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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Tomislav Rovis is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has a body of work primarily situated within the field of Chemistry, with a particular focus on Organic Chemistry. Their research spans multiple subfields including Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Molecular Biology, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The main topics of Rovis's work include:

  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques
  • Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis

Rovis has published extensively in notable scientific journals. Some of the frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Synlett
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Recent papers authored by Rovis include:

  • "Photons or Electrons? A Critical Comparison of Electrochemistry and Photoredox Catalysis for Organic Synthesis," 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • "Copper Catalyzed C(sp3)-H Bond Alkylation via Photoinduced Ligand-to-Metal Charge Transfer," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Development of a Platform for Near-Infrared Photoredox Catalysis," 2020, ACS Central Science
  • "Dynamic crosslinking compatibilizes immiscible mixed plastics," 2023, Nature
  • "Iron-Catalyzed Photoinduced LMCT: A 1° C-H Abstraction Enables Skeletal Rearrangements and C(sp3)-H Alkylation," 2021, ACS Catalysis

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rovis include:

  • Nicholas E. S. Tay
  • Candice L. Joe
  • Trevor C. Sherwood
  • David C. Cabanero
  • Eva Bednářová

Tomislav Rovis has been recognized with awards such as the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012 and the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Organocatalytic Reactions Enabled by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes.

    Darrin M. Flanigan;Fedor Romanov-Michailidis;Nicholas A. White;Tomislav Rovis

  • Biotinylated Rh(III) Complexes in Engineered Streptavidin for Accelerated Asymmetric C–H Activation

    Todd K. Hyster;Livia Knörr;Thomas R. Ward;Tomislav Rovis

  • Complementary Strategies for Directed C(sp3 )-H Functionalization: A Comparison of Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Activation, Hydrogen Atom Transfer, and Carbene/Nitrene Transfer.

    John C. K. Chu;Tomislav Rovis;Tomislav Rovis

  • Catalytic Asymmetric α-Acylation of Tertiary Amines Mediated by a Dual Catalysis Mode: N-Heterocyclic Carbene and Photoredox Catalysis

    Daniel A. DiRocco;Tomislav Rovis

  • Amide-directed photoredox-catalysed C–C bond formation at unactivated sp 3 C–H bonds

    John C. K. Chu;Tomislav Rovis;Tomislav Rovis

  • Photoredox catalysis using infrared light via triplet fusion upconversion.

    Benjamin D. Ravetz;Andrew B. Pun;Emily M. Churchill;Daniel N. Congreve

  • Rhodium-Catalyzed Oxidative Cycloaddition of Benzamides and Alkynes via C−H/N−H Activation

    Todd K. Hyster;Tomislav Rovis

  • A highly enantioselective catalytic intramolecular Stetter reaction

    Mark S Kerr;Javier Read de Alaniz;Tomislav Rovis

  • Novel Actions of Estrogen Receptor-β on Anxiety-Related Behaviors

    Trent D. Lund;Tomislav Rovis;Wilson C. J. Chung;Robert J. Handa

  • Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Carboxylation of Styrenes Using CO2

    Catherine M. Williams;Jeffrey B. Johnson;Tomislav Rovis

  • Exploiting Acyl and Enol Azolium Intermediates via NHeterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed Reactions of Alpha-Reducible Aldehydes

    Harit U. Vora;Philip Wheeler;Tomislav Rovis

  • Correction: Pyridine synthesis from oximes and alkynes via rhodium(III) catalysis: Cp* and Cp(t) provide complementary selectivity.

    Todd K. Hyster;Tomislav Rovis

  • A Coupling of Benzamides and Donor/Acceptor Diazo Compounds To Form γ-Lactams via Rh(III)-Catalyzed C–H Activation

    Todd K. Hyster;Kyle E. Ruhl;Tomislav Rovis

  • Nucleophilic carbene and HOAt relay catalysis in an amide bond coupling: an orthogonal peptide bond forming reaction.

    Harit U. Vora;Tomislav Rovis

  • Photons or Electrons? A Critical Comparison of Electrochemistry and Photoredox Catalysis for Organic Synthesis.

    Nicholas E S Tay;Dan Lehnherr;Tomislav Rovis

  • More than Bystanders: The Effect of Olefins on Transition‐Metal‐Catalyzed Cross‐Coupling Reactions

    Jeffrey B. Johnson;Tomislav Rovis

  • Rh(III)-catalyzed regioselective synthesis of pyridines from alkenes and α,β-unsaturated oxime esters.

    Jamie M. Neely;Tomislav Rovis

  • Conversion of α-Haloaldehydes into Acylating Agents by an Internal Redox Reaction Catalyzed by Nucleophilic Carbenes

    Nathan T. Reynolds;Javier Read De Alaniz;Tomislav Rovis

  • Enantioselective Synthesis of Quaternary Stereocenters via a Catalytic Asymmetric Stetter Reaction

    Mark S. Kerr;Tomislav Rovis

  • Electronic and Steric Tuning of a Prototypical Piano Stool Complex: Rh(III) Catalysis for C-H Functionalization.

    Tiffany Piou;Tomislav Rovis

  • N−Heterocyclic Carbene and Brønsted Acid Cooperative Catalysis: Asymmetric Synthesis of trans−γ−Lactams

    Xiaodan Zhao;Daniel A. DiRocco;Tomislav Rovis

  • Asymmetric Synthesis of Hydrobenzofuranones via Desymmetrization of Cyclohexadienones Using the Intramolecular Stetter Reaction

    Qin Liu;Tomislav Rovis

Frequent Co-Authors

Javier Read de Alaniz
Javier Read de Alaniz University of California, Santa Barbara
Mark Lautens
Mark Lautens University of Toronto
David A. Evans
David A. Evans Harvard University
Luis M. Campos
Luis M. Campos Columbia University
Shaodan Ma
Shaodan Ma University of Macau
David D. Ho
David D. Ho Columbia University
Brent R. Stockwell
Brent R. Stockwell Columbia University
Yaoxing Huang
Yaoxing Huang Columbia University
Robert S. Paton
Robert S. Paton Colorado State University

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