Paper Publications

• [1] Enantioselective epoxidation of α, β-enones promoted by (1R,3S,4S)-2- azanorbornyl-3-methanol as an organocatalyst Jun Lu, Yun-He Xu, Feng Liu, Teck-Peng Loh *Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49, 6007-6008.
• [2] Direct Cross-Coupling Reaction of Simple Alkenes with Acrylates Catalyzed by Palladium Catalyst Yun-He Xu, Jun Lu, and Teck-Peng Loh* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131，1372-1373.
• [3] Palladium-Catalyzed Direct Arylation of Cyclic Enamides with Aryl Silanes by sp2 C-H Activation Hai Zhou, Yun-He Xu, Wan-Jun Chung, and Teck-Peng Loh* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 5355 -5357.
• [4] Direct arylation of cyclic enamides via Pd(II)-catalyzed C?H activation Hai Zhou, Wan-Jun Chung, Yun-He Xu and Teck-Peng Loh* Chem. Commun., 2009, 3472 - 3474.
• [5] Palladium Catalyzed Direct Cross-Coupling Reaction Between Indenes and Electron-poor Alkenes Yun-He Xu, Wee-Jian Wang, Zhen-Kang Wen, Joshua Johnathan Hartley and Teck-Peng Loh* Tetrahedron Lett. 2010, 51, 3504-3507.
• [6] Synthesis and Characterization of Cyclic Vinylpalladium(II) Complex: Vinylpalladium Specie as the Possible Intermediate in the Catalytic Direct Olefination Reaction of Enamide Yun-He Xu, Chok Yew Keong, Teck-Peng Loh* Chem. Sci. 2011, 2, 1822-1825
• [7] Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Conjugate Addition of Grignard Reagents to Methyl 4,4,4-Trifluorocrotonate: Synthesis of Enantioenriched Trifluoromethylated Compounds.CHEMISTRY-AN ASIAN JOURNAL.2015,10(4):844-848
• [8] xuyunhe.Synthesis of multi-substituted vinylsilanes via copper(I)-catalyzed hydrosilylation reactions of allenes and propiolate derivatives with silylboronates.CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS.2013,50(54):7195-7197
• [9] B(C6F5)(3): A New Class of Strong and Bulky Lewis Acid for Exo-Selective Intermolecular Diels-Alder Reactions of Unreactive Acyclic Dienes with alpha,beta-Enals.ORGANIC LETTERS.2015,17(18):4432-4435
• [10] xuyunhe.Synthesis of multi-substituted pyrroles using enamides and alkynes catalyzed by Pd(OAc)(2) with molecular oxygen as an oxidant.CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS.2013,50(21):2784-2786
• [11] xuyunhe.Palladium-Catalyzed Direct Alkynylation of N-Vinylacetamides.ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS.2014,356(7):1539-1543
• [12] Pd-Catalyzed Intramolecular C-N Bond Cleavage, 1,4-Migration, sp(3) C-H Activation, and Heck Reaction: Four Controllable Diverse Pathways Depending on the Judicious Choice of the Base and Ligand.JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.2015,137(3):1341-1347
• [13] Palladium-Catalyzed Difunctionalization of Internal Alkynes via Highly Regioselective 6-Endo Cyclization and Alkenylation of Enynoates: Synthesis of Multisubstituted Pyrones.ORGANIC LETTERS.2015,17(7):1636-1639
• [14] Selective Dealkylation of Alkyl Aryl Ethers.ASIAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY.2015,4(10):1047-1049
• [15] Synthesis of Dienyl Ketones via Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Direct Cross-Coupling Reactions between Simple Alkenes and Vinyl Ketones: Application to the Synthesis of Vitamin A1 and Bornelone.ORGANIC LETTERS.2013,15(21):5531-5533