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D-Index
70
Citations
16306
World Ranking
5904
National Ranking
1812

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1980 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1968 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1967 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Peter Beak was affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Over the course of their academic career, they received several fellowships and honors spanning multiple decades, reflecting recognition by prominent scientific organizations.

The awards bestowed upon them included:

  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1967)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1968)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1980)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2003)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004)
  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2010)

Throughout their career, Peter Beak contributed to the scientific community primarily through research that spanned various fields and topics; however, specific details regarding main fields of study, subfields, topics, or frequent co-authors have not been documented in this profile.

The record does not list recent publications or papers authored by Peter Beak, nor does it provide information about their frequent publication venues or book publications. Despite the absence of these details, the breadth of honors suggests sustained activity and recognition in scientific research and professional service within the chemistry and broader scientific fields.

Peter Beak is recorded as deceased. Their professional legacy remains associated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an established presence within several distinguished scientific societies and academies.

Best Publications

  • Beyond Thermodynamic Acidity: A Perspective on the Complex‐Induced Proximity Effect (CIPE) in Deprotonation Reactions

    Marna C. Whisler;Stephen MacNeil;Victor Snieckus;Peter Beak

  • Regioselective, Diastereoselective, and Enantioselective Lithiation−Substitution Sequences: Reaction Pathways and Synthetic Applications

    Peter Beak;Amit Basu;Donald J. Gallagher;and Yong Sun Park

  • Stereo- and regiocontrol by complex induced proximity effects: reactions of organolithium compounds

    Peter Beak;A. I. Meyers

  • Energies and alkylations of tautomeric heterocyclic compounds: old problems - new answers

    Peter Beak

  • Directed lithiation of aromatic tertiary amides: an evolving synthetic methodology for polysubstituted aromatics

    Peter Beak;Victor Snieckus

  • Complex Induced Proximity Effects: Enantioselective Syntheses Based on Asymmetric Deprotonations of N-Boc-pyrrolidines

    Peter Beak;Shawn T. Kerrick;Shengde Wu;Jingxi Chu

  • Equilibration studies. Protomeric equilibria of 2- and 4-hydroxypyridines, 2- and 4-hydroxypyrimidines, 2- and 4-mercaptopyridines, and structurally related compounds in the gas phase

    Peter Beak;Fred S. Jun. Fry;Jaekeun Lee;Frank Steele

  • Asymmetric deprotonations: enantioselective syntheses of 2-substituted tert-(butoxycarbonyl)pyrrolidines

    Shawn T. Kerrick;Peter Beak

  • .alpha.-Lithioamine synthetic equivalents: syntheses of diastereoisomers from Boc derivatives of cyclic amines

    Peter Beak;Won Koo Lee

  • Jenseits thermodynamischer Acidität: der Komplex-induzierte Näherungseffekt (CIPE) bei Deprotonierungen

    Marna C. Whisler;Stephen MacNeil;Victor Snieckus;Peter Beak

  • The tertiary amide as an effective director of ortho lithiation

    Peter Beak;Roger A. Brown

  • Metalation and electrophilic substitution of amine derivatives adjacent to nitrogen: .alpha.-metallo amine synthetic equivalents

    Peter Beak;William J. Zajdel;David B. Reitz

  • Dipole-stabilized carbanions: novel and useful intermediates

    Peter. Beak;David B. Reitz

  • Dynamic thermodynamic resolution: control of enantioselectivity through diastereomeric equilibration.

    Peter Beak;David R. Anderson;Michael D. Curtis;Jason M. Laumer

  • α-Lithioamine synthetic equivalents from dipole-stabilized carbanions: The t-Boc group as an activator for α′-lithiation of carbamates

    Peter Beak;Won-Koo Lee

  • Solvent effects on keto-enol equilibria: tests of quantitative models

    Sander G. Mills;Peter Beak

  • ASYMMETRIC DEPROTONATION BY BULI/(-)-SPARTEINE : CONVENIENT AND HIGHLY ENANTIOSELECTIVE SYNTHESES OF (S)-2-ARYL-BOC-PYRROLIDINES

    Shengde Wu;Steven Lee;Peter Beak

  • Thiophilic additions of organometallics to thiobenzophenones and of phenyllithium to phenyl dithiobenzoate and phenyl trithiocarbonate

    Peter Beak;Jimmy W. Worley

  • Mechanism of decarboxylation of 1,3-dimethylorotic acid. A model for orotidine 5'-phosphate decarboxylase.

    Peter Beak;Brock Siegel

  • Enantioselective syntheses of 2-alkyl- and 2,6-dialkylpiperidine alkaloids: preparations of the hydrochlorides of (-)-coniine, (-)-solenopsin A, and (-)-dihydropinidine

    Timothy J. Wilkinson;Nathan W. Stehle;Peter Beak

  • Estimation of local and nonlocal magnetic susceptibilities and a comparison of magnetic and thermodynamic criteria of aromaticity for 2-methoxypyridine and 1-methyl-2-pyridone.

    A. K. Burnham;Jae Keun Lee;T. G. Schmalz;P. Beak

Frequent Co-Authors

Sankaran Thayumanavan
Sankaran Thayumanavan University of Massachusetts Amherst
Willis H. Flygare
Willis H. Flygare University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Victor Snieckus
Victor Snieckus Queen's University
Scott R. Wilson
Scott R. Wilson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dennis P. Curran
Dennis P. Curran University of Pittsburgh
Paul v. R. Schleyer
Paul v. R. Schleyer University of Georgia
Michael T. Bowers
Michael T. Bowers University of California, Santa Barbara
J. M. White
J. M. White The University of Texas at Austin
Kenneth B. Wiberg
Kenneth B. Wiberg Yale University

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