2025
“A modular synthesis of azetidines from reactive triplet imine intermediates using an intermolecular aza Paternò-Büchi reaction”, Benedict A. Williams, Michael J. Tilby, Nicholas A. Parker, Mycah R. Uehling, J. Caleb Hethcox, Dipannita Kalyani, Michael C. Willis, Nat. Catal. 2025, 8, in press. (doi: 10.1038/s41929-025-01405-7)
“Iron‑catalyzed decarboxylative sulfinylation of alkyl carboxylic acids”, Matthew Southern, Christopher Pearce and Michael C. Willis, Org. Lett. 2025, 27. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5c03100)
“A DFT study of the hydroacylation reaction catalyzed by rhodium complexes with small-bite-angle diphosphine ligands: The crucial role of xxternal Lewis bases”, Andrew S. Weller, Michael C. Willis, Libero J. Bartolotti, Andrew T. Morehead, Jr.,* and Andrew L. Sargent,* Organometallics 2025, 44, 1815−1824. (doi: 10.1021/acs.organomet.5c00179)
“Desulfinative cross-coupling as a method to overcome problematic Suzuki–Miyaura reactions of pharmaceutically relevant heteroaromatic boronates”, David C. Blakemore, Andre Shavnya,* Michael C. Willis,* ACS Med. Chem. Lett. 2025, 16,
1563–1472. (doi: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.5c00327).
“Synthesis and functionalization of vinyl sulfonimidamides and their potential as electrophilic warheads”, Yu Tung (Ivan) Wong, Charles Bell, and Michael C. Willis, Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 12860–2866 (doi: 10.1039/d5sc02420j)
"Asymmetric reductive arylation and alkenylation to access S-chirogenic sulfinamides", Xiaowu Fang, Longlong Xi , Minyan Wang*, Jieshuai Xiao, Yue Zhao, Michael C. Willis*, and Zhuangzhi Shi*, Nat. Commun. 2025, 16:2547. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-57471-9).
