1.      Hai-Bo Cui,^‡ Ling-Zhi Xie,^‡ Nan-Wei Wan, Qing He, Zhi Li and Yong-Zheng Chen*, Cascade bio-hydroxylation and dehalogenation for one-pot enantioselective synthesis of optically active β-halohydrins from halohydrocarbons, Green Chemistry, 2019, 21: 4324–4328. Doi: 10.1039/C9GC01802F

 

2.      Miao An, Wanyi Liu, Xiaoying Zhou, Ran Ma, Huihui Wang, Baodong Cui, Wenyong Han, Nanwei Wan*, Yongzheng Chen*, Highly a-position regioselective ring-opening of epoxides catalyzed by halohydrin dehalogenase from Ilumatobacter coccineus: a biocatalytic approach to 2-azido-2-aryl-1-ols, RSC Advances, 2019, 9: 16418-16422. Doi.org/10.1039/C9RA03774H

 

3.      Nanwei Wan*, Jiawei Tian, Xiaoying Zhou, Huihui Wang, Baodong Cui, Wenyong

Han, and Yongzheng Chen*, Regioselective ring-opening of styrene oxide derivatives using halohydrin dehalogenase for synthesis of 4-aryloxazolidinones, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2019, 361: 4651-4655. Doi.org/10.1002/adsc.201900786

 

4.      Si-Yi Yang, Wen-Yong Han^*, Chen He, Bao-Dong Cui, Nan-Wei Wan, Yong-Zheng

Chen^*, 2,2-Bifunctionalization of norbornene in palladium-catalyzed domino annulation, Organic Letters, 2019, 21(21): 8857-8860. Doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03565

 

5.      Jian-Shu Wang, Kai-Shun Huang, Wen-Yong Han^*, Bao-Dong Cui, Nan-Wei Wan,

Yong-Zheng Chen^*, Ex situ generation of difluorodiazoethane (CF₂HCHN₂): application in the regioselective synthesis of CF₂H‑containing pyrazoles, Organic Letters, 2019, 21(21): 8751-8755. Doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03371

 

6.      Jiawei Yang, Yuanmei Wen, Liaotian Peng, Yu Chen, Xiaoling Cheng, Yongzheng Chen*, Identification of MsrA homologues for the preparation of (R)-sulfoxides at high substrate concentrations, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2019, 17(13): 3381-3388. Doi：10.1039/c9ob00384c

 

7.      Mei Bai, YongZheng Chen*, BaoDong Cui, XiaoYing Xu, WeiCheng Yuan*,

Thiourea-catalyzed asymmetric domino Michael-cyclization reaction of 3-isothiocyanato oxindoles with β, γ-unsaturated α-keto esters for the synthesis of spirocyclic oxindoles, Tetrahedron, 2019, 75(6): 2155-2161. Doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2019.02.036

 

8.      Yu Chen, Baodong Cui*, Mei Bai, Wenyong Han, Nanwei Wan, Yongzheng Chen*,

Synthesis of chiral spiro-cyclopentene/cyclopentadiene-oxindoles through an asymmetric [3 + 2] cycloaddition of isatin-derived MBH carbonates and β,γ-unsaturated α-keto esters, Tetrahedron, 2019, 75(21): 2971-2979. Doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2019.04.040

 

9.      Xuemei Chen, Pei Huang, Jing Wang, Runmei Tian, Yan Chen*, Yongzheng Chen,

Lei Zhang*, Zhigui Ma*, Identification of H₂S/NO-donating artemisinin derivatives as potential antileukemic agents, RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 501-511.

 

10.  Chengli Yang, Qiongli Xie, Xian Zeng, Nengyin Tao, Yingshu Xu, Yongzheng

Chen, Jing Wang*, Lei Zhang*. Novel hybrids of podophyllotoxin and formononetin inhibit the growth, migration and invasion of lung cancer cells. Bioorganic Chemistry, 2019, 85: 445-454. Doi.org/10.1016/j.bioorg.2019.02.019

11.  Lei Zhang*, Xian Zeng, Xiaodong Ren, Nengyin Tao, Chengli Yang, Yingshu

Xu, Yongzheng Chen, Jing Wang*. Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of indole carboxylic acid esters of podophyllotoxin as antiproliferative agents, Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2019, 28(1): 81-94.

 

12.  Yao, Qiuli*; Ren, Linjing; Xiang, Dan; Li, Kexin; Yan, Boyu; Ran, Maogang; He,

Jiaxin; Zhao, Liang. The photoinduced metal-free hydrotrifluoromethylation of vinyl phosphonates or phosphine oxides, European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2019, 2019(45): 7475-7482.

 

13.  Ren Linjing, Ran Maogang, He Jiaxin, Xiang Dan,Chen Feng,Liu Peijun, He

Chunyang,Yao Qiuli*. A palladium-catalyzed decarboxylative heck-type reaction of disubstituted vinylphosphonates in the stereoselective synthesis of trisubstituted vinylphosphonates, European journal of organic chemistry, 2019, 2019(33): 5656-5661.

 

14.  Yao Qiuli, Liu Wenbo, Liu Peng, Metal-free photoinduced transformation of

aryl halides and diketones into aryl ketones, European journal of organic chemistry, 2019,(16): 2721-2724.

 

15.  Ren Linjing, Ran Maogang,He Jiaxin, Qian Yan,Yao Qiuli*. Recent advance in

the transition-metal free coupling reactions for the construction of C-X bonds induced by light, Chinese journal of organic chemistry, 2019, 39(6): 1583-1595.

 

16.  Erlin Zhu, Xiao-Xiao Liu, An-Jun Wang, Ting Mao, Liang Zhao*, Xingang

Zhang*, Chun-Yang He*, Visible light promoted fluoroalkylation of alkenes and alkynes using 2-bromophenol as a catalyst, Chemical Communication, 2019, 55: 12259-12262. Doi: 10.1039/C9CC06587C

17.  Liang Zhao*, Yang Huang, Ze Wang, Erlin Zhu, Ting Mao, Jia Jia, Jiwei Gu,

Xiao-Fei Li*, Chun-Yang He*, Organophosphine-catalyzed difluoroalkylation of alkenes, Organic Letter, 2019, 21(17): 6705-6709.

19. An-Jun Wang, ^# Yue-Guang Lou, ^# Liang Zhao, Fei-Hu Gou, Lian Wang, Yanbo Yu, Jiwei Gu, Chun-Yang He*, Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of benzylzinc reagents with 2-Bromo-3, 3, 3-Trifluoropropene, Synthetic Communications, 2019, 49(23): 3329-3334. Doi.org/10.1080/00397911.2019.1663540