Publications

Mentored Works

2025

Visible Light Promotes P^III/P^V-Catalyzed Reductive N-Arylation of Nitroarenes at Room Temperature

B. Kang, M. N. Lavagnino, J. B. Gordon, K. G. Reynolds, D. G. Nocera, A. T. Radosevich. ACS Catal. 2025, 15, 12477–12483.
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2024

Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Electrophile Coupling for the Formation of All-Carbon Quaternary Centers

A. L. Pace, F. Xu, W. Liu, M. N. Lavagnino, D. W. C. MacMillan. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 32925–32932.
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2023

Deoxyfluorination of 1°, 2°, and 3° Alcohols by Nonbasic O−H Activation and Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Fluoride Shuttling

H. W. Moon, M. N. Lavagnino, S. Lim, M. D. Palkowitz, M. D. Mandler, G. L. Beutner, M. J. Drance, J. M. Lipshultz, P. M. Scola, A. T. Radosevich. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 22735–22744.
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     Collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb
     Featured in Synfacts and OPR&D "Some Items of Interest"

Tandem C/N-Difunctionalization of Nitroarenes: Reductive Amination/Annulation by a Ring Expansion/Contraction Sequence

G. Li, M. N. Lavagnino, S. Z. Ali, S. Hu, A. T. Radosevich. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 41–46.
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Featured in Synfacts

2022

Metallaphotoredox: The Merger of Photoredox and Transition Metal Catalysis

A. Chan, I. B. Perry, N. B. Bissonette, B. F. Buksh, G. A. Edwards, L. I. Frye, O. L. Garry, M. N. Lavagnino, B.X. Li, E. Mao, A. Millet, J. V. Oakley, N. L. Reed, H. A. Sakai, C. P. Seath, D. W. C. MacMillan. Chem. Rev. 2022, 122, 1485–1542.
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2021

A Biomimetic S_H2 Cross-Coupling Mechanism for Quaternary sp³-Carbon Formation

W. Liu,^† M. N. Lavagnino,^† C. A. Gould, J. Alcázar, D. W. C. MacMillan. Science 2021, 374, 1258–1263.
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     Collaboration with Janssen Pharmaceuticals
     Featured in C&En News, the Princeton University homepage, and OPR&D “Some Items of Interest”

2020

HARC as an Open-Shell Strategy to Bypass Oxidative Addition in Ullmann-Goldberg Couplings

M. N. Lavagnino, T. Liang, D. W. C. MacMillan. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2020, 117, 21058–21064.
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