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Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions

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Suzuki–Miyaura coupling of arylthianthrenium tetrafluoroborate salts under acidic conditions

Nature Synthesis|2024

51 cit.

Unified metal-free intermolecular Heck-type sulfonylation, cyanation, amination, amidation of alkenes by thianthrenation

Nature Communications|2024

48 cit.

Diastereoselective dearomative cycloaddition of bicyclobutanes with pyridinium ylides: a modular approach to multisubstituted azabicyclo[3.1.1]heptanes

Chemical Communications|2024

23 cit.

Pd-catalyzed deuteration of aryl halides with deuterium oxide

Nature Communications|2025

13 cit.

<i>N</i>-Boryl Pyridyl Anion Chemistry

Accounts of Chemical Research|2025

9 cit.

Metal-Free Aziridination of Alkenes with Free Amines by Thianthrenation

Organic Syntheses|2024

8 cit.

Photocatalytic Copper-Mediated Functionalization of Aryl Iodides with Fluoride and Water

ACS Catalysis|2025

4 cit.

Expanding Ullmann Homocoupling to Cross-Coupling: Electrochemical Copper-Catalyzed Cross-Electrophile Coupling of Alkyl and Aryl Halides

Journal of the American Chemical Society|2026

4 cit.

Cardiac glycosides with cytotoxic activity from the seeds of Thevetia peruviana

Fitoterapia|2024

3 cit.

Hydrogen-Bond-Donor Coupled Electron Transfer Enabled Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric Radical Alkynylation with a Planar Chiral Ligand

Journal of the American Chemical Society|2025

2 cit.

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Radical Polarity

Journal of the American Chemical Society|2024

177 cit.

Halogenation of the 3-position of pyridines through Zincke imine intermediates

Science|2022

170 cit.

Silver‐Catalyzed Dearomative [2π+2σ] Cycloadditions of Indoles with Bicyclobutanes: Access to Indoline Fused Bicyclo[2.1.1]hexanes**

Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2023

158 cit.

Multiplicative enhancement of stereoenrichment by a single catalyst for deracemization of alcohols

Science|2023

142 cit.

Carbene reactivity from alkyl and aryl aldehydes

Science|2022

139 cit.

Palladium-Catalyzed Ligand-Controlled Switchable Hetero-(5 + 3)/Enantioselective [2σ+2σ] Cycloadditions of Bicyclobutanes with Vinyl Oxiranes

Journal of the American Chemical Society|2024

134 cit.

Identification of Alkoxy Radicals as Hydrogen Atom Transfer Agents in Ce-Catalyzed C–H Functionalization

Journal of the American Chemical Society|2022

129 cit.

Ligand-to-Metal Charge Transfer (LMCT) Catalysis: Harnessing Simple Cerium Catalysts for Selective Functionalization of Inert C–H and C–C Bonds

Accounts of Chemical Research|2024

107 cit.

Switching between the [2π+2σ] and Hetero‐[4π+2σ] Cycloaddition Reactivity of Bicyclobutanes with Lewis Acid Catalysts Enables the Synthesis of Spirocycles and Bridged Heterocycles

Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2024

106 cit.

Enantioselective formal (3 + 3) cycloaddition of bicyclobutanes with nitrones enabled by asymmetric Lewis acid catalysis

Nature Communications|2024

86 cit.

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Click Chemistry: Diverse Chemical Function from a Few Good Reactions

Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2001

13k cit.

A Stepwise Huisgen Cycloaddition Process: Copper(I)-Catalyzed Regioselective “Ligation” of Azides and Terminal Alkynes

Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2002

11.5k cit.

Click Chemistry: Diverse Chemical Function from a Few Good Reactions

Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2001

9.3k cit.

Weak Coordination as a Powerful Means for Developing Broadly Useful C–H Functionalization Reactions

Accounts of Chemical Research|2011

2.7k cit.

The first practical method for asymmetric epoxidation

Journal of the American Chemical Society|1980

2.6k cit.

Publication in Angewandte Chemie (2002) [2318 citations, W4231340065]

Angewandte Chemie|2002

2.3k cit.

Recent advances in olefin metathesis and its application in organic synthesis

Tetrahedron|1998

2.1k cit.

Catalytic asymmetric epoxidation and kinetic resolution: modified procedures including in situ derivatization

Journal of the American Chemical Society|1987

1.9k cit.

“On Water”: Unique Reactivity of Organic Compounds in Aqueous Suspension

Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2005

1.7k cit.

Carboxylate-Assisted Ruthenium-Catalyzed Alkyne Annulations by C–H/Het–H Bond Functionalizations

Accounts of Chemical Research|2013

1.6k cit.

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