PUBLISHED WORK

Continuous stochastic detection of amino acid enantiomers with a protein nanopore.

Boersma, A.J.; Bayley, H. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 9606.

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Real-time detection of multiple neurotransmitters with a protein nanopore.

Boersma, A.J.; Brain, K.L.; Bayley, H. ACS Nano 2012, 6, 5304.

• Highlighted in Nanomedicine, 2012.

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Ligand denticity controls enantiomeric preference in DNA-based asymmetric catalysis.

Boersma, A.J.; de Bruin, B.; Feringa, B.L.; Roelfes, G. Chem. Commun. 2012, 2394.

• Highlighted in Chemistry & Industry, 2012.

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Catalytic enantioselective syn hydration of enones in water using a DNA-based catalyst.

Boersma, A.J.; Coquière, D.; Geerdink, D.; Rosati, F.; Feringa, B.L.; Roelfes, G. Nature Chem. 2010, 2, 991.

• Highlighted on the NWO website, Chemisch2Weekblad

• Synfacts highlight of the month February

• Selected in Faculty of 1000

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On the role of DNA in DNA-based catalytic enantioselective conjugate addition reactions.

Dijk, E.W.; Boersma, A.J.; Feringa, B.L.; Roelfes, G. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2010, 8, 3868.

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DNA-based asymmetric catalysis.

Boersma, A.J.; Megens, R.P.; Feringa, B.L.; Roelfes, G. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2010, 39, 2083.

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A kinetic and structural investigation of DNA-based asymmetric catalysis using the first generation ligands.

Rosati, F.; Boersma, A.J.; Klijn, J.E.; Meetsma, A.; Feringa, B.L.; Roelfes, G. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 9596.

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Enantioselective Friedel-Crafts reactions in water using a DNA-based catalyst.

Boersma, A.J.; Feringa, B.L.; Roelfes, G. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 3346.

• Highlighted in Synfacts 2009(7)

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DNA-based asymmetric catalysis: Sequence-dependent rate acceleration and enantioselectivity.

Boersma, A.J.; Klijn, J.E.; Feringa, B.L.; Roelfes, G. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 11783.

• Highlighted in JACS Select #4

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α,β-Unsaturated 2-acyl imidazoles as a practical class of dienophiles for the DNA-based catalytic asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction in water.

Boersma, A.J.; Feringa, B.L.; Roelfes, G. Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 3647.

• Highlighted on organic-chemistry.org, august 2008

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Highly enantioselective DNA-based catalysis.

Roelfes, G.; Boersma, A.J.; Feringa, B.L. Chem. Commun. 2006, 635.

• Hot paper in Chemical Communications.

• Highlighted in Chemistry World, march 2006

• Highlighted in Nature news & views, 7 dec 2006

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Metal-catalyzed cotrimerization of arynes and alkenes.

Quintana, I.; Boersma, A.J.; Peña, D.; Pérez, D.; Guitián, E. Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 3347.

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Catalytic enantioselective conjugate addition of dialkylzinc reagents to N-substituted-2,3-dehydro-4-piperidones.

Sebesta, R.; Pizzuti, M.G.; Boersma, A.J.; Minnaard, A.J.; Feringa, B.L. Chem. Commun. 2005, 1711.