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Ralph P. Volante is affiliated with MSD in the United States. Their research profile does not list recent papers, co-authors, or frequent publication venues at this time.

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Best Publications

  • A New Planar Chiral Bisphosphine Ligand for Asymmetric Catalysis: Highly Enantioselective Hydrogenations under Mild Conditions

    Philip J. Pye;Kai Rossen;Robert A. Reamer;Nancy N. Tsou

  • Ullmann diaryl ether synthesis: rate acceleration by 2,2,6,6-tetramethylheptane-3,5-dione.

    Elizabeth Buck;Zhiguo Jake Song;David Tschaen;Peter G Dormer

  • A new, highly efficient method for the conversion of alcohols to thiolesters and thiols

    R.P. Volante

  • Highly diastereoselective alkylations of chiral amide enolates: new routes to hydroxyethylene dipeptide isostere inhibitors of HIV-1 protease

    D. Askin;M. A. Wallace;J. P. Vacca;R. A. Reamer

  • Preparation of Enamides via Palladium-Catalyzed Amidation of Enol Tosylates

    Artis Klapars;Kevin R. Campos;Cheng-yi Chen;Ralph P. Volante

  • Amination of aryl halides using copper catalysis

    Fengrui Lang;Daniel Zewge;Ioannis N Houpis;R.P Volante

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Aryl Sulfides from Aryl Triflates

    Nan Zheng;J. Christopher McWilliams;Fred J. Fleitz;and Joseph D. Armstrong Iii

  • Total synthesis of immunosuppressant (-)-FK-506

    Todd K. Jones;S. G. Mills;R. A. Reamer;D. Askin

  • Highly diastereoselective reaction of a chiral, non-racemic amide enolate with (S)-glycidyl tosylate. Synthesis of the orally active HIV-1 protease inhibitor L-735,524

    David Askin;Kan K Eng;Kai Rossen;Robert M Purick

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Amidation of Enol Triflates: A New Synthesis of Enamides

    Debra J. Wallace;David J. Klauber;Cheng-yi Chen;Ralph P. Volante

  • Kinetic Resolution of rac-4,12-Dibromo[2.2]paracyclophane in a Palladium [2.2]PHANEPHOS Catalyzed Amination

    Kai Rossen;Philip J. Pye;and Ashok Maliakal;R. P. Volante

  • Highly regioselective Friedländer annulations with unmodified ketones employing novel amine catalysts: syntheses of 2-substituted quinolines, 1,8-naphthyridines, and related heterocycles.

    Peter G. Dormer;Kan K. Eng;Roger N. Farr;Guy R. Humphrey

  • Asymmetric hydrogenation of tetrahydropyrazines: Synthesis of (S)-piperazine-2-tert-butylcarboxamide, an intermediate in the preparation of the HIV protease inhibitor indinavir

    K. Rossen;Steven A. Weissman;J. Sager;R.A. Reamer

  • Mechanism of an acid chloride-imine reaction by low-temperature FT-IR: .beta.-lactam formation occurs exclusively through a ketene intermediate

    Joseph E. Lynch;Stephen M. Riseman;William L. Laswell;Ralph P. Volante

  • [2.2]PHANEPHOS-Ruthenium(II) complexes: Highly active asymmetric catalysts for the hydrogenation of β-ketoesters

    Philip J. Pye;Kai Rossen;Robert A. Reamer;R.P. Volante

  • Unprecedented catalytic asymmetric reduction of N-H imines.

    Francis Gosselin;Paul D. O'Shea;Stéphanie Roy;Robert A. Reamer

  • AN EFFICIENT ASYMMETRIC HYDROGENATION APPROACH TO THE SYNTHESIS OF THE CRIXIVAN PIPERAZINE INTERMEDIATE

    K. Rossen;P.J. Pye;L.M. DiMichele;R.P. Volante

  • Application of unreactive analogs of terpenoid pyrophosphates to studies of multistep biosynthesis. Demonstration that "presqualene pyrophosphate" is an essential intermediate on the path to squalene

    E. J. Corey;R. P. Volante

  • Synthesis of a muscarinic receptor antagonist via a diastereoselective Michael reaction, selective deoxyfluorination and aromatic metal-halogen exchange reaction.

    Toshiaki Mase;Ioannis N. Houpis;Atsushi Akao;Ilias Dorziotis

  • Practical Asymmetric Synthesis of an Endothelin Receptor Antagonist

    Zhiguo J. Song;Mangzhu Zhao;Richard Desmond;Paul Devine

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert A. Reamer
Robert A. Reamer MSD (United States)
Paul J. Reider
Paul J. Reider Princeton University
Sander G. Mills
Sander G. Mills MSD (United States)
Edward J. J. Grabowski
Edward J. J. Grabowski MSD (United States)
Richard G. Ball
Richard G. Ball MSD (United States)
Joseph P. Vacca
Joseph P. Vacca MSD (United States)
Dennis C. Liotta
Dennis C. Liotta Emory University
Shane W. Krska
Shane W. Krska MSD (United States)

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