Patrick Yorkgitis
Graduate Student
Address : University of California, San Diego, 5213 Pacific Hall, Department of Chemistry, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0358
E-mail: pyorkgit@ucsd.edu
Phone number : (858) 534 5732
ORCID: 0000-0002-5285-0184
LinkedIn: Patrick Yorkgitis
B.Sc. Chemistry (2020) UC Berkeley
M.S. Chemistry (2022) UC San Diego
Ph.D. Chemistry (2020 - Present) UC San Diego
Chateabriand Fellow (2024) University of Rennes
Research Interests
Patrick is exploring new structures, reactivity, and applications for aminocarbenes through a combination of synthetic and computational methods, with a particular focus on chiral carbenes.
Contact us :
UCSD-CNRS Joint Chemistry Lab - UMI 3555
Address : University of California, San Diego, 5213 Pacific Hall, Department of Chemistry, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0358
e-mail : guybertrand@ucsd.edu
Phone number : (858) 534 5412
Financial support :
Biography
Selected Publications
A Crystalline Annelated Pyridin-1-ylidene and its Isomerization into a Pyridin-3-ylidene
Jan Lorkowski‡, Levan Gojiashvili‡, Patrick Yorkgitis‡, Delphine Pichon‡, Jakub Talcik, Milan Gembicky, Thierry Roisnel, Olivier Baslé, Rodolphe Jazzar, Marc Mauduit, Guy Bertrand J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 14972-14977.
‡ Authors contributed equally
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c05642
Singlet Carbenes are Stereoinductive Main Group Ambiphiles
Jan Lorkowski‡, Patrick Yorkgitis‡, Fanny Morvan, Jennifer Morvan, Nicholas Vanthuyne, Thierry Roisnel, Milan Gembicky, Guy Bertrand*, Marc Mauduit* and Rodolphe Jazzar* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 14777-14784.
‡ Authors contributed equally
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c03845
Genuine carbene versus carbene-like reactivity
Jan Lorkowski, Patrick Yorkgitis, Melinda Serrato, Milan Gembicky, Cezary Pietraszuk, Guy Bertrand, Rodolphe Jazzar Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, e202305404.
Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Cyclic (Alkyl)(Amino) Carbene Derived Propellers
Jan Lorkowski, Dylan Bouetard, Patrick Yorkgitis, Thierry Roisnel, Nicolas Vanthuyne, Dominik Munz, Ludovic Favereau, Guy Bertrand, Marc Mauduit, and Rodolphe Jazzar Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202305404.