Publications

1983
G. Wenke, Jacobsen, E. N., Totten, G. E., Karydas, A. C., and Rhodes, Y. E., “Silyl Ketene Acetal Chemistry: Steric Limitations in Lewis Acid-Promoted Addition of Ketones”, Synthetic Communications, vol. 13, no. 6, p. 449-458, 1983.
1984
E. N. Jacobsen and Bergman, R. G., “Synthesis, Crystal and Molecular Structure, and Reactions of the Bridging Vinylidenedicobalt Complex (µ-CCH2)(CpCoCO)2. Reaction with Molybdenum Hydrides to Give a Heteronuclear Cluster Complex”, Organometallics , vol. 3, no. 2, p. 329–331, 1984.
1985
E. N. Jacobsen, Totten, G. E., Wenke, G., Karydas, A. C., and Rhodes, Y. E., “Steric Effects on the Titanium Tetrachloride-Promoted Dimerization of Silyl Ketene Acetals”, Synthetic Communications, vol. 15, no. 4, p. 301-306, 1985.
E. N. Jacobsen and Bergman, R. G., “Synthesis and Chemistry of a Bridging Vinylidenedicobalt Complex. Evidence for a Non-Chain Radical Mechanism in its Reaction with Metal Hydrides to Give Heteronuclear Clusters”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 107, no. 7, p. 2023–2032, 1985.
1986
E. N. Jacobsen, Trost, M. K., and Bergman, R. G., “Synthesis of Organometallic Heterodinuclear µ-Oxo Complexes by Extrusion of Alkenes from Zirconium/Tungsten Oxaalkyl Complexes”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 108, no. 25, p. 8092–8094, 1986.
1988
E. N. Jacobsen, Markó, I. E., Mungall, W. S., Schröder, G. W., and Sharpless, K. B., “Asymmetric Dihydroxylation via Ligand-Accelerated Catalysis”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 110, no. 6, p. 1968–1970, 1988.
E. N. Jacobsen, Goldberg, K. I., and Bergman, R. G., “Rapid, Reversible Intramolecular C-H Oxidative Addition and H-Exchange in a Heterodinuclear 'Early-Late' Transition Metal Complex”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 110, no. 11, p. 3706–3707, 1988.
1989
E. N. Jacobsen, Markó, I. E., France, M. B., Svendsen, J. S., and Sharpless, K. B., “Kinetic Role of Alkaloid Ligands in Asymmetric Catalytic Dihydroxylation”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 111, no. 2, p. 737–739, 1989.
J. S. M. Wai, Markó, I. E., Svendsen, J. S., Finn, M. G., Jacobsen, E. N., and Sharpless, K. B., “A Mechanistic Insight Leads to a Greatly Improved Osmium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Dihydroxylation Process”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 111, no. 3, p. 1123–1125, 1989.
J. S. Svendsen, Markó, I. E., Jacobsen, E. N., Pulla Rao, C., Bott, S., and Sharpless, K. B., “The structure of osmium tetraoxide-cinchona alkaloid complexes”, Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 54, no. 10, p. 2263–2264, 1989.
1990
W. Zhang, Loebach, J. L., Wilson, S. R., and Jacobsen, E. N., “Enantioselective Epoxidation of Unfunctionalized Olefins Catalyzed by (salen)Manganese Complexes”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 112, no. 7, p. 2801–2803, 1990.
1991
W. Zhang and Jacobsen, E. N., “Asymmetric Epoxidation with Sodium Hypochlorite Catalyzed by Readily Available Chiral Mn(III) Salen Complexes”, Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 56, no. 7, p. 2296–2298, 1991.
E. N. Jacobsen, Zhang, W., Muci, A. R., Ecker, J. R., and Deng, L., “Highly Enantioselective Epoxidation Catalysts Derived from 1,2-Diaminocyclohexane”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 113, no. 18, p. 7063–7064, 1991.
W. Zhang and Jacobsen, E. N., “Preparation of trans-1,2-Diamino-1,2-Dimethylcyclohexane via Highly Stereoselective Olefin Oxidation by Dinitrogen Tetroxide”, Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 32, no. 14, p. 1711-1714, 1991.