Select Publications
Throughout his career, Rafael has co-authored several papers published in top-tier peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie and Green Chemistry. Some of his publications are outlined below.
Navrátil, R.*; Kellovská, K., Baszczyňski, O.* “Multimetallic Pd- and Ni-catalyzed C(sp²)–P cross-coupling under aqueous micellar conditions” Green Chem. 2023, 25, 9779–9794. link
Saito, M.+; Kawamata, Y.*+; Navrátil, R.‡; Meanwell, M.‡; Chiodi, D.‡; Carlson, E.; Hu, P.; Chen, L.; Udyavara, S.; Kingston, C.; Tanwar, M.; Tyagi, S.; McKillican, B. P.; Gichinga, M. G.; Schmidt, M. A.; Eastgate, M. D.; Lamberto, M.; He, C.; Tang, T.; Malapit, C. A.; Sigman, M. S.; Minteer, S. D.; Neurock, M.*; Baran, P. S.*
“N-Ammonium Ylide Mediators for Electrochemical C–H Oxidation“ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 7859–7867. (+ and ‡ equal contribution) link
Andris, E.; Navrátil, R.; Jašík, J.; Srnec, M.*; Rodríguez, M.; Costas, M.*; Roithová, J.* “M−O Bonding Beyond the Oxo Wall: Spectroscopy and Reactivity of Cobalt(III)-Oxyl and Cobalt(III)-Oxo Complexes“ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 9619–9624. link
Borrell, M.+; Andris, E.+; Navrátil, R.; Roithová, J.*; Costas, M.* “Characterized cis-FeV(O)(OH) intermediate mimics enzymatic oxidations in the gas phase“
Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 901. (+ equal contribution) link
Navrátil, R.+; Procházková, E.+; Janeba, Z.; Roithová, J.*; Baszczyňski, O.* “Reactive cyclic intermediates in the ProTide prodrugs activation: trapping the elusive pentavalent phosphorane” Org. Biomol. Chem. 2019, 17, 315–320.
(+ equal contribution) link
Srnec, M.*; Navrátil, R.; Andris, E.; Jašík, J.; Roithová, J.* “Experimentally Calibrated Analysis of the Electronic Structure of CuO+: Implications for Reactivity“ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 17053–17057. link (artwork featured as a back cover)
Navrátil. R.+; Andris, E.+; Jašík, J.; Puri, M.; Costas, M.*; Que, L. Jr.*; Roithová, J.* “Trapping Iron(III)–Oxo Species at the Boundary of the “Oxo Wall”: Insights into the Nature of the Fe(III)–O Bond“ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 14391–14400.
(+ equal contribution) link
Navrátil, R.; Wiedbrauk, S.; Jašík, J.; Dube, H.*; Roithová, J.* “Transforming hemithioindigo from a two-way to a one-way molecular photoswitch by isolation in the gas phase“ Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2018, 20, 6868–6876. link
Andris, E.; Navrátil, R.; Jašík, J.; Sabenya, G.; Costas, M.; Srnec, M.; Roithová, J.* “Spin-State-Controlled Photodissociation of Iron(III) Azide to an Iron(V) Nitride Complex“ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 14057–14060. link
Andris, E.; Navrátil, R.; Jašík, J.; Terencio, T.; Srnec, M.*; Costas, M.*; Roithová, J.* “Chasing the Evasive Fe═O Stretch and the Spin State of the Iron(IV)–Oxo Complexes by Photodissociation Spectroscopy“ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 2757−2765. link
Navrátil, R.; Jašík. J.; Roithová, J.* “Visible photodissociation spectra of gaseous rhodamine ions: Effects of temperature and tagging“ J. Mol. Spectrosc. 2017, 332, 52−58. link
Ye, S.*; Kupper, C.; Meyer, S.; Andris, E.; Navrátil, R.; Krahe, O.; Mondal, B.; Atanasov, M.*; Bill, E.*; Roithová, J.*; Meyer, F.*; Neese, F.* “Magnetic Circular Dichroism Evidence for an Unusual Electronic Structure of a Tetracarbene–Oxoiron(IV) Complex“ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 14312−14325. link
Navrátil, R.; Tarábek, J.; Linhart, I.; Martinů, T.* “Radical and Nitrenoid Reactivity of 3-Halo-3-phenyldiazirines“ Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 3734–3737. link