Origin of the Superior Performance of (Thio)Squaramides over (Thio)Ureas in Organocatalysis

Aromatic Interactions as Control Elements in Stereoselective Organic Reactions

(2012) Elizabeth H. Krenske et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Understanding Substituent Effects in Noncovalent Interactions Involving Aromatic Rings

(2012) Steven E. Wheeler   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Dienamine-Mediated Inverse-Electron-Demand Hetero-Diels-Alder Reaction by Using an Enantioselective H-Bond-Directing Strategy

(2012) Łukasz Albrecht et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Organocatalytic Activation of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds for Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reactions

(2012) Hao Jiang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Enantioselective Asymmetric Michael Addition of Cyclic Diketones to β,γ-Unsaturated α-Keto Esters

(2012) Yi-Feng Wang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Bifuctional Amino-Squaramides Catalyzed Asymmetric Spiroannulation Cascades with Aliphatic β,γ-Unsaturated α-Keto Esters: Controlling an Aldehyde Enolate

(2012) Xiaoqin Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Origin of Enantioselectivity in the Propargylation of Aromatic Aldehydes Catalyzed by Helical N-Oxides

(2012) Tongxiang Lu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Asymmetric Organocatalytic Formal [2 + 2]-Cycloadditions via Bifunctional H-Bond Directing Dienamine Catalysis

(2012) Łukasz Albrecht et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Explaining the Disparate Stereoselectivities of N-Oxide Catalyzed Allylations and Propargylations of Aldehydes

(2012) Tongxiang Lu et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Experimental Diels-Alder Reactivities of Cycloalkenones and Cyclic Dienes Explained through Transition-State Distortion Energies

(2011) Robert S. Paton et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Aromatic Rings in Chemical and Biological Recognition: Energetics and Structures

(2011) Laura M. Salonen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Squaramides: physical properties, synthesis and applications

(2011) R. Ian Storer et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Squaramides: Bridging from Molecular Recognition to Bifunctional Organocatalysis

(2011) José Alemán et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Urea-, Squaramide-, and Sulfonamide-Based Anion Receptors: A Thermodynamic Study

(2011) Valeria Amendola et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Density-functional approaches to noncovalent interactions: A comparison of dispersion corrections (DFT-D), exchange-hole dipole moment (XDM) theory, and specialized functionals

(2011) Lori A. Burns et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

A thorough benchmark of density functional methods for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics, and noncovalent interactions

(2011) Lars Goerigk et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Density functional theory with London dispersion corrections

(2011) Stefan Grimme   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Computational Molecular Science

A Bifunctional Cinchona Alkaloid-Squaramide Catalyst for the Highly Enantioselective Conjugate Addition of Thiols to trans-Chalcones

(2010) Le Dai et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Squaramide-catalyzed enantioselective Friedel–Crafts reaction of indoles with imines

(2010) Yong Qian et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Chiral phosphine-squaramides as enantioselective catalysts for the intramolecular Morita–Baylis–Hillman reaction

(2010) Hong-Liang Song et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Chiral Squaramides as Highly Enantioselective Catalysts for Michael Addition Reactions of 4-Hydroxycoumarins and 4-Hydroxypyrone to β,γ-Unsaturated α-Keto Esters

(2010) Dan-Qian Xu et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

The Squaramide versus Urea Contest for Anion Recognition

(2010) Valeria Amendola et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

An Assessment of Density Functional Methods for Potential Energy Curves of Nonbonded Interactions: The XYG3 and B97-D Approximations

(2010) Álvaro Vázquez-Mayagoitia et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Acyl Phosphonates: Good Hydrogen Bond Acceptors and Ester/Amide Equivalents in Asymmetric Organocatalysis

(2010) Hao Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The activation strain model of chemical reactivity

(2010) Willem-Jan van Zeist et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Enantioselective α-Amination of 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds Using Squaramide Derivatives as Hydrogen Bonding Catalysts

(2010) Hideyuki Konishi et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Squaramide-Catalyzed Enantioselective Michael Addition of Diphenyl Phosphite to Nitroalkenes

(2009) Ye Zhu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Predicting Hydrogen-Bond Strengths from Acid−Base Molecular Properties. The pKaSlide Rule: Toward the Solution of a Long-Lasting Problem

(2008) Paola Gilli et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Crystallographic and Theoretical Evidence of Anion–π and Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions in a Squaramide–Nitrate Salt

(2008) Carmen Rotger et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Systematic optimization of long-range corrected hybrid density functionals

(2008) Jeng-Da Chai et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Theory of 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions: Distortion/Interaction and Frontier Molecular Orbital Models

(2008) Daniel H. Ess et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Chiral Squaramide Derivatives are Excellent Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalysts

(2008) Jeremiah P. Malerich et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Computational prediction of small-molecule catalysts

(2008) K. N. Houk et al.   NATURE

The advent and development of organocatalysis

(2008) David W. C. MacMillan   NATURE