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  1. A hydrogenative oxidation strategy for the single-step synthesis of lactams from N-heteroarenes using water

    Article • Nature Catalysis, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  2. A Reactive and Specific Sensor for Activity-Based 19F-MRI Sensing of Zn2+

    Article • ACS Sensors, October 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  3. Polyoxymethylene Upcycling into Methanol and Methyl Groups Catalyzed by a Manganese Pincer Complex

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, July 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  4. Polyaromatic Calixarene Hosts: Calix[4]pyrenes

    Article • Organic Letters, June 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  5. Calcium‐Ligand Cooperation Promoted Activation of N2O, Amine, and H2 as well as Catalytic Hydrogenation of Imines, Quinoline, and Alkenes

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, April 2024, Wiley

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  6. Calcium‐Ligand Cooperation Promoted Activation of N2O, Amine, and H2 as well as Catalytic Hydrogenation of Imines, Quinoline, and Alkenes

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, April 2024, Wiley

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  7. Manganese-catalyzed base-free addition of saturated nitriles to unsaturated nitriles by template catalysis

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  8. Guest Encapsulation Alters the Thermodynamic Landscape of a Coordination Host

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  9. DFT Calculations and Synthesis Reveal: Key Intermediates, Omitted Mechanisms, and Unsymmetrical Bimane Products

    Article • European Journal of Organic Chemistry, September 2023, Wiley

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  10. Thioxobimanes

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, September 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  11. Designing New Magnesium Pincer Complexes for Catalytic Hydrogenation of Imines and N-Heteroarenes: H2 and N–H Activation by Metal–Ligand Cooperation as Key Steps

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, April 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  12. Static and Dynamic Disorder in Formamidinium Lead Bromide Single Crystals

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, February 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  13. NMR exchange dynamics studies of metal-capped cyclodextrins reveal multiple populations of host–guest complexes in solution

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  14. Altering the Properties of Spiropyran Switches Using Coordination Cages with Different Symmetries

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  15. Magnesium Pincer Complexes and Their Applications in Catalytic Semihydrogenation of Alkynes and Hydrogenation of Alkenes: Evidence for Metal–Ligand Cooperation

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  16. Tapered Optical Fibers Coated with Rare-Earth Complexes for Quantum Applications

    Article • ACS Photonics, July 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  17. Controlled Selectivity through Reversible Inhibition of the Catalyst: Stereodivergent Semihydrogenation of Alkynes

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, July 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  18. Chemical Modifications Suppress Anharmonic Effects in the Lattice Dynamics of Organic Semiconductors

    Article • ACS Materials Au, July 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  19. Iron-catalysed ring-opening metathesis polymerization of olefins and mechanistic studies

    Article • Nature Catalysis, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  20. Controlling the helicity of π-conjugated oligomers by tuning the aromatic backbone twist

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  21. Dehydrogenative ester synthesis from enol ethers and water with a ruthenium complex catalyzing two reactions in synergy

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  22. Structural basis of reactivation of oncogenic p53 mutants by a small molecule: methylene quinuclidinone (MQ)

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  23. Cation-Ligand Complexation Mediates the Temporal Evolution of Colloidal Fluoride Nanocrystals through Transient Aggregation

    Article • Nano Letters, November 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  24. Manganese-Pincer-Catalyzed Nitrile Hydration, α-Deuteration, and α-Deuterated Amide Formation via Metal Ligand Cooperation

    Article • ACS Catalysis, August 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  25. Kinetic Selection in the Out‐of‐Equilibrium Autocatalytic Reaction Networks that Produce Macrocyclic Peptides

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2021, Wiley

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  26. Kinetic Selection in the Out‐of‐Equilibrium Autocatalytic Reaction Networks that Produce Macrocyclic Peptides

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2021, Wiley

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  27. Fast Ion-Chelate Dissociation Rate for In Vivo MRI of Labile Zinc with Frequency-Specific Encodability

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, July 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  28. Near-Ambient-Temperature Dehydrogenative Synthesis of the Amide Bond: Mechanistic Insight and Applications

    Article • ACS Catalysis, June 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  29. Autocatalytic and oscillatory reaction networks that form guanidines and products of their cyclization

    Article • Nature Communications, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  30. Strongly Anharmonic Octahedral Tilting in Two-Dimensional Hybrid Halide Perovskites

    Article • ACS Nano, May 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  31. Catalytic Oxidative Deamination by Water with H2 Liberation

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  32. Formation of thioesters by dehydrogenative coupling of thiols and alcohols with H2 evolution

    Article • Nature Catalysis, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  33. Improving Fatigue Resistance of Dihydropyrene by Encapsulation within a Coordination Cage

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  34. Redox Noninnocent Nature of Acridine-Based Pincer Complexes of 3d Metals and C–C Bond Formation

    Article • Organometallics, January 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  35. Synthesis of oxalamides by acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling of ethylene glycol and amines and the reverse hydrogenation catalyzed by ruthenium

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  36. Reversible switching of arylazopyrazole within a metal–organic cage

    Article • Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, October 2019, Beilstein Institut

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  37. Formamides as Isocyanate Surrogates: A Mechanistically Driven Approach to the Development of Atom-Efficient, Selective Catalytic Syntheses of Ureas, Carbamates, and Heterocycles

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, September 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  38. syn-(Me,Me)Bimane as a Structural Building Block in Metal Coordination Architectures

    Article • Crystal Growth & Design, June 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  39. Pyridine-Based PCP-Ruthenium Complexes: Unusual Structures and Metal–Ligand Cooperation

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, April 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  40. C−C Bond Formation of Benzyl Alcohols and Alkynes Using a Catalytic Amount of KOt Bu: Unusual Regioselectivity through a Radical Mechanism

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, February 2019, Wiley

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  41. C−C Bond Formation of Benzyl Alcohols and Alkynes Using a Catalytic Amount of KOt Bu: Unusual Regioselectivity through a Radical Mechanism

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, February 2019, Wiley

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  42. Positive shift in corrole redox potentials leveraged by modest β-CF3-substitution helps achieve efficient photocatalytic C–H bond functionalization by group 13 complexes

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  43. Superstructured metallocorroles for electrochemical CO2 reduction

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  44. CO2 activation by metal−ligand-cooperation mediated by iridium pincer complexes

    Article • Journal of Coordination Chemistry, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  45. A new polymorph of iso-Leucine

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Crystallographic Communications, May 2018, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  46. Reversible photoswitching of encapsulated azobenzenes in water

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  47. N-Substituted Hydrazones by Manganese-Catalyzed Coupling of Alcohols with Hydrazine: Borrowing Hydrogen and Acceptorless Dehydrogenation in One System

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, January 2018, Wiley

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  48. N-Substituted Hydrazones by Manganese-Catalyzed Coupling of Alcohols with Hydrazine: Borrowing Hydrogen and Acceptorless Dehydrogenation in One System

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, January 2018, Wiley

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  49. Quenching of syn-bimane fluorescence by Na+ complexation

    Article • New Journal of Chemistry, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  50. Direct Synthesis of Amides by Dehydrogenative Coupling of Amines with either Alcohols or Esters: Manganese Pincer Complex as Catalyst

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  51. Synthesis of Cyclic Imides by Acceptorless Dehydrogenative Coupling of Diols and Amines Catalyzed by a Manganese Pincer Complex

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  52. Formation of Alkanes by Aerobic Carbon–Carbon Bond Coupling Reactions Catalyzed by a Phosphovanadomolybdic Acid

    Article • ACS Catalysis, March 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  53. Manganese-Catalyzed N-Formylation of Amines by Methanol Liberating H2 : A Catalytic and Mechanistic Study

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, March 2017, Wiley

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  54. Selective N-Formylation of Amines with H2 and CO2 Catalyzed by Cobalt Pincer Complexes

    Article • ACS Catalysis, March 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  55. The Ferraquinone–Ferrahydroquinone Couple: Combining Quinonic and Metal-Based Reactivity

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, February 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  56. Avilamycin and evernimicin induce structural changes in rProteins uL16 and CTC that enhance the inhibition of A-site tRNA binding

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  57. Crystal Engineering of Metalloporphyrin Zeolite Analogues

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, April 2000, Wiley

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner

  58. Crystal structure of aquazinc tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin layers with very wide channels

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 1999, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Yael Diskin-Posner