Transforming Boron Chemistry By Exploring Boryl Radical Reactivity

Project Information

BETELGEUSE

Grant agreement ID: 101086901

DOI

10.3030/101086901

EC signature date 23 February 2023

Start date 1 January 2024

End date 31 December 2028

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 250,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 250,00

Coordinated by

RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Boryl radical-mediated halogen-atom transfer (XAT) enables the Sonogashira-like alkynylatio of alkyl halides

Author(s): Javier Corpas, Maialen Alonso, Daniele Leonori
Published in: Chemical Science, 2024, ISSN 2041-6539
Publisher: The Royal Society Chemistry
DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2025-00121

Photochemical permutation of meta-substituted phenols

Author(s): Maialen Alonso, Giovanni Lonardi, Enrique M. Arpa, Baptiste Roure, Alessandro Ruffoni, Daniele Leonori
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2025-07579

Photocatalytic hydrogenation of alkenes using ammonia-borane

Author(s): Eva Rivera-Chao, Wesley J. Olivier, Michael J. Tilby, Daniele Leonori
Published in: Chem, Issue 12, 2026, ISSN 2451-9294
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2025-07617

Deaminative cross-coupling of amines by boryl radical β-scission

Author(s): Zhenhua Zhang, Giovanni Lonardi, Thomas Sephton, Yusuf C. Guersoy, Chiara Stavagna, Giovanni V. A. Lenardon, Massimo Bietti, Daniele Leonori
Published in: Nature, Issue 647, 2025, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2025-09397

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Author(s): Cornelia S. Buettner; Chiara Stavagna; Michael J. Tilby; Bartosz Górski; James J. Douglas; Naoki Yasukawa; Daniele Leonori
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2024-10539

Divergent photochemical ring-replacement of isoxazoles

Author(s): Yan Xu, Lorenzo Poletti, Enrique M. Arpa, Baptiste Roure, Alessandro Ruffoni, Daniele Leonori
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 17, 2026, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2026-01792

Photochemical permutation of thiazoles, isothiazoles and other azoles

Author(s): Baptiste Roure, Maialen Alonso, Giovanni Lonardi, Dilara Berna Yildiz, Cornelia S. Buettner, Thiago dos Santos, Yan Xu, Martin Bossart, Volker Derdau, María Méndez, Josep Llaveria, Alessandro Ruffoni, Daniele Leonori
Published in: Nature, Issue 637, 2025, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2025-01415

Excited‐State Basicity Diverts the Site‐Selectivity of Aromatic Deuteration: Application to the Late‐Stage Labeling of Pharmaceuticals

Author(s): Eva Rivera‐Chao, Javier Corpas, Giovanni Lonardi, Volker Derdau, Alessandro Ruffoni, Daniele Leonori
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 64, 2025, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2025-05426

Asymmetric hydrogenation of 3 <i>H</i> -azepines <i>via</i> catalytic kinetic resolution: access to <i>anti</i> -disubstituted azepanes

Author(s): Linda Bui, Dilara Berna Yildiz, Diego García Matesanz, Esteban Matador, Raquel Sanchez, Iuliana Atodiresei, Giovanni Lonardi, Daniele Leonori
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 17, 2026, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2026-04662

Excited-state configuration of nitroarenes enables oxidative cleavage of aromatics over alkenes

Author(s): Wesley J. Olivier, Piotr Błyszczyk, Enrique M. Arpa, Kenshiro Hitoshio, Miguel Gomez-Mendoza, Víctor de la Peña O’Shea, Isabelle Marchand, Thomas Poisson, Alessandro Ruffoni, Daniele Leonori
Published in: Science, Issue 387, 2025, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/SCIENCE.ADS3955

A photochemical strategy for aromatic nitrogen <i>ortho</i> -isomerization

Author(s): Giovanni Lenardon, Xheila Yzeiri, Gael Le Berre, Dilara Berna Yildiz, Daniele Leonori, Alessandro Ruffoni
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2025-09296

Repurposing Aryl Boronic Acids as Halogen‐Atom Transfer Agents

Author(s): Daigo Hayashi, Thomas Sephton, Daniele Leonori
Published in: European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Issue 29, 2025, ISSN 1434-193X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2025-10797

A three-step strategy for the conversion of pyridines into benzonitriles

Author(s): Reyhan Güdük, Niklas Kehl, Chiara Stavagna, Michael J. Tilby, Oliver Turner, Alessandro Ruffoni, Henry P. Caldora, Daniele Leonori
Published in: Nature Synthesis, Issue 4, 2025, ISSN 2731-0582
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2025-03054

Amine‐Ligated Boryl Radicals Enables Direct C─F Borylation and Cross‐Couplings of Polyfluoroarenes

Author(s): Naoki Yasukawa, Waka Okada, Marc Fimm, Rio Kawamura, Ryota Nomura, Tsunayoshi Takehara, Takeyuki Suzuki, Daniele Leonori, Shuichi Nakamura
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 64, 2025, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2025-08618

Excited-state configuration controls the ability of nitroarenes to act as energy transfer catalysts

Author(s): Martin Rihtaršič, Byeongseok Kweon, Piotr T. Błyszczyk, Alessandro Ruffoni, Enrique M. Arpa, Daniele Leonori
Published in: Nature Catalysis, Issue 8, 2025, ISSN 2520-1158
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2026-00702