Sarah E. Wengryniuk

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Sarah E. Wengryniuk

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Chemistry

      • Assistant Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

CHEM 2201

Organic Chemistry I

Undergraduate

CHEM 5901

Responsibility and Ethics in Chemical Research

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Mikhael, M., Guo, W., Tantillo, D., & Wengryniuk, S. (2021). Umpolung Strategy for Arene C−H Etherification Leading to Functionalized Chromanes Enabled by I(III) N-Ligated Hypervalent Iodine Reagents. Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 363(21), 4867-4875. doi: 10.1002/adsc.202100809.

  • Jalali, M., Bissember, A., Yates, B., Wengryniuk, S., & Ariafard, A. (2021). Oxidation of Electron-Deficient Phenols Mediated by Hypervalent Iodine(V) Reagents: Fundamental Mechanistic Features Revealed by a Density Functional Theory-Based Investigation. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86(17), 12237-12246. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c01545.

  • Tierno, A., Walters, J., Vazquez-Lopez, A., Xiao, X., & Wengryniuk, S. (2021). Heterocyclic group transfer reactions with I(iii): N -HVI reagents: Access to N -alkyl(heteroaryl)onium salts via olefin aminolactonization. Chemical Science, 12(18), 6385-6392. doi: 10.1039/d1sc00187f.

  • Xiao, X. & Wengryniuk, S. (2021). Recent Advances in the Selective Oxidative Dearomatization of Phenols to o -Quinones and o -Quinols with Hypervalent Iodine Reagents. Synlett, 32(8), 752-762. doi: 10.1055/s-0037-1610760.

  • Xiao, X., Roth, J., Greenwood, N., Velopolcek, M., Aguirre, J., Jalali, M., Ariafard, A., & Wengryniuk, S. (2021). Bidentate Nitrogen-Ligated I(V) Reagents, Bi(N)-HVIs: Preparation, Stability, Structure, and Reactivity. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86(9), 6566-6576. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c00375.

  • Silva, F.S.E., Van, N., & Wengryniuk, S. (2020). Direct C-H α-Arylation of Enones with ArI(O2CR)2 Reagents. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(1), 64-69. doi: 10.1021/jacs.9b11282.

  • Xiao, X., Greenwood, N., & Wengryniuk, S. (2019). Dearomatization of Electron-Deficient Phenols to ortho-Quinones: Bidentate Nitrogen-Ligated Iodine(V) Reagents. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 58(45), 16181-16187. doi: 10.1002/anie.201909868.

  • Mikhael, M., Adler, S., & Wengryniuk, S. (2019). Chemoselective Oxidation of Equatorial Alcohols with N-Ligated λ3-Iodanes. Organic Letters, 21(15), 5889-5893. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b02018.

  • Wengryniuk, S. (2019). More Than Just Acetates: PhI(OAc) 2 Enables C–H Halogenation of Arenes. Chem, 5(2), 258-260. doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2019.01.009.

  • Huynh, U., McDonald, S., Lim, D., Uddin, M., Wengryniuk, S., Dey, S., & Coltart, D. (2018). Formation, Alkylation, and Hydrolysis of Chiral Nonracemic N-Amino Cyclic Carbamate Hydrazones: An Approach to the Enantioselective α-Alkylation of Ketones. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 83(21), 12951-12964. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b00655.

  • Silva, F.S.e., Bloomer, B., & Wengryniuk, S. (2018). Reactivity of (NNN)-pincer nickel(II) aryl complex towards oxidative carbon-heteroatom bond formation. Tetrahedron, 74(26), 3278-3282. doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2018.04.029.

  • Walters, J., Tierno, A., Dubin, A., & Wengryniuk, S. (2018). (Poly)cationic λ3-Iodane-Mediated Oxidative Ring Expansion of Secondary Alcohols. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2018(12), 1460-1464. doi: 10.1002/ejoc.201800118.

  • Silva, F.S.E., Tierno, A., & Wengryniuk, S. (2017). Hypervalent iodine reagents in high valent transition metal chemistry. Molecules, 22(5). doi: 10.3390/molecules22050780.

  • Huynh, U., Uddin, M., Wengryniuk, S., McDonald, S., & Coltart, D. (2017). On the regioselectivity and diastereoselectivity of ACC hydrazone alkylation. Tetrahedron, 73(5), 432-436. doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2016.11.064.