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Selected Publications

Publications from Doctoral Studies:

  1. Antilla, J. C.; Wulff, W. D. "Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination with a Chiral VAPOL-Boron Lewis Acid," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 5099-5100.
  2. Antilla, J. C.; Wulff, W. D. "Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination with Aryl Borate Catalysts Derived from VAPOL and VANOL Ligands," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000, 39, 4518-4521.
  3. Newman, C. A.; Antilla, J. C.; Chen, P.; Wulff, W. D., "Regulation of Orthogonal Functions in a Dual Catalyst System. Subservient Role of a Non-chiral Lewis Acid in an Asymmetric Catalytic Heteroatom Diels-Alder Reaction," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 7216.

Publications from Postdoctoral Work:

  1. Antilla, J. C.; Buchwald, S. L. "Copper-Catalyzed Coupling of Arylboronic Acids and Amines," Org. Lett. 2001, 3, 2077-2079.
  2. Klapars, A.; Antilla, J. C.; Huang, X.; Buchwald, S. L. "A General and Efficient Copper Catalyst for the Amidation of Aryl Halides and the N-Arylation of Nitrogen Heterocycles," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 7727-7729.
  3. Antilla, J. C.; Klapars, A.; Buchwald, S. L. "Copper-Catalyzed N-Arylation of Indoles," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 11684-11688.
  4. Antilla, J. C.; Baskin, J. M.; Barder T. E.; Buchwald, S. L. "Copper-Diamine-Catalyzed N-Arylation of Pyrroles, Pyrazoles, Indazoles, Imidazoles, and Triazoles," J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 5578-5587.

Publications as an Independent Investigator:

  1. Rowland, G. B.; Zhang, H.; Rowland, E. B.; Chennamadhavuni, S.; Wang, Y.; Antilla, J. C. "Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Imine Amidation," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 15696-15697.
  2. Rowland, G. B.; Rowland, E. B.; Zhang, Q.; Antilla, J. C. "Stereoselective Aza-Diels-Alder Reactions," Current Organic Chemistry, 2006, 10, 981-1005.
  3. Li, G.; Liang, Y.; Antilla, J. C., "A Vaulted Biaryl Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Reduction of a-Imino Esters: The Highly Enantioselective Preparation of a-Amino Esters," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 5830.
  4. Rowland, G. B.; Rowland, E. B.; Liang, Y.; Perman, J. A.; Antilla, J. C., “The Highly Enantioselective Addition of Indoles to N-Acyl Imines with Use of a Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalyst,” Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 2609.
  5. Li, G.; Rowland, G. B.; Rowland, E. B.; Antilla, J. C., “Organocatalytic Enantioselective Friedel-Crafts Reaction of Pyrrole Derivatives with Imines,” Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 4065.
  6. Liang, Y.; Rowland, E. B.; Rowland, G. B.; Perman, J. A.; Antilla, J. C., “VAPOL phosphoric acid catalysis: the highly enantioselective addition of imides to imines,” Chem. Commun. 2007, In Press: Advance Article.
  7. Rowland, E. B.; Rowland, G. B.; Rivera-Otero, E.; Antilla, J. C., “Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Desymmetrization of meso-Aziridines,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, ASAP.

Patents and Patent Applications:

  1. Process for the Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Aziridines, Wulff, W. D.; Antilla, J. C., United States Patent, 10 July 2001. Patent No. 6,258,960.
  2. Copper-Catalyzed Formation of Carbon-Heteroatom and Carbon-Carbon Bonds, Buchwald, S. L.; Klapars, A.; Antilla, J. C.; Job, G. E.; Wolter, M.; Kwong, F. Y.; Nordmann, G.; Hennessy, E. J., United States Patent, 6 July 2004. Patent No. 6,759,554.
  3. Copper-Catalyzed Formation of Carbon-Heteroatom and Carbon-Carbon Bonds, Buchwald, S. L.; Klapars, A.; Antilla, J. C.; Job, G. E.; Wolter, M.; Kwong, F. Y.; Nordmann, G.; Hennessy, E. J., United States Patent, 15 March 2005. Patent No. 6,867,298.
  4. Process for Producing Optically Active β-Amino Esters Using Metal-Chiral Ligand Catalytic Compounds, Wulff, W. D.; Antilla, J. C.; Yu, S., Provisional Patent Application # 104147.
  5. Enantio-Selective Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Ring-Opening of Azirdines, Antilla, J. C.; Rowland, E. B.; Rowland G. B., 29 June 2007. Patent Application, USF Ref. No. 07A029PR.