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Overview

Martin Oestreich is affiliated with the Technical University of Berlin in Germany and specializes in the field of Chemistry, with a primary focus on Organic Chemistry as well as contributions to Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research covers main topics including:

  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry
  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Martin Oestreich are:

  • Hendrik F. T. Klare
  • Daniel Brösamlen
  • Phillip Pommerening
  • Elisabeth Irran
  • Nektarios Kranidiotis-Hisatomi

The scientist has published extensively in several venues. Among the most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Synfacts
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Organic Letters

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Martin Oestreich include:

  • Silylium Ions: From Elusive Reactive Intermediates to Potent Catalysts, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • Activation of the Si-B interelement bond related to catalysis, 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Beyond Carbon: Enantioselective and Enantiospecific Reactions with Catalytically Generated Boryl- and Silylcopper Intermediates, 2020, ACS Central Science
  • Nickel-Catalyzed, Reductive C(sp3)−Si Cross-Coupling of α-Cyano Alkyl Electrophiles and Chlorosilanes, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Defunctionalisation catalysed by boron Lewis acids, 2020, Chemical Science

Best Publications

  • The Mizoroki–Heck Reaction

    Martin Oestreich

  • Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions and More: DeMeijere/Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions and More

    Armin de Meijere;Stefan Bräse;Martin Oestreich

  • A unified survey of Si–H and H–H bond activation catalysed by electron-deficient boranes

    Martin Oestreich;Julia Hermeke;Jens Mohr

  • Main-Group Lewis Acids for C–F Bond Activation

    Timo Stahl;Hendrik F. T. Klare;Martin Oestreich

  • Activation of the Si-B interelement bond: mechanism, catalysis, and synthesis.

    Martin Oestreich;Eduard Hartmann;Marius Mewald

  • Conclusive Evidence for an SN2‐Si Mechanism in the B(C6F5)3‐Catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Carbonyl Compounds: Implications for the Related Hydrogenation

    Sebastian Rendler;Martin Oestreich

  • Metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions and more

    A. de Meijere;Stefan Bräse;Martin Oestreich

  • Polishing a Diamond in the Rough: “Cu ? H” Catalysis with Silanes

    Sebastian Rendler;Martin Oestreich

  • Cooperative Catalytic Activation of Si−H Bonds by a Polar Ru−S Bond: Regioselective Low-Temperature C−H Silylation of Indoles under Neutral Conditions by a Friedel−Crafts Mechanism

    Hendrik F. T. Klare;Hendrik F. T. Klare;Martin Oestreich;Jun-ichi Ito;Hisao Nishiyama

  • Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of quaternary carbons bearing two aryl substituents. Enantioselective synthesis of 3-alkyl-3-aryl oxindoles by catalytic asymmetric intramolecular heck reactions.

    Amy B. Dounay;Keiko Hatanaka;Jeremy J. Kodanko;Martin Oestreich

  • Silylium ions in catalysis

    Hendrik F. T. Klare;Martin Oestreich

  • Silicon-Stereogenic Silanes in Asymmetric Catalysis

    Martin Oestreich

  • Enantioselective formal hydration of α,β-unsaturated acceptors: asymmetric conjugate addition of silicon and boron nucleophiles.

    Eduard Hartmann;Devendra J. Vyas;Martin Oestreich

  • Silylium Ions: From Elusive Reactive Intermediates to Potent Catalysts.

    Hendrik F. T. Klare;Lena Albers;Lars Süsse;Sebastian Keess

  • Potassium tert-Butoxide-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative C-H Silylation of Heteroaromatics: A Combined Experimental and Computational Mechanistic Study.

    Wen-Bo Liu;David P. Schuman;Yun-Fang Yang;Anton A. Toutov

  • Cooperative Catalysis at Metal–Sulfur Bonds

    Lukas Omann;C. David F. Königs;Hendrik F. T. Klare;Martin Oestreich

  • Catalytic generation of borenium ions by cooperative B-H bond activation: the elusive direct electrophilic borylation of nitrogen heterocycles with pinacolborane.

    Timo Stahl;Kristine Müther;Kristine Müther;Yasuhiro Ohki;Kazuyuki Tatsumi

  • Enantioselective Conjugate Borylation

    Julia A. Schiffner;Kristine Müther;Martin Oestreich

  • Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution with Silicon Electrophiles: Catalytic Friedel–Crafts C−H Silylation

    Susanne Bähr;Martin Oestreich

  • Hypervalent Silicon as a Reactive Site in Selective Bond-Forming Processes

    Sebastian Rendler;Martin Oestreich

  • Experimental Analysis of the Catalytic Cycle of the Borane-Promoted Imine Reduction with Hydrosilanes: Spectroscopic Detection of Unexpected Intermediates and a Refined Mechanism

    Julia Hermeke;Marius Mewald;Martin Oestreich

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland Fröhlich
Roland Fröhlich University of Münster
Stefan Grimme
Stefan Grimme University of Bonn
Norbert Sewald
Norbert Sewald Bielefeld University
Mathias O. Senge
Mathias O. Senge Trinity College Dublin
Stefan Bräse
Stefan Bräse Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Paul Knochel
Paul Knochel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Masakatsu Shibasaki
Masakatsu Shibasaki University of Tokyo
Kilian Muñiz
Kilian Muñiz Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Barry M. Trost
Barry M. Trost Stanford University
Douglas W. Stephan
Douglas W. Stephan University of Toronto

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