Epernicus: Diego Benitez, Ph.D.

Diego Benitez, Ph.D.

Positions:
Nanomaterials Director

California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)

CTO

NPH
Advisor:
William A. Goddard
Degrees:

Ph.D., Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
Past Advisors:

J. Fraser Stoddart (as Research Associate)

Robert H. Grubbs (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

John D. Roberts (as Visiting Student)
Research:

Communities:

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Diego Benitez's Publications (27)

Bimetallic reductive elimination from dinuclear Pd(III) complexes.
Powers DC, Benitez D, Tkatchouk E, Goddard WA, Ritter T

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2010 Oct 13;132(40):14092-103
Highly stable tetrathiafulvalene radical dimers in [3]catenanes.
Spruell JM, Coskun A, Friedman DC, Forgan RS, Sarjeant AA, Trabolsi A, Fahrenbach AC, Barin G, Paxton WF, Dey SK, Olson MA, Benítez D, Tkatchouk E, Colvin MT, Carmielli R, Caldwell ST, Rosair GM, Hewage SG, Duclairoir F, Seymour JL, Slawin AM, Goddard WA, Wasielewski MR, Cooke G, Stoddart JF

Nature chemistry. 2010 Oct;2(10):870-9
Mechanistic study of gold(I)-catalyzed intermolecular hydroamination of allenes.
Wang ZJ, Benitez D, Tkatchouk E, Goddard WA, Toste FD

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2010 Sep 22;132(37):13064-71
Isolation by crystallization of translational isomers of a bistable donor-acceptor [2]catenane.
Wang C, Olson MA, Fang L, Benítez D, Tkatchouk E, Basu S, Basuray AN, Zhang D, Zhu D, Goddard WA, Stoddart JF

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2010 Aug 10;107(32):13991-6
Gold-catalyzed intramolecular aminoarylation of alkenes: C-C bond formation through bimolecular reductive elimination.
Brenzovich WE, Benitez D, Lackner AD, Shunatona HP, Tkatchouk E, Goddard WA, Toste FD

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English). 2010 Jul 26;49(32):5519-22
Mechanism of C-F reductive elimination from palladium(IV) fluorides.
Furuya T, Benitez D, Tkatchouk E, Strom AE, Tang P, Goddard WA, Ritter T

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2010 Mar 24;132(11):3793-807
Dearomatization reactions of N-heterocycles mediated by group 3 complexes.
Miller KL, Williams BN, Benitez D, Carver CT, Ogilby KR, Tkatchouk E, Goddard WA, Diaconescu PL

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2010 Jan 13;132(1):342-55
Mechanically bonded macromolecules.
Fang L, Olson MA, Benítez D, Tkatchouk E, Goddard WA, Stoddart JF

Chemical Society reviews. 2010 Jan;39(1):17-29
Radically enhanced molecular recognition.
Trabolsi A, Khashab N, Fahrenbach AC, Friedman DC, Colvin MT, Cotí KK, Benítez D, Tkatchouk E, Olsen JC, Belowich ME, Carmielli R, Khatib HA, Goddard WA, Wasielewski MR, Stoddart JF

Nature chemistry. 2010 Jan;2(1):42-9
Radically Enhanced Molecular Recognition
Ali Trabolsi, Niveen M Khashab, Albert C Fahrenbach, Michael T Colvin, Karla Coti, Diego Benitez, Ekaterina Tkatchouk, John-Carl Olsen, Matthew E Belowich, Ranan Carmielli, Hussam A Khatib, William A Goddard, Michael R Wasielewski, J Fraser Stoddart

Nature Chem.. 2010;2:42-49
On the impact of steric and electronic properties of ligands on gold(I)-catalyzed cycloaddition reactions.
Benitez D, Tkatchouk E, Gonzalez AZ, Goddard WA, Toste FD

Organic letters. 2009 Nov 5;11(21):4798-801
A bonding model for gold(I) carbene complexes.
Benitez D, Shapiro ND, Tkatchouk E, Wang Y, Goddard WA, Toste FD

Nature chemistry. 2009 Sep 1;1(6):482-486
A push-button molecular switch.
Spruell JM, Paxton WF, Olsen JC, Benítez D, Tkatchouk E, Stern CL, Trabolsi A, Friedman DC, Goddard WA, Stoddart JF

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2009 Aug 19;131(32):11571-80
Reactions of group III biheterocyclic complexes.
Carver CT, Benitez D, Miller KL, Williams BN, Tkatchouk E, Goddard WA, Diaconescu PL

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2009 Jul 29;131(29):10269-78
Inclusion behavior of beta-cyclodextrin with bipyridine molecules: factors governing host-guest inclusion geometries.
Zhao YL, Benítez D, Yoon I, Stoddart JF

Chemistry, an Asian journal. 2009 Mar 2;4(3):446-56
Conformations of N-heterocyclic carbene ligands in ruthenium complexes relevant to olefin metathesis.
Stewart IC, Benitez D, O'Leary DJ, Tkatchouk E, Day MW, Goddard WA, Grubbs RH

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2009 Feb 11;131(5):1931-8
A bistable poly[2]catenane forms nanosuperstructures.
Olson MA, Braunschweig AB, Fang L, Ikeda T, Klajn R, Trabolsi A, Wesson PJ, Benítez D, Mirkin CA, Grzybowski BA, Stoddart JF

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English). 2009;48(10):1792-7
Functionally rigid and degenerate molecular shuttles.
Yoon I, Benítez D, Zhao YL, Miljanić OS, Kim SY, Tkatchouk E, Leung KC, Khan SI, Goddard WA, Stoddart JF

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany). 2009;15(5):1115-22
Relevance of cis- and trans-dichloride Ru intermediates in Grubbs-II olefin metathesis catalysis (H2IMesCl2Ru=CHR).
Benitez D, Tkatchouk E, Goddard WA

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England). 2008 Dec 14;(46):6194-6
Experimentally-based recommendations of density functionals for predicting properties in mechanically interlocked molecules.
Benitez D, Tkatchouk E, Yoon I, Stoddart JF, Goddard WA

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2008 Nov 12;130(45):14928-9
An interdigitated functionally rigid [2]rotaxane.
Yoon I, Miljanić OS, Benítez D, Khan SI, Stoddart JF

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England). 2008 Oct 14;(38):4561-3
Folding of a donor-acceptor polyrotaxane by using noncovalent bonding interactions.
Zhang W, Dichtel WR, Stieg AZ, Benítez D, Gimzewski JK, Heath JR, Stoddart JF

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2008 May 6;105(18):6514-9
An acid-base-controllable [c2]daisy chain.
Wu J, Leung KC, Benítez D, Han JY, Cantrill SJ, Fang L, Stoddart JF

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English). 2008;47(39):7470-4
Hexafunctionalized borromeates using olefin cross metathesis.
Yates CR, Benítez D, Khan SI, Stoddart JF

Organic letters. 2007 Jun 21;9(13):2433-6
The isomerization equilibrium between cis and trans chloride ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts from quantum mechanics calculations.
Benitez D, Goddard WA

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2005 Sep 7;127(35):12218-9

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Diego Benitez, Ph.D.

Nanomaterials Director

CTO

Diego Benitez's Genealogy

Diego Benitez's Publications (27)