Douglas W. Stephan

Research interests

Publications

• New Directions for Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry

  Trends in Chemistry · 2019 · 10.1016/j.trechm.2019.01.006

• FLP catalysis: main group hydrogenations of organic unsaturated substrates

  Chemical Society Reviews · 2018 · 10.1039/c8cs00277k

• The broadening reach of frustrated Lewis pair chemistry

  Science · 2016 · 10.1126/science.aaf7229

• Chemie frustrierter Lewis‐Paare: Entwicklung und Perspektiven

  Angewandte Chemie · 2015 · 10.1002/ange.201409800

• Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry: Development and Perspectives

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2015 · 10.1002/anie.201409800

• Frustrated Lewis Pairs

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2015 · 10.1021/jacs.5b06794

• Frustrated Lewis Pairs: From Concept to Catalysis

  Accounts of Chemical Research · 2014 · 10.1021/ar500375j

• Frustrated Lewis pair chemistry of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur oxides

  Chemical Science · 2014 · 10.1039/c4sc00395k

• Lewis Acidity of Organofluorophosphonium Salts: Hydrodefluorination by a Saturated Acceptor

  Science · 2013 · 10.1126/science.1241764

• Metal‐free Catalytic Olefin Hydrogenation: Low‐Temperature H2 Activation by Frustrated Lewis Pairs

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201204007

• Room Temperature Reduction of CO 2 to Methanol by Al-Based Frustrated Lewis Pairs and Ammonia Borane

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2010 · 10.1021/ja9104792

• Reversible Metal‐Free Carbon Dioxide Binding by Frustrated Lewis Pairs

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200901636

• Reversible, nicht metallunterstützte Bindung von Kohlendioxid durch frustrierte Lewis‐Paare

  Angewandte Chemie · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.200901636

• Frustrated Lewis Pairs: Metal‐free Hydrogen Activation and More

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2009 · 10.1002/anie.200903708

• Frustrierte Lewis‐Paare: metallfreie Wasserstoffaktivierung und mehr

  Angewandte Chemie · 2009 · 10.1002/ange.200903708

• Frustrated Lewis pairs: a new strategy to small molecule activation and hydrogenation catalysis

  Dalton Transactions · 2009 · 10.1039/b819621d

• Terminal Alkyne Activation by Frustrated and Classical Lewis Acid/Phosphine Pairs

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2009 · 10.1021/ja903650w

• Lutidine/B(C6F5)3: At the Boundary of Classical and Frustrated Lewis Pair Reactivity

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2009 · 10.1021/ja900572x

• Lewis acid-catalyzed hydrogenation: B(C6F5)3-mediated reduction of imines and nitriles with H2

  Chemical Communications · 2008 · 10.1039/b718598g

• “Frustrated Lewis pairs”: a concept for new reactivity and catalysis

  Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry · 2008 · 10.1039/b802575b

• Hydrogen and Amine Activation by a Frustrated Lewis Pair of a Bulky N‐Heterocyclic Carbene and B(C6F5)3

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2008 · 10.1002/anie.200802596

• Metal‐Free Catalytic Hydrogenation

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2007 · 10.1002/anie.200702908

• Rapid intramolecular heterolytic dihydrogen activation by a four-membered heterocyclic phosphane–borane adduct

  Chemical Communications · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1039/b710475h

• Facile Heterolytic Cleavage of Dihydrogen by Phosphines and Boranes

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2007 · 10.1021/ja067961j

• Reactivity of “Frustrated Lewis Pairs”: Three‐Component Reactions of Phosphines, a Borane, and Olefins

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2007 · 10.1002/anie.200701215

• Reversible, Metal-Free Hydrogen Activation

  Science · 2006 · 10.1126/science.1134230

• Early-late heterobimetallics

  Coordination Chemistry Reviews · 1989 · 10.1016/0010-8545(89)80002-5

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