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Expertise
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Work
Work
Thomson, B. J.; Plavan, R.; Bolduc, T. G.; Bahri, C.; Yang, W.; Jankovic, C. L.; Ball, N. D.; and Sammis, G.M. Rapid access to sulfinyl fluorides for the preparation of sulfonimidoyl fluorides. Chem. Comm. 2026, Advance Article
Novicki, J.R.; Teeter, M.D.; Baldwin, N.J.; am Ende, C.W., Puleo, T.R.; Richardson, A.D.; Ball, N.D. Sulfur fluoride exchange with carbon pronucleophiles. Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 16083-16069.
Chavarin, E.B.; Marr, Z.Y.; Brannon, J.P.; Antonini Bertolazzo, A.; Barding, G. A.; Ball, N.D., Steiber, S. C.E. Sulfonyl Fluoride Activation via S–F and C–S Bond Cleavage by a Ni(0) Bis-Bidentate N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complex. Organometallics, 2025, 17, 1865.
Yassa, T.D.; Fang, Y.; Ravelo, L.K.; Anand, S.; Arora, S.; Ball, N.D. Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Sulfur Fluoride Exchange
Org. Lett. 2024, 26, 9867-9902.Ball, N. D.; Gomez, M. A.; Rempel, B. P.; Farkas, E. R.; Makal, T. E.; Shields, G. C.; Parish, C. A.; Tresca, B. W.;
McGinitie, E. G. Conducting Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions. Cell Phys. Sci. 2023, 4, 101255.Chappell, W.P.; Schur, N.; Vogel, J. A.; Sammis, G. M.; Melvin, P. E.; Ball, N.D. Poison to promise: The resurgence of organophosphorus fluoride chemistry. Chem. 2024, P1644-1654.
Rueda-Espinosa, J.; Ramanayake, D.; Ball, N. D.; Love, J. A. Synthesis of 2-arylpyridines by the Suzuki-Miyaura cross- coupling of PyFluor with hetero(aryl) boronic acids and esters. Can. J. Chem. 2023, 101, 765-772.
Carneiro, S. N.; Khasnavis, S. R. (PO ; Lee, J.; Butler, T. W.; Majmudar, J. D.; am Ende, C. W.; and Ball, N.D. Sulfur(VI) Fluorides as Tools in Biomolecular and Medicinal Chemistry. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2023, 8, 907-909.
Thomson B. J.; Khasnavis, S. R.; Grigorian, E. C.; Krishnan, R.; Yassa, T. D.; Lee, K. L.; Sammis, G. M.; and Ball, N. D., Chem. Commun. 2023, Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 555-558.
Thomson B. J.; Khasnavis, S. R.; Grigorian, E. C.; Krishnan, R.; Yassa, T. D.; Lee, K. L.; Sammis, G. M.; and Ball, N.
D. Facile Synthesis of Sulfonyl Fluorides from Sulfonic Acids. Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 555-558.Ball, Sulfondiimidamides unlocked as new S(VI) hubs for synthesis and drug discovery, Chem (2022), https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2022.03.018
Carneiro, S.N., Ball, N.D., Lee, J. and Ende, C.W. (2021). [4-(Acetylamino)phenyl]imidodisulfuryl Difluoride. In Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis.
Lee, C.; Cook, L; Elisabeth, J. E. (’22); Friede, N. C. (’22).; Sammis, G. M.; Ball, N.D. The Emerging Applications of Sulfur (VI) Fluorides in Catalysis. ACS Catalysis. 2021, 11, 6578-6589.
Mukherjee, P.; Woroch, C. P. W.; Cleary, L.; Rusznak, M.; Franzese, R. W.; Reese, M. R.; Tucker, J. W.; Humphrey, J. M.; Etuk, S. M.; Kwan, S. C.; am Ende, C. W., and Ball, N. D. Sulfonamide Synthesis via Calcium Triflimide Activation of Sulfonyl Fluorides. Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 3943-3947.
Ball, N. D. "Properties and Applications of S(VI) Fluorides" in Emerging Fluorinated Motifs. Properties, Synthesis and Applications, Cahard, D., Ma, J.–A., Eds.; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co: Weinheim, 2020: 621-674.
Lee, C.; Ball, N.B.*; Sammis, G. M* One-Pot Fluorosulfurylation of Grignard Reagents Using Sulfuryl Fluoride. Chem. Comm. 2019, 55, 14753-14756.
Mukherjee, P.; Woroch, C. P. W.*; Cleary, L.; Rusznak, M.*; Franzese, R. W.*; Reese, M. R.; Tucker, J. W.; Humphrey, J. M.; Etuk, S. M.*; Kwan, S. C.*; am Ende, C. W.*,and Ball, N. D.‡*Sulfonamide Synthesis via Calcium Triflimide Activation of Sulfonyl Fluorides. Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 3943-3947.
Tribby, A. L.; Rodríguez, I.; Shariffudin, S.; Ball, N. D. Pd-Catalyzed Conversion of Aryl Iodides to Sulfonyl Fluorides Using SO2 Surrogate DABSO and Selectfluor. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 2294-2299. DOI: 10.1021.
Racowski, J. M.; Ball, N. D.; Sanford, M. S. Aryl C–H Activation at Pd(IV) Centers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 18022-18025.
Ball, N. D.; Gary, J. B.; Ye, Y.; Sanford, M. S. Mechanistic and Computational Studies of Oxidatively-Induced Aryl–CF3 Bond-Formation at Pd: Rational Design of Room Temperature Aryl Trifluoromethylation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 7577-7584.
Ye, Y.; Ball, N. D.; Kampf, J. W.; Sanford, M. S. Oxidation of Catalytically Relevant Palladium Dimer with “CF3+: Formation and Reactivity of a Monomeric Palladium(IV) Aquo Complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 14682-14687.
Ball, N. D.; Kampf, J. W.; Sanford, M. S. Aryl C–CF3 Bond Forming Reductive Elimination from a Palladium(IV) Complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 2878-2879.
Ball, N. D.; Kampf, J. W.; Sanford, M. S. Synthesis and Reactivity of Palladium(II) Fluoride Complexes Containing Nitrogen-Donor Ligands. Dalton Trans. 2010, 39, 632-640.
Ball, N. D.; Sanford, M. S. Synthesis and Reactivity of a Mono-sigma-Aryl Palladium(IV) Fluoride Complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 3796-3797. -
Education
Education
B.A., Macalester College
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Post-doc, California Institute of Technology
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
- Wig Distinguished Professor Award 2018 and 2024.
- 2022 Chemical and Engineering News LGBTQ+ Trailblazer
- Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2020.
- NIGMS NIH R15 AREA grant (R15GM134457) 2020-2028.
- American Chemical Society; Petroleum Research Fund Grant UNI – 2014-2016
- National Institutes of Health; Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow – 2011-2013
- National Institutes of Health; Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellow – 2009-2011