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Yael Diskin-Posner is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and specializes primarily in Materials Science, with an extensive focus on Materials Chemistry. Their research encompasses aspects of Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The scientist has contributed to several main topics, including crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, crystallography and molecular interactions, nanomaterials for catalytic reactions, porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, and carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis.

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • David Milstein
  • Linda J. W. Shimon
  • Liat Avram
  • Yehoshoa Ben-David
  • Moran Feller

Publications by Yael Diskin-Posner have appeared predominantly in The Cambridge Structural Database, with 121 contributions, followed by the Journal of the American Chemical Society with 14 publications. Other notable venues include Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Angewandte Chemie, and Nature Catalysis.

Some recent publications include:

  • Disequilibrating azobenzenes by visible-light sensitization under confinement, 2023, Science
  • Strongly Anharmonic Octahedral Tilting in Two-Dimensional Hybrid Halide Perovskites, 2021, ACS Nano
  • Improving Fatigue Resistance of Dihydropyrene by Encapsulation within a Coordination Cage, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Formation of thioesters by dehydrogenative coupling of thiols and alcohols with H2 evolution, 2020, Nature Catalysis
  • Structural basis of reactivation of oncogenic p53 mutants by a small molecule: methylene quinuclidinone (MQ), 2021, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Low-Pressure Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide Catalyzed by an Iron Pincer Complex Exhibiting Noble Metal Activity

    Robert Langer;Yael Diskin-Posner;Gregory Leitus;Linda J. W. Shimon

  • Iron Pincer Complex Catalyzed, Environmentally Benign, E‐Selective Semi‐Hydrogenation of Alkynes

    Dipankar Srimani;Yael Diskin-Posner;Yehoshoa Ben-David;David Milstein

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  • Reusable Homogeneous Catalytic System for Hydrogen Production from Methanol and Water

    Peng Hu;Yael Diskin-Posner;Yehoshoa Ben-David;David Milstein

  • Photoreduction of Carbon Dioxide to Carbon Monoxide with Hydrogen Catalyzed by a Rhenium(I) Phenanthroline−Polyoxometalate Hybrid Complex

    Jessica Ettedgui;Yael Diskin-Posner;Lev Weiner;Ronny Neumann

  • Iron borohydride pincer complexes for the efficient hydrogenation of ketones under mild, base-free conditions: synthesis and mechanistic insight.

    Robert Langer;Mark A. Iron;Leonid Konstantinovski;Yael Diskin-Posner

  • Reversible chromism of spiropyran in the cavity of a flexible coordination cage.

    Dipak Samanta;Daria Galaktionova;Julius Gemen;Linda J. W. Shimon

  • Cobalt‐Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Esters to Alcohols: Unexpected Reactivity Trend Indicates Ester Enolate Intermediacy

    Dipankar Srimani;Arup Mukherjee;Alexander F. G. Goldberg;Gregory Leitus

  • Crystal Engineering of Metalloporphyrin Zeolite Analogues This research was supported in part by the Israel Science Foundation administered by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

    Y Diskin-Posner;S Dahal;I I Goldberg

  • Manganese‐Catalyzed N‐Formylation of Amines by Methanol Liberating H2: A Catalytic and Mechanistic Study

    Subrata Chakraborty;Urs Gellrich;Yael Diskin-Posner;Gregory Leitus

  • Direct Synthesis of Amides by Dehydrogenative Coupling of Amines with either Alcohols or Esters: Manganese Pincer Complex as Catalyst

    Amit Kumar;Noel Angel Espinosa-Jalapa;Gregory Leitus;Yael Diskin-Posner

  • Reversible CO2 binding triggered by metal–ligand cooperation in a rhenium(I) PNP pincer-type complex and the reaction with dihydrogen

    Matthias Vogt;Alexander Nerush;Yael Diskin-Posner;Yehoshoa Ben-David

  • Selective N-Formylation of Amines with H2 and CO2 Catalyzed by Cobalt Pincer Complexes

    Prosenjit Daw;Subrata Chakraborty;Gregory Leitus;Yael Diskin-Posner

  • Synthesis of Cyclic Imides by Acceptorless Dehydrogenative Coupling of Diols and Amines Catalyzed by a Manganese Pincer Complex

    Noel Angel Espinosa-Jalapa;Amit Kumar;Gregory Leitus;Yael Diskin-Posner

  • A New Mode of Activation of CO2 by Metal–Ligand Cooperation with Reversible C ? C and M ? O Bond Formation at Ambient Temperature

    Matthias Vogt;Moti Gargir;Mark A. Iron;Yael Diskin-Posner

  • Liquid-organic hydrogen carrier systems based on catalytic peptide formation and hydrogenation

    David Milstein;Peng Hu;Eran Fogler

  • Synthesis of Pyrazines and Quinoxalines via Acceptorless Dehydrogenative Coupling Routes Catalyzed by Manganese Pincer Complexes

    Prosenjit Daw;Amit Kumar;Noel Angel Espinosa-Jalapa;Yael Diskin-Posner

  • Synthesis and reactivity of an iridium(I) acetonyl PNP complex. Experimental and computational study of metal-ligand cooperation in H-H and C-H bond activation via reversible ligand dearomatization

    Leonid Schwartsburd;Mark A. Iron;Leonid Konstantinovski;Yael Diskin-Posner

  • Reversible photoswitching of encapsulated azobenzenes in water.

    Dipak Samanta;Julius Gemen;Zonglin Chu;Yael Diskin-Posner

  • Synthesis and reactivity of iron complexes with a new pyrazine-based pincer ligand, and application in catalytic low-pressure hydrogenation of carbon dioxide.

    Orestes Rivada-Wheelaghan;Alexander Dauth;Gregory Leitus;Yael Diskin-Posner

  • Formation of Stable trans-Dihydride Ruthenium(II) and 16-Electron Ruthenium(0) Complexes Based on Phosphinite PONOP Pincer Ligands. Reactivity toward Water and Electrophiles

    Hiyam Salem;Linda J. W. Shimon;Yael Diskin-Posner;Gregory Leitus

Frequent Co-Authors

David Milstein
David Milstein Weizmann Institute of Science
Linda J. W. Shimon
Linda J. W. Shimon Weizmann Institute of Science
Gregory Leitus
Gregory Leitus Weizmann Institute of Science
Yehoshoa Ben-David
Yehoshoa Ben-David Weizmann Institute of Science
Ronny Neumann
Ronny Neumann Weizmann Institute of Science
Rafal Klajn
Rafal Klajn Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Milko E. van der Boom
Milko E. van der Boom Weizmann Institute of Science
Ekambaram Balaraman
Ekambaram Balaraman Indian Institute of Science
Zeev Gross
Zeev Gross Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Lev Weiner
Lev Weiner Weizmann Institute of Science

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