Selected Recent Publications

Ytterbium(III) Triflate Catalyzed Tandem Friedel−Crafts Alkylation/Hydroarylation of Propargylic Alcohols with Phenols as an Expedient Route to Indenols

Org. Lett., 11 (21), 4990–4993, (2009)

Xiaoxiang Zhang, Wan Teng Teo and Philip Wai Hong Chan

Osmium Carbonyl Clusters on Gold and Silver Nanoparticles as Models for Studying the Interaction with the Metallic Surface

J. Phys. Chem. C, 113 (43), 18562–18569 (2009)

Chunxiang Li, Wai Yip Fan and Weng Kee Leong

Manganese-catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions Of Nitrogen Nucleophiles With Aryl Halides In Water

Chem. Commun., 6258 - 6260 (2009)

Yong-Chua Teo, Fui-Fong Yong, Chai-Yun Poh, Yaw-Kai Yan and Guan-Leong Chua

Electron Transport in the Long-Range Charge-Recombination Dynamics of Single Encapsulated Dye Molecules on TiO2 Nanoparticle Films

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48 (40), 7379 - 7382, (2009)

Xiangyang Wu, Toby D. M. Bell, Edwin K. L. Yeow

Dual Native Chemical Ligation at Lysine

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131 (38), 13592–13593 (2009)

Renliang Yang, Kalyan Kumar Pasunooti, Fupeng Li, Xue-Wei Liu and Chuan-Fa Liu

Ultrasensitive and Selective Colorimetric DNA Detection by Nicking Endonuclease Assisted Nanoparticle Amplification

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48 (37), 6849 - 6852, (2009)

Wei Xu , Xuejia Xue , Tianhu Li, Huaqiang Zeng, and Xiaogang Liu

Acid-Catalyzed Intramolecular [2+2] Cycloaddition of Ene-allenones: Facile Access to Bicyclo[n.2.0] Frameworks

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48 (39), 7232 - 7235, (2009)

Jun-Feng Zhao, and Teck-Peng Loh

A Pd(II)-Catalyzed Ring-Expansion Reaction of Cyclic 2-Azidoalcohol Derivatives: Synthesis of Azaheterocycles

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131 (36), 12886–12887 (2009)

Shunsuke Chiba, Yan-Jun Xu and Yi-Feng Wang

Mn(III)-Mediated Reactions of Cyclopropanols with Vinyl Azides: Synthesis of Pyridine and 2-Azabicyclo[3.3.1]non-2-en-1-ol Derivatives

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131 (35), 12570–12572 (2009)

Yi-Feng Wang and Shunsuke Chiba

Intermolecular Hydroamination between Nonactivated Alkenes and Aniline Catalyzed by Lanthanide Salts in Ionic Solvents

Org. Lett., 11, (17), 3791-3793 (2009)

Peng Yin and Teck-Peng Loh

Gold-Catalyzed Intramolecular Allylic Amination of 2-Tosylaminophenylprop-1-en-3-ols. A Concise Synthesis of (±)-Angustureine

J. Org. Chem., 74 (16), 5947–5952 (2009)

Prasath Kothandaraman, Shi Jia Foo and Philip Wai Hong Chan

Highly Efficient Synthesis of Tri- and Tetrasubstituted Conjugated Enynes from Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Alkoxylation of 1-Cyclopropylprop-2-yn-1-ols with Alcohols

J. Org. Chem., 74 (16), 5887–5893 (2009)

Srinivasa Reddy Mothe and Philip Wai Hong Chan

Metal Effects on the Asymmetric Cycloaddition Reaction between 3,4-Dimethyl-1-phenylarsole and Diphenylvinylphosphine Oxide

Organometallics, 28 (16), 4886–4889, (2009)

Mengtao Ma, Sumod A. Pullarkat, Mingjun Yuan, Na Zhang, Yongxin Li and Pak-Hing Leung

Fabrication of Core−Shell Structure of M@C (M=Se, Au, Ag2Se) and Transformation to Yolk−Shell Structure by Electron Beam Irradiation or Vacuum Annealing

Chem. Mater., 21 (16), 3848–3852, (2009)

Jixin Zhu, Ting Sun, Huey Hoon Hng, Jan Ma, Freddy Yin Chiang Boey, Xiongwen Lou, Hua Zhang, Can Xue, Hongyu Chen and Qingyu Yan

Highly Stereoselective One-Pot Synthesis of Bicyclic Isoxazolidines with Five Stereogenic Centers by an Organocatalytic Process

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48 (33), 6089-6092, (2009)

Di Zhu, Min Lu, Lu Dai, and Guofu Zhong

Femtosecond stimulated Raman scattering for polyatomics with harmonic potentials: Application to rhodamine 6G

J. Chem. Phys., 131, 054311 (2009)

Kai Niu, Shulin Cong, and Soo-Y. Lee

A Formal Synthesis of Swainsonine by Gold-Catalyzed Allene Cyclization

Org. Lett., 11 (16), 3706–3708 (2009)

Roderick W. Bates and Mark R. Dewey

Synthesis of Iriomoteolide-1a C13−C23 Fragment via Asymmetric Conjugate Addition and Julia−Kocienski Coupling Reaction

Org. Lett., 11 (16), 3674–3676 (2009)

Yen-Jin Chin, Shun-Yi Wang and Teck-Peng Loh

OrgLett11-13

Design, Synthesis and Optical Resolution of New Bifunctional Ligand: 1,1′-Dimethyl-octahydro-8,8′-Biquinoline-7,7′-diol

Org. Lett., 11 (13), 2876–2879, (2009)

Jian Xiao and Teck-Peng Loh

Aziridination

Highly Efficient Asymmetric Trans-Selective Aziridination of Diazoacetamides and N-Boc-imines Catalyzed by Chiral Brønsted Acids

Org. Lett., 11 (14), 3036–3039, (2009)

Xiaofei Zeng, Xin Zeng, Zhenjiang Xu, Min Lu and Guofu Zhong

Palladium-Catalyzed Arylation

Palladium-Catalyzed Direct Arylation of Cyclic Enamides with Aryl Silanes by sp2 C-H Activation

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48 (29), 5355-5357, (2009)

Hai Zhou, Yun-He Xu, Wan-Jun Chung, Teck-Peng Loh

Photoactivable Bioluminescent

Photoactivable bioluminescent probes for imaging luciferase activity

Chem. Commun., 4028 – 4030 (2009)

Qing Shao, Tingting Jiang, Gang Ren, Zhen Cheng and Bengang Xing

Chlorophosphinidene

Generation and Trapping of a Terminal Chlorophosphinidene Complex

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131 (22), 7534–7535, (2009)

Matthew P. Duffy and François Mathey