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Overview

Roy A. Periana is affiliated with the Scripps Research Institute in the United States and works primarily in the field of chemistry. Their research contributions focus extensively on organic chemistry, with a significant number of publications related to catalytic C-H functionalization methods.

Their work spans several subfields, including:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Pharmaceutical Science
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Spectroscopy

Roy A. Periana's research covers various topics such as:

  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Chemical Reaction Mechanisms
  • Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions
  • Fluorine in Organic Chemistry
  • Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis
  • Organic and Inorganic Chemical Reactions
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Anjaneyulu Koppaka
  • Daniel H. Ess
  • Shusen Chen
  • Niles Gunsalus
  • Brian G. Hashiguchi

Typical publication venues for their work are:

  • Organometallics
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Chemical Science

Selected recent papers by Roy A. Periana include:

  • Theory and Experiment Demonstrate that Sb(V)-Promoted Methane C-H Activation and Functionalization Outcompete Superacid Protonolysis in Sulfuric Acid, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • SN2 and E2 Branching of Main-Group-Metal Alkyl Intermediates in Alkane CH Oxidation: Mechanistic Investigation Using Isotopically Labeled Main-Group-Metal Alkyls, 2020, Organometallics
  • Reactivity and Mechanisms of Methane, Ethane, and Benzene C-H Amination with an Iodine(III) Bistriflimide Complex, 2023, Organometallics
  • Experimental Demonstration and Density Functional Theory Mechanistic Analysis of Arene C-H Bond Oxidation and Product Protection by Osmium Tetroxide in a Strongly Basic/Nucleophilic Solvent, 2022, The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Mechanism and Selectivity of Bi(V)-Aryl Oxyfunctionalization in Trifluoroacetic Acid Solvents, 2024, Organometallics

Best Publications

  • Platinum Catalysts for the High-Yield Oxidation of Methane to a Methanol Derivative

    Roy A. Periana;Douglas J. Taube;Scott Gamble;Henry Taube

  • Catalysis Research of Relevance to Carbon Management: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

    Hironori Arakawa;Michele Aresta;John N. Armor;Mark A. Barteau

  • Reversible hydrogen storage using CO2 and a proton-switchable iridium catalyst in aqueous media under mild temperatures and pressures.

    Jonathan F Hull;Yuichiro Himeda;Wan-Hui Wang;Brian G Hashiguchi

  • A Mercury-Catalyzed, High-Yield System for the Oxidation of Methane to Methanol

    Roy A. Periana;Douglas J. Taube;Eric R. Evitt;Daniel G. Löffler

  • Homogeneous Functionalization of Methane

    Niles Jensen Gunsalus;Anjaneyulu Koppaka;Sae Hume Park;Steven M. Bischof

  • Catalytic, Oxidative Condensation of CH4 to CH3COOH in One Step via CH Activation

    Roy A. Periana;Oleg Mironov;Doug Taube;Gaurav Bhalla

  • Designing Catalysts for Functionalization of Unactivated C–H Bonds Based on the CH Activation Reaction

    Brian G. Hashiguchi;Steven M. Bischof;Michael M. Konnick;Roy A. Periana

  • Perspectives on some challenges and approaches for developing the next generation of selective, low temperature, oxidation catalysts for alkane hydroxylation based on the CH activation reaction

    Roy A. Periana;Gaurav Bhalla;William J. Tenn;Kenneth J.H. Young

  • Selective oxidation of methane to methanol catalyzed, with C-H activation, by homogeneous, cationic gold.

    CJ Jones;Doug Taube;Vadim R. Ziatdinov;Roy A. Periana

  • Isomerization of the hydridoalkylrhodium complexes formed on oxidative addition of rhodium to alkane carbon-hydrogen bonds. Evidence for the intermediacy of .eta.2-alkane complexes

    Roy A. Periana;Robert G. Bergman

  • Design and study of homogeneous catalysts for the selective, low temperature oxidation of hydrocarbons

    Brian L. Conley;William J. Tenn;Kenneth J.H. Young;Somesh K. Ganesh

  • Anti-Markovnikov Olefin Arylation Catalyzed by an Iridium Complex

    Takaya Matsumoto;Douglas J. Taube;Roy A. Periana;and Henry Taube

  • Mechanism of homogeneous Ir(III) catalyzed regioselective arylation of olefins.

    Jonas Oxgaard;Richard P. Muller;William A. Goddard;Roy A. Periana

  • Mechanistic Analysis of Iridium Heteroatom C-H Activation: Evidence for an Internal Electrophilic Substitution Mechanism

    Jonas Oxgaard;William J. Tenn;Robert J. Nielsen;Roy A. Periana

  • Mechanistic analysis of hydroarylation catalysts.

    Jonas Oxgaard;Roy A. Periana;William A. Goddard

  • Carbon-carbon activation of organic small ring compounds by arrangement of cycloalkylhydridorhodium complexes to rhodacycloalkanes. Synthesis of metallacyclobutanes, including one with a tertiary metal-carbon bond, by nucleophilic addition to .pi.-allyl complexes

    Roy A. Periana;Robert G. Bergman

  • Main-group compounds selectively oxidize mixtures of methane, ethane, and propane to alcohol esters

    Brian G. Hashiguchi;Michael M. Konnick;Steven M. Bischof;Samantha J. Gustafson

  • Stability and thermodynamics of the PtCl2 type catalyst for activating methane to methanol: A computational study

    Jeremy Kua;Xin Xu;Roy A. Periana;William A. Goddard

  • CH Activation with an O-Donor Iridium−Methoxo Complex

    William J. Tenn;Kenneth J. H. Young;Gaurav Bhalla;Jonas Oxgaard

  • Product Protection, the Key to Developing High Performance Methane Selective Oxidation Catalysts

    Mårten Ahlquist;Robert J. Nielsen;Roy A. Periana;William A. Goddard

  • Electrophilic, Ambiphilic, and Nucleophilic C−H Bond Activation: Understanding the Electronic Continuum of C−H Bond Activation Through Transition-State and Reaction Pathway Interaction Energy Decompositions

    Daniel H. Ess;William A. Goddard;Roy A. Periana

  • Acceleration of nucleophilic CH activation by strongly basic solvents.

    Brian G. Hashiguchi;Kenneth J. H. Young;Muhammed Yousufuddin;William A. Goddard

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. Goddard
William A. Goddard California Institute of Technology
Daniel H. Ess
Daniel H. Ess Brigham Young University
Henry Taube
Henry Taube Stanford University
T. Brent Gunnoe
T. Brent Gunnoe University of Virginia
Robert G. Bergman
Robert G. Bergman University of California, Berkeley
Robert H. Crabtree
Robert H. Crabtree Yale University
John T. Groves
John T. Groves Princeton University
Ke-Li Han
Ke-Li Han Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Alan S. Goldman
Alan S. Goldman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Menachem Elimelech
Menachem Elimelech Rice University

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