Publications by Florian Gérald Abela

Synthesis of Indenyl Triazenes by Rhodium-Catalyzed Annulation Reactions

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Florian Gérald Abela, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Carl Thomas Bormann

The synthesis of vinyl triazenes by metal-catalyzed processes is attractive, but only few examples have been described so far. Here, we describe Rh-catalyzed [3+2] annulation reactions of arylboronic acid derivatives and alkynyl triazenes. These reactions ...

2020

Divergent Synthesis of Densely Substituted Arenes and Pyridines via Cyclotrimerization Reactions of Alkynyl Triazenes

Kay Severin, Florian Gérald Abela, Nicolai Cramer, Frederick Mark Chadwick, Jin Fay Tan, Carl Thomas Bormann

Densely substituted fused aromatic triazenes can be prepared by [2 + 2 + 2] cyclotrimerization reactions of 1-alkynyl triazenes. The Cp*Ru-catalyzed cyclization proceeds well with both simple alkynyl triazenes and tethered 1-diynyl triazenes. Attractively, ...

2019

Towards a frustrated Lewis pair-ionic liquid system

Gabor Laurenczy, Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Florian Gérald Abela, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Emilia Paunescu

An ionic liquid encompassing a bulky tertiary amine was synthesized and used as a dual solvent-reactant for the formation of a frustrated Lewis pair with tris(pentafluorophenyl) borane, forming a pseudo-frustrated Lewis pair-ionic liquid system. The ionic ...

Elsevier2018

Investigations of the Chemistry of 1-Alkynyltriazenes

Florian Gérald Abela

The chemistry of aromatic triazenes is well known, and has been explored for more than a century. These compounds have emerged as very useful intermediates, because of their unique reactivity. This functionality can notably be used to access many other fun ...

EPFL2018

Divergent Asymmetric Synthesis of Polycyclic Compounds via Vinyl Triazenes

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Gregor Kiefer, Florian Gérald Abela, Nicolai Cramer, David Kossler, Abdusalom Suleymanov

Vinyl triazenes were obtained by enantioselective [2+2] cycloaddition reactions of bicyclic alkenes with 1-alkynyl triazenes in the presence of a RuII catalyst with a chiral cyclopentadienyl ligand. These triazenes serve as unique vinyl cation surrogates. ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2017

1-Alkynyltriazenes as Functional Analogues of Ynamides

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Jérôme Waser, Gregor Kiefer, Loïc Nicolas Jeanbourquin, Florian Gérald Abela, Sophie Lucie Racine, Daniele Perrotta

The chemical reactivity of 1-alkynyltriazenes has been investigated and is found to parallel the reactivity of ynamides. The similarity in reactivity of these two classes of compounds is demonstrated by addition reactions with acids, by cycloaddition react ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015