Preprints and submitted manuscripts:

Electrochemical DABCOylation for challenging C–H amination reactions

Griffin Stewart, Eva Alvarez, Chris Rapala, Jonathan Sklar, Julia A. Kalow, and Christian A. Malapit

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Patents:

Alvarez, E. M.;  Bai, Z.; Ritter, T. A Bicyclopentyl Thianthrenium Compound, Process for Preparing the Same and the Use Thereof, Patent number EP22181685.3, Germany, (2024).

A General Hydrotrifluoromethylation of Unactivated Olefins Enabled by Voltage-gated electrosynthesis enables selective hydrotrifluoromethylation of olefins

*Alvarez, E. M.; Li, J.; *Malapit, C. A.

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202415218 Link

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Site-Selective Electrochemical Arene C–H Amination

Alvarez, E. M.; Stewart, G.; Ullah, M.; Lalisse, R.; Gutierrez O.; Malapit, C. A.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 3591-3597.  LinkSupporting information

Most read paper in JACS for the months of February and March.

Highlighted in Synfacts; Trauner, D., Etling, C. Synfacts 2024, 20, 0422.

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Org. Process Res. Dev.2024, 28, 805 Link

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Bicyclopentylation for O-, N-, and C- Functionalization
with a Storable Thianthrenium-based Reagent.

Alvarez, E. M.; Bai, Z.; Pandit, S.; Frank, N.; Torkowski, L.; Ritter, T.

Nat. Synth. 2023, 2, 548–556. Link

Highlighted in Aïssa, C. Storage without strain. Nat. Synth. 2023, 2, 478–480.
Selected as OPR&D Highlights: Org. Process Res. Dev. 2023, 27, 993-1002.

Late-Stage Heteroarylation of Hetero(aryl)sulfonium Salts Activated by α-Amino Alkyl Radicals

Alvarez, E. M, Karl,T.; Berger, F.;Torkowski, L.; Prof. Dr. Tobias Ritter

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 60, 13609-13613. Link

Selected as Hot Paper.
Among the top 10% most downloaded papers.

Cine-Substitutions at Five-Membered Hetarenes Enabled by Sulfonium Salts

Berger F.; Alvarez, E. M.; Frank, N.; Bohdan, K.; Kondratiuk, M.; Torkowski, L.; Engl, P. S.; Barletta, J.; Ritter, T.

Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 5671-5674. Link

Site-Selective C–H Functionalization–Sulfination Sequence to Access Aryl Sulfonamides

Alvarez, E. M.; Plutschack, M. B.; Berger, F.; Ritter, T.

Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 4593-4596. Link

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Selected as Front Cover by the Editor.
Among the top 10% most downloaded papers.
Selected as OPR&D Highlights: Org. Process Res. Dev. 2020, 24, 885−896.

Radical Carbofluorination of Alkenes with Arylhydrazines and Selectfluor: Additives, Mechanistic Pathways, and Polar Effects

Pirzer, A. S.; Alvarez, E. M.; Friedrich, H.; Heinrich, M. R.

Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 2786-2792. Link