2018

“Heterocyclic allylsulfones as latent heteroaryl nucleophiles in palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions”, Tim Markovic, Philip R. D. Murray, Benjamin N. Rocke, Andre Shavnya, David C. Blakemore, and Michael C. Willis, J. Am. Chem. Soc.2018, 15916–15923. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b09595)

136 ga

 

“Copper-catalysed synthesis of alkylidene 2-pyrrolinone derivatives from the combination of alpha-keto amides and alkynes”, Qian Wen Tan, Praful Chovatia and Michael C. Willis, Org. Biomol. Chem. 201816, 7797–7800. (doi: 10.1039/C8OB02205D)

135 ga

 

“Copper-Catalyzed Synthesis of Activated Sulfonate Esters from Boronic Acids, DABSO and Pentafluorophenol”, Vincent Vedovato, Eric P. A. Talbot and Michael C. Willis, Org. Lett201820, 5493–5496. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b02445).

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“The Direct Copper-Catalyzed Three-Component Synthesis of Sulfonamides”, Yiding Chen, Philip R. D. Murray, Alyn T. Davies and and Michael C. Willis, J. Am. Chem. Soc2018140, 8781−8787. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b04532). 

Highlighted in OPRD. Second most viewed JACS paper in July 2018.

133 ga

 

“Rh(DPEPhos)-Catalyzed alkyne hydroacylation using beta-carbonyl substituted aldehydes. Mechanistic insight leads to low catalyst loadings that enables selective catalysis on gram-scale.” James Barwick-Silk, Simon Hardy, Michael C. Willis and Andrew S. Weller, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018140, 7347–7357. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b04086).

132 ga

 

“An enamine controlling group for rhodium-catalyzed intermolecular hydroacylation”, Robert N. Straker, Michele Formica, James D. Lupton, Jingze Niu, and Michael C. Willis, Tetrahedron201874, 5408–5414. (doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2018.04.068). Contribution to the Sir Derek Barton Centenary issue.

131 ga

 

“DABCO-bis(sulfur dioxide), DABSO, as a source of sulfur dioxide in transition metal-catalyzed reactions”, Michael C. Willis, TCI Mail, 2018, 2–12.

130 ga

 

“Oxidative β-C–H sulfonylation of cyclic amines”, Robert J. Griffiths, Wei Chung Kong,Steven A. Richards, Glenn A. Burley, Michael C. Willis,* Eric P. A. Talbot*, Chem. Sci. 20189, 2295-2300. (doi: 10.1039/C7SC04900E)

129 ga

 

“Direct sulfonylation of anilines mediated by visible light”, Tarn C. Johnson, Bryony L. Elbert, Alistair J. M. Farley, Timothy W. Gorman, Christophe Genicot, Bénédicte Lallemand, Patrick Pasau, Jakub Flasz, José L. Castro, Malcolm MacCoss, Darren J. Dixon, Robert S. Paton, Christopher J. Schofield, Martin D. Smith and Michael C. Willis, Chem. Sci20189,  629 - 633. (doi: 10.1039/C7SC03891G)

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