K. Peter C. Vollhardt

Research.com Recognitions

• 1976 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Best Publications

• Cobalt‐Mediated [2 + 2 + 2]‐Cycloadditions: A Maturing Synthetic Strategy [New Synthetic Methods (43)]

  K. Peter C. Vollhardt

  1047
  Citations

• On the Nature of Nonplanarity in the [N]Phenylenes

  Daniel Holmes;Sriram Kumaraswamy;Adam J. Matzger;K. Peter C. Vollhardt

  578
  Citations

• Organic Chemistry: Structure and Function

  K. Peter C. Vollhardt;Neil Eric Schore

  559
  Citations

• Cobalt-vermittelte [2+2+2]-Cycloadditionen: eine ausgereifte Synthesestrategie

  K. Peter C. Vollhardt

  367
  Citations

• Molecular solar thermal (MOST) energy storage and release system

  Kasper Moth-Poulsen;Dušan Ćoso;Karl Börjesson;Nikolai Vinokurov

  246
  Citations

• A new approach to the construction of biphenylenes by the cobalt-catalyzed cocyclization of o-diethynylbenzenes with alkynes. Application to an iterative approach to [3]phenylene, the first member of a novel class of benzocyclobutadienoid hydrocarbons

  Bruce C. Berris;George H. Hovakeemian;Yee Hing Lai;Helene Mestdagh

  239
  Citations

• Cobalt-Catalyzed Cyclotrimerization of Alkynes: The Answer to the Puzzle of Parallel Reaction Pathways

  Nicolas Agenet;Vincent Gandon;K Peter C Vollhardt;Max Malacria

  212
  Citations

• Transition-metal-catalyzed alkyne cyclizations. A cobalt-mediated total synthesis of dl-estrone

  Raymond Lee Funk;K. Peter C. Vollhardt

  207
  Citations

• A designed, enantiomerically pure, fused cyclopentadienyl ligand with C2 symmetry. Synthesis and use in enantioselective titanocene-catalyzed hydrogenations of alkenes

  Ronald L. Halterman;K. Peter C. Vollhardt;Mark E. Welker;Dieter Blaeser

  191
  Citations

• Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Explosive Decomposition of 1,2:5,6:11,12:15,16- Tetrabenzo-3,7,9,13,17,19-hexadehydro[20]annulene: Formation of Onion- and Tube-like Closed-Shell Carbon Particles

  Roland Boese;and Adam J. Matzger;K. Peter C. Vollhardt

  168
  Citations

• Photochemistry of (Fulvalene)tetracarbonyldiruthenium and Its Derivatives: Efficient Light Energy Storage Devices

  Roland Boese;J. Kevin Cammack;Adam J. Matzger;Kai Pflug

  164
  Citations

• Total syntheses of angular [7]-, [8]-, and [9]phenylene by triple cobalt-catalyzed cycloisomerization: remarkably flexible heliphenes.

  Sangdon Han;D. Ryan Anderson;Andrew D. Bond;Hiufung V. Chu

  160
  Citations

• Total Syntheses and Structures of Angular [6]- and [7]Phenylene: The First Helical Phenylenes (Heliphenes)†

  Sangdon Han;Andrew D. Bond;Raymond L. Disch;Daniel Holmes

  154
  Citations

• Tris(benzocyclobutadieno)benzene, the triangular [4]phenylene with a completely bond-fixed cyclohexatriene ring: cobalt-catalyzed synthesis from hexaethynylbenzene and thermal ring opening to 1,2:5,6:9,10-tribenzo-3,4,7,8,11,12-hexadehydro[12]-annulene

  Unknown

  148
  Citations

• Mechanism of Thermal Reversal of the (Fulvalene)tetracarbonyldiruthenium Photoisomerization: Toward Molecular Solar–Thermal Energy Storage

  Yosuke Kanai;Varadharajan Srinivasan;Steven K. Meier;K. Peter C. Vollhardt

  142
  Citations

• Substituted benzocyclobutenes, indans, and tetralins via cobalt-catalyzed cooligomerization of .alpha.,.omega.-diynes with substituted acetylenes. Formation and synthetic utility of trimethylsilylated benzocycloalkenes

  R. L. Hillard;K. Peter C. Vollhardt

  141
  Citations

• Cobalt-catalyzed one-step synthesis of annulated pyridines

  K. Peter C. Vollhardt;Alaric Naiman

  140
  Citations

• Synthesis, structure, and photochemistry of tetracarbonyl(fulvalene)diruthenium. Thermally reversible photoisomerization involving carbon-carbon bond activation at a dimetal center

  K. P. C. Vollhardt;T. W. Weidman

  132
  Citations

• Novel Synthesis of the Angular [3]Phenylene (Terphenylene) by Cobalt-Catalyzed Cyclization of Bis(2-ethynylphenyl)ethyne: a Molecule with an Internal Cyclohexatriene Ring

  Rainer Diercks;K. Peter C. Vollhardt

  130
  Citations

• Approaches to the Synthesis of (±)-Strychnine via the Cobalt-Mediated [2 + 2 + 2] Cycloaddition: Rapid Assembly of a Classic Framework

  Michael J. Eichberg;Rosa L. Dorta;Douglas B. Grotjahn;Kai Lamottke

  125
  Citations

• The role of delocalization in benzene

  Eric D. Glendening;Rudiger Faust;Andrew Streitwieser;K. Peter C. Vollhardt

  123
  Citations

• The First Metallacyclopentadiene(Alkyne) Complexes and Their Discrete Isomerization to η4-Bound Arenes: The Missing Link in the Prevalent Mechanism of Transition Metal Catalyzed Alkyne Cyclotrimerizations, as Exemplified by Cyclopentadienylcobalt

  R. Diercks;B. E. Eaton;S. Gurtzgen;S. Jalisatgi

  123
  Citations

• Synthesis and asymmetric reactivity of enantiomerically pure cyclopentadienylmetal complexes derived from the chiral pool

  Unknown

  106
  Citations