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Victor Snieckus

Victor Snieckus

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Chemistry

D-Index
73
Citations
24069
World Ranking
4880
National Ranking
122

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 1993 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Victor Snieckus was affiliated with Queen's University in Canada and contributed extensively to the field of chemistry during their career. Their research primarily focused on organic chemistry, with significant work also intersecting pharmaceutical science, molecular biology, inorganic chemistry, and biomedical engineering.

Snieckus authored numerous publications with a strong emphasis on catalytic C-H functionalization methods. Other main research topics included synthesis and catalytic reactions, cyclopropane reaction mechanisms, fluorine in organic chemistry, asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, and synthesis and reactions of organic compounds.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Snieckus included Paul Richardson, M. A. Jalil Miah, Mark A. Reed, Donald F. Weaver, and John I. Trujillo.

The scientist's prominent publication venues featured:

  • Synfacts
  • Organic Letters
  • European Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • ARKIVOC

Recent published papers by Victor Snieckus included:

  • The Tetraethylphosphorodiamidate (OP(O)(NEt2)2) Directed Metalation Group (DMG). Directed ortho and Lateral Metalation and the Phospha Anionic Fries Rearrangement, 2020, Organic Letters
  • Expedient Pd-Catalyzed α-Arylation towards Dibenzoxepinones: Pivotal Manske's Ketone for the Formal Synthesis of Cularine Alkaloids, 2020, European Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Tetraethylphosphorodiamidate-Directed Metalation Group: Directed Ortho and Remote Metalation, Cross Coupling, and Remote Phospha Anionic Fries Rearrangement Reactions, 2020, Organic Letters
  • Directed Ortho and Remote Metalation of Naphthalene 1,8-Diamide: Complementing SEAr Reactivity for the Synthesis of Substituted Naphthalenes, 2021, Organic Letters
  • Synthesis of C2-Substituted Imidazolones, 2020, Synfacts

Victor Snieckus was recognized by professional bodies with awards including Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2009) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1993), the latter citing the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling: A Historical Contextual Perspective to the 2010 Nobel Prize

    Carin C. C. Johansson Seechurn;Matthew O. Kitching;Thomas J. Colacot;Victor Snieckus

  • Directed ortho metalation. Tertiary amide and O-carbamate directors in synthetic strategies for polysubstituted aromatics

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  • Beyond Thermodynamic Acidity: A Perspective on the Complex‐Induced Proximity Effect (CIPE) in Deprotonation Reactions

    Marna C. Whisler;Stephen MacNeil;Victor Snieckus;Peter Beak

  • Palladiumkatalysierte Kreuzkupplungen: eine historische Perspektive im Kontext der Nobel-Preise 2010

    Carin C. C. Johansson Seechurn;Matthew O. Kitching;Thomas J. Colacot;Victor Snieckus

  • Intramolecular Ene Reactions in Organic Synthesis

    Wolfgang Oppolzer;Victor Snieckus

  • Directed lithiation of aromatic tertiary amides: an evolving synthetic methodology for polysubstituted aromatics

    Peter Beak;Victor Snieckus

  • Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling of aryl carbamates and sulfamates: experimental and computational studies.

    Kyle W. Quasdorf;Aurora Antoft-Finch;Peng Liu;Amanda L. Silberstein

  • Jenseits thermodynamischer Acidität: der Komplex-induzierte Näherungseffekt (CIPE) bei Deprotonierungen

    Marna C. Whisler;Stephen MacNeil;Victor Snieckus;Peter Beak

  • Direct and Highly Enantioselective Synthesis of Ferrocenes with Planar Chirality by (−)-Sparteine-Mediated Lithiation

    M. Tsukazaki;M. Tinkl;A. Roglans;B. J. Chapell

  • N,N-Diethyl O-Carbamate: Directed Metalation Group and Orthogonal Suzuki−Miyaura Cross-Coupling Partner

    Aurora Antoft-Finch;Tom Blackburn;Victor Snieckus

  • Sequential directed ortho metalation-boronic acid cross-coupling reactions. A general regiospecific route to oxygenated dibenzo[b,d]pyran-6-ones related to ellagic acid

    B. I. Alo;A. Kandil;P. A. Patil;M. J. Sharp

  • The directed ortho lithiation of O-aryl carbamates. An anionic equivalent of the Fries rearrangement

    Mukund P. Sibi;Victor Snieckus

  • Studies of a ring-cleaving dioxygenase illuminate the role of cholesterol metabolism in the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

    Katherine C. Yam;Igor D'Angelo;Rainer Kalscheuer;Haizhong Zhu;Haizhong Zhu

  • Nickel(0)-catalyzed cross coupling of aryl O-carbamates and aryl triflates with Grignard reagents. Directed ortho metalation-aligned synthetic methods for polysubstituted aromatics via a 1,2-dipole equivalent

    Saumitra Sengupta;Magda Leite;Delio Soares Raslan;Claude Quesnelle

  • Directed ortho Metalation Approach to C-7-Substituted Indoles. Suzuki−Miyaura Cross Coupling and the Synthesis of Pyrrolophenanthridone Alkaloids

    Christian G Hartung;Anja Fecher;Brian Chapell;Victor Snieckus

  • Intramolecular .alpha.-amidoyl-to-aryl 1,5-hydrogen atom transfer reactions. Heteroannulation and .alpha.-nitrogen functionalization by radical translocation

    V. Snieckus;J. C. Cuevas;C. P. Sloan;Hongtao Liu

  • Impacts of structural photomodification on the toxicity of environmental contaminants: anthracene photooxidation products.

    Ali Mallakin;Brendan J. McConkey;Goubin Miao;Brian McKibben

  • Directed ortho metalation of N,N-diethylbenzamides. Silicon protection of ortho sites and the o-methyl group

    Robert J. Mills;Nicholas J. Taylor;Victor Snieckus

  • The directed ortho metalation—cross coupling symbiosis. Regioselective methodologies for biaryls and heterobiaryls. Deployment in aromatic and heteroaromatic natural product synthesis

    Eric J.-G Anctil;Victor Snieckus

  • Palladium-catalyzed annulation of diarylamines with olefins through C-H activation: direct access to N-arylindoles.

    Upendra Sharma;Rajesh Kancherla;Togati Naveen;Soumitra Agasti

  • C2-symmetric planar chiral ferrocene diamides by (-)-sparteine-mediated directed ortho-lithiation. Synthesis and catalytic activity

    Radoslaw S. Laufer;Ulrich Veith;Nicholas J. Taylor;Victor Snieckus

Frequent Co-Authors

Lindsay D. Eltis
Lindsay D. Eltis University of British Columbia
Mark Reed
Mark Reed Scotland's Rural College
Nicholas J. Taylor
Nicholas J. Taylor University of Waterloo
Sajjad Hussain
Sajjad Hussain Sejong University
Peter Beak
Peter Beak University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter V. Hodson
Peter V. Hodson Queen's University
Robert E. Mulvey
Robert E. Mulvey University of Strathclyde
Alan R. Kennedy
Alan R. Kennedy University of Strathclyde
Paul Knochel
Paul Knochel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Neil K. Garg
Neil K. Garg University of California, Los Angeles

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