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25) 
Harnessing the Radical Reactivity of Silver(II) Fluoride for Organofluorine Synthesis
https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7216247/v1
Sudip Maji, Suchand Basuli, Subhrashis Banerjee, Deepak R. Pradhan, Jennifer S. Hirschi*, and Mathew J. Vetticatt*


24) Decarboxylative Oxygenation Enabled by O–H Bond Selective Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Ability of Photoexcited Nitroarenes 
ChemRxiv. 2025; doi:10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-s55n1
Alana Duke, Subhrashis Banerjee, Akshata Thupili, Deepak Pradhan, Mathew Vetticatt*, and Marvin Parasram*


BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS

2020-present

23) Chiral Amino Alcohols via Catalytic Enantioselective Petasis Borono-Mannich Reactions
J. Org. Chem. 2025, ASAP. previously on ChemRxiv Preprint 2020
John Kavouris, Kathryn Kavouris, Victor M. Wambua, Roman Demerzhan, Philip Moquist, Mathew Vetticatt*, and Scott Schaus*

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22) Probing the Oxidative Addition Transition State in Nickel Metallaphotoredox Catalysis using Intramolecular 13C Kinetic Isotope Effects 
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 24275-24285. 
Chetan Joshi, Julia R. Dorsheimer, Victor O. Nyagilo, Mariah Carol Ramos, Subhrashis Banerjee, Bangaru Bhaskararao, Yangyang Shen, Tomislav Rovis,* and Mathew J. Vetticatt
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21) Photoredox/Pyridine N-Oxide Catalyzed Carbohydroxylation and Aminohydroxylation of α-Olefins
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 10382-10390. 
Cristina Ascenzi Pettenuzzo, Deepak Ranjan Pradhan, Jujhar Singh, Lichuan Liu, Gabe Cuffel, Mathew J. Vetticatt*, and Yongming Deng*
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20) Resolving Conflicting Mechanisms for Photoredox Allylic sp3-CH Arylation using Deuterium-Labeling and Isotope Effects
ACS Catalysis 2024, 14, 9469–9475.
Anuradha Dagar, Tamal Das, Sharath Chandra Mallojjala,  Jennifer S. Hirschi,* and Mathew J. Vetticatt*
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19) ​A Lewis Acid-Controlled Enantiodivergent Epoxidation of Aldehydes
ACS Catalysis 2023, 13, 13117-13126.
Aliakbar Mohammadlou, Chetan Joshi, Brendyn P. Smith, Li Zheng, Stephanie A. Corio, Virginia M. Canestraight, Saeedeh Torabi Kohlbouni, S. Maryamdokht Taimoory, Babak Borhan, Richard Staples, Mathew J. Vetticatt,* and William D. Wulff*
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18) ​Mechanism of Dually Catalyzed Enantioselective Oxa-Pictet-Spengler Reaction and the Development of a Stereodivergent Variant
ACS Catalysis 2023, 13, 2240-2249.
Alafate Adili, John-Paul Webster, Chenfei Zhao, Sharath Chandra Mallojjala, Moises A. Romero-Reyes, Ion Ghiviriga, Khalil A. Abboud, Mathew J. Vetticatt,* and Daniel Seidel*
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17) ​Isotope Effects Reveal Catalytic Mechanism of the Archetypical Suzuki-Miyaura Reaction
ACS Catalysis 2022, 12, 2959-2966. 
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Chetan Joshi, Juliet M. Macharia, Joseph A. Izzo, Victor Wambua, Sungjin Kim, Jennifer S. Hirschi*, and  Mathew J. Vetticatt*
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16) Study of Ground State Interactions of Enantiopure Chiral Quaternary Ammonium Salts and Amides, Nitroalkanes, Nitroalkenes, Esters, Heterocycles, Ketones and Fluoroamides.
Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 11352–11366.
Grazia Bencivenni, Diana Salazar Illera, Maria Moccia, K. N. Houk, Joseph A. Izzo, Johanna Novacek, Paolo Grieco, Mathew J. Vetticatt,* Mario Waser,* and Mauro F. A. Adamo*
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15) Rapid Evaluation of the Mechanism of Buchwald-Hartwig Amination and Aldol Reactions Using Intramolecular 13C Kinetic Isotope Effects
ACS Catalysis 2021, 11, 60-67 
Victor Wambua, Jennifer S. Hirschi*, and  Mathew J. Vetticatt*
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14) A Selenourea-Thiourea Brønsted Acid Catalyst Facilitates Asymmetric Conjugate Additions of Amines to α,β-Unsaturated Esters
​ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 5627-5635.
Yingfu Lin, William J. Hirschi, Anuj Kunadia, Anirudra Paul, Ion Ghiviriga, Khalil A. Abboud, Rachael W. Karugu, Mathew J. Vetticatt,*, Jennifer S. Hirschi,*, and Daniel Seidel*
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2014-2019

13) Izzo, J. A.; Myshchuk, Y.; Hirschi, J. S.; Vetticatt, M. J. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2019, 17, 3934-3939.
      Invited submission to the New Talent issue. 
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12) Izzo, J. A.; Poulsen, P. H.; Intrator, J. A.; Jørgensen, K. A.; Vetticatt, M. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 8396-8400.
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11) Roytman, V. A.; Karugu, R. W.; Hong, Y.; Hirschi, J. S.; Vetticatt, M. J. '13C Kinetic Isotope Effects as a Quantitative Probe to Distinguish between Enol and Enamine Mechanisms in Aminocatalysis'. 
Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 8098-8102.
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10) Gheewala, C.D.; Hirschi, J. S.; Lee, W-H.; Paley, D. W.; Vetticatt, M. J.;  Lambert, T. H. 'Asymmetric Induction via a Helically Chiral Anion: Enantioselective Pentacarboxycyclopentadiene Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Inverse-Electron-Demand Diels Alder Cycloaddition of Oxocarbenium Ions'. 
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 3523-3527. 
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9) Gang, H.; Gupta, A.; Huang, L.; Zhao, W.; Xiaopeng, Y.; Osminski, W.; Huang, R.; Wulff, W. D.; Izzo, J. A.; Vetticatt, M. J. 'Pyro-borates, Spiro-borates, and Boroxinates of BINOL – Assembly, Structures, and Reactivity'
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 10267-10285.
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​8) Macharia J.; Victor, W.; Hong, Y.; Harris, L.; Hirschi, J. S.; Evans, G. B.; Vetticatt, M. J. ‘A Designed Approach to Enantiodivergent Enamine Catalysis’
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 8756-8760.
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​7) Jarvis, C. L.; Hirschi, J. S.; Vetticatt, M. J.; Seidel, D. ‘Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Lactams through Formal [4+2] Cycloaddition of Imines with Homophthalic Anhydride’ 
​Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 2670-2674.

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​6) Novacek, J.; Izzo, J. A.; Vetticatt, M. J.; Waser, M. 'Bifunctional Ammonium Salt Catalyzed Asymmetric α-Hydroxylation of β-Ketoesters by Simultaneous Resolution of Oxaziridines' 
Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22​, 17339-17344. 
selected as '
HOT PAPER'


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​5) Ashtekar, K. D.; Vetticatt, M. J.; Yousefi, R.; Jackson, J. E.; Borhan, B. 'Nucleophile-assisted alkene activation - olefins alone are often incompetent' ​
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 8114-8119.
 

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​4) Ashley, M. A.; Hirschi, J. S.; Izzo, J. A.; Vetticatt, M. J. 'Isotope effects reveal mechanism of enamine formation in L-proline catalyzed α-amination of aldehydes' 
​J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 1756-1759.

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​3) Desai, A. A.; Guan, Y.; Odom, A. L.; Majumdar, S.; Wulff, W. D.*; Vetticatt, M. J.* 'Self-assembly of a library of polyborate chiral anions for asymmetric catalytic quinoline reduction'  
Tett. Lett. 2015, 56, 3481-3485. 
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​2) Guan, Y., López-Alberca, M. P., Lu, Z., Zhang, Y., Desai, A. A., Patwardhan, A. P., Dai, Y., Vetticatt, M. J.* and Wulff, W. D.* "Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Alkynyl Aziridines: Both Enantiomers ofcis-Aziridines from One Enantiomer of the Catalyst." 
Chem. Eur. J
. 2014, 20, 13894-13900

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1) Bandar J. S.; Sauer, G. S.; Wulff, W. D.; Lambert, T. H.; Vetticatt, M. J. "Transition State Analysis of Enantioselective Brønsted Base Catalysis by Chiral Cyclopropenimines" 
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 
2014, 136, 10700-10707

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2010-2013


​DOCTORAL AND POSTDOCTORAL PUBLICATIONS
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8) Vetticatt, M. J.; Itin, B.; Evans, G. B.; Schramm, V. L. “Distortional Binding of Transition State Analogues to Human Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase probed by Magic Angle Spinning Solid State NMR.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2013 , 110, 15991-15996.

7) Vetticatt, M. J.; Desai A. A.; Wulff, W. D. “Isotope Effects and Mechanism of the Asymmetric BOROX Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Aziridination Reaction.”  J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 5142–5152.

6) Burgos, E. S.; Vetticatt, M. J.; Schramm, V. L. “Recycling Nicotinamide. The Transition-State Structure of Human Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 3485–3493.

5) Vetticatt, M. J.; Singleton, D. A.  “Isotope Effects and Heavy-Atom Tunneling in the Roush Allylboration of Aldehydes.” Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 2370–2373.

4) Silva, R. G.; Vetticatt, M. J.; Merino, E. F.; Cassera, M. B.; Schramm, V. L. “Transition-State Analysis of Trypanosoma cruzi Uridine Phosphorylase-Catalyzed Arsenolysis of Uridine.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 9923–9931.

3) Schwartz, P. A.; Vetticatt, M. J.; Schramm, V. L.  “Transition State Analysis of the Arsenolytic Depyrimidination of Thymidine by Human Thymidine Phosphorylase.” Biochemistry 2011, 50, 1412-1420.

2) Schwartz, P. A.; Vetticatt, M. J.; Schramm, V. L.  “Transition State Analysis of Thymidine Hydrolysis by Human Thymidine Phosphorylase.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 13425-13433.

1) Vetticatt, M. J.; Desai A. A.; Wulff, W. D. “How the Binding of Substrates to a Chiral Polyborate Counterion Governs Diastereoselection in an Aziridination Reaction: H-Bonds in Equipoise.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 13104-13107.
Highlighted in 2010 C&EN Volume 88, Issue 37, p. 27.
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