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Per-Ola Norrby

Per-Ola Norrby

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Chemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
12998
World Ranking
6052
National Ranking
81

Overview

Per-Ola Norrby is affiliated with AstraZeneca (Sweden) and has contributed extensively to the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science. Their research intersects multiple subfields, including Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The scientist's recent work includes studies published in notable scientific journals. Key papers include:

  • Machine learning meets mechanistic modelling for accurate prediction of experimental activation energies (2020, Chemical Science)
  • Organic reactivity from mechanism to machine learning (2021, Nature Reviews Chemistry)
  • On the use of real-world datasets for reaction yield prediction (2023, Chemical Science)
  • From desktop to benchtop with automated computational workflows for computer-aided design in asymmetric catalysis (2020, Nature Catalysis)
  • Hybrid Machine Learning Approach to Predict the Site Selectivity of Iridium-Catalyzed Arene Borylation (2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society)

Their research topics prominently feature applications of machine learning in Materials Science and Computational Drug Discovery Methods. Other main topics include Crystallization and Solubility Studies, Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis, Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods, Chemical Synthesis and Analysis, and X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography.

Norrby has published frequently in a range of scientific venues, notably:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemical Science
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

They have collaborated multiple times with a number of researchers, including Olaf Wiest, Paul Helquist, Kjell Jorner, Kathrin H. Hopmann, and Christian Sköld. These coauthors have contributed alongside Norrby to various projects and publications in their shared research areas.

Best Publications

  • Conformational energy penalties of protein-bound ligands

    Jonas Boström;Per-Ola Norrby;Tommy Liljefors

  • Copper‐Catalyzed Cross‐Couplings with Part‐per‐Million Catalyst Loadings

    Per-Fredrik Larsson;Arkaitz Correa;Monica Carril;Per-Ola Norrby

  • Mechanistic Studies of Copper-Catalyzed Alkene Aziridination

    Peter Brandt;Mikael J. Södergren;Pher G. Andersson, ,‡ and;† Per-Ola Norrby

  • Structure-Based Rationale for Selectivity in the Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation of Cycloalkenyl Esters Employing the Trost ‘Standard Ligand’ (TSL): Isolation, Analysis and Alkylation of the Monomeric form of the Cationic η3-Cyclohexenyl Complex [(η3-c-C6H9)Pd(TSL)]+

    Craig P. Butts;Emane Filali;Guy C. Lloyd-Jones;Per-Ola Norrby

  • Oxidative Addition of Aryl Chlorides to Monoligated Palladium(0): A DFT-SCRF Study

    Mårten Sten Gösta Ahlquist;Per-Ola Norrby

  • Mechanism, Reactivity, and Selectivity in Palladium-Catalyzed Redox-Relay Heck Arylations of Alkenyl Alcohols

    Liping Xu;Margaret J. Hilton;Xinhao Zhang;Per Ola Norrby;Per Ola Norrby

  • Pyranoside phosphite-oxazoline ligands for the highly versatile and enantioselective ir-catalyzed hydrogenation of minimally functionalized olefins. A combined theoretical and experimental study.

    Javier Mazuela;Per-Ola Norrby;Pher G. Andersson;Pher G. Andersson;Oscar Pàmies

  • The mechanism for the rhodium-catalyzed decarbonylation of aldehydes: a combined experimental and theoretical study.

    Peter Fristrup;Michael Kreis;Anders Palmelund;Per-Ola Norrby

  • A comparison of conformational energies calculated by several molecular mechanics methods

    Klaus Gundertofte;Tommy Liljefors;Per-ola Norrby;Ingrid Pettersson

  • Theoretical Evidence for Low-Ligated Palladium(0): [Pd−L] as the Active Species in Oxidative Addition Reactions

    Marten Ahlquist;Peter Fristrup;David Tanner;Per-Ola Norrby

  • A DFT study of R-X bond dissociation enthalpies of relevance to the initiation process of atom transfer radical polymerization

    Malcolm B. Gillies;Krzysztof Matyjaszewski;Per-Ola Norrby;Tomislav Pintauer

  • Heck Coupling with Nonactivated Alkenyl Tosylates and Phosphates: Examples of Effective 1,2‐Migrations of the Alkenyl Palladium(II) Intermediates

    Anders L. Hansen;Jean-Philippe Ebran;Mårten Ahlquist;Per-Ola Norrby

  • Computational prediction of chemical reactions: current status and outlook.

    Ola Engkvist;Per-Ola Norrby;Nidhal Selmi;Yu-hong Lam

  • Machine learning meets mechanistic modelling for accurate prediction of experimental activation energies

    Kjell Jorner;Tore Brinck;Per-Ola Norrby;David Buttar

  • Toward an understanding of the high enantioselectivity in the osmium-catalyzed asymmetric dihydroxylation. 4. Electronic effects in amine-accelerated osmylations

    Derek W. Nelson;Andreas Gypser;Pui Tong Ho;Hartmuth C. Kolb

  • Organic reactivity from mechanism to machine learning

    Kjell Jorner;Anna Tomberg;Christoph Bauer;Christian Sköld

  • Mild and efficient nickel-catalyzed Heck reactions with electron-rich olefins.

    Thomas M. Gøgsig;Jonatan Kleimark;Sten O. Nilsson Lill;Signe Korsager

  • Effects of phenanthroline type ligands on the dynamic processes of (.eta.3-allyl)palladium complexes. Molecular structure of (2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)[(1,2,3-.eta.)-3-methyl-2-butenyl]chloropalladium

    Sverker Hansson;Per Ola Norrby;Magnus P. T. Soegren;Bjoern Aakermark

  • Timing Is Critical: Effect of Spin Changes on the Diastereoselectivity in Mn(salen)-Catalyzed Epoxidation

    Christian Linde;Björn Åkermark;Per-Ola Norrby;Mats Svensson

  • Toward an Understanding of the High Enantioselectivity in the Osmium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Dihydroxylation. 2. A Qualitative Molecular Mechanics Approach

    Per-Ola Norrby;Hartmuth C. Kolb;K. Barry Sharpless

  • Steric Influences on the Selectivity in Palladium-Catalyzed Allylation

    Johan D. Oslob;Björn Åkermark;and Paul Helquist;§ Per-Ola Norrby

  • Selective stabilization of the anti isomer of (.eta.3-allyl)palladium and -platinum complexes

    Magnus Sjoegren;Sverker Hansson;Per Ola Norrby;Bjoern Aakermark

Frequent Co-Authors

Olaf Wiest
Olaf Wiest University of Notre Dame
Paul Helquist
Paul Helquist University of Notre Dame
Björn Åkermark
Björn Åkermark Stockholm University
Carsten Bolm
Carsten Bolm RWTH Aachen University
Montserrat Diéguez
Montserrat Diéguez Rovira i Virgili University
Christina Moberg
Christina Moberg Royal Institute of Technology
Oscar Pàmies
Oscar Pàmies Rovira i Virgili University
Troels Skrydstrup
Troels Skrydstrup Aarhus University
Jan Bergman
Jan Bergman Karolinska Institute
Pher G. Andersson
Pher G. Andersson Stockholm University

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