Publications
Silvi, E.; Wei, W.-J.; Johansson, M. J.; Himo, F.* Mendoza, A.*
"Uncatalyzed Diboron Activation by a Strained Hydrocarbon: Experimental and Theoretical Study of [1.1.1]Propellane Diborylation"Chem. Eur. J.
2024 , 30, e202402152
Chowdhury, R.; Elek, G. Z.; Meana-Baamonde, B.; Mendoza, A.*
"Modular synthesis of (borylmethyl)silanes through orthogonal functionalization of a carbon atom"Org. Lett.
2023 , 25, 1935–1940Colas, K.; dos Santos, A. Catarina V. D.; Kohlhepp, S. V.; Mendoza, A.*
"Direct Addition of Grignard Reagents to Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids Enabled by Bulky turbo-Organomagnesium Anilides"Chem. Eur. J.
2022 , 28, e202104053
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Costantini, M.; Mendoza, A.*
"Modular Enantioselective Synthesis of cis-Cyclopropanes through Redox-Active Carbene Transfer and Stereoselective Photo-DecarboxylationACS Catalysis
2021 , 11, 13312–13319
Pre-print: ChemRxiv (Jun 22, 2021)Planas, F.; Costantini, M.; Montesinos-Magraner, M.; Himo, F.*; Mendoza, A.*
"Combined Experimental and Computational Study of Ruthenium N-hydroxyphthalimidoyl Carbenes in Alkene Cyclopropanation Reactions"ACS Catalysis
2021 , 11, 10950–10963Chowdhury, R.; Mendoza, A.*
"N-hydroxyphthalimidyl diazoacetate (NHPI-DA): a modular methylene linchpin for the C–H alkylation of indoles"Chem. Commun.
2021 , 57, 4532–4535Chowdhury, R.; Yu, Z.; Tong, M. L.; Kohlhepp, S. V.; Yin, X.; Mendoza, A.*
"Decarboxylative Alkyl Coupling Promoted by NADH and Blue Light"J. Am. Chem. Soc.
2020 , 142, 20143–20151
Pre-print: ChemRxiv (Jan 15, 2020)
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Planas, F.; Kohlhepp, S. V.; Huang, G.; Mendoza, A.*; Himo, F.*
"Computational and Experimental Study of Turbo-Organomagnesium Amide Reagents: Cubane Aggregates as Reactive Intermediates in Pummerer Coupling"Chem. Eur. J.
2020 , 27, 2767–2773Martinez de Castro, E.; Suarez-Pantiga, S.; Mendoza, A.*
"Scalable Synthesis of Esp and Rhodium(II) Carboxylates from Acetylacetone and RhCl3.xH2O"Org. Proc. Res. Dev.
2020 , 24, 1207–1212Colas, K.; dos Santos, A. Catarina V. D.; Mendoza, A.*
"i-Pr2NMgCl·LiCl Enables the Synthesis of Ketones by Direct Addition of Grignard Reagents to Carboxylate Anions"Org. Lett.
2019 , 21, 7908–7913
Highlighted in the Organic Chemistry PortalYu, Z.; Mendoza, A.*
"Enantioselective Assembly of Congested Cyclopropanes using Redox-Active Aryldiazoacetates"Bratt, E.; Suárez-Pantiga, S.; Johansson, M. J.; Mendoza, A.*
"Mechanism and regioselectivity of the anionic oxidative rearrangement of 1,3-diketones towards all-carbon quaternary carboxylates"Chem. Commun.
2019 , 55, 8844–8847
Invited contribution for the Emerging Investigators Issue 2019
Highlighted in Chemistry ViewsMontesinos-Magraner, M.; Costantini, M.; Ramirez-Contreras, R.; Muratore, M.; Johansson, M. J.; Mendoza, A.*
"General Cyclopropane Assembly via Enantioselective Transfer of a Redox-Active Carbene to Aliphatic Olefins"Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
2019 , 58, 5930–5935
Pre-print: ChemRxiv (Dec 7, 2018)
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Top 10% most downloaded articles in 2019 on Angew. Chem.
Colas, K.; Mendoza, A.*
"Iterative Synthesis of Pluripotent Thioethers through Controlled Redox Fluctuation of Sulfur"Synlett
2018 , 29, 1329–1333Invited contribution - 9th EuCheMS Young Investigator Workshop -
Qiu, Y.; Mendoza, A.; Posevins, D.; Himo, F., Kalek, M.*; Bäckvall, J.-E.*
"Mechanistic Insight into Enantioselective Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Carbocyclization-Borylation of Enallenes"
Chem. Eur. J.2018 , 24, 2433–2439In collaboration with Profs. Bäckvall, Himo and Kalek Colas, K.; Martin-Montero, R.; Mendoza, A.*
"Intermolecular Pummerer Coupling with Carbon Nucleophiles in Non-Electrophilic Media"Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
2017 , 56, 16042–16046
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Highlighted in The Organometallic Chemistry BlogOtero-Fraga, J.; Suarez-Pantiga, S.; Montesinos-Magraner, M.; Rhein, D.; Mendoza, A.*
"Direct and Stereospecific [3+2] Synthesis of Pyrrolidines from Simple Unactivated Alkenes"Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
2017 , 56, 12962–12966
Highlighted in The Organometallic Chemistry BlogOtero-Fraga, J.; Montesinos-Magraner, M.; Mendoza, A.*
"Perspectives on Intermolecular Azomethine Ylide [3+2] Cycloadditions with Non-Electrophilic Olefins"Synthesis
2017 , 49, 802–809Invited contribution (Ed: Prof. P. Knochel) Mendoza, A.*; Colas, K.; Suarez-Pantiga, S.; Goetz, D.; Johansson, M. J.
"Chemical Innovation through Ligand Total Synthesis"Synlett
2016 , 27, 1753–1759Invited contribution (Ed: Prof. K. P. C. Vollhardt) Suarez-Pantiga, S.; Colas, K.; Johansson, M. J.; Mendoza, A.*
"Scalable synthesis of piperazines enabled by visible light irradiation and aluminum organometallics"Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
2015 , 54, 14094–14098
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Chan, L.; McNally, A; Toh, Q. Y.; Mendoza, A.; Gaunt, M. J.* "A Counteranion Triggered Arylation Strategy Using Diaryliodonium Fluorides"
Chem. Sci.2015 , 6, 1277–1281 -
Wilde, N.; Isomura, M.; Mendoza, A.; Baran, P. S.* "Two phase synthesis of (–)-Taxuyunnanine D"
J. Am. Chem. Soc.2014 , 136, 4949–4912 -
Ishihara, Y; Mendoza, A.; Baran, P. S.* "Total Synthesis of taxane terpenes: cyclase phase"
Tetrahedron2013 , 69, 5685–5701- [special issue] -
Cala, L.; Mendoza, A.; Fañanás, F. J.*; Rodríguez, F.* "A catalytic multicomponent coupling reaction for the enantioselective synthesis of spiroacetals"
Chem. Commun.2013 , 49, 2715–2717 -
Voica, A.-F.; Mendoza, A.; Gutekunst, W. R.; Otero Fraga, J.; Baran, P. S.* "Guided desaturation of unactivated aliphatics"
Nature Chem.2012 , 4, 629–635 -
Mendoza, A.; Ishihara, Y; Baran, P. S.* "Scalable enantioselective total synthesis of taxanes"
Nature Chem.2012 , 4, 21–25 -
Fañanás, F. J.*; Mendoza, A.; Arto, T.; Temelli, B.; Rodríguez, F.* "Scalable total synthesis of (–)-Berkelic Acid by a protecting group-free strategy"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2012 , 51, 4930–4933 -
Fañanás, F. J.*; Arto, T.; Mendoza, A.; Rodríguez, F.* "Synthesis of 2,5-dihydropyridine derivatives by gold-catalyzed reactions of beta-ketoesters and propargylamines"
Org. Lett.2011 , 13, 4184–4187 -
Mendoza, A.; Pardo, P.; Rodríguez, F.*; Fañanás, F. J.* "Synthesis of [3.3.1] bicyclic compounds by a Bronsted acid catalysed double intramolecular Michael addition"
Chem. Eur. J.2010 , 16, 9758–9762 -
Barluenga, J.*; Calleja, J.; Mendoza, A.; Rodríguez, F.; Fañanás, F. J. "Synthesis of polycyclic compounds by a cascade cycloisomerization/Diels-Alder reaction"
Chem. Eur. J.2010 , 16, 7110–7112 -
Barluenga, J.*; Mendoza, A.; Rodríguez, F.; Fañanás, F. J. "A palladium(II)-catalyzed synthesis of spiroacetals through a one-pot multi-component cascade reaction"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2009 , 48, 1664–1647 -
Barluenga, J.*; Mendoza, A.; Rodríguez, F.; Fañanás, F. J. "Synthesis of furoquinolines through a one-pot multicomponent cascade reaction catalyzed by platinum complexes"
Chem. Eur. J.2008 , 14, 10892–10895 -
Barluenga, J.*; Mendoza, A.; Rodríguez, F.; Fañanás, F. J. "Synthesis of spiroquinolines through a one-pot multicatalytic and multicomponent cascade reaction"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2008 , 48, 7044–7047 -
Barluenga, J.*; Mendoza, A.; Dieguez, A,; Rodríguez, F.; Fañanás, F. J. "Umpolung reactivity of alkenyl Fischer carbene complexes, copper enolates and electrophiles"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2006 , 48, 4848–4850 -
Mendoza, A.; Rodríguez, F.*; Fañanás, F. J.* "Asymmetric halocyclization of unsaturated compounds: an overview and recent developments"
Curr. Org. Chem.2013 , 10, 384–393- [invited review] -
Mendoza, A.; Baran, P. S.* "Synthesis: a constructive debate – Practical synthesis"
Nature2012 , 492, 188–189- [forum article with Keasling, J.D.] -
Arto, T.; Mendoza, A.; Fañanás, F. J.*; Rodríguez, F.* "Chapter 2 – (−)-Berkelic Acid: Lessons Learned From Our Investigations on a Scalable Total Synthesis"
Strategies and Tactics in Organic Synthesis2014 , 10, 33–50(Ed: M. Harmata), Elsevier
