Mattia Silvi

PhD Student

Title of the Thesis: “New Directions in Aminocatalysis: Vinylogy and Photochemistry”, Defense: 15-Oct-2015

Publications at ICIQ

• Mattia Silvi, Elena Arceo, Igor Jurberg, Carlo Cassani, and Paolo Melchiorre, “Enantioselective Organocatalytic Alkylation of Aldehydes and Enals Driven by the Direct Photoexcitation of Enamines”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 6120–6123
• Mattia Silvi, Indranil Chatterjee, Yankai Liu, and Paolo Melchiorre, “Controlling the Molecular Topology of Vinylogous Iminium Ions by Logical Substrate Design: Highly Regio- and Stereoselective Aminocatalytic 1,6-Addition to Linear 2,4-Dienals”,  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 10780-10783.
• Mattia Silvi, Carlo Cassani, Antonio Moran, and Paolo Melchiorre, “Secondary amine-catalyzed asymmetric gamma-alkylation of alpha-branched enals via dienamine activation”, Helvetica Chim. Acta 2012, 95, 1985-2006