Radical Anions from Urea-type Carbonyls: Radical Cyclizations and Cyclization Cascades

Radical Redox-Relay Catalysis: Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition of N-Acylaziridines and Alkenes

(2017) Wei Hao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Dearomatizing Radical Cyclizations and Cyclization Cascades Triggered by Electron-Transfer Reduction of Amide-Type Carbonyls

(2017) Huan-Ming Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Transition metal–catalyzed alkyl-alkyl bond formation: Another dimension in cross-coupling chemistry

(2017) Junwon Choi et al.   SCIENCE

Radical cascade reactions triggered by single electron transfer

(2017) Mateusz P. Plesniak et al.   Nature Reviews Chemistry

Synthetic Applications of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer

(2016) Emily C. Gentry et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Highly Chemoselective Synthesis of Indolizidine Lactams by SmI2 -Induced Umpolung of the Amide Bond via Aminoketyl Radicals: Efficient Entry to Alkaloid Scaffolds

(2016) Shicheng Shi et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Radical–Radical Cyclization Cascades of Barbiturates Triggered by Electron-Transfer Reduction of Amide-Type Carbonyls

(2016) Huan-Ming Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Enantioselective Photocatalytic [3 + 2] Cycloadditions of Aryl Cyclopropyl Ketones

(2016) Adrian G. Amador et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Radicals: Reactive Intermediates with Translational Potential

(2016) Ming Yan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Sm(II)-Mediated Electron Transfer to Carboxylic Acid Derivatives: Development of Complexity-Generating Cascades

(2015) Xavier Just-Baringo et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Synthesis of Polycyclic Tertiary Carbinamines by Samarium Diiodide Mediated Cyclizations of Indolyl Sulfinyl Imines

(2015) Chintada Nageswara Rao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Catalysis of Radical Reactions: A Radical Chemistry Perspective

(2015) Armido Studer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Lithium Bromide/Water as Additives in Dearomatizing Samarium-Ketyl (Hetero)Arene Cyclizations

(2015) Chintada Nageswara Rao et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

A Biomimetic Synthesis of Phaitanthrin E Involving a Fragmentation of sp3 Carbon–Carbon Bond: Synthesis and Rearrangement of Phaitanthrin D to Phaitanthrin E

(2015) Sagar D. Vaidya et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Aminoketyl Radicals in Organic Synthesis: Stereoselective Cyclization of Five- and Six-Membered Cyclic Imides to 2-Azabicycles Using SmI2–H2O

(2015) Shicheng Shi et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Reductive Umpolung Reactions with Low-Valent Titanium Catalysts

(2014) Jan Streuff   CHEMICAL RECORD

Cross-Coupling Reactions Using Samarium(II) Iodide

(2014) Michal Szostak et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Natural Tetraponerines: A General Synthesis and Antiproliferative Activity

(2014) Irene Bosque et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

The electron is a catalyst

(2014) Armido Studer et al.   Nature Chemistry

A Dual-Catalysis Approach to Enantioselective [2 + 2] Photocycloadditions Using Visible Light

(2014) J. Du et al.   SCIENCE

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis: Novel Homolytic Bond Activations and Catalytic Asymmetric Reactions with Free Radicals

(2014) Robert Knowles et al.   SYNLETT

Selective Reduction of Barbituric Acids Using SmI2/H2O: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Structural Analysis of Tetrahedral Adducts

(2013) Michal Szostak et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Total Synthesis of (+)-Pleuromutilin

(2013) Neal J. Fazakerley et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

A Unified Strategy to ent-Kauranoid Natural Products: Total Syntheses of (−)-Trichorabdal A and (−)-Longikaurin E

(2013) John T. S. Yeoman et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Enantioselective Photoredox Catalysis Enabled by Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: Development of an Asymmetric Aza-Pinacol Cyclization

(2013) Lydia J. Rono et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Enantioselective Titanium(III)-Catalyzed Reductive Cyclization of Ketonitriles

(2012) Jan Streuff et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Urea Derivatives as Anticancer Agents

(2012) Huan-Qiu Li et al.   Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry

Toward the Synthesis of Phomoidride D

(2012) Graham K. Murphy et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Lactone Radical Cyclizations and Cyclization Cascades Mediated by SmI2–H2O

(2012) Dixit Parmar et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The Urea Renaissance

(2011) Nicole Volz et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Samarium diiodide induced ketyl-(het)arene cyclisations towards novel N-heterocycles

(2011) Christine Beemelmanns et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Amide- and urea-functionalized pyrroles and benzopyrroles as synthetic, neutral anion receptors

(2011) Paweł Dydio et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Decarboxylative coupling reactions: a modern strategy for C–C-bond formation

(2011) Nuria Rodríguez et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

A Concise Total Synthesis of (−)-Maoecrystal Z

(2011) Jacob Y. Cha et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Brief Synthesis of (−)-Englerin A

(2011) Zhenwu Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Cascade polycyclisations in natural product synthesis

(2011) Edward A. Anderson   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Radical Cyclization Cascades of Unsaturated Meldrum’s Acid Derivatives

(2011) Brice Sautier et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

A Concise Approach for the Total Synthesis of Pseudolaric Acid A

(2011) Tao Xu et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

New samarium diiodide-induced cyclizations

(2011) Christine Beemelmanns et al.   PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY

A Short Formal Total Synthesis of Strychnine with a Samarium Diiodide Induced Cascade Reaction as the Key Step

(2010) Christine Beemelmanns et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Selective Reductions of Cyclic 1,3-Diesters by Using SmI2and H2O

(2010) Karl D. Collins et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

A Dialdehyde Cyclization Cascade: An Approach to Pleuromutilin

(2009) Matthew D. Helm et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Samarium Diiodide Mediated Reactions in Total Synthesis

(2009) K. C. Nicolaou et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The art of total synthesis through cascade reactions

(2009) K. C. Nicolaou et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Total Synthesis of Platensimycin and Related Natural Products

(2009) K. C. Nicolaou et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Evolution of a Synthetic Strategy:  Total Synthesis of (±)-Welwitindolinone A Isonitrile

(2008) Sarah E. Reisman et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mechanistic Studies on the Roles of Cosolvents and Additives in Samarium(II)-Based Reductions

(2008) Robert Flowers et al.   SYNLETT

α-Amination of Nitrogen Heterocycles:  Ring-Fused Aminals

(2007) Chen Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY