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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 2017 - Corday–Morgan Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2009 - Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Eva Hevia is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their primary field of study is chemistry, with a dominant focus on organic chemistry, supplemented by work in materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, pharmaceutical science, and physical and theoretical chemistry.

Their research addresses several main topics, including coordination chemistry and organometallics, catalytic cross-coupling reactions, organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, and asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis.

Hevia has published extensively in numerous scientific journals, showing a presence in these key venues:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

Recent publications illustrate the breadth and focus of their work. Key papers include:

  • Main group bimetallic partnerships for cooperative catalysis, 2020, Chemical Science
  • The Anionic Pathway in the Nickel-Catalysed Cross-Coupling of Aryl Ethers, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Perdeuteration of Arenes via Hydrogen Isotope Exchange Catalyzed by the Superbasic Sodium Amide Donor Species NaTMP·PMDETA, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Highly Reactive Hydrocarbon Soluble Alkylsodium Reagents for Benzylic Aroylation of Toluenes using Weinreb Amides, 2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Ultrafast amidation of esters using lithium amides under aerobic ambient temperature conditions in sustainable solvents, 2020, Chemical Science

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Alan R. Kennedy
  • Andryj M. Borys
  • Leonie J. Bole
  • Andreu Tortajada
  • Pasquale Mastropierro

Eva Hevia's recognition in the scientific community is reflected by awards such as the Corday-Morgan Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2017, the Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh designation in 2018, and membership in the European Academy of Sciences awarded in 2018. Additionally, they received the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Introducing Deep Eutectic Solvents to Polar Organometallic Chemistry: Chemoselective Addition of Organolithium and Grignard Reagents to Ketones in Air

    Cristian Vidal;Joaquín García-Álvarez;Alberto Hernán-Gómez;Alan R. Kennedy

  • Exploiting Deep Eutectic Solvents and Organolithium Reagent Partnerships: Chemoselective Ultrafast Addition to Imines and Quinolines Under Aerobic Ambient Temperature Conditions.

    Cristian Vidal;Joaquín García-Álvarez;Alberto Hernán-Gómez;Alan R. Kennedy

  • A homologous series of regioselectively tetradeprotonated group 8 metallocenes: new inverse crown ring compounds synthesized via a mixed sodium-magnesium tris(diisopropylamide) synergic base.

    Prokopis C. Andrikopoulos;David R. Armstrong;William Clegg;Carly J. Gilfillan

  • Sodium dialkyl-amidozincates : Alkyl or amido bases? An experimental and theoretical case study

    Prokopis C. Andrikopoulos;David R. Armstrong;Helen R. L. Barley;William Clegg

  • Lithium diamidodihydridoaluminates: bimetallic cooperativity in catalytic hydroboration and metallation applications

    Victoria A. Pollard;Samantha A. Orr;Ross McLellan;Alan R. Kennedy

  • Unmasking Representative Structures of TMP-Active Hauser and Turbo-Hauser Bases

    Pablo García-Álvarez;David V. Graham;Eva Hevia;Alan R. Kennedy

  • The Future of Polar Organometallic Chemistry Written in Bio‐Based Solvents and Water

    Joaquín García-Álvarez;Eva Hevia;Vito Capriati

  • Directed meta‐Metalation Using Alkali‐Metal‐Mediated Zincation

    David R. Armstrong;William Clegg;Sophie H. Dale;Eva Hevia

  • Closer insight into the reactivity of TMP-dialkyl zincates in directed ortho-zincation of anisole: experimental evidence of amido basicity and structural elucidation of key reaction intermediates.

    William Clegg;Ben Conway;Eva Hevia;Matthew D. McCall

  • Organozinc Pivalate Reagents: Segregation, Solubility, Stabilization, and Structural Insights

    Alberto Hernán-Gómez;Emma Herd;Eva Hevia;Alan R. Kennedy

  • Alkali-metal-mediated zincation (AMMZn) meets N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) chemistry: Zn–H exchange reactions and structural authentication of a dinuclear Au(I) complex with a NHC anion

    David R Armstrong;Sharon E Baillie;Victoria Louise Blair;Nicolas G Chabloz

  • Reactivity of polar organometallic compounds in unconventional reaction media : challenges and opportunities

    Joaquin García-Álvarez;Eva Hevia;Vito Capriati

  • Selective meta-deprotonation of toluene by using alkali-metal-mediated magnesiation.

    Prokopis C. Andrikopoulos;David R. Armstrong;David V. Graham;Eva Hevia

  • Pre-metalation structural insights into the use of alkali-metal-mediated zincation for directed ortho-metalation of a tertiary aromatic amide

    William Clegg;Sophie H. Dale;Eva Hevia;Gordon W. Honeyman

  • Exposing the hidden complexity of stoichiometric and catalytic metathesis reactions by elucidation of Mg-Zn hybrids

    Eva Hevia;Jonathan Z. Chua;Pablo García-Álvarez;Alan R. Kennedy

  • Split personality of lithium chloride: recent salt effects in organometallic recipes

    Eva Hevia;Robert E. Mulvey

  • Alkali-metal-mediated zincation of ferrocene: synthesis, structure, and reactivity of a lithium tmp/zincate reagent.

    Helen R. L. Barley;William Clegg;Sophie H. Dale;Eva Hevia

  • Alkali-Metal-Mediated Zincation of Anisole: Synthesis and Structures of Three Instructive Ortho-Zincated Complexes

    William Clegg;Sophie H. Dale;Allison M. Drummond;Eva Hevia

  • Main group bimetallic partnerships for cooperative catalysis

    Jose M. Gil-Negrete;Eva Hevia

  • Rational synthesis of normal, abnormal and anionic NHC–gallium alkyl complexes: structural, stability and isomerization insights

    Marina Uzelac;Alberto Hernán-Gómez;David R. Armstrong;Alan R. Kennedy

  • TMP (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide)-aluminate bases : lithium-mediated alumination or lithiation-alkylaluminium-trapping reagents?

    David R. Armstrong;Elaine Crosbie;Eva Hevia;Robert E. Mulvey

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan R. Kennedy
Alan R. Kennedy University of Strathclyde
Robert E. Mulvey
Robert E. Mulvey University of Strathclyde
William Clegg
William Clegg Newcastle University
Vito Capriati
Vito Capriati University of Bari Aldo Moro
Paul Knochel
Paul Knochel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Guillem Aromí
Guillem Aromí University of Barcelona
Santiago García-Granda
Santiago García-Granda University of Oviedo
John Parkinson
John Parkinson University of Toronto
Antonín Vlček
Antonín Vlček Czech Academy of Sciences
David C. Sherrington
David C. Sherrington University of Strathclyde

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