Berit Olofsson
Contact
Name and title: Berit Olofsson
Mail: berit.olofsson@su.se
Phone: +4686747264
ORCID0000-0001-7975-4582 Länk till annan webbplats.
Workplace: Department of Chemistry Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room A 653Svante Arrhenius väg 16 C
Postal address Kemikum10691 Stockholm
About me
I am a professor of Organic Chemistry, and serve as Deputy Director of SUCCeSS; Stockholm University Center for Circular and Sustainable Systems. I was the Dean of Chemistry 2019-2023.
Merits
- Received the 2025 Ulla and Stig Holmquist Prize in organic chemistry.
- Received the EuChemS Division of Organic Chemistry Award for Service 2024.
- Chair of the International Scientific Committee of the European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC) 2023-2025
- Member of Chem Advisory board since 2023.
- Member of the Angew. Chem. International advisory board since 2020.
- Elected as a Chemistry Europe Fellow in 2018.
- Secretary and vice chair of the Division of Organic Chemistry in EuCheMS 2018-2022.
- Board Member of Carl Trygger Foundation (CTS) since 2017
- Spent 3 months in Stellenbosch, South Africa as a STIAS Fellow (2014 - 2015).
- Member of the International Scientific Committee of the Hypervalent Iodine conference series (ICHIC) since 2010.
Background
I have a PhD from KTH (Stockholm) on asymmetric, divergent synthesis of vicinal amino alcohols via vinylepoxides and vinylaziridines (with Peter Somfai, 1998-2002).
Post doc studies at Bristol University, UK with Varinder K. Aggarwal in 2003-2004. The project started out as a total synthesis of (-)-Epibatidine including methodology development of alfa-arylation of ketones. Returning to Sweden, I became assistant supervisor in the group of Prof. J.-E. Bäckvall at Stockholm University (SU).
I started my independent career in 2006, with a position as Assistant Professor at SU. I became "Docent" in March 2008, and got a permanent position as Associate Professor (Lektor) in 2009. I was promoted to Full Professor in 2013.
Topics:
- Development of Efficient Synthetic Methodology for Hypervalent Iodine Reagents
- Development of Metal-Free Application Areas for Hypervalent Iodine Reagents
- Mechanochemistry
Some of our most cited publications:
Eleanor A. Merritt and Berit Olofsson*
Diaryliodonium salts – from Obscurity to Fame
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 9052-9070. Link (>1200 citations)
Marcin Bielawski, Mingzhao Zhu and Berit Olofsson*
Efficient and General One-Pot Synthesis of Diaryliodonium Triflates: Scope and Limitations
Adv. Synth. Catal. 2007, 349, 2610-2618. Link (>430 citations)
Frithjof C. Küpper,* Martin C. Feiters, Berit Olofsson, Tatsuo Kaiho, Shozo Yanagida, Michael B. Zimmermann, Lucy J. Carpenter, George W. Luther III, Zunli Lu, Mats Jonsson and Lars Kloo
Commemorating two centuries of iodine research: An interdisciplinary overview of current research
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 11598-11620. Link (>440 citations)
Marcin Bielawski, David Aili and Berit Olofsson*
Regiospecific One-Pot Synthesis of Diaryliodonium Tetrafluoroborates from Arylboronic Acids and Aryl Iodides
J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 4602-4607. Link (>320 citations)
Joel Malmgren, Stefano Santoro, Nazli Jalalian, Fahmi Himo* and Berit Olofsson* Arylation with Unsymmetrical Diaryliodonium Salts – a Chemoselectivity Study
Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10334-10342. Link (>280 citations)
Nazli Jalalian, Eloisa E. Ishikawa, Luiz F. Silva Jr. and Berit Olofsson*
Room Temperature, Metal-Free Synthesis of Diaryl Ethers with Use of Diaryliodonium Salts
Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 1552-1555. Link (>230 citations)
