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Laboratory of Chemical Synthesis Methodology

 


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Prof. Marcin Kałek
e-mail: m.kalek@cent.uw.edu.pl
phone: +48 22 55 43730
room: 03.45
ORCID: 0000-0002-1595-9818
SCOPUS ID: 23027533100

The research in our laboratory is aimed at the development of new, efficient methodologies for synthetic organic chemistry.

Currently, our research interests concentrate on the use of hypervalent iodine, whose unique properties allow for performing advanced oxidation reactions, which involve the formation of new chemical bonds and lead to a large increase in the molecular complexity. These include group-transfer processes, wherein a substituent is transferred from a stoichiometric hypervalent iodine reagent onto an organic acceptor, as well as hypervalent iodine-promoted oxidations that may be carried out using a catalytic amount of the iodine-containing compound. Recently, we have also initiated research into the application of electric energy for driving the oxidation of organic substrates, using iodoarenes as electrocatalysts.

A key element of our work are also investigations of chemical reaction mechanisms, which are conducted both using experimental and computational approaches.

Please visit our Group Website for more details.

Leader

Marcin Kałek – CV

Team

Leader
Prof. Marcin Kałek

Postdocs
Ronit S. Bernard, PhD
Ajit Kumar Jha, PhD

PhD Students
Natalia Wojciechowska, MSc
Robert S. Yafele, MSc

Students
Szymon Różański

Selected projects

Title Leader Years Funding
Electrochemical asymmetric oxidations mediated by chiral iodoarene electrocatalysts M. Kałek 2021-2026 NCN OPUS
Asymmetric transformations with hypervalent iodine reagents. Merger with nucleophilic catalysis and novel chiral iodoarenes as entry to powerful synthetic reactions M. Kałek 2017-2023 NCN SONATA BIS

Selected publications

  • Tomczyk I., Kalek M.
    Electrochemical Dearomatizing Methoxylation of Phenols and Naphthols: Synthetic and Computational Studies
    (2024) Chemistry – A European Journal, 30 (20), art. no. e202303916
    DOI: 10.1002/chem.202303916
  • Bernard R.S., Jha A.K., Kalek M.
    Electrochemical oxidations through hypervalent iodine redox catalysis
    (2024) Tetrahedron Chem, 11, art. no. 100081
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100081
  • Sarkar S., Kalek M.
    Metal-Free S-Arylation of Phosphorothioate Diesters and Related Compounds with Diaryliodonium Salts
    (2023) Organic Letters, 25 (4), pp. 671 – 675
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c04310
  • Wojciechowska, N., Bienkowski, K., Solarska, R., Kalek, M.
    Electrochemical Asymmetric Diacetoxylation of Styrenes Mediated by Chiral Iodoarene Catalyst
    (2023) European Journal of Organic Chemistry 26(32), e202300477
    DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202300477
  • Sarvi Beigbaghlou, S., Yafele, R. S., Kalek, M.
    Electrochemical Dearomatizing Spirolactonization and Spiroetherification of Naphthols and Phenols
    (2023) Synthesis 55(24), 4173-4180
    DOI: 10.1055/a-2128-5408
  • Jedrzejewski, M., Belza, B., Lewandowska, I., Sadlej, M., Perlinska, A. P., Augustyniak, R., Christian, T., Hou, Y.-M., Kalek, M., Sulkowska, J. I.
    Nucleolar Essential Protein 1 (Nep1): Elucidation of enzymatic catalysis mechanism by molecular dynamics simulation and quantum mechanics study

    (2023) Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 21, 3999-4008
    DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2023.08.001
  • Jacquet M., Osella S., Harputlu E., Pałys B., Kaczmarek M., Nawrocka E.K., Rajkiewicz A.A., Kalek M., Michałowski P.P., Trzaskowski B., Unlu C.G., Lisowski W., Pisarek M., Kazimierczuk https://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-2128-5408K., Ocakoglu K., Wiȩckowska A., Kargul J.
    Diazonium-Based Covalent Molecular Wiring of Single-Layer Graphene Leads to Enhanced Unidirectional Photocurrent Generation through the p-doping Effect
    (2022) Chemistry of Materials, 34 (8), pp. 3744 – 3758
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00088
  • Pareek A., Kalek M.
    Regioselective Dearomatization of N-Alkylquinolinium and Pyridinium Salts under Morita-Baylis-Hillman Conditions
    (2022) Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 364 (16), pp. 2846 – 2851
    DOI: 10.1002/adsc.202200429
  • Sarkar S., Wojciechowska N., Rajkiewicz A.A., Kalek M.
    Synthesis of Aryl Sulfides by Metal-Free Arylation of Thiols with Diaryliodonium Salts under Basic Conditions**
    (2022) European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2022 (2), art. no. e202101408
    DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202101408
  • Kraszewski K., Tomczyk I., Kalek M.
    Intermolecular enantioselective dearomatizing para-methoxylation of phenols using 2-iodoresorcinol/lactamide catalysts
    (2022) Tetrahedron Letters, 108, art. no. 154127
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2022.154127

Contact

Prof. Marcin Kałek
e-mail: m.kalek@cent.uw.edu.pl
phone: +48 22 55 43730
room: 03.45