Selected publications

• Photochemical generation of radicals from alkyl electrophiles using a nucleophilic organic catalyst
  
  Schweitzer-Chaput, B.; Horwitz, M. A.; de Pedro Beato, E.; Melchiorre, P.

  GO TO OPEN ACCESS Nat. Chem. 2019, 11, 129–135, DOI: 10.1038/s41557-018-0173-x.

  *** Highlighted by SYNFORM

• Enhancing the potential of enantioselective organocatalysis with light
  
  M. Silvi, P. Melchiorre

  GO TO OPEN ACCESS Nature 2018, 554, 41-49, DOI: 10.1038/nature25175.
• Visible-light excitation of iminium ions enables the enantioselective catalytic β-alkylation of enals
  
  M. Silvi, C. Verrier, Y.P. Rey, L. Buzzetti, P. Melchiorre.

  GO TO OPEN ACCESS Nat. Chem. 2017, DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2748.

  *Highlighted in Chemistry World
  **Previewed in Chem, 2017, 2, 616-618 (DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2017.04.020).

• Asymmetric catalytic formation of quaternary carbons by iminium ion trapping of radicals
  
  J. J. Murphy, D. Bastida, S. Paria, M. Fagnoni, P. Melchiorre

  Nature 2016, 532, 218-222.

  * Highlighted in Synfacts, 2016, 12 (07), 739 and Chemical and Engineering News 2016, 94 (16), 9.

• Photochemical activity of a key donor–acceptor complex can drive stereoselective catalytic α-alkylation of aldehydes
  
  E. Arceo, I.D. Jurberg, A. Álvarez-Fernández, P. Melchiorre

  Nat. Chem. 2013, 5, 750-756.

  *Highlighted in Synfacts 2013, issue 11, 1229