffery A. Bertke

Best Publications

  • One‐Pot Oxidative Esterification and Amidation of Aldehydes

    Kekeli Ekoue-Kovi;Christian Wolf

  • Chirality sensing using stereodynamic probes with distinct electronic circular dichroism output

    Christian Wolf;Keith W. Bentley

  • Stereolabile chiral compounds: analysis by dynamic chromatography and stopped-flow methods

    Christian Wolf

  • Efficient copper-catalyzed coupling of aryl chlorides, bromides and iodides with aqueous ammonia

    Hanhui Xu;Christian Wolf

  • Metal-free one-pot oxidative amination of aldehydes to amides.

    Kekeli Ekoue-Kovi;Christian Wolf

  • Enantioselective Sensing of Chiral Carboxylic Acids

    Xuefeng Mei;Christian Wolf

  • Asymmetric synthesis with ynamides: unique reaction control, chemical diversity and applications.

    Ciarán C. Lynch;Archita Sripada;Christian Wolf

  • Selective metal ion recognition using a fluorescent 1,8-diquinolylnaphthalene-derived sensor in aqueous solution

    Gilbert E. Tumambac;Charlene M. Rosencrance;Christian Wolf

  • Palladium-phosphinous acid-catalyzed NaOH-promoted cross-coupling reactions of arylsiloxanes with aryl chlorides and bromides in water.

    Christian Wolf;Rachel Lerebours

  • Determination of enantiomeric excess and concentration of unprotected amino acids, amines, amino alcohols, and carboxylic acids by competitive binding assays with a chiral scandium complex.

    Xuefeng Mei;Christian Wolf

  • Chemoselective Nucleophilic Arylation and Single-Step Oxidative Esterification of Aldehydes Using Siloxanes and a Palladium−Phosphinous Acid as a Reaction Switch

    Rachel Lerebours and;Christian Wolf

  • Bisoxazolidine-catalyzed enantioselective alkynylation of aldehydes

    Christian Wolf;Shuanglong Liu

  • Catalytic enantioselective difluoroalkylation of aldehydes.

    Peng Zhang;Christian Wolf

  • Chirality Sensing of Amines, Diamines, Amino Acids, Amino Alcohols, and α-Hydroxy Acids with a Single Probe

    Keith W. Bentley;Yea G. Nam;Jaslynn M. Murphy;Christian Wolf

  • 4-N-, 4-S-, and 4-O-Chloroquine Analogues: Influence of Side Chain Length and Quinolyl Nitrogen pKa on Activity vs Chloroquine Resistant Malaria

    Jayakumar K. Natarajan;John N. Alumasa;Kimberly Yearick;Kekeli A. Ekoue-Kovi

  • Asymmetric nitroaldol reaction catalyzed by a C2-symmetric bisoxazolidine ligand.

    Shuanglong Liu;Christian Wolf

  • Stereodynamic Chemosensor with Selective Circular Dichroism and Fluorescence Readout for in Situ Determination of Absolute Configuration, Enantiomeric Excess, and Concentration of Chiral Compounds

    Keith W. Bentley;Christian Wolf

  • Enantioseparations by electrochromatography with packed capillaries

    Christian Wolf;Patrick L. Spence;William H. Pirkle;Ellen M. Derrico

  • Optical Analysis of Reaction Yield and Enantiomeric Excess: A New Paradigm Ready for Prime Time.

    Brenden T Herrera;Samantha L Pilicer;Eric V Anslyn;Leo A Joyce

  • Efficient Stille cross-coupling reaction using aryl chlorides or bromides in water.

    Christian Wolf;Rachel Lerebours

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul D. Roepe
Paul D. Roepe Georgetown University
Christopher J. Welch
Christopher J. Welch Indiana Consortium for Analytical Science & Engineering
Andrea Mazzanti
Andrea Mazzanti University of Pavia
Wilfried A. König
Wilfried A. König Universität Hamburg
William H. Pirkle
William H. Pirkle University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eric V. Anslyn
Eric V. Anslyn The University of Texas at Austin
Lyle Isaacs
Lyle Isaacs University of Maryland, College Park

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