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Department ofChemistry and Biochemistry

Ben Stokes

Ben Stokes

Assistant Professor

Research

Discovering, developing, and understanding new medicinally relevant reactions for the transformation of small organic molecules, including 1) transition metal-catalyzed reactions mediated by tetrahydroxydiborane, and 2) reactions for the preparation and elaboration of quaternary carbon-containing compounds.

Awards

Hellman Foundation Faculty Fellowship (2018)
Thieme Chemistry Journals Award (2017)
American Chemical Society Young Scientist Travel Award (2013)
NIH NIGMS Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (2012)
Abbott Laboratories Abbott Scholar Award (2011)

Publications

Yaghoubi, M.; Reyes, I.C.;* Stokes, B. J. Pd-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation of Alkenes Using Tetrahydroxydiboron as the Sole Hydrogen Donor. SynOpen 2024, 8, 169–172.

Stokes, B.J.; Cai, X.; Amsbaugh, R.V.*; Drake, L.J.*; Kotamraju, R.M.A.*; Licauco, N.J.C.* Tert-Butoxide-Mediated Protodeformylative Decarbonylation of α-Quaternary Homobenzaldehydes. SynOpen 2024, 8, 47–50.

Tohti, A.; Lerda, V.; Stokes, B.J. Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Stereospecific Dearomative Spirocyclization of Benzothiophenyl Analogues of Tertiary cis-β-Benzylstyrenes. Synlett 2024. DOI:

Fu, W.; Alam, T. M.; Li, J.; Bustamante, J.;† Lien, T.; Adams, R. W.; Teat, S. J.; Stokes, B.J.; Yang, W.; Liu, Y.; Lu, J. Q. “.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020142, 16651−16660.

Mao, Z.; Vang, H.;† Garcia, A.;† Tohti, A.; Stokes, B.J.; Nguyen, S. C. “.” ACS Catal. 2019, 9, 4211–4217.

Keshavarz, A.; Riahinasab, S. T.; Hirst, L. S.; Stokes, B.J. “.” ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2019, 2, 2542–2547.

Cai, X.; Tohti, A.; Ramirez, C.;† Harb, H.; Fettinger, J. C.; Hratchian, H. P.; Stokes, B.J.  “.” Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 1574– 1577.

S. T.; Keshavarz, A.; Melton, C. N.; Elbaradei, A.; Warren, G. I.;† Selinger, R. L. B.; Stokes, B.J.; Hirst, L. S. “.” Riahinasab, Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 894.

Melton, C. N.; Riahinasab, S. T.; Keshavarz, A.; Stokes, B.J.;  Hirst, L. S. “.” Nanomaterials 2018, 8, 146–156.

Quint, M. T.; Sarang, S.; Quint, D. A.; Keshavarz, A.; Stokes, B.J.; Subramaniam, A. B.; Huang, K. C.; Gopinathan, A.; Hirst, L. S.; Ghosh, S. “.” Sci. Rep. 2017, 7, 17788.

Cai, X.; Keshavarz, A.; Omaque, J. D.;† Stokes, B.J. “Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Intramolecular Hydroarylation of β-Benzylstyrenes.” Org. Lett. 2017, 19 (10), 2626–2629. 14.

Riahinasab, S. T.; Elbaradei, A.; Keshavarz, A.; Stokes, B.J.; Hirst, L. S. “Nanoparticle Microstructures Templated by Liquid Crystal Phase-Transition Dynamics.” Proc. SPIE 2017, 10125, 1012503–1012503-7.

Cummings, S. P.; Le, T.-N.; Fernandez, G. E.;† Quiambao, L. G.;† Stokes, B.J. “Tetrahydroxydiboron-Mediated Palladium-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation and Deuteriation of Alkenes and Alkynes Using Water as the Stoichiometric H or D Atom Donor.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138 (19), 6107-6110.