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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1980 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

John A. Gladysz is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on materials science and chemistry, with significant contributions to subfields such as materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, molecular biology, and physical and theoretical chemistry.

Gladysz's work addresses a range of main topics that include:

  • Crystallization and solubility studies
  • X-ray diffraction in crystallography
  • Asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis
  • Organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis
  • Asymmetric synthesis and catalysis
  • Chemical synthesis and analysis
  • Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds

The scientist has published extensively in various venues, with frequent publications in:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organometallics
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Inorganic Chemistry

Some of the recent papers by Gladysz include:

  • "Launching Werner Complexes into the Modern Era of Catalytic Enantioselective Organic Synthesis," 2020, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Gyroscopes and the Chemical Literature, 2002-2020: Approaches to a Nascent Family of Molecular Devices," 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • "Chiral Tricationic Tris(1,2-diphenylethylenediamine) Cobalt(III) Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalysts with Defined Carbon/Metal Configurations; Matched/Mismatched Effects upon Enantioselectivities with Enantiomeric Chiral Counter Anions," 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • "Rendering classical hydrophilic enantiopure Werner salts [M(en)3]n+nX lipophilic (M/n= Cr/3, Co/3, Rh/3, Ir/3, Pt/4); new chiral hydrogen bond donor catalysts and enantioselectivities as a function of metal and charge," 2020, Dalton Transactions
  • "Computational Investigations of Enantioselection in Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions of Ruthenium Guanidinobenzimidazole Second Coordination Sphere Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalysts," 2020, Organometallics

Gladysz has collaborated frequently with a range of coauthors, including:

  • Nattamai Bhuvanesh
  • Joseph H. Reibenspies
  • Frank Hampel
  • Nancy Weisbach

Throughout their career, Gladysz has been recognized by several professional organizations. Awards include:

  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2009
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2003
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1980

Best Publications

  • Handbook of fluorous chemistry

    John A. Gladysz;Dennis P. Curran;István T. Horváth

  • Carbon in one dimension: structural analysis of the higher conjugated polyynes.

    Slawomir Szafert;J. A. Gladysz

  • Introduction: Recoverable Catalysts and ReagentsPerspective and Prospective

    J. A. Gladysz

  • Consanguineous Families of Coordinated Carbon: A ReC4Re Assembly That Is Isolable in Three Oxidation States, Including Crystallographically Characterized ReC⋮CC⋮CRe and +ReCCCCRe+ Adducts and a Radical Cation in Which Charge Is Delocalized between Rhenium Termini

    Monika Brady;Weiqing Weng;Yuanlin Zhou;Jeffery W. Seyler

  • Frontiers in Metal-Catalyzed Polymerization: Designer Metallocenes, Designs on New Monomers, Demystifying MAO, Metathesis Déshabillé.

    J. A. Gladysz

  • Chemistry in fluorous media: a user's guide to practical considerations in the application of fluorous catalysts and reagents

    Luis P. Barthel-Rosa;J. A. Gladysz;J. A. Gladysz

  • Toward Metal-Capped One-Dimensional Carbon Allotropes: Wirelike C6−C20 Polyynediyl Chains That Span Two Redox-Active (η5-C5Me5)Re(NO)(PPh3) Endgroups

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  • Update 1 of: Carbon in one dimension: structural analysis of the higher conjugated polyynes.

    and Slawomir Szafert;J. A. Gladysz

  • Recoverable catalysts. Ultimate goals, criteria of evaluation, and the green chemistry interface

    John A. Gladysz

  • Fluorous chemistry: From biphasic catalysis to a parallel chemical universe and beyond

    J.A Gladysz;Dennis P Curran

  • Fluorous catalysis under homogeneous conditions without fluorous solvents: a "greener" catalyst recycling protocol based upon temperature-dependent solubilities and liquid/solid phase separation.

    Marc Wende;J A Gladysz

  • Transition Metal Formyl Complexes

    J.A. Gladysz

  • Fluorous catalysis without fluorous solvents: a friendlier catalyst recovery/recycling protocol based upon thermomorphic properties and liquid/solid phase separation.

    Marc Wende;and Ralf Meier;J. A. Gladysz

  • Synthesis and electrophile-induced disproportionation of the neutral formyl triphenylphosphinenitrosyl-.eta.-cyclopentadienylrhenium formyl ((.eta.-C5H5)Re(NO)(PPh3)(CHO))

    Wilson Tam;Gong Yu Lin;Wai Kwok Wong;William A. Kiel

  • Convenient one-flask synthesis of dialkyl selenides and diselenides via lithium triethylborohydride reduction of Sex

    J. A. Gladysz;John L. Hornby;James E. Garbe

  • A Step-Growth Approach to Metal-Capped One-Dimensional Carbon Allotropes: Syntheses of C12, C16, and C20 μ-Polyynediyl Complexes

    Tamás Bartik;Berit Bartik;Monika Brady;Roman Dembinski

  • Highly active thermomorphic fluorous palladacycle catalyst precursors for the Heck reaction; evidence for a palladium nanoparticle pathway.

    Christian Rocaboy;J. A. Gladysz

  • Synthesis, structure, and reactivity of sp carbon chains with bis(phosphine) pentafluorophenylplatinum endgroups: butadiynediyl (C4) through hexadecaoctaynediyl (C16) bridges, and beyond.

    Wolfgang Mohr;Jürgen Stahl;Frank Hampel;J. A. Gladysz

  • Transition Metal Catalysis in Fluorous Media: Practical Application of a New Immobilization Principle to Rhodium-Catalyzed Hydroborations of Alkenes and Alkynes

    Jerrick J. J. Juliette;Drew Rutherford;István T. Horváth;J. A. Gladysz

  • Thermomorphic fluorous imine and thioether palladacycles as precursors for highly active Heck and Suzuki catalysts; evidence for palladium nanoparticle pathways

    Christian Rocaboy;J. A. Gladysz

  • Transition metal catalysis in fluorous media: Practical application of a new immobilization principle to rhodium-catalyzed hydroboration

    Jerrick J. J. Juliette;J. A. Gladysz;IstváAm T. Horváth

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Hampel
Frank Hampel University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Nattamai Bhuvanesh
Nattamai Bhuvanesh Texas A&M University
Atta M. Arif
Atta M. Arif University of Utah
Subrata Ghosh
Subrata Ghosh University College Cork
William E. Buhro
William E. Buhro Washington University in St. Louis
Josef Michl
Josef Michl University of Colorado Boulder
Joseph H. Reibenspies
Joseph H. Reibenspies Texas A&M University
Dennis P. Curran
Dennis P. Curran University of Pittsburgh
Michael B. Hall
Michael B. Hall Texas A&M University

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