List of works by Yong Liang

1,2,4-Triazines Are Versatile Bioorthogonal Reagents.

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

A [6+4]-cycloaddition adduct is the biosynthetic intermediate in streptoseomycin biosynthesis

scientific article published on 07 April 2021

A computationally designed Rh(I)-catalyzed two-component [5+2+1] cycloaddition of ene-vinylcyclopropanes and CO for the synthesis of cyclooctenones

scientific article published on 27 July 2007

A potassium tert-butoxide and hydrosilane system for ultra-deep desulfurization of fuels

A versatile method for the synthesis of 3-alkoxycarbonyl beta-lactam derivatives

scientific article published in January 2006

Access to Functionalized E-Allylsilanes and E-Alkenylsilanes through Visible-Light-Driven Radical Hydrosilylation of Mono- and Disubstituted Allenes

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

An unexpected role of a trace amount of water in catalyzing proton transfer in phosphine-catalyzed (3 + 2) cycloaddition of allenoates and alkenes

scientific article published on 24 February 2007

Bialternacins A-F, Aromatic Polyketide Dimers from an Endophytic Alternaria sp

scientific article published on 22 February 2019

Bioorthogonal Cycloadditions: Computational Analysis with the Distortion/Interaction Model and Predictions of Reactivities.

scientific article published on 6 September 2017

Bioorthogonal release of sulfonamides and mutually orthogonal liberation of two drugs

article published in 2018

Chiral phosphoric acid catalyzed highly enantioselective desymmetrization of 2-substituted and 2,2-disubstituted 1,3-diols via oxidative cleavage of benzylidene acetals.

scientific article published on 25 August 2014

Computational and Experimental Studies of Phthaloyl Peroxide-Mediated Hydroxylation of Arenes Yield a More Reactive Derivative, 4,5-Dichlorophthaloyl Peroxide

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

Computational and experimental investigation on the BCl3 promoted intramolecular amination of alkenes and alkynes

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Control and design of mutual orthogonality in bioorthogonal cycloadditions

scientific article published on 17 October 2012

Covalently patterned graphene surfaces by a force-accelerated Diels-Alder reaction

scientific article

Cytotoxic aromatic polyketides from an insect derived Streptomyces sp. NA4286

scientific article published on 28 May 2019

Density functional theory study of the mechanism and origins of stereoselectivity in the asymmetric Simmons-Smith cyclopropanation with Charette chiral dioxaborolane ligand.

scientific article

Design of a 1,8-naphthalimide-based OFF-ON type bioorthogonal reagent for fluorescent imaging in live cells

scientific article published in 2019

Design, Synthesis, and Validation of an Effective, Reusable Silicon-Based Transfer Agent for Room-Temperature Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Aryl and Heteroaryl Chlorides with Readily Available Aryl Lithium Reagents

scientific article published on 02 February 2016

Diastereoselective Synthesis of Polysubstituted Piperidines through Visible-Light-Driven Silylative Cyclization of Aza-1,6-Dienes: Experimental and DFT Studies

scientific article published on 22 September 2019

Diels-Alder Reactivities of Benzene, Pyridine, and Di-, Tri-, and Tetrazines: The Roles of Geometrical Distortions and Orbital Interactions

scientific article published on 23 January 2016

Diels-Alder reactions of graphene: computational predictions of products and sites of reaction.

scientific article published on 11 November 2013

Diels-Alder reactivities of strained and unstrained cycloalkenes with normal and inverse-electron-demand dienes: activation barriers and distortion/interaction analysis

scientific article published on 2 October 2013

Distortion-Controlled Reactivity and Molecular Dynamics of Dehydro-Diels-Alder Reactions

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

Distortion-accelerated cycloadditions and strain-release-promoted cycloreversions in the organocatalytic carbonyl-olefin metathesis

Do reaction conditions affect the stereoselectivity in the Staudinger reaction?

scientific article published in September 2006

Enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-asteriscanolide via Rh(I)-catalyzed [(5+2)+1] reaction

scientific article published on 21 April 2011

Gold-catalyzed intermolecular reactions of propiolic acids with alkenes: [4 + 2] annulation and enyne cross metathesis.

scientific article published on 13 December 2011

Highly diastereoselective construction of fused carbocycles from cyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxylates and cyclic enol silyl ethers: scope, mechanism, and origin of diastereoselectivity.

scientific article

How Tethers Control the Chemo- and Regioselectivities of Intramolecular Cycloadditions between Aryl-1-aza-2-azoniaallenes and Alkenes

scientific article published on 24 July 2014

Integrated redox-active reagents for photoinduced regio- and stereoselective fluorocarboborylation

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Iodoarene-Catalyzed Stereospecific Intramolecular sp(3) C-H Amination: Reaction Development and Mechanistic Insights

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Ionic and Neutral Mechanisms for C-H Bond Silylation of Aromatic Heterocycles Catalyzed by Potassium tert-Butoxide.

scientific article published on 2 May 2017

Isomeric cyclopropenes exhibit unique bioorthogonal reactivities.

scientific article published on 6 September 2013

Isomeric triazines exhibit unique profiles of bioorthogonal reactivity

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Mechanism, regioselectivity, and the kinetics of phosphine-catalyzed [3+2] cycloaddition reactions of allenoates and electron-deficient alkenes

scientific article

Mechanisms and origins of switchable chemoselectivity of Ni-catalyzed C(aryl)-O and C(acyl)-O activation of aryl esters with phosphine ligands

scientific article published on 23 January 2014

Mechanisms of cascade reactions in the syntheses of camptothecin-family alkaloids: intramolecular [4(+) + 2] reactions of N-arylimidates and alkynes

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

Mechanistic Insights into Two-Phase Radical C-H Arylations

scientific article published on 2 November 2015

Mechanistic twist of the [8+2] cycloadditions of dienylisobenzofurans and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate: stepwise [8+2] versus [4+2]/[1,5]-vinyl shift mechanisms revealed through a theoretical and experimental study

scientific article published on 14 August 2007

Metal-free generation of hydroxyl radicals by benzoate-mediated decomposition of peroxides

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

Microwave- and photoirradiation-induced staudinger reactions of cyclic imines and ketenes generated from alpha-diazoketones. A further investigation into the stereochemical process.

scientific article

Molecular Basis for the Final Oxidative Rearrangement Steps in Chartreusin Biosynthesis

scientific article published on 15 August 2018

New insights into the torquoselectivity of the Staudinger reaction

scientific article published in February 2009

Nitrene equivalent mediated metal-free ring expansions of alkylidenecyclopropanes and an alkylidenecyclobutane

scientific article published in December 2006

Origin of the relative stereoselectivity of the beta-lactam formation in the Staudinger reaction

scientific article

Origins of halogen effects in bioorthogonal sydnone cycloadditions

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Potassium tert-Butoxide-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative C-H Silylation of Heteroaromatics: A Combined Experimental and Computational Mechanistic Study.

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

Reactions in elastomeric nanoreactors reveal the role of force on the kinetics of the Huisgen reaction on surfaces

scientific article published on 18 July 2014

Remote ester groups switch selectivity: diastereodivergent synthesis of tetracyclic spiroindolines

scientific article published on 05 May 2014

Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed C(sp<sup>2</sup>)-H Chemoselective Annulation to O-Cyclized Isochromen-imines from Benzamides

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

Tautomerization and Dimerization of 6,13-Disubstituted Derivatives of Pentacene.

scientific article published on 27 October 2016

Theoretical elucidation of the origins of substituent and strain effects on the rates of Diels-Alder reactions of 1,2,4,5-tetrazines

scientific article published on 29 July 2014

Thermally Activated Transient Dipoles and Rotational Dynamics of Hydrogen-Bonded and Charge-Transferred Diazabicyclo [2.2.2]Octane Molecular Rotors

scientific article published on 14 October 2019

Total synthesis of (+)-asteriscanolide: further exploration of the rhodium(I)-catalyzed [(5+2)+1] reaction of ene-vinylcyclopropanes and CO.

scientific article published on 23 December 2011

Tunable carbonyl ylide reactions: selective synthesis of dihydrofurans and dihydrobenzoxepines

scientific article published on 30 June 2011

Type II Anion Relay Chemistry: Conformational Constraints To Achieve Effective [1,5]-Vinyl Brook Rearrangements

scientific article

Unconventional, chemically stable, and soluble two-dimensional angular polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: from molecular design to device applications.

scientific article

Unexpected, Latent Radical Reaction of Methane Propagated by Trifluoromethyl Radicals

scientific article published on 29 September 2016

Why Alkynyl Substituents Dramatically Accelerate Hexadehydro-Diels–Alder (HDDA) Reactions: Stepwise Mechanisms of HDDA Cycloadditions

scientific article published in 2014

Why bistetracenes are much less reactive than pentacenes in Diels-Alder reactions with fullerenes

scientific article

Why is copper(I) complex more competent than dirhodium(II) complex in catalytic asymmetric O-H insertion reactions? A computational study of the metal carbenoid O-H insertion into water

scientific article published on 01 December 2009