Published Work

2021

N. B. Nechmad, V. Kobernik, N. Tarannam, R. Phatake, O. Eivgi, S. Kozuch and N. G. Lemcoff, Reactivity and Selectivity in Ruthenium Sulfur-Chelated Diiodo Catalysts, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202014929, In Press

O. Eivgi, A. Vaisman, N.G. Lemcoff, Latent, Yet Highly Active Photoswitchable Olefin Metathesis Precatalysts Bearing Cyclic Alkyl Amino Carbene (CAAC)/Phosphite Ligands, ACS Catalysis, 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c04909

2020

A. R. Mohite, R. S. Phatake, P. Dubey, M. Agbaria, A. I. Shames, N. G. Lemcoff, and O. Reany, Thiourea-Mediated Halogenation of Alcohols, J. Org. Chem. 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c01431

O. Eivgi, R. S. Phatake, N. B. Nechmad, N. G. Lemcoff, Light-Activated Olefin Metathesis: Catalyst Development, Synthesis, and Applications, Acc. Chem. Res. 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00495

Nechmad, N. B., Lemcoff N. G., Sulfur-Chelated Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts, Synlett, 2020, DOI 10.1055/s-0040-1707231

V. Kobernik, I. Berkovich, A. Levy, N. G. Lemcoff, C. Diesendruck, Chemical Communication Between Organometallic Single‐Chain Polymer Nanoparticles, Chemistry – A European Journal, 2020, DOI 10.1002/chem.202003330.

Lemcoff, N. G., Diesendruck, C. E. and Keinan, E. 100 Years of Macromolecular Science. Isr. J. Chem. 2020, 60 (1–2), 6–8. DOI: 10.1002/ijch.202000023.

Eivgi, O. and Lemcoff, N. G., Sunscreen-Assisted Selective
Photochemical Transformations, Molecules. 2020, 25(9), 2125. DOI:10.3390/molecules25092125

Wang, K., Heltzel, J., Sandefur, E., Culley, K., Lemcoff, N. G., Voutchkova-Kostasl, A., Transfer Hydrogenation of Levulinic Acid from Glycerol and Ethanol Using Water-Soluble Iridium N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes, J. Organomet. Chem. 2020, 121310. DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2020.121310.

Segalovich-Gerendash, G., Rozenberg, I., Alassad, N., Nechmad, N. B., Goldberg, I., Kozuch, S. and Lemcoff, N. G., Imposing latency in ruthenium sulfoxide-chelated benzylidenes: Expanding opportunities for thermal and photoactivation in olefin metathesis, ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 4827-4834.

DOI:10.1021/acscatal.0c00676

Phatake, S. R., Masarwa, A., Lemcoff, N. G. and Reany, O., Tuning Thermal Properties of Cross-Linked DCPD Polymers by Functionalization, Initiator Type and Curing Methods, Polym. Chem., 2020, 11, 1742-1751, DOI:10.1039/C9PY01178A

Eivgi, O., Vaisman, A., Nechmad, N. B., Baranov, M. and Lemcoff, N. G., Latent Ruthenium Benzylidene Phosphite Complexes for Visible Light Induced Olefin Metathesis, ACS Catal., 2020,10,2033-2038, DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b05079

Nechmad, N. B., Phatake, R., Ivry, I., Poater, A. and Lemcoff, N. G., Unprecedented Selectivity of Ruthenium Iodide Benzylidenes in Olefin Metathesis Reactions, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. , 2020, 9, 3539-3543, DOI:10.1002/anie.201914667

2019

Bhattacharya, S., Phatake, R. S., Barnea, S. N., Zerby, N., Zhu, J., Shikler, R., Lemcoff, N.G. and Jelinek, R., Fluorescent Self-Healing Carbon Dor/Polymer Gels, ACS Nano ., 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b07087

2018

Ivry, E., Nechmad, N.B., Baranov, M., Goldberg, I. and Lemcoff, N.G., Influence of Anionic Ligand Exchange in Latent Sulfur-Chelated Ruthenium Precatalysts, Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 15592-15599, DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02917

Rozenberg, I., Eivgi, O., Frenklah, A., Kozuch, S., Butilkov, D., Kozuch, S. and Lemcoff, N.G., Synthesis and Catalytic Properties of Sulfur-Chelated Ruthenium Benzylidenes Bearing a CAAC Ligand, ACS Catal., 2018, 8, 8182-8191, DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b02122

Eivgi, O., Guidone, S., Frenklah, A., Kozuch, S., Goldberg, I. and Lemcoff, N.G., Photoactivation of Ruthenium Phosphite Complexes for Olefin Metathesis, ACS Catal., 2018, 8, 6413-6418, DOI:10.1021/acscatal.8b01637

Sutar, R., Butilkov, D., Lemcoff, N.G. and Reany O., New latent metathesis catalysts equipped with exchangeable boronic ester groups on the NHC, J. Coord. Chem., 2018, 71, 1715-1727, DOI: 10.1080/00958972.2018.1481211

Pavan, M.J., Fridman, H., Segalovich, G., Shames, A.I., Lemcoff, N.G. and Mokari, T., Photoxidation of Benzyl Alcohol with Heterogeneous Photocatalysts in the UV Range: The Complex Interplay with the Autoxidative Reaction, ChemCatChem, 2018, 10, 2541-2545, DOI:10.1002/cctc.201800284

Ivry, E., Frenklah, A., Ginzburg, Y., Levin, E., Goldberg, I., Kozuch, S., Lemcoff, N.G. and Tzur, E., Light- and Thermal-Activated Olefin Metathesis of Hindered Substrates, Organometallics, 2018, 37, 176-181, DOI:10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00677

Sutar, R.L., Eivgi, O., Sen, S., Segalovich, G., Schapiro, I., Reany O. and Lemcoff, N.G., Guiding a Divergent Reaction by Photochemical Control: Bichromatic Selective Access to Levulinates and Butenolides, Chemical Science, 2018, 9, 1368-1374, DOI:10.1039/C7SC05094A

Eivgi, O. and Lemcoff, N.G., Turning the Light On: Recent Developments in Photoinduced Olefin Metathesis, Synthesis, 2018, 50, 49-63, DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1589113

2017

Butilkov, D., Frenklah, A., Rozenberg, I., Kozuch, S. and Lemcoff, N.G., Highly Selective Olefin Metathesis with CAAC-Containing Ruthenium Benzylidenes, ACS Catalysis, 2017, 7, 7634 - 7637

Eivgi, O., Sutar, R., Reany, O. and Lemcoff, N.G., Bichromatic Photosynthesis of Coumarins by UV Filter Enabled Olefin Metathesis, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2017, 359, 2352 - 2357

Reany, O. and Lemcoff, N.G., Light Guided Chemoselective Olefin Metathesis Reactions, Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2017, 89, 829 - 840

2016

Sengupta, S., Loutati, R., Petel, K., Levin, E., Lemcoff, N.G. and Golan Y., The Effect of Short Chain Thiol Ligand Additives in Chemical Bath Deposition of Lead Sulphide Thin Films: The Unique Behaviour of 1,2-ethanedithiol, CrystEngComm, 2016, 18, 9122 - 9129

Saha, S., Ginzburg, Y., Rozenberg, I., Iliashevsky, O., Ben-Asuly, A. and Lemcoff, N.G., Cross-linked ROMP Polymers Based on Odourless Dicyclopentadiene Derivatives, Polymer Chemistry, 2016, 7, 3071 - 3075

Berkovich, I., Mavila, S., Iliashevsky, O., Kozuch, S. and Lemcoff, N.G., Single-chain Polybutadiene Organometallic Nanoparticles: An Experimental and Theoretical Study, Chemical Science, 2016, 7, 1773 - 1778

Sutar, R. L., Levin, E., Butilkov, D., Goldberg, I., Reany, O. and Lemcoff, N. G., A Light Activated Olefin Metathesis Catalyst Equipped with a Chromatic Orthogonal Self-Destruct Function, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 764 - 767

Mavila, S., Eivgi, O., Berkovich, I. and Lemcoff, N.G., Intramolecular Cross- Linking Methodologies for the Synthesis of Polymer Nanoparticles, Chemical Reviews, 2016, 116, 878 - 961

2015

Ewonkem, M.B., Grinberg, S., Lemcoff, N.G., Shaubia, E., Linder, C. and Heldman, E., Newly Synthesized Bolaamphiphiles from Castor Oil and Their Aggregated Morphologies for Potential Use in Drug Delivery, Tetrahedron, 2015, 71, 8557 - 8571

Saha, S., Rozenberg, I. and Lemcoff N.G., Synthesis of Furanyl beta-diketone Based Heteroleptic Ir(III) Complexes and Studies of Their Photo-Luminescence Properties, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem., 2015, 641, 2460 - 2465

Vidavsky, Y., Navon, Y., Ginzburg, Y., Gottlieb, M. and Lemcoff, N.G., Thermal Properties of Ruthenium Alkylidene-polymerized Dicyclopentadiene, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2015, 11, 1469 - 1474

Levin, E., Ivry, E., Diesendruck, C.E. and Lemcoff, N.G., Water In N-Heterocyclic Carbene Assisted Catalysis, Chemical Reviews, 2015, 115, 4607 - 4692

Levin, E., Mavila, S., Eivgi, O., Tzur, E. and Lemcoff, N.G., Regioselective Chromatic Orthogonality with Light Activated Metathesis Catalysts, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 12384 - 12388

Ivry, E., Ben-Asuly, A., Goldberg, I. and Lemcoff, N.G., Amino Acids as Chiral Anionic Ligands for Ruthenium Based Asymmetric Olefin Metathesis, ChemComm, 2015, 51, 3870 - 3873

Eivgi, O., Levin, E. and Lemcoff, N.G., Modulation of Photodeprotection by the Sunscreen Protocol, Organic Letters, 2015, 17, 740 - 743

2014

Butilkov, D. and Lemcoff, N.G., Jojoba Oil Olefin Metathesis: A Valuable Source for Bio-renewable Materials, Green Chemistry, 2014, 16, 4728 - 4733

Tzur, E., Ivry, E., Diesendruck, C.E., Vidavsky, Y., Goldberg, I. and Lemcoff, N.G., Stability and Activity of cis-Dichloro Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Precatalysts Bearing Chelating Sulfur Alkylidenes, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2014, 769, 24 - 28

Mavila, S., Rozenberg, I. and Lemcoff N.G., A General Approach to Mono- and Bimetallic Organometallic Nanoparticles, Chemical Science, 2014, 5, 4196 - 4203

Bai, Y., Xing, H., Vincil, G.A., Lee, J., Henderson, E.J., Lu, Y., Lemcoff, N.G. and Zimmerman S.C., Practical Synthesis of Water-soluble Organic Nanoparticles with a Single Reactive Group and a Functional Carrier Scaffold, Chemical Science, 2014, 5, 2862 - 2868

2013

Melamed Yerushalmi S., Buck M.E., Lynn D.M., Lemcoff N.G. and Meijler M.M., Multivalent Attenuation of Quorum Sensing in Staphylococcus aureus, ChemComm, 2013, 49, 5177 - 5179

Mavila S., Diesendruck C.E., Linde S., Amir L., Shikler R. and Lemcoff N.G., Polycyclooctadiene Complexes of Rhodium(I): Direct Access to Organometallic Nanoparticles, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 5767 - 5770

Villalonga-Barber, C., Vallianatou K., Georgakopoulos, S., Steele, B.R., Micha-Screttas, M., Levin, E., Lemcoff, N.G., Synthesis, Characterisation, Electronic Spectra and Electrochemical Investigation of Ferrocenyl-terminated Dendrimers, Tetrahedron, 2013, 69, 3885 - 3895

Levin, E., Anaby, A., Diesendruck, C.E., Berger-Berkovich, D., Fuchs, B. and Lemcoff, N.G., Oligomerisation Reactions of beta Substituted Thiols in Water, RSC Advances, 2013, 3, 1735 - 1738

2012

Zakon, Y., Lemcoff, N.G., Marmur, A. and Zeiri, Y., Adhesion of Standard Explosive Particles to Model Surfaces, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2012, 116, 22815 - 22822.

Vidavsky, Y., Anaby, A. and Lemcoff, N. G., Chelating Alkylidene Ligands as Pacifiers for Ruthenium Catalysed Olefin Metathesis, Dalton Transactions, 2012, 41, 32 - 43

2011

Shema-Mizrachi, M., Pavan, G.M., Levin, E., Danani, A. and Lemcoff, N.G., Catalytic Chameleon Dendrimers, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 14359 - 14367

Ginzburg, Y., Anaby, A., Vidavsky, Y., Diesendruck, C.E., Ben-Asuly, A., Goldberg, I. and Lemcoff, N.G., Widening the Latency Gap in Chelated Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts, Organometallics, 2011, 30, 3430 - 3437

Lexer, C., Burtscher, D., Perner, P., Tzur, E., Lemcoff, N.G. and Slugovc, C., Olefin Metathesis Catalyst Bearing a Chelating Phosphine Ligand, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2011, 696, 2466 - 2470

Aharoni, A., Vidavsky, Y., Diesendruck, C.E., Ben-Asuly, A., Goldberg, I. and Lemcoff, N.G., Ligand Isomerization in Sulfur-Chelated Benzylidenes, Organometallics,

2011, 30, 1607 - 1615

2010

Vidavsky, Y. and Lemcoff, N.G., Light-induced Metathesis, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2010, 6, 1106 - 1119

Diesendruck, C.E., Ben-Asuly, A., Goldberg, I. and Lemcoff, N.G., Dimer Ring-Closing Metathesis, Chimica Oggi, 2010, 28, 15 - 18

Tzur, E., Szadkowska, A., Ben-Asuly, A., Makal, A., Goldberg, I., Wozniak, K., Grela, K. and Lemcoff, N.G., Studies on Electronic Effects on O-, N- and S-Chelated Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts, Chemistry - A European Journal, 2010, 16, 8726 - 8737

Berkovich-Berger, D., Lemcoff, N.G., Abramson, S., Grabarnik, M., Weinman, S. and Fuchs, B., Oligomerization of 1,2-Ethanedithiol: An Expedient Approach to Oligothiaethylenethioglycols, Chemistry - A European Journal, 2010, 16, 6365 - 6373

Sigalov, M., Lemcoff, N.G., Shainyan, B., Chipanina, N., and Aksamentova T., Enol Forms of 1,3-indandione, Their Stabilization by Ionic Hydrogen Bonding and Zwitter-ion Assisted Interconversion, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2010, 14, 2800 - 2811

Diesendruck, C.E., Iliashevsky, O., Ben-Asuly, A., Goldberg, I. and Lemcoff, N.G., Latent and Switchable Olefin Metathesis Catalysts, Macromolecular Symposia, 2010, 293, 33 - 38

2009

Diesendruck, C.E., Tzur, E., Ben-Asuly, A., Goldberg, I., Straub,B.F. and Lemcoff, N.G., Predicting the Cis-Trans Dichloro Configuration of Group 15-16 Chelated Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Complexes: A DFT and Experimental Study, Inorganic Chemistry, 2009, 48, 10819 - 10825

Diesendruck, C.E., Tzur, E. and Lemcoff, N.G., The Versatile Alkylidene Moiety in Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2009, 28, 4185 - 4203 (Feature Cover Article)

Ben-Asuly, A., Aharoni, A., Diesendruck, C.E., Vidavsky, Y., Goldberg, I., Straub, B. F. and Lemcoff, N.G., Photoactivation of Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Initiators, Organometallics, 2009, 28, 4652 - 4655

Diesendruck, C.E., Vidavsky, Y., Ben-Asuly, A. and Lemcoff, N.G., A Latent S-Chelated Ruthenium Benzylidene Initiator for ROMP, Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2009, 47, 4209 - 4213

Iliashevsky, O., Amir, L., Glaser, R., Marks, R. S. and Lemcoff, N.G., Synthesis, Characterization and Protein-binding Properties of Supported Dendrons, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2009, 19, 6616 - 6622

Shema, M., Aharoni, A., Iliashevsky, O. and Lemcoff, N.G., Towards Control of Dendrimer Properties by Reversible Exchange of Termini: Synthesis and Characterization of Diverse Porphyrin Dendrimers, Israel Journal of Chemistry, 2009, 49, 1 - 8

2008

Tzur, E., Ben-Asuly, A., Diesendruck, C.E., Goldberg, I. and Lemcoff, N.G., Homodinuclear Ruthenium Catalysts For Dimer Ring Closing Metathesis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 6422 - 6425.

Berkovich-Berger, D. and Lemcoff, N.G., Facile Acetal Dynamic Combinatorial Library, ChemComm, 2008, 14, 1686 - 1688.

Kost, T., Sigalov, M., Goldberg, I., Ben-Asuly, A. and Lemcoff, N.G., Latent Sulfur Chelated Ruthenium Catalysts: Steric Acceleration Effects on Olefin Metathesis, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2008, 693, 2200 - 2203

Ben-Asuly, A., Tzur, E., Diesendruck, C.E., Sigalov, M., Goldberg, I. and Lemcoff, N.G., A Thermally Switchable Latent Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalyst, Organometallics, 2008, 27, 811 - 813

2007

Elmer, S.L., Lemcoff, N.G. and Zimmerman, S.C., Exploring the Reversibility of the Ring-Closing Metathesis Mediated Cross-linking of Dendrimers, Macromolecules, 2007, 40, 8114 - 8118

Yerushalmi, S., Lemcoff, N.G. and Bittner, S., Synthesis of Eight-, Nine-, and Ten-Membered Nitrogen Containing Quinone-Fused Heterocycles, Synthesis, 2007, 2, 239 - 242

Abramson, S., Berkovich-Berger, D., Dagan, S., Goldberg, I., Golender, L., Grabarnik, M., Lemcoff, N.G., Weinman, S. and Fuchs, B., Polythiacrown Macro- and Gigantocycles with Chiral Diacetal Cores, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2007, 12, 1957 - 1975

2003-2004

Beil, J.B., Lemcoff, N.G. and Zimmerman, S.C., On the Nature of Dendrimer Cross-linking by Ring-Closing Metathesis, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 13576 - 13577

Lemcoff, N.G., Spurlin, T.A., Gewirth, A.A., Zimmerman, S.C., Beil, J.B., Elmer, S.L. and Vandeveer , G., Organic Nanoparticles Whose Size and Rigidity is Finely Tuned by Cross-linking the End-Groups of Dendrimers, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 11420 - 11421

Zimmerman , S.C. and Lemcoff N.G., Synthetic hosts via molecular imprinting - are universal synthetic antibodies realistically possible?, ChemComm, 2004, 1, 5 - 14 (Feature Cover Article)

Zimmerman, S.C., Schultz, L.G. and Lemcoff, N.G., Monomolecular Imprinting: Synthetic Hosts Via Molecular Imprinting Inside of Dendrimers, Polymer Preprints (American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry), 2003, 442, 466 - 467

Abramson, S., Ashkenazi, E., Frische, K., Goldberg, I., Golender, L., Greenwald, M., Lemcoff, N.G., Madar, R., Weinman, S. and Fuchs B., Novel Podands and Macrocycles with Diacetal Tetraoxadecalin Cores, Chemistry - A European Journal, 2003, 9, 6071 - 6082