Chao-Jun Li

Chao-Jun Li received the Ph.D. degree at McGill University, 1992, and was a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, 1992-1994. He was an Assistant, 1994, Associate, 1998, and Full Professor, 2000, at Tulane University. In 2003, he became a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) and a Professor of chemistry at McGill University in Canada. He was a Visiting Professor at University of California at Berkeley, 2002. Li received a NSF CAREER Award, 1997, a Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, 2001, a Faculty Research Award by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Tulane, 2002, and an Annual Award by the Business Association of New Orleans, 2002. He was an Eli Lilly Teaching Fellow in 1995, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Senior) Fellow, 2002, and an honorary Research Professor at the Chemistry Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Li is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Research Letters in Organic Chemistry, the Associate Editor for Green Chemistry, 2005, and an International Advisory Board Member of Chemistry World, 2005. He is a consulting editor for McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Sciences and Technologies, 2002, and McGraw-Hill’s Year Book of Sciences and Technologies, since 2002, and is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Letters in Organic Chemistry, 2004, Mini Reviews in Organic Chemistry, 2004. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 2007. His current research efforts are to develop innovative and fundamentally new organic reactions that will defy conventional reactivities and possess high efficiency. He has published over 200 research papers and reviews, and authored (with T. H. Chan) the Organic Reactions in Aqueous Media, 1997, and the Comprehensive Organic Reactions in Aqueous Media 2007. His widely recognized researches include the Grignard-type reactions in water, transition-metal catalysis in air and water, alkyne-aldehyde-amine coupling (A3-coupling), and cross-dehydrogenative-coupling (CDC) reactions.

Biography Updated on 17 July 2007

Personal Home Page

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. FeCl2-Catalyzed Selective C?C Bond Formation by Oxidative Activation of a Benzylic C?H Bond
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 46, no. 34, pp. 6505–6507, 2007
  2. Cellular Inhibition of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B by Uncharged Thioxothiazolidinone Derivatives
    ChemBioChem, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 179–186, 2007
  3. Gold(I)-Catalyzed Annulation of Salicylaldehydes and Aryl Acetylenes as an Expedient Route to Isoflavanones
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 46, no. 7, pp. 1117–1119, 2007
  4. Synthesis of a new chiral amino phosphine ligand and its application in the asymmetric allylic alkylation (AAA) reaction
    Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 1043–1047, 2007
  5. Evaluating Lewis acid catalyzed hydroalkylation of alkenes in neat and in ionic liquids
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 2007
  6. Copper-catalyzed oxidative esterification of alcohols with aldehydes activated by Lewis acids
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 1033–1035, 2007
  7. Reactions of C-H Bonds in Water
    Chemical Reviews, vol. 107, no. 6, pp. 2546–2562, 2007
  8. Gold(III)-Catalyzed Double Hydroamination of o-Alkynylaniline with Terminal Alkynes Leading to N-Vinylindoles
    Organic Letters, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 627–630, 2007
  9. Efficient ruthenium and copper cocatalzyed five-component coupling to form dipropargyl amines under mild conditions in water
    Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 5, no. 3, p. 435, 2007
  10. Au(I)-Catalyzed Annulation of 2-Tosylaminobenzaldehyde and Alkynes
    Synlett, vol. 2007, no. 11, pp. 1759–1762, 2007
  11. Conversion of carbon dioxide and olefins into cyclic carbonates in water
    Green Chemistry, vol. 9, no. 3, p. 213, 2007
  12. Green chemistry: The development of cross‑dehydrogenative coupling (CDC) for chemical synthesis
    Pure and Applied Chemistry, vol. 78, no. 5, pp. 935–945, 2006
  13. Microwave Synthesis of Phenylethynyl Imide Oligomers: Neat Resin and Composite Properties of PETI-2982-4
    High Performance Polymers, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 341–354, 2006
  14. Organic chemistry in water
    Chemical Society Reviews, vol. 35, no. 1, p. 68, 2006
  15. Cu-catalyzed cross-dehydrogenative coupling: A versatile strategy for C-C bond formations via the oxidative activation of sp3 C-H bonds
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 103, no. 24, pp. 8928–8933, 2006
  16. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 128, no. 1, pp. 56–57, 2006
  17. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 128, no. 13, pp. 4242–4243, 2006
  18. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 128, no. 40, pp. 13064–13065, 2006
  19. Organic Letters, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 1953–1955, 2006
  20. Organic Letters, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 2397–2399, 2006
  21. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 71, no. 16, pp. 6266–6268, 2006
  22. Solvent-free direct aza-Friedel–Crafts reactions between 3,4-dihydroisoquinoline and 1- or 2-naphthols
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 47, no. 38, pp. 6791–6794, 2006
  23. Catalytic oxidations of alcohols to carbonyl compounds by oxygen under solvent-free and transition-metal-free conditions
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 13–17, 2006
  24. “On Water”-Promoted Direct Coupling of Indoles with 1,4-Benzoquinones without Catalyst
    European Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 2006, no. 4, pp. 869–873, 2006
  25. Highly Efficient Three-Component Synthesis of β-Lactams fromN-methylhydroxylamine, Aldehydes, and Phenylacetylene
    Chemistry – An Asian Journal, vol. 1, no. 1-2, pp. 203–209, 2006
  26. Highly Efficient Cross-Dehydrogenative-Coupling between Ethers and Active Methylene Compounds
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 45, no. 12, pp. 1949–1952, 2006
  27. Synthesis of Aryl-Substituted 1,4-Benzoquinonevia Water-Promoted and In(OTf)3-Catalyzedin situ Conjugate Addition-Dehydrogenation of Aromatic Compounds to 1,4-Benzoquinone in Water
    Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, vol. 348, no. 1-2, pp. 229–235, 2006
  28. Diastereoselective Synthesis of α-Oxyaminesvia Gold-, Silver- and Copper-Catalyzed, Three-Component Couplings of α-Oxyaldehydes, Alkynes, and Amines in Water
    Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, vol. 348, no. 12-13, pp. 1528–1532, 2006
  29. Catalyzed Reactions of Alkynes in Water
    Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, vol. 348, no. 12-13, pp. 1459–1484, 2006
  30. Studies on Cu-catalyzed asymmetric alkynylation of tetrahydroisoquinoline derivatives
    Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 590–597, 2006
  31. Highly Efficient CuBr-Catalyzed Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling (CDC) between Tetrahydroisoquinolines and Activated Methylene Compounds
    European Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 2005, no. 15, pp. 3173–3176, 2005
  32. Aqueous Asymmetric Mukaiyama Aldol Reaction Catalyzed by Chiral Gallium Lewis Acid with Trost-Type Semi-Crown Ligands
    Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, vol. 347, no. 9, pp. 1247–1256, 2005
  33. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 127, no. 19, pp. 6968–6969, 2005
  34. Chemical Reviews, vol. 105, no. 8, pp. 3095–3166, 2005
  35. Organic Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 673–675, 2005
  36. Organic Letters, vol. 7, no. 13, pp. 2675–2678, 2005
  37. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 127, no. 11, pp. 3672–3673, 2005
  38. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 127, no. 49, pp. 17184–17185, 2005
  39. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 70, no. 14, pp. 5752–5755, 2005
  40. 2,4-Diaryltetrahydropyran Formation by the Prins Cyclization and Its Application towards the Synthesis of Epicalyxin F and Calyxin I
    Synlett, no. 12, pp. 1912–1916, 2005
  41. Efficient Trost's γ-addition catalyzed by reusable polymer-supported triphenylphosphine in aqueous media
    Green Chemistry, vol. 7, no. 8, p. 571, 2005
  42. Water-promoted direct aerobic oxidation of enol silyl ether to ?-hydroxyl ketones without catalyst
    Green Chemistry, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 61, 2005
  43. Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Cu(I)-catalyzed direct addition and asymmetric addition of terminal alkynes to imines
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 101, no. 16, pp. 5749–5754, 2004
  44. A highly efficient gold/silver-catalyzed addition of arenes to imines
    Chemical Communications, no. 17, p. 1930, 2004
  45. The first palladium-catalyzed 1,4-addition of terminal alkynes to conjugated enones
    Chemical Communications, no. 20, p. 2362, 2004
  46. Recent green chemistry development in Canada
    Green Chemistry, vol. 6, no. 7, p. G52, 2004
  47. Guest editorial: Canada is greener this spring
    Green Chemistry, vol. 6, no. 7, p. G51, 2004
  48. Novel 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of diazocarbonyl compounds to alkynes catalyzed by InCl3 in water
    Chemical Communications, no. 4, p. 394, 2004
  49. Organic Letters, vol. 6, no. 18, pp. 3151–3153, 2004
  50. Organic Letters, vol. 6, no. 26, pp. 4997–4999, 2004
  51. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 126, no. 22, pp. 6884–6885, 2004
  52. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 126, no. 38, pp. 11810–11811, 2004
  53. Microwave-assisted direct addition of cycloethers to alkynes
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 45, no. 41, pp. 7581–7584, 2004
  54. Ruthenium-catalyzed tandem olefin migration—aldol- and Mannich-type reactions in ionic liquid
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, vol. 214, no. 1, pp. 147–154, 2004
  55. Three-component coupling of aldehyde, alkyne, and amine catalyzed by silver in ionic liquid
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 2443–2446, 2004
  56. Water as a reaction medium for clean chemical processes
    Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 62–69, 2004
  57. Microwave-assisted Cu (I) Catalyzed Solvent-free Three Component Coupling of Aldehyde, Alkyne and Amine
    QSAR & Combinatorial Science, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 891–894, 2004
  58. Rhodium-catalyzed and sonication-accelerated addition of aryltin and aryllead reagents to imines in air and water
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 45, no. 14, pp. 2995–2998, 2004
  59. Facile and selective copper–palladium catalyzed addition of terminal alkynes to activated alkynes in water
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 45, no. 13, pp. 2771–2774, 2004
  60. Suzuki Reaction Takes a“Naked Hot Bath”: Coupling in High-Temperature Water without Transition Metals
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 42, no. 40, pp. 4856–4858, 2003
  61. Ruthenium-Catalyzed Tandem Olefin Migration/Aldol and Mannich-Type Reactions in Water and Protic Solvents
    European Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 2003, no. 6, pp. 998–1003, 2003
  62. InCl3-catalyzed reaction of aromatic amines with cyclic hemiacetals in water: facile synthesis 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline derivatives
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 153–156, 2003
  63. Indium-mediated nucleophilic substitution reaction of ß,?-unsaturated a-methoxypiperidine derivative in water
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 44, no. 29, pp. 5519–5522, 2003
  64. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 14, pp. 4062–4063, 2003
  65. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 32, pp. 9584–9585, 2003
  66. Organic Letters, vol. 5, no. 23, pp. 4473–4475, 2003
  67. Organic Letters, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 657–660, 2003
  68. A highly regio- and stereoselective transition metal-catalyzed hydrosilylation of terminal alkynes under ambient conditions of air, water, and room temperature
    Chemical Communications, no. 14, p. 1668, 2003
  69. A novel palladium-catalyzed coupling of epoxides with allyl bromide mediated by indium(i) chloride: a cascade epoxide rearrangement?carbonyl allylationElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: experimental. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b3/b305161g/
    Chemical Communications, no. 18, p. 2318, 2003
  70. Domino reaction of anilines with 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyran catalyzed by cation-exchange resin in water: an efficient synthesis of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline derivatives
    Green Chemistry, vol. 5, no. 5, p. 627, 2003
  71. Novel chiral gallium Lewis acid catalysts with semi-crown ligands for aqueous asymmetric Mukaiyama aldol reactions
    Chemical Communications, no. 24, pp. 2994–2995, 2002
  72. Grignard type reaction via C–H bond activation in water
    Green Chemistry, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 39–41, 2002
  73. Developing metal-mediated and catalyzed reactions in air and water
    Green Chemistry, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1–4, 2002
  74. Synthesis of ??-amino acid derivatives and amines via activation of simple alkyl halides by zinc in water
    Chemical Communications, no. 20, pp. 2440–2441, 2002
  75. Direct formation of 2,4-disubstituted tetrahydropyranols in water mediated by an acidic solid resin
    Green Chemistry, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 80–81, 2002
  76. Highly efficient Grignard-type imine additions via C–H activation in water and under solvent-free conditions
    Chemical Communications, no. 3, pp. 268–269, 2002
  77. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 106, no. 4, pp. 833–843, 2002
  78. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 3969–3971, 2002
  79. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 124, no. 20, pp. 5638–5639, 2002
  80. Direct formation of tetrahydropyranols via catalysis in ionic liquid
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 43, no. 28, pp. 4993–4996, 2002
  81. Gallium-mediated allylation of carbonyl compounds in water
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 43, no. 29, pp. 5097–5099, 2002
  82. A highly stereoselective, novel coupling reaction between alkynes and aldehydes
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 43, no. 9, pp. 1613–1615, 2002
  83. Accounts of Chemical Research, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 533–538, 2002
  84. Palladium-catalyzed coupling of aryl halides with arylhalosilanes in air and water
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 43, no. 39, pp. 403–405, 2002
  85. Aldol reaction via in situ olefin migration in water
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 43, no. 19, pp. 3589–3591, 2002
  86. Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation via Palladium-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling of Aryl Halides in Air and Water
    Advanced Synthesis & Catalyis, vol. 344, no. 3-4, pp. 399–405, 2002
  87. Corrigendum to “Aldol reaction via in situ olefin migration in water” [Tetrahedron Letters 43 (2002) 3589]
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 43, no. 31, p. 5503, 2002
  88. Cu(I)Br mediated coupling of alkynes with N-acylimine and N-acyliminium ions in water
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 43, no. 33, pp. 5731–5733, 2002
  89. Rhodium-catalyzed reactions of arylbismuth and aryllead reagents with a chiral glyoxylate hydrate in air and water: water-promoted diastereoselectivity enhancement
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 43, no. 43, pp. 7789–7791, 2002
  90. A Highly Regioselective Synthesis of Polysubstituted Naphthalene Derivatives through Gallium Trichloride Catalyzed Alkyne–Aldehyde Coupling This work has been partially supported by the US NSF CAREER Award program and the US NSF-EPA STAR program.
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 41, no. 12, p. 2138, 2002
  91. The effects of aromatic and aliphatic anionic surfactants on Sc(OTf)3-catalyzed Mukaiyama aldol reaction in water
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 1803–1805, 2001
  92. Rhodium catalyzed conjugated addition of unsaturated carbonyl compounds by triphenylbismuth in aqueous media and under an air atmosphere
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 781–784, 2001
  93. Synthesis of tetrahydropyran derivatives via a novel indium trichloride mediated cross-cyclization between epoxides and homoallyl alcohols
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 793–796, 2001
  94. Quasi-nature catalysis: conjugated addition of unsaturated carbonyl compounds with aryl and vinyltin reagents catalyzed by rhodium in air and water
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 42, no. 27, pp. 4459–4462, 2001
  95. Remarkable Electronic Effect on Rhodium-Catalyzed Carbonyl Additions and Conjugated Additions with Arylmetallic Reagents
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 123, no. 30, pp. 7451–7452, 2001
  96. Organic Letters, vol. 3, no. 13, pp. 2037–2039, 2001
  97. Chemical Communications, no. 22, pp. 2348–2349, 2001
  98. A novel caesium selective fluorescent chemosensor
    Chemical Communications, no. 8, pp. 695–696, 2000
  99. Grignard-Type Carbonyl Phenylation in Water and under an Air Atmosphere
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 122, no. 39, pp. 9538–9539, 2000
  100. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 65, no. 18, pp. 5831–5833, 2000
  101. Diastereoselective synthesis of multisubstituted thiacyclohexanes via cation–olefin cyclizations
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 41, no. 9, pp. 1321–1325, 2000
  102. Diastereoselective Synthesis of 2,4-Disubstituted Tetrahydropyranols and Ethers via a Prins-Type Cyclization Catalyzed by Scandium Triflate
    Tetrahedron, vol. 56, no. 16, pp. 2403–2411, 2000
  103. A Fluorescent 18-Crown-6 Based Luminescence Sensor for Lanthanide Ions
    Tetrahedron, vol. 56, no. 36, pp. 7045–7049, 2000
  104. Calix[6]arene derivatives bearing sulfonate and alkyl groups as surfactants in Sc(OTf)3-catalyzed Mukaiyama aldol reactions in water
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 41, no. 15, pp. 2529–2532, 2000
  105. The effect of crown-ether on the palladium-catalyzed Ullmann-type coupling mediated by zinc in air and water
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 41, no. 25, pp. 4831–4834, 2000
  106. Synthesis and Study of A Molecular Fluorescent Chemosensor For Potassium
    European Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 2000, no. 3, pp. 387–389, 2000
  107. Organic syntheses using indium-mediated and catalyzed reactions in aqueous media
    Tetrahedron, vol. 55, no. 37, pp. 11149–11176, 1999
  108. Highly Effective Synthesis of 4-Halo-Tetrahydropyrans Via A Highly Diastereoselective in situ Prins-Type Cyclization Reaction
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 1627–1630, 1999
  109. Aldehyde allylation
    Green Chemistry, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 265–268, 1999
  110. Organic Letters, vol. 1, no. 7, pp. 1133–1135, 1999
  111. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 64, no. 12, pp. 4452–4455, 1999
  112. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 121, no. 23, pp. 5599–5600, 1999
  113. Organic Letters, vol. 1, no. 7, pp. 993–995, 1999
  114. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 3230–3236, 1999
  115. Scandium triflate catalyzed in situ Prins-type cyclization: formations of 4-tetrahydropyranols and ethers
    Chemical Communications, no. 3, pp. 291–292, 1999
  116. Indium-Trichloride Mediated Synthesis of 4,4-Dichlorotetrahydropyrans
    Synlett, vol. 1999, no. 6, pp. 717–718, 1999
  117. Eight-Membered Thiocycloether via Indium-Mediated Ring Enlargement
    Synlett, vol. 1999, no. 6, pp. 735–736, 1999
  118. An Unexpected Product of an Indium-Mediated Carbon–Carbon Coupling: 2-(1-Phenyl-1,3-butadien-2-yl)benzoic Acid
    Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications, vol. 54, no. 12, pp. 1934–1936, 1998
  119. Metal-Mediated Barbier-Type Carbonyl Allylation Under Solvent-Free Conditions
    Synthetic Communications, vol. 28, no. 16, pp. 2999–3009, 1998
  120. Mono-Alkylation of Diols Through Ruthenium-Catalyzed Reaction with Homoallyl Alcohols
    Synthetic Communications, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 507–515, 1998
  121. In aqua synthesis of a high molecular weight arylethynylene polymer with reversible hydrogel properties
    Chemical Communications, no. 13, pp. 1351–1352, 1998
  122. Enantiomeric discrimination of chiral amines with new fluorescent chemosensors
    Chemical Communications, no. 16, pp. 1747–1748, 1998
  123. Indium-mediated highly diastereoselective allenylation in aqueous medium: total synthesis of (+)-goniofufurone
    Chemical Communications, no. 4, pp. 449–450, 1998
  124. Magnesium in water: simple and effective for pinacol-coupling
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1, no. 19, pp. 3131–3132, 1998
  125. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 120, no. 35, pp. 9102–9103, 1998
  126. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 63, no. 21, pp. 7498–7504, 1998
  127. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 63, no. 21, pp. 7472–7480, 1998
  128. Stepwise synthesis and characterization of oligomers based on 1,1'-binaphthol with 3,3'-acetylene spacer
    Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, vol. 9, no. 20, pp. 3693–3707, 1998
  129. Model studies of (+)-bergenin: A convenient formation of aryl d-lactones
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 39, no. 38, pp. 6837–6840, 1998
  130. Ruthenium-catalyzed isomerization of homoallylic alcohols in water
    Tetrahedron, vol. 54, no. 20, pp. 5129–5142, 1998
  131. Metal-mediated two-atom carbocycle enlargement in aqueous medium
    Tetrahedron, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 2347–2364, 1998
  132. A chiral conjugated oligomer based on 1,1'-Binaphthol with 3,3'-acetylene spacer
    Polymer Bulletin, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 265–270, 1997
  133. Indium mediated reactions in water: Synthesis of ß-hydroxyl esters
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 38, no. 27, pp. 4731–4734, 1997
  134. Indium and zinc mediated one-atom carbocycle enlargement in water
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 38, no. 27, pp. 4735–4736, 1997
  135. Organic Process Research & Development, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 325–327, 1997
  136. Palladium catalysed polymerization of aryl diodides with acetylene gas in aqueous medium: a novel synthesis of areneethynylene polymers and oligomers
    Chemical Communications, no. 16, pp. 1569–1570, 1997
  137. Product of a Novel Carbocyclic Enlargement in Aqueous Media: 9ß-tert-Butoxy-4-(E)-ethylidene-8ß-methyl-5-oxobicyclo[6.3.0]undecan-2ß-carboxylic Acid Methyl Ester
    Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications, vol. 52, no. 10, pp. 2597–2599, 1996
  138. Novel Carbocyle Enlargement in Aqueous Medium
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 118, no. 17, pp. 4216–4217, 1996
  139. Mechanisms of carbon dioxide laser stereolithography
    Applied Surface Science, vol. 106, pp. 275–281, 1996
  140. Synthesis of a bis-(binaphthol)
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 37, no. 26, pp. 4459–4462, 1996
  141. Novel [3+2] annulation via a trimethylenemethane zwitterion equivalent in water
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 471–474, 1996
  142. A gem-allyl dianion synthon in water
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 295–298, 1996
  143. Aqueous Barbier-Grignard type reaction: Scope, mechanism, and synthetic applications
    Tetrahedron, vol. 52, no. 16, pp. 5643–5668, 1996
  144. Highly efficient carbonyl allylation of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds in aqueous medium
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 36, no. 16, pp. 2721–2724, 1995
  145. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 117, no. 51, pp. 12867–12868, 1995
  146. Organic reactions in aqueous media - with a focus on carbon-carbon bond formation
    Chemical Reviews, vol. 93, no. 6, pp. 2023–2035, 1993
  147. Selective monodesulfurization of organic trisulfides by bis(triphenylstannyl)chalcogenides
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 903–906, 1993
  148. A convenient preparation of arylthiostannanes
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 33, no. 48, pp. 7293–7294, 1992
  149. Bis(triphenylstannyl)telluride. A mild and efficient reductive dehalogenation reagent for a-haloketones.
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 32, no. 12, pp. 1545–1548, 1991
  150. Organometallic reactions in aqueous media with indium
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 32, no. 48, pp. 7017–7020, 1991
  151. Organometallics, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 2548–2549, 1991
  152. Organometallics, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 2649–2650, 1990
  153. Bis(triphenylstanyl)telluride a mild and selective reagent for telluration and debromination
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 31, no. 44, pp. 6291–6294, 1990