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Peter Beak

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(US)Urbana University(US)

Publications by Year

Research Areas

Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics, Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis, Chemical Reaction Mechanisms, Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods, Crystallization and Solubility Studies

Most-Cited Works

→ Beyond Thermodynamic Acidity: A Perspective on the Complex‐Induced Proximity Effect (CIPE) in Deprotonation Reactions(2004)702 cited
→ Regioselective, Diastereoselective, and Enantioselective Lithiation−Substitution Sequences: Reaction Pathways and Synthetic Applications(1996)578 cited
→ Stereo- and regiocontrol by complex induced proximity effects: reactions of organolithium compounds(1986)508 cited
→ Directed lithiation of aromatic tertiary amides: an evolving synthetic methodology for polysubstituted aromatics(1982)425 cited
→ Energies and alkylations of tautomeric heterocyclic compounds: old problems - new answers(1977)368 cited
→ Complex Induced Proximity Effects: Enantioselective Syntheses Based on Asymmetric Deprotonations of N-Boc-pyrrolidines(1994)323 cited

→ Asymmetric deprotonations: enantioselective syntheses of 2-substituted tert-(butoxycarbonyl)pyrrolidines(1991)

293 cited

→ Equilibration studies. Protomeric equilibria of 2- and 4-hydroxypyridines, 2- and 4-hydroxypyrimidines, 2- and 4-mercaptopyridines, and structurally related compounds in the gas phase(1976)278 cited

→ Metalation and electrophilic substitution of amine derivatives adjacent to nitrogen: .alpha.-metallo amine synthetic equivalents(1984)272 cited

→ .alpha.-Lithioamine synthetic equivalents: syntheses of diastereoisomers from Boc derivatives of cyclic amines(1993)262 cited