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An unusual [4 + 2] fusion strategy to forge meso-N/O-heteroarene-fused (quinoidal) porphyrins with intense near-infrared Q-bands

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Annulation cascade of arylnitriles with alkynes to stable delocalized PAH carbocations via intramolecular rhodium migration.

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Asymmetric Propargylic Radical Cyanation Enabled by Dual Organophotoredox and Copper Catalysis

scientific article published on 02 April 2019

Bioinspired Asymmetric Synthesis of Hispidanin A.

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

Bioinspired Total Synthesis of Homodimericin A.

scientific article published on 17 May 2017

Catalytic Lactonization of Unactivated Aryl C-H Bonds with CO2: Experimental and Computational Investigation

scientific article published on 15 June 2018

Development of a Rhodium(II)-Catalyzed Chemoselective C(sp(3) )-H Oxygenation

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

Efficient Synthesis of Dimeric Oxazoles, Piperidines and Tetrahydroisoquinolines from N-Substituted 2-Oxazolones.

scientific article published on 26 April 2016

Enantiodivergence by minimal modification of an acyclic chiral secondary aminocatalyst

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

Enantioselective alkynylation of N-sulfonyl α-ketiminoesters via a Friedel-Crafts alkylation strategy.

scientific article published on 16 May 2017

Formal Asymmetric Cycloaddition of Activated α,β-Unsaturated Ketones with α-Diazomethylphosphonate Mediated by a Chiral Silver SPINOL Phosphate Catalyst

scientific article published on 11 January 2019

From Mechanistic Study to Chiral Catalyst Optimization: Theoretical Insight into Binaphthophosphepine-catalyzed Asymmetric Intramolecular [3 + 2] Cycloaddition.

scientific article published on 8 August 2017

Highly Selective and Catalytic Generation of Acyclic Quaternary Carbon Stereocenters via Functionalization of 1,3-Dienes with CO2

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Insights into disilylation and distannation: sequence influence and ligand/steric effects on Pd-catalyzed difunctionalization of carbenes

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

Kinetically Controlled Radical Addition/Elimination Cascade: From Alkynyl Aziridine to Fluorinated Allenes

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Layered Chirality Relay Model in Rh(I)-Mediated Enantioselective C-Si Bond Activation: A Theoretical Study

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Mechanistic view of Ru-catalyzed C-H bond activation and functionalization: computational advances

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Protecting-Group-Free Total Syntheses of (±)-Norascyronones A and B

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

Reactivity and regioselectivity in Diels-Alder reactions of anion encapsulated fullerenes.

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

Retro-metal-ene versus retro-Aldol: mechanistic insight into Rh-catalysed formal [3+2] cycloaddition

scientific article published on 16 November 2018

Rhodium/Copper Cocatalyzed Highly trans-Selective 1,2-Diheteroarylation of Alkynes with Azoles via C-H Addition/Oxidative Cross-Coupling: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

Ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed C-H Difluoromethylation of Ketoximes: Tuning the Regioselectivity from the meta to the para Position.

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Ruthenium(II)-enabled para-selective C-H difluoromethylation of anilides and their derivatives.

scientific article published on 22 March 2018

Ruthenium-catalyzed umpolung carboxylation of hydrazones with CO2† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Experimental details and characterization data. See DOI: 10.1039/c8sc01299g.

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Stabilization of Two Radicals with One Metal: A Stepwise Coupling Model for Copper-Catalyzed Radical-Radical Cross-Coupling

scientific article published on 08 March 2017

Theoretical Study of the Addition of Cu-Carbenes to Acetylenes to Form Chiral Allenes

scientific article published on 28 March 2019

Tuning the Reactivity of Radical through a Triplet Diradical Cu(II) Intermediate in Radical Oxidative Cross-Coupling

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Unmasking the Ligand Effect in Manganese-Catalyzed Hydrogenation: Mechanistic Insight and Catalytic Application

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

Well-Designed Phosphine-Urea Ligand for Highly Diastereo- and Enantioselective 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition of Methacrylonitrile: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study

scientific article published on 31 December 2018