Publications of Benjamin List

Leinung, W.; Nobuya, T.; Merher, M.; Leutzsch, M.; Raut, R. K.; List, B. Catalytic Asymmetric Ionic Hydrogenation of α-Alkyl Styrenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025.

De, C. K.; Tsuda, M.; Zhu, C.; Dehn, S.; Hinrichs, H.; Tsuji, N.; Jin, H.; Arase, H.; Tanaka, S.; List, B. The Overlooked Stereoisomers of the Ionizable Lipid ALC315. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147, 28595–28600.

Grimm, J. A. A.; List, B. Asymmetric Prins Cyclizations of O-Prenylated Salicylaldehydes. Synthesis 2025.

Silva, T. S.; Correia, J. T. M.; Piscelli, B. A.; Cormanich, R. A.; List, B.; Coelho, F. Catalyst-Dependent Asymmetric Dearomative and Desymmetrizative Higher-Order [8 + 2] Cycloaddition of Indolizines with Maleimides Toward the Atroposelective Synthesis of Cyclazines. ACS Catalysis 2025, 15, 13558–13567.

Zheng, T.; Wang, Z.; Mitschke, B.; Nöthling, N.; Leutzsch, M.; Neese, F.; List, B. Pericyclic Umpolung in a Catalytic Asymmetric Diels–Alder Reaction of Tropone with Enol Ethers. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147, 25489–25497.

Leinung, W.; Mitschke, B.; Leutzsch, M.; Wakchaure, V. N.; Maji, R.; List, B. From Reagent to Catalyst: Dispersion-Driven Design of a General Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation Catalyst. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147, 16722–16728.

Zhu, C.; Das, S.; Guin, A.; De, C. K.; List, B. Organocatalytic Regio- and Stereoselective Cyclopropanation of Olefins. Nature Catalysis 2025, 8, 487–494.

Alama, L.; Frank, N.; Brücher, L.; Nienhaus, J.; List, B. Organocatalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Azabicyclo[2.1.1]Hexanes. ACS Catalysis 2025, 15, 8297–8302.

Lai, J.; List, B.; Reid, J. P. Bis-Indole Chiral Architectures for Asymmetric Catalysis. Nature Communications 2025, 16, 3676.

Frank, N.; Leutzsch, M.; List, B. Bro̷nsted Acid-Catalyzed Reduction of Furans. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147, 7932–7938.

Reinhard, D. L.; Iniutina, A.; Reese, S.; Shaw, T.; Merten, C.; List, B.; Huber, S. M. Asymmetric Counteranion-Directed Halogen Bonding Catalysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025.

Guillén, M.; Leutzsch, M.; List, B. Catalytic Asymmetric Cycloaddition of Olefins with In Situ Generated N-Boc-Formaldimine. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024, 146, 32292–32297.

Scharf, M. J.; Tsuji, N.; Lindner, M. M.; Leutzsch, M.; Lõkov, M.; Parman, E.; Leito, I.; List, B. Highly Acidic Electron-Rich Brønsted Acids Accelerate Asymmetric Pictet–Spengler Reactions by Virtue of Stabilizing Cation–π Interactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024, 146, 28339–28349.

Raut, R. K.; Matsutani, S.; Shi, F.; Kataoka, S.; Poje, M.; Mitschke, B.; Maeda, S.; Tsuji, N.; List, B. Catalytic Asymmetric Fragmentation of Cyclopropanes. Science 2024, 386, 225–230.

Luo, N.; Turberg, M.; Leutzsch, M.; Mitschke, B.; Brunen, S.; Wakchaure, V. N.; Nöthling, N.; Schelwies, M.; Pelzer, R.; List, B. The Catalytic Asymmetric Polyene Cyclization of Homofarnesol to Ambrox. Nature 2024, 632, 795–801.

Zheng, T.; Nöthling, N.; Wang, Z.; Mitschke, B.; Leutzsch, M.; List, B. A Solid Noncovalent Organic Double-Helix Framework Catalyzes Asymmetric [6 + 4] Cycloaddition. Science 2024, 385, 765–770.

Han, J. T.; Tsuji, N.; Zhou, H.; Leutzsch, M.; List, B. Organocatalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Si-Stereogenic Silacycles. Nature Communications 2024, 15, 5846.

Guillén, M.; Liu, S.; Díaz-Oviedo, C. D.; Klussmann, M.; List, B. Acid-Catalyzed Oxy-Aminomethylation of Styrenes. ACS Catalysis 2024, 14, 751–756.

Wakchaure, V. N.; DeSnoo, W.; Laconsay, C. J.; Leutzsch, M.; Tsuji, N.; Tantillo, D. J.; List, B. Catalytic Asymmetric Cationic Shifts of Aliphatic Hydrocarbons. Nature 2024, 625, 287–292.

Han, J. T.; Zhou, H.; List, B. Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Asymmetric Silylation of Biaryl Diols. Synlett 2023, 34, 2393–2395.