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  • 2015 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Neal P. Mankad is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, alongside contributions in Inorganic Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Process Chemistry and Technology.

Their work covers a range of topics including X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry, Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods, Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions, Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis, and Carbon Dioxide Utilization in Catalysis.

Recent publications include:

  • C-C and C-X coupling reactions of unactivated alkyl electrophiles using copper catalysis (2020, Chemical Society Reviews)
  • Copper-Catalyzed Carbonylative Coupling of Alkyl Halides (2021, Accounts of Chemical Research)
  • Cooperative Activation of CO 2 and Epoxide by a Heterobinuclear Al-Fe Complex via Radical Pair Mechanisms (2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Cooperative Heterobimetallic Substrate Activation Enhances Catalytic Activity and Amplifies Regioselectivity in 1,4-Hydroboration of Pyridines (2020, ACS Catalysis)
  • One-Step Synthesis of Acylboron Compounds via Copper-Catalyzed Carbonylative Borylation of Alkyl Halides (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)

Frequent co-authors working with Neal P. Mankad are:

  • Pinar Alayoglu
  • Tieyan Chang
  • Soumen Sinhababu
  • S. M. Supundrika Subasinghe
  • Maxim R. Radzhabov

Neal P. Mankad has published extensively in several scientific venues. Most notable are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organometallics
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Their published research contributes across multiple disciplines, particularly integrating advanced crystallographic techniques and catalytic chemistry.

Award recognition includes being named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Synthesis, Structure, and Alkyne Reactivity of a Dimeric (Carbene)copper(I) Hydride

    Neal P. Mankad;David S. Laitar;Joseph P. Sadighi

  • Bimetallic catalysis for C–C and C–X coupling reactions

    Dominic R. Pye;Neal P. Mankad

  • Triggering N 2 uptake via redox-induced expulsion of coordinated NH 3 and N 2 silylation at trigonal bipyramidal iron

    Yunho Lee;Neal P. Mankad;Jonas C. Peters;Jonas C. Peters

  • Base Metal Catalysts for Photochemical C–H Borylation That Utilize Metal–Metal Cooperativity

    Thomas J. Mazzacano;Neal P. Mankad

  • Two Metals Are Better Than One in the Gold Catalyzed Oxidative Heteroarylation of Alkenes

    Ekaterina Tkatchouk;Neal P. Mankad;Diego Benitez;William A. Goddard

  • Application of Fundamental Organometallic Chemistry to the Development of a Gold-Catalyzed Synthesis of Sulfinate Derivatives

    Miles W. Johnson;Scott W. Bagley;Neal P. Mankad;Robert G. Bergman

  • C–C and C–X coupling reactions of unactivated alkyl electrophiles using copper catalysis

    Li-Jie Cheng;Neal P Mankad

  • Terminal FeI-N2 and FeII...H-C interactions supported by tris(phosphino)silyl ligands.

    Neal P. Mankad;Matthew T. Whited;Jonas C. Peters

  • Synthesis, Structure, and CO2 Reactivity of a Two-Coordinate (Carbene)copper(I) Methyl Complex

    Neal P. Mankad;Thomas G. Gray;David S. Laitar;Joseph P. Sadighi

  • Selectivity Effects in Bimetallic Catalysis

    Neal P. Mankad

  • Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of pyrrole anions with aryl chlorides, bromides, and iodides.

    Ryan D. Rieth;Neal P. Mankad;Elisa Calimano;Joseph P. Sadighi

  • E-Selective Semi-Hydrogenation of Alkynes by Heterobimetallic Catalysis

    Malkanthi K. Karunananda;Neal P. Mankad

  • C(sp(3))-F reductive elimination from alkylgold(iii) fluoride complexes.

    Neal P. Mankad;F. Dean Toste

  • Characterization of the Terminal Iron(IV) Imides {[PhBPtBu2(pz‘)]FeIV⋮NAd}+

    Christine M. Thomas;Neal P. Mankad;Jonas C. Peters

  • Dinitrogen Complexes Supported by Tris(phosphino)silyl Ligands

    Matthew T. Whited;Neal P. Mankad;Yunho Lee;Paul F. Oblad

  • C-C coupling reactivity of an alkylgold(III) fluoride complex with arylboronic acids.

    Neal P. Mankad;F. Dean Toste

  • Copper-Catalyzed Carbonylative Coupling of Alkyl Halides.

    Li-Jie Cheng;Neal P. Mankad

  • Catalytic N−N Coupling of Aryl Azides To Yield Azoarenes via Trigonal Bipyramid Iron−Nitrene Intermediates

    Neal P. Mankad;Peter Müller;Jonas C. Peters

  • Metal-catalysed radical carbonylation reactions

    Unknown

  • Cu-Catalyzed Hydrocarbonylative C-C Coupling of Terminal Alkynes with Alkyl Iodides.

    Li Jie Cheng;Neal P. Mankad

  • Three-coordinate copper(I) amido and aminyl radical complexes.

    Neal P. Mankad;William E. Antholine;Robert K. Szilagyi;Jonas C. Peters

  • Structural snapshots of a flexible Cu2P2 core that accommodates the oxidation states Cu(I)Cu(I), Cu1.5Cu1.5, and Cu(II)Cu(II).

    Neal P. Mankad;Eric Rivard;Seth B. Harkins;Jonas C. Peters

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonas C. Peters
Jonas C. Peters California Institute of Technology
F. Dean Toste
F. Dean Toste University of California, Berkeley
William E. Antholine
William E. Antholine Medical College of Wisconsin
Bernard D. Santarsiero
Bernard D. Santarsiero University of Illinois at Chicago
Joshua Telser
Joshua Telser Roosevelt University
Daniel H. Ess
Daniel H. Ess Brigham Young University
Alexander J. M. Miller
Alexander J. M. Miller University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
William A. Goddard
William A. Goddard California Institute of Technology

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