“Rhodium-Catalyzed Reductive Aldol Reactions Using Aldehydes as the Stoichiometric Reductants”, M. C. Willis and R. L. Woodward, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 18012-18013.
“Efficient palladium-catalysed enamide synthesis from enol triflates and enol tosylates”, M. C. Willis, G. N. Brace and I. P. Holmes, Synthesis, 2005, 3229-3234.
“A new reactivity pattern for vinyl bromides; Cine-substitution via palladium catalysed C-N coupling/Michael addition reactions”, M. C. Willis, J. Chauhan and W. G. Whittingham, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2005, 3, 3094-3095.
“Ruthenium(II) complexes of the chelating phosphine borane H2ClB·dppm”, N. Merle,C. G. Frost, G. Kociok Köhn, M. C. Willis and A. S. Weller, J. Organometallic Chem. 2005, 690, 2829-2834.
“Chelation controlled intermolecular alkene and alkyne hydroacylation: The utility of β-thioacetal aldehydes”, M. C. Willis, H. E. Randell-Sly, R. L. Woodward and G. S. Currie, Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 2249-2251.
“The direct catalytic enantioselective synthesis of protected aryl β-hydroxy-α-amino Acids”, M. C. Willis, G. A. Cutting, V. J.-D. Piccio, M. J. Durbin and M. P. John, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44. 1543-1545.
“Palladium catalysed tandem alkenyl- and aryl-C-N bond formation: A cascade N-annulation route to 1-functionalised indoles”, M. C. Willis, G. N. Brace and I. P. Holmes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 403-406.
