Olaf Wiest
Professor
Education
Ph.D., University of Bonn, Germany
M.S., University of Bonn, Germany
Research
Prof. Wiest and his research group are actively involved in the area of catalysis.
Research Interests
Carbon Capture and Conversion, Catalysis, Energy Conversion and Efficiency, Sustainable Bio/Fossil Fuels
Relevant Energy Publications
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.