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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Charles Rees Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) "for his multiple contributions to modern heterocyclic chemistry"
  • 2006 - Corday–Morgan Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Timothy J. Donohoe is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Process Chemistry and Technology.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse range, including:

  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Kirsten E. Christensen
  • James R. Frost
  • Choon Boon Cheong
  • Nicolas Kratena
  • Hamish B. Hepburn

Publication venues where this scientist has frequently published are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Chemical Communications

Recent papers include:

  • Control of Absolute Stereochemistry in Transition-Metal-Catalysed Hydrogen-Borrowing Reactions, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Recent advances in the dearomative functionalisation of heteroarenes, 2022, Chemical Science
  • Rhodium catalysed C-3/5 methylation of pyridines using temporary dearomatisation, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Enantioconvergent alkylation of ketones with racemic secondary alcohols via hydrogen borrowing catalysis, 2020, Chemical Communications
  • Chemo- and Regioselective Synthesis of Acyl-Cyclohexenes by a Tandem Acceptorless Dehydrogenation-[1,5]-Hydride Shift Cascade, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Among the awards received are the Charles Rees Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2014, given for multiple contributions to modern heterocyclic chemistry, and the Corday-Morgan Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Hexafluoroisopropanol as a highly versatile solvent

    Ignacio Colomer;Anna E. R. Chamberlain;Maxwell B. Haughey;Timothy J. Donohoe

  • Recent developments in methodology for the direct oxyamination of olefins.

    Timothy J. Donohoe;Cedric K. A. Callens;Aida Flores;Adam R. Lacy

  • Osmium-free direct syn-dihydroxylation of alkenes

    Carole J. R. Bataille;Timothy J. Donohoe

  • Rhodium-catalyzed ketone methylation using methanol under mild conditions: formation of α-branched products.

    Louis K. M. Chan;Darren L. Poole;Di Shen;Mark P. Healy

  • Ring‐Closing Metathesis as a Basis for the Construction of Aromatic Compounds

    Timothy J. Donohoe;Allan J. Orr;Matilda Bingham

  • Hydrogen‐Borrowing and Interrupted‐Hydrogen‐Borrowing Reactions of Ketones and Methanol Catalyzed by Iridium

    Di Shen;Darren L. Poole;Camilla C. Shotton;Anne F. Kornahrens

  • Identification of epigenetic DNA modifications with a protein nanopore

    Emma V. B. Wallace;David Stoddart;Andrew J. Heron;Ellina Mikhailova

  • Ruthenium-catalyzed isomerization of terminal olefins: applications to synthesis.

    Timothy J. Donohoe;Timothy J. C. O'Riordan;Carla P. Rosa

  • Hydrogen Bonding to Hexafluoroisopropanol Controls the Oxidative Strength of Hypervalent Iodine Reagents

    Ignacio Colomer;Christopher Batchelor-McAuley;Barbara Odell;Timothy J. Donohoe

  • Directed dihydroxylation of cyclic allylic alcohols and trichloroacetamides using OsO4/TMEDA.

    Timothy J. Donohoe;Kevin Blades;Peter R. Moore;Michael J. Waring

  • Hydrogen Borrowing Catalysis with Secondary Alcohols: A New Route for the Generation of β-Branched Carbonyl Compounds.

    Wasim M. Akhtar;Choon Boon Cheong;James R. Frost;Kirsten E. Christensen

  • Ring‐Closing Metathesis: Novel Routes to Aromatic Heterocycles

    Timothy J. Donohoe;Lisa P. Fishlock;Panayiotis A. Procopiou

  • The tethered aminohydroxylation (TA) of cyclic allylic carbamates.

    Timothy J. Donohoe;Peter D. Johnson;and Andrew Cowley;Martine Keenan

  • THE DIRECTED DIHYDROXYLATION OF ALLYLIC ALCOHOLS

    Timothy J. Donohoe;Peter R. Moore;Michael J. Waring;Nicholas J. Newcombe

  • Strategic Application and Transformation of ortho-Disubstituted Phenyl and Cyclopropyl Ketones To Expand the Scope of Hydrogen Borrowing Catalysis

    James R. Frost;Choon Boon Cheong;Wasim M. Akhtar;Dimitri F. J. Caputo

  • Ammonia free partial reduction of aromatic compounds using lithium di-tert-butylbiphenyl (LiDBB).

    Timothy J Donohoe;David House

  • Direct preparation of thiazoles, imidazoles, imidazopyridines and thiazolidines from alkenes

    Timothy J. Donohoe;Mikhail A Kabeshov;Akshat H. Rathi;Ian E. D. Smith

  • Control of Absolute Stereochemistry in Transition-Metal-Catalysed Hydrogen-Borrowing Reactions

    Timothy Kwok;Oskar Hoff;Roly J. Armstrong;Timothy J. Donohoe

  • Heteroaromatic Synthesis via Olefin Cross-Metathesis: Entry to Polysubstituted Pyridines

    Timothy J. Donohoe;Jose A. Basutto;John F. Bower;Akshat Rathi

  • A General Oxidative Cyclization of 1,5‐Dienes Using Catalytic Osmium Tetroxide

    Timothy J. Donohoe;Sam Butterworth

  • PROSPECTS FOR STEREOCONTROL IN THE REDUCTION OF AROMATIC COMPOUNDS

    Timothy J. Donohoe;Rina Garg;Clare A. Stevenson

  • N-sulfonyloxy carbamates as reoxidants for the tethered aminohydroxylation reaction

    Timothy J. Donohoe;Majid J. Chughtai;David J. Klauber;David Griffin

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard G. Compton
Richard G. Compton University of Oxford
John F. Bower
John F. Bower University of Liverpool
Herman O. Sintim
Herman O. Sintim Purdue University West Lafayette
Philip Magnus
Philip Magnus The University of Texas at Austin
Andrew R. Cowley
Andrew R. Cowley University of Oxford
Stephen G. Davies
Stephen G. Davies University of Oxford
Christopher G. Frost
Christopher G. Frost University of Bath
Vincent M. Lynch
Vincent M. Lynch The University of Texas at Austin
Leigh Aldous
Leigh Aldous King's College London
Craig E. Banks
Craig E. Banks Manchester Metropolitan University

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