Raphaël Robiette
SST/SC Faculty of Science (SC)
SST/SC/CHIM Ecole de chimie (CHIM)
SST/IMCN Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences (IMCN)
SST/IMCN/MOST Molecular Chemistry, Materials and Catalysis (MOST)
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raphael.robiette@uclouvain.beRobiette, Raphaël. Formation of Four-Membered Heterocycles. In: Knochel, Paul, Comprehensive Organic Synthesis,3rd Edition, Elsevier Ltd, 2025. 9780080977430. doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097742-3.00503-6 (Accepté/Sous presse).
Vogl, Lukas S. ; Mayer, Peter ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Waser, Mario. Chiral Isochalcogenourea‐Catalysed Enantioselective (4+2) Cycloadditions of Allenoates. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 63, no.2, p. e202315345 (2024). doi:10.1002/anie.202315345.
Janssens, Julien ; De Roose, Madeline ; Jacquemin, Alexis ; Vanhosmael, Thomas ; Delbrassinne, Arnaud ; Collard, Laurent ; Robiette, Raphaël. One-Carbon Homologation of Knoevenagel Adducts: Enantioselective Access to Benzhydryl Derivatives. In: The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 89, no.10, p. 7270-7274 (2024). doi:10.1021/acs.joc.4c00057.
Bensaida, Ali ; Mahaut, Damien ; Tumanov, Nikolay ; Wouters, Johan ; Champagne, Benoît ; Vanthuyne, Nicolas ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Berionni, Guillaume. Reactivity and Steric Parameters from 2D to 3D Bulky Pyridines : Increasing Steric Demand at Nitrogen with Chiral Azatriptycenes. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 63, p. e202407503 (2024). doi:10.1002/anie.202407503.
Hu, Lei ; Chakraborty, Sayandip ; Tumanov, Nikolay ; Wouters, Johan ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Berionni, Guillaume. Regulating iminophosphorane PN bond reactivity through geometric constraints with cage-shaped triarylphosphines. In: Chemical Communications, Vol. 60, p. 7073-7076 (2024). doi:10.1039/d4cc01868k.
Delbrassinne, Arnaud ; Takam Mba, Boris Junior ; Collard, Laurent ; Robiette, Raphaël. One‐Carbon Homologation of α,β‐Unsaturated Aldehydes: Access to α‐Tertiary β,γ‐Unsaturated Aldehydes. In: European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 26, no. 40, p. e2023007 (2023). doi:10.1002/ejoc.202300765.
Chenot, Cécile ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Collin, Sonia. First evidence of the glutathione S-conjugate of 3-sulfanylheptanol in green malt: discrepancy with the ubiquitous 5- and 6-C analogues. In: Institute of Brewing & Distilling. Brewing & Distilling Directory, Vol. 128, no.2, p. 43-51 (2022). doi:10.1002/jib.690.
Chenot, Cécile ; Haest, Sébastien ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Collin, Sonia. Thiol S-Conjugate Profiles: A Comparative Investigation on Dual Hop and Grape Must with Focus on Sulfanylalkyl Aldehydes and Acetates Adducts. In: American Society of Brewing Chemists. Journal, Vol. /, no.1, p. 1-11 (2022). doi:10.1080/03610470.2021.2015560.
Kassin, Victor-Emmanuel H. ; Morodo, Romain ; Toupy, Thomas ; Jacquemin, Isaline ; Van Hecke, Kristof ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Monbaliu, Jean-Christophe M.. A modular, low footprint and scalable flow platform for the expedient α-aminohydroxylation of enolizable ketones. In: Green Chemistry, Vol. 23, no.6, p. 2336-2351 (2021). doi:10.1039/d0gc04395h.
Caillé, Julien ; Robiette, Raphaël. Cycloaddition of Cyclopropanes for the Elaboration of Medium-sized Carbocycles. In: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, (2021). doi:10.1039/d1ob00838b (Accepté/Sous presse).
Delbrassinne, Arnaud ; Richald, Maximilien ; Janssens, Julien ; Robiette, Raphaël. Divergent Rearrangements of Vinylcyclopropane into Skipped Diene and Cyclopentene: Mechanism, Scope, and Limitations. In: European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 2021, no.20, p. 2862-2868 (2021). doi:10.1002/ejoc.202100430.
Hu, Lei ; Mahaut, Damien ; Tumanov, Nikolay ; Wouters, Johan ; Collard, Laurent ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Berionni, Guillaume. Sterically hindered ortho-substituted phosphatriptycenes as configurationally stable P-chirogenic triarylphosphines. In: Dalton Transactions, Vol. 50, no.14, p. 4772-4777 (2021). doi:10.1039/d1dt00816a.
Morelle, Axel ; Caruano, Joséphine ; Feledziak, Marion ; Michaux, Catherine ; Perpète, Eric ; Muccioli, Giulio ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline ; Robiette, Raphaël. β-lactams to act on the endocannabinoid system. In: Chimie Nouvelle, Vol. 134, p. 41 (2020).
Hu, Lei ; Mahaut, Damien ; Tumanov, Nikolay ; Wouters, Johan ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Berionni, Guillaume. Complementary Synthetic Approaches toward 9-Phosphatriptycene and Structure–Reactivity Investigations of Its Association with Sterically Hindered Lewis Acids. In: The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 84, no.17, p. 11268-11274 (2019). doi:10.1021/acs.joc.9b01570.
Chenot, Cécile ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Collin, Sonia. First Evidence of the Cysteine and Glutathione Conjugates of 3-Sulfanylpentan-1-ol in Hop (Humulus lupulus L.). In: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol. 67, no.14, p. 4002-4010 (2019). doi:10.1021/acs.jafc.9b00225.
Scheinok, Samantha ; Driesschart, Benoit ; d'Hose, Donatienne ; Sonveaux, Pierre ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Gallez, Bernard. Synthesis and characterization of a 5-membered ring cyclic hydroxylamine coupled to triphenylphosphonium to detect mitochondrial superoxide by EPR spectrometry.. In: Free radical research, Vol. 53, no. 11-12, p. 1135-1143 (2019). doi:10.1080/10715762.2019.1692137.
Richald, Maximilien ; Delbrassinne, Arnaud ; Robiette, Raphaël. Unexpected Vinylcyclopropane Rearrangement: New Strategies toward Skipped Dienes Using Sulfonium Ylides : Unexpected Vinylcyclopropane Rearrangement: New Strategies toward Skipped Dienes Using Sulfonium Ylides. In: European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 2019, no.23, p. 3779-3782 (2019). doi:10.1002/ejoc.201900720.
Clergue, Sébastien ; Rousseau, Olivier ; Delaunay, Thierry ; Dequirez, Geoffroy ; Tran, Trieu-Van ; El Aakchioui, Soumia ; Barozzino Consiglio, Gabriella ; Robiette, Raphaël. Asymmetric Sulfur-Ylide-Mediated Formal [4+1]-Annulation Reaction: Scope and Mechanism. In: Chemistry - A European Journal, Vol. 24, no.44, p. 11417-11425 (2018). doi:10.1002/chem.201801874.
Kankolongo Ntumba, Joséphine ; Tshiongo, Christian ; Mifundu, Michel ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Taba, Kalulu. Effective Antimalarial Activities of α-Hydroxy Diynes Isolated from Ongokea gore . In: Planta Medica, Vol. 84, no.11, p. 806-812 (2018). doi:10.1055/s-0043-124974.
Frédéric, Christophe J.-M. ; Cornil, Jérôme ; Vandamme, Mathilde ; Dumitrescu, Lidia ; Tikad, Abdellatif ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Vincent, Stéphane P.. Highly (Z)-Diastereoselective Synthesis of Trifluoromethylated exo-Glycals via Photoredox and Copper Catalysis. In: Organic Letters, Vol. 20, no.21, p. 6769-6773 (2018). doi:10.1021/acs.orglett.8b02891.
Eitzinger, Andreas ; Zielke, Katharina ; Widhalm, Michael ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Waser, Mario. Syntheses of Highly Functionalized Spirocyclohexenes by Formal [4+2] Annulation of Arylidene Azlactones with Allenoates. In: Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 7, no.8, p. 1620-1625 (2018). doi:10.1002/ajoc.201800275.
Fan, Yang ; Tiffner, Maximilian ; Schörgenhumer, Johannes ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Waser, Mario ; Kass, Steven R.. Synthesis of Cyclic Organic Carbonates Using Atmospheric Pressure CO2 and Charge-Containing Thiourea Catalysts. In: The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 83, no.17, p. 9991-10000 (2018). doi:10.1021/acs.joc.8b01374.
Meisinger, Nicole ; Roiser, Lukas ; Monkowius, Uwe ; Himmelsbach, Markus ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Waser, Mario. Asymmetric Synthesis of 2,3-Dihydrobenzofurans by a [4+1] Annulation Between Ammonium Ylides and In Situ Generatedo-Quinone Methides. In: Chemistry: A European Journal, Vol. 23, no.21, p. 5137-5142 (2017). doi:10.1002/chem.201700171.
Cibaka, Marie-Lucie Kankolongo ; Tran, Thi Thu Hang ; Gros, Jacques ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Collin, Sonia. Investigation of 2-Sulfanylethyl Acetate Cysteine-S-Conjugate as a Potential Precursor of Free Thiols in Beer. In: Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists, Vol. 75, no.3, p. 228-235 (2017). doi:10.1094/asbcj-2017-3276-01.
Novacek, Johanna ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Waser, Mario. On the origin of the stereoselectivity in chiral amide-based ammonium ylide-mediated epoxidations. In: Monatshefte für Chemie : an international journal of chemistry, Vol. 148, no.1, p. 77-81 (2017). doi:10.1007/s00706-016-1866-8.
Depré, Dominique ; Vermeulen, Wim A. A. ; Lang, Yolande ; Dubois, Jean ; Vandevivere, Jan ; Vandermeersch, Jeremy ; Huang, Longchuan ; Robiette, Raphaël. Origin of the E/Z Selectivity in the Synthesis of Tetrasubstituted Olefins by Wittig Reaction of α-Fluorophosphonium Ylides: An Explanation for the Low Stereoselectivity Observed in Reactions of α-Alkoxy Aldehydes. In: Organic Letters, Vol. 19, no.6, p. 1414-1417 (2017). doi:10.1021/acs.orglett.7b00344.
Ntumba, J. K. ; Mulula, A. ; Kashishi, K. T. ; Mifundu, M. N. ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Taba, K. M.. Physicochemical Properties of Diacetylenic Light Fuel Oil from Congolese Oleaginous PlantOngokea gore(Hua) Pierre. In: Journal of Applied Chemistry, Vol. 2017, p. 1-6 (2017). doi:10.1155/2017/7176317.
Kankolongo Cibaka, Marie-Lucie ; Decourrière, Laura ; Lorenzo-Alonso, Celso josé ; Bodart, Etienne ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Collin, Sonia. 3‐Sulfanyl-4-methylpentan-1-ol in Dry-Hopped beers: first evidence of glutathione S‐Conjugates in hop (Humulus lupulus L.). In: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol. 64, no.45, p. 8572–8582 (2016). doi:10.1021/acs.jafc.6b03788.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Tran, Trieu-Van ; Aggarwal, Varinder K. ; Harvey, Jeremy N.. Activation of the SN2 Reaction by Adjacent π Systems: The Critical Role of Electrostatic Interactions and of Dissociative Character. In: Journal of the American chemical society, Vol. 138, no. 3, p. 734-737 (2016). doi:10.1021/jacs.5b11402.
Roiser, Lukas ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Waser, Mario. Benzylic Ammonium Ylide Mediated Epoxidations. In: Synlett : accounts and rapid communications in synthetic organic chemistry, Vol. 27, no.13, p. 1963-1968 (2016). doi:10.1055/s-0035-1562344.
Caruano, Joséphine ; Muccioli, Giulio ; Robiette, Raphaël. Biologically active γ-lactams: synthesis and natural sources. In: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Vol. 14, no.43, p. 10134-10156 (2016). doi:10.1039/C6OB01349J.
Novacek, Johanna ; Roiser, Lukas ; Zielke, Katharina ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Waser, Mario. Towards a General Understanding of Carbonyl-Stabilised Ammonium Ylide-Mediated Epoxidation Reactions. In: Chemistry: A European Journal, Vol. 22, no.32, p. 11422-11428 (2016). doi:10.1002/chem.201602052.
Pichler, Mathias ; Novacek, Johanna ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Poscher, Vanessa ; Himmelsbach, Markus ; Monkowius, Uwe ; Müller, Norbert ; Waser, Mario. Asymmetric Syntheses of Three-Membered Heterocycles Using Chiral Amide-Based Ammonium Ylides. In: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Vol. 13, no. not applicable, p. 2092-2099 (2015). doi:10.1039/C4OB02318H.
Rousseau, Olivier ; Delaunay, Thierry ; Dequirez, Geoffroy ; Tran, Trieu-Van ; Robeyns, Koen ; Robiette, Raphaël. Formal Asymmetric (4+1) Annulation Reaction between Sulfur Ylides and 1,3-Dienes. In: Chemistry: A European Journal, Vol. 21, no. 37, p. 12899-12902. doi:10.1002/chem.201502579.
Ntumba Kankolongo, Joséphine ; Collard, Laurent ; Taba, Kalulu ; Robiette, Raphaël. Isolation of a Series of Fatty Acid Components of Ongokea Gore Seed (Isano) Oil and Their Detailed Structural Analysis. In: Lipids, . doi:10.1007/s11745-014-3984-6 (Accepté/Sous presse).
Caruano, Joséphine ; Feledziak, Marion ; Labar, Geoffray ; Michaux, Catherine ; Perpete, Eric ; Muccioli, Giulio ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. (S)-1-(Pent-4’-enoyl)-4-(hydroxymethyl)-azetidin-2-one derivatives as inhibitors of human fatty acid amide hydrolase (hFAAH): synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular modelling. In: Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry, Vol. 29, no. /, p. 654-662 (2014). doi:10.3109/14756366.2013.837900.
Ntumba Kankolongo, Joséphine ; Taba, Kalulu ; Robiette, Raphaël. L’huile d’Ongokea Gore (isano) : Analyse de sa composition chimique et valorisation par dérivatisation. In: Chimie Nouvelle, Vol. 2014, no. 117, p. 12-20 (2014).
Rousseau, Olivier ; Delaunay, Thierry ; Robiette, Raphaël. Synthesis of Monosubstituted 1,1-Dicarbonyl Ester 1,3-Dienes. In: Synlett : accounts and rapid communications in synthetic organic chemistry, Vol. 2014, p. 519-522 (2014). doi:10.1055/s-0033-1340468 (Accepté/Sous presse).
Robiette, Raphaël ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. Formation of four-membered heterocycles. In: Paul Knochel et Gary A. Molander, Comprehensive Organic Synthesis, 2nd Edition, Vol. 5, 2nd Ed., Elsevier, 2014, 85-128 p.. 0080977421. doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097742-3.00503-6.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Caruano, Joséphine ; Van Den Berge, Emilie ; Rousseau, Olivier ; Tran, Trieu-Van. Comprendre les réactions pour mieux les développer et les utiliser. In: Chimie Nouvelle, Vol. 113, no. [2], p. 18-20 (2013).
Van Den Berge, Emilie ; Robiette, Raphaël. Development of a Regioselective N-Methylation of (Benz)imidazoles Providing the More Sterically Hindered Isomer.. In: Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 78, no.23, p. 12220-12223 (1/11/2013). doi:10.1021/jo401978b.
Nizet, Sabrina ; Gros, Jacques ; Peeters, Florence ; Chaumont , Sophie ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Collin, Sonia. First Evidence of the Production of Odorant Polyfunctional Thiols by Bottle Refermentation. In: American Society of Brewing Chemists. Journal, Vol. 71, no.1 , p. 15-22 (2013). doi:10.1094/ASBCJ-2013-0117-01.
Mathieu, Véronique ; Van Den Berge, Emilie ; Ceusters, Justine ; Konopka, Tomasz ; Cops, Antonin ; Bruyère, Céline ; Pirker, Christine ; Tran, Trieu-Van ; Kiss, Robert ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Berger, Walter ; Serteyn, Didier. New 5-aryl-1H-imidazoles display in vitro antitumor activity against apoptosis-resistant cancer models, including melanomas, through mitochondrial targeting. In: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Vol. 56, p. 6626-6637. doi:10.1021/jm400287v.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Pospíšil, J.. On the Origin of E/Z Selectivity in the Modified Julia Olefination - Importance of the Elimination Step. In: European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 2013, no.5, p. 836-840 (2013). doi:10.1002/ejoc.201201634.
Villemin, Elise ; Robeyns, Koen ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Herent, Marie-France ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. Polycyclic phosphonic acid derivatives obtained by a [4+2] cycloaddition strategy using phosphonodienes. In: Tetrahedron, Vol. 69, no. 3, p. 1138-1147 (2013). doi:10.1016/j.tet.2012.11.059.
Driesschaert, Benoît ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Le Duff, Cécile S. ; Collard, Laurent ; Robeyns, Koen ; Gallez, Bernard ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. Configurationally stable tris(tetrathioaryl)methyl molecular propellers. In: European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 2012, no. 33, p. 6517-6525 (2012). doi:10.1002/ejoc.201200801.
Billard, François ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Pospisil, Jiri. Julia-Kocienski Reaction-Based 1,3-Diene Synthesis: Aldehyde-Dependent (E,E/E,Z)-Selectivity. In: The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 77, no. 14, p. 6358-6364 (16/07/2012). doi:10.1021/jo300929a.
Dive, Georges ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Ahenel, Aurélie ; Ndong, M. ; Meier, C. ; Desouter-Lecomte, Michele. Laser control in open quantum systems: Preliminary analysis towards the Cope rearrangement control in methyl-cyclopentadienylcarboxylate dimer. In: Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, Vol. 131, no.1, p. 1236 (June 2012). doi:10.1007/s00214-012-1236-5.
Pospisil, Jiri ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Sato, Hitoshi ; Debrus, Kevin. Practical synthesis of β-oxo benzo[d]thiazolyl sulfones: Scope and limitations. In: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Vol. 10, no. 6, p. 1225-1234. doi:10.1039/C1OB06510F.
Driesschaert, Benoît ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Lucaccioni, Fabio ; Gallez, Bernard ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. Chiral properties of tetrathiatriarylmethyl spin probes. In: Chemical communications, Vol. 47, no. 16, p. 4793-4795 (2011). doi:10.1039/c1cc10988j.
Villemin, Elise ; Elias, Benjamin ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Robeyns, Koen ; Herent, Marie-France ; Habib Jiwan, Jean-Louis ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. Novel phosphonated bicyclic frameworks from Diets-Alder reaction as chelating agents of di- and trivalent metal cations. In: Tetrahedron Letters, Vol. 52, no. 40, p. 5140-5144 (2011). doi:10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.07.116.
Van Den Berge, Emilie ; Pospisil, Jiri ; trieu-van, tran ; Collard, Laurent ; Robiette, Raphaël. Planar Chirality of Imidazole-Containing Macrocycles - Understanding and Tuning Atropisomerism. In: European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 2011, p. 6649-6655 (2011). doi:10.1002/ejoc.201100805.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Tran, Trieu-Van ; Cordi, Alex ; Tinant, Bernard ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. A Practical Synthesis of 1,2-Nitroamines by Michael Addition of N-Nucleophiles to Nitroalkenes. In: Synthesis : journal of synthetic organic chemistry, , no. 18, p. 3138-3142 (2010). doi:10.1055/s-0030-1258176.
Robert, François ; Naik, Anil ; Hidara, Florence ; Tinant, Bernard ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Wouters, Johan ; Garcia, Yann. Engineering Solid-State Molecular Switches: N-Salicylidene N-Heterocycle Derivatives. In: European Journal of Organic Chemistry, , no. 4, p. 621-637 (2010). doi:10.1002/ejoc.200901175.
Nshimyumukiza, Prosper ; Van Den Berge, Emilie ; Delest, Bruno ; Mijatovic, Tatjana ; Kiss, Robert ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline ; Robiette, Raphaël. Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel imidazole-containing macrocycles. In: Tetrahedron, Vol. 66, no. 25, p. 4515-4520 (2010). doi:10.1016/j.tet.2010.04.070.
Monbaliu, Jean-Christophe ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Peeters, Daniel ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. (R)-4-phenyloxazolidin-2-thione: an efficient chiral auxiliary for [4+2] cycloaddition of 1-aminodiene and activated phosphonodienophiles. In: Tetrahedron Letters, Vol. 50, no. 12, p. 1314-1317 (2009).
Robert, François ; Naik, Anil ; Tinant, Bernard ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Garcia, Yann. Insights into the Origin of Solid-State Photochromism and Thermochromism of N-Salicylideneanils: The Intriguing Case of Aminopyridines.. In: Chemistry: A European Journal, Vol. 15, no. 17, p. 4327-42 (2009). doi:10.1002/chem.200801932.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. Diastereoselective synthesis of vinylcyclopropanes from dienes and sulfur ylides. In: Synlett : accounts and rapid communications in synthetic organic chemistry, no. 4, p. 517-520 (2008). doi:10.1055/s-2008-1032080.
Delest, Bruno ; Nshimyumukiza, Prosper ; Fasbender, Olivier ; Tinant, Bernard ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline ; Darro, Francis ; Robiette, Raphaël. Divergent and regioselective synthesis of 1,2,4- and 1,2,5-trisubstituted imidazoles.. In: The Journal of organic chemistry, Vol. 73, no. 17, p. 6816-23 (2008). doi:10.1021/jo801256b.
Howells, Dean ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Fang, Guang Y. ; Knowles, Luke S. ; Woodrow, Michael D. ; Harvey, Jeremy ; Aggarwal, Varinder K.. Reactions of silyl-stabilised sulfur ylides with organoboranes: enantioselectivity, mechanism, and understanding. In: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Vol. 6, no. 7, p. 1185-1189 (2008). doi:10.1039/b718496d.
Broustal, Garance ; Ariza, Xavier ; Campagne, Jean-Marc ; Garcia, Jordi ; Georges, Yohan ; Marinetti, Angela ; Robiette, Raphaël. A stereoselective approach to 1,3-amino alcohols protected as cyclic carbamates: Kinetic vs. thermodynamic control. In: European Journal of Organic Chemistry, , no. 26, p. 4293-4297 (2007). doi:10.1002/ejoc.200700503.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Aggarwal, Varinder K. ; Harvey, Jeremy. Mechanism of the Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction: A computational investigation. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 129, no. 50, p. 15513-15525 (2007). doi:10.1021/ja0717865.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Conza, M ; Aggarwal, Varinder K.. Delineation of the factors governing reactivity and selectivity in epoxide formation from ammonium ylides and aldehydes. In: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Vol. 4, no. 4, p. 621-623 (2006). doi:10.1039/b516926g.
Aggarwal, Varinder K. ; Charmant, Jonathan P.H. ; Fuentes, Daniel ; Harvey, Jeremy ; Hynd, George ; Ohara, Diasuke ; Picoul, Willy ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Vasse, Jean-Luc ; Winn, Caroline L.. Highly enantioselective synthesis of glycidic amides using camphor-derived sulfonium salts. Mechanism and applications in synthesis. In: Journal of the American chemical society, Vol. 128, no. 6, p. 2105-2114 (2006). doi:10.1021/ja0568345.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Fang, G.Y. ; Harvey, J.N. ; Aggarwal, V.K.. Is phenyl a good migrating group in the rearrangement of organoborates generated from sulfur ylides?. In: Chemical Communications, Vol. 1, no. 7, p. 741-743 (2006). doi:10.1039/b514987h.
Robiette, Raphaël. Mechanism and diastereoselectivity of aziridine formation from sulfur ylides and imines: a computational study.. In: The Journal of organic chemistry, Vol. 71, no. 7, p. 2726-34 (2006). doi:10.1021/jo052559t.
Harvey, Jeremy ; Aggarwal, Varinder K. ; Bathelt, C.M. ; Carreon-Macedo, J.L. ; Gallagher, T. ; Holzmann, N. ; Mulholland, A.J. ; Robiette, Raphaël. QM and QM/MM studies of selectivity in organic and bioorganic chemistry. In: Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, Vol. 19, no. 8-9, p. 608-615 (2006). doi:10.1002/poc.1030.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Richardson, J ; Aggarwal, Varinder K. ; Harvey, Jeremy. Reactivity and selectivity in the Wittig reaction: A computational study. In: Journal of the American chemical society, Vol. 128, no. 1, p. 2394-2409 (2006). doi:10.1021/ja056650q.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Defacqz, N ; Peeters, Daniel ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. A novel strategy towards aminophosphonic derivatives based on the Diels-Alder cycloaddition: Experimental and theoretical approaches. In: Current Organic Synthesis, Vol. 2, no. 4, p. 453-477 (2005). doi:10.2174/157017905774322668.
Aggarwal, Varinder K. ; Harvey, Jeremy N. ; Robiette, Raphaël. On the importance of leaving group ability in reactions of ammonium, oxonium, phosphonium, and sulfonium ylides. In: Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), Vol. 44, no. 34, p. 5468-5471 (2005). doi:10.1002/anie.200501526.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Richardson, J ; Aggarwal, VK ; Harvey, JN. On the origin of high E selectivity in the Wittig reaction of stabilized ylides: Importance of dipole-dipole interactions. In: Journal of the American chemical society, Vol. 127, no. 39, p. 13468-13469 (2005). doi:10.1021/ja0539589.
Boulanger, ML ; Leyssens, Tom ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Peeters, Daniel. Theoretical approach of steric effects in the Diels-Alder reaction. In: Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, Vol. 731, no. 1-3, p. 101-106 (2005). doi:10.1016/j.theochem.2005.07.005.
Tinant, Bernard ; Defacqz, Nathalie ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Touillaux, Roland ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. Stereochemistry and conformation of amido-phosphonocyclohexene derivatives, assigned by NMR and X-ray diffraction analyses. In: Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements, Vol. 179, no. 2, p. 389-402 (2004). doi:10.1080/10426500490262522.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Dekoker-Malengreau, A ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. A study of the alkylation and rearrangement products of chiral 1,3-oxazolidine- and thiazolidine-2-thiones. In: Heterocycles, Vol. 60, no. 3, p. 523-+ (2003). doi:10.3987/COM-02-9653.
Peeters, Daniel ; Leyssens, Tom ; Robiette, Raphaël. Analyse de la réorganisation électronique dans les molécules en réaction. In: Chimie Nouvelle, Vol. 82, no. -, p. 91-95 (2003).
Tinant, Bernard ; Robiette, Raphaël ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. Crystal structure of (S)-3-(Z-1 ',3 '-butadienyl)-4-phenylthiazoline-2-one, C13H13NOS, a chiral 1-amino-diene useful in Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions. In: Zeitschrift fuer Kristallographie - New Crystal Structures, Vol. 218, no. 4, p. 475-476 (2003). doi:10.1524/ncrs.2003.218.4.475.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Cheboub-Benchaba, Karima ; Peeters, Daniel ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. Design of a new and highly effective chiral auxiliary for Diels-Alder reaction of 1-aminodiene.. In: The Journal of organic chemistry, Vol. 68, no. 25, p. 9809-12 (2003). doi:10.1021/jo0302049.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Defacqz, N ; Stofferis, J ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. [4+2] Cycloaddition of 1-aminodienes and 2-substituted vinylphosphonates: application to asymmetric synthesis of 3-amino-5-phosphono-1-cyclohexene derivatives. In: Tetrahedron, Vol. 59, no. 23, p. 4167-4175 (2003). doi:10.1016/S0040-4020(03)00580-5.
Robiette, Raphaël. Développement d'une voie générale d'accès aux dérivés β- et γ-aminophosphoniques par réaction Diels-Alder : approches expérimentale et théorique, prom. : Peeters, Daniel ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline, 2003.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline ; Peeters, Daniel. Influence of diene substitution on transition state stabilization in Diels-Alder reaction.. In: The Journal of organic chemistry, Vol. 67, no. 19, p. 6823-6 (2002). doi:10.1021/jo025796u.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline ; Peeters, Daniel. Theoretical study of the influence of phosphonate substituents on Diels-Alder reactions. In: Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, Vol. 587, no. 1-3, p. 159-169 (2002). doi:10.1016/S0166-1280(02)00113-6.
Robiette, Raphaël ; Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline. Asymmetric synthesis of beta- and gamma-amidophosphonates by Diels-Alder reaction using chiral aminodiene: theoretical and experimental study of the facial selectivity of chiral N-dienyl lactam. In: Royal Chemical Society. Journal. Perkin Transactions 2, , no. 11, p. 2155-2158 (2001). doi:10.1039/b105070m.
Marchand-Brynaert, Jacqueline ; Defacqz, Nathalie ; Robiette, Raphaël. [4+2] Cycloaddition of phosphoryl-substituted dienes and dienophiles with a view of preparing aminophosphonic acid derivatives. In: Pandalai S.G., Recent Research Developments in Organic Chemistry. vol 5, Transworld Research Network: Trivandrum, 2001. 9788178950068.
1998 - 2003 | Ph.D. Doctorate in chemistry at the Université catholique de Louvain. Advisors: Profs J. Marchand-Brynaert (experimental) and D. Peeters (theory), |
2003 - 2004 | Postdoctoral position at the University of California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A., U.S.A.), with a Fulbright research fellowship. Advisor: Prof. M. E. Jung |
2004 - 2005 | Postdoctoral position at the University of Bristol (U.K.), with a FSR fellowship from UCLouvain. Advisors: Prof. V. K. Aggarwal (organic synthesis) and Prof. J. N. Harvey (computational chemistry) |
2005 - 2009 | Chargé de recherches F.R.S.-FNRS at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) |
2009 to date | F.R.S.-FNRS Research Fellow and Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). |
2017 - 2023 | Head of the Molecular Chemistry, Materials and Catalysis (MOST) Division of the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). |
Degrees
Year | Label | School |
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1996 | Candidat en sciences chimiques | Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) |
1998 | Licencié en sciences chimiques | Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) |
1999 | Diplômé d'études approfondies en chimie moléculaire | Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) |
2003 | Docteur en sciences | Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) |