Published Work

2021

81. R. S. Phatake, Y. Vidavsky, N. G. Lemcoff and O. Reany, Oil Additives Demonstrate Dual Effects on Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Cross-Linked Hydroxy-DCPD Thermosets, European Polymer Journal, 2021, DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2021.110364

80. 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

79. 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, 11, 703–709, DOI:10.1021/acscatal.0c04909

78. Nechmad, N. B., Lemcoff N. G., Sulfur-Chelated Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts, Synlett , 2021 , 32, 258-266, DOI 10.1055/s-0040-1707231

2020

77. 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, 85, 1290–1291, DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c01431

76. O. Eivgi, R. S. Phatake, N. B. Nechmad, N. G. Lemcoff, Light-Activated Olefin Metathesis: Catalyst Development, Synthesis, and Applications, Acc. Chem. Res. 2020, 53, 2456–2471, DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00495

75. V. Kobernik, I. Berkovich, A. Levy, N. G. Lemcoff, C. Diesendruck, Chemical Communication Between Organometallic Single‐Chain Polymer Nanoparticles, Chemistry – A European Journal, 2020, 26,15835 –15838, DOI:10.1002/chem.202003330.

74. 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.

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

72. 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.

71. 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

70. 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

69. 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

68. 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

67. 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

66. 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

65. 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

64. 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

63. 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

62. 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

61. 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

60. 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

59. 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

58. 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

57. 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

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

2016

55. 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

54. 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

53. 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

52. 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

51. 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

50. 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

49. 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

48. 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

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

46. 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

45. 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

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

2014

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

42. 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

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

40. 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

39. 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

38. 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

37. 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

36. 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

35. 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.

34. 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

33. 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

32. 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

31. 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

30. 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

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

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

27. 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

26. 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

25. 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

24. 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

23. 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

22. 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)

21. 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

20. 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

19. 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

18. 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

17. 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.

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

15. 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

14. 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

13. 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

12. 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

11. 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

10. 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

9. 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

8. 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)

7. 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

6. 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