Current Position

Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Education

Ph.D., University of Bonn, Germany
M.S., University of Bonn, Germany

Research Interests

Prof. Wiest and his research group are actively involved in the area of catalysis.

Key Words

Carbon Capture and Conversion, Catalysis

Relevant Energy Publications

1. Rosales, Anthony R., Sean P. Ross, Paul Helquist, Per-Ola Norrby, Matthew S. Sigman, and Olaf Wiest. "Transition state force field for the asymmetric redox-relay Heck reaction." Journal of the American Chemical Society 142, no. 21 (2020): 9700-9707.
2. Rosales, Anthony R., Jessica Wahlers, Elaine Limé, Rebecca E. Meadows, Kevin W. Leslie, Rhona Savin, Fiona Bell et al. "Rapid virtual screening of enantioselective catalysts using CatVS." Nature Catalysis 2, no. 1 (2019): 41-45.
3. Tutkowski, Brandon, Sutthichat Kerdphon, Elaine Lime, Paul Helquist, Pher G. Andersson, Olaf Wiest, and Per-Ola Norrby. "Revisiting the stereodetermining step in enantioselective iridium-catalyzed imine hydrogenation." ACS Catalysis 8, no. 1 (2018): 615-623.
4. Zhang, Xin, Brandon Tutkowski, Allen Oliver, Paul Helquist, and Olaf Wiest. "Mechanistic Study of the Nickel-Catalyzed α, β-Coupling of Saturated Ketones." ACS Catalysis 8, no. 3 (2018): 1740-1747.
5. Rosales, Anthony R., Taylor R. Quinn, Jessica Wahlers, Anna Tomberg, Xin Zhang, Paul Helquist, Olaf Wiest, and Per-Ola Norrby. "Application of Q2MM to predictions in stereoselective synthesis." Chemical Communications 54, no. 60 (2018): 8294-8311.

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