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Ilia A. Guzei is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research activity spans across multiple fields within materials science and chemistry, with a particular focus on materials chemistry and organic chemistry. The scientist's work also touches on physical and theoretical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and molecular biology.

Their main research topics include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and catalytic C-H functionalization methods. Additional focus areas involve crystallography and molecular interactions, synthesis and catalytic reactions, asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, and radical photochemical reactions.

Guzei has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with publications appearing prominently in the following venues:

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

Frequent collaborators in their research include Kyana M. Sanders, Jennifer M. Schomaker, Amelia M. Wheaton, Willa Mihalyi-Koch, and John C. Wright.

Examples of recent research papers authored or co-authored by Ilia A. Guzei are:

  • "Aziridine synthesis by coupling amines and alkenes via an electrogenerated dication," 2021, Nature
  • "Site-Selective Copper-Catalyzed Azidation of Benzylic C-H Bonds," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "A marine microbiome antifungal targets urgent-threat drug-resistant fungi," 2020, Science
  • "Silver-Catalyzed Enantioselective Propargylic C-H Bond Amination through Rational Ligand Design," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Control of Redox-Active Ester Reactivity Enables a General Cross-Electrophile Approach to Access Arylated Strained Rings," 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

  • Enantioselective photochemistry through Lewis acid–catalyzed triplet energy transfer

    Travis R. Blum;Zachary D. Miller;Desiree M. Bates;Ilia A. Guzei

  • Carbon−Sulfur Bond-Forming Reductive Elimination Involving sp-, sp2-, and sp3-Hybridized Carbon. Mechanism, Steric Effects, and Electronic Effects on Sulfide Formation

    Grace Mann;David Baranano;John F. Hartwig;and Arnold L. Rheingold

  • Luminescent transition-metal-containing cyclophanes (“molecular squares”): covalent self-assembly, host-guest studies and preliminary nanoporous materials applications

    Robert V. Slone;Kurt D. Benkstein;Suzanne Bélanger;Joseph T. Hupp

  • Enantioselective bromolactonization of conjugated (Z)-enynes.

    Wei Zhang;Suqing Zheng;Na Liu;Jenny B. Werness

  • An improved method for the computation of ligand steric effects based on solid angles

    Ilia A. Guzei;Mark Wendt

  • Single-molecule magnets: Jahn–Teller isomerism and the origin of two magnetization relaxation processes in Mn12 complexes

    Sheila M.J Aubin;Ziming Sun;Hilary J Eppley;Evan M Rumberger

  • Enhancing the anticancer properties of cardiac glycosides by neoglycorandomization

    Joseph M. Langenhan;Noël R. Peters;Ilia A. Guzei;F. Michael Hoffmann

  • Synthesis and Structures of Cationic Aluminum and Gallium Amidinate Complexes

    Samuel Dagorne;Ilia A Guzei;Martyn P Coles;Richard F Jordan

  • Allylic C−H Acetoxylation with a 4,5-Diazafluorenone-Ligated Palladium Catalyst: A Ligand-Based Strategy To Achieve Aerobic Catalytic Turnover

    Alison N. Campbell;Paul B. White;Ilia A. Guzei;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Mechanistic Characterization of Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation Catalyzed by Pd(OAc)2/Pyridine Including Identification of the Catalyst Resting State and the Origin of Nonlinear [Catalyst] Dependence

    Bradley A Steinhoff;Ilia A Guzei;Shannon S Stahl

  • New polymorphs of ROY and new record for coexisting polymorphs of solved structures.

    Shuang Chen;Ilia A Guzei;Lian Yu

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Cross-Bridged Cyclams and Pendant-Armed Derivatives and Structural Studies of Their Copper(II) Complexes

    Edward H. Wong;Gary R. Weisman;Daniel C. Hill;David P. Reed

  • Mechanistic Studies of the Palladium-Catalyzed Amination of Aryl Halides and the Oxidative Addition of Aryl Bromides to Pd(BINAP)2 and Pd(DPPF)2: An Unusual Case of Zero-Order Kinetic Behavior and Product Inhibition

    † Luis M. Alcazar-Roman;John F. Hartwig;Arnold L. Rheingold;‡ and Louise M. Liable-Sands

  • n→π* interactions of amides and thioamides: implications for protein stability.

    Robert W. Newberry;Brett VanVeller;Ilia A. Guzei;Ronald T. Raines

  • Extraordinarily Robust Polyproline Type I Peptoid Helices Generated via the Incorporation of α-Chiral Aromatic N-1-Naphthylethyl Side Chains

    Joseph R. Stringer;J. Aaron Crapster;Ilia A. Guzei;Helen E. Blackwell

  • Incorporating Large A Cations into Lead Iodide Perovskite Cages: Relaxed Goldschmidt Tolerance Factor and Impact on Exciton-Phonon Interaction.

    Yongping Fu;Matthew P. Hautzinger;Ziyu Luo;Feifan Wang

  • Characterization of peroxo and hydroperoxo intermediates in the aerobic oxidation of N-heterocyclic-carbene-coordinated palladium(0).

    Michael M. Konnick;Ilia A. Guzei;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Cationic Aluminum Alkyl Complexes Incorporating Aminotroponiminate Ligands

    Andrey V. Korolev;Eiji Ihara;Ilia A. Guzei;Victor G. Young

  • Three-Coordinate Cationic Aluminum Alkyl Complexes Incorporating β-Diketiminate Ligands

    Catherine E. Radzewich;Ilia A. Guzei;Richard F. Jordan

  • Enantioselective Excited-State Photoreactions Controlled by a Chiral Hydrogen-Bonding Iridium Sensitizer

    Kazimer L. Skubi;Jesse B. Kidd;Hoimin Jung;Ilia A. Guzei

  • Reaction of Molecular Oxygen with a PdII– Hydride To Produce a PdII–Hydroperoxide: Acid Catalysis and Implications for Pd‐Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation Reactions

    Michael M. Konnick;Bhavesh A. Gandhi;Ilia A. Guzei;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Effect of 3-hydroxyproline residues on collagen stability.

    Cara L. Jenkins;Lynn E. Bretscher;Ilia A. Guzei;Ronald T. Raines

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel H. Gellman
Samuel H. Gellman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert West
Robert West University of Wisconsin–Madison
Weiping Tang
Weiping Tang University of Wisconsin–Madison
Louise M. Liable-Sands
Louise M. Liable-Sands University of Delaware
Shannon S. Stahl
Shannon S. Stahl University of Wisconsin–Madison
Arnold L. Rheingold
Arnold L. Rheingold University of California, San Diego
James H. Espenson
James H. Espenson Iowa State University
Victor G. Young
Victor G. Young University of Minnesota
Charles P. Casey
Charles P. Casey University of Wisconsin–Madison
Tehshik P. Yoon
Tehshik P. Yoon University of Wisconsin–Madison

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