Herbert Mayr

Research interests

Publications

• Glossary of terms used in physical organic chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)

  Pure and Applied Chemistry · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2018-1010

• Lewis Acidity Scale of Diaryliodonium Ions toward Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Halogen Lewis Bases

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2020 · 10.1021/jacs.9b12998

• Quantification and Theoretical Analysis of the Electrophilicities of Michael Acceptors

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2017 · 10.1021/jacs.7b05106

• Nucleophilic Reactivities of Hydrazines and Amines: The Futile Search for the α-Effect in Hydrazine Reactivities

  The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 2012 · 10.1021/jo301497g

• Farewell to the HSAB Treatment of Ambident Reactivity

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2011 · 10.1002/anie.201007100

• N‐Heterocyclic Carbenes: Organocatalysts with Moderate Nucleophilicity but Extraordinarily High Lewis Basicity

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2011 · 10.1002/anie.201102435

• Nucleophilic Reactivities of Primary and Secondary Amines in Acetonitrile

  European Journal of Organic Chemistry · 2009 · 10.1002/ejoc.200900925

• Nucleophilicities and carbon basicities of DBU and DBN

  Chemical Communications · 2008 · 10.1039/b801811a

• Do general nucleophilicity scales exist?

  Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1002/poc.1325

• Nucleophilicities of Primary and Secondary Amines in Water

  The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1021/jo062586z

• The Reactivity–Selectivity Principle: An Imperishable Myth in Organic Chemistry

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2006 · 10.1002/anie.200503273

• Nucleophilic Reactivities of Indoles

  The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 2006 · 10.1021/jo0614339

• The DMAP‐Catalyzed Acetylation of Alcohols—A Mechanistic Study (DMAP=4‐(Dimethylamino)pyridine)

  Chemistry - A European Journal · 2005 · 10.1002/chem.200500398

• Kinetics of electrophile-nucleophile combinations: A general approach to polar organic reactivity

  Pure and Applied Chemistry · 2005 · 10.1351/pac200577111807

• Solvent Nucleophilicity

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2004 · 10.1021/ja031828z

• Structure–Nucleophilicity Relationships for Enamines

  Chemistry - A European Journal · 2003 · 10.1002/chem.200204666

• π-Nucleophilicity in Carbon−Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions

  Accounts of Chemical Research · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ar020094c

• How Constant Are Ritchie's “Constant Selectivity Relationships”? A General Reactivity Scale for n-, π-, and σ-Nucleophiles

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2002 · 10.1021/ja021010y

• Kinetic Studies of Carbocation-Carbanion Combinations: Key to a General Concept of Polar Organic Reactivity

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2002 · 10.1002/1521-3773(20020104)41:1<91::aid-anie91>3.0.co;2-p

• Reference Scales for the Characterization of Cationic Electrophiles and Neutral Nucleophiles ,

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja010890y

• Nucleophilie‐ und Elektrophilieskalen als Ordnungsprinzipien polarer organischer und metallorganischer Reaktionen

  Angewandte Chemie · 1994 · 10.1002/ange.19941060905

• Scales of Nucleophilicity and Electrophilicity: A System for Ordering Polar Organic and Organometallic Reactions

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.199409381

• Kinetics of the reactions of allylsilanes, allylgermanes, and allylstannanes with carbenium ions

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1991 · 10.1021/ja00013a035

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