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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Corday–Morgan Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Matthew J. Gaunt is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science. Within these fields, they have concentrated on subfields including Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Pharmaceutical Science.

Their main research topics encompass Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Radical Photochemical Reactions, Chemical Synthesis and Analysis, Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis, and Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques.

Matthew J. Gaunt has contributed extensively to scientific literature, including publications in several notable venues. Frequent publication venues include The Cambridge Structural Database, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Science, Nature, and Chemical Reviews.

Significant recent papers by Matthew J. Gaunt include:

  • New Strategies for the Transition-Metal Catalyzed Synthesis of Aliphatic Amines, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • Visible-Light-Mediated Modification and Manipulation of Biomacromolecules, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • A general carbonyl alkylative amination for tertiary amine synthesis, 2020, Nature
  • Visible-Light-Mediated Carbonyl Alkylative Amination to All-Alkyl α-Tertiary Amino Acid Derivatives, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Multicomponent alkene azidoarylation by anion-mediated dual catalysis, 2021, Nature

Throughout their career, they have collaborated frequently with researchers such as Roopender Kumar, Milo A. Smith, Georgia R. Harris, Aaron Trowbridge, and Ala Bunescu.

Matthew J. Gaunt received the Corday-Morgan Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Recent developments in natural product synthesis using metal-catalysed C–H bond functionalisation

    Lindsay McMurray;Fionn O'Hara;Matthew J. Gaunt

  • A Meta-Selective Copper-Catalyzed C–H Bond Arylation

    Robert J. Phipps;Matthew J. Gaunt

  • Cu(II)-Catalyzed Direct and Site-Selective Arylation of Indoles Under Mild Conditions

    Robert J. Phipps;Neil P. Grimster;Matthew J. Gaunt

  • Palladium-catalyzed intermolecular alkenylation of indoles by solvent-controlled regioselective C-H functionalization.

    Neil P. Grimster;Carolyn Gauntlett;Christopher R. A. Godfrey;Matthew J. Gaunt

  • New Strategies for the Transition-Metal Catalyzed Synthesis of Aliphatic Amines.

    Aaron Trowbridge;Scarlett M. Walton;Scarlett M. Walton;Matthew J. Gaunt

  • Palladium-catalysed C–H activation of aliphatic amines to give strained nitrogen heterocycles

    Andrew McNally;Benjamin Haffemayer;Beatrice S. L. Collins;Matthew J. Gaunt

  • Oxidative Pd(II)-catalyzed C-H bond amination to carbazole at ambient temperature.

    James A. Jordan-Hore;Carin C. C. Johansson;Moises Gulias;Elizabeth M. Beck

  • Mild aerobic oxidative palladium (II) catalyzed C-H bond functionalization: regioselective and switchable C-H alkenylation and annulation of pyrroles.

    Elizabeth M. Beck;Neil P. Grimster;Richard Hatley;Matthew J. Gaunt

  • Recent Developments in the Use of Catalytic Asymmetric Ammonium Enolates in Chemical Synthesis

    Matthew J. Gaunt;Carin C. C. Johansson

  • A Highly Para‐Selective Copper(II)‐Catalyzed Direct Arylation of Aniline and Phenol Derivatives

    Claire-Lise Ciana;Robert J. Phipps;Jochen R. Brandt;Falco-Magnus Meyer

  • An Enantioselective Organocatalytic Oxidative Dearomatization Strategy

    Ngoc T Vo;Robert D M Pace;Fionn O'Hara;Matthew J Gaunt

  • Enantioselective organocatalytic cyclopropanation via ammonium ylides.

    Charles D. Papageorgiou;Maria A. Cubillo de Dios;Steven V. Ley;Matthew J. Gaunt

  • Copper(II)‐Catalyzed meta‐Selective Direct Arylation of α‐Aryl Carbonyl Compounds

    Hung A. Duong;Ruth E. Gilligan;Michael L. Cooke;Robert J. Phipps

  • Synthesis of rhazinicine by a metal-catalyzed C-H bond functionalization strategy.

    Elizabeth M. Beck;Richard Hatley;Matthew J. Gaunt

  • Pd-Catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalization on the Indole and Pyrrole Nucleus

    Elizabeth M. Beck;Matthew J. Gaunt

  • Multicomponent synthesis of tertiary alkylamines by photocatalytic olefin-hydroaminoalkylation

    Aaron Trowbridge;Dominik Reich;Matthew J. Gaunt

  • A general catalytic β-C-H carbonylation of aliphatic amines to β-lactams

    Darren Willcox;Ben G. N. Chappell;Kirsten F. Hogg;Jonas Calleja

  • Enantioselective α-arylation of N-acyloxazolidinones with copper(II)-bisoxazoline catalysts and diaryliodonium salts.

    Aurélien Bigot;Alice E. Williamson;Matthew J. Gaunt

  • Rational Design of Benzyl-Type Protecting Groups Allows Sequential Deprotection of Hydroxyl Groups by Catalytic Hydrogenolysis

    Matthew J. Gaunt;Jinquan Yu;Jonathan B. Spencer

  • A protein functionalization platform based on selective reactions at methionine residues

    Michael T. Taylor;Jennifer E. Nelson;Marcos G. Suero;Matthew J. Gaunt

  • Copper-Catalyzed Electrophilic Carbofunctionalization of Alkynes to Highly Functionalized Tetrasubstituted Alkenes

    Marcos G. Suero;Elliott D. Bayle;Beatrice S. L. Collins;Matthew J. Gaunt

  • Enantioselective catalytic intramolecular cyclopropanation using modified cinchona alkaloid organocatalysts.

    Carin C. C. Johansson;Nadine Bremeyer;Steven V. Ley;Dafydd R. Owen

  • Enantioselective organocatalysis.

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