Jérôme Waser

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BCH 1402 (Batochime UNIL)
Av. F.-A. Forel 2
1015 Lausanne
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Mission
To learn more about our mission, please have a look at the LCSO website: http://lcso.epfl.ch/Biography
Jérôme Waser biography and CV's are available on the following website: http://lcso.epfl.ch/waserPublications
Infoscience publications
Infoscience
Silyl Ethynyl Benziodoxolone Reagents
Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis; Wiley, 2012.Electrophilic alkynylation: the dark side of acetylene chemistry
Chemical Society Reviews. 2012. DOI : 10.1039/c2cs35034c.Indole Alkaloids Synthesis via a Selective Cyclization of Aminocyclopropanes
CHIMIA. 2012. DOI : 10.2533/chimia.2012.233.Asymmetric Organocatalysis Meets Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry for the alpha-Functionalization of Carbonyl Compounds
Chemcatchem. 2012. DOI : 10.1002/cctc.201200116.Iron-Catalyzed [3+2] Annulation of Aminocyclopropanes with Aldehydes: Stereoselective Synthesis of Aminotetrahydrofurans
Organic Letters. 2012. DOI : 10.1021/ol203144v.Ethynyl Benziodoxolones for the Direct Alkynylation of Heterocycles: Structural Requirement, Improved Procedure for Pyrroles, and Insights into the Mechanism
Chemistry-A European Journal. 2012. DOI : 10.1002/chem.201200200.Synthesis of 1-[(Triisopropylsilyl)ethynyl]-1 lambda(3),2-benziodoxol-3(1H)-one and Alkynylation of Indoles, Thiophenes, and Anilines
Synthesis-Stuttgart. 2012. DOI : 10.1055/s-0031-1290589.Para-Selective Gold-Catalyzed Direct Alkynylation of Anilines
Organic Letters. 2012. DOI : 10.1021/ol203289v.Catalytic Enantiospecific [3+2] Annulation of Aminocyclopropanes with Ketones
Chemistry-A European Journal. 2012. DOI : 10.1002/chem.201103971.Catalytic Formal Homo-Nazarov Reaction and Other Cyclizations of Cyclopropanes : from Methodology to Total Synthesis
Lausanne, EPFL, 2012. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5269.Development of Catalytic Umpolung : Part 1: Direct Alkynylation of Heterocycles and Electron-Rich Aromatics using Alkynyl-Benziodoxolones - Part 2: Synthesis of New Bifunctional (Thio)urea-Carbene Catalysts
Lausanne, EPFL, 2012. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5397.Benziodoxole-based hypervalent iodine reagents for atom-transfer reactions
Chemical Communications- Royal Society of Chemistry. 2011. DOI : 10.1039/C0CC02265A.A Palladium-Catalyzed Aminoalkynylation Strategy towards Bicyclic Heterocycles: Synthesis of (±)-Trachelanthamidine
Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2011. DOI : 10.1002/anie.201100718.Cyclopropanes and Hypervalent Iodine Reagents: High Energy Compounds for Applications in Synthesis and Catalysis
CHIMIA. 2011. DOI : 10.2533/chimia.2011.649.Catalytic [3+2] Annulation of Aminocyclopropanes for the Enantiospecific Synthesis of Cyclopentylamines
Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2011. DOI : 10.1002/anie.201106255.Cyclization of Aminocyclopropanes in Indole Alkaloids Synthesis
Synlett. 2011. DOI : 10.1055/s-0030-1259553.Pd(0)-Catalyzed Oxy- and Aminoalkynylation of Olefins for the Synthesis of Tetrahydrofurans and Pyrrolidines
Organic Letters. 2011. DOI : 10.1021/ol2029383.One-pot gold-catalyzed synthesis of 3-silylethynyl indoles from unprotected o-alkynylanilines
Beilstein Journal Of Organic Chemistry. 2011. DOI : 10.3762/bjoc.7.65.Formal Homo-Nazarov and Other Cyclization Reactions of Activated Cyclopropanes
Chemistry - A European Journal. 2011. DOI : 10.1002/chem.201102583.Benziodoxole-based hypervalent iodine reagents for atom-transfer reactions
Chemical Communications. 2011. DOI : 10.1039/c0cc02265a.New Acetylene Chemistry : Direct [alpha]-Alkynylation of Carbonyls with Ethynyl Benziodoxolones (EBX)
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5214.Azides by Olefin Hydroazidation Reactions
Organic Azides: Syntheses and Applications; Wiley, 2010. p. 95 - 112.Direct Alkynylation of Thiophenes: Cooperative Activation of TIPS–EBX with Gold and Brønsted Acids
Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2010. DOI : 10.1002/anie.201003179.Catalytic Selective Cyclizations of Aminocyclopropanes: Formal Synthesis of Aspidospermidine and Total Synthesis of Goniomitine
Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2010. DOI : 10.1002/anie.201001853.Synthesis of Chiral Bifunctional (Thio)Urea N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
Synlett. 2010. DOI : 10.1055/s-0029-1219543.Pd-Catalyzed Intramolecular Oxyalkynylation of Alkenes with Hypervalent Iodine
Organic Letters. 2010. DOI : 10.1021/ol9027286.Ethynyl-1,2-benziodoxol-3(1 H)-one (EBX): An Exceptional Reagent for the Ethynylation of Keto, Cyano, and Nitro Esters
Chemistry, A European Journal. 2010. DOI : 10.1002/chem.201001539.Cyclization and Cycloaddition Reactions of Cyclopropyl Carbonyls and Imines
Synthesis. 2009. DOI : 10.1055/s-0029-1216998.Catalytic Formal Homo-Nazarov Cyclization
Organic Letters. 2009. DOI : 10.1021/ol802970g.Direct Alkynylation of Indole and Pyrrole Heterocycles
Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2009. DOI : 10.1002/anie.200905419.Cyclization of Cyclopropyl Carbonyls and the Homo-Nazarov Reaction
CHIMIA. 2009. DOI : 10.2533/chimia.2009.162.Other publications
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Link to our resarch
A regularly updated description of our research program is available on the following website: http://lcso.epfl.ch/ResearchTeaching & PhD
Teaching
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering