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Kálmán J. Szabó

Kálmán J. Szabó

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Chemistry

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65
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11101
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7887
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103

Overview

Kálmán J. Szabó is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and conducts research primarily within the broad field of Chemistry, with notable contributions to Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Pharmaceutics. Their work spans several subfields, including Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

The researcher's focus lies on topics such as Fluorine in Organic Chemistry, Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis, and Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms. Additional areas of study involve Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, and Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques.

Szabó has co-authored multiple papers with a range of frequent collaborators including Qiang Wang, Ramasamy Jayarajan, Lars Eriksson, Fahmi Himo, and Tautvydas Kireilis. These partnerships highlight collaborative research efforts in the context of synthetic methodologies and mechanistic studies.

The researcher has published extensively in several scientific journals, with consistent contributions appearing in:

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

Among recent publications are the following notable papers:

  • "Enantioselective Construction of Tertiary Fluoride Stereocenters by Organocatalytic Fluorocyclization" (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Organocatalytic Synthesis of α-Trifluoromethyl Allylboronic Acids by Enantioselective 1,2-Borotropic Migration" (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Electrophilic Fluorination of Alkenes via Bora-Wagner-Meerwein Rearrangement. Access to β-Difluoroalkyl Boronates" (2021), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Trifluoromethylthiolation, Trifluoromethylation, and Arylation Reactions of Difluoro Enol Silyl Ethers" (2020), The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • "Three-Component Approach to Densely Functionalized Trifluoromethyl Allenols by Asymmetric Organocatalysis" (2023), Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

  • Catalysis by Palladium Pincer Complexes

    Nicklas Selander;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Recent Advances in the Preparation and Application of Allylboron Species in Organic Synthesis

    Colin Diner;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Electrophilic Trifluoromethylation by Copper-Catalyzed Addition of CF3-Transfer Reagents to Alkenes and Alkynes

    Pär G. Janson;Ibrahim Ghoneim;Nadia O. Ilchenko;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Pincer and pincer-type complexes : applications in organic synthesis and catalysis

    Kalman J. Szabo;Ola F. Wendt

  • Pincer complex-catalyzed allylation of aldehyde and imine substrates via nucleophilic eta1-allyl palladium intermediates.

    Niclas Solin;Johan Kjellgren;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Palladium Pincer Complex Catalyzed Substitution of Vinyl Cyclopropanes, Vinyl Aziridines, and Allyl Acetates with Tetrahydroxydiboron. An Efficient Route to Functionalized Allylboronic Acids and Potassium Trifluoro(allyl)borates

    Sara Sebelius;Vilhelm J. Olsson;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Direct Boronation of Allyl Alcohols with Diboronic Acid Using Palladium Pincer-Complex Catalysis. A Remarkably Facile Allylic Displacement of the Hydroxy Group under Mild Reaction Conditions

    Vilhelm J. Olsson;Sara Sebelius;Nicklas Selander;Kalman J. Szabo

  • Mild Silver‐Mediated Geminal Difluorination of Styrenes Using an Air‐ and Moisture‐Stable Fluoroiodane Reagent

    Nadia O. Ilchenko;Boris O. A. Tasch;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Petasis Borono-Mannich reaction and allylation of carbonyl compounds via transient allyl boronates generated by palladium-catalyzed substitution of allyl alcohols. an efficient one-pot route to stereodefined alpha-amino acids and homoallyl alcohols.

    Nicklas Selander;Andreas Kipke;Sara Sebelius;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Evidence for a ruthenium dihydride species as the active catalyst in the RuCl2(PPh3)-catalyzed hydrogen transfer reaction in the presence of base

    Attila Aranyos;Gábor Csjernyik;Kálmán J. Szabó;Jan-E. Bäckvall

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling of Allylboronic Acids with Iodobenzenes. Selective Formation of the Branched Allylic Product in the Absence of Directing Groups

    Sara Sebelius;Vilhelm J. Olsson;Olov A. Wallner;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Catalytic allylic C—H acetoxylation and benzoyloxylation via suggested (η3-allyl)palladium(IV) intermediates

    Lukasz T. Pilarski;Nicklas Selander;Dietrich Böse;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Copper-mediated cyanotrifluoromethylation of styrenes using the Togni reagent.

    Nadia O. Ilchenko;Pär G. Janson;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Rhodium-Catalyzed Geminal Oxyfluorination and Oxytrifluoro-Methylation of Diazocarbonyl Compounds.

    Weiming Yuan;Lars Eriksson;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Synthesis of Adjacent Quaternary Stereocenters by Catalytic Asymmetric Allylboration

    Rauful Alam;Tobias Vollgraff;Lars Eriksson;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Fluorinative ring-opening of cyclopropanes by hypervalent iodine reagents. An efficient method for 1,3-oxyfluorination and 1,3-difluorination

    Nadia O. Ilchenko;Martin Hedberg;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Palladium pincer-complex catalyzed allylation of tosylimines by potassium trifluoro(allyl)borates.

    Niclas Solin;Olov A. Wallner;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Selective C-H borylation of alkenes by palladium pincer complex catalyzed oxidative functionalization.

    Nicklas Selander;Benjamin Willy;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Palladium‐Catalyzed Synthesis and Isolation of Functionalized Allylboronic Acids: Selective, Direct Allylboration of Ketones

    Mihai Raducan;Rauful Alam;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Synthesis and catalytic application of chiral 1,1'-Bi-2-naphthol- and biphenanthrol-based pincer complexes: selective allylation of sulfonimines with allyl stannane and allyl trifluoroborate.

    Juhanes Aydin;K Senthil Kumar;Mahmoud J Sayah;Olov A Wallner

  • Palladium‐Catalyzed Electrophilic Substitution via Monoallylpalladium Intermediates

    Niclas Solin;Johan Kjellgren;Kálmán J. Szabó

  • Palladium-Pincer-Complex-Catalyzed Transformations Involving ­Organometallic Species

    Kálmán J. Szabó

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Eriksson
Lars Eriksson Linköping University
Fahmi Himo
Fahmi Himo Stockholm University
Jan-E. Bäckvall
Jan-E. Bäckvall Stockholm University
Dieter Cremer
Dieter Cremer Southern Methodist University
Zoltan Fodor
Zoltan Fodor Pennsylvania State University
Debabrata Maiti
Debabrata Maiti Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Elfi Kraka
Elfi Kraka Southern Methodist University
Todd B. Marder
Todd B. Marder University of Würzburg
Elena Fernández
Elena Fernández Rovira i Virgili University
Kenichiro Itami
Kenichiro Itami Nagoya University

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