publications

Postdoc

Isolation of a Pentadienyl-Type Radical Featuring a Central Secondary Carbon

Ying Kai Loh*, Levan Gojiashvili, Mohand Melaimi, Milan Gembicky, Dominik Munz, Guy Bertrand*
Nature Synthesis 2024, 3, 727−731.

A Crystalline Doubly Oxidized Carbene

Ying Kai Loh*, Mohand Melaimi, Milan Gembicky, Dominik Munz, Guy Bertrand*
Nature 2023, 623, 66−70.

Diagram showing a chemical reaction between a carbene and a doubly oxidized carbene with structural models and labels; includes arrows indicating transformation.

An Air-Stable "Masked" Bis(imino)carbene: A Carbon-Based Dual Ambiphile

Ying Kai Loh, Mohand Melaimi, Dominik Munz, Guy Bertrand*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 2064−2069.

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DPhil

A Crystalline Radical Cation Derived from Thiele’s Hydrocarbon with Redox Range Beyond 1 V

Ying Kai Loh, Petra Vasko, Caitilín McManus, Andreas Heilmann, William K. Myers, Simon Aldridge*
Nature Communications 2021, 12, 7052.

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Acid–Base Free Main Group Carbonyl Analogues

Ying Kai Loh, Simon Aldridge*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 60, 8626−8648. (Review)

An Acid-Free Anionic Oxoborane Isoelectronic with Carbonyl: Facile Access and Transfer of a Terminal B=O Double Bond

Ying Kai Loh, Kieran Porteous, M. Ángeles Fuentes, Dinh Cao Huan Do, Jamie Hicks, Simon Aldridge*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 8073−8077.

Diagram illustrating the synthesis and reactions of an acid-free oxoborane compound, highlighting anionic thioxoborane and borenium intermediates. The image includes molecular structures and bonding configurations, such as B=S and B=O, with notations of bond synthesis and oxide ion transfer agent roles.

An N-Heterocyclic Boryloxy Ligand Isoelectronic with N-Heterocyclic Imines: Access to an Acyclic Dioxysilylene and its Heavier Congeners

Ying Kai Loh, Lu Ying, M. Ángeles Fuentes, Dinh Cao Huan Do, Simon Aldridge*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 4847−4851.

Successive Protonation of an N-Heterocyclic Imine Derived Carbonyl: Superelectrophilic Dication versus Masked Acylium Ion

Ying Kai Loh, M. Ángeles Fuentes, Petra Vasko, Simon Aldridge*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 16559−16563.

BSc

Nickel-Catalyzed Facile [2+2+2] Cyclotrimerization of Unactivated Internal Alkynes to Polysubstituted Benzenes

Fei Xue, Ying Kai Loh, Xiaolu Song, Wei Jie Teo, J. Y. Darrence Chua, Jin Zhao,* T. S. Andy Hor*
Chem. Asian J. 2017, 12, 168−173.

A Dicationic Iminophosphane

Ying Kai Loh, Chitra Gurnani, Rakesh Ganguly, Dragoslav Vidović*
Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 3087−3089.

1,2,4,3-Triazaborole-Based Neutral Oxoborane Stabilized by a Lewis Acid

Ying Kai Loh, Che Chang Chong, Rakesh Ganguly, Yongxin Li, Dragoslav Vidović, Rei Kinjo*
Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 8561−8564.