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Ilan Marek is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel and specializes primarily in Chemistry, with a particular focus on Organic Chemistry. Their research spans a range of subfields including Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work emphasizes topics such as Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms, Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods, and Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis. Additional focal areas include Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods, and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis.

Recent publications by Ilan Marek include:

  • Creating Stereocenters within Acyclic Systems by C-C Bond Cleavage of Cyclopropanes, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • Alkene Isomerization through Allylmetals as a Strategic Tool in Stereoselective Synthesis, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Nucleophilic Substitution at Quaternary Carbon Stereocenters, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Remote Fluorination and Fluoroalkyl(thiol)ation Reactions, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Regio- and Diastereoselective Carbometalation Reaction of Cyclopropenes, 2022, Accounts of Chemical Research

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Itai Massad
  • Yair Cohen
  • André U. Augustin
  • Anthony Cohen
  • Fa-Guang Zhang

Marek's work has been published in a variety of scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Organic Letters

Best Publications

  • Enantioselective synthesis of all-carbon quaternary stereogenic centers in acyclic systems

    Jaya Prakash Das;Ilan Marek

  • Remote functionalization through alkene isomerization

    Alexandre Vasseur;Jeffrey Bruffaerts;Ilan Marek

  • Walking Metals for Remote Functionalization.

    Heiko Sommer;Francisco Juliá-Hernández;Ruben Martin;Ilan Marek

  • Selective Carbon–Carbon Bond Cleavage for the Stereoselective Synthesis of Acyclic Systems

    Ilan Marek;Ahmad Masarwa;Pierre-Olivier Delaye;Markus Leibeling

  • Synthesis and Reactivity of sp3-Geminated Organodimetallics

    Ilane Marek;Jean-F. Normant

  • All-Carbon Quaternary Stereogenic Centers in Acyclic Systems through the Creation of Several C–C Bonds per Chemical Step

    Ilan Marek;Yury Minko;Morgane Pasco;Tom Mejuch

  • Titanium and Zirconium in Organic Synthesis

    Ilan Marek

  • Enantiomerically enriched cyclopropene derivatives: versatile building blocks in asymmetric synthesis.

    Ilan Marek;Samah Simaan;Ahmad Masarwa

  • Selectivity in Metal-Catalyzed Carbon ? Carbon Bond Cleavage of Alkylidenecyclopropanes

    Ahmad Masarwa;Ilan Marek

  • Asymmetric Preparation of Polysubstituted Cyclopropanes Based on Direct Functionalization of Achiral Three-Membered Carbocycles

    Longyang Dian;Ilan Marek

  • The chemistry of organolithium compounds

    Zvi Rappoport;Ilan Marek

  • Forming all-carbon quaternary stereogenic centres in acyclic systems from alkynes

    Yury Minko;Morgane Pasco;Lukas Lercher;Mark Botoshansky

  • Merging allylic carbon–hydrogen and selective carbon–carbon bond activation

    Ahmad Masarwa;Dorian Didier;Tamar Zabrodski;Marvin Schinkel

  • Creation of quaternary stereocenters in carbonyl allylation reactions

    Ilan Marek;Genia Sklute

  • Creating Stereocenters within Acyclic Systems by C-C Bond Cleavage of Cyclopropanes.

    Yair Cohen;Anthony Cohen;Ilan Marek

  • A unique approach to aldol products for the creation of all-carbon quaternary stereocentres

    Jaya Prakash Das;Helena Chechik;Ilan Marek

  • Carboxylate-Assisted Ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed Hydroarylations of Unactivated Alkenes through C–H Cleavage

    Marvin Schinkel;Ilan Marek;Lutz Ackermann

  • Merging C–H and C–C bond cleavage in organic synthesis

    Zackaria Nairoukh;Morgan Cormier;Ilan Marek

  • Mechanistic aspects on the formation of chiral allenes from propargylic ethers and organocopper reagents

    Alexandre Alexakis;Ilane Marek;Pierre Mangeney;Jean F. Normant

  • The Chemistry of Organomagnesium Compounds

    Zvi Rappoport;Ilan Marek

  • The Chemistry of Organozinc Compounds

    Zvi Rappoport;Ilan Marek

  • Copper mediated carbometalation reactions

    D. S. Müller;I. Marek

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean F. Normant
Jean F. Normant Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Paul Knochel
Paul Knochel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Alexandre Alexakis
Alexandre Alexakis University of Geneva
Lutz Ackermann
Lutz Ackermann University of Göttingen
Anat Levin
Anat Levin Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Zvi Rappoport
Zvi Rappoport Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Carsten Bolm
Carsten Bolm RWTH Aachen University
Moshe Gavish
Moshe Gavish Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Jun-An Ma
Jun-An Ma Tianjin University

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