Publications

Independent Career (underline denotes undergraduate co-authors)
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Google scholar citations
Research Gate

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  1. Mahapatra, S.; Woroch, C. P. ; Butler, T. W.; Carneiro, S. N. ;  Kwan, S. C. ;  Khasnavis, S. R. ;  Gu, J.;​ Dutra, J. K. ; Vetelino, B. C.;  Bellenger, J.; am Ende, C. W.; and Ball, N. D. SuFEx Activation with Ca(NTf2)2:  A Unified Strategy to Access Sulfamides, Sulfamates and Sulfonamides from S(VI) Fluorides. Org. Lett.  2020, 22, 4389–4394. [Iink]
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  2. ​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.​

  3. Lee, C.; Ball, N. D.; Sammis, G. M One-Pot Fluorosulfurylation of Grignard Reagents Using Sulfuryl Fluoride. Chem. Comm. 2019, 55, 14753-14756.  [link]

  4. 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.  [link]

  5. 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. [link]

               – This work is featured in a virtual issue of Organometallics called, "Undergraduate Research: Contributions   ​                  ​               to Organometallic Chemistry".​ [link]

Graduate work: 
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  1. 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. [link]

  2. 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. [link]

  3. 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. [link] 

  4. 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. [link]

  5. 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. [link]
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  6. 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. [link]