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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2017 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Christina Moberg is affiliated with the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and specializes primarily in the field of chemistry with an emphasis on organic chemistry, molecular biology, inorganic chemistry, spectroscopy, and topics related to renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Their research covers a range of topics including asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, catalytic C-H functionalization methods, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, catalysis and hydrodesulfurization studies, chemical synthesis and alkaloids, and catalytic cross-coupling reactions.

Christina Moberg has contributed to several recent publications, notable among them are:

  • Recent Advances in Enantioselective Pd-Catalyzed Allylic Substitution: From Design to Applications (2021), published in Chemical Reviews
  • Self-Adaptable Tropos Catalysts (2021), published in Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Silylboranes as Powerful Tools in Organic Synthesis: Stereo- and Regioselective Reactions with 1,n-Enynes (2020), published in Synthesis
  • Symmetry as a Tool for Solving Chemical Problems (2020), published in Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • Dissipative Cyclic Reaction Networks: Mechanistic Insights into a Minor Enantiomer Recycling Process (2023), published in ChemSystemsChem

The frequent co-authors with whom Christina Moberg has collaborated include Òscar Pàmies, Montserrat Diéguez, Jèssica Margalef, Santiago Cañellas, and Jinju James.

  • Chemical Reviews
  • Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Synthesis
  • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • ChemSystemsChem

Their professional recognition includes being named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2018 and a Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Microwave-accelerated homogeneous catalysis in organic chemistry.

    Mats Larhed;Christina Moberg;Anders Hallberg

  • Element-element additions to unsaturated carbon-carbon bonds catalyzed by transition metal complexes.

    Irina Beletskaya;Christina Moberg

  • Recent Advances in Enantioselective Pd-Catalyzed Allylic Substitution: From Design to Applications.

    Oscar Pàmies;Jèssica Margalef;Santiago Cañellas;Jinju James

  • Element−Element Addition to Alkynes Catalyzed by the Group 10 Metals

    Irina Beletskaya;Christina Moberg

  • C3 Symmetry in Asymmetric Catalysis and Chiral Recognition.

    Christina Moberg

  • Molybdenum‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylations

    Oscar Belda;Christina Moberg

  • Fast, Convenient, and Efficient Molybdenum‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation under Noninert Conditions: An Example of Microwave‐Promoted Fast Chemistry

    Nils‐Fredrik K. Kaiser;Ulf Bremberg;Mats Larhed;Christina Moberg

  • Dual Lewis Acid−Lewis Base Activation in Enantioselective Cyanation of Aldehydes Using Acetyl Cyanide and Cyanoformate as Cyanide Sources

    Stina Lundgren;Erica Wingstrand;Maël Penhoat;Christina Moberg

  • Enantioselective Allylic Substitutions Catalyzed by [(Hydroxyalkyl)pyridinooxazoline]- and [(Alkoxyalkyl)pyridinooxazoline]palladium Complexes

    Kerstin Nordström;Emmanuel Macedo;Christina Moberg

  • Bispyridylamides—coordination chemistry and applications in catalytic reactions

    Oscar Belda;Christina Moberg

  • Can C3-symmetric receptors differentiate enantiomers?

    Christina Moberg

  • Lewis Acid–Lewis Base‐Catalysed Enantioselective Addition of α‐Ketonitriles to Aldehydes

    Stina Lundgren;Erica Wingstrand;Christina Moberg

  • Polymer-supported pyridine-bis(oxazoline). Application to ytterbium-catalyzed silylcyanation of benzaldehyde.

    Stina Lundgren;Serghey Lutsenko;Christina Jönsson;Christina Moberg

  • Highly stereo- and regioselective allylations catalyzed by Mo-pyridylamide complexes : Electronic and steric effects of the ligand

    Oscar Belda;Nils-Fredrik Kaiser;Ulf Bremberg;Mats Larhed

  • Fast, Convenient, and Efficient Molybdenum-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation under Noninert Conditions: An Example of Microwave-Promoted Fast Chemistry We gratefully acknowledge financial support from Personal Chemistry, the Swedish Natural Science Research Council (C.M.), and the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences (M.L., A.H.).

    Kaiser Nf;Bremberg U;Larhed M;Moberg C

  • Highly Selective Cobalt-Catalyzed Hydrovinylation of Styrene

    Michiel M. P. Grutters;Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt;Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt;Yuxin Pei;Allison M. Mills

  • Polymer-bound bis(oxazoline) as a chiral catalyst

    Kristina Hallman;Christina Moberg

  • C3-Symmetrie in der asymmetrischen Katalyse und der chiralen Erkennung

    Christina Moberg

  • C3-symmetric tripodal tetra-amines—preparation from chiral amino alcohols via aziridines

    Magnus Cernerud;Hans Adolfsson;Christina Moberg

  • Influence of steric symmetry and electronic dissymmetry on the enantioselectivity in palladium-catalyzed allylic substitutions.

    Jean Luc Vasse;Robert Stranne;Raivis Zalubovskis;Carole Gayet

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Adolfsson
Hans Adolfsson Umeå University
Anders Hallberg
Anders Hallberg Uppsala University
Mats Larhed
Mats Larhed Uppsala University
Per-Ola Norrby
Per-Ola Norrby AstraZeneca (Sweden)
Karl Hult
Karl Hult Royal Institute of Technology
Göran Stemme
Göran Stemme Royal Institute of Technology
Irina P. Beletskaya
Irina P. Beletskaya Lomonosov Moscow State University
Sigfrid Svensson
Sigfrid Svensson Lund University
Jan-E. Bäckvall
Jan-E. Bäckvall Stockholm University
Mamoun Muhammed
Mamoun Muhammed Royal Institute of Technology

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