Publications by Aragorn Nathan Laverny

Enantiospecific Synthesis of Planar Chiral Rhodium and Iridium Cyclopentadienyl Complexes: Enabling Streamlined and Computer-Guided Access to Highly Selective Catalysts for Asymmetric C-H Functionalizations

Rosario Scopelliti, Nicolai Cramer, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Matthew Wodrich, Rubén Laplaza Solanas, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Aragorn Nathan Laverny

Chiral cyclopentadienyl (CpX) metal complexes are frequently used in asymmetric catalysis by virtue of their high reactivity and selectivity. Planar-chiral-only rhodium and iridium cyclopentadienyl complexes are particularly promising due to unrestricted c ...

2024

Complexation Strategies towards Challenging Group 9 Metal Cyclopentadienyl Scaffolds

Aragorn Nathan Laverny

Cyclopentadienyl (Cp) metal complexes and their chiral counterparts (CpX) have enabled the development of challenging C-H activation transformations. While major progresses were made in developing new chiral CpX complexes and exploring their reactivity, th ...

EPFL2023

Chiral Cyclopentadienyl Ligands: Design, Syntheses, and Applications in Asymmetric Catalysis

Nicolai Cramer, Benoît Daniel Bertrand Audic, Aragorn Nathan Laverny

The creation of new chiral ligands capable of providing high stereocontrol in metal-catalyzed reactions is crucial in modern organic synthesis. The production of bioactive molecules as single enantiomers is increasingly required, and asymmetric catalysis w ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

Accessing Monosubstituted Cyclopentadienyl Rhodium(I) and Iridium(I) Complexes by a Simultaneous Nucleophilic Addition-Metalation Approach to Fulvenes

Nicolai Cramer, Aragorn Nathan Laverny

Despite advances in the synthesis of polysubstituted cyclopentadienyl metal complexes, the rapid access to a library of monosubstituted Cp bearing metal complexes remains challenging. A convenient and general method to access a broad range of monosubstitut ...

2020