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Overview

Theodore Cohen was affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States during their academic career. Their research collaborations included a range of co-authors spanning multiple projects and fields.

  • Laia Balcells
  • Dick Betts
  • Brian Blankenship
  • Daniel Corstange
  • Adrian Gilli

Although no specific papers or publication venues are listed, these frequent co-authors suggest interdisciplinary collaboration. The absence of detailed publication records limits insight into particular research topics or subfields they specialized in.

The available data does not enumerate awards or documented fields of study directly associated with Cohen. This implies either a limited publicly accessible record or a focus on collaborative rather than highly individual research outputs.

There is no indication of book publications or distinct thematic research areas in the source data. This restricts the ability to chart a definitive scholarly trajectory or identify key contributions from their corpus.

Given the lack of detailed publication venues and topics, conclusions about research impact cannot be drawn beyond the network of regular academic partnerships Cohen maintained. The collaborations hint at engagement with various scholars potentially across political science, international relations, or related social sciences, based on the known work of listed co-authors.

Cohen is listed as deceased, so all references to their career are in the past tense.

Best Publications

  • Organoalkali compounds by radical anion induced reductive metalation of phenyl thioethers

    Theodore Cohen;Mahadevan Bhupathy

  • A general preparative method for .alpha.-lithioethers and its application to a concise, practical synthesis of brevicomin

    Theodore Cohen;James R. Matz

  • Copper-quinoline decarboxylation

    Theodore Cohen;Robert A. Schambach

  • A simple preparation of phenols from diazonium ions via the generation and oxidation of aryl radicals by copper salts

    Theodore Cohen;Albert G. Dietz;Jane R. Miser

  • Kinetics and mechanism of the copper(I)-induced homogeneous Ullmann coupling of o-bromonitrobenzene

    Theodore Cohen;Ioan Cristea

  • Two-flask preparation of .alpha.-lithio cyclic ethers from .gamma.- and .delta.-lactones. Reductive lithiation as a route, via radical intermediates, to axial 2-lithiotetrahydropyrans and their equilibration to the equatorial isomers

    Theodore Cohen;Ming Teh Lin

  • Allylcerium(III) compounds, powerful new synthetic reagents: a new stereocontrolled approach to olefins and methylene-interrupted polyenes

    Bao Shan Guo;Wendel Doubleday;Theodore Cohen

  • Products and kinetics of decarboxylation of activated and unactivated aromatic cuprous carboxylates in pyridine and in quinoline

    Theodore Cohen;Ronald W. Berninger;John T. Wood

  • Synthetically useful .beta.-lithioalkoxides from reductive lithiation of epoxides by aromatic radical anions

    Theodore Cohen;In Howa Jeong;Boguslaw Mudryk;M. Bhupathy

  • Stereochemical analysis of totally stereoselective competing [1,2]- and 2,3]-Wittig rearrangements. Inversion at the lithium-bearing carbon atom

    Erik J. Verner;Theodore Cohen

  • Carbonyl-protected .beta.-lithio aldehydes and ketones via reductive lithiation. A general preparative method for remarkably versatile homoenolate equivalents

    John P. Cherkauskas;Theodore Cohen

  • Organocopper intermediates in the exchange reaction of aryl halides with salts of copper(I). The possible role of copper(III)

    Theodore Cohen;John Wood;Albert G. Dietz

  • Removal of sulfur groups from molecules by copper(I). Preparation of sulfur-substituted 1,3-dienes for the Diels-Alder reaction

    Theodore. Cohen;Albert J. Mura;David W. Shull;Elaine R. Fogel

  • A general procedure for preparing .alpha.-lithiosilanes. Generalization of the Peterson olefination

    Theodore Cohen;James P. Sherbine;James R. Matz;Robert R. Hutchins

  • Application of copper(I)-induced thiophenoxide removal to ring expansions or chain extensions of aldehydes and ketones. Detection, Isolation, and independent preparation of the .alpha.-epoxy thioether intermediate

    Theodore Cohen;David Kuhn;J R Falck

  • Copper(I)-induced reductive dehalogenation, hydrolysis, or coupling of some aryl and vinyl halides at room temperature

    Theodore Cohen;Ioan Cristea

  • Unexpected regioselectivity in the reductive cleavage of epoxides: a theoretical rationalization

    Andrea E. Dorigo;Kendall N. Houk;Theodore Cohen

  • .gamma.-Lithioalkoxides via reductive lithiation of oxetanes by aromatic radical-anions

    Boguslaw Mudryk;Theodore Cohen

  • Communications-The Oxidation of Epoxides by Dimethyl Sulfoxide. A simple Synthesis of α-Hydroxy Ketones.

    Theodore Cohen;Tadakazu Tsuji

  • Generation, some synthetic uses, and 1,2-vinyl rearrangements of secondary and tertiary homoallyllithiums, including ring contractions and A ring expansion. Remarkable acceleration of the rearrangement by an oxyanionic group

    Boguslaw Mudryk;Theodore Cohen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilan Marek
Ilan Marek Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Vito Capriati
Vito Capriati University of Bari Aldo Moro
Peng Liu
Peng Liu University of Pittsburgh
Geraldine S. Pinkus
Geraldine S. Pinkus Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jean-Pierre Genet
Jean-Pierre Genet Chimie ParisTech
Quintus Fernando
Quintus Fernando University of Arizona
Kendall N. Houk
Kendall N. Houk University of California, Los Angeles
Ernest R. Davidson
Ernest R. Davidson University of Washington
Hongyan Liu
Hongyan Liu Peking University

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