“Sulfinates from amines: A radical approach to alkyl sulfonyl derivatives via donor-acceptor activation of pyridinium salts”, Jonathan A. Andrews, Loïc R. E. Pantaine, Christopher F. Palmer, Darren L. Poole, and Michael C. Willis, Org. Lett. 2021, 23. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c03194)
“Exploiting configurational lability in aza-sulfur compounds for the organocatalytic enantioselective synthesis of sulfonimidamides”, Michael J. Tilby, Damien F. Dewez, Adrian Hall, Carolina Martínez Lamenca, Michael C. Willis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60. (doi: 10.1002/anie.202109160)
"Nickel(II)-Catalyzed Addition of Aryl and Heteroaryl Boroxines to the Sulfinylamine Reagent TrNSO: The Catalytic Synthesis of Sulfinamides, Sulfonimidamides and Primary Sulfonamides", Pui Kin Tony Lo, and Michael C. Willis, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 15576-15581. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.1c08052)
"Azine-N-oxides as Effective Controlling Groups for Rh-catalysed Intermolecular Alkyne Hydroacylation", Daniel F. Moseley, Jagadeesh Kalepu, and Michael C. Willis, Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 13068–13073. (doi: 10.1039/D1SC03915F)
"Base-activated latent heteroaromatic sulfinates as nucleophilic coupling partners in palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions", Xinlan A. F. Cook, Loïc R. E. Pantaine, David C. Blakemore, Ian B. Moses, Neal W. Sach] Andre Shavnya, and Michael C. Willis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 22461-22468. (doi: 10.1002/anie.202109146)
“How do we address neglected sulfur pharmacophores in drug discovery?” Michael J. Tilby and Michael C. Willis, Expert Opin. Drug Disc., 2021, 16. (doi: 10.1080/17460441.2021.1948008)
"Sequential catalytic functionalization of aryltriazenyl aldehydes for the synthesis of complex benzenes", Sangwon Seo, Ming Gao, Eva Paffenholz and Michael C. Willis, ACS Catalysis 2021, 11, 6091–6098. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.1c01722)
"Rediscovering Sulfinylamines as Reagents for Organic Synthesis", Thomas Q. Davies and Michael C. Willis, Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 8918-8927. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202100321)
"Benzenemethanamine, a,a-diphenyl-N- sulfinyl-", Michael J. Tilby and Michael C. Willis, eEROS, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, Wiley, 2021. (doi: 10.1002/047084289X.rn02281)
"Benzosultam synthesis exploiting sequential palladium-catalysed intermolecular aminosulfonylation and intramolecular sulfamidation", Charlotte S. Richards-Taylor, and Michael C. Willis, Tetrahedron 2021, 77. (doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2021.131988). Invited contribution to the special issue in memory of Prof. Jonathan Williams.