Dhiraj K. Jha, Sandhya Acharya, Nagaraju Sakkani, Samantha Chapa, Andrew Guerra, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Visible light-assisted ring-opening of cyclic ethers with carboxylic acids mediated by triphenylphosphine and N-halosuccinimides" Org. Lett., 2024, 26, 172-177. DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.3c03805
Dhiraj K. Jha, Nagaraju Sakkani, John C.-G. Zhao* "Visible light-assisted direct C-H acyloxylation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using carboxylic acids" Adv. Synth. Catal., 2023, 365, 1585-1590. DOI:10.1002/adsc.202300043
Nagaraju Sakkani, Dhiraj K. Jha, Nouraan Sadiq, Parisa Sharif, John C.-G. Zhao* "Synthesis of phenyliodine(III) bis(3-bromopropionate) for an organocatalytic Markovnikov-type bromo-aminoxidation of vinylarenes", Green Synth. Catal., 2023, 4, 316-320. DOI:10.1016/j.gresc.2023.06.001
Nagaraju Sakkani; Dhiraj K. Jha, Nouraan Sadiq, John C.-G. Zhao* "Organocatalytic synthesis of β-enaminyl radicals as the single-electron donors for phenyliodine(III) dicarboxylates: Direct one-pot alkylation-aminoxidation of alkenes" Org. Biomol. Chem., 2023, 21, 761-767. DOI:10.1039/D2OB01826H
Nagaraju Sakkani; Dhiraj K. Jha, Emily Whatley, John C.-G. Zhao* "Visible light-assisted organocatalytic α-acyloxylation of ketones using carboxylic acids and N-halosuccinimides" Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 11308-11311. DOI:10.1039/d2cc04016f
Ramarao Parella, Satish Jakkampudi, Pranjal Bora, Nagaraju Sakkani, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Domino Michael/Michael reaction catalyzed by switchable modularly designed organocatalysts" Org. Biomol. Chem., 2022, 20, 163-172. DOI:10.1039/d1ob01991K
Nagaraju Sakkani; Satish Jakkampudi, Nouraan Sadiq, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Synthesis of α-sulfonyl ketones through a salicylic acid-catalyzed multicomponent reaction involving arylsulfonation and oxidation" ChemistrySelect, 2021, 6, 13577-13581. DOI:10.1002/slct.202104138
Satish Jakkampudi, Nagaraju Sakkani, and J. C.-G. Zhao* "Synthesis of α-sulfonyl ketoximes through a salicylic acid-catalyzed four-component reaction involving radical sulfonylation followed by arylsulfonylation and oximation" Tetrahedron Lett., 2021, 76, 153229. DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2021.153229
Pranjal Bora, Satish Jakkampudi, Ramarao Parella, Nagaraju Sakkani, Qipu Dai, Manisha Bihani, Hadi D. Arman, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Diastereodivergent synthesis of 4-oxocyclohexanecarbaldehydes by using the modularly designed organocatalysts upon switching on their iminium catalysis" Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 5334-5337. DOI:10.1039/D1CC01020D
Ramarao Parella, Satish Jakkampudi, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Recent applications of asymmetric organocatalytic methods in total synthesis" ChemistrySelect, 2021, 6, 2252-2280. DOI:10.1002/slct.202004196
Satish Jakkampudi, Swapna Konda, Hadi Arman, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Diastereodivergent synthesis of bridged tetrahydroisoquinoline derivatives catalyzed by modularly designed organocatalysts" Adv. Synth. Catal., 2020, 362, 2419-2426. DOI:10.1002/adsc.202000227
Debashis Majee, Satish Jakkampudi, Hadi D. Arman, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Enantioselective synthesis of cyclohexenol derivatives from γ-aryl-substituted enals via an organocatalyzed three-component reaction" Org. Lett., 2019, 21, 9166-9170. DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03532
Swapna Konda, Satish Jakkampudi, Hadi D. Arman, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Enantioselective synthesis of spiro[4 H-pyran-3,3'-oxindole] derivatives catalyzed by cinchona alkaloid thioureas: Significant water effects on the enantioselectivity" Synth. Commun., 2019, 49, 2971-2982. DOI:10.1080/00397911.2019.1651866
Xue Lu, Yili Zhang, Yichen Wang, Yuzhen Chen, Weiwen Chen, Ruoting Zhan, John C.-G. Zhao, and Huicai Huang* "Asymmetric catalysis using modularly designed organocatalysts: Synthesis of fused tricyclic pyrano-pyrano[2,3- c]pyrrol Derivatives" Adv. Synth. Catal., 2019, 361, 3234-3238. DOI:10.1002/adsc.201900254
Satish Jakkampudi, Ramarao Parella, Hadi D. Arman, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Diastereodivergent synthesis of hexahydro-6 H-benzo[ c]chromen-6-one derivatives catalyzed by modularly designed organocatalysts" Chem. Eur. J., 2019, 25, 7515-7520. DOI:10.1002/chem.201806447
Ramarao Parella, Satish Jakkampudi, Hadi Arman, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Stereoselective synthesis of 3-oxabicyclo[3.3.1]nonan-2-ones via a domino reaction catalyzed by modularly designed organocatalysts" Adv. Synth. Catal., 2019, 361, 208-213. DOI:10.1002/adsc.201800987
Rajasekhar Dodda, Sampak Samanta, Matthew Su, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Synthesis of 1,2-diamine bifunctional catalysts for the direct aldol reaction through probing the remote amide hydrogen" Curr. Organocatal., 2019, 6, 171-176. DOI:10.2174/2213337206666190301155247
Satish Jakkampudi, Ramarao Parella, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Stereoselective synthesis of chromane derivatives via a domino reaction catalyzed by modularly designed organocatalysts" Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019, 17, 151-155. DOI:10.1039/c8ob02677g
Swapna Konda and John C.-G. Zhao* "Enantioselective anti-Mannich reaction catalyzed by modularly designed organocatalysts" Tetrahedron, 2018, 74, 6166-6172. DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2018.09.006
Fushun Tang, John C.-G. Zhao,* and Banglin Chen* "Porous coordination polymers for heterogeneous catalysis" Curr. Org. Chem., 2018, 22, 1773-1791. DOI:10.2174/1385272822666180827143018
Fu-Shun Tang, Rui-Biao Lin,* Rong-Guang Lin, John Cong-Gui Zhao, and Banglin Chen* "Separation of C2 hydrocarbons from methane in a microporous metal-organic framework" J. Solid State Chem., 2018, 258, 346-350. DOI:10.1016/j.jssc.2017.11.001
Tanmoy Chanda and John C.-G. Zhao* "Recent progress in organocatalytic asymmetric domino transformations" Adv. Synth. Catal., 2018, 360, 2-79. DOI:10.1002/adsc.201701059
Kartick C. Bhowmick, Manisha Bihani, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Organocatalyzed asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions in aqueous or semi-aqueous media" Mini-Rev. Org. Chem., 2018, 15, 3-19. DOI:10.2174/1570193X14666170518121235
Tanmay Mandal, Wen Kuo, Matthew Su, Kartick Bhowmick, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Prolinal dithioacetals: Highly efficient organocatalysts for the direct nitro-Michael additions in both organic and aqueous media" Tetrahedron, 2017, 73, 6597-6603. DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2017.10.008
Wei Yang, Jiawei Wang, Hailong Wang, Zongbi Bao, John Cong-Gui Zhao, and Banglin Chen* "Highly interpenetrated robust microporous hydrogen-bonded organic framework for gas separation" Cryst. Growth Des., 2017, 17, 6132-6137. DOI:10.1021/acs.cgd.7b01322
Osamah Alduhaish, Bin Li, Arman Hadi, Rui-Biao Lin, John Cong-Gui Zhao, Banglin Chen* "A two-dimensional microporous metal-organic framework for highly selective adsorption of carbon dioxide and acetylene" Chin. Chem. Lett., 2017, 28, 1653-1658. DOI:10.1016/j.cclet.2017.04.025
Manisha Bihani and John C.-G. Zhao* "Advances in asymmetric diastereodivergent catalysis" Adv. Synth. Catal., 2017, 359, 534-575. DOI:10.1002/adsc.201601188
Hailong Wang, Hui Wu, Jinglan Kan, Ganggang Chang, Zizhu Yao, Bin Li, Wei Zhou, Shengchang Xiang, John Cong-Gui Zhao, Banglin Chen* "A microporous hydrogen-bonded organic framework with amine sites for selective recognition of small molecules" J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017, 5, 8292-8296. DOI:10.1039/C7TA01364G
Hailong Wang, Zongbi Bao, Hui Wu, Rui-Biao Lin, Wei Zhou, Tong-Liang Hu, Bin Li, John Cong-Gui Zhao, Banglin Chen* "Two solvent-induced porous hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks: Solvent effects on structures and functionalities" Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 11150-11153. DOI:10.1039/C7CC06187K
Naresh Ramireddy, Santhi Abbaraju, Derong Ding, Hadi Arman, and John C.-G. Zhao "Organocatalyzed enantioselective synthesis of 2-amino-4 H-chromene derivatives" J. Heterocycl. Chem., 2017, 54, 677-691. DOI:10.1002/jhet.2641
Jie Guang, Saroj Rout, Manisha Bihani, Ariel J. Larson, Hadi D. Arman, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Organocatalyzed enantioselective direct Mannich reaction of α-styrylacetates" Org. Lett., 2016, 18, 2648-2651. DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.6b01087
Huicai Huang, Santhi Abbaraju, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Enantioselective β-alkylation of aldehydes through an organocatalyzed C–C bond-scission reaction" Synlett, 2016, 27, 1379-1382. DOI:10.1055/s-0035-1561397
Huicai Huang, Swapna Konda, and John C.-G Zhao* "Diastereodivergent catalysis using modularly designed organocatalysts: Synthesis of both cis- and trans-fused pyrano[2,3-b]pyrans" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 2213-2216. DOI:10.1002/anie.201510134
Huicai Huang, Manisha Bihani, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Stereoselective synthesis of spirooxindole derivatives using an organocatalyzed tandem Michael-Michael reaction" Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016, 14, 1755-1763. DOI:10.1039/C5OB02348C
Santhi Abbaraju, Naresh Ramireddy, Nirmal K. Rana, Hadi Arman, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Organocatalytic enantioselective synthesis of polysubstituted spirooxindoles using a tandem Michael-Michael reaction" Adv. Synth. Catal., 2015, 12, 2633-2638. DOI:10.1002/adsc.201500298
Jie Guang, Ariel J. Larson, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Stereoselective Mannich reaction of S-phenyl thioesters catalyzed by bifunctional organocatalysts" Adv. Synth. Catal., 2015, 357, 523-529. DOI:10.1002/adsc.201400735
Peng Li, Sridhar Regati, Hui-Cai Huang, Hadi D. Arman, Bang-Lin Chen,* John C.-G. Zhao* "A sulfonate-based Cu(I) metal-organic framework as a highly efficient and reusable catalyst for the synthesis of propargylamines under solvent-free conditions" Chin. Chem. Lett., 2015, 26, 6-10. DOI:10.1016/j.cclet.2014.10.022
Peng Li, Sridhar Regati, Huicai Huang, Hadi D. Arman, John C.-G. Zhao,* and Banglin Chen* "A metal-organic framework as a highly efficient and reusable catalyst for the solvent-free 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition of organic azides to alkynes" Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015, 2, 42-46. DOI:10.1039/C4QI00148F
Swapna Konda, Qun-Sheng Guo, Manabu Abe, Huicai Huang, Hadi Arman, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Organocatalyzed asymmetric aldol reactions of ketones and β, γ-unsaturated α-ketoesters and phenylglyoxal hydrates" J. Org. Chem., 2015, 80, 806-815. DOI:10.1021/jo502254e
Swapna Konda and John C.-G. Zhao* "High enantioselective Michael addition of malonates to β,γ-unsaturated α-ketoesters catalyzed by bifunctional thioureas" Tetrahedron Lett., 2014, 55, 5216-5218. DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2014.07.112
Nirmal K. Rana, Huicai Huang, and John C.-G. Zhao* "Highly diastereodivergent synthesis of tetrasubstituted cyclohexanes catalyzed by modularly designed organocatalysts" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 53, 7619-7623. DOI:10.1002/anie.201404072
Jitin Samuel, Debarshi Sinha, John Cong-Gui Zhao, and Xiaodu Wang* "Water residing in small ultrastructural spaces plays a critical role in the mechanical behavior of bone" Bone, 2014, 59, 199-206. DOI:10.1016/j.bone.2013.11.018
Naresh Ramireddy and John C.-G. Zhao* "Base-catalyzed reaction between isatins and N-Boc-3-pyrrolin-2-one" Tetrahedron Lett., 2014, 55, 706-709. DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2013.11.118
Peng Li, Yabing He, Jie Guang, Linghong Weng, and John Cong-Gui Zhao, Shengchang Xiang, Banglin Chen* "A homochiral microporous hydrogen-bonded organic framework for highly enantioselective separation of secondary alcohols" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 547-549. DOI:10.1021/ja4129795
Santhi Abbaraju and John Cong-Gui Zhao* "Asymmetric aldol reaction of 3-acetyl-2 H-chromen-2-ones and isatins catalyzed by a bifunctional quinidine urea catalyst" Adv. Synth. Catal., 2014, 356, 237-241. DOI:10.1002/adsc.201300623
Sandun Perera, Debarshi Sinha, Nirmal K. Rana, Van Trieu-Do, and John Cong-Gui Zhao* "List-Barbas-Mannich reaction catalyzed by modularly designed organocatalysts" J. Org. Chem., 2013, 78, 10947-10953. DOI:10.1021/jo4019304
Jie Guang and John Cong-Gui Zhao* "Organocatalyzed asymmetric Michael reaction of β-aryl-α-ketophosphonates and nitroalkenes" Tetrahedron Lett., 2013, 54, 5703-5706. DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2013.08.015
Qipu Dai, Nirmal K. Rana, and John Cong-Gui Zhao* "Highly stereoselective synthesis of 2,6- cis-substituted tetrahydropyrans using a one-pot sequential catalysis" Org. Lett., 2013, 15, 2922-2925. DOI:10.1021/ol400900h
Debarshi Sinha, Sandun Perera, and John Cong-Gui Zhao* "Highly enantioselective inverse-electron-demand hetero-Diels-Alder reactions catalyzed by modularly designed organocatalysts" Chem. Eur. J., 2013, 19, 6976-6979. DOI:10.1002/chem.201300168
Savitha Muramulla, Jun-An Ma, and John Cong-Gui Zhao* "Michael addition of ketones and aldehydes to maleimides catalyzed by modularly designed organocatalysts" Adv. Synth. Catal., 2013, 355, 1260-1264. DOI:10.1002/adsc.201300041
Qipu Dai, Huicai Huang, and John Cong-Gui Zhao* "Highly stereoselective synthesis of trisubstituted cyclohexanols using a guanidine-catalyzed tandem Henry-Michael reaction" J. Org. Chem., 2013, 78, 4153-4157. DOI:10.1021/jo4001806
Qunsheng Guo, John Cong-Gui Zhao* "Highly enantioselective three-component direct Mannich reactions of unfunctionalized ketones catalyzed by bifunctional organocatalysts" Org. Lett., 2013, 15, 508-511. DOI:10.1021/ol303315c
Qipu Dai, Hadi Arman and John Cong-Gui Zhao* "One-pot sequential organocatalysis: highly stereoselective synthesis of trisubstituted cyclohexanols" Chem. Eur. J., 2013, 19, 1666-1671. DOI:10.1002/chem.201203104
Sridhar Regati, Yabing He, Muralidhara Thimmaiah, Peng Li, Shengchang Xiang, Banglin Chen,* and John Cong-Gui Zhao* "Enantioselective ring-opening of meso-epoxides by aromatic amines catalyzed by a homochiral metal-organic framework" Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 9836-9838. DOI:10.1039/c3cc45988h
Feng Li, Long Sun, Yuou Teng, Peng Yu, John Cong-Gui Zhao, and Jun-An Ma* "Highly diastereo-and enantioselective organocatalytic one-pot sequential 1,4-addition/dearomative-fluorination transformation" Chem. Eur. J., 2012, 18, 14255-14260. DOI:10.1002/chem.201202636
Debarshi Sinha, Tanmay Mandal, Sanjib Gogoi, Joshua J. Goldman, and John Cong-Gui Zhao* "Asymmetric aldol reaction catalyzed by modularly designed organocatalysts" Chin. J. Chem., 2012, 30, 2624-2630. DOI:10.1002/cjoc.201200639
Muralidhara Thimmaiah, Peng Li, Sridhar Regati, Banglin Chen,* and John Cong-Gui Zhao* "Multi-component synthesis of 2-amino-6-(alkylthio) pyridine-3,5-dicarbonitriles using Zn(II) and Cd(II) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) under solvent-free conditions" Tetrahedron Lett., 2012, 53, 4870-4872. DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2012.06.139
Qunsheng Guo, John Cong-Gui Zhao,* and Hadi Arman "Base-catalyzed three-component direct Mannich reaction of enolizable ketones with high syn-selectivities" Tetrahedron Lett., 2012, 53, 4866-4869. DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2012.06.140
Jie Guang, Qunsheng Guo, and John Cong-Gui Zhao* "Acetylphosphonate as a surrogate of acetate or acetamide in organocatalyzed enantioselective aldol reactions" Org. Lett., 2012, 14, 3174-3177. DOI:10.1021/ol301270w
Madhab C. Das, Qunsheng Guo, Yabing He, Jaheon Kim, Cong-Gui Zhao, Kunlun Hong, Shengchang Xiang, Zhangjing Zhang, K. Mark Thomas, Rajamani Krishna,* and Banglin Chen* "Interplay of metalloligand and organic ligand to tune micropores within isostructural mixed-metal organic frameworks (M'MOFs) for their highly selective separation of chiral and achiral small molecules" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 8703-8710. DOI:10.1021/ja302380x
Qunsheng Guo and John Cong-Gui Zhao* "Primary amine catalyzed aldol reaction of isatins and acetaldehyde" Tetrahedron Lett., 2012, 53, 1768-1771. DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2012.01.108
Mayur Bhanushali and Cong-Gui Zhao* "Organocatalyzed enantioselective aldol reaction of 1H-pyrrole-2,3-diones" Tetrahedron Lett., 2012, 53, 359-362. DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.11.056
Laxmidhar Rout, Sridhar Regati, and Cong-Gui Zhao* "Copper-catalyzed α-arylation and deacylative α-arylation of β-ketophosphonates" Adv. Synth. Catal., 2011, 353, 3340-3346. DOI:10.1002/adsc.201100605
Naresh Ramireddy, Santhi Abbaraju, and Cong-Gui Zhao* "Organocatalyzed enantioselective synthesis of 2-amino-5-oxo-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-4H-chromene-3-carboxylates" Tetrahedron Lett., 2011, 52, 6792-6795. DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.10.040
Peng Li, Sridhar Regati, Raymond J. Butcher, Hadi D. Arman, Zhenxia Chen, Shengchang Xiang, Banglin Chen,* and Cong-Gui Zhao* "Hydrogen-bonding 2D metal-organic solids as highly robust and efficient heterogeneous green catalysts for Biginelli reaction" Tetrahedron Lett., 2011, 52, 6220-6222. DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.09.099
Santhi Abbaraju, Mayur Bhanushali, and Cong-Gui Zhao* "Quinidine thiourea-catalyzed enantioselective synthesis of β-nitrophosphonates: Beneficial effect of molecular sieves" Tetrahedron, 2011, 67, 7479-7484. DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2011.07.059
Jie Guang and Cong-Gui Zhao* "Organocatalytic enantioselective tandem aldol-cyclization reaction of α-isothiocyanato imides and activated carbonyl compounds" Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2011, 22, 1205-1211. DOI:10.1016/j.tetasy.2011.06.028
Sandun Perera, Vijaya Kumar Naganaboin, Long Wang, Bin Zhang, Qunsheng Guo, Laxmidhar Rout, and Cong-Gui Zhao* "Organocatalytic high enantioselective synthesis of β-formyl-α-hydroxyphosphonates" Adv. Synth. Catal., 2011, 353, 1729-1734. DOI:10.1002/adsc.201000835
Savitha Muramulla and Cong-Gui Zhao* "A new catalytic mode of the modularly designed organocatalysts (MDOs): Enantioselective synthesis of dihydropyrano[2,3-c]pyrazoles" Tetrahedron Lett., 2011, 52, 3905-3908. DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.05.092
Mayur Bhanushali and Cong-Gui Zhao* "Developing novel organocatalyzed aldol reactions for the enantioselective synthesis of biologically active molecules" Synthesis, 2011, 1815-1830. DOI:10.1055/s-0030-1260029
Sheng-Chang Xiang, Zhangjing Zhang, Cong-Gui Zhao, Kunlun Hong, Xuebo Zhao, De-Rong Ding, Ming-Hua Xie, Chuan-De Wu, Madhab C. Das, Rachel Gill, K. Mark Thomas,* and Banglin Chen* "Rationally tuned micropores within enantiopure metal-organic frameworks for highly selective separation of C2H2/C2H4" Nature Commun., 2011, 2, 1206. DOI:10.1038/ncomms1206
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