“Palladium catalysed enamine synthesis from vinyl triflates”, M. C. Willis and G. N. Brace, Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43, 9085-9088.
“A direct catalytic sldol route to protected β-hydroxy-α-amino Acids” M. C. Willis and V. J.-D. Piccio, Synlett 2002, 1625-1628.
“Tandem intermolecular Suzuki coupling, intramolecular vinyl triflate–arene coupling”, M. C. Willis, C. K. Claverie and M. F. Mahon, Chem. Commun. 2002, 832-833.
“Intermolecular hydroacylation of acrylate esters: A new route to 1,4-dicarbonyls”, M. C. Willis and S. Sapmaz, Chem. Commun. 2001, 2558-2559.
“The preparation and Suzuki coupling reactivity of cyclic 1,3-dione derived mono- and ditriflates”, M. C. Willis and C. K. Claverie, Tetrahedron Lett. 2001, 42, 5105-5107.
“Chelating mono-borane phosphines: Rational and high-yield synthesis of [(COD)Rh-{((eta)2BH3)Ph2PCH2PPh2}][PF6]”, M. Ingleson, N. J. Patmore, G. D. Ruggiero, C. G. Frost, M. F. Mahon, M. C. Willis and A. S. Weller, Organometallics 2001, 21, 4434-4436.
“Enantioselective cycloaddition reactions” in Rodd’s Chemistry of Carbon Compounds: Topical Volumes, Asymmetric Catalysis, M. Sainsbury, Ed., Elsevier, Oxford, 2001.
“Enantioselective and diastereoselective Mukaiyama-Michael reactions catalysed by bis(oxazoline) copper(II) complexes”, D. A. Evans, K. A. Scheidt, J. S. Johnston and M. C. Willis, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 4480-4491.
“Organic aspects of organometallic chemistry”, M. C. Willis and Christopher G. Frost, Organometallic Chemistry Specialist Periodical Report 1999, Volume 29, M. Green, Ed., Royal Society of Chemistry.
“Catalytic enantioselective Michael additions to unsaturated ester derivatives using chiral copper(II) Lewis scid complexes”, D. A. Evans, M. C. Willis and J. S. Johnston, Org. Lett. 1999, 1, 865-868.
“Enantioselective desymmetrisation”, M. C. Willis, J. Chem Soc., Perkin Trans. 1 1999, 1765-1784.
“Organic aspects of organometallic chemistry”, M. C. Willis and Christopher G. Frost, Organometallic Chemistry Specialist Periodical Report 1998, Volume 28, M. Green, Ed., Royal Society of Chemistry.
“(Phenylsulfonyl)-trimethylsilylmethane”, Steven V. Ley, M. C. Willis, in “Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis”, L. Paquette, Ed, J. Wiley: Chichester, 1995, Vol. 6, 4061.
“An improved procedure for the N-formylation of secondary amines using chlorotrimethylsilane-imidazole-N,N-dimethylformamide”; M. B. Berry, J. Blagg, D. Craig, M. C. Willis, Synlett 1992, 659-660.
