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1. Yuan Cai, Mahiob Dawor, Gaurav Gaurav, Tobias Ritter*. Kharasch-Type Haloalkylation of Alkenes by Photoinduced Copper Catalysis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 18438–18444.
2. Yuan Cai, Triptesh Kumar Roy, Till JB Zähringer, Beatrice Lansbergen, Christoph Kerzig*, Tobias Ritter*. Arylthianthrenium salts for triplet energy transfer catalysis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 30474-30482.
3. Yuan Cai, Sagnik Chatterjee, Tobias Ritter*. Photoinduced Copper-Catalyzed Late-Stage Azidoarylation of Alkenes via Arylthianthrenium Salts. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 13542-13548.
4. Yuan Cai, Shi-Liang Shi*. Enantioconvergent Arylation of Racemic Secondary Alcohols to Chiral Tertiary Alcohols Enabled by Nickel/N-
Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 11963-11968.
5. Yuan Cai, Xin-Tuo Yang, Shuo-Qing Zhang, Feng Li, Yu-Qing Li, Lin-Xin Ruan, Xin Hong, Shi-Liang Shi*. Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Markovnikov Protoboration of α-Olefins Enabled by a Buttressed N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 1376-1380.
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