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Raphaël Robiette
Maître de recherche FNRS
Professeur
Professional experience
2003-2004 Postdoc University of California at Los Angeles
2004-2005 Postdoc University of Bristol
2005-2009 Chargé de recherches F.R.S.-FNRS Université catholique de Louvain
2009- F.R.S.-FNRS Research Fellow and Professor Université catholique de Louvain
- Diploma
Year Label Educational Organization 1996 Candidat en sciences chimiques Université catholique de Louvain 1998 Licencié en sciences chimiques Université catholique de Louvain 1999 Diplômé d'études approfondies en chimie moléculaire Université catholique de Louvain 2003 Docteur en sciences Université catholique de Louvain
- Organic synthesis
- Physical organic chemistry
- Medicinal chemistry
- Theoretical chemistry
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 ; 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 ; 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.
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.
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.