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Matthew S. Sigman

Matthew S. Sigman

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Chemistry

D-Index
106
Citations
35466
World Ranking
969
National Ranking
389

Overview

Matthew S. Sigman is a researcher affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields, primarily within chemistry and materials science. The research contributions cover a range of subfields including organic chemistry, materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, molecular biology, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's research topics focus on areas such as crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, catalytic C-H functionalization methods, asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, machine learning in materials science, computational drug discovery methods, and catalytic cross-coupling reactions.

Among their recent publications are:

  • A Comprehensive Discovery Platform for Organophosphorus Ligands for Catalysis (2022) - Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Carbon Atom Insertion into Pyrroles and Indoles Promoted by Chlorodiazirines (2021) - Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Univariate classification of phosphine ligation state and reactivity in cross-coupling catalysis (2021) - Science
  • Data-science driven autonomous process optimization (2021) - Communications Chemistry
  • Cobalt-electrocatalytic HAT for functionalization of unsaturated C-C bonds (2022) - Nature

Sigman frequently publishes in venues including the Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Cambridge Structural Database, ACS Catalysis, Chemical Science, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Their contributions to the Journal of the American Chemical Society and The Cambridge Structural Database are particularly notable with 43 publications each.

Collaborations are also a significant part of their research, with frequent co-authors such as Sleight R. Smith, Tobias Gensch, Abigail G. Doyle, Cian Kingston, and Lauren E. Sirois.

Best Publications

  • Advances in transition metal (Pd, Ni, Fe)-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions using alkyl-organometallics as reaction partners.

    Ranjan Jana;Tejas P. Pathak;Matthew S. Sigman

  • SCHIFF BASE CATALYSTS FOR THE ASYMMETRIC STRECKER REACTION IDENTIFIED AND OPTIMIZED FROM PARALLEL SYNTHETIC LIBRARIES

    Matthew S. Sigman;Eric N. Jacobsen

  • Exploiting non-covalent π interactions for catalyst design

    Andrew J. Neel;Andrew J. Neel;Andrew J. Neel;Margaret J. Hilton;Matthew S. Sigman;F. Dean Toste;F. Dean Toste

  • Substrate channelling as an approach to cascade reactions.

    Ian Wheeldon;Shelley D. Minteer;Scott Banta;Scott Calabrese Barton

  • A General Catalyst for the Asymmetric Strecker Reaction

    Matthew S. Sigman;Petr Vachal;Eric N. Jacobsen

  • Ligand-Modulated Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Alcohol Oxidations

    Matthew S. Sigman;David R. Jensen

  • Recent advances in homogeneous transition metal-catalyzed aerobic alcohol oxidations

    Mitchell J. Schultz;Matthew S. Sigman

  • Enantioselective Heck Arylations of Acyclic Alkenyl Alcohols Using a Redox-Relay Strategy

    Erik W. Werner;Tian Sheng Mei;Alexander J. Burckle;Matthew S. Sigman

  • A synthetic chemist's guide to electroanalytical tools for studying reaction mechanisms

    Christopher Sandford;Martin A. Edwards;Kevin J. Klunder;David P. Hickey

  • Enantioselective Addition of Hydrogen Cyanide to Imines Catalyzed by a Chiral (Salen)Al(III) Complex

    Matthew S. Sigman;Eric N. Jacobsen

  • Enantioselective construction of remote quaternary stereocentres

    Tian Sheng Mei;Harshkumar H. Patel;Matthew S. Sigman

  • Mechanistic approaches to palladium-catalyzed alkene difunctionalization reactions.

    Katrina H. Jensen;Matthew S. Sigman

  • A well-defined complex for palladium-catalyzed aerobic oxidation of alcohols: design, synthesis, and mechanistic considerations.

    David R. Jensen;Mitchell J. Schultz;Jaime A. Mueller;Matthew S. Sigman

  • Predictive and mechanistic multivariate linear regression models for reaction development

    Celine B. Santiago;Jing Yao Guo;Matthew S. Sigman

  • Palladium-catalyzed enantioselective oxidations of alcohols using molecular oxygen.

    David R. Jensen;Jacob S. Pugsley;Matthew S. Sigman

  • Recent advancements and challenges of palladiumII-catalyzed oxidation reactions with molecular oxygen as the sole oxidant

    Keith M. Gligorich;Matthew S. Sigman

  • The Development of Multidimensional Analysis Tools for Asymmetric Catalysis and Beyond.

    Matthew S. Sigman;Kaid C. Harper;Elizabeth N. Bess;Anat Milo

  • Applications of ortho-Quinone Methide Intermediates in Catalysis and Asymmetric Synthesis

    Tejas P. Pathak;Matthew S. Sigman

  • Multidimensional steric parameters in the analysis of asymmetric catalytic reactions.

    Kaid C. Harper;Elizabeth N. Bess;Matthew S. Sigman

  • Holistic prediction of enantioselectivity in asymmetric catalysis

    Jolene P. Reid;Matthew S. Sigman

  • A palladium-catalyzed three-component cross-coupling of conjugated dienes or terminal alkenes with vinyl triflates and boronic acids.

    Longyan Liao;Ranjan Jana;Kaveri Balan Urkalan;Matthew S. Sigman

Frequent Co-Authors

F. Dean Toste
F. Dean Toste University of California, Berkeley
Shelley D. Minteer
Shelley D. Minteer University of Utah
Eric N. Jacobsen
Eric N. Jacobsen Harvard University
Melanie S. Sanford
Melanie S. Sanford University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Olaf Wiest
Olaf Wiest University of Notre Dame
J. Du Bois
J. Du Bois Stanford University
Scott J. Miller
Scott J. Miller Yale University
Tian-Sheng Mei
Tian-Sheng Mei Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sarah E. Reisman
Sarah E. Reisman California Institute of Technology

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