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Philippe Nuhant

Senior Research Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Verified email at vrtx.com
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Suppression of TH17 differentiation and autoimmunity by a synthetic ROR ligand

LA Solt, N Kumar, P Nuhant, Y Wang, JL Lauer, J Liu… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
T-helper cells that produce interleukin-17 (T H 17 cells) are a recently identified CD4 + T-cell
subset with characterized pathological roles in autoimmune diseases 1 , 2 , 3 . The nuclear …

Modular radical cross-coupling with sulfones enables access to sp3-rich (fluoro)alkylated scaffolds

…, OO Fadeyi, GM Gallego, JJ Mousseau, P Nuhant… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Cross-coupling chemistry is widely applied to carbon-carbon bond formation in the
synthesis of medicines, agrochemicals, and other functional materials. Recently, single-electron–…

Identification of SR1078, a synthetic agonist for the orphan nuclear receptors RORα and RORγ

Y Wang, N Kumar, P Nuhant, MD Cameron… - ACS chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
The retinoic acid receptor-related receptors (RORs) are members of the nuclear receptor (NR)
superfamily of transcription factors. Several NRs are still characterized as orphan …

Visible‐Light‐Initiated Manganese Catalysis for C− H Alkylation of Heteroarenes: Applications and Mechanistic Studies

P Nuhant, MS Oderinde, J Genovino… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… Reaction energetics were calculated with DFT by using B3LYP/6–311++G(2d,2p)-CPCM(MeOH)
for all atoms, except iodine where the basis set LanL2DZ with additional p-diffuse and d…

Identification of SR3335 (ML-176): a synthetic RORα selective inverse agonist

…, DJ Kojetin, LA Solt, KG Kumar, P Nuhant… - ACS chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Several nuclear receptors (NRs) are still character-ized as orphan receptors because ligands
have not yet been identified for these proteins. The retinoic acid receptor-related receptors (…

Visible-light-driven photocatalytic initiation of radical thiol–ene reactions using bismuth oxide

…, JJ Mousseau, Y Feng, C Allais, P Nuhant… - Organic …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A nontoxic and inexpensive photocatalytic initiation of anti-Markovnikov hydrothiolation of
olefins using visible light is reported. This method is characterized by low catalyst loading, …

Electrochemically enabled chan–lam couplings of aryl boronic acids and anilines

RP Wexler, P Nuhant, TJ Senter, ZJ Gale-Day - Organic letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
The Chan–Lam reaction remains a highly utilized transformation for C–N bond formation.
However, anilines remain problematic substrates due to their lower nucleophilicity. To address …

Generation of stereochemically defined tetrasubstituted enolborinates by 1, 4-hydroboration of α, β-unsaturated morpholine carboxamides with (diisopinocampheyl) …

C Allais, AS Tsai, P Nuhant… - … Chemie (International ed …, 2013 - europepmc.org
The enantioselective synthesis of acyclic all-carbon quaternary centers remains a significant
challenge in organic synthesis.[1] In view of the tremendous utility of enantioselective aldol …

α, α '-annulation of 2, 6-prenyl-substituted cyclohexanone derivatives with malonyl chloride: application to a short synthesis of (±)-clusianone. formation and …

P Nuhant, M David, T Pouplin, B Delpech… - Organic …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Conditions were found for the successful Effenberger α,α‘-annulation of 3,3-dimethyl-2,4,6-triprenyl
cyclohexanone silyl enol ethers with malonyl chloride to give the corresponding …

C–H Functionalization of heteroarenes using unactivated alkyl halides through visible-light photoredox catalysis under basic conditions

…, MJ Boyd, GD May, S Giroux, P Nuhant - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
C–H functionalization of electron-deficient heteroarenes using commercial unactivated alkyl
halides through reductive quenching photoredox catalysis was developed. Mainstream …