Publications by Davinia Fernández González

Ethynylbenziodoxolones (EBX) as Reagents for the Ethynylation of Stabilized Enolates

Davinia Fernández González, Jérôme Waser, Jonathan Brand

Herein, we report a detailed study on the electrophilic alkynylation of cyclic keto esters and amides with ethynylbenziodoxolone (EBX) reagents. The structure and stability of this class of reagents is first described more in details. Differential scanning ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Asymmetric Organocatalysis Meets Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry for the alpha-Functionalization of Carbonyl Compounds

Davinia Fernández González, Jérôme Waser, Fides Benfatti

Wiley-VCH Verlag2012

Cyclopropanes and Hypervalent Iodine Reagents: High Energy Compounds for Applications in Synthesis and Catalysis

Davinia Fernández González, Jérôme Waser, Filippo De Simone, Jonathan Brand, Stefano Nicolai

One of the major challenges faced by organic chemistry is the efficient synthesis of increasingly complex molecules. Since October 2007, the Laboratory of Catalysis and Organic Synthesis (LCSO) at EPFL has been working on the development of catalytic react ...

2011

Benziodoxole-based hypervalent iodine reagents for atom-transfer reactions

Davinia Fernández González, Jérôme Waser, Jonathan Brand, Stefano Nicolai

In the last decades, hypervalent iodine reagents have raised from chemical curiosities to mainstream reagents in organic synthesis. The use of benziodoxole-derived reagents has been especially successful in oxidation methods, whereas non-cyclic iodinanes h ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2011

New Acetylene Chemistry : Direct [alpha]-Alkynylation of Carbonyls with Ethynyl Benziodoxolones (EBX)

Davinia Fernández González

This thesis is divided in seven main chapters including an introduction about the state of the art in the field, four main chapters describing the main part of the work, a short insight on the implications of the presented results for other research projec ...

EPFL2011

Benziodoxole-based hypervalent iodine reagents for atom-transfer reactions

Davinia Fernández González, Jérôme Waser, Jonathan Brand, Stefano Nicolai

In the last decades, hypervalent iodine reagents have raised from chemical curiosities to mainstream reagents in organic synthesis. The use of benziodoxole-derived reagents has been especially successful in oxidation methods, whereas non-cyclic iodinanes h ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2011

Ethynyl-1,2-benziodoxol-3(1 H)-one (EBX): An Exceptional Reagent for the Ethynylation of Keto, Cyano, and Nitro Esters

Davinia Fernández González, Jérôme Waser, Jonathan Brand

Hot alkyne! The in situ generation of Ethynyl-1,2-BenziodoXol-3(1H)-one (EBX) from the corresponding silyl protected reagent using TBAF is reported. EBX displayed exceptional acetylene transfer ability to stabilized enolates, even at –78 °C. The mild react ...

2010

Pd-Catalyzed Intramolecular Oxyalkynylation of Alkenes with Hypervalent Iodine

Stéphane Erard, Davinia Fernández González, Jérôme Waser, Stefano Nicolai

The first example of intramolecular oxyalkynylation of nonactivated alkenes using oxidative Pd chemistry is reported. Both phenol and aromatic or aliphatic acid derivatives could be used under operator-friendly conditions (room temperature, technical solve ...

American Chemical Society2010