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Olivier Riant is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in the fields of chemistry and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their scholarly output includes 48 publications in chemistry and 28 in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on organic chemistry and molecular biology as subfields.

The major areas of study in their work cover organic chemistry, molecular biology, materials chemistry, spectroscopy, and cancer research. Specific topics frequently addressed include chemical synthesis and analysis, radical photochemical reactions, crystallization and solubility studies, oxidative organic chemistry reactions, catalytic C-H functionalization methods, organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, and questions related to the origins and evolution of life.

Riant has collaborated regularly with a set of frequent co-authors, including Tom Leyssens, Michael Guillot, Joséphine de Meester, Olivier Féron, and Laurent Collard. These partnerships have contributed to numerous publications in various scientific journals and venues.

Their research has been published repeatedly in a range of academic journals, with notable frequent publication venues including Organic Process Research & Development, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Cancers, Organic Letters, and Angewandte Chemie.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Capturing the Monomeric (L)CuH in NHC-Capped Cyclodextrin: Cavity-Controlled Chemoselective Hydrosilylation of α,β-Unsaturated Ketones, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Cocrystallization-Induced Spontaneous Deracemization: A General Thermodynamic Approach to Deracemization, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Re-Evaluating the Mechanism of Action of α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl DUB Inhibitors b-AP15 and VLX1570: A Paradigmatic Example of Unspecific Protein Cross-linking with Michael Acceptor Motif-Containing Drugs, 2020, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Photodynamic Therapy-Based Dendritic Cell Vaccination Suited to Treat Peritoneal Mesothelioma, 2020, Cancers
  • Kolbe Anodic Decarboxylation as a Green Way To Access 2-Pyrrolidinones, 2020, Organic Letters

Best Publications

  • Catalytic Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reactions

    Henri B. Kagan;Olivier Riant

  • Asymmetric catalysis for the construction of quaternary carbon centres: nucleophilic addition on ketones and ketimines

    Olivier Riant;Jérôme Hannedouche

  • An Efficient Asymmetric Synthesis of 2-Substituted Ferrocenecarboxaldehydes

    Olivier Riant;Odile Samuel;Timo Flessner;Stephan Taudien

  • A general asymmetric synthesis of ferrocenes with planar chirality

    Olivier Riant;Odile Samuel;Henri B. Kagan

  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Highly Diastereoselective ortho-Lithiation of Ferrocenyl Sulfoxides. Application to the Synthesis of Ferrocenyl Derivatives with Planar Chirality

    François Rebière;Olivier Riant;Louis Ricard;Henri B. Kagan

  • Recent advances in the asymmetric hydrosilylation of ketones, imines and electrophilic double bonds

    Olivier Riant;Naouël Mostefaï;James Courmarcel

  • A Straightforward Asymmetric Synthesis of Enantiopure 1,2-Disubstituted Ferrocenes

    Olivier Riant;Gilles Argouarch;Denis Guillaneux;Odile Samuel

  • Highly diastereo- and enantioselective copper-catalyzed domino reduction/aldol reaction of ketones with methyl acrylate.

    Julia Olivia Deschamp;Olivier Chuzel;J Hannedouche;Olivier Riant

  • Interruption of lactate uptake by inhibiting mitochondrial pyruvate transport unravels direct antitumor and radiosensitizing effects

    Cyril Corbet;Estelle Bastien;Nihed Draoui;Bastien Doix

  • The SIRT1/HIF2α axis drives reductive glutamine metabolism under chronic acidosis and alters tumor response to therapy

    Cyril Corbet;Nihed Draoui;Florence Polet;Adan Pinto

  • Efficient Enantioselective Hydrosilylation of Ketones Catalyzed by Air Stable Copper Fluoride−Phosphine Complexes

    Sabine Sirol;James Courmarcel;Naouël Mostefai;Olivier Riant

  • Antitumor Activity of 7-Aminocarboxycoumarin Derivatives, a New Class of Potent Inhibitors of Lactate Influx but Not Efflux

    Nihed Draoui;Olivier Schicke;Emmanuel Seront;Caroline Bouzin

  • Transforming Carbonic Anhydrase into Epoxide Synthase by Metal Exchange

    Ana Fernández-Gacio;Antonio Codina;Jacques Fastrez;Olivier Riant

  • Copper/palladium-catalyzed 1,4 reduction and asymmetric allylic alkylation of α,β-unsaturated ketones: enantioselective dual catalysis.

    Fady Nahra;Yohan Macé;Dominique Lambin;Olivier Riant

  • A three-component tandem reductive aldol reaction catalyzed by N-heterocyclic carbene-copper complexes.

    Alexandre Welle;Silvia Díez-González;Bernard Tinant;Steven P Nolan

  • Copper(I)-catalyzed enantio- and diastereoselective tandem reductive aldol reaction.

    Olivier Chuzel;Julia Olivia Deschamp;Christophe Chausteur;Olivier Riant

  • Asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction catalyzed by chiral bases

    Olivier Riant;Henri B. Kagan

  • Acyl Fluorides as Efficient Electrophiles for the Copper-Catalyzed Boroacylation of Allenes

    Arnaud Boreux;Arnaud Boreux;Kiran Indukuri;Fabien Gagosz;Fabien Gagosz;Olivier Riant

  • Enantioselective Pinacol Coupling of Aldehydes Mediated and Catalyzed by Chiral Titanium Complexes

    Ahlem Bensari;Jean-Luc Renaud;Olivier Riant

  • Copper-catalyzed cross-coupling of vinylsiloxanes with bromoalkynes: Synthesis of enynes

    Loïc Cornelissen;Maxime Lefrancq;Olivier Riant

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Feron
Olivier Feron Université Catholique de Louvain
Henri B. Kagan
Henri B. Kagan University of Paris-Saclay
Alain M. Jonas
Alain M. Jonas Université Catholique de Louvain
Bernard Nysten
Bernard Nysten Université Catholique de Louvain
Robert Kiss
Robert Kiss Université Libre de Bruxelles
Fabien Gagosz
Fabien Gagosz University of Ottawa
Pierre Sonveaux
Pierre Sonveaux Université Catholique de Louvain
Joëlle Quetin-Leclercq
Joëlle Quetin-Leclercq Université Catholique de Louvain
Johan Wouters
Johan Wouters University of Namur
Jean-Luc Renaud
Jean-Luc Renaud Université de Caen Normandie

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