Dr. Matthieu P. V. Willot

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsOrganic Molecular Chemistry,Natural Product Chemistry
KeywordsTotal synthesis, Natural products, Antitumoral, Guaiane sesquiterpenes, Nepetalactone

Current contact address

CountryFrance
CityGif-sur-Yvette
InstitutionCNRS Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Mathias ChristmannLehrstuhl Organische Chemie, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2010

Programme(s)

2009Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2011Lea Radtke, Matthieu Willot, Hongyan Sun, Slava Ziegler, Stephanie Sauerland, Carsten Strohmann, Roland Fröhlich, Peter Habenberger, Herbert Waldmann, Mathias Christmann: Total Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of (–)-Englerin A and B: Synthesis of Analogues with Improved Activity Profile. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011, 3998-4002
2011Philipp Winter, Jörg Swatschek, Matthieu Willot, Lea Radtke, Tobias Olbrisch, Andreas Schäfer, Mathias Christmann: Transforming terpene-derived aldehydes into 1,2-epoxides via asymmetric α-chlorination: subsequent epoxide opening with carbon nucleophiles. In: Chemical Communications, 2011, 12200-12202
2010Matthieu Willot, Mathias Christmann: Total synthesis: Towards artificial terpene cyclases. In: Nature Chemistry, 2010, 519-520
2009Matthieu Willot, JinChun Chen, Jieping Zhu: Combination of Lithium Chloride and Hexafluoroisopropanol for Friedel-Crafts Reactions. In: Synlett, 2009, 577-580
2009Matthieu Willot, Lea Radtke, Daniel Könning, Roland Fröhlich, Viktoria H. Gessner, Carsten Strohmann, Mathias Christmann: Total Synthesis and Absolute Configuration of the Guaiane Sesquiterpene Englerin A. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2009, 9105-9108
2006Jinchun Chen, Xiaochuan Chen, Matthieu Willot, Jieping Zhu: Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Ecteinascidin 597 and Ecteinascidin 583. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2006, 8028-8032