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Matthew S. Sigman
315 So. 1400 E. Rm. 4253A
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
sigman@chem.utah.edu
Office: (801) 585-0774

Group News


Kaid Harper's report in Science was featured in the Perspectives section of Science, on the University of Utah home page, in the Deseret News, and C&E News.

Erik Werner's paper in JACS was highlighted in the December 2010 issue of Synfacts.

Matthew Sigman received the 2010 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award.

Brian Michel's paper in JACS was highlighted in the August 2009 issue of Synfacts.

Matthew Sigman received the 2009 Robert W. Parry Teaching Award

 

Publications

2011


(79) Sigman, M.S.; Werner, E.W. "Imparting Catalyst-Control upon Classical Palladium-Catalyzed Alkenyl C-H Bond Functionalization" Acc. Chem. Res., 2011, ASAP.

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(78) Harper, K.C.; Sigman, M.S. "Three-Dimensional Correlation of Steric and Electronic Free Energy Relationships Guides Asymmetric Propargylation" Science., 2011, 333, 1875-1878.

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(77) DeLuca, R.J.; Sigman, M.S. "Anti-Markovnikov Hydroalkylation of Allylic Amine Derivatives via a Palladium-Catalyzed Reductive Cross-Coupling Reaction" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 11454-11457.

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(76) Werner, E. W.; Sigman, M. S. "Operationally Simple and Highly (E)-Styrenyl-Selective Heck Reactions of Electronically Nonbiased Olefins" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 9692-9695.

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(75) Podhajsky, S. M.; Iwai, Y.; Cook-Sneathen, A.; Sigman, M. S. "Asymmetric Palladium-Catalyzed Hydroarylation of Styrenes and Dienes" Tetrahedron, 2011, 67, 4435-4441.

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(74) Michel, B.W.; Steffens, L.D.; Sigman, M. S. "On the Mechanism of the Palladium-Catalyzed tert-Butylhydroperoxide-Mediated Wacker-Type Oxidation of Alkenes Using Quinoline-2-Oxazoline Ligands" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 8317-8325.

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(73) Pathak, T. J.; Sigman, M. S. "Palladium-Catalyzed Hydro-functionalization of Vinyl Phenol Derivatives with Heteroaromatics" Org. Lett., 2011, 13, 2774-2777.


(72) McCombs, J. R.; Michel, B.W.; Sigman, M. S. "Catalyst-Controlled Wacker-Type Oxidation of Homoallylic Alcohols in the Absence of Protecting Groups" J. Org. Chem., 2011, 76, 3609-3613.

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(71) Liao, L.; Jana, R.; Urkalan, K.B.; Sigman, M. S. "A Palladium-Catalyzed Three-Component Cross-Coupling of Conjugated Dienes or Terminal Alkenes with Vinyl Triflates and Boronic Acids" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 5784-5787.

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(70) Jana, R.; Pathak, T. P.; Sigman, M. S. "Advances in Transition Metal (Pd,Ni,Fe)-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions Using Alkyl- organometallics as Reaction Partners" Chem. Rev., 2011, 111, 1417-1492.

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(69) Harper, K. C.; Sigman, M. S.* "Predicting and Optimizing Asymmetric Catalyst Performance Using the Principles of Experimental Design and Steric Parameters" Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 2011, 108, 2179-2183.

2010


(68) Jensen, K. H.; Webb, J. D.; Sigman, M.S. "Advancing the Mechanistic Understanding of an Enantioselective Palladium-Catalyzed Alkene Difunctionalization Reaction" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 17471-17482.

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(67) Jensen, K. H.; Sigman, M.S. "Evaluation of Catalyst Acidity and Substrate Electronic Effects in a Hydrogen Bond-Catalyzed Enantioselective Reaction" J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 7194-7201.

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(66) Werner, E.; Sigman, M.S. "A Highly Selective and General Palladium Catalyst for the Oxidative Heck Reaction of Electronically Nonbiased Olefins" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 13981-13983.

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(65) Michel, B. W.; McCombs, J. R.; Winkler, A.; Sigman, M.S. "Catalyst-Controlled Wacker-Type Oxidation of Protected Allylic Amines" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 7312-7315.

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(64) Anderson, B. J.; Keith, J.A.; Sigman, M.S. "Experimental and Computational Study of a Direct O2-Coupled Wacker Oxidation: Water Dependence in the Absence of Cu Salts" J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2010, 132, 11872-11874.

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(63) Liao, L. Sigman, M.S. "Palladium-Catalyzed Hydroarylation of 1,3-Dienes with Boronic Sters via Reductive Formation of pi-Allyl Palladium Intermediates under Oxidative Conditions" J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2010, 132, 10209-10211.

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(62) Pathak, T.P.; Gligorich, K.M.; Welm, B.E.; Sigman, M.S. "Synthesis and Preliminary Biological Studies of 3-Substituted Indoles Accessed by a Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Alkene Difunctionalization Reaction" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 7870-7871.

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(61) Gustafson, J.L.; Sigman, M.S.; Miller, S.J. "Linear Free-Energy Relationship Analysis of a Catalytic Desymmetrization of a Diarymethane-bis(phenol)" Org. Lett., 2010, 12 (12), 2794-2797.

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(60) Werner, E.W.; Urkalan, K.B.; Sigman, M.S. "PDII-Catalyzed Oxidative 1,1-Diarylation of Terminal Olefins" Org. Lett., 2010, 12 (12), 2848-2851.

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2009


(59) Urkalan, K.B.; Sigman, M.S. "Palladium-Catalyzed Hydroalkylation of Styrenes with Organozinc Reagents To Form Carbon-Carbon sp3-sp3 Bonds under Oxidative Conditions" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131 (50), 18042-18043.

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(58) Jensen, K.H.; Pathak, T.P.; Zhang, Y.; Sigman, M.S. "Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Addition of Two Distinct Nucleophiles across Alkenes Capable of Quinone Methide Formation" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 17074-17075.


(57) Sigman, M.S.; Miller, J.J. "Examination of the Role of Taft-Type Steric Parameters in Asymmetric Catalysis" J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74 (20), pp 7633–7643

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(56) Gligorich, K.M.; Sigman, M.S. "Recent advancements and challenges of palladiumII-catalyzed oxidation reactions with molecular oxygen as the sole oxidant," Chem. Commun., 2009, , 3854 - 3867

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(55) Gligorich, K.M.; Iwai, Y.; Cummings, S.A.; Sigman, M.S. "A new approach to carbon–carbon bond formation: development of aerobic Pd-catalyzed reductive coupling reactions of organometallic reagents and styrenes," Tetrahedron, 2009, 65, 26, 5074-5083.

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(54) Miller, J.J.; Rajaran, S.; Pfaffenroth, C.; Sigman, M.S. "Synthesis of amine functionalized oxazolines with applications in asymmetric catalysis," Tetrahedron, 2009, 65, 3110-3119.

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(53) Michel, B. W.; Camelio, A. M; Cornell, C. N.; Sigman, M. S. "A General and Efficient Catalyst System for a Wacker-Type Oxidation Using TBHP as the Terminal Oxidant: Application to Classically Challenging Substrates," J. Am. Chem. Soc.2009, 131, 17, 6076-6077.

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(52) Urkalan, K.B.; Sigman, M.S. "Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Intermolecular Difunctionalization of Terminal Alkenes using Organostannanes and Molecular Oxygen,” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 3146-3149.

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2008


(51) Jensen, K. H.; Sigman, M. S. "Mechanistic Approaches to Palladium-Catalyzed Alkene Difunctionalization Reactions," Org. Biomol. Chem. 2008, 8, 4083-4088.

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(50) Iwai, Y.; Gligorich, K. M.; Sigman, M. S. "Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation Coupled to Palladium-Catalyzed Alkene Hydroarylation with Boronic Esters,” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 3219-3222.

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(49) Miller, J. J.; Sigman, M. S. "Quantitatively Correlating the Effect of Ligand-Substituent Size in Asymmetric Catalysis Using Linear Free Energy Relationships,” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 771-774.

 

2007


(48) Gligorich, K. M.; Cummings, S. A.; Sigman, M. S. "Palladium-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling of Styrenes and Organostannanes under Aerobic Conditions,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 14193-14195.

(47) Podhajsky, S. M.; Sigman, M. S. "Coupling a Pd-Catalyzed Alcohol Oxidation to Olefin Functionalization: Hydrohalogenation/Hydroalkoxylation of Styrenes,” Organometallics 2007, 26, 5680-5686.

(46) Jensen, K. H. ; Sigman, M. S. "Systematically Probing the Effect of Catalyst Acidity in a Hydrogen-Bond-Catalyzed Enantioselective Reaction,” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 4748-4750.

(45) Zhang, Y.; Sigman, M. S. "Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Aerobic Dialkoxylation of 2-Propenyl Phenols: A Pronounced Effect of Copper Additives on Enantioselectivity,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 3076-3077.

(44) Miller, J. J.; Sigman, M. S. “Design and Synthesis of Modular Oxazoline Ligands for the Enantioselective Chromium-Catalyzed Addition of Allyl Bromide to Ketones,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 2752-2753.

(43) Cornell, C. N.; Sigman, M. S. “Recent Progress in Wacker Oxidations: Moving Toward Molecular Oxygen as the Sole Oxidant,” Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 1903-1909.

2006


(42) Gligorich, K. M.; Sigman, M. S. "Mechanistic Questions about the Reaction of Molecular Oxygen with Palladium in Oxidase Catalysis," Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 6612-6615.

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(41) Schultz, M. J.; Sigman, M. S. "Recent Advances in Homogeneous Transition Metal-Catalyzed Aerobic Alcohol Oxidations," Tetrahedron 2006, 62, 8227-8241.

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(40) Dible, B. R.; Sigman, M. S. "Steric Effects in the Aerobic Oxidation of Π-Allylnickel(II) Complexes with N-Heterocyclic Carbenes," Inorg. Chem. 2006, 45, 8430-8441.

(39) Zhang, Y.; Sigman, M. S. “Development of a General PdII-Catalyzed Intermolecular Hydroalkoxylation Reaction of Vinylphenols by Using a Sacrificial Alcohol as the Hydride Source,” Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 5557-5560.

(38) Cornell, C. N.; Sigman, M. S. “Discovery of a Practical Direct O2-Coupled Wacker Oxidation using Pd[(-)-Sparteine]Cl2,” Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 4117-4120.

(37) Sigman, M. S.; Jensen, D. R. "Ligand-Modulated Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Alcohol Oxidations," Acc. Chem. Res. 2006, 39, 221-229.

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(36) Balija, A. M.; Stowers, K. J.; Schultz, M. J.; Sigman, M. S. "Pd(II)-Catalyzed Conversion of Styrene Derivatives to Acetals: Impact of (-)-Sparteine on Regioselectivity," Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 1121-1124.

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(35) Gligorich, K. M.; Schultz, M. J.; Sigman, M. S. "Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Aerobic Hydroalkoxylation of Styrenes Containing a Phenol," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 2794-2795.

(34) Schultz, M. J.; Sigman, M. S. "Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Aerobic Dialkoxylation of Styrenes: A Profound Influence of an o-Phenol," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 1460-1461.

2005


(33) Rajaram, S.; Sigman, M. S. "Design of Hydrogen Bond Catalysts Based on a Modular Oxazoline Template: Application to an Enantioselective Hetero Diels-Alder Reaction," Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 5473-5475.

(32) Mueller, J. A.; Cowell, A.; Chandler, B. D.; Sigman, M. S. "Origin of Enantioselection in Chiral Alcohol Oxidation Catalyzed by Pd[(-)-sparteine]Cl2," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 14817-14824.

(31) Lee, J.-Y.; Miller, J. J.; Hamilton, S. S.; Sigman, M. S. "Stereochemical Diversity in Chiral Ligand Design: Discovery and Optimization of Catalysts for the Enantioselective Addition of Allylic Halides to Aldehydes," Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 1837-1839.

(30) Schultz, M. J.; Adler, R. S.; Zierkiewicz, W.; Privalov, T.; Sigman, M. S. "Using Mechanistic and Computational Studies to Explain Ligand Effects in the Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 8499-8507.

(29) Dible, B. R.; Sigman, M. S.; Arif, A. M. "Oxygen-Induced Ligand Dehydrogenation of a Planar Bis-µ-Chloronickel (I) Dimer Featuring an NHC Ligand," Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 3774-3776.

(28) Cornell, C. N.; Sigman, M. S. "Discovery of and Mechanistic Insight into a Ligand-Modulated Palladium Catalyzed Wacker Oxidation of Styrenes using TBHP," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 2796-2797.

(27) Mercer, G. J.; Sturdy, M.; Jensen, D. R.; Sigman, M. S. "Intermolecular Reductive Coupling of Hindered N-aryl Imines Towards the Modular Synthesis of Chiral N-Heterocyclic Carbenes," Tetrahedron 2005, 61, 6418-6424.

(26) Schultz, M. J.; Hamilton, S. S.; Jensen, D. R.; Sigman, M. S. "Development and Comparison of Substrate Scope of Pd-Catalysts for the Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols," J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 3343-3352.

2004


(25) Sigman, M. S.; Schultz, M. J. "The Renaissance of Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Oxidation Chemistry," Org. Biomol. Chem. 2004, 2, 2551-2554 (invited contribution).

(24) Mueller, J. A.; Goller, C. P. , Sigman, M. S. "Elucidating the Significance of β-Hydride Elimination and the Dynamic Role of Acid/Base Chemistry in a Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 9724-9734.

2003


(23) Jensen, D. R.; Schultz, M. J.; Mueller, J. A.; Sigman, M. S. "Well-Defined Complex for Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols: Design, Synthesis, and Mechanistic Considerations," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42. 3810-3813.

(22) Mandal, S. K.; Sigman, M. S. "Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Kinetic Resolution of Alcohols Using an Achiral Exogenous Base," J. Org. Chem., 2003, 68, 7535-7537.

(21) Mandal, S. K. Jensen, D. R.; Pugsley, J. S.; Sigman, M. S. "Scope of Enantioselective Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Aerobic Alcohol Oxidations Using (-)-Sparteine," J. Org. Chem. 2003, 68, 4600-4603.

(20) Mueller, J. A.; Sigman, M. S. "Mechanistic Investigations of the Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Kinetic Resolution of Secondary Alcohols Using (-)-Sparteine," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 7005-7013.

(19) Mercer, G. J.; Sigman, M. S. "Diastereoselective Synthesis of Piperazines by Manganese-Mediated Reductive Cyclization," Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 1591-1594.

(18) Jensen, D. R.; Sigman, M. S. "Palladium-Catalysts for Aerobic Oxidative Kinetic Resolution of Secondary Alcohols Based on Mechanistic Insight," Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 63-65.

(17) Dible, B. R.; Sigman, M. S. "Unusual Reactivity of Molecular Oxygen with π-Allylnickel(N-Heterocyclic Carbene) Chloride Complexes," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 872-873; An Editors’ Choice in Science 2003, 299, 313.

2002


(16) Schultz, M. J.; Park, C. C.; Sigman, M. S. "A Convenient Pd-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols at Room Temperature," Chem. Commun. 2002, 3034-3035.

(15) Sigman, M. S.; Jensen, D. J.; Rajaram, S. "Enantioselective Oxidations Using Molecular Oxygen," Curr. Opin. Drug Discovery & Development, 2002, 5, 860-869 (invited contribution).

(14) Rajaram, S.; Sigman, M. S. "Modular Synthesis of Amine-Functionalized Oxazolines," Org. Lett. 2002, 4, 3399-3401.

(13) Mueller, J. A.; Jensen, D. R.; Sigman, M. S. "Dual Role of (-)-Sparteine in the Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Kinetic Resolution of Secondary Alcohols," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 8202-8203.

2001


(12) Jensen, D. R.; Pugsley, J. S.; Sigman, M. S. "Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Oxidations of Alcohols Using Molecular Oxygen," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 7475-7476; Science Concentrate in Chem & Eng. News 2001, 79 (21), 40; Highlighted in Chemtracts by Kenneth M Nicholas Chemtracts 2001, 14, 654-658.

2000 and earlier


(11) Sigman, M. S.; Vachal, P.; Jacobsen E. N. "A General Catalyst for the Asymmetric Strecker Reaction" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000, 39, 1279-1281.

(10) Sigman, M. S.; Jacobsen, E. N. "Enantioselective Addition of Hydrogen Cyanide to Imines Catalyzed by a (salen)-Al Complex," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 5315-5316.

(9) Sigman, M. S.; Fatland, A. W.; Eaton, B. E. "Cobalt-Catalyzed Cyclotrimerization of Alkynes in Aqueous Solution," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 5130-5131.

(8) Sigman, M. S.; Jacobsen, E. N. "Schiff Base Catalysts for the Asymmetric Strecker Reaction Identified and Optimized by Parallel Synthetic Libraries," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 4901-4902.

(7) Sigman, M. S.; Eaton, B. E. "Iron Carbonyl Mediated [4 + 1] Cycloaddition of Diallenes and Carbon Monoxide," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118 , 11783-11788.

(6) Sigman, M. S.; Eaton, B. E.; Heise, J. D.; Kubiak, C. P. "Low Temperature Study of the Catalytic Iron Mediated [4 + 1] Cyclization of Allenyl Ketones with Carbon Monoxide," Organometallics, 1996, 15, 2829-2832.

(5) Netzel, T. L.; Zhao, M.; Kambiz N. K.; Headrick, J.; Sigman, M. S.; Eaton, B. E. "Photophysics of 2'-Deoxyuridine (dU) Nucleosides Covalently Substituted With Either 1-Pyrenyl or 1-Pyrenoyl:  Direct Evidence for Pyrene-to-Nucleoside Charge-Transfer Emission in 5-(1-Pyrenyl)-dU," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 9119-9128.

(4) Sigman, M. S.; Eaton, B. E. "The First Iron-Mediated Catalytic Carbon-Nitrogen Bond Formation: [4 + 1] Cycloaddition of Allenyl Imines and Carbon Monoxide," J. Org. Chem. 1994, 59, 7488-7491.

(3) Sigman, M. S.; Eaton, B. E. "Addition of Primary Amines to Conjugated Allenyl Aldehydes and Ketones," Tetrahedron Lett. 1993, 34, 5367-5368.

(2) Sigman, M. S.; Kerr, C. E.; Eaton, B. E. "Catalytic Iron-Mediated Carbon-Oxygen and Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation in [4 + 1] Assembly of Alkylidenebutenolides," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1993, 115, 7545-7546.

(1) Wright, M. E.; Sigman, M. S. "Organometallic Nonlinear Optical Polymers.  3.  Copolymerization of Bridged Bis(ferrocenyl) and Bis(cyanoacetate) Monomers Via the Knoevenagel Condensation," Macromolecules 1992, 25, 6055-6058.