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Hyvl

Educational Background

Jakub was born and raised in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). He received an Ing. (equivalent to M.Sc.) in 2007 from University of Pardubice, where he did his diploma work with Prof. Oldrich Pytela in the area of synthesis of chiral catalysts. Jakub moved to Prague to pursue his doctoral studies from University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague. He joined research group of Dr. Jiri Srogl in the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where he worked on reactivity of organic disulfides with transition metals. After he received his Ph.D. in 2011, he worked two years in the Dr. Detlef Schroder group at the same institution in the area of mass spectrometry. After being astonished by Dick Schrock chemistry on his invited lecture, he got postdoctoral position in his research group at MIT, where he worked two years on synthesis of metathesis catalysts and ROMP polymers. In 2015, Jakub moved to Hawaii to support his ex-colleague, Matt Cain, in his main group chemistry research. Jakub joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry in August 2017.

Faculty: Hyvl, J
Publications

Hyvl, J.* Dalton Trans. 2023, 52, 12597 – 12603. Invited frontier. “Hypervalent organobismuth complexes: pathways toward improved reactivity, catalysis, and applications”; DOI: 10.1039/D3DT02313C

Tsuzuki, K.; Faundo, M.; Trinh, H. V.; Louis-Goff, T.; Rheingold, A. L.; Berestecky, J. M.; Lehrer, A. T.; Hyvl, J.* Results Chem. 2023, 5, 100953. “Elucidating antibacterial activity of heteroleptic triarylbismuthanes and synthesis of amide derivatives through activated ester intermediate”; DOI: 10.1016/j.rechem.2023.100953

Louis-Goff, T.; Trinh, H. V.; Chen, E.; Rheingold, A. L.; Hyvl, J.* ChemPlusChem 2023, 88 (2), e202200450. Invited paper. “Synthesis of Chiral Hypervalent Trifluoromethyl Organobismuth Complexes and Enantioselective Olefin Difluorocarbenation”; DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202200450.

Louis-Goff, T.; Trinh, H. V.; Chen, E.; Rheingold, A. L.; Ehm, C.; Hyvl, J.* ACS Catalysis 2022, 12 (6), 3719-3730. “Stabilizing Effect of Pre-equilibria: A Trifluoromethyl Complex as a CF2 Reservoir in Catalytic Olefin Difluorocarbenation”; DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c05959

Research

My research interests include organoelement chemistry with emphasis on exploration of new synthetic transformations, reactivity and applications. The research in my group will focus on synthesis of hypervalent organobismuth complexes supported with specially-designed ligand scaffolds for their utilization in transition-metal catalyzed cross-couplings, small molecule activation and generation of metallodrugs.

For more information about the Hyvl Research Group, please visit our website: https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/hyvl/

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