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Robert A. Batey

Robert A. Batey

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Chemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
9904
World Ranking
11773
National Ranking
322

Overview

Robert A. Batey is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans multiple disciplines including molecular biology, organic chemistry, infectious diseases, epidemiology, and computational theory and mathematics.

Batey's work covers a range of scientific topics such as chemical synthesis and analysis, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, protein degradation and inhibitors, computational drug discovery methods, biochemical and structural characterization, peptidase inhibition and analysis, and carbohydrate chemistry and synthesis.

The scientist has published extensively in several notable venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry (27 publications)
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry (3 publications)
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (2 publications)
  • Organic Letters (2 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (2 publications)

Among their recent papers are:

  • Functional characterization of a PROTAC directed against BRAF mutant V600E, 2020, Nature Chemical Biology
  • CACHE (Critical Assessment of Computational Hit-finding Experiments): A public-private partnership benchmarking initiative to enable the development of computational methods for hit-finding, 2022, Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • Discovery and Structural Characterization of Small Molecule Binders of the Human CTLH E3 Ligase Subunit GID4, 2022, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • High Accuracy Prediction of PROTAC Complex Structures, 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • What is the optimum thiamine dose to treat or prevent Wernicke's encephalopathy or Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome? Results of a randomized controlled trial, 2022, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research

Batey collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Lila M. Gierasch
  • F. Peter Guengerich
  • Ruma Banerjee
  • Roger Colbran
  • Peter Cresswell

Best Publications

  • Parallel Synthesis of a Library of Benzoxazoles and Benzothiazoles Using Ligand-Accelerated Copper-Catalyzed Cyclizations of ortho-Halobenzanilides

    Ghotas Evindar;Robert A. Batey

  • Copper-Catalyzed Domino Annulation Approaches to the Synthesis of Benzoxazoles under Microwave-Accelerated and Conventional Thermal Conditions

    Russell D. Viirre;Ghotas Evindar;Robert A. Batey

  • Ligand- and Base-Free Copper(II)-Catalyzed C−N Bond Formation: Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organoboron Compounds with Aliphatic Amines and Anilines

    Tan D Quach;Robert A Batey

  • Copper(II)-catalyzed ether synthesis from aliphatic alcohols and potassium organotrifluoroborate salts.

    Tan D Quach;Robert A Batey

  • Copper- and palladium-catalyzed intramolecular aryl guanidinylation: an efficient method for the synthesis of 2-aminobenzimidazoles.

    Ghotas Evindar and;Robert A. Batey

  • Carbamoyl-substituted N-heterocyclic carbene complexes of palladium(II): application to Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions.

    Robert A Batey;Ming Shen;Alan J Lough

  • Potassium Alkenyl- and Aryltrifluoroborates: Stable and Efficient Agents for Rhodium-Catalyzed Addition to Aldehydes and Enones

    Robert A. Batey;and Avinash N. Thadani;David V. Smil

  • A novel inhibitor of glucose uptake sensitizes cells to FAS-induced cell death

    Tabitha E. Wood;Shadi Dalili;Craig D. Simpson;Rose Hurren

  • Synthesis and cross-coupling reactions of tetraalkylammonium organotrifluoroborate salts

    Robert A Batey;Tan D Quach

  • Total Synthesis of the Alkaloids Martinelline and Martinellic Acid via a Hetero Diels−Alder Multicomponent Coupling Reaction†

    David A. Powell;Robert A. Batey

  • Heterocycle formation via palladium-catalyzed intramolecular oxidative C-H bond functionalization: an efficient strategy for the synthesis of 2-aminobenzothiazoles.

    Laurie L. Joyce;Robert A. Batey

  • Chelation of intracellular iron with the antifungal agent ciclopirox olamine induces cell death in leukemia and myeloma cells.

    Yanina Eberhard;Sean P. McDermott;Xiaoming Wang;Marcela Gronda

  • Carbamoylimidazolium and thiocarbamoylimidazolium salts: novel reagents for the synthesis of ureas, thioureas, carbamates, thiocarbamates and amides

    Justyna A. Grzyb;Ming Shen;Chiaki Yoshina-Ishii;W. Chi

  • Enamide synthesis by copper-catalyzed cross-coupling of amides and potassium alkenyltrifluoroborate salts.

    Yuri Bolshan;Robert A. Batey

  • An efficient new protocol for the formation of unsymmetrical tri- and tetrasubstituted ureas

    Robert A. Batey;V. Santhakumar;Chiaki Yoshina-Ishii;Scott D. Taylor

  • Copper- and palladium-catalyzed intramolecular C-S bond formation: a convenient synthesis of 2-aminobenzothiazoles

    Laurie L. Joyce;Ghotas Evindar;Robert A. Batey

  • Cross-coupling of organoboronic acids and sulfinate salts using catalytic copper(II) acetate and 1,10-phenanthroline: synthesis of aryl and alkenylsulfones

    Fang Huang;Robert A. Batey

  • Alkenyl and Aryl BoronatesMild Nucleophiles for the Stereoselective Formation of Functionalized N-Heterocycles

    Robert A. Batey;and D. Bruce MacKay;V. Santhakumar

  • Intramolecular Hetero Diels−Alder (Povarov) Approach to the Synthesis of the Alkaloids Luotonin A and Camptothecin†

    Heather Twin;Robert A Batey

  • Samarium(II) iodide promoted radical ring opening reactions of cyclopropyl ketones

    Robert A. Batey;William B. Motherwell

  • A mild protocol for allylation and highly diastereoselective syn or anti crotylation of aldehydes in biphasic and aqueous media utilizing potassium allyl- and crotyltrifluoroborates.

    Avinash N. Thadani;Robert A. Batey

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron D. Schimmer
Aaron D. Schimmer Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Alessandro Datti
Alessandro Datti University of Perugia
Walid A. Houry
Walid A. Houry University of Toronto
David R. Rose
David R. Rose University of Waterloo
Jeffrey L. Wrana
Jeffrey L. Wrana Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Carlos A. M. Afonso
Carlos A. M. Afonso University of Lisbon
Alan J. Lough
Alan J. Lough University of Toronto
William B. Motherwell
William B. Motherwell University College London
Scott D. Gray-Owen
Scott D. Gray-Owen University of Toronto
Emil F. Pai
Emil F. Pai University of Toronto

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