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  • 2010 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Pavel Kočovský is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Chemistry, with particular attention to Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Pharmaceutical Science, and Inorganic Chemistry. The concentration of their work lies in Organic Chemistry, reflected in a significant number of publications in this subfield.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Advanced Synthetic Organic Chemistry
  • Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism

Kočovský has published numerous papers in several scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication venues in which their work appears include:

  • Organic Reaction Mechanisms / Organic reaction mechanisms
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry Frontiers
  • ACS Catalysis

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Kočovský are:

  • Reductive Amination Revisited: Reduction of Aldimines with Trichlorosilane Catalyzed by DimethylformamideFunctional Group Tolerance, Scope, and Limitations, 2021, The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Competing Mechanisms in Palladium-Catalyzed Alkoxycarbonylation of Styrene, 2024, ACS Catalysis
  • A novel voltammetric approach to the detection of primary bile acids in serum samples, 2020, Bioelectrochemistry
  • Non-enzymatic electrochemical determination of cholesterol in dairy products on boron-doped diamond electrode, 2022, Food Chemistry
  • Nucleophile-assisted cyclization of β-propargylamino acrylic compounds catalyzed by gold(i): a rapid construction of multisubstituted tetrahydropyridines and their fused derivatives, 2020, Organic Chemistry Frontiers

Kočovský has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Notable coauthors include:

  • Milan Pour
  • Petr Matouš
  • Jiřı́ Kuneš
  • Aleš Růžička
  • Ondřej Kysilka

Throughout their career, Pavel Kočovský has been recognized for contributions to science with awards such as the Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, awarded in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Non-symmetrically substituted 1,1'-binaphthyls in enantioselective catalysis

    Pavel Kočovský;Štěpán Vyskočil,†,‡,¶ and;Martin Smrčina

  • C-nucleosides: synthetic strategies and biological applications.

    Jan Štambaský;Michal Hocek;Pavel Kočovský

  • Synthesis of enantiomerically pure binaphthyl derivatives. Mechanism of the enantioselective, oxidative coupling of naphthols and designing a catalytic cycle

    Martin Smrcina;Jana Polakova;Stepan Vyskocil;Pavel Kocovsky

  • Synthesis of enantiomerically pure 2,2'-dihydroxy-1,1'-binaphthyl, 2,2'-diamino-1,1'-binaphthyl, and 2-amino-2'-hydroxy-1,1'-binaphthyl. Comparison of processes operating as diastereoselective crystallization and as second order asymmetric transformation

    Martin Smrcina;Mirolsav Lorenc;Vladimir Hanus;Petr Sedmera

  • Quinox, a quinoline-type N-oxide, as organocatalyst in the asymmetric allylation of aromatic aldehydes with allyltrichlorosilanes: the role of arene-arene interactions.

    Andrei V. Malkov;Lenka Dufková;Lenka Dufková;Louis Farrugia;Pavel Kočovský

  • Chiral N‐Oxides in Asymmetric Catalysis

    Andrei V. Malkov;Pavel Kočovský

  • Chiral 2,2'-bipyridine-type N-monoxides as organocatalysts in the enantioselective allylation of aldehydes with allyltrichlorosilane.

    AV Malkov;M Orsini;D Pernazza;KW Muir

  • Role of noncovalent interactions in the enantioselective reduction of aromatic ketimines with trichlorosilane.

    Andrei V. Malkov;Andrea Mariani;Kenneth N. MacDougall;Pavel Kočovský

  • Carbamates : A method of synthesis and some syntehtic applications

    Pavel Kočovský

  • Vicinal Amino Alcohols as Organocatalysts in Asymmetric Cross-Aldol Reaction of Ketones: Application in the Synthesis of Convolutamydine A†

    Andrei V. Malkov;Mikhail A. Kabeshov;Marco Bella;Ondřej Kysilka

  • METHOX: A New Pyridine N-Oxide Organocatalyst for the Asymmetric Allylation of Aldehydes with Allyltrichlorosilanes†

    Andrei V. Malkov;Mark Bell;Fabiomassimo Castelluzzo;Pavel Kočovský

  • Synthesis of new chiral 2,2′-bipyridyl-type ligands, their coordination to molybdenum(0), copper(II), and palladium(II), and application in asymmetric allylic substitution, allylic oxidation, and cyclopropanation

    Andrei V. Malkov;Ian R. Baxendale;Marco Bella;Vratislav Langer

  • Remote chiral induction in the organocatalytic hydrosilylation of aromatic ketones and ketimines.

    Andrei V. Malkov;Angus J. P. Stewart Liddon;Pedro Ramírez-López;Lada Bendová

  • Synthesis of new chiral 2,2 '-bipyridine ligands and their application in copper-catalyzed asymmetric allylic oxidation and cyclopropanation

    Andrei V. Malkov;Daniele Pernazza;Mark Bell;Marco Bella

  • Derivatives of 2-Amino-2‘-diphenylphosphino-1,1‘-binaphthyl (MAP) and Their Application in Asymmetric Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Allylic Substitution

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  • Selective Cross-Coupling of 2-Naphthol and 2-Naphthylamine Derivatives. A Facile Synthesis of 2,2',3-Trisubstituted and 2,2',3,3'-Tetrasubstituted 1,1'-Binaphthyls

    Martin Smrcina;Stepan Vyskocil;Bohumil Maca;Miroslav Polasek

  • New Lewis-basic N-oxides as chiral organocatalysts in asymmetric allylation of aldehydes.

    Andrei V. Malkov;Mark Bell;Monica Orsini;Daniele Pernazza

  • On the Mechanism of Asymmetric Allylation of Aldehydes with Allyltrichlorosilanes Catalyzed by QUINOX, a Chiral Isoquinoline N-Oxide

    Andrei V. Malkov;Pedro Ramirez-Lopez;Lada Biedermannova;Lubomir Rulisek

  • Molybdenum(II)-Catalyzed Allylation of Electron-Rich Aromatics and Heteroaromatics.

    Andrei V. Malkov;Stuart L. Davis;Ian R. Baxendale;William L. Mitchell

  • Asymmetric reduction of imines with trichlorosilane, catalyzed by sigamide, an amino acid-derived formamide: scope and limitations.

    Andrei V. Malkov;Kvetoslava Vranková;Sigitas Stončius;Pavel Kočovský

  • Palladium(II) Complexes of 2-Dimethylamino-2‘- diphenylphosphino-1,1‘-binaphthyl (MAP) with Unique P,Cσ-Coordination and Their Catalytic Activity in Allylic Substitution, Hartwig−Buchwald Amination, and Suzuki Coupling

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  • Chiral N‐Oxides in Asymmetric Catalysis

    Andrei V. Malkov;Pavel Kocovsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrei V. Malkov
Andrei V. Malkov Loughborough University
Guy C. Lloyd-Jones
Guy C. Lloyd-Jones University of Edinburgh
Ian R. Baxendale
Ian R. Baxendale Durham University
Michal Hocek
Michal Hocek Czech Academy of Sciences
Andrew P. Abbott
Andrew P. Abbott University of Leicester
Martin Kotora
Martin Kotora Charles University
Ivana Císařová
Ivana Císařová Charles University
František Tureček
František Tureček University of Washington
Yuri N. Belokon
Yuri N. Belokon A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds
Amitav Sanyal
Amitav Sanyal Boğaziçi University

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