1. R. A. Olofson, J. M. Landesberg,
K. N. Houk, and J. S. Michelman: "The Deprotonation
of Thiazole and Related Bases," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
88, 4265-4266 (1966).
2. K. N. Houk and R. B. Woodward: "Cycloaddition
Reactions of Cycloheptatriene and 2,5-Dimethyl-3,4-diphenylcyclopentadienone,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 92, 4143 (1970).
3. K. N. Houk and R. B. Woodward: "Cycloaddition
Reactions of Tropone and 2,5-Dimethyl-3,4-diphenyl-cyclopentadienone,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 92, 4145 (1970).
4. K. N. Houk: "The Role of Secondary Orbital
Interactions in Cycloaddition Reactions," Tetrahedron
Lett., 30, 2621 (1970).
5. K. N. Houk, L. J. Luskus, and N. S. Bhacca: "The
Novel Double [6+4] Cycloaddition of Tropone to Dimethylfulvene,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 92, 6392 (1970).
6. K. N. Houk and C. R. Watts: "Cycloadditions
of Tropone to Diphenyl-nitrileimine: A [6+4] 1,3-Dipolar
Cycloaddition," Tetrahedron Lett., 46, 4025 (1970).
7. K. N. Houk and L. J. Luskus: "The [6+4] 1,3-Dipolar
Cycloaddition of Diazomethane to Dimethylfulvene,"
Tetrahedron Lett., 46, 4029 (1970).
8. N. S. Bhacca, L. J. Luskus, and K. N. Houk: "Elucidation
of the Structure of the Double [6+4] Adduct of Tropone
and Dimethylfulvene by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and
the Nuclear Overhauser Effect," Chem. Comm., 109
(1971).
9. K. N. Houk and L. J. Luskus: "The Influence
of Steric Interactions on Endo Stereoselectivity,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 93, 4606 (1971).
10. K. N. Houk and D. J. Northington: "Photochemistry
of Tricyclo-[4.4.1.12,5]-dodeca-3,7.9-trienes. I. Selective
Photochemically Forbidden Processes," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 93, 6693 (1971).
11. K. N. Houk and D. J. Northington: "Photochemistry
of Cyclopentadienone Dimers," Tetrahedron Lett.,
4, 303 (1972).
12. K. N. Houk and D. J. Northington: "Solvent
Dependence in the Photochemical Dimerization and (p2a+s2a)
Rearrangement of a Bridged 3,5-Cycloheptadienone,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 94, 1387 (1972).
13. L. J. Luskus and K. N. Houk: "Pyrazolotropones
in the Cycloaddition of Diazomethane to Tropone,"
Tetrahedron Lett., 1925 (1972).
14. K. N. Houk, L. J. Luskus, and N. S. Bhacca: "Stereoselective
[6+4] Cycloadditions of Methylfulvene and Phenylfulvene
to Tropone," Tetrahedron Lett., 2297 (1972).
15. K. N. Houk, D. J. Northington, and R. E. Duke:
"A Molecular Orbital Model for the Photochemistry
of b, g-Unsaturated Ketones," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
94, 6233 (1972).
16. K. N. Houk: "Regioselectivity and Reactivity
in the 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of Diazonium Betaines
(Diazoalkanes, Azides, and Nitrous Oxide)," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 94, 8953 (1972).
17. K. N. Houk: "Generalized Frontier Orbitals
of Alkenes and Dienes: Regioselectivity in Diels-Alder
Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 95, 4092 (1973).
18. K. N. Houk and R. W. Strozier: "On Lewis Acid
Catalysis of Diels-Alder Reactions," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 95, 4094 (1973).
19. J. Sims and K. N. Houk: "Reversal of Nitrone
Cycloaddition Regioselectivity with Electron-Deficient
Dipolarophiles," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 95, 5798 (1973).
20. K. N. Houk and L. J. Luskus: "Cycloadditions
of Dienes to Fulvenes," J. Org. Chem., 38, 3836
(1973).
21. K. N. Houk, J. Sims, R. E. Duke Jr., R. W. Strozier,
and J. K. George: "Frontier Molecular Orbitals
of 1,3-Dipoles and Dipolarophiles," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 95, 7287 (1973).
22. K. N. Houk, J. Sims, C. R. Watts, and L. J. Luskus:
"The Origin of Reactivity, Regioiselectivity, and
Periselectivity in 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 95, 7301 (1973).
23. K. N. Houk, L. P. Davis, G. R. Newkome, R. E. Duke
Jr., and R. V. Nauman: "Photoelectron Spectroscopy
of Cyclic b-Diketones and Their Enolone Tautomers,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 95, 8364 (1973).
24. K. N. Houk: "Pericyclic Reactions and Orbital
Symmetry," in "Survey of Progress in Chemistry,"
(A. Scott, Editor ) Academic Press, 6, 113 (1973).
25. K. N. Houk, J. K. George, and R. E. Duke Jr.: "A
Frontier Molecular Orbital Treatment of Fulvene Cycloadditions:
Molecular Orbital Calculations and Photoelectron Spectra
of Substituted Fulvenes," Tetrahedron Lett., 523
(1974).
26. K. N. Houk, R. W. Strozier, and J. A. Hall: "Heterocumulene
Molecular Orbitals: Ketenes, Isocyanates, Sulfenes,
and Sulfonylamines," Tetrahedron Lett., 897 (1974).
27. W. A. Pryor, J. H. Coco, W. H. Daly, and K. N.
Houk: "Radical Generation from Polymolecular Reactions
of Closed-Shell Molecules. Molecule-Assisted Homolysis
(MAH). Hydrogen Atom Transfer from a Diels-Alder Adduct
to an Alkene," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 96, 5591 (1974).
28. K. N. Houk, Y.-M. Chang, and P. S. Engel: "Photoelectron
Spectroscopy of Azo Compounds," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
97, 1824 (1975).
29. K. N. Houk: "The Frontier Molecular Orbital
Theory of Cycloaddition Reactions," Acc. Chem.
Res., 8, 361 (1975).
30. Y.-M. Chang, J. Sims, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism
of 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions to Highly Electron-Deficient
Dipolarophiles," Tetrahedron Lett., 4445 (1975).
31. K. N. Houk: "Photochemistry and Spectroscopy
of b,g-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds," Chem. Reviews,
76, 1 (1976).
32. K. N. Houk and L. L. Munchausen: "Ionization
Potentials, Electron Affinities and Reactivities of
Cyanoalkene Reactivities in Cycloadditions, Electrophilic,
Nucleophilic, and Radical Reactions," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 98, 937 (1976).
33. P. D. Mollere, K. N. Houk, D. S. Bomse, and T.
H. Morton: "Photoelectron Spectra of Sterically
Congested Alkenes and Dienes," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
98, 4732 (1976).
34. C. Santiago and K. N. Houk: "A Molecular Orbital
Model for Bridging Regioselectivity in Di-p-methane
Rearrangements," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 98, 3380 (1976).
35. P. Caramella and K. N. Houk: "Geometries of
Nitrilium Betaines. The Clarification of Apparently
Anomalous Reactions of 1,3-Dipoles," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 98, 6397 (1976).
36. P. Caramella, G. Cellerino, A. Corsico Coda, A.
Gamba Invernizzi, P. Grunanger, and K. N. Houk: "Selectivity
in Cycloadditions. 5. Cycloadditions of Nitrile Oxides
to Furan. Competing Mechanisms and Regiochemistry,"
J. Org. Chem., 41, 3349 (1976).
37. L. C. Dunn, Y.-M. Chang, and K. N. Houk: "The
[6+4] Cycloadditions of Diethylaminobutadiene to Fulvenes.
A New Synthesis of Azulenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
98, 7095 (1976).
38. C. Santiago, K. N. Houk, R. A. Snow, and L. A.
Paquette: "Bridging Regioselectivity in Triplet-Sensitized
Di-p-methane Photorearrangements of Ortho-Substituted
Benzonorbornadienes. A Case for the Importance of Benzene
HOMO and LUMO Polarization," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
98, 7443 (1976).
39. P. Caramella, R. W. Gandour, J. A. Hall, C. G.
Deville, and K. N. Houk: "A Derivation of the Shapes
and Energies of the Molecular Orbitals of 1,3-Dipoles.
Geometry Optimizations of These Species by MINDO/2 and
MINDO/3," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 99, 385 (1977).
40. E. J. McAlduff and K. N. Houk: "Photoelectron
Spectra of Substituted Oxiranes and Thiiranes. Substituent
Effects on Ionization Potentials Involving s Orbitals,"
Can. J. Chem., 55, 318 (1977).
41. K. N. Houk: "Applications of Frontier Molecular
Orbital Theory to Pericyclic Reactions" in "Pericyclic
Reactions," A. P. Marchand, R. E. Lehr; Eds., Academic
Press, New York, 2, 181.
42. K. N. Houk, E. J. McAlduff, P. D. Mollere, R. W.
Strozier, and Y.-M. Chang: "Linear Correlations
Between the Ionization Potentials of Molecules and Changes
in Ionization Potentials by Alkyl Groups," J. Chem.
Soc., Chem. Comm., 141 (1977).
43. K. N. Houk, P. Caramella, L. L. Munchausen, Y.-M.
Chang, A. Battaglia, J. Sims, and D. C. Kaufman: "Photoelectron
Spectra of Nitrones and Nitrile Oxides," J. Electron
Spectros, Related Phenomena, 10, 441 (1977).
44. P. D. Mollere and K. N. Houk: "Photoelectron
Spectroscopy of Heterocyclobutanes: Electronic Structure
of Small Ring Compounds and Ramifications for Reactivity,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 99, 3226 (1977).
45. L. N. Domelsmith and K. N. Houk: "Photoelectron
Spectra of Cyclopentanone and Cyclohexane Enamines,"
Tetrahedron Lett., 1981 (1977).
46. S. E. Reiter, L. C. Dunn, and K. N. Houk: "Synthesis
of Azulenes by the [6+4] Cycloadditions of 6-Aminofulvenes
to Thiophene S,S-Dioxides," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
99, 4199 (1977).
47. L. N. Domelsmith and K. N. Houk: "The Photoelectron
Spectra of Tetramethyldiazetine: The Elucidation of
Ring Size Effects on Azo Group Ionization Potentials,"
Chem. Phys. Lett., 48, 471 (1977).
48. P. Caramella. L. N. Domelsmith, and K. N. Houk:
"On the Dichotomy Between Cycloaddition Transition
States Calculated by Semi-Empirical and Ab Initio Techniques,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 99, 4511 (1977).
49. L. N. Domelsmith, L. L. Munchausen, and K. N. Houk:
"Photoelectron Spectra of Psychotropic Drugs. 1.
Phenethylamines, Tryptamines and LSD," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 99, 4311 (1977).
50. L. N. Domelsmith, L. L. Munchausen, and K. N. Houk:
"Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. Photoelectron Ionization
Potentials as Indices of Behavioral Activity,"
J. Med. Chem., 20, 1346 (1977).
51. L. N. Domelsmith, L. L. Munchausen, and K. N. Houk:
"Photoelectron Spectra of Psychotropic Drugs. 2.
Phenothiazine and Related Tranquilizers," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 99, 6506 (1977).
52. K. N. Houk, A. Bimanand, D. Mukherjee, J. Sims,
Y.-M. Chang, D. C. Kaufman, and L. N. Domelsmith: "Nitrone
Ionization Potentials and Cycloaddition Regioselectivities,"
Heterocycles, 7, 293 (1977).
53. K. N. Houk and L. J. Luskus: "Cycloadditions
of 2,5-Dimethyl-3,4- diphenylcyclopentadienone to Cyclooctene,
Cyclooctadienes, and the 76.C Melting Dimer of Cyclooctatetraene,"
J. Org. Chem., 42, 4151 (1977).
54. K. N. Houk, Y.-M. Chang, R. W. Strozier, and P.
Caramella: "Regioselectivity of Nitrile Oxide Cycloadditions
to Electron-Deficient Dipolarophiles," Heterocycles,
7, 793 (1977).
55. L. N. Domelsmith, K. N. Houk, C. R. Degenhardt,
and L. A. Paquette: "Photoelectron Spectra and
Orbital Interactions in Methylenenor-triquinacenes,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 100, 100 (1978).
56. E. J. McAlduff, P. Caramella, and K. N. Houk: "Photoelectron
Spectra of 3-Substituted Cyclopentenes. Correlations
Between Ionization Potentials and Cycloaddition Regioselectivity,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 100, 105 (1978).
57. I.-M. Tegmo-Larsson and K. N. Houk: "The Periselectivity
of Tropone Cycloadditions to Fulvenes," Tetrahedron
Lett., 941 (1978).
58. C. Santiago, K. N. Houk, G. J. Decicco, and L.
T. Scott: "The Photoelectron and Ultraviolet Spectra
of Octamethylcyclodedeca-1,3,7,9-tetrayne; A Weakly
Antiaromatic Molecule," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 100,
692 (1978).
59. D. Mukherjee, C. R. Watts, and K. N. Houk: "Periselectivity
in the [4+2] and [6+4] Cycloadditions of Diphenylnitrilimine
to Tropone," Can. J. Chem., 43, 817 (1978).
60. E. J. McAlduff, B. M. Lynch, and K. N. Houk: "Photoelectron
Spectra of Substituted Benzamides," Can. J. Chem.,
56, 495 (1978).
61. D. Mukherjee, L. N. Domelsmith, and K. N. Houk:
"N-Cycloheptatrienylidene-methylamine Oxide: Synthesis,
Electronic Spectra, and Cycloadditions of a Fulvenoid
Dipole," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 100, 1954 (1978).
62. L. N. Domelsmith, P. D. Mollere, K. N. Houk, R.
C. Hahn, and R. P. Johnson: "Photoelectron and
Charge-Transfer Spectra of Benzobicycloalkenes. Relationships
Between Through-space Interactions and Reactivity,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 100, 2959 (1978).
63. L. E. Overman, G. F. Taylor, K. N. Houk, and L.
N. Domelsmith: "Diels-Alder Reactions Between Trans-1-N-acylamino-1,3-dienes
and Methyl Acrylate. A Correlation Between Diene Photoelectron
Ionization Potentials and Reactivity, Stereoselectivity,
and Regioselectivity," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 100,
3182 (1978).
64. C. Santiago, R. W. Gandour, K. N. Houk, I. Nutakul,
W. S. Cravey, and R. P. Thummel: "Photoelectron
and Ultraviolet Spectra of Small-Ring Fused Aromatic
Molecules as Probes of Aromatic Ring Distortions,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 100, 3730 (1978).
65. W. R. Dolbier Jr., C. Piedrahita, K. N. Houk, R.
W. Strozier, and R. W. Gandour: "Cycloadditions
of 1,1-Difluoroallene. A Novel Probe of Mechanism,"
Tetrahedron Lett., 2231 (1978).
66. P. Caramella, G. Cellerino, K. N. Houk, F. M. Albini,
and C. Santiago: "Selectivity in Cycloadditions.
6. Cycloadditions of Nitrile Oxides to Benzofuran. Regioselectivity,"
J. Org. Chem., 43, 3006 (1978).
67. L. C. Dunn and K. N. Houk: "The Regioselectivity
of [6+4] Cycloadditions of Dienamines to Fulvenes,"
Tetrahedron Lett., 3411 (1978).
68. C. Santiago, E. J. McAlduff, K. N. Houk, R. A.
Snow, and L. A. Paquette: "Photoelectron Spectra
of Ortho- and Meta-Substituted Benzonorbornadienes Relationships
to Regioselectivities in Triplet Di-p-methane Rearrangements,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 100, 6149 (1978).
69. K. N. Houk: "Theory of Reactive Intermediates
and Reaction Mechanisms" in "Reactive Intermediates,"
(M. Jones Jr., R. M. Moss; Editors), John Wiley &
Sons, New York, 1, 279 (1978).
70. K. N. Houk, L. N. Domelsmith, R. W. Strozier, and
R. T. Patterson: "Schizophrenic Substituents: The
Origin of Anomalous Substituent Effects on Cycloaddition
Regioselectivity," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 100, 6531
(1978).
71. L. N. Domelsmith, K. N. Houk, C. Piedrahita, and
W. J. Dolbier Jr.: "The Photoelectron Spectrum
of 1,1-Difluoroallene. On p-Electron Donation and Withdrawal
by Fluorine," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 100, 6908 (1978).
72. L. N. Domelsmith and K. N. Houk: "Photoelectron
Spectra of Psychotropic Drugs. III. Ionization Potentials
and Partition Coefficients as Predictors of Substituted
Amphetamine Psychoactivities," Int. J. Quantum
Chem.: Quantum Biology Symposium, 5, 257 (1978).
73. L. N. Domelsmith and K. N. Houk: "Photoelectron
Spectroscopic Studies of Hallucinogens: The Use of Ionization
Potentials in QSAR," in "QuaSAR" Research
Monograph 22, (G. Barnett, M. Trsic, R. Willette, Editors),
National Institute on Drug Abuse, 423 (1978).
74. D. Mukherjee, L. C. Dunn, and K. N. Houk: "Efficient
Guaiazulene and Chamazulene Syntheses Involving [6+4]
Cycloadditions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 101, 251 (1979).
75. C. Santiago, K. N. Houk, and C. L. Perrin: "On
'Anomalous' Selectivities in Aromatic Substitutions,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 101, 1337 (1979).
76. R. W. Strozier, P. Caramella, and K. N. Houk: "Influence
of Molecular Distortions Upon Reactivity and Stereochemistry
in Nucleophilic Additions to Acetylenes," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 101, 1340 (1979).
77. K. N. Houk: "Theoretical and Experimental
Insights Into Cycloaddition Reactions," Topics
in Current Chemistry, (Fortschritte der Chemischen Forschung),
79, 1 (1979).
78. G. M. Anderson III, P. A. Kollman, L. N. Domelsmith,
and K. N. Houk: "Methoxy Group Nonplanarity in
o-Dimethoxybenzenes. Simple Predictive Models for Conformations
and Rotation Barriers in Alkoxyaromatics," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 101, 2344 (1979).
79. A. Battaglia, S. M. Shaw, C.-S. Hsue, and K. N.
Houk: "Alkyl Substituent Effects on Rates of Arylnitrile
Oxide Cycloadditions," J. Org. Chem., 44, 2800
(1979).
80. N. G. Rondan, L. N. Domelsmith, K. N. Houk, A.
T. Bowne, and R. H. Levin: "The Relative Rates
of Electron-Rich and Electron-Deficient Alkene Cycloadditions
to Benzyne. Enhanced Electrophilicity as a Consequence
of Alkyne Bending Distortions," Tetrahedron Lett.,
3237 (1979).
81. R. A. Moss, M. Vezza, W. Guo, R. C. Munjal, K.
N. Houk, and N. G. Rondan: "Reactivity of Cyclopropylchlorocarbene:
An Interactive Experimental and Theoretical Analysis,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 101, 5088 (1979).
82. K. N. Houk, R. W. Strozier, C. Santiago, R. W.
Gandour, and K. P. C. Vollhardt: "Electronic Structure
and Photoelectron Spectrum of 1,5,9-Cyclododecatriyne,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 101, 5183 (1979).
83. K. N. Houk, R. W. Gandour, R. W. Strozier, N. G.
Rondan, and L. A. Paquette: "On the Barriers to
Thermally Allowed Reactions and the Elusiveness of Neutral
Homoaromaticity," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 101, 6797
(1979).
84. A. Y. Ku, L. A. Paquette, M. D. Rozeboom, and K.
N. Houk: "Polar Effects on Di-p-methane Rearrangements.
Regiospecificity in the Triplet-Sensitized Photoisomerizations
of 2-Cyanobenzonorbornadienes Carrying Methoxy ArylSubstituents,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 101, 5981 (1979).
85. L. A. Paquette, A. Y. Ku, C. Santiago, M. D. Rozeboom,
and K. N. Houk: "Control of Regioselectivity in
the Di-p-methane Triplet-Sensitized Photoisomerizations
of Benzonorbornadienes Carrying Cyano Substituents in
the Aryl and Vinyl Segments," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
101, 5972 (1979).
86. K. N. Houk, N. G. Rondan, C. Santiago, C. J. Gallo,
R. W. Gandour, and G. W. Griffin: "Theoretical
Studies of Structures and Reactions of Ylides,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 102, 1504 (1980).
87. N. G. Rondan, K. N. Houk, and R. A. Moss: "Transition
States and Selectivities of Singlet Carbene Cycloadditions,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 102, 1770 (1980).
88. K. N. Houk, R. W. Strozier, N. G. Rondan, R. R.
Fraser, and N. Chuaqui-Offermanns: "Stabilities
of Stereoisomeric Imine Anions," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
102, 1426 (1980).
89. L. T. Scott, M. D. Rozeboom, K. N. Houk, T. Fukunaga,
H. J. Lindner, and K. Hafner: "The Quinones of
Azulene: A Theoretical Prognosis," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 102, 5169 (1980).
90. W. A. St. Cyr, L. N. Domelsmith, and K. N. Houk:
"Experimental Approaches to the Date of Origin
of Koopmans' Theorem," Journal of Irreproducible
Results, 26, 23 (1980).
91. K. N. Houk: "Molecular Distortions and Organic
Reactivity: Additions, Cycloadditions, and Free Radical
Reactions," in "Frontiers of Free Radical
Chemistry," (W. A. Pryor, Editor) Academic Press,
NY, 43 (1980).
92. P. H. Mazzocchi, B. Stahly, J. Dodd, N. G. Rondan,
L. N. Domelsmith, M. D. Rozeboom, P. Caramella, and
K. N. Houk: "p-Facial Stereoselectivity: Rates
and Stereoselectivities of Cycloadditions of Hexachlorocyclopentadiene
to 7-Substituted Norbornadienes, and Photoelectron Spectral
and Molecular Orbital Computational Investigations of
Norbornadienes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 102, 6482 (1980).
93. M. N. Paddon-Row, C. Santiago, and K. N. Houk:
"The Possibility of p-Electron-Donation by the
Electron-Withdrawing Substituents CN, CHO, CF3, and
+NH3,"J. Am. Chem. Soc., 102, 6561 (1980).
94. M. D. Rozeboom, I.-M. Tegmo-Larsson, and K. N.
Houk: "Frontier Molecular Orbital Theory of Substituent
Effects on Regioselectivity of Nucleophilic Additions
and Cycloadditions to Benzoquinones and Naphthoquinones,"
J. Org. Chem., 46, 2338 (1981).
95. R. R. Fraser, N. Chuaqui-Offermans, K. N. Houk,
and N. G. Rondan: "Configuration and Conformation
of Lithiated Imines by DNMR Studies and Ab Initio Calculations,"
J. Organometallic Chem., 206, 131 (1981).
96. N. G. Rondan and K. N. Houk: "Geometries and
Rotational Barriers of Alkylamides and Lithium Alkylamides,"
Tetrahedron Lett., 22, 921 (1981).
97. T. Tezuka, O. Kikuchi, K. N. Houk, M. N. Paddon-Row,
C. M. Santiago, N. G. Rondan, J. C. Williams Jr., and
R. W. Gandour: "A Sudden Polarization Model to
Predict Regioselectivities and Periselectivities of
the 1,7-Sigmatropic Shifts and Electrocyclizations of
Singlet Excited States of Cycloheptatrienes," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 103, 1367 (1981).
98. K. N. Houk, J. C. Williams Jr., P. A. Mitchell,
and K. Yamaguchi: "Conformational Control of Reactivity
and Regioselectivity in Singlet Oxygen Ene Reactions:
Relationship to the Rotational Barriers of Acyclic Alkylethylenes,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 103, 949 (1981).
99. M. N. Paddon-Row and K. N. Houk: "The Origin
of the Pyramidalization of the tert-butyl Radical,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 103, 5046 (1981).
100. N. G. Rondan, M. N. Paddon-Row, P. Caramella,
and K. N. Houk: "Nonplanar Alkenes and Carbonyls:
A Molecular Distortion which Parallels Addition Steroselectivity,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 103, 2436 (1981).
101. P. Caramella, N. G. Rondan, M. N. Paddon-Row,
and K. N. Houk: "Origin of p-Facial Stereoselectivity
in Additions to p-Bonds: The Generality of the Anti-Periplanar
Effect," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 103, 2438 (1981).
102. P. Caramella and K. N. Houk: "The Influence
of Electron-Withdrawing Substituents on the Geometries
and Barriers to Inversion of Vinyl Anions," Tetrahedron
Lett., 22, 819 (1981).
103. P. H. Mueller, N. G. Rondan, K. N. Houk, J. F.
Harrison, D. F. Hooper, B. H. Willen, and J. F. Liebman:
"Carbene Singlet-Triplet Gaps: Linear Correlations
with Substituent p-Donation," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
103, 5049 (1981).
104. K. Yamaguchi, T. Fueno, I. Saito, T. Matsuura,
and K. N. Houk: "On the Concerted Mechanism of
the Ene Reaction of Singlet Molecular Oxygen with Olefins.
An Ab Initio MO Study," Tetrahedron Lett., 22,
749 (1981).
105. M. N. Paddon-Row, H. K. Patney, R. S. Brown, and
K. N. Houk: "Observation of a Very Large Orbital
Interaction Through Four Bonds. An Alternative Model
of Orbital Interactions Through Bonds," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 103, 5575 (1981).
106. N. G. Rondan, K. N. Houk, P. Beak, W. J. Zajdel,
J. Chandrasekhar, and P. v. R. Schleyer: "Dipole
Stabilization of a-Heteroatom Carbanions: Theory and
Experiment," J. Org. Chem., 46, 4108 (1981).
107. I.-M. Tegmo-Larsson, M. D. Rozeboom, and K. N.
Houk: "Regioselectivities of Diels-Alder Cycloadditions
to Methoxy-Substituted Quinones," Tetrahedron Lett.,
22, 2043 (1981).
108. I.-M. Tegmo-Larsson, M. D. Rozeboom, N. G. Rondan,
and K. N. Houk: "Quinone Cycloaddition Regioselectivity:
On the Mechanisms of Regioselectivity Control by Donor
Substituents on Electrophilic Alkenes," Tetrahedron
Lett., 22, 2047.
109. R. A. Moss, W. Guo, D. Z. Denney, K. N. Houk,
and N. G. Rondan: "Selectivity of (Trifluoromethyl)chlorocarbene,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 103, 6164 (1981).
110. T. Clark, P. v. R. Schleyer, K. N. Houk, and N.
G. Rondan: "Structures of a-Lithiomethanol and
a-Lithiomethylamine: An Ab Initio Study," J. Chem.
Soc., Chem. Comm., 579 (1981).
111. K. Yamaguchi, S. Yabushita, T. Fueno, and K. N.
Houk: "On the Mechanism of Photooxygenation Reactions.
Computational Evidence Against the Diradical Mechanism
of Singlet Oxygen Ene Reactions," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 103, 5043 (1981).
112. T. Tezuka, O. Kikuchi, and K. N. Houk: "Prediction
of Directional Selectivity of Photoreactions by Molecular
Orbital Theory," Yuki Gosei Kagaku (in Japanese),
39, 701 (1981).
113. I.-M. Tegmo-Larsson, M. D. Rozeboom, N. G. Rondan,
and K. N. Houk: "On the Mechanism of Regioselectivity
Control by Donor Substituents on Electrophilic Alkenes:
Applications to Quinone Cycloaddition Regioselectivity,"
Tetrahedron Lett., 22, 2047 (1981).
114. M. N. Paddon-Row, K. N. Houk, P. Dowd, P. Garner,
and R. Schappert: "Synchronized Distortions of
Bicyclobutanes," Tetrahedron Lett., 4799 (1981).
115. L. N. Domelsmith, T. A. Eaton, K. N. Houk, G.
A. Anderson III, R. A. Glennon, A. T. Shulgin, N. Castagnoli
Jr., and P. A. Kollman: "Photoelectron Spectra
of Psychotropic Drugs. 6. Relationships Between Physical
Properties and Pharmacological Actions of Amphetamine
Analogues," J. Med. Chem., 24, 1414 (1981).
116. S. Nagase and K. N. Houk: "Internal Lithium
Coordination by a p-Bond in 7-Lithionorbornadiene,"
Tetrahedron Lett., 23, 19 (1982).
117. M. N. Paddon-Row, K. N. Houk, and T. T. Tidwell:
"The Magnitude of Destabilization of Stabilized
Cations by Cyano and Trifluoromethyl Groups," Tetrahedron
Lett., 23, 383 (1982).
118. Y. N. Gupta, S. R. Mani, and K. N. Houk: "Synthesis
of Azulene from 6-Acyloxyfulvenes," Tetrahedron
Lett., 23, 495 (1982).
119. K. N. Houk, R. W. Strozier, M. D. Rozeboom, and
S. Nagase: "Syn and Anti Transition States in the
Addition of Ammonia to Cyanoacetylene. Formation of
a Stable Zwitterionic Intermediate," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 104, 323 (1982).
120. L. A. Paquette, E. Bay, A. Y. Ku, N. G. Rondan,
and K. N. Houk: "Regioselectivities in the Di-p-methane
Photorearrangement of 2-Methylbenzonorbornadienes Carrying
Methoxy- and Cynanoaryl-Substitutents. The Vinyl Methyl
Effect," J. Org. Chem., 47, 422 (1982).
121. M. N. Paddon-Row, N. G. Rondan, K. N. Houk, and
K. D. Jordan: "Geometries of the Radical Anions
of Ethylene, Fluoroethylene, 1,1-Difluoroethylene and
Tetrafluoroethylene," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 104, 1143
(1982).
122. M. D. Rozeboom and K. N. Houk: "Stereospecific
Alkyl Group Effects on Amine Lone-Pair Ionization Potentials:
Photoelectron Spectra of Alkylpiperidines," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 104, 1189 (1982).
123. M. D. Rozeboom, K. N. Houk, S. Searles, and S.
E. Seyedrazai: "Photoelectron Spetroscopy of N-Aryl
Cyclic Amines. Variable Conformations and Relationships
to Gas and Solution Phase Basicities," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 104, 3448 (1982).
124. T. E. Kline, F. Benington, R. D. Morin, J. M.
Beaton, R. A. Glennon, L. N. Domelsmith, K. N. Houk,
and M. D. Rozeboom: "Structure-Activity Relationships
for Hallucinogenic N,N Dialkyltryptamines: Photoelectron
Spectra and Serotonin Receptor Affinities of Methylthio
and Methylenedioxy Derivatives," J. Med. Chem.,
25, 1381 (1982).
125. E. Haselbach, L. Neuhaus, R. P. Johnson, K. N.
Houk, and M. N. Paddon-Row: "p-Orbital Interactions
in Mobius Type Molecules as Studied by Photoelectron
Spectroscopy," Helvetica Chimica Acta, 65, 1743
(1982).
126. K. N. Houk: "Theory of Cycloadditions of
Excited Aromatics to Alkenes," Pure & Appl.
Chem., 54, 1633 (1982).
127. N. G. Rondan, M. N. Paddon-Row, P. Caramella,
J. Mareda, P. H. Mueller, and K. N. Houk: "Origin
of Huisgen's Factor "x": Staggering of Allylic
Bonds Promotes Anomalously Rapid Exo attack on Norbornenes,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 104, 4974 (1982).
128. L. T. Scott, I. Erden, W. R. Brunsvold, K. N.
Houk, and M. N. Paddon-Row: "Competitive [6+2],
[4+2], and [2+2] Cycloadditions. An Experimental Classification
of Two-Electron Cycloaddends," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
104, 3659 (1982).
129. M. N. Paddon-Row, N. G. Rondan, and K. N. Houk:
"Staggered Models for Asymmetric Induction: Attack
Trajectories and Conformations of Allylic Bonds from
Ab Initio Structures of Addition Reactions," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 104, 7162 (1982).
130. Y. N. Gupta, M. J. Doa, and K. N. Houk: "Intramolecular
[6+4] Cycloadditions: Intramolecular Control of Periselectivity,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 104, 7336 (1982).
131. A. Z. Bimanand, Y. N. Gupta, M. J. Doa, T. A.
Eaton, K. N. Houk, and F. R. Fronczek: "Competition
Between Endocyclic and Exocyclic Periselectivity in
Cycloadditions of o-Xylylenes to Fulvenes," J.
Org. Chem., 48, 403 (1983).
132. P. H. Mueller, N. G. Rondan, K. N. Houk, J. E.
Gano, and M. S. Platz: "The Triplet Ground State
of Di-tert-Butylcarbene," Tetrahedron Lett., 24,
485 (1983).
133. A. Z. Bimanand and K. N. Houk: "The Synthesis
and Cycloadditions of C-Cyclopropyl Nitrones,"
Tetrahedron Lett., 24, 435 (1983).
134. K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Studies of the Stereoselectivities
of Organic Reactions," Pure & Appl. Chem.,
55, 277 (1983).
135. T. A. Eaton, K. N. Houk, S. F. Watkins, and F.
R. Fronczek: "Geometries and Conformational Processes
in Phencyclidine and a Rigid Adamantyl Analogue: Variable-Temperature
NMR, X-ray Crystallographic, and Molecular Mechanics
Studies," J. Med. Chem., 26, 479 (1983).
136. K. N. Houk, M. N. Paddon-Row, and N. G. Rondan:
"The Origin of Syn Stereoselectivity in the SN2'
Reaction," J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem), 103, 197
(1983).
137. K. N. Houk, N. G. Rondan, M. N. Paddon-Row, C.
W. Jefford, P. T. Huy, P. D. Burrow, and K. D. Jordan:
"Ionization Potentials, Electron Affinities, and
Molecular Orbitals of 2-Substituted Norbornadienes.
Theory of 1,2- and Homo-1,4-Carbene Cycloaddition Selectivities,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 105, 5563 (1983).
138. K. N. Houk, N. G. Rondan, and F. K. Brown: "Electronic
Structures and Reactivities of Pyramidal Alkenes and
Carbonyls," Israel J. Chem., 23, 3 (1983).
139. T.-C. Wu, J. Mareda, Y. N. Gupta, and K. N. Houk:
"Selective Intramolecular [6+4] Cycloadditions
of Aminodienylfulvenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 105,
6996 (1983).
140. K. N. Houk, N. G. Rondan, F. K. Brown, W. L. Jorgensen,
J. D. Madura, and D. C. Spellmeyer: "Electronic
Origins and Consequences of Pyramidalization of Asymmetric
Alkenes in Ground and Triplet Excited States,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 105, 5980 (1983).
141. E. Vedejs, D. A. Perry, K. N. Houk, and N. G.
Rondan: "Regiochemistry in Thiocarbonyl Diels-Alder
Additions: Reversal of Selectivity by Substituent Effects
in Thioaldehydes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 105, 6999
(1983).
142. C.-Y. Liu, J. Mareda, and K. N. Houk: "Intramolecular
[8+2] Cycloadditions of Alkenylheptafulvenes,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 105, 6714 (1983).
143. J. Mareda, N. G. Rondan, and K. N. Houk: "Transition
Structure for the Reaction of a Carbenoid, LiCH2F, with
Ethylene," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 105, 6997 (1983).
144. K. N. Houk and K. Yamaguchi: "Theory of 1,3-Dipolar
Cycloadditions" in "1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions,"
(A. Padwa, Editor) John Wiley & Sons, Inc., NY,
2, 407 (1984).
145. K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Studies of Alkene
Pyramidalizations and Addition Stereoselectivities,"
in "Stereochemistry and Reactivity of Systems Containing
p Electrons," (W. H. Watson, Editor) Verlag Chemie
International, Dearfield Beach, FL, 1 (1984).
146. N. G. Rondan and K. N. Houk: "Ab Initio Transition
Structures for 1,5-Sigmatropic Hydrogen Shifts of 1,3-Pentadiene
and Cyclopentadiene," Tetrahedron Lett., 24, 2519
(1984).
147. P. Caramella, F. M. Albini, D. Vitali, N. G. Rondan,
Y.-D. Wu, T. R. Schwartz, and K. N. Houk: "Stereoselectivities
of Benzonitrile Oxide Cycloadditions to cis-Disubstituted
Cyclopentenes and Dihydrofurans," Tetrahedron Lett.,
25, 1875 (1984).
148. K. N. Houk, N. G. Rondan, Y.-D. Wu, J. T. Metz,
and M. N. Paddon-Row: "Theoretical Studies of Stereoselective
Hydroborations," Tetrahedron, 12, 2257 (1984).
149. K. N. Houk, S. R. Moses, Y.-D. Wu, N. G. Rondan,
V. Jager, R. Schohe, and F. R. Fronczek: "Stereoselective
Nitrile Oxide Cycloadditions to Chiral Allyl Ethers
and Alcohols. The 'Inside Alkoxy' Effect," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 106, 3880 (1984).
150. M. E. Garst, V. A. Roberts, K. N. Houk, and N.
G. Rondan: "'Even' Regioselectivity in [6+4] Cycloadditions
of Unsymmetrical Tropones with Dienes," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 106, 3882 (1984).
151. K. N. Houk, N. G. Rondan, and J. Mareda: "Are
p Complexes Intermediates in Halocarbene Cycloadditions?,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 106, 4291 (1984).
152. K. N. Houk and N. G. Rondan: "Origin of Negative
Activation Energies and Entropy Control of Halocarbene
Cycloadditions and Related Fast Reactions," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 106, 4293 (1984).
153. D. A. Dixon, R. A. Eades, R. Frey, P. G. Gassman,
M. L. Hendewerk, M. N. Paddon-Row, and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Evaluation of the Effect of Electron-Withdrawing Substituents
on Carbocation Stabilities. Delocalization of Charge
to the Carbonyl and Cyano Groups," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 106, 3885 (1984).
154. F. K. Brown and K. N. Houk: "The STO-3G Transition
Structure of the Diels-Alder Reaction," Tetrahedron
Lett., 41, 4609 (1984).
155. N. G. Rondan and K. N. Houk: "Transition
Structures for the Reaction of Difluorocarbene with
Propene," Tetrahedron Lett., 52, 5965 (1984). (4
pages)
156. W. Kirmse, N. G. Rondan, and K. N. Houk: "Stereoselective
Substituent Effects on Conrotatory Electrocyclic Reactions
of Cyclobutenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc. , 106, 7989
(1984).
157. P. v. R. Schleyer, T. Clark, A. J. Kos, G. W.
Spitznagel, C. Rohde, D. Arad, K. N. Houk, and N. G.
Rondan: "Structures and Stabilities of a-Hetero-Substituted
Organolithium and Organosodium Compounds. Energetic
Unimportance of Second-Row d-Orbital Effects,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 106, 6467 (1984).
158. G. A. Jeffrey, K. N. Houk, M. N. Paddon-Row, N.
G. Rondan, and J. Mitra: "Pyramidalization of Carbonyl
Carbons in Asymmetric Environments: Carboxylates, Amides,
and Amino Acids," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 321 (1985).
159. Y.-T. Lin and K. N. Houk: "Intramolecular
Diels-Alder Reactions of 1,3,8-Nonatriene and 1,3,9-Decatriene,"
Tetrahedron Lett., 19, 2269 (1985).
160. T.-C. Wu and K. N. Houk: "Intramolecular
Diels-Alder Reactions of Dienamines with Acrylates:
Trends in Stereoselectivity upon Substitution,"
Tetrahedron Lett., 19, 2293 (1985).
161. F. K. Brown and K. N. Houk: "The Influence
of Substitutent Induced Asynchronicity on the Stereochemistries
of Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reactions," Tetrahedron
Lett., 26, 2297 (1985).
162. F. K. Brown and K. N. Houk: "Torsional and
Steric Control of Stereoselectivity in Isodicyclopentadiene
Cycloadditions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 1971 (1985).
163. N. G. Rondan and K. N. Houk: "Theory of Stereoselection
in Conrotatory Electrocyclic Reactions of Substituted
Cyclobutenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 2099 (1985).
164. K. N. Houk, N. G. Rondan, P. v. R. Schleyer, E.
Kaufman, and T. Clark: "Transition Structures for
Additions of LiH and MeLi to Ethylene and Acetylene,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 2821 (1985).
165. K. N. Houk, N. G. Rondan, and J. Mareda: "Theoretical
Studies of Halocarbene Cycloaddition Selectivities,"
Tetrahedron, 41, 1555 (1985).
166. Y.-T. Lin and K. N. Houk: "Intramolecular
Diels-Alder Reactions of Ethyl 2,4,9-Decatrienoate and
2,4,10-Undecatrienoate," Tetrahedron Lett., 26,
2517 (1985).
167. Y. N. Gupta and K. N. Houk: "Diels-Alder
Cycloaddition of Tetrachlorothiophene-S,S-Dioxide to
Azulene," Tetrahedron Lett., 22, 2607 (1985).
168. T.-C. Wu and K. N. Houk: "Construction of
Linearly Fused Tricyclopentanoids by Intramolecular
[6+2] Cycloadditions of Fulvenes with Enamines,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 5308 (1985).
169. E. Kaufman, P. v. R. Schleyer, K. N. Houk, and
Y.-D. Wu: "Ab Initio Mechanisms for the Addition
of CH3Li, HLi, and Their Dimers to Formaldehyde,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 5560 (1985).
170. M. N. Paddon-Row and K. N. Houk: "Conformational
Dependence of the Pyramidalization of Alkyl Radicals,"
J. Phys. Chem., 89, 3771 (1985).
171. M. N. Paddon-Row, D. J. Fox, J. A. Pople, K. N.
Houk, and D. W. Pratt: "Dynamic Jahn-Teller Effects
in CH4+. Location of the Transition Structures for Hydrogen
Scrambling and Inversion," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107,
7696 (1985).
172. K. N. Houk, L. T. Scott, N. G. Rondan, D. C. Spellmeyer,
G. Reinhardt, J. L. Hyun, G. J. DeCicco, R. Weiss, M.
H. M. Chen, L. S. Bass, J. Clardy, F. S. Jorgensen,
T. A. Eaton, V. Sarkozi, C. M. Petit, L. Ng, and K.
D. Jordan: "Pericyclynes: 'Exploded Cycloalkanes'
with Unusual Orbital Interactions and Conformational
Properties. MM2 and STO-3G Calculations, X-ray Crystal
Structures, Photoelectron Spectra, and Electron Transmission
Spectra," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 6556 (1985).
173. K. N. Houk, R. A. Firestone, L. L. Munchausen,
P. H. Mueller, B. H. Arison, and L. A. Garcia: "Stereospecificity
of 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of p-Nitrobenzonitrile
Oxide to cis- and trans-Dideuterioethylene," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 7227 (1985).
174. S. D. Kahn, H. J. Hehre, N. G. Rondan, and K.
N. Houk: "Nature of the Migrating Group in 1,5-Sigmatropic
Hydrogen Shifts," J. Am. Chem. Soc. , 107, 8291
(1986).
175. Y. N. Gupta, R. T. Patterson, A. Z. Bimanand,
and K. N. Houk: "Synthesis of an Azulene Lactone
by an Intramolecular [6+4] Cycloaddition," Tetrahedron
Lett., 27, 295 (1986).
176. P. Magnus, J. Schultz, and K. N. Houk: "Diversion
of an Intramolecular [2+4] Cycloaddition Reaction Into
a [2+2] Pathway by Electrophilic Catalysis," Tetrahedron
Lett., 27, 655 (1986).
177. W. E. Billups, K. N. Houk, and R. V. Stevens:
"Stereochemistry and Reaction Mechanism,"
in "Investigations of Rates and Mechanisms of Reactions,"
(F. Bernasconi, Editor) John Wiley and Sons, Inc, NY,
6, 663 (1986).
178. K. N. Houk, M. N. Paddon-Row, N. G. Rondan, Y.-D.
Wu, F. K. Brown, D. C. Spellmeyer, J. T. Metz, Y. Li,
and R. J. Loncharich: "Theory and Modeling of Stereoselective
Organic Reactions," Science, 231, 1108 (1986).
179. K. N. Houk, Y.-T. Lin, and F. K. Brown: "Evidence
for the Concerted Mechanism of the Diels-Alder Reaction
of Butadiene with Ethylene," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
108, 554 (1986).
180. K. N. Houk, H.-Y. Duh, Y.-D. Wu, and S. R. Moses:
"Steric Models for Stereoselectivity of Nitrile
Oxide Cycloadditions to Chiral Alkenes," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 108, 2754 (1986).
181. K. N. Houk and M. N. Paddon-Row: "Transition
Structures for C- and O-Alkylation of Acetaldehyde Enolate.
Stereoelectronic Effects and C/O Alkylation Ratios,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 108, 2659 (1986).
182. K. N. Houk, M. N. Paddon-Row, D. C. Spellmeyer,
N. G. Rondan, and S. Nagase: "Theoretical Transition
Structures for Radical Additions to Alkenes," J.
Org. Chem., 51, 2874 (1986).
183. D. A. Smith, K. Sakan, and K. N. Houk: "Stereoselectivities
of Thermal and Lewis Acid Catalyzed Intramolecular Diels-Alder
Reactions of Internally Activated Dienophiles to Form
5-11 Membered Rings," Tetrahedron Lett., 27, 4877,
(1986). (4 pages)
184. C.-Y. Liu, D. A. Smith, and K. N. Houk: "An
Intramolecular [8+6] Cycloaddition," Tetrahedron
Lett., 27, 4881, (1986).
185. W. Kirmse, K. Kund, E. Ritzer, A. E. Dorigo, and
K. N. Houk: "Dramatic Differences in Intramolecular
Reactivities of Singlet Arylcarbenes and Benzyl Cations,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 108, 6045, (1986).
186. S. Masamune, R. M. Kennedy, J. S. Petersen, K.
N. Houk, and Y.-D. Wu: "Organoboron Compounds in
Organic Synthesis 3. Mechanism of Asymmetric Reduction
of Dialkyl Ketones with (R,R)-2,5-Dimethylborolane,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 108, 7404 (1986).
187. R. J. Loncharich, T. R. Schwartz, and K. N. Houk:
"Theoretical Studies of Conformations of Acrolein,
Acrylic Acid. Methyl Acrylate, and Their Lewis Acid
Complexes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 109, 14, (1987).
188. K. N. Houk and Yun-dong Wu: "Theory of Stereoselectivity
of Nucleophilic Additions to Carbonyl Compounds"
in "Stereochemistry of Organic and Bioorganic Transformations"
(W. Bartmann, K. B. Sharpless; Editors), VCH Verlagsgesellschaft
mbH, D-6940 Weinheim, West Germany, 7, 247 (1987).
189. Y.-D. Wu and K. N. Houk: "Transition Structures
for Hydride Transfers," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 109,
906, (1987).
190. Y.-D. Wu and K. N. Houk: "Electronic and
Conformational Effects on p-Facial Stereoselectivity
in Nucleophilic Additions to Carbonyl Compounds,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 109, 908, (1987).
191. C.-Y. Liu and K. N. Houk: "Intramolecular
[8+2] Cycloaddition and 10p-Electron Electrocyclization
Reactions of an 8-Acylheptafulvene," Tetrahedron
Lett., 28, 1367 (1987).
192. C.-Y. Liu and K. N. Houk: "Dependence of
the Stereochemistries of Intramolecular [8+2] Cycloadditions
of Alkenylheptafulvenes on Tetraenophile Stereochemistry,"
Tetrahedron Lett., 28, 1371 (1987).
193. A. E. Dorigo and K. N. Houk: "Transition
Structures for Intramolecular Hydrogen Atom Transfers:
The Energetic Advantage of Seven-Membered Over Six-Membered
Transition Structures," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 109,
2195 (1987).
194. Y.-D. Wu and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Transition
Structures for Hydride Transfer to Methyleneiminium
Ion from Methylamine and Dihydropyridine. On the Non-Linearity
of Hydride Transfers," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 109,
2226 (1987).
195. D. C. Spellmeyer and K. N. Houk: "A Force-Field
Model for Intramolecular Radical Additions," J.
Org. Chem., 52, 959 (1987).
196. F. Jensen and K. N. Houk: "Correlated Transition
Structure for the 1,5-Sigmatropic Hydrogen Shift,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 109, 3139 (1987).
197. D. P. Curran, B. H. Kim, H. P. Piyasena, R. J.
Loncharich, and K. N. Houk: "Asymmetric Induction
in Nitrile Oxide Cycloadditions to Optically Active
Acrylates. Comparisons of Acrylate Conformations in
Thermal and Acid-Catalyzed 1,3-Dipolar and Diels-Alder
Cycloaddition Transition States," J. Org. Chem.,
Vol. 52, 2137 (1987).
198. A. E. Dorigo and K. N. Houk: "On the Origin
of Proximity Effects on Reactivity: A Modified MM2 Model
for the Rates of Acid Catalyzed Lactonizations of Hydroxyacids,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 109, 3698 (1987), and Additions and
Corrections: A. E. Dorigo and K. N. Houk: "On the
Origin of Proximity Effects on Reactivity: A Modified
MM2 Model for the Rates of Acid Catalyzed Lactonizations
of Hydroxyacids," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 110, 4878
(1988). (1 page)
199. F. K. Brown, K. N. Houk, D. J. Burnell, and Z.
Valenta: "Modeling of Steric Control of Facial
Stereoselectivity. Diels-Alder Cycloadditions of Unsymmetrically
Substituted Cyclopentadienes," J. Org. Chem., 52,
3051 (1987).
200. K. Rudolf, D. C. Spellmeyer, and K. N. Houk: "Prediction
and Experimental Verification of the Stereoselective
Electrocyclization of 3-Formylcyclobutene," J.
Org. Chem., 52, 3708 (1987).
201. Y.-D. Wu, K. N. Houk, and B. M. Trost: "Origin
of Enhanced Axial Attack by Sterically Undemanding Nucleophiles
on Cyclohexenones," J. Am. Chem Soc., 109, 5560
(1987).
202. A. E. Dorigo, D. W. Pratt, and K. N. Houk: "Origin
of Methyl Conformational Preferences and Rotational
Barriers in the Ground States, Excited Triplet States,
Radical Cations, and Radical Anions of Molecules Having
CH3-C=X Functionalities," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 109,
6591 (1987).
203. R. J. Loncharich and K. N. Houk: "Transition
Structure of Ene Reactions of Ethylene and Formaldehyde
with Propene," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 109, 6947 (1987).
204. Hewawasam Piyasena, Y. N. Gupta, Debabrata Mukherjee,
and K. N. Houk: "Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reactions
of Unsaturated Acylcyclopentadienes and Cyclopentadienecarboxylates,"
Tetrahedron Lett., 29, 135 (1988).
205. K. N. Houk and R. S. Sustmann: "Rolf Huisgen
and the 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition," Huisgen 65th
Birthday Vol., G. Boche, Ed., 1988.
206. Xuebao Wang and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Elucidation of the Origin of the Acidity of Meldrum's
Acid," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 110, 1870 (1988).
207. Robert L. Vance, Nelson G. Rondan, K. N. Houk,
Frank Jensen, Weston Thatcher Borden, Andrew Komornicki,
and Erich Wimmer: "Transition Structures for the
Claisen Rearrangement," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 110,
2314 (1988).
208. Richard Loncharich and K. N. Houk: "Transition
Structures for Homodienyl 1,5-Sigmatropic Hydrogen Shifts:
Origin of the High Endo Stereoselectivity," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 110, 2089 (1988).
209. A. E. Dorigo and K. N. Houk: "On the Relationship
Between Proximity and Reactivity. An Ab initio Study
of the Flexibility of the OHo + CH4 Hydrogen Abstraction
Transition State, and a Force-Field Model for the Transition
States of Intramolecular Hydrogen Abstractions,"
J. Org. Chem., 53, 1650 (1988).
210. K. N. Houk, David C. Spellmeyer, Charles W. Jefford,
C. G. Rimbault, Ying Wang, and R. D. Miller: "Electronic
Control of the Stereoselectivities of Electrocyclic
Reactions of Cyclobutenes Against Incredible Steric
Odds," J. Org. Chem., 53, 2125 (1988).
211. Andrea E. Dorigo and K. N. Houk: "Proximity
Effects on Organic Reactivity: Development of Force
Fields from Quantum Chemical Calculations, and Applications
to the Study of Organic Reaction Rates" in "Advances
in Molecular Modeling," Vol. 1, pg. 135-187.
212. Debabrata Mukherjee, Yun-Dong Wu, Frank R. Fronczek,
and K. N. Houk: "Experimental Tests of Models To
Predict Nucleophilic Addition Stereochemistries,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 110, 3328 (1988).
213. David C. Spellmeyer and K. N. Houk: "Transition
Structures of Pericyclic Reactions. Electron Correlation
and Basis Set Effects on the Transition Structure and
Activation Energy of the Electrocyclization of Cyclobutene
to Butadiene," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 110, 3412 (1988).
214. Yi Li, Michael N. Paddon-Row, and K. N. Houk:
"Transition Structures of Aldol Reactions,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 110, 3684 (1988).
215. K. Yamaguchi, Y. Takahara, T. Fueno, and K. N.
Houk: "Extended Hartree-Fock (EHF) Theory of Chemical
Reactions," Theoretica Chemica Acta, 73, 337 (1988).
216. R. J. Loncharich, E. Seward, S. B. Ferguson, F.
K. Brown, F. Diederich, and K. N. Houk: "On the
Origin of Cavity-Filling Conformations of Macrocycles:
A 1H NMR Spectroscopic and Force-Field Computational
Study," J. Org. Chem., 53, 3479 (1988).
217. Klaus Rudolf, Joel M. Hawkins, Richard J. Loncharich,
and K. N. Houk: "Force-Field Modeling of Stereoselective
Michael Additions of an Optically Active Amine and Its
Lithium Amide to Acrylates," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
53, 3879 (1988).
218. D. J. Cram, J. Weiss, R. C. Helgeson, C. B. Knobler,
A. E. Dorigo, and K. N. Houk: "Design Synthesis
and Comparison of Crystal, Solution and Calculated Structures
within a new Family of Cavitands," JCS Chem. Commun.,
406 (1988).
219. K. Yamaguchi, F. Jensen, A. Dorigo, and K. N.
Houk: "A Spin Correction Procedure for Unrestricted
Hartree-Fock and Moller-Plesset Wavefunctions for Singlet
Diradicals and Polyradicals," Chem. Phys. Lett.,
149, 537-542 (1988).
220. W. T. Borden, R. J. Loncharich, and K. N. Houk:
"Synchronicity in Multibond Reactions," Ann.
Rev. Phys. Chem., 39, 213 (1988).
221. G. Stork, R. L. Polt, Yi Li, and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Studies of the Lithiation of Enamines," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 110, 8360 (1988).
222. Günter Hömberger, Andrea E. Dorigo,
Wolfgang Kirmse, and K. N. Houk: "Rapid Intramolecular
Addition Reactions of Triplet Arylcarbenes," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 111, 475 (1989).
223. Yi Li and K. N. Houk: "Transition Structures
for the Allylboration Reactions of Formaldehyde by Allylborane
and Allylboronic Acid," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 111,
1236 (1989).
224. Lorenzo Dal Bo, Marco De Amici, Carlo De Micheli,
Remo Gandolfi, and K. N. Houk: "Stereoselectivities
of Mesitonitrile Oxide Cycloadditions to 7-Substituted
Norbornadienes," Tetrahedron Lett., 30, 807 (1989).
225. R. J. Loncharich, F. K. Brown, and K. N. Houk:
"Transition Structures of the Diels-Alder Reaction
of Butadiene with Acrolein," J. Org. Chem., 54,
1129 (1989).
226. K. N. Houk: "Stereoselective Electrocyclizations
and Sigmatropic Shifts of Strained Rings: Torquoelectronics!"
in "Strain and Its Implications in Organic Chemistry,"
(A. de Meijere and S. Blechert, Editors), 25 (1989).
227. K. N. Houk: "Ab Initio and Empirical Computations
of Mechanism and Stereoselectivity," Pure &
Appl. Chem., 61, 643 (1989).
228. Michael D. Miller, Frank Jensen, O. L. Chapman,
and K. N. Houk: "The Influence of Basis Sets and
Electron Correlation on Theoretically Predicted Infrared
Intensities," J. Phys. Chem., 93, 4495 (1989).
229. Yi Li and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Assessments
of the Basicity and Nucleophilicity of Carboxylate Syn
and Anti Lone Pairs," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 111, 4505
(1989).
230. Andrzej B. Buda, Ying Wang, and K. N. Houk: "Acid-Base
Controlled Torquoselectivity: Theoretical Predictions
of the Stereochemical Course of the Electrocyclic Reactions
of Cyclobutene-3-carboxylic Acid and the Conjugate Base
and Acid," J. Org. Chem., 54, 2264 (1989).
231. Yi Li, Rudolph A. Abramovitch, and K. N. Houk:
"Relationship of Conformational Effects in Phenyloxenium
and Phenylnitrenium Cations to Intramolecular Reactivities.
Ab Initio Electronic Structures," J. Org. Chem.,
54, 2911 (1989).
232. David C. Spellmeyer, K. N. Houk, Nelson G. Rondan,
R. D. Miller, Lothar Franz, and G. N. Fickes: "Experimental
and Theoretical Studies of Substituent Effects on an
Orbital Symmetry Forbidden Electrocyclization,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 111, 5356 (1989).
233. Andrea E. Dorigo, Yi Li, and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Studies of the Rotational Barriers of Benzyl Cation,
Radical and Anion, and of Singlet and Triplet Phenylcarbene,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 111, 6942 (1989).
234. Andrea E. Dorigo, K. N. Houk, and Theodore Cohen:
"Unexpected Regioselectivity in the Reductive Cleavage
of Epoxides: A Theoretical Rationalization," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 111, 8976 (1989).
235. François Diederich, Yves Rubin, Carolyn
B. Knobler, Robert L. Whetten, Kenneth E. Schriver,
Kendall N. Houk, and Yi Li: "All-Carbon Molecules:
Evidence for the Generation of Cyclo[18]carbon from
a Stable Organic Precursor," Science, 245, 1088
(1989).
236. K. N. Houk, Richard J. Loncharich, James F. Blake,
and William L. Jorgensen: "Substituent Effects
and Transition Structures for Diels-Alder Reactions
of Butadiene and Cyclopentadiene with Cyanoalkenes,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 111, 9172 (1989).
237. E. Adam Kallel and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Predictions of Torquoselectivity in Pentadienyl Cation
Electrocyclizations," J. Org. Chem., 54, 6006 (1989).
238. J. D. Evanseck, J. Mareda, and K. N. Houk: "A
Theoretical Investigation of Intramolecular 1,4- and
1,2-Carbene Cycloadditions," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
112, 73 (1990).
239. Yi Li, Michael N. Paddon-Row, and K. N. Houk:
"Transition Structures for the Aldol Reactions
of Anionic, Lithium, and Boron Enolates," J. Org.
Chem., 55, 481 (1990).
240. Martin Saunders, K. N. Houk, Yun-Dong Wu, W. Clark
Still, Mark Lipton, George Chang, and Wayne C. Guida:
"Conformations of Cycloheptadecane. A Comparison
of Methods for Conformational Searching," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 112, 1419 (1990).
241. Yi Li, Yves Rubin, Françios Diederich,
and Kendall N. Houk: "Electronic and Structural
Properties of the Cyclobutenodehydroannulenes,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 112, 1618 (1990).
242. Xuebao Wang and K. N. Houk: "Carbenoid Character
in Transition Structures for Reactions of Ketenes with
Alkenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 112, 1754 (1990).
243. David A. Hrovat, Weston Thatcher Borden, Robert
L. Vance, Nelson G. Rondan, K. N. Houk, and Keiji Morokuma:
"Ab Initio Calculations of the Effects of Cyano
Substituents on the Cope Rearrangement," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 112, 2018 (1990).
244. Yun-Dong Wu, K. N. Houk, and James A. Marshall:
"Transition Structure for the [2,3]-Wittig Rearrangement
and Analysis of Stereoselectivities," J. Org. Chem.,
55, 1421 (1990).
245. K. N. Houk, John A. Tucker, and Andrea E. Dorigo:
"Quantitative Modeling of Proximity Effects on
Organic Reactivity," Acc. Chem. Res., 23, 107 (1990).
246. Xuebao Wang, Yi Li, Yun-Dong Wu, Michael N. Paddon-Row,
Nelson G. Rondan, and K. N. Houk: "Ab Initio Transition
Structures for Hydroborations of Alkenes, Allenes, and
Alkynes by Borane, Diborane, Methylborane, Methylfluoroborane,
and Dimethylborane," J. Org. Chem., 55, 2601 (1990).
247. Yi Li, Xuebao Wang, Frank Jensen, K. N. Houk,
and George A. Olah: "Energies and Properties of
Ions Involved in Electrophilic Halogenations: Singlet
and Triplet States of Halogen Cations (X+, X3+, and
X42+) and Hydrohalonium Ions (HX2+ and H2X+),"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 112, 3922 (1990).
248. David M. Birney and K. N. Houk: "Transition
Structures of the Lewis Acid Catalyzed Diels-Alder Reaction
of Butadiene with Acrolein. The Origins of Selectivity,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 112, 4127 (1990).
249. Yun-Dong Wu, W. Kirmse, and K. N. Houk: "Geminal
Group Interactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 112, 4557
(1990).
250. Yun-Dong Wu and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Studies of Rotational Barriers of Heteroatom Derivatives
of Methanol," J. Phys. Chem., 94, 4856 (1990).
251. Kunio Sakan, Stefan A. Babirad, Douglas A. Smith,
and K. N. Houk: "Alkaline Hydrolysis of Some Erythronolide
A Derivatives," Tetrahedron Lett., 26, 3687 (1990).
252. John A. Tucker, K. N. Houk, and Barry M. Trost:
"Computational Modeling of Stereoselectivity in
the Diels-Alder Reactions of Dienol Esters of O-Methylmandelic
Acid and the Question of p-Stacking," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 112, 5465 (1990).
253. J. D. Evanseck and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Predictions of Activation Energies for 1,2-Hydrogen
Shifts in Singlet Carbenes," J. Phys Chem., 94,
5518 (1990).
254. Ying Wang, Debabrata Mukherjee, David Birney,
and K. N. Houk: "Synthesis and Reactions of Ester-Substituted
Fulvenes. A New Route to D9(12)-Capnellene," J.
Org. Chem., 55, 4504 (1990).
255. E. Adam Kallel, Ying Wang, David C. Spellmeyer,
and K. N. Houk: "Electrocyclic Ring Openings of
Dialkylcyclobutenes: Anomalies Explained," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 112, 6759 (1990).
256. Andrea E. Dorigo, M. E. McCarrick, Richard J.
Loncharich, and K. N. Houk: "Transition Structures
for Hydrogen Atom Transfers to Oxygen. Comparisons of
Intermolecular and Intramolecular Processes, and Open-
and Closed-Shell Systems," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 112,
7508 (1990).
257. Stephen S. Wong, Michael N. Paddon-Row, Yi Li,
and K. N. Houk: "Transition Structures for Conjugate
and Carbonyl Additions of Cyanide to s-cis and s-trans-Acrolein.
An ab Initio MO Study," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 112,
8679 (1990).
258. J. D. Evanseck and K. N. Houk: "Stereoselectivity
of Hydrogen 1,2-Shifts in Singlet Alkylcarbenes: A Quantitative
Theoretical Assessment of Ground-State Orbital Alignment
and Torsional and Steric Effects," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 112, 9148 (1990).
259. K. N. Houk, Paul H. Mueller, Yun-Dong Wu, Paul
H. Mazzocchi, David Shook, and Frederick Khachik: "Cycloadditions
of Hexachlorocyclopentadiene to 7-Substituted Norbornadienes:
Remote Substituent Effects on Reactivity and Stereoselectivity,"
Tet. Lett., 31, 7285 (1990).
260. K. N. Houk, Yun-Dong Wu, Paul H. Mueller, Pierluigi
Caramella, Michael N. Paddon-Row, Shigeru Nagase, and
Paul H. Mazzocchi: "Theory of Rates and Stereoselectivities
of Cycloadditions to 7-Substituted Norbornadienes,"
Tet. Lett., 31, 7289 (1990).
261. Charles W. Jefford, Ying Wang, and K. N. Houk:
"Assignment of the Configuration of Disubstituted
1,3-Dienes by Nuclear Overhauser Effect Measurements,"
J. Org. Chem., 56, 856 (1991).
262. Douglas A. Smith and K. N. Houk: "LiBF4:
A Mild Lewis Acid for Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reactions,"
Tet. Lett., 32, 1549 (1991).
263. Yun-Dong Wu and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Evaluation of Conformational Preferences of NAD+ and
NADH: An Approach to Understanding the Stereospecificity
of NAD+/NADH-Dependent Dehydrogenases," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 113, 2353 (1991).
264. Kunio Sakan, Douglas A. Smith, Stefan A. Babirad,
Frank R. Fronczek, and K. N. Houk: "Stereoselectivities
of Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reactions. Formation of
the Taxane Skeleton," J. Org. Chem., 56, 2311 (1991).
265. J. L. Broeker and K. N. Houk: "MM2 Model
for the Intramolecular Additions of Acyl-Substituted
Radicals to Alkenes," J. Org. Chem., 56, 3651 (1991).
266. Yun-Dong Wu, K. N. Houk, Josefa Florez, and Barry
M. Trost: "Theoretical Studies of Stereoselectivities
of Nucleophilic 1, 2~Additions to Cyclohexenones. Transition
Structures and Force-Field Models for Metal Hydride
and Keteniminate Additions to Ketones," J. Org.
Chem., 56, 3656 (1991).
267. Hendrik Zipse, Jianing He, K. N. Houk, and Bernd
Giese: "On the Transition States of Electrophilic
Radical Additions to Alkenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
113, 4324 (1991).
268. Jeffrey L. Broeker, Reinhard W. Hoffmann, and
K. N. Houk: "Conformational Analysis of Chiral
Alkenes and Oxonium Ions: Ab Initio Molecular Orbital
Calculations and an Improved MM2 Force Field,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113, 5006 (1991).
269. Yun-Dong Wu, John A. Tucker, and K. N. Houk: "Stereoselectivities
of Nucleophilic Additions to Cyclohexanones Substituted
by Polar Groups. Experimental Investigation of Reductions
of trans-Decalones and Theoretical Studies of Cyclohexanone
Reductions. The Influence of Remote Electrostatic Effects,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113, 5018 (1991).
270. Yi Li, Robin L. Garrell, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism
of Cis-Trans Isomerizations of Amide and Peptide Excited
States," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113, 5895 (1991).
271. Yun-Dong Wu and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Studies of Transition Structures and Stereoselectivities
of the [2,3]-Wittig Rearrangement of Sulfur Ylides,"
J. Org. Chem., 56, 5657 (1991).
272. Victoria Alcázar Montero, Laura Tomlinson,
K. N. Houk, and François Diederich: "Selective
a, w-Dicarboxylic Acid Recognition in a Chiral Cleft
Shaped by the 9,9'-Spirobifluorene Unit," Tet.
Lett., 32, 5309 (1991).
273. Margaret A. Mc Carrick, Yun-dong Wu, and K. N.
Houk: "Exo-Lone-Pair Effect on Hetero-Diels-Alder
Cycloaddition Stereochemistry," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
114, 4, (1992).
274. Joey W. Storer and K. N. Houk: "Is Triquinacene
Homoaromatic? An MM3 Study of Triquinacene and its Hydrogenation
Products," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 114, 1165-1168. (1992).
275. Yung-Dong Wu and K. N. Houk: "Ab Initio Calculations
on Potential Intermediates in Metal Reductions of Carbonyl
Compounds. Stereochemical Considerations," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 114, 1656-61 (1992).
276. Y.-D. Wu, Y. Wang, and K. N. Houk: "A New
Model for the Stereoselectivities of Dihydroxylations
of Alkenes by Chiral Diamine Complexes of Osmium Tetroxide,"
J. Org. Chem., 57, 1362-69 (1992).
277. Y.-D. Wu, K. N. Houk, J. S. Valentine, and W.
Nam: "Is Intramolecular Hydrogen-Bonding Important
for Bleomycin Reactivity? A Molecular Mechanics Study,"
Inorg. Chem., 31, 718-20 (1992).
278. Satomi Niwayama and K. N. Houk: "Competition
Between Ester and Formyl Groups for Control of Torquoselectivity
in Cyclobutene Electrocyclic Reactions," Tet. Lett.,
33, 883-886 (1992).
279. Bert E. Thomas IV, R. J. Loncharich, and K. N.
Houk: "Force Field Modeling of Transition Structures
of Ene Reactions and Ab Initio Transition Structures
for an Activated Enophile," J. Org. Chem. 57, 1354-62
(1992).
280. Javier González and K. N. Houk: "Ab
Initio Transition Structures for Diels-Alder Reactions
of 2-Azabutadiene with Alkenes and Alkynes: Effects
of Substituents, the Aza Group, and Catalysis on Reactivity
," J. Org. Chem., 57, 3031-37 (1992).
281. Charles W. Jefford, Gerald Bernardinelli, Ying
Wang, David C. Spellmeyer, Andrzej Buda, and K. N. Houk:
"Torquoselectivity in the Electrocyclic Conversion
of Benzocylobutenes to o-Xylylenes," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 114, 1157-1165 (1992).
282. William L. Jorgensen, Toan B. Nguyen, Elizabeth
M. Sanford, Ito Chao, K. N. Houk, and François
Diederich: "Enhanced View of Structure and Binding
for Cyclophane-Arene Complexes through Joint Theoretical
and Experimental Study," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 114,
4003-4 (1992).
283. François Diederich, David B. Smithrud,
Elizabeth M. Sanford, Tara B. Wyman, Stephen B. Ferguson,
Daniel R. Carcanague, Ito Chao, and K. N. Houk: "Solvent
Effects in Molecular Recognition," Acta Chem. Scan.,
46, 205-215 (1992).
284. Laura Raimondi, Frank K. Brown, Javier Gonzalez,
and K. N. Houk: "Empirical Force-Field Models for
the Transition of Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reactions
Based Upon ab initio Transition Structures," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 114, 4796 (1992).
285. Javier Gonzalez, E. C. Taylor, and K. N. Houk:
"Why Are Isoxazoles Unreactive in Diels-Alder Reactions?
An ab Initio Computational Study," J. Org. Chem.,
57, 3753-55 (1992).
286. K. N. Houk, Yi Li, and J. D. Evanseck, "Transition
Structures of Hydrocarbon Pericyclic Reactions,"
Angew. Chemie, 104, 711-739 (1992), Int. Ed. Engl.,
31, 682-708 (1992).
287. Frank K. Brown, Laura Raimondi, Yun-dong Wu, and
K. N. Houk: "A Force Field Model for the Transition
Structures of Intramolecular Nitrile Oxide Cycloadditions,"
Tet. Lett., 33, 4405-4408 (1992).
288. Bert E. Thomas IV and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Structures of Methylenecyclopropane-2-Carboxamide and
Related Three-Membered Rings with Exocyclic Unsaturation.
The Origin of a Ground State Distortion," J. Org.
Chem., 57, 4437-4440 (1992).
289. Laura Raimondi, Yun-dong Wu, Frank K. Brown, and
K. N. Houk: "The 'Inside Alkoxy Effect' in Intramolecular
Nitrile Oxide Cycloadditions: Ab Initio and Force Field
Modeling," Tet. Lett., 33., 4409-4412 (1992).
290. Frank K. Brown, U. Chandra Singh, Peter A. Kollman,
Laura Raimondi, K. N. Houk, and Charles W. Bock: "A
Theoretical Study of Intramolecular Diels-Alder and
1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Stereoselectivity Using ab
initio Methods, Semiempirical Methods, and a Tandem
Quantum Mechanics-Molecular Mechanics Method,"
J. Org. Chem., 57, 4862-4869 (1992).
291. W. Damm, B. Giese, J. Hartrung, T. Hasskerl, K.
N. Houk, O. Huter, and H. Zipse: "Diastereofacial
Selectivity in Reactions of Substituted Cyclohexyl Radicals.
An Experimental and Theoretical Study," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 114, 4067-4079 (1992).
292. Yun-dong Wu, K. N. Houk, and M. N. Paddon-Row:
"Effect of Torsional Strain and Electrostatic Interactions
on the Stereochemistry of Nucleophilic Additions to
Cyclohexanone and Related Systems," Angew. Chem.
Int. Ed. Engl., 31, 1019-1021 (1992).
293. K. N. Houk, Susan M. Gustafson, and Kersey A.
Black: "Theoretical Secondary Kinetic Isotope Effects
and the Interpretation of Transition State Geometries.
1. The Cope Rearrangement," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
114, 8565-8572 (1992).
294. M. N. Paddon-Row, Yun-dong Wu, and K. N. Houk:
"Electrostatic Control of the Stereochemistry of
Nucleophilic Additions Substituted 7-Norbornanones,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 114, 10638-10639, (1992).
295. Frank A. L. Anet, Darón I. Freedberg, Joey
W. Storer, and K. N. Houk: "On the Potential Energy
Surface for Ring Inversion in Cyclohexene and Related
Molecules," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 114, 10969-10971
(1993).
296. Bert E. Thomas IV and K. N. Houk: "Tuning
Exo/Endo Stereoselectivity in Ene Reactions," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 790-792 (1993).
297. John E. Eksterowicz and K. N. Houk: "Transition
Structures for Radical Hydrogen Abstractions and Lithium
Hydride Additions: Similitudes and Divarications,"
Tet. Lett., 34, 427-430 (1993).
298. Yun-Dong Wu and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Study of Conformational Features of NAD+ and NADH Analogs:
Protonated Nicotinamide and 1,4-Dihydronicotinamide,"
J. Org. Chem., 58, 2043-2045 (1993).
299. Bert E. Thomas IV, J. D. Evanseck, and K. N. Houk:
"Electrocyclic Reactions of 1-Substituted 1,3,5,7-Octatetraenes.
An ab Initio Molecular Orbital Study of Torquoselectivity
in Eight-Electron Electrocycylizations," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 115, 4165-4169 (1993).
300. K. N. Houk, John E. Eksterowicz, Yun-dong Wu,
Christopher D. Fugelsang, and Darren B. Mitchell: "Conformational
Preferences of the O-C-C-C Unit in Acyclic and Cyclic
Systems. The Exo-Deoxoanomeric Effect and Related Phenomena,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 4170-4177 (1993).
301. Keepyung Nahm, Yi Li, Jeffrey D. Evanseck, K.
N. Houk, and Christopher S. Foote: "Structures
and Energies of Intermediates in the Reactions of Singlet
Oxygen with Organic Phosphines and Sulfides," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 4879-4884 (1993).
302. Margaret A. McCarrick, Yun-dong Wu, and K. N.
Houk: "Hetero-Diels-Alder Reaction Transition Structures:
Reactivity, Stereoselectivity, Catalysis, Solvent Effects,
and the exo-Lone-Pair Effect," J. Org. Chem., 58,
3330-3343 (1993).
303. Kensuke Nakamura and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Study of Mechanism and Stereoselectivity of the Ring
Opening of Formyloxirane," Heterocycles, 35, 631-634
(1993).
304. Robert R. Fraser, Fanzui Kong, Maria Stanciulescu,
Yun-dong Wu, and K. N. Houk: "Experimental and
Theoretical Studies of Acid-Catalyzed 18O Exchange Rates
of Conformationally Rigid Ketones. Is the Antiperiplanar
Effect Important?" J. Org. Chem., 58, 4431-4440
(1993).
305. Satomi Niwayama and K. N. Houk: "Lewis Acid
Reversal of the Torquoselectivity of the Electrocyclic
Ring Opening of 3-Acetylcyclobutene," Tet. Lett.,
34, 1251-1254 (1993).
306. Yun-dong Wu, Yi Li, Jim Na, and K. N. Houk: "Reagent-Specific
Electrostatic Effects on Electrophilic ?-Facial Stereoselectivity.
Interpretation of the Stereochemical Variation of Electrophilic
Additions to 7-Isopropylidenebenzonobornenes,"
J. Org. Chem., 58, 4625-4628 (1993).
307. Yi Li and K. N. Houk: "Diels-Alder Dimerization
of 1,3-Butadiene: An ab Initio CASSCF Study of the Concerted
and Stepwise Mechanisms and Butadiene-Ethylene Revisited,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 7478-7485 (1993).
308. J. Na, K. N. Houk, C. G. Shevlin, K. D. Janda,
and R. A. Lerner: "The Energetic Advantage of 5-Exo
Versus 6-Endo Epoxide Openings - A Preference Overwhelmed
by Antibody Catalysis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115,
8453-8454 (1993).
309. V. E. Gouverneur, K. N. Houk, B. De Pascual-Teresa,
B. Beno, K. D. Janda, and R. A. Lerner: "Control
of the Exo-Pathway and Endo-Pathway of the Diels Alder
Reaction by Antibody Catalysis," Science, 262,
204-208 (1993).
310. Joey W. Storer and K. N. Houk: "Origin of
Anomalous Kinetic Parameters in Carbene 1,2-Shifts by
Direct Dynamics," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 10426-7
(1993).
311. Yun-dong Wu and K. N. Houk: "Theory of Gas-Phase
and Solution Stereoselectivities of Hydride Reductions
of Cyclohexanone Derivatives by Silicon Hydrides,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 10992-10993 (1993).
312. John E. Eksterowitz and K. N. Houk: "Transition-State
Modeling with Empirical Force Fields," Chem. Rev.,
93, 2439-2461 (1993).
313. Takashi Takahashi, Makoto Nakazawa, Yasuharu Sakamoto,
and K. N. Houk: "A (3+2)-Cycloaddition Approach
to 1a, 2b, 25-Trihydroxyvitamin D3 A Ring Synthon.,"Tet.
Lett., 34, 4075-4078 (1993).
314. Y. D. Wu and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Studies
of the Hydration of Metaphosphate with One, Two and
Three Molecules of Water," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115,
11997-12002 (1993).
315. B. E. Thomas, J. D. Evanseck, and K. N. Houk:
"Transition Structures of the Electrocyclic Reactions
of cis,cis,cis-1,2,3-Cyclooctatriene," Israel Journal
of Chemistry, 33, 287-293 (1993).
316. M. M. Gugelchuk and K. N. Houk: "Stereoselective
Organometallic Reactions - A Force Field Study of Pi-Allyl
Intermediates in Nickel(0) - Catalyzed Cycloadditions,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 116, 330-339 (1994).
317. B. De Pascual-Teresa and K. N. Houk: "Stereoselectivities
of Thermal and Lewis Acid Catalyzed Diels-Alder Reactions
of 1,2,2-Trimethylpropyl Acrylate with Cyclopentadiene,"
Tetradedron Lett., 35, 231-232 (1994).
318. S. Niwayama, K. N. Houk, and T. Kusumi: "Competition
Between Carbomethoxy and Carboxyl in Electrocyclic Opening
of a 3,3-Disubstituted Cyclobutene," Tetrahedron
Lett., 35, 527-530 (1994).
319. Michael J. Martinelli, Barry C. Peterson, Vien
V. Khau, Darrell R. Hutchinson, M. Robert Leanna, James
E. Audia, James J. Droste, Yun-dong Wu, and K. N. Houk:
"Stereoselective Epoxidations and Electrophilic
Additions to Partial Ergot Alkaloids and Conformationally-Fixed
Styrenes. Experimental and Theoretical Modeling Evidence
for the Importance of Torsional Steering as a Stereocontrol
Element," J. Org. Chem., 59, 2204-2210 (1994).
320. K. Mikami, T. Uchida, T. Hirano, Y. D. Wu, and
K. N. Houk: "Different Transition Structures for
[2,3]-Wittig Rearrangements of Stabilized and Unstabilized
Allyloxy Methylanions - Rationale for the Dichotomous
Sense of Stereoselection," Tetrahedron, 50, 5917-5926
(1994).
321. K.N. Houk, Yi Li, J. W. Storer, L. Raimondi, and
B. Beno: "Concerted and Stepwise Mechanisms in
Cycloaddition Reactions: Potential Surfaces and Isotope
Effects,"J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans., 90, 1599-1604
(1994).
322. K. N. Houk: "General Discussion. Symposium
on Potential-Energy Surface and Organic Reaction Paths.
Oxford, December 15-17, 1993." J. Chem. Soc. Faraday
Trans., 90, 1605-1616, (1994).
323. J. W. Storer, L. Raimondi, and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Secondary Kinetic Isotope Effects and the Interpretation
of Transition State Geometries. 2. The Diels-Alder Reaction
Transition State Geometry," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
116, 9675-9683 (1994).
324. K. P. Eurenius and K.N. Houk: "Rational vs.
Random Parameters in Transition State Modeling: MM2
Transition State Models for Intramolecular Hydride Transfers,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 116, 9943-9946 (1994).
325. O. Wiest, K. A. Black, and K. N. Houk: "Density
Functional Theory Isotope Effects and Activation Energies
for Cope and Claisen Rearrangements," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 116, 10336-10337 (1994).
326. Jeffrey D. Evanseck, K. N. Houk, James M. Briggs,
and William L. Jorgensen: "Quantification of Solvent
Effects on the Acidities of Z and E Esters from Fluid
Simulations," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 116, 10630-10638
(1994).
327. K. N. Houk, Yi Li, M. A. McAllister, George O'Doherty,
Leo A. Paquette, Willem Siebrand, and Zorka K. Smededarchina:
"Mechanistic Analysis of Double Hydrogen Dyotropy
in syn-Sesquinobornene Disulfones. A Combined Kinetic
and Theoretical Evaluation of Primary Deuterium Isotope
Effects," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 116, 10895-10913 (1994).
328. Jeffrey D. Winkler, Sanghee Kim, Kevin R. Condroski,
Amparo Asensio, and K. N. Houk: "Stereoselective
Synthesis of Polycyclic Ring Systems via the Tandem
Diels-Alder Reaction," J. Org. Chem., 59, 6879-6881
(1994).
329. M. A. Garcia-Garibay, S. H. Shin, I. Chao, S.
I Khan, and K. N. Houk: "Solid-State C-13 CPMAS
NMR and Molecular Mechanics Study of Conformational
Recognition in Mixed Crystals of 2-Phenylalkyl Ketones,"
Chemistry of Materials, 6 , 1267-1306 (1994).
330. O. Wiest and K. N. Houk: "On the Transition
State of the Chorismate-Prephenate Rearrangement,"
J. Org. Chem., 59, 7582-7584 (1994).
331. K. N. Houk: "Theory of Acids and Bases. I.
Relationships between Structure and Acidity and Basicity.
II. Theory of Medium Effects on Acidity and Basicity."
in "Acidity and Basicity of Solids: Theory, Assessment,
and Utility," J. Fraissard, L. Petrakis, Ed., Kluwer,
Dordrecht, 1994.
332. Hi Young Yoo and K. N. Houk: "Transition
Structures and Kinetic Isotope Effects for the Claisen
Rearrangement," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 116, 12047-12048
(1994).
333. K. N. Houk, J. Gonzalez, and Yi Li: "Pericyclic
Reaction Transition States: Passions and Punctilios,
1935-1995," Accounts Chem. Research, 28, 81-90
(1995).
334. K. Nakamura and K. N. Houk: "Substituent
Effects on Torquoselectivity. Computational Investigations
of the Thermal Ring Openings of Cyclobutenes Fused to
Substituted Cyclohexenes," J. Org. Chem. 60, 686-691
(1994).
335. Kensuke Nakamura and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism
and Thermodynamics of Guest Escape from a Carcerand,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 1853-1854 (1994).
336. Jeffrey L. Broeker, Anna J. Belk, John E. Eksterowicz,
and K. N. Houk: "The Origin of Regioselectivity
in Photocycloadditions of Triplet Cyclohexenones to
Alkenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 1847-1848 (1995).
337. Leif P. Olson, Yi Li, K. N. Houk, A. Jerry Kresge,
and Lawrence J. Schaad: "Theoretical Analysis of
Secondary Kinetic Isotope Effects in C-N Rotation of
Amides," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 2992-2997 (1995).
338. Dietmar A. Plattner and K. N. Houk: "C18
is a Polyyne," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 15, 4405-4406
(1995).
339. B. De Pascual-Teresa, J. Gonzalez, A. Asensio,
and K. N. Houk: "Ab Initio-Based Force Field Modeling
of the Transition States and Steroselectivities of Lewis
Acid-Catalyzed Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reactions,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 4347-4356 (1995).
340. Yun-Dong Wu, David K. W. Lai, and K. N. Houk:
"Transition Structures of Hydride Transfer Reactions
of Protonated Pyridinium Ion with 1,4-Dihydropyridine
and Pronoted Nicotinamide with 1,4 -Dihydronicotinamide,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 4100-4108 (1995).
341. James M. Coxon, K. N. Houk, and Richard T. Luibrand:
"Factors which Control p-Facial Selection in the
Reduction of 5-Substituted Adamantanones," J. Org.
Chem., 60, 418-427 (1995).
342. Hiroaki Sasai, Takayoshi Arai, Yoshinori Satow,
K. N. Houk, and Masakatsu Shibasaki: "The First
Hetero-Bimetallic Multifunctional Asymmetric Catalyst,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 6194-6198 (1995).
343. Satomi Niwayama, Ying Wang, and K. N. Houk: "The
Torquoselectivity of Electrocyclic Reactions of 3-Donor-3-Acceptor-Substituted
Cyclobutenes," Tetrahedron Letters, 36, 6201-6204
(1995).
344. O. Wiest, K. N. Houk, K. A. Black, and B. Thomas
IV: "Secondary Kinetic Isotope Effects of Diastereotopic
Protons in Pericylic Reactions: A New Mechanistic Probe,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 8594-8599 (1995).
345. Dietmar A. Plattner, Yi Li, and K. N. Houk: "Modern
Computational and Theoretical Aspects of Acetylene Chemistry,"
in "Modern Acetylene Chemistry," F. N. Diedrich
and P. J. Stang, Ed., VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 1995.
346. J. D. Evanseck, B. E. Thomas IV, D. C. Spellmeyer,
and K. N. Houk: "Transition Structures of Thermally
Allowed Disrotatory Electrocyclizations. The Prediction
of Stereoselective Substituent Effects in Six-Electron
Pericyclic Reactions," J. Org. Chem., 60, 7134-7141
(1995).
347. Emanuel Vogel, Martin Bröring, Jürgen
Fink, Daniel Rosen, Hans Schmickler, Johann Lex, Kyle
W. K. Chan, Yun-Dong Wu, Dietmar A. Plattner, Maja Nendel,
and K. N. Houk: "From Porphyrin Isomers to Octapyrrolic
'Figure Eight' Macrocycles," Angew. Chemie, 107,
2705-2709 (1995), Int. Ed. Engl., 34 , 2511-2514 (1995).
348. Martin Bröring, Jörg Jendrny, Lars Zander,
Hans Schmickler, Johann Lex, Yun-Dong Wu, Maja Nendel,
Jiangang Chen, Dietmar A. Plattner, K. N. Houk, and
Emanuel Vogel: "Octaphyrin-(1.0.1.0.1.0.1.0.),"
Angew. Chemie, 107, 2709-2711 (1995), Int. Ed. Engl.,
34 , 2515-2517 (1995).
349. H. Zipse, G. Apaydin, and K. N. Houk: "A
Quantum Mechanical and Statistical Mechanical Exploration
of the Thermal Decarboxylation of Kemp's Other Acid
(Benzisoxazole-3-carboxylic Acid). The Influence of
Solvation on the Transition State Geometries and Kinetic
Isotope Effects of a Reaction with an Awesome Solvent
Effect," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 8608-8617 (1995).
350. Olaf Wiest and K. N. Houk: "Stabilization
of the Transition State of the Chorismate-Prephenate
Rearrangement: An ab Initio Study of Enzyme and Antibody
Catalysis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 11628-11639
(1995).
351. Yi Li and K. N. Houk: "The Dimerization of
Cyclobutadiene. An ab Initio CASSCF Theoretical Study,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 880-885 (1996).
352. Leif P. Olson, Satomi Niwayama, Hi Young Yoo,
K. N. Houk, Nathan J. Harris, and Joseph J. Gajewski:
"Secondary Deuterium Kinetic Isotope Effects in
the Rotations of Alkenes and Allyl Radicals: Theory
and Experiment," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 886-892
(1996).
353. Satomi Niwayama, Ying You, K. N. Houk, and Saeed
I. Khan: "Two Isoxazolidines," Acta. Cryst,
52, 486-489 (1996).
354. Yun-Dong Wu, Jeehiun K. Lee, K. N. Houk, and Alessandro
Dondoni: "Theoretical Study of a Termolecular Mechanism
for the Reaction of (Trimethylsilyl) thiazole with Carbonyl
Compounds," J. Org. Chem., 61, 1922-1926 (1996).
355. Satomi Niwayama, E. Adam Kallel, Chimin Sheu,
and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Predictions of Substituent
Effects on the Thermal Electrocyclic Ring Openings of
Cyclobutenones," J. Org. Chem., 61, 2517-2522 (1996).
356. Satomi Niwayama, E. Adam Kallel, David C. Spellmeyer,
Chimin Sheu, and K. N. Houk: "Substituent Effects
on Rates and Stereoselectivities of Conrotatory Electrocyclic
Reactions of Cyclobutenes. A Theoretical Study,"
J. Org. Chem., 61, 2813-2825 (1996).
357. Beatriz de Pascual-Teresa and K. N. Houk: "The
Ionic Diels-Alder Reaction of the Allyl Cation and Butadiene:
Theoretical Investigation of the Mechanism," Tetrahedron
Lett., 37, 1759-1762 (1996).
358. E. Goldstein, Brett Beno, and K. N. Houk: "Density
Functional Theory Prediction of the Relative Energies
and Isotope Effects for the Concerted and Stepwise Mechanisms
of the Diels-Alder Reaction of Butadiene and Ethylene,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 6036-6043 (1996).
359. Jim Na, K. N. Houk, and Donald Hilvert: "Transition
State of the Base-Promoted Ring-Opening of Isoxazoles.
Theoretical Prediction of Catalytic Functionalities
and Design of Haptens for Antibody Production,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 6462-6471 (1996).
360. K. N. Houk, Kensuke Nakamura, Chimin Sheu, and
Amy E. Keating: "Gating as a Control Element in
Constrictive Binding and Guest Release by Hemicarcerands,"
Science, 273, 627-629 (1996).
361. Chimin Sheu and K. N. Houk: "Molecular Mechanics
and Statistical Thermodynamics Studies of Complexes
of a Flexible Hemicarcerand with Neutral Guests,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 8056-8070 (1996).
362. Jennifer L. Radkiewicz, H. Zipse, Steven Clarke,
and K. N. Houk: "Accelerated Racemization of Aspartic
Acid and Asparagine Residues via Succinimide Intermediates:
An ab Initio Theoretical Exploration of Mechanism,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 9148-9155 (1996).
363. Jim Na and K. N. Houk: "Predicting Antibody
Catalyst Selectivity from Optimum Binding of Catalytic
Groups to a Hapten," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 9204-9205
(1996).
364. Hendrik Zipse, Li-hsing Wang, and Kendall N. Houk:
"Polyether Catalysis of Ester Aminolysis - A Computational
and Experimental Study," Liebigs Ann., 1511-1522
(1996).
365. William R. Dolbier, Jr., Henryk Koroniak, K. N.
Houk, and Chimin Sheu: "Electronic Control of Stereoselectivities
of Electrocyclic Reactions of Cyclobutenes: A Triumph
of Theory in the Prediction of Organic Reactions,"
Acc. Chem. Res., 29, 471-477 (1996).
366. Brett R. Beno, K. N. Houk, and Daniel A. Singleton:
"Synchronous or Asynchronous? An 'Experimental'
Transition State from a Direct Comparison of Experimental
and Theoretical Kinetic Isotope Effects for a Diels-Alder
Reaction," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 9984-9985 (1996).
367. Olaf Wiest and K. N. Houk: "Density Functional
Theory Calculations of Pericyclic Reaction Transition
Structures," Topics in Current Chemistry, 183,
1-22 (1996).
368. T. Okuno, K. Ohmori, S. Nishiyama, S. Yamamura,
K. Nakamura, K. N. Houk, and K. Okamoto: "Chemical
Study on Hapalosin, A Cyclic Depsipeptide Possessing
Multidrug Resistance Reversing Activities - Synthesis,
Structure, and Biological Activity," Tetrahedron,
52, 14723-14734 (1996).
369. Rohit Batra, Bernd Giese, Martin Spichty, Georg
Gescheidt, and K. N. Houk: "Calculations of Isotropic
Hyperfine Coupling Constants of Organic Radicals. An
Evaluation of Semiempirical, Hartree-Fock, and Density
Functional Methods," J. Phys. Chem., 47, 18371-18379
(1996).
370. K. N. Houk, Kevin R. Condroski, and William A.
Pryor: "Radical and Concerted Mechanisms in Oxidations
of Amines, Sulfides, and Alkenes by Peroxynitrite, Peroxynitrous
Acid, and the Peroxynitrite-CO2 Adduct: Density Functional
Theory Transition Structures and Energetics," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 13002-13006 (1996).
371. Juyoung Yoon, Chimin Sheu, K. N. Houk, Carolyn
B. Knobler, and Donald J. Cram: "Syntheses, Binding
Properties, and Structures of Seven New Hemicarcerands
Each Composed of Two Bowls Bridged by Three Tetramethylenedioxy
Groups and a Fourth Unique Linkage," J. Org. Chem.,
61, 9323-9339 (1996).
372. Melissa J. Lucero and K. N. Houk: "Conformational
Transmission of Chirality: The Origin of 1,4-Asymmetric
Induction in Michael Reactions of Chiral Imines,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 826-827 (1997).
373. Amy E. Keating, Steve H. Shin, K. N. Houk, and
Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay: "Combining Quantum Mechanical
Reaction Pathways with Force Field Lattice Interactions
To Model a Solid-State Phototransformation," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 1474-1475 (1997).
374. Hi Young Yoo and K. N. Houk: "Theory of Substituent
Effects on Pericylic Reaction Rates: Alkoxy Substituents
in the Claisen Rearrangement," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
119, 2877-2884 (1997).
375. Emanuel Vogel, Martin Bröring, Chrostoph
Erben, Ralf Demuth, Johann Lex, Maja Nendel, K. N. Houk:
"Palladium Complexes of the New Porphyrin Isomers
(Z)- and (E)-Isoporphycene - PdII-Induced Cyclization
of Tetrapyrrolealdehydes," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
Engl., 36, 353-357 (1997).
376. Maja Nendel, Kendall N. Houk, L. M. Tolbert, Emanuel
Vogel, Haijun Jiao, and Paul von Ragué Schleyer:
"The Bond Localization Energies in the Aromatic
Bismethanol[14] annulenes," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
Engl., 36, 748-750 (1997).
377. Daniel A. Singleton, Steven R. Merrigan, Jian
Liu, and K. N. Houk: "Experimental Geometry of
the Epoxidation Transition State," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 119, 3385-3386 (1997).
378. K. N. Houk and Jeehiun K. Lee: "Physical
Organic Chemistry in the 21st Century: Evanescent or
Transcendant?" Pure & Appl. Chem., 69, 237-239
(1997).
379. Jeehiun K. Lee and K. N. Houk: "A Proficient
Enzyme Revisited: The Predicted Mechanism for Orotidine
Monophosphate Decarboxylase," Science, 276, 942-945
(1997).
380. Kensuke Nakamura, Chimin Sheu, Amy E. Keating,
K. N. Houk, John C. Sherman, Robert G. Chapman, and
William L. Jorgensen, "Self-Assembling Ternary
Complex Stabilities and Template Ratios in Carceplex
Formation," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 4321-4322 (1997).
381. Jeffrey D. Winkler, Hak Sung Kim, Sanghee Kim,
Kaori Ando, and Kendall N. Houk: "Stereoselective
Synthesis of the Taxane Ring System via the Tandem Diels-Alder
Cycloaddition," J. Org. Chem., 62, 2957-2962 (1997).
382. Jeehiun K. Lee and Kendall N. Houk: "Cation-Cyclization
Selectivity: Variable Structures of Protonated Cyclopropanes
and Selectivity Control by Catalytic Antibodies,"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl, 36, 1003-1005 (1997).
383. Qiaolin Deng, Bert E. Thomas, K. N. Houk, and
Paul Dowd: "Transition Structures of the Ene Reactions
of Cyclopropene," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 6902-6908
(1997).
384. Jan Haller, Thomas Strassner, and K. N. Houk:
"Models for Stereoselective Additions to Chiral
Allylic Ethers: Osmium Tetroxide Bis-hydroxylations,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 8031-8034 (1997).
385. Jan Haller, Satomi Niwayama, How-Yunn Duh, and
K. N. Houk: "Stereoselective Diels-Alder Reactions
of Hexachlorocyclopentadiene with Chiral Alkenes: New
Insights into the 'Inside-Alkoxy' Model of Stereoselectivity,"
J. Org. Chem., 62, 5728-5731 (1997).
386. Viktorya Aviyente, Hi Young Yoo, and K. N. Houk:
"Analysis of Substituent Effects on the Claisen
Rearrangement with Ab Initio and Density Functional
Theory," J. Org. Chem., 62, 6121-6128 (1997).
387. K. N. Houk, Brett R. Beno, Maja Nendel, Kersey
Black, Hi Young Yoo, Sarah Wilsey, and Jeehiun K. Lee:
"Exploration of Pericyclic Reaction Transition
Structures by Quantum Mechanical Methods: Competing
Concerted and Stepwise Mechanisms," THEOCHEM, 398-399,
169-179 (1997).
388. Jenny S. Chen, K. N. Houk, and Christopher S.
Foote: "The Nature of the Transition Structures
of Triazolinedione Ene Reactions," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 119, 9852-9855 (1997).
389. Albert J. DelMonte, Jan Haller, K. N. Houk, K.
Barry Sharpless, Daniel A. Singleton, Thomas Strassner,
and Allen A. Thomas: "Experimental and Theoretical
Kinetic Isotope Effects for Asymmetric Dihydroxylation.
Evidence Supporting a Rate-Limiting "(3 + 2)"
Cycloaddition," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 9907-9908
(1997).
390. Varsha Gupta, Anthony K. Ogawa, Xiaohui Du, K.
N. Houk, and Robert W. Armstrong: "A Model for
Binding of Structurally Diverse Natural Product Inhibitors
of Protein Phosphatases PP1 and PP2A," J. Med.
Chem., 40, 3199-3206 (1997).
391. K. N. Houk, Jian Liu, Nicholas C. DeMello, Kevin
R. Condroski: "Transition States of Epoxidations:
Diradical Character, Spiro Geometries, Transition State
Flexibility, and the Origins of Stereoselectivity,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 10147-10152 (1997).
392. Matthias K. Diedrich, Frank-Gerrit Klärner,
Brett R. Beno, K. N. Houk, Hanoch Senderowitz, and W.
Clark Still: "Experimental Determination of the
Activation Parameters and Stereoselectivities of the
Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reactions of 1,3,8-Nonatriene,
1,3,9-Decatriene, and 1,3,10-Undecatriene and Transition
State Modeling with the Monte Carlo - Jumping Between
Wells/Molecular Dynamics Method," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 119, 10255-10259 (1997).
393. K. N. Houk, Maja Nendel, Olaf Wiest, Joey W. Storer:
"The Vinylcyclopropane-Cyclopentene Rearrangement:
A Prototype Thermal Rearrangement Involving Competing
Diradical Concerted and Stepwise Mechanisms," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 10545-10546 (1997).
394. Olaf Wiest, Daniel C. Montiel, and K. N. Houk:
"Quantum Mechanical Methods and the Interpretation
and Prediction of Pericyclic Reaction Mechanisms,"
J. Phys. Chem. A, 101, 8378-8388 (1997).
395. Amy E. Keating, Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, and
K. N. Houk: "Origins of Stereoselective Carbene
1,2-Shifts and Cycloadditions of 1,2-Dichloroethylidene:
A Theoretical Model Based on CBS-Q and B3LYP Calculations,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 10805-10809 (1997).
396. Haijun Jiao, Paul von Ragué Schleyer, Brett
R. Beno, K. N. Houk, and Ralf Warmuth: "Theoretical
Structures, Aromaticity, and Magnetic Properties of
o-Benzyne," Angewandte Chemie, 109, 2929-2933 (1997).
397. Yun-Dong Wu, Kyle W. K. Chan, Cong-Ping Yip, Emanuel
Vogel, Dietmar A. Plattner, and K. N. Houk: "Porphyrin
Isomers: Geometry, Tautomerism, Geometrical Isomerism,
and Stability," J. Org. Chem., 62, 9240-9250 (1997).
398. Peter Kast, Yadu B. Tewari, Olaf Wiest, Donald
Hilvert, K. N. Houk, and Robert N. Goldberg: "Thermodynamics
of the Conversion of Chorismate to Prephenate: Experimental
Results and Theoretical Predictions," J. Phys.
Chem. B, 101, 10976-10982 (1997).
399. Corky Jenson, Jian Liu, Kendall N. Houk, and William
L. Jorgensen: "Elucidation of Transition Structures
and Solvent Effects for Epoxidation by Dimethyldioxirane,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 12982-12983 (1997).
400. Hi Young Yoo, K. N. Houk, Jeehiun K. Lee, Mark
A. Scialdone, and A. I. Meyers: "A New Paradigm
for Anionic Heteroatom Cope Rearrangements," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 120, 205-206 (1998).
401. M. Carmen Carreño, Manuel Pérez
González, and K. N. Houk: "Pi-Facial Diastereoselection
in Diels-Alder Reactions of (R)-4-[(p-tolylsulfinyl)methyl]quinols,"
J. Org. Chem., 62, 9128-9137 (1997).
402. Brett R. Beno, Chimin Sheu, K. N. Houk, Ralf Warmuth,
and D. J. Cram: "Cycloaddition of o-Benzyne to
Benzene and the Inner Phase of a Hemicarcerand,"
Chem. Comm., 301-302 (1998).
403. Ferran Prat, K. N. Houk, and Christopher S. Foote:
"Effect of Guanine Stacking on the Oxidation of
8-Oxoguanine in B - DNA," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120,
845-846 (1998).
404. Jian Liu, Satomi Niwayama, Ying You, and K. N.
Houk: "Theoretical Prediction and Experimental
Tests of Conformational Switches in Transition States
of Diels-Alder and 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions to Enol
Ethers," J. Org. Chem., 63, 1064-1073 (1998).
405. Jennifer L. Radkiewicz, Michael McAllister, Elisheva
Goldstein, and K. N. Houk: "A Theoretical Investigation
of Phosphonamidates and Sulfonamides as Protease Transition
State Isosteres," J. Org. Chem., 63, 1419-1428
(1998).
406. Kaori Ando, K. N. Houk, Joachim Busch, Alexander
Menassé, and Urs Séquin: "Experimental
and Computational Studies of Nucleophilic Additions
of Metal Hydrides and Organometallics to Hindered Cyclohexanones,"
J. Org. Chem., 63, 1761-1766 (1998).
407. Katherine Hutchison, Gordana Srdanov, Robin Hicks,
Huinan Yu, Fred Wudl, Thomas Strassner, Maja Nendel,
and K. N. Houk: "Tetraphenylhexaazaanthracene:
A Case for Dominance of Cyanine Ion Stabilization Overwhelming
16 p Aromaticity," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120, 2989-2990
(1998).
408. Kaori Ando, Kevin R. Condroski, K. N. Houk, Yun-Dong
Wu, Sylvie Kim Ly, and L. E. Overman: "Stereoselectivities
of Nucleophilic Additions to Cycloheptanones. Experimental
and Theoretical Studies and General Purpose Force Field
for the Prediction of Nucleophilic Addition Stereoselectivities,"
J. Org. Chem., 63, 3196-3203 (1998).
409. Nicholas J. Turro, Ann McDermott, Xuegong Lei,
Wei Li, Lloyd Abrams, M. Francesca Ottaviani, Hege Støgård
Beard, Kendall N. Houk, Brett R. Beno, and Patrick S.
Lee: "Photochemistry of Ketones Adsorbed on Size/Shape
Selective Zeolites. A Supramolecular Approach to Persistent
Carbon Centered Radicals," Chem. Commun., 697-698
(1998).
410. Andreas Heine, Enrico A Stora, Jari T. Yli-Kauhaluoma,
Changshou Gao, Qiaolin Deng, Brett R. Beno, Kendall
N. Houk, Kim D. Janda, and Ian A. Wilson: "An Antibody
exo Diels-Alderase Inhibitor Complex at 1.95 Angstrom
Resolution," Science, 279, 1934-1940 (1998).
411. Guadalupe Silvero, Melissa J. Lucero, E. Winterfeldt,
and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Study of the Facial
Selectivity in Diels-Alder Reactions of 4,4-Disubstituted
Cyclohexadienones," Tetrahedron, 54, 7293-7300
(1998).
412. Kersey A. Black, Sarah Wilsey, and K. N. Houk:
"Alkynes, Allenes, and Alkenes in [3,3]-Sigmatropy:
Functional Diversity and Kinetic Monotony. A Theoretical
Analysis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120, 5622-5627 (1998).
413. Jan Haller, Brett R. Beno, and K. N. Houk: "Why
Is the Concerted (2+2) Mechanism of the Reactions of
SO3 with Alkenes Favored over the (3+2) Mechanism? Density
Functional and Correlated ab Initio Calculations and
a Frontier MO Analysis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120,
6468-6472 (1998).
414. M. Carmen Carreño, Manuel Pérez,
María Ribagorda, and K. N. Houk: "Studies
of Diastereoselectivity in Conjugate Addition of Organoaluminum
Reagents to (R)-[(p-Tolylsulfinyl)methyl]quinols and
Derivatives," J. Org. Chem., 63, 3687-3693 (1998).
415. Jiangang Chen, Michael A. McAllister, Jeehiun
K. Lee, and K. N. Houk: "Short, Strong Hydrogen
Bonds in the Gas Phase and in Solution: Theoretical
Exploration of pKa Matching and Environmental Effects
on the Strengths of Hydrogen Bonds and Their Potential
Role in Enzymatic Catalysis," J. Org. Chem., 63,
4611-4619 (1998).
416. Michael D. Bartberger, Leif P. Olson, and K. N.
Houk: "Mechanisms of Peroxynitrite Oxidations and
Rearrangements: The Theoretical Perspective," Chem.
Res. Toxicol., 11, 710-711 (1998).
417. Jeffrey D. Winkler, Jeffrey Axten, Abdel Hakim
Hammach, Young-Shin Kwak, Urs. Lengweiler, Melissa J.
Lucero, and K. N. Houk: "Stereoselective Synthesis
of the Tetracyclic Core of Manzamine via the Vinylogous
Amide Photocycloaddition Cascade," Tetrahedron,
54, 7045-7056 (1998).
418. Maja Nendel, K. N. Houk, L. M. Tolbert, Emanuel
Vogel, Haijun Jiao, and Paul von Ragué Schleyer:
"Bond Alternation and Aromatic Character in Cyclic
Polyenes: Assessment of Theoretical Methods for Computing
the Structures and Energies of Bismethano[14]annulenes,"
J. Phys. Chem. A, 102, 7191-7198 (1998).
419. Françisco M. Raymo, K. N. Houk, and J.
Fraser Stoddart: "The Mechanism of the Slippage
Approach to Rotaxanes. Origin of the "All-or-Nothing"
Substituent Effect," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120, 9318-9322
(1998).
420. Françisco M. Raymo, K. N. Houk, and J.
Fraser Stoddart: "Origins of Selectivity in Molecular
and Supramolecular Entities: Solvent and Electrostatic
Control of the Translational Isomerism in [2]Catenanes,"
J. Org. Chem., 63, 6523-6528 (1998).
421. Xiaohui Du and K. N. Houk: "Transition States
for Alkane Oxidations by Dioxiranes," J. Org. Chem.,
63, 6480-6483 (1998).
422. Melissa J. Lucero and K. N. Houk: "Torsional
Control of Epoxidation Stereoselectivity in 1,2-Dihydronaphthalenes.
Transition State Modeling with Semiempirical Quantum
Mechanics," J. Org. Chem., 63, 6973-6977 (1998).
423. Yadu B. Tewari, Jiangang Chen, Marcia J. Holden,
Kendall N. Houk, and Robert N. Goldberg: "Thermodynamics
and Quantum Chemical Study of the Conversion of Chorismate
to (Pyruvate + 4-Hydroxylbenzoate)," J. Phys. Chem.
B, 102, 8634-8639 (1998).
424. Brett R. Beno, Jens Fennen, K. N. Houk, Hans Jörg
Lindner, and Klaus Hafner: "[5,5] Sigmatropic Rearrangement.
DFT Prediction of a Diradical Mechanism for a Woodward-Hoffmann
"Allowed" Thermal Pericyclic Reaction,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120, 10490-10493 (1998).
425. Amy E. Keating, Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, and
K. N. Houk: "Influence of Bystander Substituents
on the Rates of 1,2-H and 1,2-Ph Shifts in Singlet and
Triplet Carbenes," J. Phys. Chem. A, 102, 8467-8476
(1998).
426. Dean J. Tantillo, Jiangang Chen, and Kendall N.
Houk: "Theozymes and Compuzymes: Theoretical Models
for Biological Catalysis," Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol.,
2, 743-750 (1998).
427. Jian Liu, K. N. Houk, Anna Dinoi, Caterina Fusco,
and Ruggero Curci: "Dioxirane Epoxidations of 1,1-Disubstituted
Ethylenes. Probing for Radical Pathways by Computations
and Experiments," J. Org. Chem., 63, 8565-8569
(1998).
428. Jing Tian, K. N. Houk, and Frank-Gerrit Klärner:
"Substituent Effect on Stereospecificity and Energy
of Concert of the Retro-Diels-Alder Reaction of Isopropylidenenorbornene,"
J. Phys. Chem. A, 102, 7662-7667 (1998).
429. Inadvertent duplication of #365.
430. Xue Wang and K. N. Houk: "Difluorotoluene,
a Thymine Isostere, Does Not Hydrogen Bond After All,"
Chem. Comm., 2631-2632 (1998).
431. Bernd Goldfuss and K. N. Houk: "Origin of
Enantioselectivities in Chiral b-Amino Alcohol Catalyzed
Asymmetric Additions of Organozinc Reagents to Benzaldehyde:
PM3 Transition State Modeling," J. Org. Chem.,
63, 8998-9006 (1998).
432. Jenny S. Chen, K. N. Houk, and Christopher S.
Foote: "Theoretical Study of the Concerted and
Stepwise Mechanisms of Triazolinedione Diels-Alder Reactions,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120, 12303-12309 (1998).
433. K. N. Houk, Sarah L. Wilsey, Brett R. Beno, Achim
Kless, Maja Nendel, and Jing Tian: "Retro-cycloadditions
and Sigmatropic Shifts: The C7H8 and C7H10 Potential
Energy Surfaces," Pure Appl. Chem., 70, 1947-1952
(1998).
434. Dorota Sawicka, Sarah Wilsey, and K. N. Houk:
"The 16 kcal/mol Anomaly: Alteration of [2 + 2
+ 2] Cycloaddition Rates by Through-Bond Interactions,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 864-865 (1999).
435. K. N. Houk and Thomas Strassner: "Establishing
the (3+2) Mechanism for the Permanganate Oxidation of
Alkenes by Theory and Kinetic Isotope Effects,"
J. Org. Chem., 64, 800-802 (1999).
436. Maja Nendel, Laren M. Tolbert, Laura E. Herring,
Md. Nurul Islam, and K. N. Houk: "Strained Allenes
as Dienophiles in the Diels-Alder Reaction: An Experimental
and Computational Study," J. Org. Chem., 64, 976-983
(1999).
437. K. N. Houk, Stephan Menzer, Simon P. Newton, Françisco
Raymo, J. Fraser Stoddart, and David J. Williams, "[C-HÖO]
Interactions as a Control Element in Supramolecular
Complexes: Experimental and Theoretical Evaluation of
Receptor Affinities for the Binding of Bipyridinium-Based
Guests by Catenated Hosts," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
121, 1479-1487 (1999).
438. Maja Nendel, Bernd Goldfuss, K. N. Houk, and K.
Hafner, "s-Indacene, a Quasi-Delocalized Molecule
with Mixed Aromatic and Anti-Aromatic Character,"
J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem), 461-462, 23-28 (1999).
439. K. N. Houk, Jian Liu, and Thomas Strassner, "Transition
State Modeling of Asymmetric Epoxidation Catalysts,"
in Transition State Modeling for Catalysis, Donald G.
Truhlar and Keiji Morokuma, Eds. ACS Symposium Series
271: Washington, DC, 1999. pp. 33-48.
440. Craig A. Merlic, Joseph C. Walsh, Dean J. Tantillo,
and K. N. Houk: "Chemical Hermaphroditism: The
Potential of the Cr(CO)3 Moiety to Stabilize Transition
States and Intermediates with Anionic, Cationic, or
Radical Character at the Benzylic Position," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 3596-3606 (1999).
441. Amy E. Keating, Steven R. Merrigan, Daniel A.
Singleton, and K. N. Houk: "Experimental Proof
of the Non-Least-Motion Cycloadditions of Dichlorocarbene
to Alkenes: Kinetic Isotope Effects and Quantum Mechanical
Transition States," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 3933-3938
(1999).
442. Dean J. Tantillo and K. N. Houk: "Fidelity
in Hapten Design: How Analogous Are Phosphonate Haptens
to the Transition States for Alkaline Hydrolyses of
Aryl Esters?" J. Org. Chem., 64, 3066-3076 (1999).
443. Garth A. Jones, Michael J. Shephard, Michael N.
Paddon-Row, Brett R. Beno, K. N. Houk, Kate Redmon,
and Barry K. Carpenter: "Unexpected Complexity
in the Thermal [p2 + s2 + s2] Cycloaddition Reactions
of Quadricyclane: Theory and Isotope Effects,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 4334-4339 (1999).
444. Achim Kless, Maja Nendel, Sarah Wilsey, and K.
N. Houk: "Origin of the Preference for the Orbital
Symmetry Forbidden Stereochemistry of the 1,5-Sigmatropic
Shift of Substituted Norcaradienes," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 121, 4524-4525 (1999). Correction: J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 121, 7278 (1999).
445. Michael E. Jung, Rodolfo Marquez, and K. N. Houk:
"The Influence of Geminal Disubstitution on Efficiencies
of 4-Exo-Trig Radical Cyclizations," Tet. Lett.,
40, 2661-2664 (1999).
446. Alexander Greer, Kenneth A. Conklin, Kym Faull,
K. N. Houk, and Christopher S. Foote: "Low Temperature
FAB Mass and NMR Spectroscopic Identifications of Unstable
Episulfoxides," J. Org. Chem., 64, 1432-1433 (1999).
447. Brett R. Beno, Sarah Wilsey, and K. N. Houk: "The
C7H10 Potential Energy Landscape: Concerted Transition
States and Diradical Intermediates for the Retro-Diels-Alder
Reaction and [1,3] Sigmatropic Shifts of Norbornene,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 4816-4826 (1999).
448. Dean J. Tantillo, K. N. Houk, Robert V. Hoffman,
and Junhua Tao: "Origins of Regio- and Stereoselectivity
in Acid-Promoted Reactions of a-Lactams," J. Org.
Chem., 64, 3830-3837 (1999).
449. Kaori Ando, Nora S. Green, Yi Li, and K. N. Houk:
"Torsional and Steric Effects Control the Stereoselectivities
of Alkylations of Pyrrolidinone Enolates," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 121, 5334-5335 (1999).
450. Karl Gruber, Bin Zhou, Kendall N. Houk, Richard
A. Lerner, Charles G. Shevlin, and Ian A. Wilson: "Structural
Basis for Antibody Catalysis of a Disfavored Ring Closure
Reaction," Biochemistry, 38, 7062-7074 (1999).
451. Sarah Wilsey, K. N. Houk, and A. H. Zewail: "Ground-
and Excited-State Reactions of Norbornene and Isomers:
A CASSCF Study and Comparison with Femtosecond Experiments,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 5772-5786 (1999).
452. Maja Nendel, Bernd Goldfuss, K. N. Houk, Klaus
Hafner, and Udo Grieser: "Bis-periazulene: A Simple
Kekulé Biradical with a Triplet Ground State,"
Theor. Chem. Acc., 102, 397-400 (1999).
453. Frank-Gerrit Klärner, Ralf Ehrhardt, Heinz
Bandmann, Roland Boese, Dieter Bläser, K. N. Houk,
and Brett R. Beno: "Pressure-Induced Cycloadditions
of Dicyanoacetylene to Strained Arenes: The Formation
of Cyclooctatetraene, 9,10-Dihydronaphthalene, and Azulene
Derivatives; A Degenerate [1,5] Sigmatropic Shift -
Comparison Between Theory and Experiment," Chem.
Eur. J., 5, 2119-2132 (1999).
454. Maja Nendel, Bernd Goldfuss, Brett Beno, K. N.
Houk, K. Hafner, Hans-Jörg Lindner: "Theoretical
Studies of Novel Aromatic Molecules and Transition States,"
Pure Applied Chem., 71, 221-229 (1999).
455. Charles Doubleday, Maja Nendel, K. N. Houk, David
Thweatt, and Michael Page: "Direct Dynamics Quasiclassical
Trajectory Study of the Stereochemistry of the Vinylcyclopropane-Cyclopentene
Rearrangement," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 4720-4721
(1999).
456. Gennady V. Shustov, Michael T. H. Liu, and K.
N. Houk: "Facile Formation of Azines from Reactions
of Singlet Methylene and Dimethylcarbene with Precursor
Diazirines: Theoretical Explorations," Can. J.
Chem., 77, 540-549 (1999).
457. L. J. Schaad, Laimutis Bytautas, and K. N. Houk:
"Ab Initio Test of the Usefulness of the Redlich-Teller
Product Rule in Computing Kinetic Isotope Effects,"
Can. J. Chem., 77, 875-878 (1999).
458. Daniel A. Singleton, Steven R. Merrigan, Brett
R. Beno, and K. N. Houk: "Isotope Effects for Lewis
Acid-Catalyzed Diels-Alder Reactions. The Experimental
Transition State," Tetrahedron Lett., 40, 5817-5821
(1999).
459. Thomas Strassner and K. N. Houk: "Predictions
of Geometries and Multiplicities of the Manganese-Oxo
Intermediates in the Jacobsen Epoxidation," Org.
Lett., 1, 419-421 (1999).
460. Bernd Goldfuss, Saeed I. Khan, and K. N. Houk:
"Chiral Complexes with n-Butyllithium and Methylzinc:
X-ray Crystal Structures of Lithium and Zinc (1R,2R,4R)-2-endo-Oxido-2-exo-(o-methoxyphenyl)-1,3,3-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptane,"
Organometallics, 18, 2927-2929 (1999).
461. Xue Wang and K. N. Houk: "Gating and Entropy
in Guest Exchange by Rebek’s Sportsballs. Theoretical
Studies of One-Door, Side-Door, and Back-Door Gating,"
Org. Lett., 1, 591-594 (1999).
462. Xue Wang, K. N. Houk, Martin Spichty, and Thomas
Wirth: "Origin of Stereoselectivities in Asymmetric
Alkoxyselenenylations," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121,
8567-8576 (1999).
463. Fred Wudl, P. A. Koutentis, A. Weitz, B. Ma, Thomas
Strassner, K. N. Houk, and S. I. Khan: "Polyazaacenes:
New Tricks for Old Dogs," Pure Appl. Chem., 71,
295-302 (1999).
464. J. M. Adam, Leon Ghosez, and K. N. Houk: "A
Convergent Strategy for the Asymmetric Synthesis of
Enantiomerically Pure Bicyclic Compounds by Using a
Silicon-Directed Cycloaddition Reation: The Synthesis
of Enantiomerically Pure Bicyclo[3.2.0]hept-2-en-6-one,"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 38, 2728-2730 (1999).
465. E. Goldstein, Brett R. Beno, and K. N. Houk: "Transition
Structures and exo/endo Stereoselectivities of Concerted
[6 + 4] Cycloadditions with Density Functional Theory,"
Theor. Chem. Acc., 103, 81-84 (1999).
466. Dorota Sawicka, Yi Li, and K. N. Houk: "[2+2+2]-Cycloreversion
Reactions: A Theoretical Elucidation of Thermodynamic
and Through-Bond Coupling Effects on Activation Energies,"
J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 2349-2335 (1999).
467. Sarah Wilsey, Paul Dowd, and K. N. Houk: "Effect
of Alkyl Substituents and Ring Size on Alkoxy Radical
Cleavage Reactions," J. Org. Chem., 64, 8801-8811
(1999).
468. Jian Xu, Qiaolin Deng, Jiangang Chen, Kendall
N. Houk, Johannes Bartek, Donald Hilvert, and Ian A.
Wilson: "Evolution of Shape Complementarity and
Catalytic Efficiency from a Primordial Antibody Template,"
Science, 286, 2345-2348 (1999).
469. David A. Hrovat, Brett R. Beno, Holger Lange,
Hi-Young Yoo, K. N. Houk, and Weston Thatcher Borden:
"A Becke3LYP/6-31G* Study of the Cope Rearrangements
fo Substituted 1,5-Hexadienes Provides Computational
Evidence for a Chameleonic Transition State," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 10529-10537 (1999).
470. Kensuke Nakamura and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Studies of the Wilcox Molecular Torsion Balance. Is
the Edge-to-Face Aromatic Interaction Important?"
Org. Lett., 1, 2049-2051 (1999).
471. Per-Ola Norrby, Torben Rasmussen, Jan Haller,
Thomas Strassner, and K. N. Houk: "Rationalizing
the Stereoselectivity of Osmium Tetroxide Asymmetric
Dihydroxylations with Transition State Modeling Using
Quantum Mechanics-Guided Molecular Mechanics,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 10186-10192 (1999).
472. Fredrik Haeffner, K. N. Houk, Y. Ravindra Reddy,
and Leo A. Paquette: "Mechanistic Variations and
Rate Effects of Alkoxy and Thioalkoxy Substituents on
Anionic Oxy-Cope Rearrangements," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 121, 11880-11884 (1999). Correction: J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 122, 3799 (2000).
473. Dan Yang, Yeung-Chiu Tang, Jian Chen, Xue-Chao
Wang, Michael D. Bartberger, K. N. Houk, and Leif Olson:
"Ketone-Catalyzed Decomposition of Peroxynitrite
via Dioxirane Intermediates," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
121, 11976-11983 (1999).
474. Dean J. Tantillo, Jon M. Fukuto, Brian M. Hoffman,
Richard B. Silverman, and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Studies on NG-Hydroxy-L-arginine and Derived Radicals:
Implications for the Mechanism of Nitric Oxide Synthase,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122, 536-537 (2000).
475. Leo A. Paquette, Y. Ravindra Reddy, Fredrik Haeffner,
and K. N. Houk: "Consequences of Heteroatomic C-6
Substitution on Rates of the Oxyanionic Cope Rearrangement.
The Remarkable Accelerating Effect of Sulfide Groups,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122, 740-741 (2000).
476. Bernd Goldfuss, Melanie Steigelmann, Saeed I.
Khan, and K. N. Houk: "Rationalization of Enantioselectivities
in Dialkylzinc Additions to Benzaldehyde Catalyzed by
Fenchone Derivatives," J. Org. Chem., 65, 77-82
(2000).
477. K. N. Houk: "Perspective on 'Theoretical
Interpretation of 1-2 Asymmetric Induction. The Importance
of Antiperiplanarity' by N. T. Anh and O. Eisenstein,
Nouv. J. Chim., 1, 61-70 (1977)," Theor. Chem.
Acc., 103, 330-331 (2000).
478. Dorota Sawicka and Kendall N. Houk: "Aromaticity
and Antiaromaticity in Small Ring Transition States,
Assessed by NICS Values and Energetics," J. Mol.
Model., 6, 158-165 (2000).
479. Sarah Wilsey and K. N. Houk: "H/Allyl and
Alkyl/Allyl Conical Intersections: Ubiquitous Control
Elements in Photochemical Sigmatropic Shifts,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122, 2651-2652 (2000).
480. Ilyas Washington and K. N. Houk: "Transition
States and Origins of Stereoselectivity of Epoxidations
by Oxaziridinium Salts," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122,
2948-2949 (2000).
481. Jonathan D. Toker, Paul Wentworth, Jr., Yunfeng
Hu, K. N. Houk, and Kim D. Janda: "Antibody-Catalysis
of a Bimolecular Asymmetric 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition
Reaction," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122, 3244-3245 (2000).
482. Maja Nendel, Dirk Sperling, Olaf Wiest, and K.
N. Houk: "Computational Explorations of Vinylcyclopropane-Cyclopentene
Rearrangements and Competing Diradical Stereoisomerizations,"
J. Org. Chem., 65, 3259-3268 (2000).
483. Thomas Strassner, Amir Weitz, Jefferson Rose,
Fred Wudl, and K. N. Houk: "Toward Ferromagnetic
Materials: Prediction of a Triplet Ground State for
Heterocyclic Polyacenes," Chem. Phys. Lett., 321,
459-462 (2000).
484. Alan Armstrong, Ilyas Washington, and K. N. Houk:
"Transition State Stereoelectronics in Alkene Epoxidations
by Fluorinated Dioxiranes," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
122, 6297-6298 (2000).
485. Sarah Wilsey, Leticia Gonzalez, Michael A. Robb,
and K. N. Houk: "Ground- and Excited-State Surfaces
for the [2+2]-Photocycloaddition of a,b-Enones to Alkenes,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122, 5866-5876 (2000).
486. Michael D. Bartberger, K. N. Houk, Steven C. Powell,
Joseph D. Mannion, Kenneth Y. Lo, Jonathan S. Stamler,
and Eric J. Toone: "Theory, Spectroscopy, and Crystallographic
Analysis of S-Nitrosothiols: Conformational Distribution
Dictates Spectroscopic Behavior," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 122, 5889-5890 (2000).
487. Dean J. Tantillo, Bruce N. Hietbrink, Craig A.
Merlic, and K. N. Houk: "Attenuating and Supplanting
Nonclassical Stabilization: Cr(CO)3-Complexed Benzonorbornenyl
Cations," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122, 7136-7137 (2000).
Correction: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123, 5851 (2001).
488. David A. Hrovat, Jiangang Chen, K. N. Houk, and
Weston Thatcher Borden: "Cooperative and Competitive
Substituent Effects on the Cope Rearrangements of Phenyl-Substituted
1,5-Hexadienes Elucidated by Becke3LYP/6-31G* Calculations,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122, 7456-7460 (2000).
489. Thomas Strassner and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism
of Permanganate Oxidation of Alkanes: Hydrogen Abstraction
and Oxygen 'Rebound,'" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122,
7821-7822 (2000).
490. Jill D. Fenske, Keith T. Kuwata, K. N. Houk, and
Suzanne E. Paulson: "OH Radical Yields from the
Ozone Reaction with Cycloalkenes," J. Phys. Chem.
A, 104, 7246-7254 (2000).
491. Jill D. Fenske, Alam S. Hasson, Suzanne E. Paulson,
Keith T. Kuwata, Andy Ho, and K. N. Houk: "The
Pressure Dependence of the OH Radical Yield from Ozone-Alkene
Reactions," J. Phys. Chem. A, 104, 7821-7833 (2000).
492. Sandra Handschuh, Bernd Goldfuss, Jiangang Chen,
Johann Gasteiger, and K. N. Houk: "Steroid Binding
by Antibodies and Artificial Receptors: Exploration
of Theoretical Methods to Determine the Origins of Binding
Affinities and Specificities," Journal of Computer-Aided
Molecular Design, 14, 611-629 (2000).
493. Wenyuan Qian, Michael D. Bartberger, Salvador
J. Pastor, Kendall N. Houk, Charles L. Wilkins, and
Yves Rubin: "C62, a Non-Classical Fullerene Incorporating
a Four-Membered Ring," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122,
8333-8334 (2000).
494. Kinya Hotta, Holger Lange, Dean J. Tantillo, K.
N. Houk, Donald Hilvert, and Ian A. Wilson: "Catalysis
of Decarboxylation by a Preorganized Heterogeneous Microenvironment:
Crystal Structures of Abzyme 21D8," J. Mol. Biol.,
302, 1213-1225 (2000).
495. M. A. Garcia-Garibay, K. N. Houk, A. E. Keating,
C. J. Cheer, M. Leibovitch, J. R. Scheffer, L. C. Wu:
"Computational Prediction of the Enantioselectivity
of a Solid-State Photoreaction," Org. Lett., 1,
1279-1281 (1999).
496. Yunfeng Hu and K. N. Houk: "Quantitative
Predictions of Substituent and Solvent Effects on the
Regioselectivities of Nitrile Oxide Cycloadditions to
Electron-Deficient Alkynes," Tetrahedron, 56, 8239-8243
(2000).
497. Jiangang Chen, Qiaolin Deng, Renxiao Wang, Kendall
N. Houk, and Donald Hilvert: "Shape Complementarity,
Binding-Site Dynamics, and Transition State Stabilization:
A Theoretical Study of Diels-Alder Catalysis by Antibody
1E9," ChemBioChem, 1, 255-261 (2000).
498. Viktorya Aviyente and K. N. Houk: "Cyano,
Amino, and Trifluoromethyl Substituent Effects on the
Claisen Rearrangement," J. Phys. Chem. A., 105,
383-391 (2001).
499. Michael D. Bartberger, Jon M. Fukuto, and K. N.
Houk: "On the Acidity and Reactivity of HNO in
Aqueous Solution and Biological Systems," Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci., 98, 2194-2198 (2001).
500. Kendall N. Houk, Jeehiun K. Lee, Dean J. Tantillo,
Sogole Bahmanyar, and Bruce Hietbrink: "Crystal
Structures of Orotidine Monophosphate Decarboxylase:
Does the Structure Reveal the Mechanism of Nature's
Most Proficient Enzyme?" ChemBiochem, 2, 113-118
(2001).
501. Shahrad M. Behnam, Shahdad E. Behnam, Kaori Ando,
Nora S. Green, and K. N. Houk: "Stereoelectronic,
Torsional, and Steric Effects on Rates of Enolization
of Ketones," J. Org. Chem., 65, 8970-8978 (2000).
502. Jennifer L. Radkiewicz, Hendrik Zipse, Steven
Clarke, and K. N. Houk: "Neighboring Side Chain
Effects on Asparaginyl and Aspartyl Degradation: An
Ab Initio Study of the Relationship Between Peptide
Conformation and Backbone NH Acidity," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 123, 3499-3506 (2001).
503. Carina E. Cannizzaro, T. Strassner, and K. N.
Houk: "The Origin of 1,4-Asymmetric Induction in
the Additions of Chiral Alcohols to Ketenes," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 123, 2668-2669 (2001).
504. Yves Rubin, Thibaut Jarrosson, Guan-Wu Wang, Michael
D. Bartberger, K. N. Houk, Georg Schick, Martin Saunders,
and R. James Cross: "Insertion of Helium and Molecular
Hydrogen Through the Orifice of an Open Fullerene,"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 40, 1543-1546 (2001).
505. Craig A. Merlic, Michael M. Miller, Bruce N. Hietbrink,
and K. N. Houk: "Reactivity of (h6-Arene)tricarbonylchromium
Complexes Toward Additions of Anions, Cations, and Radicals,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123, 4904-4918 (2001).
506. Jiangang Chen, Renxiao Wang, Michael Taussig,
and K. N. Houk: "Quantitative Calculations of Antibody-Antigen
Binding: Steroid-DB3 Binding Energies by the Linear
Interaction Energy Method," J. Org. Chem., 66,
3021-3026 (2001).
507. Dean J. Tantillo and K. N. Houk: "Canonical
Binding Arrays as Molecular Recognition Elements in
the Immune System: Tetrahedral Anions and the Ester
Hydrolysis Transition State," Chem. & Biol.,
8, 535-545 (2001).
508. Dean J. Tantillo, K. N. Houk, and Michael E. Jung:
"Origins of Stereoselectivity in Intramolecular
Diels-Alder Cycloadditions of Dienes and Dienophiles
Linked by Ester and Amide Tethers," J. Org. Chem.,
66, 1938-1940 (2001).
509. Nora S. Green, Emil Reisler, and K. N. Houk: "Quantitative
Evaluation of the Lengths of Homobifunctional Protein
Cross-Linking Reagents Used as Molecular Rulers,"
Protein Science, 10, 1293-1304 (2001). (PDF)
510. Danielle Gree, Laurent Vallerie, Rene Gree, Loic
Toupet, Ilyas Washington, Jean-Pierre Pelicier, Mercedes
Villacampa, Jose Maria Perez, and K. N. Houk: "Conformations
of Allylic Fluorides and Stereoselectivities of Their
Diels-Alder Cycloadditions," J. Org. Chem., 66,
2374-2381 (2001). (PDF)
511. Brent A. Johnson, Yunfeng Hu, K. N. Houk, and
Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay: "Vibrationally Assisted
Tunneling in a Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reaction,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123, 6941-6942 (2001). (PDF)
512. Andrew G. Leach and K. N. Houk: "Transition
States and Mechanisms of the Hetero-Diels-Alder Reactions
of Hyponitrous Acid, Nitrosoalkanes, Nitrosoarenes,
and Nitrosocarbonyl Compounds," J. Org. Chem.,
66, 5192-5200 (2001). (PDF)
513. Leo A. Paquette, Y. Ravindra Reddy, Grigoriy Vayner,
and K. N. Houk: "High-Rate Accelerations in Oxy-Copy
Rearrangements Induced by Sulfur Substitution: Kinetic
Study Involving Electronically and Geometrically Differentiated
1-Alkenyl-2-(Z-propenyl)-7,7-dimethyl-exo-norbornan-2-ols,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122, 10788-10794 (2000). (PDF)
514. K. N. Houk, Patrick S. Lee, and Maja Nendel: "Polyacene
and Cyclacene Geometries and Electronic Structures:
Bond Equalization, Vanishing Band Gaps, and Triplet
Ground States Contrast with Polyacetylene," J.
Org. Chem., 66, 5517-5521 (2001). (PDF)
515. Michael D. Bartberger, Joseph D. Mannion, Steven
C. Powell, Jonathan S. Stamler, K. N. Houk, and Eric
J. Toone: "S-N Dissociation Energies of S-Nitrosothiols:
On the Origins of Nitrosothiol Decomposition Rates,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123, 8868-8869 (2001). (PDF)
516. Francisco M. Raymo, Michael D. Bartberger, K.
N. Houk, and J. Fraser Stoddart: "The Magnitude
of [C-H...O] Hydrogen Bonding in Molecular and Supramolecular
Assemblies," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123, 9264-9267
(2001). (PDF)
517. Matthew J. Walker, Bruce N. Hietbrink, Bert E.
Thomas IV, Kensuke Nakamura, E. Adam Kallel, and K.
N. Houk: "Torquoselectivity Induced by Lone-Pair
Conjugation in the Electrocyclic Reactions of 1-Azapolyenes,"
J. Org. Chem., 66, 6669-6672 (2001). (PDF)
518. S. Bahmanyar and K. N. Houk: "Transition
States of Amine-Catalyzed Aldol Reactions Involving
Enamine Intermediates: Theoretical Studies of Mechanism,
Reactivity, and Stereoselectivity," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 123, 11273-11283 (2001). (PDF)
519. Ilyas Washington and K. N. Houk: "CH---O
Hydrogen Bonding Influences pi-Facial Stereoselective
Epoxidations," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 40,
4485-4488 (2001). (PDF)
520. S. Bahmanyar and K. N. Houk: "The Origin
of Stereoselectivity in Proline-Catalyzed Intramolecular
Aldol Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123, 12911-12912
(2001). (PDF)
521. Dean J. Tantillo and K. N. Houk: "Transition
State Docking: A Probe for Noncovalent Catalysis in
Biological Systems. Application to Antibody-Catalyzed
Ester Hydrolysis," J. Comp. Chem., 23, 84-95 (2002). (PDF)
522. Andrew G. Leach, Saron Catak, and K. N. Houk:
"Mechanism of the Forbidden [3s,5s]-Sigmatropic
Shift: Orbital Symmetry Influences Stepwise Mechanisms
Involving Diradical Intermediates," Chem. Eur.
J., 8, 1290-1299 (2002). (PDF)
523. H. Isobe, Y. Takano, Y. Kitagawa, T. Kawakami,
S. Yamanaka, K. Yamaguchi, and K. N. Houk: "Extended
Hartree-Fock (EHF) Theory of Chemical Reactions VI:
Hybrid DFT and Post-Hartree-Fock Approaches for Concerted
and Non-Concerted Transition Structures of the Diels-Alder
Reaction," Mol. Phys., 100, 717-727 (2002).
524. Andrew G. Leach and K. N. Houk: "Diels-Alder
and Ene Reactions of Singlet Oxygen, Nitroso Compounds
and Triazolinediones: Transition States and Mechanisms
from Contemporary Theory," Chem. Comm., 1243-1255
(2002). (PDF)
525. Carina E. Cannizzaro and K. N. Houk: "Magnitudes
and Chemical Consequences of R3N+ -C-H...O=C Hydrogen
Bonding," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124, 7163-7169 (2002). (PDF)
526. Susanna P. Kim, Andrew G. Leach, and K. N. Houk:
"The Origins of Noncovalent Catalysis of Intermolecular
Diels-Alder Reactions by Cyclodextrins, Self-Assembling
Capsules, Antibodies, and RNAses," J. Org. Chem.,
67, 4250-4260 (2002). (PDF)
527. Gregori Ujaque, Patrick S. Lee, K. N. Houk, Martin
F. Hentemann, and Samuel J. Danishefsky: "The Origin
of endo Stereoselectivity in Hetero-Diels-Alder Reactions
of Aldehydes with ortho-Xylylenes: CH-pi, pi-pi, and
Steric Effects on Stereoselectivity," Chem. Eur.
J., 8, 3423-3430 (2002). (PDF)
528. Christopher P. Suhrada and K. N. Houk: "Potential
Surface for the Quadruply Degenerate Rearrangement of
Bicyclo[3.1.0]hex-2-ene," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124,
8796-8797 (2002). (PDF)
529. Michael D. Bartberger, Wei Liu, Eleonora Ford,
Katrina M. Miranda, Christopher Switzer, Jon M. Fukuto,
Patrick J. Farmer, David A. Wink, and Kendall N. Houk:
"The Reduction of Potential of Nitric Oxide (NO)
and its Importance to NO Biochemistry," Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci. USA, 99, 10958-10963 (2002). (PDF)
530. Leif P. Olson, Keith T. Kuwata, Michael D. Bartberger,
and K. N. Houk: "Conformation-Dependent State Selectivity
in O-O Cleavage of ONOONO: An 'Inorganic Cope Rearrangement'
Helps Explain the Observed Negative Activation Energy
in the Oxidation of Nitric Oxide by Dioxygen,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124, 9469-9475 (2002). (PDF)
531. Ilyas Washington and K. N. Houk: "Epoxidations
by Peracid Anions in Water: Ambiphilic Oxenoid Reactivity
and Stereoselectivity," Org. Lett., 4, 2661-2664
(2002). (PDF)
532. Sarah Wilsey and K. N. Houk: "'H/Vinyl' and
'Alkyl/Vinyl' Conical Intersections Leading to Carbene
Formation from the Excited States of Cyclohexene and
Norbornene," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124, 11182-11190
(2002). (PDF)
533.Claus Schindele, K. N. Houk, and Herbert Mayr:
"Relationships Between Carbocation Stabilities
and Electrophilic Reactivity Parameters, E: Quantum
Mechanical Studies of Benzhydryl Cation Structures and
Stabilities," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124, 11208-11214
(2002). (PDF)
534. John Limanto, John A. Tallarico, James R. Porter,
Kelli S. Khuong, K. N. Houk, and Marc L. Snapper: "Intramolecular
Cycloadditions of Cyclobutadiene with Olefins,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124, 14748-14758 (2002). (PDF)
535. Andrew G. Leach and K. N. Houk: "The Ene
Reactions of Nitroso Compounds Involve Polarized Diradical
Intermediates," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124, 14820-14821
(2002). (PDF)
536. Sarah Wilsey and K. N. Houk: "'H/Vinyl' Conical
Intersections for Dienes: A Mechanism for the Photochemical
Hula-Twist," Photochem. & Photobiol., 76, 616-621
(2002).
537. Gregori Ujaque, Joseph E. Norton, and K. N. Houk:
"Electrostatic Interactions between Substituents
as Regioselectivity Control Elements in Diels-Alder
Cycloadditions. A DFT Study of Cycloadditions of 1-Methoxy-4-trimethylsiloxy
Dienes with Acrylonitrile," J. Org. Chem., 67,
7179-7184 (2002). (PDF)
538. Xiyun Zhang, Qiaolin Deng, Sandy H. Yoo, and K.
N. Houk: "Origins and Predictions of Stereoselective
Antibody Catalysis: Theoretical Analysis of Diels-Alder
Catalysis by 39A11 and Its Germ-Line Antibody,"
J. Org. Chem., 67, 9043-9053 (2002). (PDF)
539. Linh Hoang, S. Bahmanyar, K. N. Houk, and Benjamin
List: "Kinetic and Stereochemical Evidence for
the Involvement of Only One Proline Molecule in the
Transition States of Proline-Catalyzed Intra- and Intermolecular
Aldol Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 16-17
(2003). (PDF)
540. Carina E. Cannizzaro, Jon A. Ashley, K. D. Janda,
and K. N. Houk: "Experimental Determination of
the Absolute Enantioselectivity of an Antibody-Catalyzed
Diels-Alder Reaction and Theoretical Explorations of
the Origins of Stereoselectivity," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 125, 2489-2506 (2003). (PDF)
541. Gregori Ujaque, Dean J. Tantillo, Yunfeng Hu,
K. N. Houk, Kinya Hotta, and Donald Hilvert: "Catalysis
on the Coastline: Theozyme, Molecular Dynamics, and
Free Energy Perturbation Analysis of Antibody 21D8 Catalysis
of the Decarboxylation of 5-Nitro-3-Carboxybenzisoxazole,"
J. Comput. Chem., 24, 98-110 (2003).
542. Mahmood M. Khaledy, Mohammad Y. S. Kalani, Kelli
S. Khuong, K. N. Houk, Viktorya Aviyente, Reinhard Neier,
Nicolas Soldermann, and Joerg Velker: "Origins
of Boat or Chair Preferences in the Ireland-Claisen
Rearrangements of Cyclohexeneyl Esters: A Theoretical
Study," J. Org. Chem., 68, 572-577 (2003). (PDF)
543. Hiroshi Isobe, Yu Takano, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Takashi
Kawakami, Syusuke Yamanaka, Kizashi Yamaguchi, and K.
N. Houk: "Systematic Comparisons between Broken-Symmetry
and Symmetry-Adapted Approaches to Transition States
by Chemical Indices: A Case Study of the Diels-Alder
Reactions," J. Phys. Chem. A., 107, 682-694 (2003). (PDF)
544. Zhi-Xiang Yu and K. N. Houk: "Why Trimerization?
Computational Elucidation of the Origin of Selective
Trimerization of Ethene Catalyzed by [TaCl3(CH3)2] and
an Agostic-Assited Hydride Transfer Mechanism,"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 42, 808-811 (2003). (PDF)
545. S. Bahmanyar, K. N. Houk, Harry J. Martin, and
Benjamin List: "Quantum Mechanical Predictions
of the Stereoselectivities of Proline-Catalyzed Asymmetric
Intermolecular Aldol Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
125, 2475-2479 (2003). (PDF)
546. Leif P. Olson, Michael D. Bartberger, and K. N.
Houk: "Peroxynitrate and Peroxynitrite: A Complete
Basis Set Investigation of Similarities and Differences
between These NOx Species," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
125, 3999-4006 (2003). (PDF)
547. Andrew G. Leach, Renxiao Wang, G. Erich, Wohlhieter,
Saeed I. Khan, Michael E. Jung, and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Elucidation of Kinetic and Thermodynamic Control of
Radical Addition Regioselectivity," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 125, 4271-4278 (2003). (PDF)
548. S. Bahmanyar and K. N. Houk: "Origins of
Opposite Absolute Stereoselectivities in Proline-Catalyzed
Direct Mannich and Aldol Reactions," Org. Lett.,
5, 1249-1251 (2003). (PDF)
549. Andrew G. Leach and K. N. Houk: "The Mechanism
and Regioselectivity of the Ene Reactions of Nitroso
Compounds: A Theoretical Study of Reactivity, Regioselectivity,
and Kinetic Isotope Effects Establishes a Stepwise Path
Involving Polarized Diradical Intermediates," Org.
Biomol. Chem., 1, 1389-1403 (2003). (PDF)
550. Patrick S. Lee, Xiyun Zhang, and K. N. Houk: "Origins
of Inward Torquoselectivity by Silyl Groups and Other
s-Acceptors in Electrocyclic Reactions of Cyclobutenes,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 5072-5079 (2003). (PDF)
551. Xiyun Zhang, K. N. Houk, Songnian Lin, and Samuel
J. Danishefsky: "Mechanism of cis-Enamide Formation
from N-(a-Silyl)allyl Amides: Synthetic Potential of
Stepwise Dyotropic Rearrangements," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 125, 5111-5114 (2003). (PDF)
552. Kersey A. Black, Sarah Wilsey, and K. N. Houk:
"Dissociative and Associative Mechanisms of Cope
Rearrangements of Fluorinated 1,5-Hexadienes and 2,2'-Bis-methylenecyclopentanes,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 6715-6724 (2003). (PDF)
553. Andrew G. Leach, E. Goldstein, and K. N. Houk:
"A Cornucopia of Cycloadducts: Theoretical Predictions
of the Mechanisms and Products of the Reactions of Cyclopentadiene
with Cycloheptatriene," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125,
8330-8339 (2003). (PDF)
554. Emanuel Vogel, Martin Michels, Lars Zander, Johann
Lex, Nurcan S. Tuzun, and Kendall N. Houk: "Spirodiporphyrins
- As Binuclear Metal Complexes," Angew. Chem. Int.
Ed., 42, 2857-2862 (2003). (PDF)
555. N. S. Tuzun, V. Aviyente, and K. N. Houk: "A
Theoretical Study on the Mechanism of the Cyclopolymerization
of Diallyl Monomers," J. Org. Chem., 68, 6369-6374
(2003). (PDF)
556. Ilyas Washington and K. N. Houk: "Strategies
for the Design of Organic Aziridination Reagents and
Catalysts: Transition Structures for Alkene Aziridinations
by NH Transfer," J. Org. Chem., 68, 6497-6501 (2003). (PDF)
557. Patrick S. Lee, Shogo Sakai, Peter Horstermann,
Wolfgang R. Roth, E. Adam Kallel, and K. N. Houk: "Altering
the Allowed/Forbidden Gap in Cyclobutene Electrocyclic
Reactions: Experimental and Theoretical Evaluations
of the Effect of Planarity Constraints," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 125, 5839-5848 (2003). (PDF)
558. Michael E. Jung, Alexandra van den Heuvel, Andrew
G. Leach, and K. N. Houk: "Unexpected Syn Hydride
Migration in the Non-aldol Aldol Reaction," Org.
Lett., 5, 3375-3378 (2003). (PDF)
559. Jennifer Y. Cho, Andrew Dutton, Tom Miller, K.
N. Houk, and Jon M. Fukuto: "Oxidation of N-hydroxyguanidines
by Copper(II): Model Systems for Elucidating the Physiological
Chemistry of the Nitric Oxide Biosynthetic Intermediate
N-hydroxyl-L-arginine," Archives of Biochem. and
Biophys., 417, 65-76 (2003).
560. Fredrik Haeffner, K. N. Houk, Suzanne M. Schulze,
and Jeehiun K. Lee: "Concerted Rearrangement versus
Heterolytic Cleavage in Anionic [2,3]- and [3,3]-Sigmatropic
Shifts. A DFT Study of Relationships among Anion Stabilities,
Mechanisms, and Rates," J. Org. Chem., 68, 2310-2316
(2003). (PDF)
561. K. N. Houk, Bruce N. Hietbrink, Michael D. Bartberger,
Patrick R. McCarren, Bo Yoon Choi, Robert D. Voyksner,
Jonathan S. Stamler, and Eric J. Toone: "Nitroxyl
Disulfides, Novel Intermediates in Transnitrosation
Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 6972-6976 (2003). (PDF)
562. Xueyong Zhu, Andreas Heine, Frederic Monnat, K.
N. Houk, Kim D. Janda, and Ian A. Wilson: "Structural
Basis for Antibody Catalysis of a Cationic Cyclization
Reaction," J. Mol. Biol., 329, 69-83 (2003).
563. Daniel A. Singleton, Chao Hang, Michael J. Szymanski,
Matthew P. Meyer, Andrew G. Leach, Keith T. Kuwata,
Jenny S. Chen, Alexander Greer, Christopher S. Foote,
and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism of Ene Reactions of
Singlet Oxygen. A Two-Step No-Intermediate Mechanism,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 1319-1328 (2003). (PDF)
564. K. N. Houk, Andrew G. Leach, Susanna P. Kim, Xiyun
Zhang: "Binding Affinities of Host-Guest, Protein-Ligand,
and Protein-Transition-State Complexes," Angew.
Chem. Int. Ed., 42, 4872-4897 (2003). (PDF)
565. Zhi-Xiang Yu and K. N. Houk: "Intramolecular
1,3-Dipolar Ene Reactions of Nitrile Oxides Occur by
Stepwise 1,1-Cycloaddition/Retro-Ene Mechanisms,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 13825-13830 (2003). (PDF)
566. Kelli S. Khuong and K. N. Houk: "One-Bond,
Two-Bond, and Three-Bond Mechanisms in Thermal Deazetizations
of 2,3-Diazabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-enes, trans-Azomethane,
and 2,3-Diazabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 125, 14867-14883 (2003). (PDF)
567. Diana S. Hamilton, Xiyun Zhang, Zhebo Ding, Ina
Hubatsch, K. N. Houk, Bruce Ganem and Donald J. Creighton:
"Mechanism of the Glutathione Transferase-Catalyzed
Conversion of Antitumor 2-Crotonyloxymethyl-2-cycloalkenones
to GSH Adducts," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 15049-15058
(2003). (PDF)
568. Michael Prakesch, Danielle Gre, Ren
Gre, Jennifer Carter, Ilyas Washington, and K.
N. Houk: "Stereoselectivity of Nitrile Oxide Cycloadditions
to Chiral Allylic Fluorides: Experiment and Theory,"
Chem. Eur. J., 9, 5664-5672 (2003). (PDF)
569. Zhi-Xiang Yu, Pierluigi Caramella, and K. N. Houk:
"Dimerizations of Nitrile Oxides to Furoxans Are
Stepwise via Dinitrosoalkene Diradicals: A Density Functional
Theory Study," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 15420-15425
(2003). (PDF)
570. John Limanto, Kelli S. Khuong, K. N. Houk, and
Marc L. Snapper: "Intramolecular Cycloadditions
of Cyclobutadiene with Dienes: Experimental and Computational
Studies of the Competing (2 + 2) and (4 + 2) Modes of
Reaction," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 16310-16321
(2003). (PDF)
571. Grigoriy Vayner, K. N. Houk, and Y.-K. Sun: "Origins
of Enantioselectivity in Reductions of Ketones on Cinchona
Alkaloid Modified Platinum," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
126, 199-203 (2004). (PDF)
572. V. Maggiotti, S. Bahmanyar, M. Reiter, M. Resmini,
K. N. Houk, and V. Gouverneur: "Unusual Reversal
of Regioselectivity in Antibody-Mediated Aldol Additions
with Unsymmetrical Methyl Ketones," Tetrahedron,
60, 619-632 (2004).
573. Vildan Guner, Kelli S. Khuong, Andrew G. Leach,
Patrick S. Lee, Michael D. Bartberger, and K. N. Houk:
"A Standard Set of Pericyclic Reactions of Hydrocarbons
for the Benchmarking of Computational Methods: The Performance
of ab Initio, Density Functional, CASSCF, CASPT2, and
CBS-QB3 Methods for the Prediction of Activation Barriers,
Reaction Energetics, and Transition State Geometries,"
J. Phys. Chem A., 107, 11445-11459 (2003). (PDF)
574. Andrew S. Dutton, Jon M. Fukuto, and K. N. Houk:
"Mechanisms of HNO and NO Production from Angeli's
Salt: Density Functional and CBS-QB3 Theory Predictions,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 3795-3800 (2004). (PDF)
575. Dean J. Tantillo, Roald Hoffmann, Kendall N. Houk,
Eric C. Brown, and Daven K. Henze: "Extended Barbaralanes:
Sigmatropic Shiftamers or sigma-Polyacenes?" J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 4256-4263 (2004). (PDF)
576. Vildan A. Guner, Kelli S. Khuong, K. N. Houk,
Anthony Chuma, and Peter Pulay: "The Performance
of the Handy/Cohen Functionals, OLYP and O3LYP, for
the Computation of Hydrocarbon Pericyclic Reaction Activation
Barriers," J. Phys. Chem. A, 108, 2959-2965 (2004). (PDF)
577. Travis Dudding and Kendall N. Houk: "Computational
Predictions of Stereochemistry in Asymmetric Thiazolium-
and Triazolium-Catalyzed Benzoin Condensations,"
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 101, 5770-5775 (2004). (PDF)
578. Ian W. Davies, Jean-Francois Marcoux, Jeffery
T. Kuethe, Michael D. Lankshear, Jeremy D. O. Taylor,
Nancy Tsou, Peter G. Dormer, David L. Hughes, K. N.
Houk, and Vildan Guner: "Demonstrating the Synergy
of Synthetic, Mechanistic, and Computational Studies
in a Regioselective Aniline Synthesis," J. Org.
Chem., 69, 1298-1308 (2004). (PDF)
579. Ilyas Washington, K. N. Houk, and Alan Armstrong:
"Strategies for the Design of Organic Aziridination
Reagents and Catalysts: Transition Structures for Alkene
Aziridinations by NH Transfer," J. Org. Chem.,
68, 6497-6501 (2003). (PDF)
580. Andrew S. Dutton, Jon M. Fukuto, and K. N. Houk:
"The Mechanism of NO Formation from the Decomposition
of Dialkylamino Diazeniumdiolates: Density Functional
Theory and CBS-QBS Predictions," Inorg. Chem.,
43, 1039-1045 (2004). (PDF)
581. Ian W. Davies, Vildan A. Guner, and K. N. Houk:
"Theoretical Evidence for Oxygenated Intermediates
in the Reductive Cyclization of Nitrobenzenes,"
Org. Lett., 6, 743-746 (2004). (PDF)
582. Raffaella D'Auria, Richard P. Turco, and K. N.
Houk: "Effects of Hydration on the Properties of
Protonated-Water-Nitric Acid Clusters," J. Phys.
Chem. A, 108, 3756-3765 (2004). (PDF)
583. Michael Bendikov, K. N. Houk, Hieu M. Duong, Kyle
Starkey, Emily A. Carter, and Fred Wudl: "Oligoacenes:
Theoretical Prediction of Open-Shell Singlet Diradical
Ground States," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 7416-7417
(2004). Correction: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 10493 (2004). (PDF)
584. Audrey Auffrant, Bernhard Jaun, Peter D. Jarowski,
Kendall N. Houk, and Francois Diederich: "Peralkynylated
Buta-1,2,3-Trienes: Exceptionally Low Rotational Barriers
of Cumulenic C=C Bonds in the Range of Those of Peptide
C-N Bonds," Chem. Eur. J., 10, 2906-2911 (2004). (PDF)
585. K. N. Houk, Dean J. Tantillo, Courtney Stanton,
and Yunfeng Hu: "What Have Theory and Crystallography
Revealed About the Mechanism of Catalysis by Orotidine
Monophosphate Decarboxylase?" Top. Curr. Chem.,
238, 1-22 (2004). DOI 10.1007/b94536
586. Grigoriy Vayner, K. N. Houk, William L. Jorgensen,
and John I. Brauman: "Steric Retardation of SN2
Reactions in the Gas Phase and Solution," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 126, 9054-9058 (2004). (PDF)
587. Dean J. Tantillo and K. N. Houk: "Theozymes
and Catalyst Design" in Stimulating Concepts in
Chemistry, Fritz Vogtle, J. Fraser Stoddart, and Masakatsu
Shibasaki, eds., Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH, 2000.
588. Kersey A. Black, Andrew G. Leach, M. Yashar S.
Kalani, and K. N. Houk: "Antibody-Catalyzed Oxy-Cope
Rearrangement: Mechanism and Origins of Catalysis and
Stereoselectivity from DFT Quantum Mechanics and Flexible
Docking," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 9695-9708 (2004). (PDF)
589. K. N. Houk and Benjamin List: "Guest Editorial:
Asymmetric Organocatalysis," Acc. Chem. Res., 37,
487-487 (2004). (PDF)
590. Christophe Allemann, Ruth Gordillo, Fernando R.
Clemente, Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, and K. N. Houk: "Theory
of Asymmetric Organocatalysis of Aldol and Related Reactions:
Rationalizations and Predictions," Acc. Chem. Res.,
37, 558-569 (2004). (PDF)
591. Zhi-Xiang Yu, Paul A. Wender, and K. N. Houk:
"On the Mechanism of [Rh(CO)2Cl]2-Catalyzed Intermolecular
(5 + 2) Reactions between Vinylcyclopropanes and Alkynes,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 9154-9155 (2004). (PDF)
592. Carina E. Cannizzaro and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Study of the Stereoselective Additions of Chiral Alcohols
to Ketenes," J. Am .Chem. Soc., 126, 10992-11008
(2004). (PDF)
593. Yi-Lei Zhao, K. N. Houk, Dalit Rechavi, Alessandro
Scarso, and Julius Rebek, Jr.: "Equilibrium Isotope
Effects as a Probe of Nonbonding Attractions,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 11428-11429 (2004). (PDF)
594. Michael Prakesch, Erwan Kerouredan, Danielle Gree,
Rene Gree, Jason DeChancie, and K. N. Houk: "The
Propargylic Route as Efficient Entry to Monofluoro and
Gem-Difluoro Compounds: Mechanistic Considerations,"
J. Fluorine Chem., 125, 537-541 (2004).
595. Andrew G. Leach, K. N. Houk, and Jean-Louis Reymond:
"Theoretical Investigation of the Origins of Catalysis
of a Retro-Diels-Alder Reaction by Antibody 10F11,"
J. Org. Chem., 69, 3683-3692 (2004). (PDF)
596. Yunfeng Hu, K. N. Houk, Kazuya Kikuchi, Kinya
Hotta, and Donald Hilvert: "Nonspecific Medium
Effects Versus Specific Group Positioning in the Antibody
and Albumin Catalysis of the Base-Promoted Ring-Opening
Reactions of Benzisoxazoles," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
126, 8197-8205 (2004). (PDF)
597. Yilei Zhao, K. N. Houk, and Leif P. Olson: "Mechanisms
of Peroxynitrous Acid and Methyl Peroxynitrite, ROONO
(R = H, Me), Rearrangements: A Conformation-Dependent
Homolytic Dissociation," J. Phys. Chem. A, 108,
5864-5871 (2004). (PDF)
598. Nurcan Tuzun, Viktorya Aviyente, and K. N. Houk:
"Theoretical Study of Factors Controlling Rates
of Cyclization of Radical Intermediates from Diallylamine
and Diallylammonium Monomers in Radical Polymerizations,"
J. Org. Chem., 67, 5068-5075 (2002). (PDF)
599. Fernando R. Clemente and K. N. Houk: "Computational
Proof of the Enamine Mechanism of Intramolecular Aldol
Reactions Catalyzed by Proline," Angew. Chem. Int.
Ed., 43, 5766-5768 (2004). (PDF)
600. Xiyun Zhang and Kendall N. Houk: "Why Enzymes
Are Proficient Catalysts: Beyond the Pauling Paradigm,"
Acc. Chem. Res., 38, 379-385 (2005). (PDF)
601. Kelli S. Khuong, Walter H. Jones, William A. Pryor,
and K. N. Houk: "The Mechanism of the Self-Initiated
Thermal Polymerization of Styrene. Theoretical Solution
of a Classic Problem," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1265-1277
(2005). (PDF)
602. Xiyun Zhang, Kendall N. Houk, and James L. Leighton:
"Origins of Stereoselectivity in Strain-Release
Allylations," Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 44, 938-941
(2005). (PDF)
603. Dean J. Tantillo, Andrew G. Leach, Xiyun Zhang,
and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Studies of Antibody
Catalysis," in Catalytic Antibodies, Ehud Keinan,
ed., Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH, 2004, pp. 72-117.
604. Zeve R. Akerling, Joseph E. Norton, and K. N.
Houk: "DFT Study of Pericyclic Reaction of Cascades
in the Synthesis of Antibiotic TAN-1085," Org.
Lett., 6, 4273-4275 (2004). (PDF)
605. Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong and K. N. Houk: "Origins
of Selectivities in Proline-Catalyzed a-Aminoxylations,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 13912-13913 (2004). (PDF)
606. Vildan Adar Guner, K. N. Houk, and Ian W. Davies:
"Computational Studies on the Electrocyclizations
of 1-Amino-1,3,5-hexatrienes," J. Org. Chem., 69,
8024-8028 (2004). (PDF)
607. Michael E. Jung, Sun-Joon Min, K. N. Houk, and
Daniel Ess: "Synthesis and Relative Stability of
3,5-Diacyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrazoles Prepared by Dipolar
Cycloaddition of Enones and a-Diazoketones," J.
Org. Chem., 69, 9085-9089 (2004). (PDF)
608. Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, K. N. Houk, Jayakumar S.
Warrier, Stephen Hanessian: "Catalysis of the Hajos
- Parrish - Eder - Sauer - Wiechert Reaction by cis-
and trans-4,5-Methanoprolines: Sensitivity of Proline
Catalysis to Pyrrolidine Ring Conformation," Adv.
Synth. & Cat., 346, 1111-1115 (2004). (PDF)
609. Bruce N. Hietbrink, Dean J. Tantillo, Kendall
N. Houk, and Craig A. Merlic: "Chromium Tricarbonyl-Coordinated
Carbocations," in Carbocation Chemistry, George
A. Olah and G. K. Surya Prakash, eds., Hoboken, NJ:
Wiley Interscience, 2004, pp. 279-289.
610. Sigal Saphier, Yunfeng Hu, Subhash C. Sinha, K.
N. Houk, and Ehud Keinan: " Origin of Selectivity
in the Antibody 20F10-Catalyzed Yang Cyclization,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 132-145 (2005). (PDF)
611. Katrina M. Miranda, Andrew S. Dutton, Lisa A.
Ridnour, Christian A. Foreman, Eleonora Ford, Nazareno
Paolocci, Tatsuo Katori, Carlo G. Tocchetti, Daniele
Mancardi, Douglas D. Thomas, Michael G. Espey, K. N.
Houk, Jon M. Fukuto, and David A. Wink: "Mechanism
of Aerobic Decomposition of Angeli's Salt (Sodium Trioxodinitrate)
at Physiological pH," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 722-731
(2005). (PDF)
612. Jon M. Fukuto, Andrew S. Dutton, Kendall N. Houk:
"The Chemistry and Biology of Nitroxyl (HNO): A
Chemically Unique Species with Novel and Important Biological
Activity," ChemBioChem, 6, 612-619 (2005). (PDF)
613. Yu Takano and K. N. Houk: "Benchmarking the
Conductor-like Polarizable Continuum Model (CPCM) for
Aqueous Solvation Free Energies of Neutral and Ionic
Organic Molecules," J. Chem. Theory & Comp.,
1, 70-77 (2005). (PDF)
614. Avril R. Williams, Brian H. Northrop, Kendall
N. Houk, J. Fraser Stoddart, and David J. Williams:
"The Influence of Constitutional Isomerism and
Change on Molecular Recognition Processes," Chem.
Eur. J., 10, 5406-5421 (2004). (PDF)
615. Peter D. Jarowski, Francois Diederich, and K.
N. Houk: "Structures and Stabilities of Diacetylene-Expanded
Polyhedranes by Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Mechanics,"
J. Org. Chem., 70, 1671-1678 (2005). (PDF)
616. Kelli S. Khuong, Chris M. Beaudry, Dirk Trauner,
and K. N. Houk: "Dienophile Twisting and Substituent
Effects Influence Reaction Rates of Intramolecular Diels-Alder
Cycloadditions: A DFT Study," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
127, 3688-3689 (2005). (PDF)
617. Joseph E. Norton and K. N. Houk: "Electronic
Structures and Properties of Twisted Polyacenes,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 4162-4163 (2005). (PDF)
618. Pierluigi Caramella, Paolo Quadrelli, Lucio Toma,
Silvano Romano, Kelli S. Khuong, Brian Northrop, and
K. N. Houk: "The Three Corrugated Surfaces of 1,4-Divinyltetramethylene
Diradical Intermediates and Their Connections to 1,2-Divinylcyclobutane,
4-Vinylcyclohexene, 1,5-Cyclooctadiene, and Two Butadienes,"
J. Org. Chem., 70, 2994-3008 (2005). (PDF)
619. Jon M. Fukuto, Michael D. Bartberger, Andrew S.
Dutton, Nazareno Paolocci, David A. Wink, and K. N.
Houk: "The Physiological Chemistry and Biological
Activity of Nitroxyl (HNO): The Neglected, Misunderstood,
and Enigmatic Nitrogen Oxide," Chem. Res. Toxicol.,
18, 790-801 (2005). (PDF)
620. Yi-Lei Zhao, Michael D. Bartberger, Kei Goto,
Keiichi Shimada, Takayuki Kawashima, and K. N. Houk:
"Theoretical Evidence for Enhanced NO Dimerization
in Aromatic Hosts: Implications for the Role of the
Electrophile (NO)2 in Nitric Oxide Chemistry,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 7964-7965 (2005). (PDF)
621. Christopher P. Suhrada, Cenk Selcuki, Maja Nendel,
Carina Cannizzaro, K. N. Houk, Peter-Jurgen Rissing,
Dirk Baumann, Dieter Hasselmann: "Dynamic Effects
on [3,3] and [1,3] Shifts of 6-Methylenebicyclo[3.2.0]hept-2-ene,"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 44, 3548-3552 (2005). (PDF)
622. Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong and K. N. Houk: "Origins
and Predictions of Stereoselectivity in Intramolecular
Aldol Reactions Catalyzed by Proline Derivatives,"
Synthesis, 9, 1533-1537 (2005). (PDF)
623. Andrew S. Dutton, Jon M. Fukuto, and Kendall N.
Houk: "Theoretical Reduction Potentials for Nitrogen
Oxides from CBS-QB3 Energetics and (C)PCM Solvation
Calculations," Inorg. Chem., 44, 4024-4028 (2005). (PDF)
624. Gavin O. Jones, Daniel H. Ess, and Kendall N. Houk:
"Activation Energies and Reaction Energetics for 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of
Hydrazoic Acid with C-C and C-N Multiple Bonds from High-Accuracy and
Density Functional Quantum Mechanical Calculations," Helvetica
Chimica Acta, 7, 1702-1710 (2005). (PDF)
625.Yi Liu, Scott A. Vignon, Xiyun Zhang, K. N. Houk, and J. Fraser
Stoddart: "Conformational Diastereoisomerism in a Chiral
Pretzelane," Chem. Comm., 3927-3929, (2005).
626. Fernando R. Clemente and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Studies of
Stereoselectivities of Intramolecular Aldol Cyclizations Catalyzed by
Amino Acids," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 11294-11301 (2005). (PDF)
627. Gavin O. Jones, Vildan A. Guner, and K. N. Houk: "Diels-Alder
Reactions of Cyclopentadiene and 9,10-Dimethylanthracene with
Cyanoalkenes: The Performance of Density Functional Theory and
Hartree-Fock Calculations for the Prediction of Substituent Effects,"
J. Phys. Chem. A, 110, 1216-1224 (2006). (PDF)
628.Andrew S. Dutton, Jon M. Fukuto, and K. N. Houk: "Quantum
Mechanical Determinations of Reaction Mechanisms, Acid Base, and Redox
Properties of Nitrogen Oxides and Their Donors," Methods in
Enzymology, 396, 26-44 (2005).
629. Daniel H. Ess and K. N. Houk: "Activation Energies of
Pericyclic Reactions: Performance of DFT, MP2, and CBS-QB3 Methods for the
Prediction of Activation Barriers and Reaction Energetics of 1,3-Dipolar
Cycloadditions, and Revised Activation Enthalpies for a Standard Set of
Hydrocarbon Pericyclic Reactions," J. Phys. Chem. A., 109, 9542-9553
(2005). (PDF)
630. Ruth Gordillo, Jennifer Carter, and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical
Explorations of Enantioselectivity Alkylation Reaction of Pyrroles and
Indoles Organocatalyzed by Chiral Imidazolidinones," Adv. Synth. &
Cat., 346, 1175-1185 (2005). (PDF)
631. Andrew G. Leach, K. N. Houk, Ian W. Davies: "The Origins of
Periselectivity and Substituent Effects in Electrocyclizations of
o-Nitrostyrenes: A Computational Study," Synthesis, 19, 3463-3467
(2005). (PDF)
632. Katrina M. Miranda, Tatsuo Katori, Claudia L. Torres de Holding,
Lynta Thomas, Lisa A. Ridnour, William J. McLendon, Stephani M. Cologna,
Andrew S. Dutton, Hunter c. Champion, Daniele Mancardi, Carlo G.
Tocchetti, Joseph E. Saavedra, Larry K. Keefer, K. N. Houk, Jon M. Fukuto,
David A. Kass, Nazareno Paolocci, and David A. Wink: "Comparison of
the NO and HNO Donating Properties of Diazeniumdiolates: Primary Amine
Adducts Release HNO in Vivo," J. Med. Chem., 48, 8220-8228 (2005).
(PDF)
633. Y. Liu, S. A. Vignon, P. A. Bonvallet, S. I. Khan, K. N. Houk, and
J. F. Stoddart: "Dynamic Chriality in Donor-Acceptor
Prezelanes," J. Org. Chem., 70, 9334-9344 (2005).
(PDF)
634. Xiyun Zhang and K. N. Houk: "Acid-Base Catalysis by Pure
Water: The Aldol Reaction," J. Org. Chem., 70, 9712-9716 (2005).
(PDF)
635. Yi-Lei Zhao, Walter H. Jones, Frederic Monnat, Fred Wudl, and K.
N. Houk: "Mechanisms of Thermal Decomposition of Polysulfones: A DFT
and CBS-QB3 Study," Macromolecules, 38, 10279-10285 (2005).
(PDF)
636. Charles Doubleday, Christopher P. Suhrada, and K. N. Houk:
"Dynamics of the Degenerate Rearrangement of
Bicyclo[3.1.0]hex-2-ene," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 90-94 (2006).
(PDF)
637. Susumu Mitsumori, Haile Zhang, Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, K. N. Houk,
Fujie Tanaka, and Carlos F. Barbas, III: "Direct Asymmetric
anti-Mannich-Type Reactions Catalyzed by a Designed Amino Acid," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 1040-1041 (2006).
(PDF)
638. Yi-Lei Zhao and K. N. Houk: "Thionitroxides, RSHNO¥: The
Structure of the SNO Moiety in "S-Nitrosohemoglobin," A Possible NO
Reservoir and Transporter," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 1422-1423 (2006).
(PDF)
639. C. Ozturk, V. Aviyente, and K. N. Houk: "Modeling the
Stereoselectivity of the Johnson-Claisen Rearrangement in the Danishefsky
Synthesis of Gelsemine," J. Org. Chem., 70, 7028-7034 (2005).
(PDF)
640. Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, Haile Zhang, Rajee Thayumanavan, Fujie
Tanaka, K. N. Houk, and Carlos F. Barbas III: "Pipecolic
Acid-Catalyzed Direct Asymmetric Mannich Reactions," Org. Lett., 8,
811-814 (2006).
(PDF)
641. Susan N. Pieniazek and Kendall N. Houk: "The Origin of the
Halogen Effect on Reactivity and Reversibility of Diels-Alder
Cycloadditions Involving Furan," Ang. Chem. Int. Ed., 45, 1442-1445
(2006).
(PDF)
642. Jennifer A. R. Luft, Zhi-Xiang Yu, David L. Hughes, Guy C.
Lloyd-Jones, Shane W. Krska, and Kendall N. Houk: "On the Stability
of the pi-Allyl Intermediate in Molybdenum-Catalyzed Asymmetric
Alkylations," Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 17, 716-724 (2006).
(PDF)
643. Ruth Gordillo and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Stereoselectivity
in Diels-Alder Cycloadditions Catalyzed by Chiral Imidazolidinones,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 3543-3553 (2006).
(PDF)
644. Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, Heedong Yun, Samuel J. Danishefsky, and K. N.
Houk: "Torsional Steering Controls the Stereoselectivity of
Epoxidation in the Guanacastepene A Synthesis," Org. Lett., 8,
1513-1516 (2006).
(PDF)
645. Brian H. Northrop, Daniel P. O'Malley, Alexandros L. Zografos,
Phil S. Baran, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism of the Vinylcyclobutane
Rearrangement of Sceptrin to Ageliferin and Nagelamide E," Angew.
Chem. Int. Ed., 45, 4126-4130 (2006).
(PDF)
646. Branden Brough, Brian H. Northrop, Jacob J. Schmidt, Hsian-Rong
Tseng, Kendall N. Houk, J. Fraser Stoddart, and Chih-Ming Ho:
"Evaluation of Synthetic Linear Motor-Molecular Actuation Energetics, Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci. USA, 103, 8583-8588 (2006).
(PDF)
647. P. D. Jarowski, F. Diederich, and K. N. Houk: "Butatrienes
as Extended Alkenes: Barriers to Internal Rotation and Substitution Effects
on the Stabilities of the Ground States and Transition States," J.
Phys. Chem. A, 110, 7237-7246 (2006).
(PDF)
648. Joseph E. Norton, Leif P. Olson, and K. N. Houk:
"Theoretical Studies of Quantum Amplified Isomerizations for Imaging Systems Involving
Hexamethyl Dewar Benzene and Related Systems," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
128, 7835-7845 (2006).
(PDF)
649. Amy E. Hayden, Hao Xu, K. C. Nicolaou, and K. N. Houk:
"Origins of Selectivity in Pericyclic Reaction Cascades for the Synthesis of
Gambogin and Lateriflorone," Org. Lett., 8, 2989-2992 (2006).
(PDF)
650. Arash Jabbari, Erik J. Sorensen, and K. N. Houk: "Transition
States of the Retro-Ene Reactions of Allylic Diazenes," Org. Lett.,
8, 3105-3107 (2006).
(PDF)
651. Michelle Lee, Peter Lloyd, Xiyun Zhang, Julie M. Schallhorn, Keiki
Sugimoto, Andrew G. Leach, Guillermo Sapiro, and K. N. Houk: "Shapes
of Antibody Binding Sites: Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses Based on a
Geomorphic Classification Scheme," J. Org. Chem., 71, 5082-5092
(2006).
(PDF)
652. Robert G. Iafe and K. N. Houk: "Stereoselectivity Control by
Torsional Steering in an Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reaction of Vinyl
Oxocarbenium Ions," Org. Lett., 8, 3469-2372 (2006).
(PDF)
653. Tinh-Alfredo V. Khuong, Gerardo Zepeda, Carlos N. Sanrame, Hung
Dang, Michael D. Bartberger, K. N. Houk, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay: "Crankshaft Motion in a Highly Congested
Bis(triarylmethyl)peroxide," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 14778-14786 (2004).
(PDF)
654. P. D. Jarowski, M. D. Wodrich, C. S. Wannere, P. v. R. Schleyer,
and K. N. Houk: "How Large is the Conjugative Stabilization of
Diynes?" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 15036-15037 (2004).
(PDF)
655. Yu Takano and K. N. Houk: "Conformational Preferences in the
Transition States and Tetrahedral Intermediates of Transacylations.
Relationships to Enzyme-Bound Conformations of Phosphonate Inhibitors of
Lipases and Esterases," J. Phys. Chem. A, 108, 11740-11751 (2004).
(PDF)
656. Liam C. Palmer, Yi-Lei Zhao, K. N. Houk, and Julius Rebek, Jr.:
"Diastereoselection of Chiral Acids in a Cylindrical Capsule,"
Chem. Comm., 29, 3667-3669 (2005).
(PDF)
657. Luis M. Campos, Manoj V. Warrier, Krisztina Peterfy, K. N. Houk,
and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay: "Secondary Alpha Isotope Effects on
Deuterium Tunneling in Triplet o-Methylanthrones: Extraordinary
Sensitivity to Barrier Width," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 10178-10179
(2005).
(PDF)
658. Yi-Lei Zhao, Patrick R. McCarren, K. N. Houk, Bo Yoon Choi, and
Eric J. Toone: "Nitrosonium-Catalyzed Decomposition of
S-Nitrosothiols in Solution: A Theoretical and Experimental Study,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 10917-10924 (2005).
(PDF)
659. Andrew S. Dutton, Christopher P. Suhrada, Katrina M. Miranda,
David A. Wink, Jon M. Fukuto, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism of
pH-Dependent Decomposition of Monoalkylamine Diazeniumdiolates to Form HNO and NO,
Deduced from the Model Compound Methylamine Diazeniumdiolate, Density
Functional Theory, and CBS-QB3 Calculations," Inorg. Chem., 45,
2448-2456 (2006).
(PDF)
660. Brian H. Northrop and K. N. Houk:
"Vinylcyclobutane-Cyclohexene
Rearrangement: Theoretical Exploration of Mechanism and Relationship to
the Diels-Alder Potential Surface," J. Org. Chem., 71, 3-13 (2006).
(PDF)
661. Joseph E. Norton, Alejandro L. Briseno, Fred Wudl, and K. N. Houk:
"Lone-Pair Orbital Interactions in Polythiaadamantanes," J.
Phys. Chem. A, 110, 9887-9899 (2006).
(PDF)
662. Suzanne E. Paulson, De-Ling Liu, Grazyna E. Orzechowska, Luis M.
Campos, and K. N. Houk: "Photolysis of Heptanal," J. Org. Chem.,
71, 6403-6408 (2006).
(PDF)
663. Yi-Lei Zhao, Christopher P. Suhrada, Michael E. Jung, and K. N.
Houk: "Theoretical Investigation of the Stereoselective Stepwise Cope
Rearrangement of a 3-Vinylmethylenecyclobutane," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
128, 11106-11113 (2006).
(PDF)
664. Joseph E. Norton and K. N. Houk: "H/Vinyl Conical
Intersections of Hexatrienes Related to the Hula-Twist
Photoisomerization," Mol. Phys., 104, 993-1008 (2006).
(PDF)
665. William A. Pryor, Kendall N. Houk, Christopher S. Foote, Jon M.
Fukuto, Louis J. Ignarro, Giuseppe L. Squadrito, and Kelvin J. A. Davies:
"Free Radical Biology and Medicine: It's a Gas, Man!" Amer. J.
Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology, 291,
R491-R511 (2006).
(PDF)
666. Albert Padwa, Kenneth R. Crawford, Christopher S. Straub, Susan N.
Pieniazek, and K. N. Houk: "Halo Substituent Effects on
Intramolecular Cycloadditions Involving Furanyl Amides," J. Org.
Chem., 71, 5432-5439 (2006).
(PDF)
667. Shih-Ching Chuang, Fernando R. Clemente, Saeed I. Khan, K. N.
Houk, and Yves Rubin: "Approaches to Open Fullerenes: A
1,2,3,4,5,6-Hexaadduct of C60," Org. Lett., 8, 4525-4528 (2006).
(PDF)
668. Joseph E. Norton, Brian H. Northrop, Colin Nuckolls, and K. N.
Houk: "Why 6-Methylpentacene Deconjugates but Avoids the Thermally
Allowed Unimolecular Mechanism," Org. Lett., 8, 4915-4918 (2006).
(PDF)
669. Naveen Gandra, Aaron T. Frank, Onica Le Gendre, Nahed Sawwan,
David Aebisher, Joel F. Liebman, K. N. Houk, Alexander Greer, and Ruomei
Gao: "Possible Singlet Oxygen Generation from the Photolysis of
Indigo Dyes in Methanol, DMSO, Water, and Ionic Liquid,
1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium Tetrafluoroborate," Tetrahedron, 62,
10771-10776 (2006).
(PDF)
670. Nicola Edwards, Roger Helgeson, Yi-Lei Zhao, and K. N. Houk:
"Pyridine-Based Cavitands for Acid and Carboxylate Recognition,"
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 456, 175-192 (2006).
671. Arash Jabbari and K. N. Houk: "Hetero-Cope Rearrangements of
Nitrosobutenes. DFT Studies of Thermal and Acid-Catalyzed
Reactions," Org. Lett., 8, 5975-5978 (2006).
(PDF)
672. Chaitanya S. Wannere, Ankan Paul, Rainer Herges, K. N. Houk, Henry
F. Schaeffer III, Paul von Rague Schleyer: "The Existence of
Secondary Orbital Interactions," J. Comp. Chem., 28, 344-361 (2007).
(PDF)
673. Ruth Gordillo, Travis Dudding, Christopher D. Anderson, and K. N.
Houk: "Hydrogen Bonding Catalysis Operates by Charge Stabilization in
Highly Polar Diels-Alder Reactions," Org. Lett., 9, 501-503 (2007).
(PDF)
674. Jennifer A. R. Luft, Kieche Meleson, and K. N. Houk:
"Transition Structures of Diastereoselective 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of Nitrile
Oxides to Chiral Homoallylic Alcohols," Org. Lett., 9, 555-558
(2007).
(PDF)
675. Michael Winkler and K. N. Houk: "Nitrogen-Rich Oligoacenes:
Candidates for n-Channel Orgnic Semiconductors," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
129, 1805-1815 (2007).
(PDF)
676. Peter D. Jarowski, K. N. Houk, and Miguel Garcia-Garibay:
"Importance of Correlated Motions on the Low Barrier Rotational
Potentials of Crystalline Molecular Gyroscopes," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
129, 3110-3117 (2007).
(PDF)
677. Yoshimitsu Itoh, K. N. Houk, and Koichi Mikami: "Experimental
and Theoretical Studies on Radical Trifluoromethylation of Titanium Ate and
Lithium Enolates," J. Org. Chem., 71, 8918-8925 (2006).
(PDF)
678. Daniel H. Ess, Gavin O. Jones, and K. N. Houk: "Conceptual,
Qualitative, and Quantitative Theories of 1,3-Dipolar and Diels-Alder
Cycloadditions Used in Synthesis," Adv. Synth. Catal., 348, 2337-2361
(2006).
(PDF)
679. Mingji Dai, David Sarlah, Maolin Yu, Samuel J. Danishefsky, Gavin
O. Jones, and K. N. Houk: "Highly Selective Diels-Alder Reactions of
Directly Connected Enyne Dienophiles," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129,
645-657 (2007).
(PDF)
680. Nihan Celebi-Olcum, Daniel H. Ess, Viktorya Aviyente, and K. N.
Houk: "Lewis Acid Catalysis Alters the Shapes and Products of
Bis-Pericyclic Diels-Alder Transition States," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
129, 4528-4529 (2007).
(PDF)
681. Robert A. Moss, Jingzhi Tian, Ronald R. Sauers, Daniel H. Ess, K.
N. Houk, and Karsten Krogh-Jesperson: "The Synthesis of
Dichlorodiazirine and the Generation of Dichlorocarbene: Spectroscopy and Structure of
Dichlorocarbene Ylides," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 5167-5174 (2007).
(PDF)
682. Jason DeChancie and K. N. Houk: "The Origins of Femtomolar
Protein-Ligand Binding: Hydrogen-Bond Cooperativity and Desolvation
Energetics in the Biotin-(Strept)Avidin Binding Site," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 129, 5419-5429 (2007).
(PDF)
683. Hakan Gunaydin, Orlando Acevedo, William L. Jorgensen, and K. N.
Houk: "Computation of Accurate Activation Barriers for
Methyl-Transfer Reactions of Sulfonium and Ammonium Salts in Aqueous
Solution," J. Chem. Theory Comput., 3, 1028-1035 (2007).
(PDF)
684. Dominique Leca, Francisca Gaggini, Jerome Cassayre, Olivier
Loseleur, Susan N. Pieniazek, Jennifer A. R. Luft, and K. N. Houk:
"Acid-Catalyzed Aza-Diels-Alder Reactions for the Total Synthesis of
(+)-Lapati B," J. Org. Chem., 72, 4284-4287 (2007).
(PDF)
685. Lucas Koziol, Michael Winkler, K. N. Houk, Sugumar Venkataramani,
Wolfram Sander, and Anna I. Krylov: "The 1,2,3-Tridehydrobenzene
Triradical: 2B or Not 2B? The Answer is 2A!," J. Phys. Chem. A,
111, 5071-5080 (2007).
(PDF)
686. Jason DeChancie, Fernando R. Clemente, Adam J. T. Smith, Hakan
Gunaydin, Yi-Lei Zhao, Xiyun Zhang, and K. N. Houk: "How Similar Are
Enzyme Active Site Geometries Derived from Quantum Mechanical Theozymes to
Crystal Structures of Enzyme-Inhibitor Complexes? Implications for Enzyme
Design," Protein Science, 16, 1851-1866 (2007).
(PDF)
687. Shuangyi Wan, Hakan Gunaydin, K. N. Houk, and Paul E. Floreancig:
"An Experimental and Computational Approach to Defining
Structure/Reactivity Relationships for Intramolecular Addition Reactions
to Bicyclic Epoxonium Ions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 7915-7923
(2007).
(PDF)
688. He-Ping Wu, Daniel H. Ess, Seren Lanza, Timothy J. R. Weakley, K.
N. Houk, Kim K. Baldridge, and Michael M. Haley: "Rearrangement of
Iridabenzvalenes to Iridabenzenes and/or 5-Cyclopentadienyliridium(I)
Complexes: Experimental and Computational Analysis of the Influence of
Silyl Ring Substituents and Phosphine Ligands," Organometallics, 26,
3957-3968 (2007).
(PDF)
689. Emel Adaligil, Barry D. Davis, David G. Hilmey, Young Shen, Jason
M. Spruell, Jennifer S. Brodbelt, K. N. Houk, and Leo A. Paquette:
"Synthesis of, and Structural Assignments to the Stereoisomers of Bis
(2,2')- and Tris (2,2',2' ')-Tetrahydrofurans: Conformational Features
and Ionic Binding Capacities of These Gateway Polycyclic Networks,"
J. Org. Chem., 72, 6215-6223 (2007). Correction: J. Org. Chem., 72,
8614-8614 (2008).
(PDF)
690. Matthew D. Wodrich, Chaitanya S. Wannere, Yirong Mo, Peter D.
Jarowski, Kendall N. Houk, and Paul von Rague Schleyer: "The Concept
of Protobranching and its Many Paradigm Shifting Implications for Energy
Evaluations," Chem. Eur. J., 13, 7731-7744 (2007).
(PDF)
691. Daniel H. Ess and K. N. Houk: "Distortion/Interaction Energy
Control of 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactivity," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
129, 10646-10647 (2007).
(PDF)
692. Michael J. Eichberg, K. N. Houk, Jurg Lehmann, Philip W. Leonard,
Anne Marker, Joseph E. Norton, Dorota Sawicka, K. Peter C. Vollhart, Glenn
D. Whitener, Stefan Wolff: "The Thermal Retro[2+2+2]cycloaddition of
Cyclohexane Activated by Triscyclobutenannelation: Concerted
All-Disrotatory versus Stepwise Conrotatory Pathways to Fused
[12]Annulenes," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46, 6894-6898 (2007).
(PDF)
693. Brian H. Northrop, Joseph E. Norton, and K. N. Houk: "On the
Mechanism of Peripentacene Formation from Pentacene: Computational
Studies of a Prototype for Graphene Formation from Smaller Acenes,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 6536-6546 (2007).
(PDF)
694. Arunkumar Natarajan, C. K. Tsai, Saeed I. Khan, Patrick McCarren,
K. N. Houk, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay: "The Photoarrangement of
alpha-Santonin is a Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Reaction: A Long
Kept Secret in Solid-State Organic Chemistry Revealed," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 129, 9846-9847 (2007).
(PDF)
695. Sun-Joon Min, Gavin O. Jones, K. N. Houk, and Samuel J.
Danishefsky: "Creating Quaternary Centers with High Exo
Stereoselectivity Using Activated alpha-Alkynyl Dienophiles," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 129, 10078-10079 (2007).
(PDF)
696. Zhongfang Chen, De-en Jiang, Xin Lu, Holger F. Bettinger, Sheng
Dai, Paul von Rague Schleyer, and K. N. Houk: "Open-Shell Singlet
Character of Cyclacenes and Short Zigzag Nanotubes," Org. Lett., 9,
5449-5452 (2007).
(PDF)
697. Haile Zhang, Susumu Mitsumori, Naoto Utsumi, Masanori Imai, Noemi
Garcia-Delgado, Maria Mifsud, Klaus Albertshofer, Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, K.
N. Houk, Fujie Tanaka, and Carlos F. Barbas: "Catalysis of
3-Pyrrolidinecarboxylic Acid and Related Pyrrolidine Derivatives in
Enantioselective anti-Mannich-Type Reactions: Importance of the 3-Acid
Group on Pyrrolidine for Stereocontrol," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130,
875-886 (2007).
(PDF)
698. Claude Y. Legault, Yeimy Garcia, Craig A. Merlic, and K. N.
Houk: "Origin of Regioselectivity in Palladium-Catalyzed
Cross-Coupling Reactions of Polyhalogenated Heterocycles," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 129, 12664-12665 (2007).
(PDF)
699. David M. Bender, Jeffrey A. Peterson, James R. McCarthy, Hakan
Gunaydin, Yu Takano, and K. N. Houk: "Cyclopropanecarboxylic Acid
Esters as Potential Prodrugs with Enhanced Hydrolytic Stability,"
Org. Lett., 10, 509-511 (2008).
(PDF)
700. Zhi-Xiang Yu, Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, Peng Liu, Claude Y. Legault,
Paul A. Wender, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Differences in
Reactivities of Alkenes, Alkynes, and Allenes in [Rh(CO)2Cl]2-Catalyzed (5 + 2)
Cycloaddition Reactions with Vinylcyclopropanes," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
130, 2378-2379 (2008).
(PDF)
701. Gavin O. Jones and K. N. Houk: "Predictions of Substituent
Effects in Thermal Azide 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions: Implications for
Dynamic Combinatorial (Reversible) and Click (Irreversible)
Chemistry," J. Org. Chem., 73, 1333-1342 (2008).
(PDF)
702. Robert G. Iafe and K. N. Houk: "Intramolecular
Hetero-Diels-Alder Reactions of Imine and Iminium Dienophiles: Quantum Mechanical
Exploration of Mechanisms and Stereoselectivties," J. Org. Chem., 7,
2679-2686 (2008).
(PDF)
703. Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, Philip Morganelli, Michael R. Luzung, K. N.
Houk, and F. Dean Toste: "Gold-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization of
1,5-Allenynes via Dual Activation of an Ene Reaction," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 130, 4517-4526 (2008).
(PDF)
704. Daniel H. Ess, Gavin O. Jones, and K. N. Houk: "Transition
States of Strain-Promoted Metal-Free Click Chemistry: 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions
of Phenyl Azide and Cyclooctynes," Org. Lett., 10, 1633-1636 (2008).
(PDF)
705. K. N. Houk, Arash Jabbari, H. K. Hall Jr., and Carlos Aleman:
"Why delta-Valerolactone Polymerizes and gamma-Butyrolactone Does
Not," J. Org. Chem., 73, 2674-2678 (2008).
(PDF)
706. Hakan Gunaydin, K. N. Houk, and Vidvid Ozolins:
"Vacancy-Mediated Dehydrogenation of Sodium Alanate," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105,
3673-3677 (2008).
(PDF)
707. Lin Jiang, Eric A. Althoff, Fernando R. Clemente, Lindsey Doyle,
Daniela Rothlisberger, Alexandre Zanghellini, Jasmine L. Gallaher, Jamie
L. Betker, Fujie Tanaka, Carlos F. Barbas, III, Donald Hilvert, Kendall N.
Houk, Barry L. Stoddard, and David Baker: "De Novo Computational
Design of Retro-Aldol Enzymes," Science, 319, 1387-1391 (2008).
(PDF)
708. Steven E. Wheeler, Daniel H. Ess, and K. N. Houk: "Thinking
Out of the Black Box: Accurate Barrier Heights of 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions
of Ozone with Acetylene and Ethylene," J. Phys. Chem. A, 112,
1798-1807 (2008).
(PDF)
709. Xiyun Zhang, Jason DeChancie, Hakan Gunaydin, Arnab B. Chowdry,
Fernando R. Clemente, Adam J. T. Smith, T. M. Handel, and K. N. Houk:
"Quantum Mechanical Design of Enzyme Active Sites," J. Org.
Chem., 73, 889-899 (2008).
(PDF)
710. Mathew Tredwell, Jennifer R. Luft, Marie Schuler, Kenny Tenza, K.
N. Houk, and Veronique Gouverneur: "Fluorine-Directed
Diastereoselective Iodocyclizations," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47,
357-360 (2008).
(PDF)
711. Courtney L. Stanton, I-Feng W. Kuo, Christopher J. Munday, Teodoro
Laino, and K. N. Houk: "QM/MM Metadynamics Study of the Direct
Decarboxylation Mechanism for Orotidine-5'-monophosphate Decarboxylase
Using Two Different QM Regions: Acceleration Too Smal to Explain Rate of
Enzyme Catalysts,&qout; J. Phys. Chem. B, 111, 12573-12581 (2007).
(PDF)
712. Peng Liu, Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, Zhi-Xiang Yu, Paul A. Wender, and
K. N. Houk: "Substituent Effects, Reactant Preorganization, and
Ligand Exchange Control the Reactivity in Rh1-Catalyzed (5+2) Cycloadditions
between Vinylcyclopropanes and Alkynes," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47,
3939-3941 (2008).
(PDF)
713. Daniela Rothlisberger, Olga Khersonsky, Andrew M. Wollacott, Lin
Jiang, Jason DeChancie, Jamie Betker, Jasmine L. Gallaher, Eric A.
Althoff, Alexandre Zanghellini, Orly Dym, Shira Albeck, Kendall N. Houk,
Dan S. Tawfik, and David Baker: "Kemp Elimination Catalysts by
Computational Enzyme Design," Nature, 453, 190-195 (2008).
(PDF)
714. Fiona Murphy Kessabi, Tammo Winkler, Jennifer A. R. Luft, and K.
N. Houk: "Rearrangement of a Cyclohexyl Radical to a
Cyclopentylmethyl Radical on the Avermectin Skeleton," Org. Lett.,
10, 2255-2258 (2008).
(PDF)
715. Courtney L. Stanton and Kendall N. Houk: "Benchmarking pKa
Prediction Methods for Residues in Proteins," J. Chem. Theory
Comput., 4, 951-966 (2008).
(PDF)
716. Philip J. Pye, Yong-Li Zhong, Gavin O. Jones, Robert A. Reamer,
Kendall N. Houk, and David Askin: "A Polar Radical Pair Pathway to
Assemble the Pyrimidinone Core of the HIV Integrase Inhibitor Raltegravir
Potassium," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47, 4134-4136 (2008).
(PDF)
717. Christopher D. Anderson, Travis Dudding, Ruth Gordillo, and K. N.
Houk: "Origin of Enantioselection in Hetero-Diels-Alder Reactions
Catalyzed by Naphthyl-TADDOL," Org. Lett., 10, 2749-2753 (2008).
(PDF)
718. Hakan Gunaydin and K. N. Houk: "Molecular Dynamics
Simulation of the HOONO Decomposition and the HO*NO2* Caged Radical Pair
in Water," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 10036-10037 (2008).
(PDF)
719. Elizabeth H. Krenske, K. N. Houk, Bruce A. Arndtsen, and Daniel J.
St. Cyr: "Cyclic 1,3-Dipoles or Acyclic Phosphonium Ylides?
Electronic Characterization of 'Montrealones,'" J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
130, 10052-10053 (2008).
(PDF)
720. Daniel H. Ess and K. N. Houk: "Theory of 1,3-Dipolar
Cycloadditions: Distortion/Interaction and Frontier Molecular Orbital
Models," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 10187-10198 (2008).
(PDF)
721. Joann M. Um, K. N. Houk, and Andrew J. Phillips: "Origin of
Stereoselectivity in the Reduction of a Planar Oxacarbenium," Org. Lett.,
10, 3769-3772 (2008).
(PDF)
722. Steven E. Wheeler and K. N. Houk: "Substituent Effects in the
Benzene Dimer are Due to Direct Interactions of the Substituents with the
Unsubstituted Benzene," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 10854-10855 (2008).
(PDF)
723. Gavin O. Jones, Xuechen Li, Amy E. Hayden, K. N. Houk, and Samuel
J. Danishefsky: "The Coupling of Isonitriles and Carboxylic Acids
Occurring by Sequential Concerted Rearrangement Mechanisms," Org.
Lett., 10, 4093-4096 (2008).
(PDF)
724. Susan N. Pieniazek, Fernando R. Clemente, and Kendall N. Houk:
"Sources of Error in DFT Computations of C-C Bond Formation
Thermochemistries: Pi-Sigma Transformations and Error Cancellation by DFT
Methods," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47, 7746-7749 (2008).
(PDF)
725. Daniel H. Ess, Steven E. Wheeler, Robert G. Iafe, Lai Xu, Nihan
Celebi-Olcum, and Kendall N. Houk: "Bifurcations on Potential Energy
Surfaces of Organic Reactions," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47, 7592-7601
(2008).
(PDF)
726. Daniel P. Canterbury, Alison J. Frontier, Joann M. Um, Paul H.-Y.
Cheong, Dahlia A. Goldfeld, Richard A. Huhn, and K. N. Houk: "Origins
of Stereoselectivity in the Oxido-Alkylidenation of Alkynes," Org.
Lett., 10, 4597-4600 (2008).
(PDF)
727. K. N. Houk and Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong: "Computational Prediction
of Small-Molecule Catalysts," Nature, 455, 309-313 (2008).
(PDF)
728. Felix Calderon, Elisa G. Doyaguez, Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, Alfonso
Fernandez-Mayoralas, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of the Double
Asymmetric Induction on Proline-Catalyzed Aldol Reaction," J. Org.
Chem., 73, 7916-7920 (2008).
(PDF)
729. Ximin Li, Peng Liu, K. N. Houk, and Vladimir B. Birman:
"Origin of Enantioselectivity in CF3-PIP-Catalyzed Kinetic Resolution of Secondary
Benzylic Alcohols," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 13836-13837 (2008).
(PDF)
730. Andrew G. Leach, K. N. Houk, and Christopher S. Foote:
"Theoretical Prediction of a Perepoxide Intermediate for the Reaction
of Singlet Oxygen with trans-Cyclooctene Contrasts with the Two-Step
No-Intermediate Ene Reaction for Acyclic Alkenes," J. Org. Chem., 73,
8511-8519 (2008).
(PDF)
731. Hakan Gunaydin and K. N. Houk: "Molecular Dynamics Prediction
of the Mechanism of Ester Hydrolysis in Water," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
130, 15232-15233.
(PDF)
732. Lee M. Bishop, Michael Winkler, Kendall N. Houk, Robert G.
Bergman, Dirk Trauner: "Mechanistic Investigations of the
Acid-Catalyzed Cyclization of a Vinyl ortho-Quinone Methide," Chem.
Eur. J., 14, 5405-5408 (2008).
(PDF)
733. Hakan Gunaydin, Sergey V. Barabash, K. N. Houk, and V. Ozolins:
"First-Principles Theory of Hydrogen Diffusion in Aluminum,"
Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 075901 (2008).
(PDF)
734. Nihan Celebi-Olcum, Daniel H. Ess, Viktorya Aviyente, and K. N.
Houk: "Effect of Lewis Acid Catalysts on Diels-Alder and
Hetero-Diels-Alder Cycloadditions Sharing a Common Transition State,"
J. Org. Chem., 73, 7472-7480 (2008).
(PDF)
735. Daniel H. Ess, Amy E. Hayden, Frank-Gerrit Klarner, and K. N.
Houk: "Transition States for the Dimerization of 1,3-Cyclohexadiene:
A DFT, CASPT2, and CBS-QB3 Quantum Mechanical Investigation," J. Org.
Chem., 73, 7586-7592 (2008).
(PDF)
736. Jennifer A. R. Luft, Tammo Winkler, Fiona M. Kessabi, and K. N.
Houk: "Substituent Effects on the Rearrangements of Cyclohexyl to
Cyclopentyl Radicals Involving Avermectin-Related Radicals," J. Org.
Chem., 73, 8175-8181 (2008).
(PDF)
737. Michael N. Paddon-Row, Christopher D. Anderson, and K. N. Houk:
"Computational Evaluation of Enantioselective Diels-Alder Reactions
Mediated by Corey's Cationic Oxazaborolidine Catalysts," J. Org.
Chem., 74, 861-868 (2009).
(PDF)
738. Andrea Penoni, Giovanni Palmisano, Yi-Lei Zhao, Kendall N. Houk,
Jerome Volkman, and Kenneth M. Nicholas: "On the Mechanism of
Nitrosoarene-Alkyne Cycloaddition," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 653-661
(2009).
(PDF)
739. Yu-hong Lam, Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, Jose M. Blasco Mata, Steven J.
Stanway, Veronique Gouverneur, and K. N. Houk: "Diels-Alder Exo
Selectivity in Terminal-Substituted Dienes and Dienophiles: Experimental
Discoveries and Computational Explanations," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131,
1947-1957 (2009).
(PDF)
740. Steven E. Wheeler, K. N. Houk, Paul von Rague Schleyer, and Wesley
D. Allen: "A Hierarchy of Homodesmotic Reactions for
Thermochemistry," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 2547-2560 (2009).
(PDF)
741. David M. Hodgson, Christopher D. Bray, Nicholas D. Kindon, Nigel
J. Reynolds, Steven J. Coote, Joann M. Um, and K. N. Houk: "Synthesis
and C-Alkylation of Hindered Aldehyde Enamines," J. Org. Chem., 74,
1019-1028 (2009).
(PDF)
742. Franziska Schoenebeck and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Study of
the Catalysis of Cyanohydrin Formation by the Cyclic Dipeptide Catalyst
cyclo[(S)-His-(S)-Phe]," J. Org. Chem., 74, 1464-1472 (2009).
(PDF)
743. Adam J. T. Smith, Xiyun Zhang, Andrew G. Leach, and K. N. Houk:
"Beyond Picomolar Affinities: Quantitative Aspects of Noncovalent
and Covalent Binding of Drugs to Proteins," J. Med. Chem., 52,
225-233 (2009).
(PDF)
744. Adam J. T. Smith, Roger Muller, Miguel D. Toscano, Peter Kast,
Homme Hellinga, Donald Hilvert, and K. N. Houk: "Structural
Reorganization and Preorganization in Enzyme Active Sites: Comparisons of
Experimental and Theoretical Ideal Active Site Geometries in the Multistep
Serine Esterase Reaction Cycle," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 15361-15373
(2008).
(PDF)
745. Steven E. Wheeler and K. N. Houk: "Substituent Effects in
Cation/pi Interactions and Electrostatic Potentials above the Centers of
Substituted Benzenes Are Due Primarily to Through-Space Effects of the
Substituents," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 3126-3127 (2009).
(PDF)
746. Amy E. Hayden and K. N. Houk: "Transition State Distortion
Energies Correlate with Activation Energies of 1,4-Dihydrogenations and
Diels-Alder Cycloadditions of Aromatic Molecules," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
131, 4084-4089 (2009).
(PDF)
747. Yeimy Garcia, Franziska Schoenebeck, Claude Y. Legault, Craig A.
Merlic, and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Bond Dissociation Energies of
Halo-Heterocycles: Trends and Relationships to Regioselectivity in
Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
131, 6632-6639 (2009).
(PDF)
748. Steven E. Wheeler and K. N. Houk: "Origin of Substituent
Effects in Edge-to-Face Aryl-Aryl Interactions," Mol. Phys., 107,
749-760 (2009).
(PDF)
749. Hakan Gunaydin and K. N. Houk: "Mechanisms of
Peroxynitrite-Mediated Nitration of Tyrosine," Chem. Res. Toxicol.,
22, 894-898 (2009).
(PDF)
750. P. R. McCarren, Peng Liu, Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, Timothy F. Jamison,
and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism and Transition-State Structures for
Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Alkyne-Aldehyde Coupling Reactions," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 6654-6655 (2009).
(PDF)
751. Joann M. Um, Huadong Xu, K. N. Houk, and Weiping Tang:
"Thermodynamic Control of the Electrocyclic Ring Opening of
Cyclobutenes: C=X Substituents at C-3 Mask the Kinetic
Torquoselectivity," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 6664-6665 (2009).
(PDF)
752. Daniel P. Canterbury, Ildiko R. Herrick, Joann Um, K. N. Houk, and
Alison J. Frontier: "A Torquoselective Extrusion of Isoxazoline
N-oxides. Application to the Synthesis of Aryl Vinyl and Divinyl Ketones for Nazarov
Cyclization," Tetrahedron, 65, 3165-3179 (2009).
(PDF)
753. Franziska Schoenebeck, Daniel H. Ess, Gavin O. Jones, and K. N.
Houk: "Reactivity and Regioselectivity in 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions
of Azides to Strained Alkynes and Alekenes: A Computational Study,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 8121-8133 (2009).
(PDF)
754. Adam J. T. Smith, Ying Li, and K. N. Houk: "Quantum
Mechanica/Molecular Mechanics Investigation of the Mechanism of Phosphate
Transfer in Human Uridine-Cytidine Kinase 2," Org. Biomol. Chem., 7,
2716-2724 (2009).
(PDF)
755. Lai Xu, Charles E. Doubleday, and K. N. Houk: "Dynamics of
1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions of Diazonium Betaines to Acetylene and
Ethylene: Bending Vibrations Facilitate Reaction," Angew. Chem. Int.
Ed., 48, 2746-2748 (2009).
(PDF)
756. Yi-Lei Zhao, Jason W. Flora, William David Thweatt, Stephen L.
Garrison, Carlos Gonzalez, K. N. Houk, and Manuel Marquez: "Phosphine
Polymerization by Nitric Oxide: Experimental Characterization and
Theoretical Predictions of Mechanism," Inorg. Chem., 48, 1223-1231
(2009).
(PDF)
757. Hui Zhu, Fernando R. Clemente, K. N. Houk, and Matthew P. Meyer:
"Rate Limiting Step Precedes C-C Bond Formation in the Archetypical
Proline-Catalyzed Intramolecular Aldol Reaction," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
131, 1632-1633 (2009).
(PDF)
758. Brian H. Northrop, K. N. Houk, and Ashok Maliakal:
"Photostability of Pentacene and 6-13-Disbustituted Pentacene Derivatives:
A Theoretical and Experimental Mechanistic Study," Photochem.
Photobiol. Sci., 7, 1463-1468 (2008).
(PDF)
759. Carlos Aleman, Oscar Betran, Jordi Casanovas, K. N. Houk, and H.
K. Hall, Jr: "Thermodynamic Control of the Polymerizability of Five-,
Six-, and Seven-Membered Lactones," J. Org. Chem., 74, 6237-6244
(2009).
(PDF)
760. Amy E. Hayden, Jason DeChancie, Alexander H. George, Mingji Dai,
Maolin Yu, Samuel J. Danishefsky, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of the
Regioselectivities in the Diels-Alder Reactions of Vinylindenes with
1,4-Quinone Monokteal and Acrolein Dienophiles," J. Org. Chem., 74,
6770-6776 (2009).
(PDF)
761. Nihan Celebi Olcum, Viktorya Aviyente, and K. N. Houk:
"Mechanism and Selectivity of Cinchona Alkaloid Catalyzed [1,3]-Shifts of Allylic
Trichloroacetimidates," J. Org. Chem., 74, 6944-6952 (2009).
(PDF)
762. Steven E. Wheeler, Antonio Moran, Susan N. Pieniazek, and K. N.
Houk: "Accurate Reaction Enthalpies and Sources of Error in DFT
Thermochemistry for Aldol, Mannich, and alpha-Aminoxylation
Reactions," J. Phys. Chem. A, 113 10376-10384 (2009).
(PDF)
763. Matthew I. Jackson, Tae H. Han, Laura Serbulea, Andrew Dutton,
Eleonora Ford, Katrina M. Miranda, K. N. Houk, David A. Wink, and Jon M.
Fukuto: "Kinetic Feasibility of Nitroxyl Reduction by Physiological
Reductants and Biological Implications," Free Radical Biology &
Medicine,
47, 1130-1139 (2009).
(PDF)
764. Steven E. Wheeler and K. N. Houk: "Through-Space Effects of
Substituents Dominate Molecular Electrostatic Potentials of Substituted
Arenes," J. Chem. Theory Comput., 5, 2301-2312 (2009).
(PDF)
765. Xin Chen, Colleen K. Regan, Stephen L. Craig, Elizabeth H.
Krenske, K. N. Houk, William L. Jorgensen, and John I. Brauman:
"Steric and Solvation Effects in Ionic SN2 Reactions," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 131, 16162-16170 (2009).
(PDF)
766. Silvia Osuna and K. N. Houk: "Cycloaddition Reactions of
Butadiene and 1,3-Dipoles to Curved Arenes, Fullerenes, and Nanotubes:
Theoretical Evaluation of the Role of Distortion Energies on Activation
Barriers," Chem. Eur. J., 15, 13219-13231 (2009).
(PDF)
767. Paul H.-Y. Cheong, Robert S. Paton, Sarah M. Bronner, G-Yoon J.
Im, Neil K. Garg, and K. N. Houk: "Indolyne and Aryne Distortions and
Nucleophilic Regioselectivities," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 1267-1269
(2010).
(PDF)
768. Roger C. Helgeson, Amy E. Hayden, and K. N. Houk: "Controlled
Gating of a Hemicarcerand by Disulfide-Dithiol Interchange," J. Org.
Chem., 75, 570-575 (2010).
(PDF)
769. Hao Wang, Karol Michalak, Michal Michalak, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses,
J. Wicha, and K. N. Houk: "Steric Control of alpha- and
beta-Alkylation of Azulenone Intermediates in a Guanacastepene A
Synthesis," J. Org. Chem., 75, 762-766 (2010).
(PDF)
770. Amy E. Hayden, Robert S. Paton, Jochen Berker, Yee Hwee Lim, K. C.
Nicolaou, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Regioselectivity of Diels-Alder
Reactions for the Synthesis of Bisanthraquinone Antibiotic
BE-43472B," J. Org. Chem., 75, 922-928 (2010).
(PDF)
771. Jacqueline C. Hargis, Henry F. Schaeffer III, K. N. Houk, and
Steven E. Wheeler: "Noncovalent Interactions of a Benzo[a]pyrene Diol
Epoxide with DNA Base Pairs: Insight into the Formation of Adducts of
(+)-BaP De-2 with DNA," J. Phys. Chem. A, 114, 2038-2044 (2010).
(PDF)
772. Elizabeth H. Krenske, K. N. Houk, and Michael Harmata:
"Origin of Stereoselectivity in the (4 + 3) Cycloadditions of Chiral Alkoxy
Siloxyallyl Cations with Furan," Org. Lett., 12, 444-447 (2010).
(PDF)
773. Elizabeth H. Krenske, William A. Pryor, and K. N. Houk:
"Mechanism of SH2 Reactions of Disulfides: Frontside vs. Backside,
Stepwise vs. Concerted," J. Org. Chem., 74, 5356-5360 (2009).
(PDF)
774. Steven E. Wheeler and K. N. Houk: "Integration Grid Errors
for Meta-GGA-Predicted Reaction Energies: Origin of Grid Errors for the M06
Suite of Functionals," J. Chem. Theory Comput., 6, 395-404 (2010).
(PDF)
775. Peng Liu, Patrick McCarren, Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, Timothy F.
Jamison, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Regioselectivity and
Alkene-Directing Effects in Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Couplings of
Alkynes and Aldehydes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 2050-2057 (2010).
(PDF)
776. Franziska Schoenebeck and K. N. Houk: ""Ligand-Controlled
Regioselectivity in Palladium-Catalyzed Cross Coupling Reactions," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 2496-2497 (2010).
(PDF)
777. Lai Xu, Charles E. Doubleday, and K. N. Houk: "Dynamics of
1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions: Energy Partitioning of Reactants and
Quantitation of Synchronicity," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 3029-3027
(2010).
(PDF)
778. Steven E. Wheeler, Anne J. McNeil, Peter Muller, Timothy M.
Swager, and K. N. Houk: "Probing Substituent Effects in Aryl-Aryl
Interactions Using Stereoselective Diels-Alder Cycloadditions," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 132, 3304-3311 (2010).
(PDF)
779. Serf Gul, Franziska Schoenebeck, Viktorya Aviyente, and K. N.
Houk: "Computational Study of Factors Controlling the Boat and Chair
Transition States of Ireland-Claisen Rearrangements," J. Org. Chem.,
75, 2115-2118 (2010).
(PDF)
780. Joann M. Um, Osvaldo Gutierrez, Franziska Schoenebeck, K. N. Houk,
and David W. C. MacMillan: "Nature of Intermediates in Organo-SOMO
Catalysis of alpha-Arylation of Aldehydes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132,
6001-6005 (2010).
(PDF)
781. Gavin O. Jones, Peng Liu, K. N. Houk, and Stephen L. Buchwald:
"Computational Explorations of Mechanisms and Ligand-Directed
Selectivities of Copper-Catalyzed Ullmann-Type Reactions," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 132, 6205-6213 (2010).
(PDF)
782. Christophe Allemann, Joann M. Um, and K. N. Houk:
"Computational Investigations of the Stereoselectivities of Proline-Related Catalysts for
Aldol Reactions," J. Mol. Cat. A, 324, 31-38 (2010).
(PDF)
783. Hsiang-Yu Chen, Jianhui Hou, Amy E. Hayden, Hoichang Yang, K. N.
Houk, and Yang Yang: "Silicon Atom Substitution Enhances Interchain
Packing in a Thiophene-Based Polymer System," Adv. Mater., 22,
371-375 (2010).
(PDF)
784. Daniel J. St. Cyr, Marie S. T. Morin, Francine Belanger-Gariepy,
Bruce A. Arndtsen, Elizabeth H. Krenske, and K. N. Houk:
"Phospha-Munchnones: Electronic Structures and 1,3-Dipolar
Cycloadditions," J. Org. Chem., 75, 4261-4273 (2010).
(PDF)
785. Robert S. Paton, Joel L. Mackey, Woo Han Kim, Jun Hee Lee, Samuel
J. Danishefsky, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Stereoselectivity in the
trans Diels-Alder Paradigm," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 9335-9340
(2010).
(PDF)
786. Joann M. Um, Naeem S. Kaka, David M. Hodgson, and K. N. Houk:
"Transition States and Origins of 1,4-Asymmetric Induction in
Alkylations of 2,2,6-Trialkylpiperidine Enamines," Chem. Eur. J., 16,
6310-6316 (2010).
(PDF)
787. Mariam Aghajan, Nao Jonai, Karin Flick, Feu Fu. Manlin Luo, Xiaolu
Cai, Ikram Ouni, Nathan Pierce, Xiaobo Tang, Brett Lomenick, Robert
Damoiseaux, Rui Hao, Pierre M. del Moral, Rati Verman, Ying Li, Cheng Li,
Kendall N. Houk, Michael E. Jung, Ning Zheng, Lan Huang, Raymond J.
Deshaies, Peter Kaiser, and Jing Huang: "Chemical Genetics Screen for
Enhancers of Rapamycin Identified a Specific Inhibitor of an SCF Family E3
Ubiquitin Ligase," Nature Biotech., 28, 738-742 (2010).
(PDF)
788. Peng Liu, Lauren E. Sirois, Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, Zhi-Xiang Yu,
Ingo V. Hartung, Heiko Rieck, Paul A. Wender, and K. N. Houk:
"Electronic and Steric Control of Regioselectivities in Rh(I)-Catalyzed (5+2)
Cycloadditions: Experiment and Theory," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132,
10127-10135 (2010).
(PDF)
789. Justin B. Siegel, Alexandre Zanghellini, Helena M. Lovick, Gert
Kiss, Abigail R. Lambert, Jennifer L. St. Clair, Jasmine L. Gallaher,
Donald Hilvert, Michael H. Gelb, Barry L. Stoddard, Kendall N. Houk,
Forrest E. Michael, and David Baker: "Computational Design of an
Enzyme Catalyst for a Stereoselective Bimolecular Diels-Alder
Reaction," Science, 329, 309-313 (2010).
(PDF)
790. Kendall N. Houk: "Rolf Huisgen's Profound Adventures in
Chemistry," Helv. Chim. Acta, 93, 1241-1260 (2010).
(PDF)
791. Dipti N. Barman, Peng Liu, Kendall N. Houk, and Kenneth M.
Nicholas: "On the Mechanism of Ligand-Assisted, Copper-Catalyzed
Benzylic Amination by Chloramine-T," Organometallics, 29, 3404-3412
(2010).
(PDF)
792. Steven E. Wheeler and K. N. Houk: "Are Anion/pi Interactions
Actually a Case of Simple Charge-Dipole Interactions?" J. Phys. Chem.
A, 114, 8658-8664 (2010).
(PDF)
793. Elizabeth H. Krenske, K. N. Houk, Andrew G. Lohse, Jennifer E.
Antoline, and Richard P. Hsung: "Stereoselectivity in Oxyallyl-Furan
(4 + 3) Cycloadditions: Control of Intermediate Conformations and Dispersive
Stabilisation in Cycloadditions Involving Oxazolidinone Auxiliaries,"
Chem. Science, 1, 387-392 (2010).
(PDF)
794. Burcu Dedeoglu, Saron Catak, K. N. Houk, and Viktorya Aviyente:
"A Theoretical Study of the Mechanism of the Desymmetrization of
Cyclic meso-Anhydrides by Chiral Amino Alcohols," ChemCatChem, 2,
1122-1129 (2010).
(PDF)
795. Gert Kiss, Daniela Rothlisberger, David Baker, and K. N. Houk:
"Evaluation and Ranking of Enzyme Designs," Protein Science, 19,
1760-1773 (2010).
(PDF)
796. Michael E. Jung, Ting-Hu Zhang, Rebecca M. Lui, Osvaldo Gutierrez,
and K. N. Houk: "Synthesis of a trans,syn,trans-Dodecahydrophenanthrene
via a Bicyclic Transannular Diels-Alder Reaction: Intermediate for the
Synthesis of Fusidic Acid," J. Org. Chem., 75, 6933-6940
(2010).
(PDF)
797. Le-Ping Liu, Deepika Malhotra, Robert S. Paton, K. N. Houk, and
Gerald B. Hammond: "The [4+2], not [2+2], Mechanism Occurs in the
Gold Catalyzed Intramolecular Oxygen Transfer Reaction of
2-Alkynyl-1,5-Diketones," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 49, 9132-9135
(2010).
(PDF)
798. Andrew G. Lohse, Elizabeth H. Krenske, Jennifer E. Antoline, K. N.
Houk, and Richard P. Hsung: "Regioselectivities of (4+3)
Cycloadditions between Furans and Oxazolidinone-Substitute
Oxyallyls," Org. Lett., 12, 5506-5509 (2010).
(PDF)
799. Elizabeth H. Krenske, K. N. Houk, Daniel Lim, Sarah E. Wengryniuk,
and Don M. Coltart: "Origins of Stereoselectivity in the
alpha-Alkylation of Chiral-Hydrazones," J. Org. Chem., 75, 8578-8584
(2010).
(PDF)
800. Yang Cao and K. N. Houk: "Computational Assessment of
1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions to Graphene," J. Mater. Chem., 21,
1503-1508 (2011).
(PDF)
801. G-Yoon J. Im, Sarah M. Bronner, Adam E. Goetz, Robert S. Paton,
Paul H.-Y. Cheong, K. N. Houk, and Neil Garg: "Indolyne Experimental
and Computational Studies: Synthetic Applications and Origins of
Selectivities of Nucleophilic Additions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132,
17933-17944 (2010).
(PDF)
802. Yu Lan and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism and Stereoselectivity of
the Stepwise 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions between a Thiocarbonyl Ylide and
Electron-Deficient Dipolarophiles: A Computational Investigation,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 17921-17927 (2010).
(PDF)
803. Dora Toledo Warshaviak, Laura Serbulea, K. N. Houk, and Wayne L.
Hubbell: "Conformational Analysis of a Nitroxide Side Chain in an
alpha-Helix with Density Functional Theory," J. Phys. Chem. B, 115,
397-405 (2011).
(PDF)
804. Jovan M. Tadic, Lai Xu, K. N. Houk, and Geert K. Moortgat:
"Photooxidation of n-Octanal in Air: Experimental and Theoretical
Study," J. Org. Chem., 76, 1614-1620 (2011).
(PDF)
805. Robert S. Paton, Sarah E. Steinhardt, Christopher D. Vanderwal,
and K. N. Houk: "Unraveling the Mechanism of Cascade Reactions of
Zincke Aldehydes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 3895-3905 (2011).
(PDF)
806. Moonhee Kim, J. Nathan Hohman, Yang Cao, Kendall N. Houk, Hong Ma,
Alex K.-Y. Jen, and Paul S. Weiss: "Creating Favorable Geometries for
Directing Organic Photoreactions in Alkanethiolate Monolayers,"
Science, 331, 1312-1315 (2011).
(PDF)
807. Peng Liu, Michael J. Krische, and Kendall N. Houk: "Mechanism
and Origins of Regio- and Enantioselectivities in RhI-Catalyzed Hydrogenative
Couplings of 1,3-Diynes and Activated Carbonyl Partners: Intervention of
a Cumulene Intermediate," Chem. Eur. J., 17, 4021-4029 (2011).
(PDF)
808. Elizabeth H. Krenske, K. N. Houk, Andrew B. Holmes, and John
Thompson: "Entropy versus Tether Strain Effects on Rates of
Intramolecular 1,3-dipolar Cycloadditions of N-alkenylnitrones," Tet.
Lett., 52, 2181-2184 (2011).
(PDF)
809. Peng Liu and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Studes of
Regioselectivity of Ni- and Rh-Catalyzed C-C Bond Forming Reactions with Unsymmetrical
Alkynes," Inorg. Chim. Acta, 369, 2-14 (2011).
(PDF)
810. Nihan Celebi-Olcum, Ben W. Boal, Alexander D. Huters, Neil K.
Garg, and K. N. Houk: "Why Do Some Fischer Indolizations Fail?"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 5752-5755 (2011).
(PDF)
811. Kyle W. Quasdorf, Aurora Antoft-Finch, Peng Liu, Amanda L.
Silberstein, Anna Komaromi, Tom Blackburn, Stephen D. Ramgren, K. N. Houk,
Victor Snieckus, and Neil K. Garg: "Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling of
Aryl Carbamates and Sulfamates: Experimental and Comutational
Studies," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 6352-6363 (2011).
(PDF)
812. Peng Liu, John Montgomery, and K. N. Houk: "Ligand Steric
Contours to Understand the Effects of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands on
the Reversal of Regioselectivity in Ni-Catalyzed Reductive Couplings of
Alkynes and Aldehydes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 6956-6959 (2011).
(PDF)
813. Hao Wang, K. N. Houk, Damian A. Allen, and Michael E. Jung:
"Computational Elucidation of the Origins of Reactivity and
Selectivity in Non-Aldol Aldol Rearrangements of Cyclic Epoxides,"
Org. Lett., 13, 3238-3241 (2011).
(PDF)
814. Yu Lan and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism of the Palladium-Catalyzed
Addition of Arylboronic Acids to Enones: A Computational Study," J.
Org. Chem., 76, 4905-4909 (2011).
(PDF)
815. Osvaldo Gutierrez, Robert G. Iafe, and K. N. Houk: "Origin of
Stereoselectivity in the Imidazolidinone-Catalyzed Reductions of Cyclic
alpha,beta-Unsaturated Ketones," Org. Lett., 11, 4298-4301 (2009).
(PDF)
816. Jianwu Wang, Prakashan Korambath, Seonah Kim, Scott Johnson,
Kejian Jin, Daniel Crawl, Ilkay Altintas, Shave Smallen, Bill Labate, and
Kendall N. Houk: "Facilitating e-Science Discovery Using Scientific
Workflows on the Grid," Guide to e-Science: Computer Communications
and Networks, Part 4, 353-382 (2011).
(PDF)
817. Noga Gilboa, Hao Wang, Kendall N. Houk, and Ilan Marek:
"Axial Preferences in Allylations via the Zimmerman-Traxler
Transition State," Chem. Eur. J., 17, 8000-8004 (2011).
(PDF)
818. Elizabeth H. Krenske, Russell C. Petter, Zhendong Zhu, and K. N.
Houk: "Transition States and Energetics of Nucleophilic Additions of
Thiols to Subtituted alpha,beta-Unsaturated Ketones: Substituent Effects
Involve Enone Stabilization, Product Branching, and Solvation," J.
Org. Chem., 76, 5074-5081 (2011).
(PDF)
819. Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, Claude Y. Legault, Joann M. Um, Nihan
Celebi-Olcum, and K. N. Houk: "Quantum Mechanical Investigations of
Organocatalysis: Mechanisms, Reactivities and Selectivities," Chem.
Rev., 111, 5042-5137 (2011).
(PDF)
820. Le-Ping Liu, Deepika Malhotra, Zhuang Jin, Robert S. Paton, K. N.
Houk, and Gerald B. Hammond: "Gold-Catalyzed, Intramolecular,
Oxygen-Transfer Reactions of 2-Alkynyl-1,5-diketones or
2-Alkynyl-5-ketoesters: Scope, Expansion, and Mechanistic Investigations
on a New [4+2] Cycloaddition," Chem. Eur. J., 17, 10690-10699 (2011).
(PDF)
821. Robert S. Paton, Seonah Kim, Audrey G. Ross, Samuel J.
Danishefsky, and K. N. Houk: "Experimental Diels-Alder Reactivities
of Cycloalkenones and Cyclic Dienes Explained Through Transition-State
Distortion Energies," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 10366-10368 (2011).
(PDF)
822. Nihan Celebi-Olcum, Yu-hong Lam, Edward Richmond, Kenneth B. Ling,
Andrew D. Smith, and K. N. Houk: "Pericyclic Cascade with Chirality
Transfer: Reaction Pathway and Origin of Enantioselectivity of the
Hetero-Claisen Approach to Oxindoles," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50,
11478-11482 (2011).
(PDF)
823. Joann M. Um, Daniel A. DiRocco, Elizabeth L. Noey, Tomislav Rovis,
and K. N. Houk: "Quantum Mechanical Investigation of the Effect of
Catalyst Fluorination in the Intermolecular Asymmetric Stetter
Reaction," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 11249-11254 (2011).
(PDF)
824. Jennifer E. Antoline, Elizabeth H. Krenske, Andrew G. Lohse, K. N.
Houk, and Richard P. Hsung: "Stereoselectivities and
Regioselectivities of (4+3) Cycloadditions Between Allenamide-Derived Chiral
Oxazolidinone-Stabilized Oxyallyls and Furans: Experiment and
Theory," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 14443-14451 (2011).
(PDF)
825. Lai Xu, Charles E. Doubleday, and K. N. Houk: "Dynamics of
Carbene Cycloadditions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 17848-17854 (2011).
(PDF)
826. Yu Lan, Lufeng Zou, Yang Cao, and K. N. Houk: "Computational
Methods to Calculate Accurate Activation and Reaction Energies of
1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition of 24 1,3-Dipoles," J. Phys. Chem. A, 115,
13906-13920 (2011).
(PDF)
827. Jason E. Hein, Jordi Bures, Yu-hong Lam, Matthew Hughes, K. N.
Houk, Alan Armstrong, and Donna G. Blackmond: "Enamine Carboxylates
as Stereodetermining Intermediates in Prolinate Catalysis," Org.
Lett., 13, 5644-5647 (2011).
(PDF)
828. Yu Lan, Steven E. Wheeler, and K. N. Houk: "Extraordinary
Difference in Reactivity of Ozone (OOO) and Sulfur Dioxide (OSO): A
Theoretical Study," J. Chem. Theory Comput., 7, 2104-2111 (2011).
(PDF)
829. Elizabeth L. Noey, Xiang Wang, and K. N. Houk: "Selective
Gold(I)-Catalyzed Formation of Tetracyclic Indolines: A Single Transition
Structure and Bifurcations Lead to Multiple Products," J. Org. Chem.,
76, 3477-3483 (2011).
(PDF)
830. Olga Khersonsky, Daniela Rothlisberger, Andrew M. Wollacott, Paul
Murphy, Orly Dym, Shira Albeck, Gert Kiss, K. N. Houk, David Baker, and
Dan S. Tawfik: "Optimization of the In-Silico-Designed Kemp Eliminase
KE70 by Computational Design and Directed Evolution," J. Mol. Biol.,
407, 391-412 (2011).
(PDF)
831. Gregory Kuzmanich, Fabian Spanig, Chao-Kuan Tsai, Joann M. Um,
Ryan M. Hoekstra, K. N. Houk, Dirk, M. Guldi, and Miguel Garcia-Garibay:
"Oxyallyl Exposed: An Open-Shell Singlet with Picosecond Lifetimes
in Solution but Persistent in Crystals of a Cyclobutanedione
Precursor," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 2342-2345 (2011).
(PDF)
832. Fang Liu, Hao Wang, and K. N. Houk: "Gated Container
Molecules," Science China Chemistry, 54, 2038-2044 (2011).
(PDF)
833. Elizabeth L. Noey, Yingdong Luo, Liming Zhang, and K. N. Houk:
"Mechanism of Gold(I)-Catalyzed Rearrangements of Acetylenic
Amine-N-Oxides: Computational Investigations Lead to a New Mechanism
Confirmed by Experiment," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 1078-1084 (2012).
(PDF)
834. Yu Lan, Rick L. Danheiser, and K. N. Houk: "Why Nature
Eschews the Concerted [2 + 2 + 2] Cycloaddition of a Nonconjugated
Cyanodiyne. Computational Study of a Pyridine Synthesis Involving an
Ene-Diels-Alder-Bimolecular Hydrogen Transfer Mechanism," J. Org.
Chem., 77, 1533-1538 (2012).
(PDF)
835. Elizabeth H. Krenske, Edwin C. Davison, Ian T. Forbes, Jacqueline
A. Warner, Adrian L. Smith, Andrew B. Holmes, and K. N. Houk:
"Reverse Cope Elimination of Hydroxylamines and Alkenes of Alkynes: Theoretical
Investigation of Tether Length and Substituent Effects," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 134, 2434-2441 (2012).
(PDF)
836. Kinya Hotta, Xi Chen, Robert S. Paton, Atsushi Minami, Hao Li,
Kunchithapadam Swaminathan, Irimpan I. Mathews, Kenji Watanabe, Hideaki
Oikawa, Kendall N. Houk, and Chu-Young Kim: "Enzymatic Catalysis of
Anti-Baldwin Ring Closure in Polyether Biosynthesis," Nature, 483,
355-359 (2012).
(PDF)
837. Heidi K. Privett, Gert Kiss, Toni M. Lee, Rebecca Blomberg,
Roberto A. Chica, Leonard M. Thomas, Donald Hilvert, Kendall N. Houk, and
Stephen L. Mayo: "Iterative Approach to Computational Enzyme
Design," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 109, 3790-3795 (2012).
(PDF)
838. Peng Liu, Xiufang Xu, Xiaofei Dong, Benjamin K. Keitz, Myles B.
Herbert, Robert H. Grubbs, and K. N. Houk: "Z-Selectivity in Olefin
Metathesis with Chelated Ru Catalysts: Computational Studies of Mechanism
and Selectivity," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 1464-1467 (2012).
(PDF)
839. Andrew R. Bogdan, Steven V. Jerome, K. N. Houk, and Keith James:
"Strained Cyclophane Macrocycles: Impact of Progressive Ring Size
Reduction on Synthesis and Structure," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134,
2127-2138 (2012).
(PDF)
840. Omid Khakshoor, Steven E. Wheeler, K. N. Houk, and Eric T. Kool:
"Measurement and Theory of Hydrogen Bonding Contribution to Isosteric
DNA Base Pairs," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 3154-3163 (2012).
(PDF)
841. Yu-Hong Lam, K. N. Houk, Ulf Scheffler, and Rainer Mahrwald:
"Stereoselectivities of Histidine-Catalyzed Asymmetric Aldol
Additions and Contrasts with Proline Catalysis: A Quantum Mechanical
Analysis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 6286-6295 (2012).
(PDF)
842. Myles B. Herbert, Yu Lan, Benjamin Keith Keitz, Peng Liu, Koji
Endo, Michael W. Day, K. N. Houk, and Robert Howard Grubbs:
"Decomposition Pathways of Z-Selective Ruthenium Metathesis
Catalysts," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 7861-7866 (2012).
(PDF)
843. Yu Lan, Peng Liu, Stephen G. Newman, Mark Lautens, and K. N. Houk:
"Theoretical Study of Pd(0)-Catalyzed Carbohalogenation of Alkenes:
Mechanism and Origins of Reactivities and Selectivities in Alkyl Halide
Reductive Elimination from Pd(II) Species," Chem. Sci., 3, 1987-1995
(2012).
(PDF)
844. Carlos Aleman, Oscar Bertran, K. N. Houk, Anne Buyle Padias, and
Henry K. Hall: "Thermodynamic and Stereochemical Aspects of the
Polymerizability of Glycolide and Lactide," Theor. Chem. Acc., 131,
1133-1142 (2012).
(PDF)
845. Pankaj Jain, Hao Wang, Kendall N. Houk, and Jon C. Antilla:
"Bronsted Acid Catalyzed Asymmetric Propargylation of
Aldehydes," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51, 1391-1394 (2012).
(PDF)
846. Daniel A. DiRocco, Elizabeth L. Noey, K. N. Houk, and Tomislav
Rovis: "Catalytic Asymmetric Intermolecular Stetter Reactions of
Enolizable Aldehydes with Nitrostyrenes: Computational Study Provides
Insight into the Success of the Catalyst," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51,
2391-2394 (2012).
(PDF)
847. Adam E. Goetz, Sarah M. Bronner, Jordan D. Cisneros, Joshua M.
Melamed, Robert S. Paton, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg: "An
Efficient Computational Model to Predict the Synthetic Utility of Heterocyclic
Arynes," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51, 2758-2762 (2012).
(PDF)
848. Hung V. Pham, David B. C. Martin, Christopher D. Vanderwal, and K.
N. Houk: "The Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reaction of
Tryptamine-Derived Zincke Aldehydes Is a Stepwise Process," Chem. Sci., 3 1650-1655 (2012).
(PDF)
849. Qingquan Zhao, Yu-hong Lam, Mahboubeh Kheirabadi, Chongson Xu, K.
N. Houk, and Christian E. Schafmeister: "Hydrophobic Stubstituent
Effects on Proline Catalysis of Aldol Reactions in Water," J. Org.
Chem., 77, 4784-4792 (2012)
(PDF)
850. Chelsea G. Gordon, Joel L. Mackey, John C. Jewett, Ellen M.
Sletten, K. N. Houk, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi: "Reactivity of
Biarylazacyclooctynones in Copper-Free Click Chemistry," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 134, 9199-9208 (2012).
(PDF)
851. Elizabeth H. Krenske, Emma W. Perry, Steven V. Jerome, Thomas J.
Maimone, Phil S. Baran, and K. N. Houk: "Why a Proximity-Induced
Diels-Alder Reaction Is So Fast," Org. Lett., 14, 3016-3019 (2012).
(PDF)
852. C. Avery Sader and K. N. Houk: "A Theoretical Study of
Cyclohexyne Addition to Carbonyl-C alpha Bonds: Allowed and Forbidden
Electrocyclic and Nonpericyclic Ring-Openings of Strained
Cyclobutenes," J. Org. Chem., 77, 4939-4948 (2012).
(PDF)
853. Ryan J. Marcheschi, Han Li, Kechun Zhang, Elizabeth L. Noey,
Seonah Kim, Asha Chaubey, K. N. Houk, and James C. Liao: "A
Synthetic Recursive "+1" Pathway for Carbon Chain
Elongation," ACS Chem. Biol., 7, 689-697 (2012).
(PDF)
854. Elizabeth A. Felnagle, Asha Chaubey, Elizabeth L. Noey, Kendall N.
Houk, and James C. Liao: "Engineering Synthetic Recursive Pathways
to Generate Non-Natural Small Molecules," Nature Chem. Biol., 8,
518-526 (2012).
(PDF)
855. Geoffrey R. Nosrati and K. N. Houk: "SABER: A Computational
Method for Identifying Active Sides for New Reactions," Protein
Science, 21, 697-706 (2012).
(PDF)
856. Ana Bellomo, Nihan Celebi-Olcum, Xiaodong Bu, Nelo Rivera, Rebecca
T. Ruck, Christopher J. Welch, Kendall N. Houk, and Spencer D. Dreher:
"Rapid Catalyst Identification for the Synthesis of the Pyrimidinone
Core of HIV Integrase Inhibitors," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51,
6912-6915 (2012).
(PDF)
857. Xiufang Xu, Peng Liu, Adam Leser, Lauren E. Sirois, Paul A.
Wender, and K. N. Houk: "Ligand Effects on Rates and
Regioselectivities of Rh(I) Catalyzed (5+2) Cycloadditions: A Computational Study of
Cyclooctadiene and Dinaphthocyclooctatetraene as Ligands," J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 134, 11012-11025 (2012).
(PDF)
858. Peng Liu, Xing Yang, Vladimir B. Birman, and K. N. Houk:
"Origin of Enantioselectivity in Benzotetramisole-Catalyzed Dynamic
Kinetic Resolution of Azlactones," Org. Lett., 14, 3288-3291 (2012).
(PDF)
859. Elizabeth H. Krenske, Sesil Agopcan, Viktorya Aviyente, K. N.
Houk, Brian A. Johnson, and Andrew B. Holmes: "Causation in a
Cascade: The Origins of Selectivities in Intramolecular Nitrone
Cycloadditions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 12010-12015 (2012).
(PDF)
860. Martin J. Schnermann, Nicholas L. Untiedt, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses,
Kendall N. Houk, and Larry E. Overman: "Forming Tertiary
Organolithiums and Organocuprates from Nitrile Precursors and their Bimolecular Reactions
with Carbon Electrophiles to Form Quaternary Carbon Stereocenters,"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51, 9581-9586 (2012).
(PDF)
861. Xing Yang, Peng Liu, K. N. Houk, and Vladimir B. Birman:
"Manifestation of Felkin-Anh Control in Enantioselective Acyl
Transfer Catalysis: Kinetic Resolution of Carboxylic Acids," Angew.
Chem. Int. Ed., 51, 9638-9642 (2012).
(PDF)
862. Ramesh Giri, Peng Liu, Yu Lan, K. N. Houk, and Jin-Quan Yu:
"Understanding Reactivity and Stereoselectivity in
Palladium-Catalyzed Diastereoselective sp3 C-H Bond Activation: Intermediate Characterization
and Computational Studies," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 14118-14126
(2012).
(PDF)
863. Florian Richter, Rebecca Blomberg, Sagar D. Khare, Gert Kiss,
Alexandre P. Kuzin, Adam J. T. Smith, Jasmine Gallaher, Zbigniew
Pianowski, Roger C. Helgeson, Alexej Grjasnow, Rong Xiao, Jayarraman
Seetharaman, Min Su, Sergey Vorobiev, Scott Lew, Farhad Forouhar, Gregory
J. Kornhaber, John F. Hunt, Gaetano T. Montelione, Liang Tong, K. N. Houk,
Donald Hilvert, and David Baker: "Computational Design of Catalytic
Dyads and Oxyanion Holes for Ester Hydrolysis," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
134, 16197-19206 (2012).
(PDF)
864. Xing Yang, Valentina D. Bumbu, Peng Liu, Ximin Li, Hui Jiang, Eric
W. Uffman, Lei Guo, Wei Zhang, Xuntian Jiang, K. N. Houk, and Vladimir B.
Birman: "Catalytic, Enantioselective N-Acylation of Lactams and
Thiolactams Using Amidine-Based Catalysts," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134,
17605-17612 (2012).
(PDF)
865. Kersey Black, Peng Liu, Lai Xu, Charles Doubleday, and Kendall N.
Houk: "Inaugural Article: Dynamics, Transition States, and Timing
of Bond Formation in Diels-Alder Reactions," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
USA, 109, 12860-12865 (2012).
(PDF)
866. Hao Wang, Philipp Kohler, Larry E. Overman, and K. N. Houk:
"Origins of Stereoselectivities of Dihydroxylations of
cis-Bicyclo[3.3.0]octenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 16054-16058
(2012).
(PDF)
867. Yong Liang, Joel L. Mackey, Steven A. Lopez, Fang Liu, and K. N.
Houk: "Control and Design of Mutual Orthogonality in Bioorthogonal
Cycloadditions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 17904-17907 (2012).
(PDF)
868. Mahboubeh Kheirabadi, Nihan Celebi-Olcum, Matthew F. L. Parker,
Qingquan Zhao, Gert Kiss, K. N. Houk, and Christian E. Schafmeister:
"Spiroligozymes for Transesterifications: Design and Relationship of
Structure to Activity," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 18345-18353 (2012).
(PDF)
869. Gregg A. Barcan, Ashay Patel, K. N. Houk, and Ohyun Kwon: "A
Torquoselective 6pi Electrocyclization Approach to Reserpine
Alkaloids," Org. Lett., 14, 5388-5381 (2012).
(PDF)
870. Olga Khersonsky, Gert Kiss, Daniela Rothlisberger, Orly Dym, Shira
Albeck, Kendall N. Houk, David Baker, and Dan S. Tawfik: "Bridging
the Gaps in Design Methodologies by Evolutionary Optimization of the Stability
and Proficiency of Designed Kemp Eliminase KE59," Proc. Natl. Acad.
Sci. USA, 109, 10358-10363 (2012).
(PDF)
871. Yu-hong Lam, Kendall N. Houk, Janine Cossy, Domingo Gomez Pardo,
and Anne Cochi: "Fluorine as a Regiocontrol Element in the Ring
Opening of Bicyclic Aziridiniums," Helv. Chim. Acta, 95, 2265-2277
(2012).
(PDF)
872. Marinus A. Bigi, Peng Liu, Lufeng Zou, K. N. Houk, and M.
Christina White: "Cafestol to Tricalysiolide B and Oxidized
Analogues: Biosynthetic and Derivatization Studies Using Non-heme Iron Catalyst
Fe(PDP)," Synlett, 23, 2768-2772 (2012).
(PDF)
873. Ricardo A. Matute and K. N. Houk: "The Triplet Surface of
the Zimmerman Di-pi-Methane Rearrangement of Dibenzobarrelene,"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51, 13097-13100 (2012).
(PDF)
874. Hiroshi Miyazaki, Myles B. Herbert, Peng Liu, Xiaofei Dong,
Xiufang Xu, Benjamin K. Keitz, Thay Ung, Garik Mkrtumya, K. N. Houk, and
Robert H. Grubbs: "Z-Selective Ethenolysis with a Ruthenium
Metathesis Catalyst: Experiment and Theory," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135,
5848-5858 (2013).
(PDF)
875. Hao Wang, Fang Liu, Roger C. Helgeson, Kendall N. Houk:
"Reversible Photochemically Gated Transformation of a Hermicarcerand
to a Carcerand," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 52, 655-659 (2012).
(PDF)
876. Sarah M. Bronner, Joel L. Mackey, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg:
"Steric Effects Compete with Aryne Distortion to Control
Regioselectivities of Nucleophilic Additions to 3-Silylarynes," J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 13966-13969 (2012).
(PDF)
877. Geoffrey R. Nosrati and K. N. Houk: "Using Catalytic Atom
Maps to Predict the Catalytic Functions Present in Enzyme Active
Sites," Biochem., 51, 7321-7329 (2012).
(PDF)
878. Andrej Petric, Scott A. Johnson, Hung V. Pham, Ying Li, Simon Ceh,
Amalija Golobic, Eric D. Agdeppa, Gerald Timbol, Jie Liu, Gyochang Keum,
Nagichettiar Satyamurthy, Vladimir Kepe, Kendall N. Houk, and Jorge R.
Barrio: "Dicyanovinylnaphthalenes for Neuroimaging of Amyloids and
Relationships of Electronic Structures and Geometries to Binding
Affinities," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 109, 16492-16497 (2012).
Correction: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 110, 5269 (2013).
(PDF)
879. Arne Dieckmann and K. N. Houk: "Elucidation of Strong
Cooperative Effects Caused by Dispersion Interactions in a Recognition-Mediated
Diels-Alder Reaction," J. Chem. Theory Comput., 8, 5064-5071 (2012).
(PDF)
880. Huiliang Wang, Jianguo Mei, Peng Liu, Kristin Schmidt, Gonzalo
Jimenez-Oses, Silvia Osuna, Lei Fang, Christopher J. Tassone, Arjan Pieter
Zoombelt, Anatoliy N. Sokolov, Kendall N. Houk, Michael F. Toney, and
Zhenan Bao: "Scalable and Selective Dispersion of Semiconducting
Arc-Discharged Carbon Nanotubes by Dithiafulvalene/Thiophene Copolymers
for Thin Film Transistors," ACS Nano, 7, 2659-2668 (2013).
(PDF)
881. Hongkun Lin, Wenbo Pei, Hao Wang, Kendall N. Houk, and Isaac J.
Krauss: "Enantioselective Homocrotylboration of Aliphatic
Aldehydes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 82-85 (2013).
(PDF)
882. Xin Hong, Peng Liu, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism and Origins
of Ligand-Controlled Selectivities in [Ni(NHC)]-Catalyzed Intramolecular
(5+2) Cycloadditions and Homo-Ene Reactions: A Theoretical Study,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 1456-1462 (2013).
(PDF)
883. Arne Dieckmann, Martin Breugst, and K. N. Houk: "Zwitterions
and Unobserved Intermediates in Organocatalytic Diels-Alder Reactions of
Linear and Cross-Conjugated Trienamines," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135,
3237-3242 (2013).
(PDF)
884. Hao Wang, Pankaj Jain, Jon C. Antilla, and K. N. Houk:
"Origins of Stereoselectivities in Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed Allylborations
and Propargylations of Aldehydes," J. Org. Chem., 78, 1208-1215 (2013).
(PDF)
885. Steven A. Lopez, Morton E. Munk, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanisms
and Transition States of 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of Phenyl Azide with
Enamines: A Computational Analysis," J. Org. Chem., 78, 1576-1582
(2013). Correction: J. Org. Chem., 78, 5115-5115 (2013). (PDF)
886. Yunfei Du, Elizabeth H. Krenske, Jennifer E. Antoline, Andrew G.
Lohse, K. N. Houk, and Richard P. Hsung: "Control of
Regioselectivity and Stereoselectivity in (4+3) Cycloadditions of Chiral Oxyallyls with
Unsymmetrically Disubsituted Furans," J. Org. Chem., 78, 1753-1759 (2013).
(PDF)
887. Steven A. Lopez and K. N. Houk: "Alkene Distortion Energies
and Torsional Effects Control Reactivities and Stereoselectivities of Azide
Cycloadditions to Norbornene and Substituted Norbornenes," J. Org.
Chem., 78, 1778-1783 (2013).
(PDF)
888. Christopher J. Rosenker, Elizabeth H. Krenske, K. N. Houk, and
Peter Wipf: "Influence of Base and Structure in the Reversible
Covalent Conjugate Addition of Thiol to Polycyclic Enone Scaffolds,"
Org. Lett., 15, 1076-1079 (2013).
(PDF)
889. Elizabeth H. Krenske and K. N. Houk: "Aromatic Interactions
as Control Elements in Stereoselective Organic Reactions," Acc. Chem.
Res., 46, 979-989 (2013).
(PDF)
890. Gert Kiss, Vijay S. Pande, and K. N. Houk: "Molecular
Dynamics Simulations for the Ranking, Evaluation, and Refinement of Computationally
Designed Proteins," Methods in Enzymology, 523, 145-170 (2013).
(PDF)
891. Sinisa Bjelic, Lucas G. Nivon, Nihan Celebi-Olcum, Gert Kiss,
Carolyn F. Rosewall, Helena M. Lovick, Erica L. Ingalls, Jasmine Lynn
Gallaher, Jayaraman Seetharaman, Scott Lew, Gaetano Thomas Montelione,
John Francis Hunt, Forrest Edwin Michael, K. N. Houk, and David Baker:
"Computational Design of Enone-Binding Proteins with Catalytic
Activity for the Morita-Baylis-Hillman Reaction," ACS Chem. Biol., 8
749-757 (2013).
(PDF)
892. Elizabeth H. Krenske, Shuzhong He, Jian Huang, Yunfei Du, K. N.
Houk, and Richard P. Hsung: "Intramolecular Oxyallyl-Carbonyl (3 +
2) Cycloadditions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 5242-5245 (2013).
(PDF)
893. Ashay Patel, Gregg A. Barcan, Ohyun Kwon, and K. N. Houk:
"Origins of 1,6-Stereoinduction in Torquoselective 6 pi
Electrocyclizations," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 4878-4883 (2013).
(PDF)
894. Yvonne Schmidt, Jonathan K. Lam, Hung V. Pham, K. N. Houk, and
Christopher D. Vanderwal: "Studies on the Himbert Intramolecular
Arene/Allene Diels-Alder Cycloaddition. Mechanistic Studies and Expansion
of Scope to All-Carbon Tethers," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 7339-7348
(2013).
(PDF)
895. Silvia Osuna, Seonah Kim, Guillaume Bollot, and Kendall N. Houk:
"Aromatic Claisen Rearrangements of O-Prenylated Tyrosine and Model
Prenyl Aryl Ethers: Computational Study of the Role of Water on Acceleration of
Claisen Rearrangements," Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2823-2831 (2013).
(PDF)
896. Xin Hong, Barry M. Trost, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism and
Origins of Selectivity in Ru(II)-Catalyzed Intramolecular (5+2) Cycloadditions and
Ene Reactions of Vinylcyclopropanes and Alkynes from Density Functional
Theory," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 6588-6600 (2013).
(PDF)
897. Lufeng Zou, Robert S. Paton, Albert Eschenmoser, Timothy R.
Newhouse, Phil S. Baran, and K. N. Houk: "Enhanced Reactivity in
Dioxirane C-H Oxidations via Strain Release: A Computational and
Experimental Study," J. Org. Chem., 78, 4037-4048 (2013).
(PDF)
898. Tom Mejuch, Noga Gilboa, Eric Gayon, Hao Wang, K. N. Houk, and
Ilan Marek: "Axial Preferences in Allylation Reactions via the
Zimmerman-Traxler Transition State," Acc. Chem. Res., 46, 1659-1669
(2013).
(PDF)
899. Shudan Bian, Amy M. Scott, Yang Cao, Yong Liang, Silvia Osuna, K.
N. Houk, and Adam B. Braunschweig: "Covalently Patterned Graphene
Surfaces by a Force Accelerated Diels-Alder Reaction," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 135, 9240-9243 (2013).
(PDF)
900. Gert Kiss, Nihan Celebi-Olcum, Rocco Moretti, David Baker, and K.
N. Houk: "Computational Enzyme Design," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.,
52, 5700-5725 (2013).
(PDF)
901. Xiufang Xu, Peng Liu, Xing-Zhong Shu, Weiping Tang, and K. N.
Houk: "Rh-Catalyzed (5+2) Cycloadditions of 3-Acyloxy-1,4-enynes and
Alkynes: Computational Study of Mechanism, Reactivity, and
Regioselectivity," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 9271-9274 (2013).
(PDF)
902. Changxia Yuan, Yong Liang, Taylor Hernandez, Adrian Berriochoa,
Kendall N. Houk, and Dionicio Siegel: "Metal-Free Oxidation of
Aromatic Carbon-Hydrogen Bonds Through a Reverse-Reound Mechanism,"
Nature, 499, 192-196 (2013).
(PDF)
903. Natalie C. James, Joann M. Um, Anne B. Padias, H. K. Hall Jr., and
K. N. Houk: "Computational Investigation of the Competition Between
the Concerted Diels-Alder Reaction and Formation of Diradicals in Reactions of
Acrylonitrile with Nonpolar Dienes," J. Org. Chem., 78, 6582- 6592
(2013).
(PDF)
904. Arne Dieckmann and K. N. Houk: "Analysis of Supramolecular
Complex Energetics in Artifical Replicators," Chem. Sci., 4,
3591-3600 (2013).
(PDF)
905. Xue Gao, Wei Jiang, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Moon Seok Choi, Kendall
N. Houk, Yi Tang, and Christopher T. Walsh: "An Iterative, Bimodular
Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase that Converts Anthranilate and Tryptophan
into Tetracyclic Asperlicins," Chem. & Biol., 20, 870-878 (2013).
(PDF)
906. David N. Kamber, Lidia A. Nazarova, Yong Liang, Steven A. Lopez,
David M. Patterson, Hui-Wen Shih, K. N. Houk, and Jennifer A. Prescher:
"Isomeric Cyclopropenes Exhibit Unique Bioorthogonal
Reactivities," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 13680-13683 (2013).
(PDF)
907. Caroline Souris, Frederic Frebault, Ashay Patel, David Audisio, K.
N. Houk, and Nuno Maulide: "Stereoselective Synthesis of
Dienyl-Carboxylate Building Blocks: Formal Synthesis of Inthomycin
C," Org. Lett. 15, 3242-3245 (2013).
(PDF)
908. Fang Liu, Robert S. Paton, Seonah Kim, Yong Liang, and K. N. Houk:
"Diels-Alder Reactivities of Strained and Unstrained Cycloalkenes
with Normal and Inverse-Electron-Dmand- Dienes: Activation Barriers and
Distortion/Interaction Analysis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 15642-15649
(2013).
(PDF)
909. Jeffrey C. Holder, Lufeng Zou, Alexander N. Marziale, Peng Liu, Yu
Lan, Michele Gatti, Kotaro Kikushima, K. N. Houk, and Brian M. Stoltz:
"Mechanism and Enantioselectivity in Palladium-Catalyzed Conjugate
Addition of Arylboronic Acids to beta-substituted Cyclic Enones: Insights
from Computation and Experiment," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 14996-15007
(2013).
(PDF)
910. Lei Fang, Peng Liu, Benjamin R. Sveinbjornsson, Sule
Atahan-Evrenk, Koen Vandewal, Silvia Osuna, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Supriya
Shrestha, Gaurav Giri, Peng Wei, Alberto Salleo, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Robert
H. Grubbs, K. N. Houk, and Zhenan Bao: "Confined Organization of
Fullerene Units Along High Polymer Chains," J. Mater. Chem. C, 1,
5747-5755 (2013).
(PDF)
911. Fang Liu, Hao Wang, and Kendall N. Houk: "Gating in
Host-Guest Chemistry," Current Organic Chemistry, 17, 1470-1480
(2013).
(PDF)
912. Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Anthony J. Brockway, Jared T. Shaw, and K.
N. Houk: "Mechanism of Alkoxy Groups Substitution by Grignard
Reagents on Aromatic Rings and Experimental Verification of Theoretical Predictions of
Anomalous Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 6633-6642 (2013).
(PDF)
913. Martin Breugst, Albert Eschenmoser, and K. N. Houk:
"Theoretical Exploration of the Mechanism of Riboflavin Formation from
6,7-Dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine: Nucleophilic Catalysis, Hydride Transfer,
Hydrogen Atom Transfer, or Nucleophilic Addition?," J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 135, 6658-6668 (2013).
(PDF)
914. Arne Dieckmann, Matthew T. Richers, Alena Yu Platonova, Chen
Zhang, Daniel Seidel, and K. N. Houk: "Metal-Free alpha-Amination of
Secondary Amines: Computational and Experimental Evidence for Azaquinone
Methide and Azomethine Ylide Intermediates," J. Org. Chem., 135,
4132-4144 (2013).
(PDF)
915. Marie S. T. Morin, Daniel J. St-Cyr, Bruce Alan Arndtsen,
Elizabeth H. Krenske, and K. N. Houk: "Modular Mesoionics:
Understanding and Controlling Regioselectivity in 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddtions of Munchnone
Derivatives," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 17349-17358 (2013).
(PDF)
916. Hao Wang and K. N. Houk: "&Torsional Control of Stereoselectivities in Electrophilic Additions and Cycloadditions to Alkenes," Chem. Sci., 5, 462-470 (2014).
(PDF)
917. Gregg M. Schwarzwalder, Sarah E. Steinhardt, Hung V. Pham, K. N. Houk, and Christopher D. Vanderwal: "Synthesis of the Tetracyclic Core of Exiguaquinol," Org. Lett., 15, 6014-6017 (2013).
(PDF)
918. Shiyu Zhang, Nihan Celebi-Olcun, Marie M. Melzer, K. N. Houk, and Timothy H. Warren: "Copper(I) Nitrosyls from Reacion of Copper (II) Thiolates with S-Nitrosothiols: Mechanism of NO Release from RSNOs at Cu," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 16746-16749 (2013).
(PDF)
919. Yang Cao, Silvia Osuna, Yong Liang, Robert C. Haddon, and K. N. Houk: "Diels-Alder Reactions of Graphene: Computational Predictions of Products and Sites of Reaction," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 17643-17649 (2013).
(PDF)
920. Arlene Russell and Kendall N. Houk: "Orville Chapman, 1932-2004, A Biographical Memoir," Natl. Acad. Sci. Biographical Memoirs (2013).
(PDF)
921. Xin Hong, Yong Liang, Allison K. Griffith, Tristan H. Lambert, and K. N. Houk: "Distortion-Accelerated Cycloadditions and Strain-Release-Promoted Cycloreversions in the Organocatalytic Carbonyl-Olefin Metathesis," Chem. Sci., 5, 471-475 (2014).
(PDF)
922. Yun-Fang Yang, Gui-Juan Cheng, Peng Liu, Dasheng Leow, Tian-Yu Sun, Ping Chen, Xinhao Zhang, Jin-Quan Yu, Yun-Dong Wu, and K. N. Houk: "Palladium-Catalyzed Meta-Selective C-H Bond Activation with a Nitrile-Containing Template: Computational Study on Mechanism and Origins of Selectivity," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 344-355 (2014).
(PDF)
923. Jonathan K. Lam, Hung V. Pham, K. N. Houk, and Christopher D. Vanderwal: "Computation and Experiment Reveal That the Ring-Rearrangement Metathesis of Himbert Cycloadducts Can Be Subject to Kinetic or Thermodynamic Control," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 17585-17594 (2013).
(PDF)
924. Elizabeth H. Krenske, Ashay Patel, and K. N. Houk: "Does Nature Click? Theoretical Prediction of an Enzyme-Catalyzed Transannular 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition in the Biosynthesis of Lycojaponicumins A and B," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 17638-17642 (2013).
(PDF)
925. Silvia Osuna, Alpay Dermenici, Scott J. Miller, and K. N. Houk: "The Roles of Counterion and Water in a Stereoselective Cysteine-Catalyzed Rauhut-Currier Reaction: A Challenge for Computational Chemistry," Chem. Eur. J., 19, 14245-14253 (2013).
(PDF)
926. Peter K. Dornan, Kevin G. M. Kou, K. N. Houk, and Vy M. Dong: "Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Allylic Sulfoxides by Rh-Catalyzed Hydrogenation: A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Mechanistic Study," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 291-298 (2014).
(PDF)
927. Matthew F. L. Parker, Silvia Osuna, Guillaume Bollot, Shivaiah Vaddypally, Michael J. Zdilla, K. N. Houk, and Christian E. Schafmeister: "Acceleration of an Aromatic Claisen Rearrangement via a Designed Spiroligozyme Catalyst that Mimics the Ketosteroid Isomerase Catalytic Dyad," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 3817-3827 (2014).
(PDF)
928. C. Avery Sader and K. N. Houk: "Distortion/Interaction Analysis of the Reactivities and Selectivities of Halo- and Methoxy-Substituted Carbenes with Alkenes," ARKIVOC, 2014 (iii), 170-183 (2014).
(PDF)
929. Hung V. Pham, Robert S. Paton, Audrey G. Ross, Samuel J. Danishefsky, and K. N. Houk: "Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reactions of Cycloalkenones: Stereoselectivity, Lewis Acid Acceleration, and Halogen Substituent Effects," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 2397-2403 (2014).
(PDF)
930. Denisse de Loera, Fang Liu, K. N. Houk, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay: "Aziridine Nitrogen Inversion by Dynamic NMR: Activation Parameters in a Fused Bicyclic Structure," J. Org. Chem., 78, 11623-11636 (2013).
(PDF)
931. Olivier Loiseleur, Jerome Cassayre, Dominique Leca, Francesca Gaggini, Susan N. Pieniazek, Jennifer A. R. Luft, and Kendall N. Houk: "Control of Hetero-Diels-Alder Stereoselectivity through Solvent Polarity and Bronsted or Lewis Acid Catalysis: Theory and Experiment," Synlett, 24, 2446-2450 (2013).
(PDF)
932. Martin Breugst, Rene Gree, and K. N. Houk: "Synergistic Effects between Lewis and Bronsted Acids: Application to the Prins Cyclization," J. Org. Chem., 78, 9892-9897 (2013).
(PDF)
933. Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Peng Liu, Ricardo A. Matute, and Kendall N. Houk: "Competition Between Concerted and Stepwise Dynamics in the Triplet Di-pi-Methane Rearrangement," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 53, 8664-8667 (2014).
(PDF)
934. Seoung-ryoung Choi, Martin Breugst, K. N. Houk, and C. Dale Poulter: "delta-Deuterium Isotope Effects as Probes for Transition State Structures of Isoprenoid Substrates," J. Org. Chem., 79, 3572-3580 (2014).
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935. Matthew T. Richers, Martin Breugst, Alena Yu Platonova, Anja Ullrich, Arne Dieckmann, K. N. Houk, and Daniel Seidel: "Redox-Neutral alpha-Oxygenation of Amines: Reaction Development and Elucidation of the Mechanism," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 6123-6135 (2014).
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936. Jun Zhu, Yong Liang, Lijia Wang, Zhong-Bo Zheng, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Remote Ester Groups Switch Selectivity: Diastereodivergent Synthesis of Tetracyclic Spiroindolines," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 6900-6903 (2014).
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937. Aaron G. Green, Peng Liu, Craig A. Merlic, and K. N. Houk: "Distortion/Interaction Analysis Reveals the Origins of Selectivities in Iridium-Catalyzed C-H Borylation of Substituted Arenes and 5-Membered Heterocycles," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 4575-4583 (2014).
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938. Huiliang Wang, Ghada I. Koleilat, Peng Liu, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Ying-Chih Lai, Michael Vosgueritchian, Ya Fang, Steve Park, Kendall N. Houk, and Zhenan Bao: "High-Yield-Sorting of Small-Diameter Carbon Nanotubes for Solar Cells and Transistors," ACS Nano, 8, 2609-2617 (2014).
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939. Jun Yang, Yong Liang, Jolita Seckute, K. N. Houk, Neal K. Devaraj: "Synthesis and Reactivity Comparisons of 1-Methyl-3-Substituted Cyclopropene Mini-tags for Tetrazine Bioorthogonal Reactions," Chem. Eur. J., 20, 3365-3375 (2014).
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940. Xin Hong, Yong Liang, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanisms and Origins of Switchable Chemoselectivity of Ni-Catalyzed C(aryl)-O and C(acyl)-O Activation of Aryl Esters with Phosphone Ligands," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 2017-2025 (2014).
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941. Gui-Juan Cheng, Yun-Fang Yang, Peng Liu, Ping Chen, Tian-Yu Sun, Gang Li, Xinhao Zhang, K. N. Houk, Jin-Quan Yu, and Yun-Dong Wu: "Role of N-Acyl Amino Acid Ligands in Pd(II)-Catalyzed Remote C-H Activation of Tethered Arenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 894-897 (2014).
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942. Michael E. Jung, Gloria S. Lee, Hung V. Pham, and K. N. Houk: "Palladium Hydride Promoted Stereoselective Isomerization of Unactivated Di(exo)methylenes to Endocyclic Dienes," Org. Lett., 16, 2382-2385 (2014).
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943. Jeffrey S. Cannon, Lufeng Zou, Peng Liu, Yu Lan, Daniel J. O’Leary, K. N. Houk, and Robert H. Grubbs: "Carboxylate-Assisted C(sp3)-H Activation in Olefin Metathesis-Relevant Ruthenium Complexes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 6733-6743 (2014).
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944. Gabrielle J. Dugas, Yu-hong Lam, K. N. Houk, and Isaac J. Krauss: "Boron Carboxylate Catalysis of Homoallylboration," J. Org. Chem., 79, 4277-4284 (2014).
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945. Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Silvia Osuna, Xue Gao, Michael R. Sawaya, Lynne Gilson, Steven J. Collier, Gjalt W. Huisman, Todd O. Yeates, Yi Tang, and K. N. Houk: "The Role of Distant Mutations and Allosteric Regulation on LovD Active Site Dynamics," Nature Chem. Biol., 10, 431-436 (2014).
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946. Anh T. Tran, Peng Liu, K. N. Houk, and Kenneth M. Nicholas: "Regioselectivity in the Cu(I)-Catalyzed [4+2]-Cycloaddition of 2-Nitrosopyridine with Unsymmetrical Dienes," J. Org. Chem., 79, 5617-5626 (2014).
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947. K. N. Houk: "Foreword: Applied Computational Chemistry," Chem. Soc. Rev., 43, 4905-4905 (2014).
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948. Claire L. Jarvis, Matthew T. Richers, Martin Breugst, K. N. Houk, and Daniel Seidel: "Redox-Neutral alpha-Sulfenylation of Secondary Amines: Ring-Fused N,S-Acetals," Org. Lett., 16, 3556-3559 (2014).
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949. Steven Lopez and K. N. Houk: "Substituent Effects on Rates and Torquoselectivities of Electrocyclic Ring-Openings of N-Substituted 2-Azetines," J. Org. Chem., 79, 6189-6195 (2014).
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950. Fang Liu, Roger C. Helgeson, and K. N. Houk: "Building on Cram's Legacy: Stimulated Gating in Hemicarcerands," Acc. Chem. Res., 47, 2168-2176 (2014).
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951. Martin Breugst and K. N. Houk: "Computational Analysis of Cyclophane-Based Bisthiourea-Catalyzed Henry Reactions," J. Org. Chem., 79, 6302-6309 (2014).
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952. Yu-hong Lam and K. N. Houk: "How Cinchona Alkaloid-Derived Primary Amines Control Asymmetric Electrophilic Fluorination of Cyclic Ketones," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 9556-9559 (2014).
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953. Xu Han, Shudan Bian, Yong Liang, K. N. Houk, and Adam B. Braunschweig: "Reactions in Elastomeric Nanoreactors Reveal the Role of Force on the Kinetics of the Huisgen Reaction on Surfaces," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 10553-10556 (2014).
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954. Yang Cao, Yong Liang, Lei Zhang, Silvia Osuna, Andra-Lisa M. Hoyt, Alajandro L. Briseno, and K. N. Houk: "Why Bistetracenes Are Much Less Reactive Than Pentacenes in Diels-Alder Reactions with Fullerenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 10743-10751 (2014).
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955. Xiao-Na Wang, Elizabeth H. Krenske, Ryne C. Johnston, K. N. Houk, and Richard P. Hsung: "Torquoselective Ring Opening of Fused Cyclobutenamides: Evidence for a Cis, Trans-Cyclooctadienone Intermediate," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 9802-9805 (2014).
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956. Hasnain A. Malik, Buck L. H. Taylor, John R. Kerrigan, Jonathan E. Grob, K. N. Houk, J. Du Bois, Lawrence G. Hamann, and Andrew W. Patterson: "Non-Directed Allylic C-H Acetoxylation in the Presence of Lewis Basic Hetercycles," Chem. Sci., 5, 2352-2361 (2014).
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957. Youcai Hu, David Dietrich, Wei Xu, Ashay Patel, Justin A. J. Thuss, Jingjing Wang, Wen-Bind Yin, Kangjian Qiao, K. N. Houk, John C. Vederas, and Yi Tang: "A Carbonate-Forming Baeyer-Villiger Monooxygenase," Nature Chem. Biol., 10, 552-554 (2014).
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958. Fang Liu, Yong Liang, and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Elucidation of the Origins of Substituent and Strain Effects on the Rates of Diels-Alder Reactions of 1,2,4,5-Tetrazines," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 11483-11493 (2014).
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959. Xin Hong, Yong Liang, Matthias Brewwer, and K. N. Houk: "How Tethers Control the Chemo- and Regioselectivities of Intramolecular Cycloadditions between Aryl-1-aza-2-azoniaallenes and Alkenes," Org. Lett., 16, 4260-4263 (2014).
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960. Steven A. Lopez, Melika Pourati, Hans Joachim Gais, and K. N. Houk: "How Torsional Effects Cause Attack at Sterically Crowded Concave Faces of Bicyclic Alkenes," J. Org. Chem., 79, 8305-8312 (2014).
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961. Shan-Shui Meng, Yong Liang, Kou-Sen Cao, Lufeng Zou, Xing-Bang Lin, Hui Yang, K. N. Houk, and Wen-Hua Zheng: "Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed Highly Enantioselective Desymmetrization of 2-Substituted and 2,2-Disubstituted 1,3-Diols via Oxidative Cleavage of Benzylidene Acetals," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 12249-12252 (2014).
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962. Xin Hong, Hatice Baspinar Kucuk, Modhu Sudan Maji, Yun-Fang Yang, Magnus Rueping, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism and Selectivity of N-Triflylphosphoramide Catalyzed (3+ +2) Cycloaddition between Hydrazones and Alkenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 13769-13780 (2014).
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963. Yun-Fang Yang, Lung Wa Chung, Xinhao Zhang, K. N. Houk, and Yun-Dong Wu: "Ligand-Controlled Reactivity, Selectivity, and Mechanism of Cationic Ruthenium-Catalyzed Hydrosilylations of Alkynes, Ketones, and Nitriles: A Theoretical Study," J. Org. Chem., 79, 8856-8864 (2014).
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964. Hung V. Pham and K. N. Houk: "Diels-Alder Reactions of Allene with Benzene and Butadiene: Concerted, Stepwise, and Ambimodal Transition States," J. Org. Chem., 79, 8968-8976 (2014).
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965. Ricardo A. Matute, Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, and K. N. Houk: "Theory of Substituent Effects on the Regioselectivity of Di-pi-methane Rearrangements of Dibenzobarrelenes," Org. Lett., 16, 5232-5234 (2014).
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966. Jose M. Medina, Travis C. McMahon, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg: "Cycloadditions of Cyclohexynes and Cyclopentyne," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 14706-14709 (2014).
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967. Huiliang Wang, Bing Hsieh, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Peng Liu, Christopher J. Tassone, Ying Diao, Ting Lei, Kendall N. Houk, and Zhenan Bao: "Solvent Effects on Polymer Sorting of Carbon Nanotunes with Applications in Printed Electronics," Small, 11, 126-133 (2015).
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968. Quentin Michaudel, Guillaume Journot, Alicia Regueiro-Ren, Animesh Goswami, Zhiwei Guo, Thomas P. Tully, Lufeng Zou, Raghunath O. Ramabhadran, Kendall N. Houk, and Phil S. Baran: "Improving Physical Properties via C-H Oxidation: Chemical and Enzymatic Approaches," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 45, 12091-12096 (2014).
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969. Zhongyu Yang, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Carlos J. Lopez, Michael D. Bridges, K. N. Houk, and Wayne L. Hubbell: "Long-Range Distance Measurements in Proteins at Physiological Temperatures Using Saturation Recovery EPR Spectroscopy," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 15356-15365 (2014).
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970. Jose M. Medina, Joel L. Mackey, Neil K. Garg, and K. N. Houk: "The Role of Aryne Distortions, Steric Effects, and Charges in Regioselectivities of Aryne Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 15798-15805 (2014).
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971. Xin Hong, Dane Holte, Daniel C. G. Gotz, Phil S. Baran, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism, Reactivity, and Selectivity of Nickel-Catalyzed [4 + 4 + 2] Cycloadditions of Dienes and Alkynes," J. Org. Chem., 79, 12177-12184 (2014).
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972. Yong Liang, Xin Hong, Peiyuan Yu, and K. N. Houk: "Why Alkynyl Substituents Dramatically Accelerate Hexadehydro-Diels-Alder (HDDA) Reactions: Stepwise Mechanisms of HDDA Cycloadditions," Org. Lett., 16, 5702-5705 (2014).
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973. K. N. Houk and Peng Liu: "Using Computational Chemistry to Understand & Discover Chemical Reactions," Daedalus, Fall, 49-66 (2014).
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974. Jean-Luc Bredas and Kendall N. Houk: "DFT Elucidation of Materials Properties," Acc. Chem. Res., 47, 3207-3207 (2014).
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975. Md. Anwar Hossain, Hoon Sik Kim, K. N. Houk, and Minserk Cheong: "Spin-Crossover in Chromium-Catalyzed Ethylene Trimerization: Density Functional Theory Study," Bull. Korean Chem. Soc., 35, 2835-2838 (2014).
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976. Ashay Patel and K. N. Houk: "Terminal Substituent Effects on the Reactivity, Thermodynamics, and Stereoselectivity of the 8pi-6pi Electrocyclization Cascades of 1,3,5,7-Tetraenes," J. Org. Chem., 79, 11370-11377 (2014).
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977. Sharon Rose Neufeldt, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Daniel L. Comins, and K. N. Houk: "A Twist on Facial Selectivity of Hydride Reductions of Cyclic Ketones: Twist-Boat Conformers in Cyclohexanone, Piperidone, and Tropinone Reactions," J. Org. Chem., 79, 11609-11618 (2014).
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978. Xin Hong, Matthew C. Stevens, Peng Liu, Paul A. Wender, and K. N. Houk: "Reactivity and Chemoselectivity of Allenes in Rh(I)-Catalyzed Intermolecular (5+2) Cycloadditions with Vinylcyclopropanes: Allene-Mediated Rhodacycle Formation Can Poison Rh(I)-Catalyzed Cycloadditions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 17273-17383 (2014).
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979. Kendall N. Houk: "Computational Enzyme Design and Methods to Predict the Role of Remote Mutations," in New Chemistry and New Opportunities from the Expanding Protein Universe, 23rd International Solvay Conference on Chemistry, pp. 70-74, K. Wuthrich, I. A. Winson, D. Hilvert, D. W. Wolan, and A. De Wit, editors, New Jersey: World Scientific Publishing Co. (2014).
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980. Edward Richmond, Kenneth B. Ling, Nicolas Duquet, Lois B. Manton, Nihan Celebi-Olcum, Yu-Hong Lam, Sezen Alsancak, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, K. N. Houk, and Andrew D. Smith: "An Asymmetric Pericyclic Cascade Approach to 3-alkyl-3-aryloxindoles: Generality, Applications, and Mechanistic Investigations," Org. Biomol. Chem., 13, 1807-1817 (2015).
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981. M. Taylor Haynes II, Peng Liu, Ryan D. Baxter, Alex J. Nett, K. N. Houk, and John Montgomery: "Dimer Involvement and Origin of Crossover in Nickel-Catalyzed Aldehyde-Alkyne Reductive Couplings," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 17495-17504 (2014).
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982. Puneet Kumar, Ashish Thakur, Xin Hong, K. N. Houk, and Janis Louie: "Ni(NHC)-Catalyzed Cycloaddition of Diynes and Tropone: Apparent Enone Cycloaddition Involving an 8pi Insertion," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 17844-17851 (2014).
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983. Jiali Gao, John Z. H. Zhang, and Kendall N. Houk: "Beyond QM/MM: Fragment Quantum Mechanical Methods," Acc. Chem. Res., 47, 2711-2711 (2014).
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984. Lei Zhang, Yang Cao, Nicholas S. Colella, Yong Liang, Jean-Luc Bredas, K. N. Houk, and Alejandro L. Briseno: "Unconventional, Chemically Stable, and Soluble Two-Dimensional Angular Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: From Molecular Design to Device Applications," Acc. Chem. Res., 48, 500-509 (2015).
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985. Scott E. Denmark, Wen-Tau T. Chang, K. N. Houk, and Peng Liu: "Development of Chiral Bis-hydrazone Ligands for the Enantioselective Cross-Coupling Reactions of Aryldimethylsilanolates," J. Org. Chem., 80, 313-366 (2015).
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986. Weixin Tang, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, K. N. Houk, and Wilfred A. van der Donk: "Substrate Control in Stereoselective Lanthionine Biosynthesis," Nature Chemistry, 7, 57-64 (2014).
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987. Ilhan Yavuz, Lei Zhang, Alejandro L. Briseno, and K. N. Houk: "Simulations of Molecular Ordering and Charge-Transport of Oligo-Didodecylquaterthiophenes (DDQT)," J. Phys. Chem. C., 119, 158-165 (2015).
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988. Elizabeth H. Krenske, K. N. Houk, and Michael Harmata: "Computational Analysis of the Stereochemical Outcome in the Imidazolidinone-Catalyzed Enantioselective (4+3) Cycloaddition Reaction," J. Org. Chem., 80, 744-750 (2015).
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989. Jiyong Park, Hung V. Pham, Kristian Mogensen, Theis Ivan Solling, Martin Vad Bennetzen, and K. N. Houk: "Hydrocarbon Binding by Proteins: Structures of Protein Binding Sites for >C10 Linear Alkanes or Long-Chain Alkyl and Alkenyl Groups," J. Org. Chem., 80, 997-1005 (2015).
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990. Elias Picazo, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg: "Computational Predictions of Substituted Benzyne and Indolyne Regioselectivities," Tet. Lett., 56, 3511-3514 (2015).
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991. Cornelia L. Boeser, Jeffrey C. Holder, Buck L. H. Taylor, K. N. Houk, Brian M. Stoltz, and Richard N. Zare: "Mechanistic Analysis of an Asymmetric Palladium-Catalyzed Conjugate Addition of Arylboronic Acids to beta-Substituted Cyclic Enones," Chem. Sci., 6, 1917-1922 (2015).
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992. Yu-hong Lam and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Stereoselectivity in Intramolecular Aldol Reactions Catalyzed by Cinchona Amines," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 2116-2127 (2015).
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993. Sheng Xie, Steven A. Lopez, Olof Ramstrom, Mingdi Yan, and K. N. Houk: "1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactivities of Perfluorinated Aryl Azides with Enamines and Strained Dipolarophiles," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 2958-2966 (2015).
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994. Salvador Perez-Estrada, Braulio Rodriguez-Molina, Leilei Xiao, Rosa Santillan, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, K. N. Houk, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay: "Thermodynamic Evaluation of Aromatic CH/pi Interactions and Rotational Entropy in a Molecular Rotor," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 2175-2178 (2015).
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995. Ashay Patel, Frederick G. West, and K. N. Houk: "Reactivity and Stereoselective of 6pi and Nazarov Electrocyclization of Bridged Bicyclic Trienes and Divinyl Ketones," J. Org. Chem., 80, 2790-2795 (2015).
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996. Yonghao Zheng, Mao-sheng Miao, Geraldine Dantelle, Nancy D. Eisenmenger, Guang Wu, Ilhan Yavuz, Michael L. Chabinyc, K. N. Houk, and Fred Wudl: "A Solid-State Effect Responsible for an Organic Quintet State at Room Temperature and Ambient Pressure," Adv. Mater., 27, 1718-1723 (2015).
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997. Ilhan Yavuz, Blanton N. Martin, Jiyong Park, and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Study of the Molecular Ordering, Paracrystallinity, and Charge Mobilities of Oligomers in Different Crystalline Phases," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 2856-2866 (2015).
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998. Yoshitaka Numajiri, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Bo Wang, K. N. Houk, and Brian M. Stoltz: "Enantioselective Synthesis of Dialkylated N-Heterocycles by Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation," Org. Lett., 17, 1082-1085 (2015).
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999. Silvia Osuna, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Elizabeth L. Noey, and K. N. Houk: "Molecular Dynamics Explorations of Active Site Structure in Designed and Evolved Enzymes," Acc. Chem. Res., 48, 1080-1089 (2015).
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1000. Lisa Tork, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Charles Doubleday, Fang Liu, and K. N. Houk: "Molecular Dynamics of the Diels-Alder Reactions of Tetrazines with Alkenes and N2 Extrusions from Adducts," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 4749-4758 (2015).
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1001. Brian J. Levandowski and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Analysis of Reactivity Patterns in Diels-Alder Reactions of Cyclopentadiene, Cyclohexadiene, and Cycloheptadiene with Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical Dienophiles," J. Org. Chem., 80, 3530-3537 (2015).
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1002. Huiliang Wang, Yaoxuan Li, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Peng Liu, Ya Fang, Jie Zhang, Ying-Chih Lai, Steve Park, Liwei Chen, Kendall N. Houk, and Zhenan Bao: "N-Type Conjugated Polymer-Enabled Selectivity Disperson of Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes for Flexible CMOS-Like Circuits," Adv. Func. Mat., 25, 1837-1844 (2015).
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1003. Travis C. McMahon, Jose M. Medina, Yun-Fang Yang, Bryan J. Simmons, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg: "Generation and Regioselective Trapping of a 3,4-Piperidyne for the Synthesis of Functionalized Heterocycles," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 4082-4085 (2015).
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1004. Xiao-Na Wang, Elizabeth H. Krenske, Ryne C. Johnston, K. N. Houk, and Richard P. Hsung: "AlCl3-Catalyzed Ring Expansion Cascades of Bicyclic Cyclobutenamides Involving Highly Strained Cis, Trans-Cycloheptadienone Intermediates," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 5596-5601 (2015).
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1005. Zhi-Xiong Ma, Ashay Patel, K. N. Houk, and Richard P. Hsung: "Highly Torquoselective Electrocyclizations and Competing 1,7-Hydrogen Shifts of 1-Azatrienes with Silyl Substitution at the Allylic Carbon," Org. Lett., 17, 2138-2141 (2015).
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1006. Keary M. Engle, Gang Lu, Shao-Xiong Luo, Lawrence M. Henling, Michael K. Tekase, Peng Liu, K. N. Houk, and Robert H. Grubbs: "Origins of Initiation Rate Differences in Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts Containing Chelating Benzylidenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 5782-5792 (2015).
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1007. Elizabeth H. Krenske, Sarah Lam, Jerome P. L. Ng, Brian Lo, Sze Kui Lam, Pauline Chiu, Kendall N. Houk: "Concerted Ring Opening and Cycloaddition of Chiral Epoxy Enolsilanes with Dienes," Angew. Chem., 54, 7422-7425 (2015).
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1008. Peng Liu, Buck L. H. Taylor, Jesus Garcia-Lopez, and Kendall N. Houk: "Computational Studies of Ruthenium-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis," in Handbook of Metathesis, 2nd ed., vol. 1, 199-252, Wiley-VCH (2015).
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1009. Myles B. Herbert, Benjamin A. Suslick, Peng Liu, Lufeng Zou, Peter K. Dornan, K. N. Houk, and Robert H. Grubbs: "Cyclometalated Z-Selective Ruthenium Metathesis Catalysts with Modified N-Chelating Groups," Organometallics, 34, 2858-2869 (2015).
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1010. C. Thiehoff, M. C. Holland, C. Daniliuc, K. N. Houk, and R. Gilmour: "Can Acyclic Conformational Control Be Achieved via a Sulfur-Flourine Gauche Effect?," Chem. Sci., 6, 3565-3571 (2015).
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1011. Hung V. Pham, Alexander S. Karns, Christopher D. Vanderwal, and K. N. Houk: "Computational and Experimental Investigators of the Formal Dyotropic Rearrangements of Himbert Arene/Allene Cycloadducts," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 6956-6964 (2015).
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1012. Tao Yang, Shigeru Nagase, Takeshi Akasaka, Josep M. Poblet, K. N. Houk, Masahiro Ehara, and Xiang Zhao: "(2 + 2) Cycloaddition of Benzyne to Endohedral Metallofullerenes M3N@C80 (M = Sc, Y): A Rotating-Intermedicate Mechanism," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 6820-6828 (2015).
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1013. Chendan Zhu, Yong Liang, Xin Hong, Heqing Sun, Wei-Yin Sun, K. N. Houk, and Zhuangzhi Shi: "Iodoarene-Catalyzed Stereospecific Intramolecular sp3 C-H Amination: Reaction Development and Mechanistic Insights," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 7564-7567 (2015).
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1014. David N. Kamber, Yong Liang, Robert J. Blizzard, Fang Liu, Ryan A. Mehl, K. N. Houk, and Jennifer A. Prescher: "1,2,4-Triazines Are Versatile Bioorthogonal Reagents," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 8388-8391 (2015).
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1015. Matthew N. Grayson, Michael J. Krische, and K. N. Houk: "Ruthenium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrohydroxyalkylation of Butadiene: The Role of the Formyl Hydrogen Bond in Stereochemical Control," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 8838-8850 (2015).
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1016. Xin Hong, Daniel A. Bercovici, Zhongyue Yang, Nezar Al-Bataineh, Ramya Srinivasan, Ram C. Dhakal, K. N. Houk, and Matthias Brewer: "Mechanism and Dynamics of Intramolecular C-H Insertion Reactions of 1-Aza-2-azoniaallene Salts," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 9100-9107 (2015).
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1017. Alison R. H. Narayan, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Peng Liu, Solymar Negretti, Wanxiang Zhao, Michael M. Gilbert, Raghunath O. Ramabhadran, Yun-Fang Yang, Lawrence R. Furan, Zhe Li, Larissa M. Podust, John Montgomery, K. N. Houk, and David H. Sherman: "Enzymatic Hydroxylation of an Unactivated Methylene C-H Bond Guided by Molecular Dynamics Simulations," Nature Chem., 7, 653-660 (2015).
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1018. Sharon R. Neufeldt, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, John R. Huckins, Oliver R. Thiel, and K. N. Houk: "Pyridine N-Oxide vs. Pyridine Substrates for RH(III)-Catalyzed Oxidative C-H Bond Functionalization," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 9843-9854 (2015).
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1019. Andrew M. Camelio, Yong Liang, Anders M. Eliasen, Trevor C. Johnson, Changxia Yuan, Alex W. Schuppe, K. N. Houk, and Dionicio Siegel: "Computational and Experimental Studies of Phthaloyl Peroxide-Mediated Hydroxylation of Arenes Yield a More Reactive Derivative, 4-5-Dichlorophthaloyl Peroxide," J. Org. Chem., 80, 8084-8095 (2015).
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1020. Liana Hie, Noah F. Fine Nathel, Tejas K. Shah, Emma L. Baker, Xin Hong, Yun-Fang Yang, Peng Liu, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg: "Conversion of Amides to Esters by the Nickel-Catalyzed Activation of Amide C-N Bonds," Nature, 524, 79-83 (2015).
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1021. Daniel T. Hog, Florian M. E. Huber, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Peter Mayer, Kendall N. Houk, Dirk Trauner: "Evolution of a Unified Strategy for Complex Sesterterpenoids: Progress toward Astellatol and the Total Synthesis of (-)-Nitidasin," Chem. Eur. J., 21, 13646-13665 (2015).
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1022. Tim S. Chung, Steven A. Lopez, K. N. Houk, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay: "Stereospecific Synthesis of Substituted Aziridines by a Crystal-to-Crystal Photodenitrogenation of ∆2-1,2,3-Triazolines," Org. Lett., 17, 4568-4571 (2015).
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1023. Kazuya Honda, Steven A. Lopez, K. N. Houk, and Koichi Mikami: "Mono-, Di-, and Trifluoroalkyl Substituent Effects on the Torquoselectivities of Cyclobutene and Oxetene Electrocyclic Ring Openings," J. Org. Chem., 80, 11768-11772 (2015).
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1024. Mie Hojer Larsen, K. N. Houk, and A. Stephen K. Hashmi: "Dual Gold Catalysis: Stepwise Catalyst Transfer via Dinuclear Clusters," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 10668-10676 (2015).
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1025. Xin Hong, Jinglin Wang, Yun-Fang Yang, Lisi He, Chun-Yu Ho, and K. N. Houk: "Computational Exploration of Mechanism and Selectivities of (NHH)Nickel(II)hydride-Catalyzed Hydroalkenylations of Styrene with alpha-Olefins," ACS Catal., 5, 5545-5555 (2015).
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1026. Xu-Ming Mao, Zha-Jun Zhan, Matthew N. Grayson, Man-Cheng Tang, Wei Xu, Yong-Quan Li, Wen-Bing Yin, Hsiao-Ching Lin, Yit-Heng Chooi, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Efficient Biosynthesis of Fungal Polyketides Containing the Dioxabicyclo-octane Ring System," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 11904-11907 (2015).
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1027. Austin H. Asari, Yu-hong Lam, Marcus A. Tius, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of the Stereoselectivity in a Thiourea-Primary Amine-Catalyzed Nazarov Cyclization," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 13191-13199 (2015).
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1028. Peiyuan Yu, Ashay Patel, and K. N. Houk: "Transannular [6 + 4] and Ambimodal Cycloaddition in the Biosynthesis of Heronamide A," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 13518-13523 (2015).
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1029. Cyndi Qixin He, Tiffany Q. Chen, Ashay Patel, Sedef Karabiyikoglu, Craig A. Merlic, and K. N. Houk: "Distortion, Tether, and Entropy Effects on Transannular Diels-Alder Cycloaddition Reactions of 10-18-Membered Rings," J. Org. Chem., 80, 11039-11047 (2015).
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1030. Brian J. Levandowski, Lufeng Zou, and K. N. Houk: "Schleyer Hyperconjugative Aromaticity and Diels-Alder Reactivity of 5-Substituted Cyclopentadienes," J. Comput. Chem., 37, 117-123 (2016).
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1031. Ashay Patel, Joseph R. Vella, Zhi-Xiong Ma, R. P. Hsung, and K. N. Houk: "Transition State Gauche Effects Control the Torquoselectivities of the Electrocyclizations of Chiral 1-Azatrienes," J. Org. Chem., 80, 11888-11894 (2015).
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1032. Zhongyue Yang, Charles Doubleday, and K. N. Houk: "QM/MM Protocol for Direct Molecular Dynamics of Chemical Reactions in Solution: The Water-Accelerated Diels-Alder Reaction," J. Chem. Theory Comput., 11, 5605-5612 (2015).
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1033. Maruthi Kumar Narayanam, Yong Liang, K. N. Houk, and Jennifer M. Murphy: "Discovery of New Mutually Orthogonal Bioorthogonal Cycloaddition Pairs Through Computational Screening," Chem. Sci., 7, 1257-1261 (2016).
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1034. Eric M. Phillips, Tehetena Mesganaw, Ashay Patel, Simon Duttwyler, Brandon Q. Mercado, K. N. Houk, and Jonathan A. Ellman: "Synthesis of ent-Ketorfanol via a C-H Alkenylation/Torquoselective 6pi Electrocyclization Cascade," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54, 12044-12048 (2015).
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1035. Michio Sato, Fumitoshi Yagashita, Takashi Mino, Nahoko Uchiyama, Ashay Patel, Yit-Heng Chooi, Yukihiro Goda, Wei Xu, Hiroshi Nogushi, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Kinya Hotta, K. N. Houk, Yi Tang, and Kenji Watanabe: "Involvement of Lipocalin-like CghA in Decalin-Forming Stereoselective Intramolecular [4+2] Cycloaddition," ChemBioChem, 16, 2294-2298 (2015).
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1036. Ryan D. Baxter, Yong Liang, Xin Hong, Timothy A. Brown, Richard N. Zare, K. N. Houk, Phil S. Baran, and Donna G. Blackmond: "Mechanistic Insights into Two-Phase Radical C-H Arylations," ACS Cent. Sci, 1, 456-462 (2015).
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1037. Joel F. Hooper, Natalie C. James, Esra Bozkurt, Viktorya Aviyente, Jonathan M. White, Mareike C. Holland, Ryan Gilmour, Andrew B. Holmes, and K. N. Houk: "Medium-Ring Effects on the Endo/Exo Selectivity of the Organocatalytic Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reaction," J. Org. Chem., 80, 12058-12075 (2015).
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1038. Elizabeth L. Noey, Nidhi Tibrewal, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Silvia Osuna, Jiyong Park, Carly M. Bond, Duilio Cascio, Jack Liang, Xiyun Zhang, Gjalt W. Huisman, Yi Tang, and Kendall N. Houk: "Origins of Stereoselectivity in Evolved Ketoreductases," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 112, E7065-E7072 (2015).
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1039. Mary C. Walton, Yun-Fang Yang, Xin Hong, K. N. Houk, and Larry E. Overman: "Ligand-Controlled Diastereoselective 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of Azomethine Ylides with Methacrylonitrile," Org. Lett., 17, 6166-6169 (2015).
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1040. Michael E. Jung, Courtney A. Roberts, Felix Perez, Hung V. Pham, Lufeng Zou, and K. N. Houk: "Thermodynamic Control of Isomerizations of Bicyclic Radicals: Interplay of Ring Strain and Radical Stabilization," Org. Lett., 18, 32-35 (2016).
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1041. Adam Simon, Yu-hong Lam, and K. N. Houk: "Transition States of Vicinal Diamine-Catalyzed Aldol Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 503-506 (2016).
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1042. L. E. Rosebrugh, T. S. Ahmed, V. M. Marx, J. Hartung, P. Liu, J. G. Lopez, K. N. Houk, and R. H. Grubbs: "Probing Stereoselectivity in Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization Mediated by Cyclometalated Ruthenium-Based Catalysts: A Combined Experimental and Computational Study," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 1394-1405 (2016).
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1043. Mareike C. Holland, Ryan Gilmour, and K. N. Houk: "Importance of Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding for the Stereochemical Control of Allene-Enone (3+2) Annulations Catalyzed by a Bifunctional, Amino Acid Derived Phosphine Catalyst," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 55, 2022-2027 (2016).
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1044. Matthew N. Grayson and K. N. Houk: "Cinchona Alkaloid-Catalyzed Asymmetric Conjugate Additions: The Bifunctional Brønsted Acid-Hydrogen Bonding Model," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 1170-1173 (2016).
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1045. Istvan Gabor Molnar, Mareike C. Holland, Constantin Daniliuc, K. N. Houk, and Ryan Gilmour: "Organocatalysis Intermediates as Platforms to Study Noncovalent Interactions: Integrating Fluorine Gauche Effects in Iminium Systems to Facilitate Acyclic Conformational Control," Synlett, 27, 1051-1055 (2016).
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1046. Yun-Fang Yang, Yong Liang, Fang Liu, and K. N. Houk: "Diels-Alder Reactivities of Benzene, Pyridine, and Di-, Tri-, and Tetrazines: The Roles of Geometrical Distortions and Orbital Interactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 1660-1667 (2016).
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1047. Liana Hie, Noah F. Fine Nathel, Xin Hong, Yun-Fang Yang, Kendall N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg: "Nickel-Catalyzed Activation of Acyl C-O Bonds of Methyl Esters," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 55, 2810-2814 (2016).
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1048. Dionicio Martinez-Solorio, Bruno Melillo, Luis Sanchez, Yong Liang, Erwin Lam, K. N. Houk, and Amos B. Smith III: "Design, Synthesis, and Validation of an Effective, Reusable Silicon-Based Transfer Agent for Room-Temperature Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Aryl and Heteroaryl Chlorides with Readily Available Aryl Lithium Reagents," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 1836-1839 (2016).
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1049. Joyann S. Barber, Evan D. Styduhar, Hung V. Pham, Travis C. McMahon, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg: "Nitrone Cycloadditions of 1,2-Cyclohexadiene," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 2512-2515 (2016).
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1050. Ashay Patel, Zhuo Chen, Zhongyue Yang, Osvaldo Gutierrez, Hung-wen Liu, K. N. Houk, and Daniel A. Singleton: "Dynamically Complex [6+4] and [4+2] Cycloadditions in the Biosynthesis of Spinosyn A," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 3631-3634 (2016).
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1051. Elsa Rodriguez, Matthew N. Grayson, Amparo Asensio, Pablo Barrio, K. N. Houk, and Santos Fustero: "Chiral Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allyl(propargyl)boration Reaction of ortho-Alkynyl Benzaldehydes: Synthetic Applications and Factors Governing the Enantioselectivity," ACS Catal., 6, 2506-2514 (2016).
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1052. Tristin E. Rose, Brice H. Curtin, Kenneth V. Lawson, Adam Simon, K. N. Houk, and Patrick G. Harran: "On the Prevalence of Bridged Macrocyclic Pyrroloindolines Formed in Regiodivergent Alkylations of Tryptophan," Chem. Sci., 7, 4158-4166 (2016).
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1053. Yu-hong Lam, Matthew N. Grayson, Mareike C. Holland, Adam Simon, and K. N. Houk: "Theory and Modeling of Asymmetric Catalytic Reactions," Acc. Chem. Res., 49, 750-762 (2016).
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1054. Hsiao-Ching Lin, Travis C. McMahon, Ashay Patel, Michael Corsello, Adam Simon, Wei Xu, Muxun Zhao, K. N. Houk, Neil K. Garg, and Yi Tang: "P450-Mediated Coupling of Indole Fragments to Forge Communesin and Unnatural Isomers," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 4002-4005 (2016).
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1055. Zhongyue Yang, Peiyuan Yu, and K. N. Houk: "Molecular Dynanics of Dimethyldioxirane C-H Oxidation," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 4237-4242 (2016).
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1056. Xing Jiang, Zachary J. O’Brien, Song Yang, Lan Huong Lai, Jeffrey Buenaflor, Colleen Tan, Saeed Khan, K. N. Houk, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay: "Crystal Fluidity Reflected by Fast Rotational Motion at the Core, Branches, and Peripheral Aromatic Groups of a Dendrimeric Molecular Rotor," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 4650-4656 (2016).
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1057. Shu-Shan Gao, Abing Duan, Wei Xu, Peiyuan Yu, Leibniz Hang, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Phenalenone Polyketide Cyclization Catalyzed by Fungal Polyketide Synthase and Flavin-Dependent Monooxygenase," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 4249-4259 (2016).
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1058. Jiyong Park, Joseph J. McDonald, Russell C. Petter, and K. N. Houk: "Molecular Dynamics Analysis of Binding of Kinase Inhibitors to WT EGFR and the T790M Mutant," J. Chem. Theory Comput., 12, 2066-2078 (2016).
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1059. Xiaoxun Li, Wangze Song, Xiaona Ke, Xiufang Xu, Peng Liu, K. N. Houk, Xian-liang Zhao, Weiping Tang: "Rhodium-Catalyzed Intramolecular [5+2] Cycloaddition of Inverted 3-Acyloxy-1,4-enyne and Alkyne: Experimental and Theoretical Studies," Chem. Eur. J., 22, 7079-7083 (2016).
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1060. Elizabeth L. Noey, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Derrick J. L. Clive, and K. N. Houk: "Computations Reveal that Electron-Withdrawing Leaving Groups Facilitate Intramolecular Conjugate Displacement Reactions by Negative Hyperconjugation," J. Org. Chem., 81, 4290-4294 (2016).
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1061. Yun-Fang Yang, K. N. Houk, and Yun-Dong Wu: "Computational Exploration of RhIII/RHV and RhIII/RhI Catalysis in Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed C-H Activation Reactions of N-Phenoxyacetamides with Alkynes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 6861-6868 (2016).
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1062. Juneyoung Lee, Jessica M. Grandner, Keary M. Engle, K. N. Houk, and Robert H. Grubbs: "In Situ Catalyst Modification in Atom Transfer Radical Reactions with Ruthenium Benzylidine Complexes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 7171-7177 (2016).
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1063. Jessica M. Grandner, Ralph A. Cacho, Yi Tang, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism of the P450-Catalyzed Oxidative Cyclization in the Biosynthesis of Griseofulvin," ACS Catal., 6, 4506-4511 (2016).
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1064. Peiyuan Yu, Zhongyue Yang, Yong Liang, Xin Hong, Yanwei Li, and K. N. Houk: "Distortion-Controlled Reactivity and Molecular Dynamics of Dehydro-Diels-Alder Reactions," J, Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 8247-8252 (2016).
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1065. Fengjiao Liu, Zhongyue Yang, Ye Mei, and K. N. Houk: "QM/MM’ Direct Molecular Dynamics of Water-Accelerated Diels-Alder Reaction," J. Phys. Chem. B, 120, 6250-6254 (2016).
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1066. Pierre Vogel, Yu-hong Lam, Adam Simon, and Kendall N. Houk: "Organocatalysis: Fundamentals and Comparisons to Medal and Enzyme Catalysis," Catalysts, 6, Article 128 (2016).
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1067. Pier Alexandre Champagne and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Selectivity and General Model for Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Oxetane Desymmetrizations," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 12356-12359 (2016).
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1068. Bernice Lin, Peiyuan Yu, Cyndi Qixin He, K. N. Houk: "Origins of Regioselectivity in 1,3-dipolar Cycloadditions of Nitrile Oxides with Alkynylboronates," Biorg. Med. Chem., 24, 4787-4790 (2016).
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1069. Zhe Li, Thomas Bally, Kendall N. Houk, and Weston Thatcher Borden: "Variations in Rotational Barriers of Allyl and Benzyl Cations, Anions, and Radicals," J. Org. Chem., 81, 9576-9584 (2016).
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1070. Yingzi Li, Silvia Osuna, Marc Garcia-Borras, Xiaotian Qi, Song Liu, Kendall N. Houk, and Yu Lan: "Reactivity of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in the Diels-Alder Cycloaddition Reaction: Distortion-Interaction Analysis Along the Reaction Pathway," Chem. Eur. J., 22, 12819-12824 (2016).
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1071. Matthew N. Grayson and K. N. Houk: "Cinchona Urea-Catalyzed Asymmetric Sulfa-Michael Reactions: The Bronsted Acid-Hydrogen Bonding Model," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 9041-9044 (2016).
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1072. Marc Garcia-Borras, Akihito Konishi, Andreas Waterloo, Yong Liang, Yang Cao, Constantin Hetzer, Dan Lehnherr, Frank Hampel, Kendall N. Houk, and Rik R. Tywinski: "Tautomerization and Dimerization of 6,13-Disubstituted Derivatives of Pentacene," Chem. Eur. J., 23, 6111-6117 (2016).
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1073. Gang Chen, Wei Gong, Zhe Zhuang, Michal S. Andra, Yan-Qiao Chen, Xin Hong, Yun-Fang Yang, Tao Liu, K. N. Houk, and Jin-Quan Yu: "Ligand-Accelerated Enantioselective Methylene C(sp3)-H Bond Activation," Science, 353, 1023-1027 (2016).
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1074. Nico Santschi, Christian Thiehoff, Mareike C. Holland, Constantin G. Danilluc, K. N. Houk, and Ryan Gilmour: "The Sulfur-Flourine Gauche Effect in Coinage-Metal Complexes: Augmenting Conformational Equilibria by Complexation," Organometallics, 35, 3040-3044 (2016).
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1075. Robert C. Simon, Eduardo Busto, Nina Richter, Verena Resch, Kendall N. Houk, and Wolfgang Kroutil: "Biocatalytic Trifluoromethylation of Unprotected Phenols," Nat. Commun., 7, Article Number 13323 (2016).
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1076. Ilhan Yavuz, Steven A. Lopez, Janice B. Lin, and K. N. Houk: "Quantitative Prediction of Morphology and Electron Transport in Crystal and Disordered Organic Semiconductors," J. Mater. Chem. C, 4, 11238-11243 (2016).
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1077. Michael E. Jung, Daniel L. Sun, Timothy A. Dwight, Peiyuan Yu, Wei Li, and K. N. Houk: "Synthesis of 2-Ethenylcyclopropyl Aryl Ketones via Intramolecular SN2-like Displacement of an Ester," Org. Lett., 18, 5138-5141 (2016).
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1078. Xia Yu, Fang Liu, Yi Zou, Man-Cheng Tang, Leibniz Hang, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Biosynthesis of Strained Piperazine Alkaloids: Uncovering the Concise Pathway of Herquline A," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 13529-13532 (2016).
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1079. Nima Zargari, Pierre Winter, Yong Liang, Joo Ho Lee, Andrew Cooksy, K. N. Houk, and Kyung Woon Jung: "Unexpected, Latent Radical Reaction of Methane Propagated by Trifluoromethyl Radicals," J. Org. Chem., 81, 9820-9825 (2016).
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1080. Shao-Xiong Luo, Jeffrey S. Cannon, Buck L. H. Taylor, Keary M. Engle, K. N. Houk, and Robert H. Grubbs: "Z-Selective Cross-Metathesis and Homodimerization of 3E-1,3-Dienes: Reaction Optimization, Computational Analysis, and Synthetic Applications," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 14039-14046 (2016).
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1081. Adam Simon, Alexander J. Yeh, Yu-hong Lam, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Stereoselectivity of Chiral Vicinal Diamine-Catalyzed Aldol Reactions," J. Org. Chem., 81, 12408-12415 (2016).
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1082. Li Li, Peiyuan Yu, Man-Cheng Tang, Yi Zou, Shu-Shan Gao, Yiu-Sun Hung, Muxun Zhao, Kenji Watanabe, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Biochemical Characterization of a Eukaryotic Decalin-Forming Diels-Alderase," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 15837-15840 (2016).
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1083. Brian J. Levandowski and Kendall N. Houk: "Hyperconjugative, Secondary Orbital, Electrostatic, and Steric Effects on the Reactivities and Endo and Exo Stereoselectivities of Cyclopropene Diels-Alder Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 16731-16736 (2016).
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1084. Xu Han, Jiyong Park, Wei Wu, Andres Malagon, Lingyu Wang, Edgar Vargas, Athula Wikramanayake, K. N. Houk, and Roger M. Leblanc: "A Resorcinarene for Inhibition of A-beta Fibrillation," Chem. Sci., 8, 2003-2009 (2017).
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1085. Ilhan Yavuz and K. N. Houk: "Mesoscale Ordering and Charge-Transport of Crystalline Spiro-OMeTAD Organic Semiconductors," J. Phys. Chem. C, 121, 993-999 (2016).
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1086. Jorge A. Gonzalez, O. Maduka Ogba, Gregory F. Morehouse, Nicholas Rosson, Kendall N. Houk, Andrew G. Leach, Paul H.-Y. Cheong, Martin D. Burke, and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones: "MIDA Boronates Are Hydrolysed Fast and Slow by Two Different Mechanisms," Nature Chem., 8, 1067-1075 (2016).
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1087. Elizabeth H. Krenske, Russell C. Petter, and K. N. Houk: "Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Reversible Thiol Additions to Mono- and Diactivated Michael Acceptors: Implications for the Design of Drugs That Bind Covalently to Cysteines," J. Org. Chem., 81, 11726-11733 (2016).
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1088. Benjamin P. Cherniawski, Steven A. Lopez, Edmund K. Burnett, Ilhan Yavuz, Lei Zhang, Sean R. Parkin, Kendall N. Houk, and Alejandro L. Briseno: "The Effect of Hexyl Side Chains on Molecular Conformations, Crystal Packing, and Charge Transport of Oligothiophenes," J. Mater. Chem. C, 5, 582-588 (2017).
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1089. Taoufik Ben Halima, Wanying Zhang, Imane Yalaoui, Xin Hong, Yun-Fang Yang, Kendall N. Houk, and Stephen G. Newman: "Palladium-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling of Aryl Esters," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 1311-1318 (2017).
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1090. Yi Zou, Marc Garcia-Borras, Mancheng C. Tang, Yuichiro Hirayama, Dehai H. Li, Li Li, Kenji Watanabe, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Enzyme-Catalyzed Cationic Epoxide Rearrangements in Quinolone Alkaloid Biosynthesis," Nature Chem. Biol., 13, 325-332 (2017).
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1091. Joel L. Mackey, Zhongyue Yang, and K. N. Houk: "Dynamically Concerted and Stepwise Trajectories of the Cope Rearrangement of 1,5-Hexadiene," Chem. Phys. Lett., 683, 253-257 (2017).
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1092. Nezar Al-Bataineh, K. N. Houk, Matthias Brewer, and Xin Hong: "(2+1)-Cycloaddition Reactions Give Further Evidence of the Nitrenium-like Character of 1-Aza-2-azoniaallene Salts," J. Org. Chem., 82, 4001-4005 (2017).
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1093. Jason S. Fell, Blanton N. Martin, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of the Unfavorable Activation and Reaction Energies of 1-Azadiene Heterocycles Compared to 2-Azadiene Heterocycles in Diels-Alder Reactions," J. Org. Chem., 82, 1912-1919 (2017).
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1094. Abing Duan, Peiyuan Yu, Fang Liu, Huang Qiu, Feng Long Gu, Michael P. Doyle, and K. N. Houk: "Diazo Esters as Dienophiles in Intramolecular (4 + 2) Cycloadditions: Computational Explorations of Mechanism," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 2766-2770 (2017).
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1095. K. N. Houk and Fang Liu: "Holy Grails for Computational Organic Chemistry and Bichemistry," Acc. Chem. Res., 50, 539-543 (2017).
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1096. Anton A. Toutov, Mike Salata, Alexey Fedorov, Yun-Fang Yang, Yong Liang, Renen Cariou, Kerry N. Betz, Erik P. A. Couzijn, John W. Shabaker, Kendall N. Houk, and Robert H. Grubbs: "A Potassium tert-Butoxide and Hydrosilane System for Ultra-Deep Desulfurization of Fuels," Nature Energy, 2, Article Number 17008 (2017).
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1097. Shu-Shan Gao, Marc Garcia-Borras, Joyann S. Barber, Yang Hai, Abing Duan, Neil K. Garg, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Enzyme-Catalyzed Intramolecular Enantioselective Hydroalkoxylation," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 3639-3642 (2017).
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1098. Byron A. Boon, Aaron G. Green, Peng Liu, K. N. Houk, and Craig A. Merlic: "Using Ring Strain to Control 4Ï€-Electrocyclization Reactions: Torquoselectivity in Ring Closing of Medium-Ring Dienes and ring Opening of Bicyclic Cyclobutenes," J. Org. Chem., 82, 4613-4624 (2017).
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1099. Wen-Bo Liu, David P. Schuman, Yun-Fang Yang, Anton A. Toutov, Yong Liang, Hendrik F. T. Klare, Nasri Nesnas, Martin Oestreich, Donna G. Blackmond, Scott C. Virgil, Shibdas Banerjee, Richard N. Zare, Robert H. Grubbs, K. N. Houk, and Brian M. Stoltz: "Potassium tert-Butoxide-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative C-H Silylation of Heteroaromatics: A Combined Experimental and Computational Mechanistic Study," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 6867-6879 (2017).
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1100. Shibdas Banerjee, Yun-Fang Yang, Ian D. Jenkins, Yong Liang, Anton A. Toutov, Wen-Bo Liu, David P. Schuman, Robert H. Grubbs, Brian M. Stoltz, Elizabeth H. Krenske, Kendall N. Houk, and Richard N. Zare: "Ionic and Neutral Mechanisms for C-H Bond Silylation of Aromatic Heterocycles Catalyzed by Potassium tert-Butoxide," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 6880-6887 (2017).
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1101. Yao Li, Cyndi Qixin He, Fei-Xiang Gao, Zhen Li, Xiao-Song Xue, Xin Li, K. N. Houk, and Jin-Pei Cheng: "Design and Applications of N-tert-Butyl Sulfinyl Squaramide Catalysts," Org. Lett., 19, 1926-1929 (2017).
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1102. Ilke Ugur, Sesil Agopcan Cinar, Burcu Dedeoglu, Viktorya Aviyente, M. Frederick Hawthorne, Peng Liu, Fang Liu, K. N. Houk, and Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses: "1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions of Low-Valent Rhodium and Iridium Complexes with Arylnitrile N-Oxides," J. Org. Chem., 82, 5096-5101 (2017).
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1103. Elizabeth L. Noey, Zhongyue Yang, Yanwei Li, Hannah Yu, Rachel N. Richey, Jeremy M. Merritt, Douglas P. Kjell, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Regioselectivity in the Fischer Indole Synthesis of a Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator," J. Org. Chem., 82, 5904-5909 (2017). Correction: J. Org. Chem., 82, 12945-12945 (2017).
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1104. Peiyuan Yu, Wei Li, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanisms and Origins of Selectivities of the Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Diels-Alder Reactions between Arylallenes and Acrylates," J. Org. Chem., 82, 6398-6402 (2017).
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1105. Matthew N. Grayson, Zhongyue Yang, and K. N. Houk: "Chronology of CH•••O Hydrogen Bonding from Molecular Dynamics Studies of the Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Allylboration of Benzaldehyde," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 7717-7720 (2017).
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1106. Rafal M. Dziedzic, Joshua L. Martin, Jonathan C. Axtell, Liban M. A. Saleh, Ta-Chung Ong, Yun-Fang Yang, Marco S. Messina, Arnold L. Rheingold, K. N. Houk, and Alexander M. Spokoyny: "Cage-Walking: Vertex Differentiation by Palladium-Catalyzed Isomerization of B(9)-Bromo-meta-Carborane," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 7729-7732 (2017).
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1107. Yingzi Li, Chunhui Shan, Yun-Fang Yang, Fuqiang Shi, Xiaotian Qi, K. N. Houk, and Yu Lan: "Mechanism, Regio-, and Diastereoselectivity of Rh(III)-Catalyzed Cyclization Reaction of N-Arylnitrones with Alkynes: A Density Functional Theory Study," J. Phys. Chem. A, 121, 4496-4504 (2017).
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1108. Yun-Fang Yang, Gang Chen, Xin Hong, Jin-Quan Yu, and K. N. Houk: "The Origins of Dramatic Differences in Five-Membered vs Six-Membered Chelation of Pd(II) on Efficiency of C(sp3)-H Bond Activation," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 8514-8521 (2017).
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1109. Peiyuan Yu, Tiffany Q. Chen, Zhongyue Yang, Cyndi Qixin He, Ashay Patel, Yu-hong Lam, Ching-Yang Liu, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism and Origins of Periselectivity of the Ambimodal [6+4] Cycloadditions of Tropone to Dimethylfulvene," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 8251-8528 (2017).
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1110. Qi Liu, Yu Chen, Xiao Zhang, K. N. Houk, Yong Liang, and Amos B. Smith III: "Type II Anion Relay Chemistry: Conformatioal Constraints to Achieve Effective [1,5]-Vinyl Brook Rearrangements," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 8710-8717 (2017).
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1111. Jiannan Zhao, Jonathan L. Brosmer, Qingxuan Tang, Zhongyue Yang, K. N. Houk, Paula L. Diaconescu, and Ohyun Kwon: "Intramolecular Crossed [2+2] Photocycloaddition through Visible Light-Induced Energy Transfer," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 9807-9810 (2017).
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1112. Janice B. Lin, Tejas K. Shah, Adam E. Goetz, Neil K. Garg, and K. N. Houk: "Conjugated Trimeric Scaffolds Accessible from Indolyne Cyclotrimerizations: Synthesis, Structures, and Electronic Properties," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 10447-10455 (2017).
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1113. Marco S. Messina, Jeong Hoon Ko, Zhongyue Yang, M. Jane Strouse, K. N. Houk, and Heather D. Maynard: "Effect of Trehalose Polymer Regioisomers on Protein Stabilization," Polymer Chemistry, 33, 4781-4788 (2017).
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1114. F. Matthias Bickelhaupt and Kendall N. Houk: "Analyzing Reaction Rates with the Distortion/Interaction-Activation Strain Model," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56, 10070-10086 (2017).
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1115. Adam Simon, Yu-hong Lam, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Stereoselectivity of Enamine-Iminium-Activated Nazarov Cyclozations by Vicinal Diamines," J. Org. Chem., 82, 8186-8190 (2017).
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1116. Lizhen Fang, Tyler G. Saint-Denis, Buck L. H. Taylor, Seth Ahlquist, Kai Hong, SaiSai Liu, LiLi Han, K. N. Houk, and Jin-Quan Yu: "Experimental and Computational Development of a Conformationally Flexible Template for the meta-C-H Functionalization of Benzoic Acid," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 10702-10714 (2017).
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1117. Brian J. Levandowski, Trevor A. Hamlin, F. Matthias Bickelhaupt, and K. N. Houk: "Role of Orbital Interactions and Activation Strain (Distortion Energies) on Reactivities in the Normal and Inverse Electron-Demand Cycloadditions of Strained and Unstrained Cycloalkenes," J. Org. Chem., 82, 8668-8675 (2017).
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1118. Cyndi Qixin He, Adam Simon, Yu-hong Lam, Andrew P. J. Brunskill, Nobuyoshi Yasuda, Jiajing Tan, Alan M. Hyde, Edward C. Sherer, and K. N. Houk: "Model for the Enantioselectivity of Asymmetric Intramolecular Alkylations by Bis-Quaternized Cinchona Alkaloid-Derived Catalysts," J. Org. Chem., 82, 8654-8650 (2017).
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1119. Chen-Chen Zhou, M. Frederick Hawthorne, K. N. Houk, and Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses: "Multiple Mechanisms for the Thermal Decomposition of Metallaisoxazolin-5-ones from Computational Investigations," J. Org. Chem., 82, 8438-8443 (2017).
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1120. Yao Li, Guo-Hui Yang, Cyndi Qixin He, Xin Li, K. N. Houk, and Jin-Pei Cheng: "Chirality Sensing of a-Hydroxyphosphonates by N-tert-Butyl Sulfinyl Squaramide," Org. Lett., 19, 4191-4194 (2017).
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1121. Amy E. Fraley, Marc Garcia-Borras, Ashootosh Tripathi, Dheeraj Khare, Eduardo V. Mercado-Marin, Hong Tran, Qingyun Dan, Gabrielle P. Webb, Katherine R. Watts, Phillip Crews, Richmond Sarpong, Robert M. Williams, Janet L. Smith, K. N. Houk, and David H. Sherman: "Function and Structure of MalA/MalA’, Iterative Halogenases for Late-Stage C-H Functionalization of Indole Alkaloids," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 12060-12068 (2017).
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1122. Jiyong Park, Sunny Chun, Thomas A. Bobik, Kendall N. Houk, and Todd O. Yeates: "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Selective Metabolite Transport across the Propanediol Bacterial Microcompartment Shell," J. Phys. Chem. B, 121, 8149-8154 (2017).
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1123. Jason S. Fell, Steven A. Lopez, Cody J. Higginson, M. G. Finn, and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Analysis of the Retro-Diels-Alder Reactivity of Oxanorbornadiene Thiol and Amine Adducts," Org. Lett., 19, 4504-4507 (2017).
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1124. Fang Liu, Yong Liang, and K. N. Houk: "Bioorthogonal Cycloadditions: Computational Analysis with the Distortion/Interaction Model and Prediction of Reactivities," Acc. Chem. Res., 50, 2297-2308 (2017).
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1125. Yuan Gao, K. N. Houk, Chun-Yu Ho, and Xin Hong: "The Mechanism and Regioselectivities of (NHC)nickel(II)hydride-catalyzed Cycloisomerization of Dienes: A Computational Study," Org. Biomol. Chem., 15, 7131-7139 (2017).
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1126. Isaac Chogli, Pradipta Das, Jason S. Fell, Kevin A. Scott, Mark N. Crawford, K. N. Houk, and Jon T. Njardarson: "New Class of Anion-Accelerated Amino-Cope Rearrangements as Gateway to Diverse Chiral Structures," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 13141-13146 (2017). Correction: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 9314-9314 (2018).
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1127. Shuo-Qing Zhang, Buck L. H. Taylor, Chong-Lei Ji, Yuan Gao, Michael R. Harris, Luke E. Hanna, Elizabeth R. Jarvo, K. N. Houk, and Xin Hong: "Mechanism and Origins of Ligand-Controlled Stereoselectivity of Ni-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling with Benzylic Esters: A Computational Study," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 12994-13005 (2017).
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1128. Katharina Marie Wenz, Peng Liu, and K. N. Houk: "Intramolecular C-H Activation Reactions of Ru(NHC) Complexes Combined with H2 Transfer to Alkenes: A Theoretical Elucidation of Mechanisms and Effects of Ligands on Reactivities," Organometallics, 36, 3613-3623 (2017).
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1129. Aaron A. Koch, Douglas A. Hansen, Vikram V. Shende, Lawrence R. Furan, K. N. Houk, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, and David H. Sherman: "A Single Active Site Mutation in the Pikromycin Thioesterase Generates a More Effective Macrocyclization Catalyst," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 13456-13465 (2017).
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1130. Masao Ohashi, Fang Liu, Yang Hai, Mengbin Chen, Man-cheng Tang, Zhongyue Yang, Michio Sato, Kenji Watanabe, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "SAM-dependent Enzyme-Catalysed Pericyclic Reactions in Natural Product Biosynthesis," Nature, 549, 502-506 (2017).
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1131. Rajat Maj, Pier Alexandre Champagne, K. N. Houk, and Steven E. Wheeler: "Activation Mode and Origin of Selectivity in Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Oxacycle Formation by Intramolecular Oxetane Desymmetrizations," ACS Catal., 7, 7332-7339 (2017).
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1132. Jessica M. Grandner, Huiling Shao, Robert H. Grubbs, Peng Liu, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of the Stereoretentive Mechanism of Olefin Metathesis with Ru-Dithiolate Catalysts," J. Org. Chem., 82, 10595-10600 (2017).
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1133. Maruthi Kumar Narayanam, Gaoyuan Ma, Pier Alexandre Champagne, Kendall N. Houk, and Jennifer M. Murphy: "Synthesis of [18F]Fluoroarenes by Nucleophilic Radiofluorination of N-Arylsydnones," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56, 13006-13010 (2017).
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1134. Pier Alexandre Champagne and K. N. Houk: "Influence of Endo- and Exocyclic Heteroatoms on Stabilities and 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions Reactivities of Mesoionic Azomethine Ylides and Imines," J. Org. Chem., 82, 10980-10988 (2017).
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1135. Cyndi Qixin He, Peiyuan Yu, Yu-hong Lam, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Stereoselectivity in Chiral Aminoalcohol Catalysis of Oxyallyl Cation-Indole Reactions," Org. Lett., 19, 5685-5688 (2017).
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1136. Patrick Montgomery, Jessica M. Grandner, K. N. Houk, and Robert H. Grubbs: "Synthesis and Evalution of Sterically Demanding Ruthenium Dithiolate Catalysts for Stereoretentive Olefin Metathesis," Organometallics, 36, 3940-3953 (2017).
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1137. Bryan J. Simmons, Marie Hoffmann, Pier Alexandre Champagne, Elias Picao, Katsuya Yamakawa, Lucas A. Morrill, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg: "Understanding and Interrupting the Fischer Azaindolization Reaction," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 14833-14836 (2017).
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1138. Janice B. Lin, Yu Jin, Steven A. Lopez, Nathaniel Druckerman, Steven E. Wheeler, and K. N. Houk: "Torsional Barriers to Rotation and Planarization in Heterocyclic Oligomers of Value in Organic Electronics," J. Chem. Theory Comput., 13, 5624-5638 (2017).
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1139. Robert S. Jordan, Yolanda L. Li, Cheng-Wei Lin, Ryan D. McCurdy, Janice B. Lin, Jonathan L. Brosmer, Kristofer L. Marsh, Saeed L. Khan, K. N. Houk, Richard B. Kaner, and Yves Rubin: "Synthesis of N = 8 Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons from Four Distinct Polydiacetylenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 15878-15890 (2017).
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1140. Chao Zhou, Juan Liang, Shangli Cheng, Ting Shi, K. N. Houk, Dong-Qing Wei, and Yi-Lei Zhao: "Ab initio Molecular Metadynamics Simulation for S-nitroxylation by Nitric Oxide: S-nitroxide as they Key Intermediate," Molecular Simulation, 43, 1134-1141 (2017).
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1141. Marc Garcia-Borras, Kendall N. Houk, and Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses: "Computational Design of Protein Function," in Computational Tools for Chemical Biology, Chemical Biology No. 3, 87-107, Sonsoles Martin-Santamaria, ed., Royal Society of Chemistry: London, UK (2018).
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1142. Yun-Fang Yang, Xin Hong, Jin-Quan Yu, and K. N. Houk: "Experimental-Computational Synergy for Selective Pd(II)-Catalyzed C-H Activation of Aryl and Alkyl Groups," Acc. Chem. Res., 50, 2853-2860 (2017).
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1143. Fengjiao Liu, Zhongyue Yang, Yanmin Yu, Ye Mei, and K. N. Houk: "Bimodal Evans-Polanyi Relationships in Dioxirane Oxidations of sp3 C-H: Non-Perfect Synchronization in Generation of Delocalized Radical Intermediates," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 16650-16656 (2017).
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1144. Stefanie A. Baril, Amber L. Koenig, Mackenzie W. Krone, Katherine I. Albanese, Cyndi Qixin He, Ga Young Lee, Kendall N. Houk, Marcey L. Waters, and Eric M. Brustad: "Investigation of Trimethyllysine Binding by the HP1 Chromodomain via Unnatural Amino Acid Mutagenesis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 17253-17256 (2017).
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1145. Shuming Chen, Xiaoqiang Huang, Eric Meggers, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Enantioselectivity in Asymmetric Radical Additions to Octahedral Chiral-at-Rhodium Enolates: A Computational Study," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 17902-17907 (2017).
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1146. Yun-Fang Yang, Peiyuan Yu, and K. N. Houk: "Computational Exploration of Concerted and Zwitterionic Mechanisms of Diels-Alder Reactions between 1,2,3-Triazines and Enamines and Acceleration by Hydrogen-Bonding Solvents," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 18213-18221 (2017).
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1147. Cortnie S. Vogelsberg, Fernando J. Uribe-Romo, Andrew S. Lipton, Song Yang, K. N. Houk, Stuart Brown, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay: "Ultrafast Rotation in an Amphidynamic Crystalline Metal Organic Framework," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 114, 13613-13618 (2017).
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1148. Michael M. Gilbert, Matthew D. DeMars, Song Yang, Jessica M. Grandner, Shoulei Wang, Hengbin Wang, Alison R. H. Narayan, David H. Sherman, K. N. Houk, and John Montgomery: "Synthesis of Diverse 11- and 12-Membered Macrolactones from a Common Linear Substrate Using a Single Biocatalyst," ACS Cent. Sci., 3, 1304-1310 (2017).
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1149. David E. Hill, Katherine L. Bay, Yun-Fang Yang, R. Erik Plata, Ryosuke Takise, K. N. Houk, Jin-Quan Yi, and Donna G. Blackmond: "Dynamic Ligand Exchange as a Mechanistic Probe in Pd-Catalyzed Enantioselective C-H Functionalization Reactions Using Monoprotected Amino Acid Ligands," J. Am Chem. Soc., 139, 18500-18503 (2017).
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1150. Nicolas Kerisit, Przemyslaw Gawel, Brian Levandowski, Yun-Fang Yang, Victor Garcia-Lopez, Nils Trapp, Laurent Ruhlmann, Corinne Boudon, Kendall N. Houk, and Francois Diederich: "A Four-Step Synthesis of Substituted 5,11-Dicyano-6,12-diaryltetracenes with Enhanced Stability and High Fluorescence Emission," Chem. Eur. J., 24, 159-168 (2018).
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1151. Kui Zhang, Lingchao Cai. Zhongyou Yang, K. N. Houk, and Ohyun Kwon: "Bridged [2.2.1] Bicyclic Phosphine Oxide Facilitates Catalytic gamma-Umpolung Addition-Wittig Olefination," Chem. Sci., 9, 1867-1872 (2018).
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1152. Brian J. Levandowski, Dinushka Herath, Nathan M. Gallup, and K. N. Houk: "Origin of pi-Facial Stereoselectivity in Thiophene 1-Oxide Cycloadditions," J. Org. Chem., 83, 2611-2616 (2018).
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1153. Zhongyue Yang, Xiaofei Dong, Yanmin Yu, Peiyuan Yu, Yingzi Li, Cooper Jamieson, and K. N. Houk: "Relationships between Product Ratios in Ambimodal Pericyclic Reactions and Bond Lengths in Transition Structures," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 3061-3067 (2018).
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1154. Zhongyue Yang, Song Yang, Peiyuan Yu, Yanwei Li, Charles Doubleday, Jiyong Park, Ashay Patel, Byung-sun Jeon, William K. Russell, Hung-wen Liu, David H. Russell, and K. N. Houk: "Influence of Water and Enzyme SpnF on the Dynamics and Energetics of the Ambimodal [6+4]/[4+2] Cycloaddition," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 115, E848-855 (2018).
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1155. Jianxin Guan, Chuancheng Jia, Yanwei Li, Zitong Liu, Jinying Wang, Zhongyue Yang, Chunhui Gu, Dingkai Su, Kendall N. Houk, Deqing Zhang, and Xuefeng Guo: "Direct Single-Molecule Dynamic Detection of Chemical Reactions," Sci. Adv., 4, eaar2177 (2018).
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1156. Zhongyue Yang and K. N. Houk: "The Dynamics of Chemical Reactions: Atomistic Visualizations of Organic Reactions, and Homage to van ‘t Hoff," Chem. Eur. J., 24, 3916-3924 (2018).
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1157. Brian J. Levandowski, Trevor A. Hamlin, Roger C. Helgeson, F. Matthias Bickelhaupt, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of the Endo and Exo Selectivities in Cyclopropenone, Iminocyclopropene, and Triafulvene Diels-Alder Cycloadditions," J. Org. Chem., 83, 3164-3170 (2018).
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1158. Shuming Chen and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Stereoselectivity in Mannich Reactions Catalyzed by Chiral Vicinal Diamines," J. Org. Chem., 83, 3171-3176 (2018).
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1159. Sean A. Newminster, Shasha Li, Marc Garcia-Borras, Jacob N. Sanders, Song Yang, Andrew N. Lowell, Fengan Yu, Janet L. Smith, Robert M. Williams, K. N. Houk, and David H. Sherman: "Structural Basis of the Cope Rearrangement and Cyclization in Hapalindole Biogenesis," Nature Chem. Biol., 14, 345-351 (2018).
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1160. Jack T. Ly, Steven A. Lopez, Janice B. Lin, Jae Joon Kim, Hyunbok Lee, Edmund K. Burnett, Lei Zhang, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, K. N. Houk, and Alejandro L. Briseno: "Oxidation of Rubrene, and Implications for Device Stability," J. Mat. Chem. C, 6, 3757-3761 (2018).
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1161. Morgan M. Walker, Shuming Chen, Brandon Q. Mercado, K. N. Houk, and Jonathan A. Ellman: "Formation of Aminocyclopentadienes from Silyldihydropyridines: Ring Contraditions Driven by Anion Stabilization," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 57, 6605-6609 (2018).
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1162. Shermin S. Goh, Pier Alexandre Champagne, Sureshbabu Guduguntla, Takashi Kikuchi, Makoto Fujita, K. N. Houk, and Ben L. Feringa: "Stereospecific Ring Contraction of Bromocycloheptenes through Dyotropic Rearrangements via Nonclassical Carbocation-Anion Pairs," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 4986-4990 (2018).
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1163. Shuming Chen, Yu Zheng, Tianjiao Cui, Eric Meggers, and K. N. Houk: "Arylketone pi-Conjugation Controls Enantioselectivity in Asymmetric Alkynylations Catalyzed by Centrochiral Ruthenium Complexes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 5146-5152 (2018).
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1164. Xiaoming Wang, Yingzi Li, Tobias Knecht, Constantin Daniliuc, K. N. Houk, and Frank Glorius: "Unprecedented Dearomatized Spirocyclopropane in a Sequential Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed C-H Activation and Rearrangement Reaction," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 57, 5520-5524 (2018).
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1165. Raspudin Saleem-Batcha, Frederick Stull, Jacob N. Sanders, Bradley S. Moore, Bruce A. Palfrey, K. N. Houk, and Robin Teufel: "Enzymatic Control of Dioxygen Binding and Functionalization of the Flavin Cofactor," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 115, 4909-4914 (2018).
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1166. Huimin Tao, Fang Liu, Ruxin Zeng, Zhuzhou Shao, Lufeng Zou, Yang Cao, Jennifer M. Murphy, K. N. Houk, and Yong Liang: "Origins of Halogen Effects in Bioorthogonal Sydnone Cycloadditions," Chem. Commun., 54, 5082-5085 (2018).
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1167. Katie Scholl, John Dillashaw, Evan Timpy, Yu-hong Lam, Lindsey DeRatt, Tyler R. Benton, Jacqueline P. Powell, K. N. Houk, and Jeremy B. Morgan: "Quinine-Promoted, Enantioselective Boron-Tethered Diels-Alder Reaction by Anomeric Control of Transition-State Conformation," J. Org. Chem., 83, 5756-5765 (2018).
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1168. Katherine L. Bay, Yun-Fang Yang, and K. N. Houk: "Multiple Roles of Silver Salts in Palladium-Catalyzed C-H Activations," J. Organomet. Chem., 864, 19-25 (2018).
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1169. Maruthi Kumar Narayanam, Gaoyuan Ma, Pier Alexandre Champagne, Kendall N. Houk, and Jennifer M. Murphy: "Nucleophilic 18F-Fluorination of Anilines via N-Arylsydnone Intermediates," Synlett, 29, 1131-1135 (2018).
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1170. Shao-Xiong Luo, Keary M. Engle, Xiaofei Dong, Andrew Hejl, Michael K. Takase, Lawrence M. Henling, Peng Liu, K. N. Houk, and Robert H. Grubbs: "An Initiation Kinetics Prediction Model Enables Rational Design of Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts Bearing Modified Chelating Benzylidenes," ACS Catal., 8, 4600-4611 (2018).
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1171. Brian J. Levandowski, Raymond F. Gamache, Jennifer M. Murphy, and K. N. Houk: "Readily Accessible Ambiphilic Cyclopentadienes for Bioorthogonal Labeling," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 6426-6431 (2018).
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1172. Baba Maiga-Wandiam, Andrei Corbu, Georges Massiot, Francois Sautel, Peiyuan Yu, Bernice Wan-Yi Lin, Kendall N. Houk, and Janine Cossy: "Intramolecular Diels-Alder Approaches to the Decalin Core of Verongidolide: The Origin of the exo-Selectivity, a DFT Analysis," J. Org. Chem., 83, 5975-5985 (2018).
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1173. Shu-Shan Gao, Tao Zhang, Marc Garcia-Borras, Yiu-Sun Hung, John M. Billingsley, K. N. Houk, Youcai Hu, and Yi Tang: "Biosynthesis of Heptacyclic Duclauxins Requires Extensive Redox Modifications of the Phenalenone Aromatic Polyketide," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 6991-6997 (2018).
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1174. Liao-Bin Dong, Jeffrey D. Rudolf, Dingding Kang, Nan Wang, Cyndi Qixin He, Youchao Deng, Yong Huang, K. N. Houk, Yanwen Duan, and Ben Shen: "Biosynthesis of Thiocarboxylic Acid-Containing Natural Products," Nature Comm., 9, Article Number 2362 (2018).
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1175. Elias Picazo, Sarah M. Anthony, Maude Giroud, Adam Simon, Margeaux A. Miller, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg: "Arynes and Cyclic Alkynes as Synthetic Building Blocks for Stereodefined Quaternary Centers," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 7605-7610 (2018).
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1176. Sam J. B. Mallinson, Melodie M. Machovina, Rodrigo L. Silveira, Marc Garcia-Borras, Nathan Gallup, Christopher W. Johnson, Mark D. Allen, Munir S. Skaf, Michael F. Crowley, Ellen L. Neidle, Kendall N. Houk, Gregg T. Beckham, Jennifer L. DuBois, and John E. McGeehan: "A Promiscuous Cytochrome P450 Aromatic O-demethylase for Lignin Bioconversion," Nature Comm., 9, Article Number 2487 (2018).
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1177. Zhongyue Yang, Luyi Zou, Yanmin Yu, Fengjiao Liu, Xiaofei Dong, and K. N. Houk: "Molecular Dynamics of the Two-Stage Mechanism of Cyclopentadiene Dimerization: Concerted or Stepwise?," Chem. Phys., 120-125 (2018).
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1178. Joyann S. Barber, Michael M. Yamano, Melissa Ramirez, Evan R. Darzi, Rachel R. Knapp, Fang Liu, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg: "Diels-Alder Cycloadditions of Strained Azacyclic Allenes," Nature Chem., 10, 953-960 (2018).
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1179. Russell D. Lewis, Marc Garcia-Borras, Matthew J. Chalkley, Andrew R. Buller, K. N. Houk, S. B. Jennifer Kan, and Frances H. Arnold: "Catalytic Iron-Carbene Intermediate Revealed in a Cytochrome c Carbene Transferase," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 115, 7308-7313 (2018).
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1180. Shenji Kishimoto, Kodai Hara, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yuichiro Hirayama, Pier Alexandre Champagne, Kendall N. Houk, Yi Tang, and Kenji Watanabe: "Enzymatic One-Step Ring Contraction for Quinolone Biosynthesis," Nature Comm., 9, Article Number 2826 (2018).
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1181. Tonia S. Ahmed, Jessica M. Grandner, Buck L. H. Taylor, Myles B. Herbert, K. N. Houk, and Robert H. Grubbs: "Metathesis and Decomposition of Fischer Carbenes of Cyclometalated Z-Selective Ruthenium Metathesis Catalysts," Organometallics, 37, 2212-2216 (2018).
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1182. Stasik Popov, Brian Shao, Alex L. Bagdasarian, Tyler R. Benton, Luyi Zou, Zhongyue Yang, K. N. Houk, and Hosea M. Nelson: "Teaching an Old Carbocation New Tricks: Intermolecular C-H Insertion Reactions of Vinyl Cations," Science, 361, 381-387 (2018).
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1183. Kendall N. Houk and Fang Liu: "John D. Roberts, his Beginnings at UCLA, his Transformation of Physical Organic Chemistry, and his Impact on Science," J. Phys. Org. Chem., 31, e3810 (2018).
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1184. K. N. Houk, Marjorie C. Caserio, George M. Whitesides, David I. Schuster, Peter B. Dervan, and Dennis A. Dougherty: "J. D. Roberts Special Issue," J. Phys. Org. Chem., 31, e3886 (2018).
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1185. Guangyue Li, Marc Garcia-Borras, Maximilian J. L. J. Furst, Adriana Ilie, Marco W. Fraaje, K. N. Houk, and Manfred T. Reetz: "Overriding Traditional Electronic Effects in Biocatalytic Baeyer-Villiger Reactions by Directed Evolution," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 10464-10472 (2018).
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1186. Jian Zhang, Peiyuan Yu, Shao-Yu Li, He Sun, Shao-Hua Xiang, Jun (Joelle) Wang, Kendall N. Houk, and Bin Tan: "Asymmetric Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Four-Component Ugi Reaction," Science, 361, eaas8707 (2018).
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1187. Kuangbiao Liao, Yun-Fang Yang, Yingzi Li, Jacob N. Sanders, K. N. Houk, Djamaladdin G. Musaev, and Huw M. L. Davies: "Design of Catalysts for Site-Selective and Enantioselective Functionalization of Non-Activated Primary C-H Bonds," Nature Chem., 10, 1048-1055 (2018).
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1188. Xiao-Song Xue, Brian J. Levandowski, Cyndi Qixin He, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Selectivities in the Stork-Diels-Alder Cycloaddition for the Synthesis of (±)-4-Methylenegermine," Org. Lett., 20, 6108-6111 (2018).
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1189. Brandon E. Haines, Brandon M. Nelson, Jessica M. Grandner, Justin Kim, K. N. Houk, Mohammad Movassaghi, and Djamaladdin G. Musaev: "Mechanism of Permanganate-Promoted Dihydroxylation of Complex Diketopiperazines: Critical Roles of Counter-cation and Ion-Pairing," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 13375-13386 (2018).
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1190. Peiyuan Yu, Cyndi Qixin He, Adam Simon, Wei Li, Rasmus Mose, Mathias Kirk Thogersen, Karl Anker Jorgensen, and K. N. Houk: "Organocatalytic [6+4] Cycloadditions via Zwitterionic Intermediates: Chemo-, Regio-, and Stereoselectivities," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 13726-13735 (2018).
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1191. Sung-Eun Suh, Shuming Chen, K. N. Houk, and David M. Chenoweth: "The Mechanism of the Triple Aryne-Tetrazine Reaction Cascade: Theory and Experiment," Chem. Sci., 9, 7688-7693 (2018).
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1192. Biying Zhou, Moriana K. Haj, Eric N. Jacobsen, K. N. Houk, and Xiao-Song Xue: "Mechanism and Origins of Chemo- and Stereoselectivities of Aryl Iodide-Catalyzed Asymmetric Difluoronations of beta-Substituted Styrenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 15206-15218 (2018).
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1193. Sarah K. Scott, Jacob N. Sanders, Katherine E. White, Roland A. Yu, K. N. Houk, and Alexander J. Grenning: "Controlling, Understanding, and Redirecting the Thermal Rearrangement of 3,3-Dicyano-1,5-enynes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 16134-16139 (2018).
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1194. Brian J. Levandowski, Lufeng Zou, and K. N. Houk: "Hyperconjugative Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity Control the Reactivities and π-Facial Stereoselectivities of 5-Substituted Cyclopentadiene Diels-Alder Cycloadditions," J. Org. Chem., 83, 14658-14666 (2018).
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1195. Katherine L. Bay, Yun-Fang Yang, and K. N. Houk: "Computational Exploration of a Pd(II) gamma-C-H Arylation Where Stereoselectivity Arises from Attractive Aryl-Aryl Interactions," J. Org. Chem., 83, 14786-14790 (2018).
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1196. Ehsan Fereyduni, Jacob N. Sanders, Gabriel Gonzalez, K. N. Houk, and Alexander J. Grenning: "Transient [3,3] Cope Rearrangement of 3,3-Dicyano-1,5-Dienes: Computational Analysis and 2-Step Synthesis of Arylcycloheptanes," Chem. Sci., 9, 8760-8764 (2018).
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1197. Di Wang, Xiao-Song Xue, Kendall N. Houk, and Zhuangzhi Shi: "Mild Ring-Opening 1,3-Hydroborations of Non-Activated Cyclopropanes," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 57, 16861-16865 (2018).
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1198. Shuming Chen, Peiyuan Yu, and K. N. Houk: "Ambimodal Dipolar/Diels-Alder Cycloaddition Transition States Involving Proton Transfers," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 18124-18131 (2018).
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1199. Zhuzhou Shao, Wei Liu, Huimin Tao, Fang Liu, Ruxin Zeng, Pier Alexandre Champagne, Yang Cao, K. N. Houk, and Yong Liang: "Bioorthogonal Release of Sulfonamides and Mutually Orthogonal Liberation of Two Drugs," Chem. Comm., 54, 14089-14092 (2018).
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1200. Shuming Chen, Amy Y. Chan, Morgan M. Walker, Jonathan A. Ellman, and K. N. Houk: "Ï€-Facial Selectivities in Hydride Reductions of Hindered Endocyclic Iminium Ions," J. Org. Chem., 84, 273-281 (2019).
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1201. Kersti Caddell Haatveit, Marc Garcia-Borras, and Kendall N. Houk: "Computational Protocol to Understand P450 Mechanisms and Design of Efficient and Selective Biocatalysts," Frontiers in Chemistry, 6, Article Number 663 (2019).
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1202. Ilhan Yavuz, Janice B. Lin, and K. N. Houk: "Impact of Morphology, Side-Chains, and Crystallinity on Charge-Transport Properties of π-Extended Double Helicenes," Chem. Phys. Phys. Chem., 21, 901-914 (2019).
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1203. Brian J. Levandowski, Trevor A. Hamlin, Hannah J. Eckvahl, F. Matthias Bickelhaupt, and K. N. Houk: "Diels-Alder Reactivities of Cycloalkenediones with Tetrazine," J. Mol. Model., 25, Article Number 33 (2019).
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1204. Janice B. Lin, Evan R. Darzi, Ramesh Jasti, Ilhan Yavuz, and K. N. Houk: "Solid-State Order and Charge Mobility in [5]- to [12]Cycloparaphenylenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 952-960 (2019).
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1205. Dan Tan, Cooper S. Jamieson, Masao Ohashi, Man-Cheng Tang, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Genome-Mined Diels-Alderase Catalyzes Formation of the cis-Octahydrodecalins on Varicidin A and B," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 769-773 (2019).
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1206. Zijun Zhou, Shuming Chen, Jie Qin, Xin Nie, Xingwen Zhang, Klaus Harms, Radostan Riedel, K. N. Houk, and Eric Meggers: "Catalytic Enantioselective Intramolecular C(sp3)-H Amination of 2-Azidoacetamides," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, 1088-1093 (2019).
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1207. Xiao-Song Xue, Cooper S. Jamieson, Marc Garcia-Borras, Xiaofei Dong, Zhongyue Yang, and K. N. Houk: "Ambimodal Trispericyclic Transition State and Dynamic Control of Periselectivity," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 1217-1221 (2019).
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1208. Expedite Yen-Pon, Pier Alexandre Champagne, Lucie Plougaste, Sandra Gabillet, Pierre Thuery, Mizuki Johnson, Gilles Muller, Gregory Pieters, Frederic Taran, K. N. Houk, and Davide Audisio: "Sydnone-Based Approach to Heterohelicenes through 1,3-Dipolar-Cycloadditions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 1435-1440 (2019).
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1209. Brian J. Levandowski, Dennis Svatunek, Barbara Sohr, Hannes Mikula, and K. N. Houk: "Secondary Orbital Interactions Enhance the Reactivity of Alkynes in Diels-Alder Cycloadditions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 2224-2227 (2019). Correction: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 18641-18641 (2019).
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1210. Maggie Chen, Cyndi Qixin He, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism and Regioselectivity of an Unsymmetrical Hexadehydro-Diels-Alder (HDDA) Reaction," J. Org. Chem., 84, 1959-1963 (2019).
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1211. Giulio Bertuzzi, Mathias Kirk Thogersen, Maxime Giardinetti, Andreu Vidal-Albala, Adam Simon, K. N. Houk, and Karl Anker Jorgensen: "Catalytic Enantioselective Hetero-[6+4] and –[6+2] Cycloadditions for the Construction of Condensed Polycyclic Pyrroles, Imidazoles, and Pyrazoles," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 3288-3297 (2019).
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1212. Sarah. E. Cleary, Xin Li, Li-Chen Yang, K. N. Houk, Xin Hong, and Matthias Brewer: "Reactivity Profiles of Diazo Amides, Esters, and Ketones in Transition-Metal-Free C-H Insertion Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 3558-3565 (2019).
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1213. Xiongyi Huang, Marc Garcia-Borras, Kun Miao, S. B. Jennifer Kan, Arjun Zutshi, K. N. Houk, and Frances H. Arnold: "A Biocatalytic Platform for Synthesis for Chiral a-Trifluoromethylated Organoborons," ACS Cent. Sci., 5, 270-276 (2019).
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1214. Shuming Chen, Sining Wang, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Contrasteric pi-Facial Selectivity in Epoxidations of Encumbered Tetrahydropyridines by a Bifunctional Peracid," Synlett, 30, 459-463 (2019).
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1215. Yifan Deng, Minh D. Nguyen, Yike Zou, K. N. Houk, and Amos B. Smith III: "Generation of Dithianyl and Dioxolanyl Radicals Using Photoredox Catalysis: Application in the Total Synthesis of the Danshenspiroketallactones via Radical Relay Chemistry," Org. Lett., 21, 1708-1712 (2019).
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1216. Bo Zhang, Kai Biao Wang, Wen Wang, Xin Wang, Fang Liu, Jiapeng Zhu, Jing Shi, Ying Yu Li, Hao Han, Kuang Xu, Hong Yun Qiao, Xiao Zhang, Rui Hua Jiao, Kendall N. Houk, Yong Liang, Ren Xiang Tan, and Hui Ming Ge: "Enzyme-Catalysed [6+4] Cycloadditions in the Biosynthesis of Natural Products," Nature, 568, 122-126 (2019).
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1217. Ga Young Lee, Katherine L. Bay, and Kendall N. Houk: "Evaluation of DFT Methods and Implicit Solvation Models for Anion-Binding Host-Guest Systems," Helv. Chim. Acta, 102, e1900032 (2019).
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1218. Zhongyue Yang, Cooper S. Jamieson, Xiao-Song Xue, Marc Garcia-Borras, Tyler Benton, Xiaofei Dong, Fang Liu, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanisms and Dynamics of Reactions Involving Entropic Intermediates," Trends in Chemistry, 1, 22-34 (2019).
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1219. Zhuan Zhang, Cooper S. Jamieson, Yi-Lei Zhao, Dehai Li, Masao Ohashi, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Enzyme-Catalyzed Inverse-Electron Demand Diels-Alder Reaction in the Biosynthesis of Antifungal Ilicicolin H," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 5659-5663 (2019).
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1220. Michael M. Yamano, Rachel R. Knapp, Aurapat Ngamnithiporn, Melissa Ramirez, Kendall N. Houk, Brian M. Stoltz, and Neil K. Garg: "Cycloadditions of Oxacyclic Allenes and a Catalytic Asymmetric Entryway to Enantioenriched Cyclic Allenes," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, 5653-5657 (2019).
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1221. Chung Whan Lee, Buck L. H. Taylor, Galina P. Petrova, Ashay Patel, Keiji Morokuma, K. N. Houk, and Brian M. Stoltz: "An Unexpected Ireland–Claisen Rearrangement Cascade During the Synthesis of the Tricyclic Core of Curcusone C: Mechanistic Elucidation by Trial-and-Error and Automatic Artificial Force-Induced Reaction (AFIR) Computations," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 6995-7004 (2019).
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1222. Cooper S. Jamieson, Masao Ohashi, Fang Liu, Yi Tang, and K. N. Houk: "The Expanding World of Biosynthetic Pericyclases: Cooperation of Experiment and Theory for Discovery," Nat. Prod. Rep., 36, 698-713 (2019).
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1223. Trevor A. Hamlin, Brian J. Levandowski, Ayush K. Narsaria, Kendall N. Houk, and F. Matthias Bickelhaupt: "Structural Distortion of Cycloalkynes Influences Cycloaddition Rates both by Strain and Interaction Energies, " Chem. Eur. J., 25, 6342-6348 (2019).
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1224. Brian J. Levandowski, Ronald T. Raines, and K. N. Houk: "Hyperconjugative pi -> sigma*CF Interactions Stabilize the Enol Form of Perfluorinated Cyclic Keto-Enol Systems," J. Org. Chem., 84, 6432-6436 (2019).
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1225. Yong-Bin Wang, Peiyuan Yu, Zhi-Peng Zhou, Jian Zhang, Jun (Joelle) Wang, Shi-Hui Luo, Qiang-Shuai Gu, K. H. Houk, and Bin Tan: "Rational Design, Enantioselective Synthesis and Catalytic Applications of Axially Chiral EBINOLs," Nature Cat., 2, 504-513 (2019).
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1226. Yanmin Yu, Zhongyue Yang, and K. N. Houk: "Molecular Dynamics of the Intramolecular 1, 3-dipolar Ene Reaction of a Nitrile Oxide and an Alkene: Non-statistical Behavior of a Reaction Involving a Diradical Intermediate," Mol. Phys., 117, 1360-1366 (2019).
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1227. Feng Ni, Arunika Ekanayake, Bianca Espinosa, Caiyun Yu, Jacob N. Sanders, John Perino, K. N. Houk, and Chao Zhang: "Synthesis and Target Identification of a Novel Electrophilic Warhead, 2-Chloromethylquinoline," Biochem., 58, 2715-2719 (2019).
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1228. Lingchao Cai, Kui Zhang, Shuming Chen, Romain J. Lepage, K. N. Houk, Elizabeth H. Krenske, and Ohyun Kwon: "Catalytic Asymmetric Staudinger-aza-Wittig Reaction for the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Amines," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 9537-9542 (2019).
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1229. Kun Liu, Ravi Kurukulasuriya, Kevin Dykstra, Lisa DiMichelle, Jinchu Liu, Petr Vachal, Anthony Ogawa, Robert J. DeVita, Dong-Ming Shen, Qiang Tan, Yili Chen, Don Gauthier, Andreas Verras, Alejandro Crespo, Beata Zamlynny, Jeffrey Madwed, Maarten Hoek, Thomas Bateman, Yun-Fang Yang, K. N. Houk, Shan Krska, and Tim Cernak: "Development of Indazole Mineralocorticoid Reception Antagonists and Investigation into Their Selective Late-Stage Functionalization," Biol. Med. Chem. Lett., 29, 1854-1858 (2019).
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1230. Dennis Svatunek and Kendall N. Houk: "autoDIAS: A Python Tool for an Automated Distortion/Interaction Activation Strain Analysis," J. Comp. Chem., 40, 2509-2525 (2019).
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1231. Yike Zou, Xiao-Song Xue, Yifan Deng, Amos B. Smith III, and K. N. Houk: "Factors Controlling Reactivity in the Hydrogen Atom Transfer and Radical Addition Steps of a Radical Relay Cascade," Org. Lett., 21, 5894-5897 (2019).
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1232. Benjamin Wigman, Stasik Popov, Alex L. Bagdasarian, Brian Shao, Tyler R. Benton, Chloe G. Williams, Steven P. Risher, Vincent Lavallo, K. N. Houk, and Hosea M. Nelson: "Vinyl Carbocations Generated under Basic Conditions and Their Intramolecular C-H Insertion Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 9140-9144 (2019).
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1233. Julian Tu, Dennis Svatunek, Saba Parvez, Albert C. Liu, Brian J. Levandowski, Hannah J. Eckvahl, Randall T. Peterson, Kendall N. Houk, and Raphael M. Franzini: "Stable, Reactive, and Orthogonal Tetrazines: Dispersion Forces Promote the Cycloaddition with Isonitriles," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, 9043-9048 (2019).
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1234. Melodie M. Machovina, Sam J. B. Mallinson, Brandon C. Knott, Alexander W. Meyers, Marc Garcia-Borras, Lintao Bu, Japheth E. Gado, April Oliver, Graham P. Schmidt, Daniel J. Hinchen, Michael F. Crowley, Christopher W. Johnson, Ellen L. Neidle, Christina M. Payne, Kendall N. Houk, Gregg T. Beckham, John E. McGeehan, and Jennifer L. DuBois: "Enabling Microbial Syringol Conversion through Structure-Guided Protein Engineering," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 116, 13970-13976 (2019).
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1235. Yujuan Cai, Yang Hai, Masao Ohashi, Cooper S. Jamieson, Marc Garcia-Borras, K. N. Houk, Jiahai Zhou, and Yi Tang: "Structural Basis for Stereoselective Dehydration and Hydrogen-Bonding Catalysis by the SAM-Dependent Pericyclase Lepl," Nature Chem., 11, 812-820 (2019).
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1236. Lucas C. Moore, Anna Lo, Jason S. Fell, Matthew R. Duong, Jose A. Moreno, Barry E. Rich, Martin Bravo, James C. Fettinger, Lucas W. Souza, Marilyn M. Olmstead, Kendall N. Houk, and Jared T. Shaw: "Acyclic Stereocontrol in the Additions of Nucleophilic Alkenes to alpha-Chiral N-Sulfonyl Imines," Chem. Eur. J., 25, 12214-12220 (2019).
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1237. Yingzi Li, Haohua Chen, Ling-Bo Qu, K. N. Houk, and Yu Lan: "Origin of Regiochemical Control in Rh(III)/Rh(V)-Catalyzed Reactions of Unsaturated Oximes and Alkenes to Form Pyridines," ACS Catal., 9, 7154-7165 (2019).
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1238. Yike Zou, Shuming Chen, and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Selective Formation of 5-Vinyl-2-methylene Furans from Oxyallyl/Diene (3+2) Cycloadditions with Pd(0) Catalysis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 12382-12387 (2019).
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1239. Chenhao Zhang, Shuming Chen, Chen-Xi Ye, Klaud Harms, Lilu Zhang, K. N. Houk, and Eric Meggers: "Asymmetric Photocatalysis by Intramolecular Hydrogen-Atom Transfer in Photoexcited Catalyst-Substrate Complex," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, 14462-14466 (2019).
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1240. Qibin Chen, Jie Gao, Cooper Jamieson, Jiawang Liu, Masao Ohashi, Jian Bai, Daojian Yan, Bingyu Liu, Yongsheng Che, Yanan Wang, K. N. Houk, and Youcai Hu: "Enzymatic Intermolecualr Hetero-Diels-Alder Reaction in the Biosynthesis of Tropolonic Sesquiterpenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 14052-14056 (2019).
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1241. Xin Mu, Jonathan C. Axtell, Nicholas A. Bernier, Kent O. Kirlikovali, Dahee Jung, Alexander Umanzor, Kevin Qian, Xiangyang Chen, Katherine L. Bay, Monica Kirollos, Arnold L. Rheingold, K. N. Houk, and Alexander M. Spokoyny: "Sterically Unprotected Nucleophilic Boron Cluster Reagents," Chem., 5, 2461-2469 (2019).
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1242. Xia-Ping Fu, Xiao-Song Xue, Xue-Ying Zhang, Yu-Lan Xiao, Shu Zhang, Yin-Long Guo, Xuebing Leng, Kendall N. Houk, and Xingang Zhang: "Controllable Catalytic Difluorocarbene Transfer Enables Access to Diversified Fluoroalkylated Arenes," Nature Chem., 11, 948-956 (2019).
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1243. Lanxuan Liu, Ting Shi, Kendall N. Houk, and Yi-Lei Zhao: "Understanding the R882H Mutation Effects of DNA Methyltransferase DNMT3A: A Combination of Molecular Dynamics Simulations and QM/MM Calculations," RSC Adv., 9, 31425-31434 (2019).
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1244. Vincent Le Fouler, Yu Chen, Vincent Gandon, Vincent Bizet, Christophe Salome, Thomas Fessard, Fang Liu, K. N. Houk, and Nicholas Blanchard: "Activating Pyrimidines by Pre-distortion for the General Synthesis of 7-Aza-indazoles from 2-Hydrazonylpyrimidines via Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 15901-15909 (2019).
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1245. Hanliang Zheng, Yueqian Sang, K. N. Houk, Xiao-Song Xue, and Jin-Pei Cheng: "Mechanism and Origins of Enantioselectivities in Spirobiindane-Based Hypervalent Iodine(III)-Induced Asymmetric Dearomatizing Spirolactonizations," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 16046-16056 (2019).
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1246. Kendall N. Houk and Hans-Ulrich Reissig: "Rolf Huisgen’s Legacy," Chem., 5, 2499-2505 (2019).
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1247. Brian J. Levandowski, Nile S. Abularrage, K. N. Houk, and Ronald T. Raines: "Hyperconjugative Antiaromaticity Activates 4H-Pyrazoles as Inverse-Electron-Demand Diels-Alder Dienes," Org. Lett., 21, 8492-8495 (2019).
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1248. David N. Kamber, Sean S. Nguyen, Fang Liu, Jeffrey S. Briggs, Hui-Wen Shih, R. David Row, Zane G. Long, K. N. Houk, Yong Liang, and Jennifer A. Prescher: "Isomeric Triazines Exhibit Unique Profiles of Bioorthogonal Reactivity," Chem. Sci., 10, 9109-9114 (2019).
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1249. Qingyun Dan, Sean A. Newminster, Kimberly R. Klas, Amy E. Fraley, Timothy J. McAfoos, Amber D. Somoza, James D. Sunderhaus, Ying Ye, Vikram V. Shende, Fengan Yu, Jacob N. Sanders, W. Clay Brown, Le Zhao, Robert S. Paton, K. N. Houk, Janet L. Smith, David H. Sherman, and Robert M. Williams: "Fungal Indole Alkaloid Biogenesis through Evolution of a Bifunctional Reductase/Diels-Alderase," Nature Chem., 11, 972-980 (2019).
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1250. Renwei Zhang, Wengang Guo, Meng Duan, K. N. Houk, and Jianwei Sun: "Asymmetric Desymmetrization of Oxetanes for the Synthesis of Chiral Tetrahydrothiophenes and Tetrahydroselenophenes," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, 18055-18060 (2019).
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1251. Jonathan R. Chekan, Ga Young Lee, Abrahim El Gamal, Trevor N. Purdy, K. N. Houk, and Bradley S. Moore: "Bacterial Tetrabromopyrrole Debrominase Shares a Reductive Dehalogenation Strategy with Human Thyroid Deiodinase," Biochem., 58, 5329-5338 (2019).
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1252. Yongpeng Yao, Chunyan An, Declan Evans, Weiwei Liu, Wei Wang, Guangzheng Wei, Ning Ding, K. N. Houk, and Shu-Shan Gao: "Catalase Involved in Oxidative Cyclization of the Tetracyclic Ergoline of Fungal Ergot Alkaloids," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 17517-17521 (2019). Correction: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 10094 (2022).
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1253. David McLeod, Mathias Kirk Thogersen, Nicolaj Inunnguaq Jessen, Karl Anker, Jorgensen, Cooper S. Jamieson, Xiao-Song Xue, K. N. Houk, Fang Liu, and Roald Hoffmann: "Expanding the Frontiers of Higher-Order Cycloadditions," Acc. Chem. Res., 52, 3488-3501 (2019).
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1254. Matthew D. DeMars, Nathan L. Samora, Song Yang, Marc Garcia-Borras, Jacob N. Sanders, K. N. Houk, Larissa M. Podust, and David H. Sherman: "Exploring the Molecular Basis for Substrate Specificity in Homologous Macrolide Biosynthetic Cytochromes P450," J. Biol. Chem., 294, 15947-15961 (2019).
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1255. Zijun Zhou, Shuming Chen, Yubiao Hong, Erik Winterling, Yuqi Tan, Marcel Hemming, Klaus Harms, K. N. Houk, and Eric Meggers: "Non-C2-Symmetric Chiral-at-Ruthenium Catalyst for Highly Efficient Enantioselective Intramolecular C(sp3)-H Amidation," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 19048-19057 (2019).
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1256. Gabrielle H. Lovett, Shuming Chen, Xiao-Song Xue, K. N. Houk, and David W. C. MacMillan: "Open-Shell Fluorination of Alkyl Bromides: Unexpected Selectivity in a Silyl Radical-Mediated Chain Process," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 20031-20036 (2019).
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1257. Abing Duan, Jason S. Fell, Peiyuan Yu, Colin Yu-Hong Lam, Michel Gravel, and K. N. Houk: "Theoretical Study of Diastereoselective NHC-Catalyzed Cross-Benzoin Reactions between Furfural and N-Boc-Protected alpha-Amino Aldehydes," J. Org. Chem., 84, 13565-13571 (2019).
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1258. Rui Wang, Jingjing Xue, Kai-Li Wang, Zhuo-Kui Wang, Yanqi Luo, David Fenning, Guangwei Xu, Selbi Nuryyeva, Tianyi Huang, Yepin Zhao, Jonathan Lee Yang, Jiahui Zhu, Minhuan Wang, Shaun Tan, Ilhan Yavuz, Kendall N. Houk, and Yang Yang: "Constructive Molecular Configurations for Surface-Defect Passivation of Perovskite Photovoltaics," Science, 366, 1509-1513 (2019).
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1259. Jiahang Lv, Xiangyang Chen, Xiao-Song Xue, Binlin Zhao, Yong Liang, Minyan Wang, Liqun Jin, Yu Yuan, Ying Han, Yue Zhao, Yi Lu, Jing Zhao, Wei-Yin Sun, Kendall N. Houk, and Zhuangzhi Shi: "Metal-Free Directed sp2-C-H Borylation," Nature, 575, 336-340 (2019).
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1260. Textbook, Pierre Vogel and Kendall N. Houk: Organic Chemistry: Theory, Reactivity, and Mechanisms in Modern Synthesis, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2019.
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1261. Cyndi Qixin He, Ching Ching Lam, Peiyuan Yu, Zhihui Song, Maggie Chen, Yu-hong Lam, Shuming Chen, and K. N. Houk: "Catalytic Effects of Ammonium and Sulfonium Salts and External Electric Fields on Aza-Diels-Alder Reactions," J. Org. Chem., 85, 2618-2625 (2019).
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1262. Abril C. Castro, Adrian Romero-Rivera, Silvia Osuna, K. N. Houk, and Marcel Swart: "Computational NMR Spectra of o-Benzyne and Stable Guests and Their Hemicarceplexes," Chem. Eur. J., 26, 2626-2634 (2020).
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1263. Amy E. Fraley, Kersti Caddell Haatveit, Ying Ye, Samantha P. Kelly, Sean A. Newmister, Fengan Yu, Robert M. Williams, Janet L. Smith, K. N. Houk, and David H. Sherman: "Molecular Basis for Spirocycle Formation in the Paraherquamide Biosynthetic Pathway," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 2244-2252 (2020).
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1264. Hugo Quintela-Varela, Cooper S. Jamieson, Qianzhen Shao, K. N. Houk, and Dirk Trauner: "Bioinspired Synthesis of (-)-PF-1018," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59, 5263-5267 (2020).
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1265. Julian Tu, Dennis Svatunek, Saba Parvez, Hannah J. Eckvahl, Minghao Xu, Randall T. Peterson, K. N. Houk, and Raphael M. Franzini: "Isonitrile-Responsive and Bioorthogonally Removable Tetrazine Protecting Groups," Chem. Sci., 11, 169-179 (2020).
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1266. Elisabeth Eger, Adam Simon, Mahima Sharma, Song Yang, Willem B. Breukelaar, Gideon Grogan, K. N. Houk, and Wolfgang Kroutil: "Inverted Binding of Non-natural Substrates in Strictosidine Synthase Leads to a Switch of Stereochemical Outcome in Enzyme-Catalyzed Pictet-Spengler Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 792-800 (2020). Correction: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 4525-4526 (2020).
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1267. Zhen Jie Low, Guang-Lei Ma, Hoa Thi Tran, Yike Zou, Juan Xiong, Limei Pang, Selbi Nuryyeva, Hong Ye, Jin-Feng Hu, K. N. Houk, and Zhao-Xun Liang: "Sungeidines from a Non-canonical Enediyne Biosynthetic Pathway," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 1673-1679 (2020).
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1268. James I. Murray, Jacob N. Sanders, Paul F. Richardson, K. N. Houk, and Donna G. Blackmond: "Isotopically Directed Symmetry Breaking and Enantioenrichment in Attrition-Enhanced Deracemization," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 3873-3879 (2020).
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1269. Zhuolong Fan, Katherine L. Bay, Xiangyang Chen, Zhe Zhuang, Han Seul Park, Kap-Sun Yeung, K. N. Houk, Jin-Quan Yu: "Rational Development of Remote C-H Functionalization of Biphenyl: Experimental and Computational Studies," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59, 4770-4777 (2020).
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1270. Benjamin J. Huffman, Shuming Chen, J. Luca Schwarz, R. Erik Plata, Emily N. Chin, Luke L. Lairson, K. N. Houk, and Ryan A. Shenvi: "Electronic Complementarity Permits Hindered Butenolide Heterodimerization and Discovery of Novel cGAS/STING Pathway Antagonists," Nature Chem., 12, 310-317 (2020).
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1271. Zachary J. Garlets, Jacob N. Sanders, Hasnain Malik, Christian Gampe, K. N. Houk, and Huw M. L. Davies: "Enantioselective C-H Functionalization of Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes," Nature Catal., 3, 351-357 (2020).
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1272. Arne Matthews, Raspudin Saleem-Batcha, Jacob N. Sanders, Frederick Stull, K. N. Houk, and Robin Teufel: "Aminoperoxide Adducts Expand the Catalytic Repertoire of Flavin Monooxygenases," Nature Chem. Biol., 15, 556-563 (2020).
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1273. Hang Shi, Yi Lu, Jiang Weng, Katherine L. Bay, Xiangyang Chen, Keita Tanaka, Pritha Verma, Kendall N. Houk, and Jin-Quan Yu: "Differentiation and Functionalization of Remote C-H Bonds in Adjacent Positions," Nature Chem., 4, 399-404 (2020).
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1274. Melissa Ramirez, Wenfei Li, Yu-hong Lam, Leon Ghosez, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanisms and Conformational Control of (4+2) and (2+2) Cycloadditions of Dienes to Keteniminium Cations," J. Org. Chem., 85, 2597-2606 (2020).
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1275. Daniel L. Sun, Soumya Poddar, Roy D. Pan, Ethan W. Rosser, Evan R. Abt, Juno Van Valkenburgh, Thuc M. Le, Vincent Lok, Selena P. Hernandez, Janet Song, Joanna Li, Aneta Turlik, Xiaohong Chen, Chi-An Cheng, Wei Chen, Christine E. Mona, Andreea D. Stuparu, Laurent Vergnes, Karen Reue, Robert Damoiseaux, Jeffrey I. Zink, Johannes Czernin, Timothy R. Donahue, Kendall N. Houk, Michael E. Jung, and Caius G. Radu: "Isoquinoline Thiosemicarbazone Displays Potent Anticancer Activity with in vivo Efficacy Against Aggressive Leikemias," RSC Med. Chem., 3, 392-410 (2020).
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1276. Shuming Chen, Jonathan J. Wong, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism of the Manolikakes Enamide-Based Domino Reaction for the Stereospecific Construction of Tetrahydropyrans," J. Org. Chem., 85, 3806-3811 (2020).
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1277. Dennis Svatunek, Ryan P. Pemberton, Joel L. Mackey, Peng Liu, and K. N. Houk: "Concerted [4+2] and Stepwise (2+2) Cycloadditions of Tetrafluorethylene with Butadiene: DFT and DLPNO-UCCSD(T) Explorations," J. Org. Chem., 85, 3858-2864 (2020).
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1278. Soumitra V. Athavale, Adam Simon, Kendall N. Houk, and Scott E. Denmark: "Demystifying the Asymmetry-Amplifying, Autocatalytic Behaviour of the Soai Reaction through Structural, Mechanistic, and Computational Studies," Nature Chem., 12, 412-423 (2020).
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1279. Mackenzie W. Krone, Katherine I. Albanese, Gage O. Leighton, Cyndi Qixin He, Ga Young Lee, Marc Garcia-Borras, Alex J. Guseman, David C. Williams, K. N. Houk, Eric M. Brustad, and Marcey L. Waters: "Thermodynamic Consequences of Tyr to Trp Mutations in the Cation-pi-Mediated Binding of Trimethyllysine by the HP1 Chromodomain," Chem. Sci., 11, 3495-3500 (2020).
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1280. Sheng Xie, Madanodaya Sundhoro, K. N. Houk, and Mingdi Yan: "Electrophilic Azides for Materials Synthesis and Chemical Biology," Acc. Chem. Res., 53, 937-948 (2020).
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1281. Susanne Baehr, Sabine Brinkmann-Chen, Marc Garcia-Borras, John M. Roberts, Dimitris E. Katsoulis, K. N. Houk, and Frances H. Arnold: "Selective Enzymatic Oxidation of Silanes to Silanols," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59, 15507-15511 (2020).
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1282. Shang Gao, Meng Duan, Kendall N. Houk, and Ming Chen: "Chiral Phosphoric Acid Dual-Function Catalysis: Asymmetric Allylation with alpha-Vinyl Allylboron Reagents," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 10540-10548 (2020).
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1283. Morgan M. Walker, Brian Koronkiewicz, Shuming Chen, K. N. Houk, James M. Mayer, and Jonathan Ellman: "Highly Diastereoselective Functionalization of Piperidines by Photoredox-Catalyzed alpha-Amino C-H Arylation and Epimerization," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 8194-8202 (2020). Highlighted in Synfacts, 16, 0812 (2020), DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1707029.
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1284. Shan-Shui Meng, Peiyuan Yu, Yi-Zhe Yu, Yong Liang, K. N. Houk, and Wen-Hua Zheng: "Computational Design of Enhanced Enantioselectivity in Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Oxidative Desymmetrization of 1,3-Diol Acetals," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 8506-8513 (2020). Highlited in Synfacts, 16, 0841 (2020), DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-0170742.
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1285. Dongshun Ni, Brittany P. Witherspoon, Hong Zhang, Chen Zhou, K. N. Houk, and M. Kevin Brown: "Stereoselective [4+2]-Cycloaddition with Chiral Alkenylboranes," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59, 11432-11439 (2020).
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1286. Undramaa Bat-Erdene, Daiki Kanayama, Dan Tan, William C. Turner, K. N. Houk, Masao Ohashi, and Yi Tang: "Iterative Catalysis in the Biosynthesis of Mitochondrial Complex II Inhibitors Harzianopyridone and Atpenin B," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 8550-8554 (2020).
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1287. Lei Gao, Cong Su, Xiaoxia Du, Ruishan Wang, Shuming Chen, Yu Zhou, Chengwei Liu, Xiaojing Liu, Runze Tian, Liyun Zhang, Kebo Xie, She Chen, Qianqian Guo, Lanping Guo, Yoshio Hano, Manabu Shimazaki, Atsushi Minami, Hideaki Oikawa, Niu Huang, K. N. Houk, Luqi Huang, Jungui Dai, and Xiaoguang Lei: "FAD-Dependent Enzyme-Catalysed Intermolecular [4+2] Cycloaddition in Natural Product Biosynthesis," Nature Chem., 12, 620-628 (2020).
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1288. Bichao Song, Peipei Xie, Yingzi Li, Jiping Hao, Lu Wang, Xiangyang Chen, Zhongliang Xu, Haitian Quan, Liguant Lou, Yuanzhi Xia, K. N. Houk, and Weibo Yang: "Pd-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Olefination: Stereoselective Synthesis of Polysubstituted Butadienes and Macrocyclic P-glycoprotein Inhibitors," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 9982-9992 (2020).
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1289. Xing Jiang, Song Yang, Marcus J. Jellen, K. N. Houk, and Miguel Garcia-Garibay: "Molecular Spur Gears with Triptycene Rotators and a Norbornane-Based Stator," Org. Lett., 22, 4049-4052 (2020).
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1290. Pan-Pan Chen, Jeffrey I. Seeman, and Kendall N. Houk: "Rolf Huisgen’s Classic Studies of Cyclic Triene Diels-Alder Reactions Elaborated by Modern Computational Analysis," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59, 12506-12519 (2020).
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1291. Chen-Xi Ye, Shuming Chen, Feng Han, Xiulan Xie, Sergei Ivlev, K. N. Houk, and Eric Meggers: "Atroposelective Synthesis of Axially Chiral N-Arylpyrroles by Chiral-at-Rhodium Catalysis," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59, 13552-13556 (2020).
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1292. Wei-Yi Ding, Peiyuan Yu, Qian-Jin An, Katherine L. Bay, Shao-Hua Xiang Shaoyu Li, Ying Chen, K. N. Houk, and Bin Tan: "DFT-Guided Phostphoric-Acid-Catalyzed Atroposelective Arene Functionalization of Nitrosonaphthalene," Chem, 6, P2046-P2059 (2020).
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1293. Hao Li, Yu-Ru Liang, Shao-Xin Chen, Wen-Xuan Wang, Yike Zou, Selbi Nuryyeva, K. N. Houk, Juan Xiaong, and Jin-Feng Hu: "Amentotaxins C-V, Structurally Diverse Diterpenoids from the Leaves and Twigs of the Vulnerable Conifer Amentotaxus argotaenia and Their Cytotoxic Effects," J. Nat. Prod., 83, 2129-2144 (2020).
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1294. Yuanqi Wang, Changcheng Zhang, Yi-Lei Zhao, Rosalinda Zhao, and Kendall N. Houk: "Understand the Specific Regio- and Enantioselectivity of Fluostatin Conjugation in the Post-Biosynthesis," Biomolecules, 10, 815 (2020).
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1295. Gavin R. Kiel, Katherine L. Bay, Adrian E. Samkian, Nathaniel J. Schuster, Janice B. Lin, Rex C. Handford, Colin Nuckolls, K. N. Houk, and T. Don Tilley: "Expanded Helicenes as Synthons for Chiral Macrocyclic Nanocarbons," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 11084-11091 (2020).
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1296. Vincent Debrauwer, Aneta Turlik, Lenaic Rummler, Alessandro Prescimone, Nicolas Blanchard, K. N. Houk, and Vincent Bizet: "Ligand-Controlled Regiodivergent Palladium-Catalyzed Hydrogermylation of Ynamides," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 11153-11164 (2020).
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1297. Fang Liu, Yu Chen, K. N. Houk: "Huisgen’s 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions to Fulvenes Proceed via Ambimodal [6+4]/[4+2] Transition States," Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 12412-12416 (2020).
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1298. Liang-Liang Yang, Declan Evans, Bin Xu, Wen-Tao Li, Mao-Lin Li, Shou-Fei Zhu, K. N. Houk, and Qi-Lin Zhou: "Enantioselective Diarylcarbene Insertion into Si-H Bonds Induced by Electronic Properties of the Carbenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 12394-12399 (2020).
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1299. Ieva Liepuoniute, Jacob N. Sanders, Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, and K. N. Houk: "Computational Investigation into Ligand Effects on Correlated Geared Dynamics in Dirhodium Supramolecular Gears-Insights Beyond the NMR Expermental Window," J. Org. Chem., 85, 8695-8701 (2020).
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1300. Ieva Liepuoniute, Chau Minh Huynh, Salvador Perez-Estrada, Yangyang Wang, Saeed Khan, K. N. Houk, and Miguel Garcia-Garibay: "Enhanced Rotation by Ground State Destabilization in Amphydynamic Crystals of a Dipolar 2,3-Difluorophenylene Rotator as Established by Solid State 2H NMR and Dielectric Spectroscopy," J. Phys. Chem. C, 124, 15391-15398 (2020).
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1301. Jonathan W. Bogart, Nicholas J. Kramer, Aneta Turlik, Rachel M. Bleich, Daniel S. Catlin, Frank C. Schroeder, Satish K. Nair, R. Thomas Williamson, K. N. Houk, and Albert A. Bowers: "Interception of the Bycroft-Gowland Intermediate in the Enzymatic Macrocyclization of Thiopeptides," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 13170-13179 (2020).
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1302. Dominic P. Goronzy, Jan Stanek, Erin Avery, Han Guo, Zdenek Bastl, Michal Dusek, Nathan M. Gallup, Saliha Gun, Monika Kucerakova, Brian J. Levandowski, Jan Machacek, Vaclav Sicha, John C. Thomas, Adem Yavuz, K. N. Houk, Mehmet Fatih Danisman, Ersen Mete, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, Tomas Base, and Paul S. Weiss: "Influence of Terminal Carboxyl Groups on the Structure and Reactivity of Functionalized m-Carboranethiolate Self-Assembled Monolayers," Chem. Mater., 32, 6800-6809 (2020).
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1303. Dong Meng, Jonathan Lee Yang, Chengyi Xiao, Rui Wang, Xiaofei Xing, Olkan Kocak, Gulsevim Aydin, Ilhan Yavuz, Selbi Nuryyeva, Lei Zhang, Guogang Liu, Zhenxing Li, Shuai Yuan, Zhao-Kui Wang, Wei Wei, Zhaohui Wang, K. N. Houk, and Yang Yang: "Noncovalent pi-Stacked Robust Topological Organic Framework," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 117, 20397-20403 (2020).
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1304. Michael. M. Yamano, Andrew V. Kelleghan, Qianzhen Shao, Maude Giroud, Bryan J. Simmons, Bo Li, Shuming Chen, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg: "Intercepting Fleeing Cyclic Allenes with Asymmetric Nickel Catalysis," Nature, 586, 242-247 (2020).
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1305. Leah L. Lowder, Fengyue Zhao, Mathes M. Vaughan, K. N. Houk, Fang Liu, and Jimmy Wu: "Diversification of Nucleophile-Intercepted Beckmann Fragmentation Products and Related Density Functional Theory Studies," J. Org. Chem., 85, 11396-11408 (2020).
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1306. Yan Yan, Xin Zang, Cooper S. Jamieson, Hsiao-Ching Lin, K. N. Houk, Jiahai Zhou, and Yi Tang: "Biosynthesis of the Fungal Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Inhibitor Heptelidic Acid and Mechanism of Self-Resistance," Chem. Sci., 11, 9554-9562 (2020).
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1307. Matthew H. Gieuw, Shuming Chen, Zhihai Ke, K. N. Houk, and Ying-Yeung Yeung: "Boron Tribromide as a Reagent for Anti-Markovnikov Addition of HBr to Cyclopropanes," Chem. Sci., 11, 9426-9433 (2020).
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1308. Yike Zou, Jonathan J. Wong, and K. N. Houk: "Computational Exploration of a Redox-Neutral Organocatalytic Mitsunobu Reaction," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 16403-16408 (2020).
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1309. Yuqi Tan, Shuming Chen, Zijun Zhou, Yubiao Hong, Sergei Ivlev, K. N. Houk, and Eric Meggers: "Intramolecular C(sp3)-H Bond Oxygenation by Transition-Metal Acylnitrenoids," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59, 21706-21710 (2020).
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1310. Jacob N. Sanders, HyunJune Jun, Roland A. Yu, James L. Gleason, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism of an Organocatalytic Cope Rearrangement Involving Iminium Intermediates: Elucidating the Role of Catlayst Ring Size," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 16877-16886 (2020).
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1311. Masao Ohashi, Cooper S. Jamieson, Yujuan Cai, Dan Tan, Daiki Kanayama, Man-Cheng Tang, Sarah M. Anthony, Jason V. Chari, Joyann S. Barber, Elias Picazo, Thomas B. Kakule, Shugeng Cao, Neil K. Garg, Jiahai Zhou, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "An Enzymatic Alder-Ene Reaction," Nature, 586, 64-69 (2020).
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1312. Ishika Saha, Eric K. Dang, Dennis Svatunek, Kendall N. Houk, and Patrick G. Harran: "Computational Generation of an Annotated Gigalibrary of Synthesizable, Composite Peptidic Macrocycles," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 117, 24679-24690 (2020).
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1313. Mackenzie W. Krone, Christopher R. Travis, Ga Young Lee, Hannah J. Eckvahl, K. N. Houk, and Marcey L. Waters: "More Than pi-pi-pi Stacking: Contribution of Amide-pi and CH-pi Interactions to Crotonyllysine Binding by the AF9 YEATS Domain," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 17048-17056 (2020).
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1314. Luping Liu, Yike Zou, Ahanjit Bhattacharya, Dongyang Zhang, Susan Q. Lang, K. N. Houk and Neal K. Devaraj: "Enzyme-Free Synthesis of Natural Phospholipids in Water," Nature Chem., 12, 1029-1034 (2020).
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1315. Vikram V. Shende, Yogan Khatri, Sean A. Newminster, Jacob N. Sanders, Petra Lindovska, Fengan Yu, Tyler J. Doyon, Justin Kim, K. N. Houk, Mohammad Movassaghi, and David H. Sherman: "Structure and Function of NzeB, a Versatile C-C and C-N Bond-Forming Diketopiperazine Dimerase," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 17413-17424 (2020).
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1316. Song Yang, Matthew D. MeMars II, Jessica M. Grandner, Noelle M. Olson, Yojiro Anzai, David H. Sherman, and K. N. Houk: "Computational-Based Mechanistic Study and Engineering of Cytochrome P450 MycG for Selective Oxidation of 16-Membered Macrolide Antibiotics," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 17981-17988 (2020).
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1317. Yolanda L. Li, Chih-Te Zee, Janice B. Lin, Victoria M. Basile, Mit Muni, Maria D. Flores, Julen Munariz, Richard B. Kaner, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, K. N. Houk, Sarah H. Tolbert, and Yves Rubin: "Fjord-Edge Graphene Nanoribbons with Site-Specific Nitrogen Substitution," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142 18093-18102 (2020).
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1318. Shang Gao, Meng Duan, Qianzhen Shao, K. N. Houk, and Ming Chen: "Development of alpha,alpha-Disbustituted Crotylboronate Reagents and Stereoselective Crobylation via Brønsted or Lewis Acid Catalysis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 18355-18368 (2020).
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1319. Soumitra V. Athavale, Adam Simon, K. N. Houk, and Scott E. Denmark: "Structural Contributions to Autocatalysis and Asymmetric Amplification in the Soai Reaction," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 18387-18406 (2020).
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1320. Robert M. Demoret, Meghan A. Baker, Masaki Ohtawa, Shuming Chen, Ching Ching Lam, Sophia Khom, Marisa Roberto, Stefano Forli, Kendall N. Houk, and Ryan A. Shenvi: "Synthetic, Mechanistic, and Biological Interrogation of Ginko biloba Chemical Space En Route to (-)-Bilobalide," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 18599-18618 (2020).
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1321. Sean A. Newmister, Kinshuk Raj Srivastava, Rosa V. Espinoza, Kersti Caddell Haatveit, Yogan M. Martini, Marc Garcia-Borras, Larissa M. Podust, K. N. Houk, and David H. Sherman: "Molecular Basis of Iterative C-H Oxidation by Taml, a Multifunctional P450 Monooxygenase from the Tirandamycin Biosynthetic Pathway," ACS Catal., 10, 13445-13454 (2020).
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1322. Yike Zou, Song Yang, Jacob N. Sanders, Wei Li, Peiyuan Yu, Hongbo Wang, Zhijun Tang, Wen Liu, and K. N. Houk: "Computational Investigation of the Mechanism of Diels-Alderase Pyrl4," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 20232-20239 (2020).
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1323. Jean-Francois Nierengarten, Kendall N. Houk, and Kuiling Ding: "A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step," Chem. Eur. J., 26, 15344-15345 (2020).
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1324. Xingguang Li, Meng Duan, Zhiqin Deng, Qianzhen Shao, Min Chen, Guangyu Zhu, K. N. Houk, and Jianwei Sun: "Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral Tetraarylmethanes," Nature Catal., 3, 1010-1019 (2020).
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1325. Evan E. Hurlow, Janice B. Lin, Morris J. Dweck, Selbi Nuryyeva, Zhengao Feng, Tyler K. Allred, K. N. Houk, and Patrick G. Harran: "Photorearrangement of [8]-2,6-Pyridinophane N-Oxide," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 20717-20724 (2020).
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1326. Yan Xu, Jonathan J. Wong, Adrian E. Samkian, Jeong Hon Ko, Shuming Chen, K. N. Houk, and Robert H. Grubbs: "Efficient Z-Selective Olefin-Acrylamide Cross-Metathesis Enabled by Sterically Demanding Cyclometalated Ruthenium Catalysts," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 20987-20993 (2020).
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1327. Fan Yang, Yuan Gao, Yung-Ting Chang, Yike Zou, K. N. Houk, Jing-Rong Lu, Jing He, Wei-Zhuo Tang, Hong-Ze Liao, Hua Han, and Hou-Wen Lin: "Aromatic Ring Substituted Aaptamine Analogues as Potential Cytotoxic Agents against Extranodal Natural Killer/T-Cell Lymphoma," J. Nat. Prod., 83, 3758-3763 (2020).
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1328. Kendall N. Houk and J. Fraser Stoddart: "Francois N. Diederich: Pioneer of Carbon Allotropes and Molecular Recognition," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 117, 32827-32829 (2020).
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1329. Yu Chen, Xiao Zhang, Fang Liu, Gucheng He, Ju Zhang, K. N. Houk, Amos B. Smith III, and Yong Liang: "The Role of CuI in the Siloxane-Mediated Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Aryl Iodides with Aryl Lithium Reagents," Chinese Chem. Lett., 32, 441-444 (2020).
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1330. Tyler Fulton, Alexander Q. Cusumano, Eric J. Alexy, Yun E. Du, Haiming Zhang, K. N. Houk, and Brian M. Stoltz: "Global Diastereoconvergence in the Ireland-Claisen Rearrangement of Isomeric Enolates: Synthesis of Tetrasubstituted alpha-Amino Acids," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 21938-21947 (2020).
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1331. Niels Hammer, Mette Louise Christensen, Yu Chen, Daniel Naharro, Fang Liu, Karl Anker Jorgensen, and K. N. Houk: "An Experimental Stereoselective Photochemical [1s,3s]-Sigmatropic Silyl Shift and the Existence of Silyl/Allyl Conical Intersections," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 6030-6035 (2020).
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1332. Chen Yang, Zitong Liu, Yanwei Li, Shuyao Zhou, Chexi Lu, Yilin Guo, Melissa Ramirez, Qingzhu Zhang, Yu Li, Zhirong Liu, K. N. Houk, Deqing Zhang, and Xuefeng Guo: "Electric Field-Catalyzed Single-Molecule Diels-Alder Reaction Dynamics," Sci. Adv., 7, Article Number eabf0689 (2021).
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1333. De-Wei Gao, Cooper S. Jamieson, Gaoqian Wang, Yan Yan, Jiahai Zhou, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "A Polyketide Cyclase that Forms Medium-Ring Lactones," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 80-84 (2021).
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1334. Zican Shen, Morgan M. Walker, Shuming Chen, Giovanny A. Parada, Duc M. Chu, Sun Dongbang, James M. Mayer, K. N. Houk, and Jonathan A. Ellman: "General Light-Mediated, Highly Diastereoselective Piperidine Epimerization: From Most Accessible to Most Stable Stereoisomer," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 126-131 (2021).
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1335. Xiangyang Chen, Mathias Kirk Thøgersen, Limin Yang, Rune F. Lauridsen, Xiao-Song Xue, Karl Anker Jørgensen, and K. N. Houk: "[8+2] vs [4+2] Cycloadditions of Cyclohexadienamines to Tropone and Heptafulvenes - Mechanisms and Selectivities," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 934-944 (2021).
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1336. Dingyi Wang, Xiangyang Chen, Jonathan J. Wong, Liqun Jin, Mingjie Li, Yue Zhao, K. N. Houk, and Zhuangzhi Shi: "Phosphorus(III)-Assisted Regioselective C-H Silylation of Heteroarenes," Nature Comm., 12, Article Number 524 (2021).
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1337. Kendall N. Houk, Fang Liu, Zhongyue Yang, Jeffrey L. Seeman: "Evolution of the Diels-Alder Reaction Mechanism since the 1930s: Woodward, Houk with Woodward, and the Influence of Computational Chemistry on Understanding Cycloadditions," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 12660-12681 (2021).
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1338. Sophie Basler, Sabine Studer, Yike Zou, Takahiro Mori, Yusuke Ota, Anna Camus, H. Adrian Bunzel, Roger C. Helgeson, K. N. Houk, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, and Donald Hilvert: "Efficient Lewis Acid Catalysis of an Abiological Reaction in a de novo Protein Scaffold," Nature Chem., 13, 231-235 (2021).
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1339. Ehsan Fereyduni, Ouidad Lahtigui, Jacob N. Sanders, Breanna M. Tomiczek, Michael D. Mannchen, Roland A. Yu, K. N. Houk, and Alexander J. Grenning: "Overcoming Kinetic and Thermodynamic Challenges of Classic Cope Rearrangements," J. Org. Chem., 86, 3632-2643 (2021).
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1340. Yinglu Cui, Yanchun Chen, Xinyue Liu, Saijun Dong, Yu’e Tian, Yuxin Qiao, Ruchira Mitra, Jing Han, Chunli Li, Xu Han, Weidong Liu, Quan Chen, Wangqing Wei, Xin Wang, Wenbin Du, Shuangyan Tang, Hui Xiang, Haiyan Liu, Yong Liang, Kendall N. Houk, and Bian Wu: "Computational Redesign of a PETase for Plastic Biodegradation under Ambient Condition by the GRAPE Strategy," ACS Catal., 11, 1340-1350 (2021).
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1341. Bo Li, Hong Tang, Aneta Turlik, Zhao Wan, Xiao-Song Xue, Li Li, Xiaoxiao Yang, Yiuyuan Li, Gang He, Kendall N. Houk, Gong Chen: "Cooperative Stapling of Native Peptides at Lysine and Tyrosine or Arginine with Formaldehyde," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 6646-6652 (2021).
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1342. Dong Meng, Rui Wang, Janice B. Lin, Jonathan Lee Yang, Selbi Nuryyeva, Yu-Che Lin, Chuai Yuan, Zhao-Kui Wang, Elizabeth Zhang, Chengyi Xiao, Daniel Zhu, Lang Jiang, Yepin Zhao, Zhenxing Li, Chenhui Zhu, Kendall N. Houk, and Yang Yang: "Chlorinated Spiroconjugated Fused Extended Aromatics for Multifunctional Organic Electronics," Adv. Mater., 33, Article Number 2006120 (2021).
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1343. Y.-S. Su, E. S. Lamb, I. Liepuoniute, A. Chronister, A. L. Stanton, P. Guzman, S. Perez-Estrada, T. Y. Chang, K. N. Houk, M. A. Garcia-Garibay, and S. E. Brown: "Dipolar Order in an Amphidynamic Crystalline Metal-Organic Framework through Reorienting Linkers," Nature Chem., 13, 278-283 (2021).
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1344. Yanrong Li, Sreehari Surendran Rajasree, Ga Young Lee, Jierui Yu, Jian-Hong Tang, Ruidong Ni, Guigen Li, Kendall N. Houk, Prevas Deria, and Peter J. Stang: "Anthracene-Triphenylamine-Based Platinum(II) Metallacates as Synthetic Light-Harvesting Assembly," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 2908-2919 (2021).
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1345. Dingyi Wang, Mingjie Li, Xiangyang Chen, Minyan Wang, Yong Liang, Yue Zhao, Kendall N. Houk, and Zhuangzhi Shi: "Palladium-Catalyzed Silacyclization of (Hetero)Arenes with a Tetrasilane Reagent through Twofold C-H Activation," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 7066-7071 (2021).
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1346. Manuel Einsiedler, Cooper S. Jamieson, Mark A. Maskeri, Kendall N. Houk, Tobias A. M. Gulder: "Fungal Dioxygenase AsqJ Is Promiscuous and Bimodal: Substrate-Directed Formation of Quinolones versus Quinazolinones," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 8297-8302 (2021).
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1347. Michio Sato, Shinji Kishimoto, Mamoru Yokoyama, Cooper S. Jamieson, Kazuto Narita, Naoya Maeda, Kodai Hara, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yuta Tsunematsu, Kendall N. Houk, Yi Tang, and Kenji Watanabe: "Catalytic Mechanism and endo-to-exo Selectivity Reversion of an Octalin-Forming Natural Diels-Alderase," Nature Catal., 4, 223-232 (2021).
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1348. Zheng-Jun Wang, Xiangyang Chen, Lei Wu, Jonathan J. Wong, Yong Liang, Yue Zhao, Kendall N. Houk, and Zhuangzhi Shi: "Metal-Free Directed C-H Borylation of Pyrroles," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 8500-8504 (2021).
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1349. Jordan J. Dotson, Ieva Liepuoniute, J. Logan Bachman, Vince M. Hipwell, Saeed I. Khan, K. N. Houk, Neil K. Garg, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay: "Taming Radical Pairs in the Crystalline Solid State: Discovery and Total Synthesis of Psychotriadine," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 4043-4054 (2021).
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1350. Cooper S. Jamieson, Arkajyoti Sengupta, and K. N. Houk: "Cycloadditions of Cyclopentadiene and Cycloheptatriene with Tropones: All Endo-[6+4] Cycloadditions Are Ambimodal," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 3918-3926 (2021). Correction: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 9366 (2023).
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1351. Philip A. Provencher, Katherine L. Bay, John F. Hoskin, K. N. Houk, Jin-Quan Yu, and Erik J. Sorensen: "Cyclization by C(sp3)-H Arylation with a Transient Directing Group for the Diastereoselective Preparation of Indanes," ACS Catal., 11, 3115-3127 (2021).
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1352. Aneta Turlik, Kaori Ando, Pamela Mackey, Emma Alcock, Mark Light, Gerard P. McGlacken, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism and Origins of Stereoselectivity of the Aldol-Tishchenko Reaction of Sulfinimines," J. Org. Chem., 86, 4296-4303 (2021).
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1353. Dennis Svatunek, Thomas Hansen, Kendall N. Houk, and Trevor A. Hamlin: "How the Lewis Base F- Catalyzes the 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition between Carbon Dioxide and Nitrilimines," J. Org. Chem., 86, 4320-4325 (2021).
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1354. Gabrielle St-Pierre, Alan H. Cherney, Wencan Chen, Xiaofei Dong, Peter K. Dornan, Daniel J. Griffin, K. N. Houk, Janice B. Lin, Stephen Osgood, Maria V. Silva Elipe, Heath C. Timmons, Yong Xie, Jason S. Tedrow, Oliver R. Thiel, and Austin G. Smith: "Accelerated Development of a Scalable Ring-Closing Metathesis to Manufacture AMG 176 Using a Combined High-Throughput Experimentation and Computational Modeling Approach," Org. Process Res. Dev., 25, 442-451 (2021).
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1355. You-Jie Yu, Feng-Lian Zhang, Tian-Yu Peng, Chang-Ling Wang, Jie Cheng, Chen Chen, Kendall N. Houk, Yi-Feng Wang: "Sequential C-F Bond Functionalizations of Trifluoroacetamides and Acetates via Spin-Center Shifts," Science, 371, 1232-1240 (2021).
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1356. Jiajia Ma, Shuming Chen, Peter Bellotti, Renyu Guo, Felix Schafer, Arne Heusler, Xiaolong Zhang, Constantin Daniliuc, M. Kevin Brown, Kendall N. Houk, and Frank Glorius: "Photochemical Intermolecular Dearomative Cycloaddition of Bicyclic Azaarenes with Alkenes," Science, 371, 1338-1345 (2021).
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1357. Robert M. Hohlman, Sean A. Newminster, Jacob N. Sanders, Yogan Khatri, Shasha Li, Nikki R. Keramati, Andrew N. Lowell, K. N. Houk, and David H. Sherman: "Structural Diversification of Hapalindole and Fischerindole Natural Products via Cascade Biocatalysis," ACS Catal., 11, 4670-4681 (2021).
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1358. Masao Ohashi, Thomas B. Kakule, Man-Cheng Tang, Cooper S. Jamieson, Mengting Liu, Yi-Lei Zhao, Kendall N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Biosynthesis of para-Cyclophane-Containing Hirsutellone Family of Fungal Natural Products," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 5605-5609 (2021).
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1359. Pradipta Das, Michael D. Delost, Munaum H. Qureshi, Jianhua Bao, Jason S. Fell, Kendall N. Houk, and Jon T. Njardarson: "Dramatic Effect of gamma-Heteroatom Dienolate Substitutes on Counterion Assisted Asymmetric Anionic Amino-Cope Reaction Cascades," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 5793-5804 (2021).
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1360. Christopher Y. Bemis, Chad N. Ungarean, Alexander S. Shved, Cooper S. Jamieson, Taehwan Hwang, Ken S. Lee, K. N. Houk, and David Sarlah: "Total Synthesis and Computational Investigations of Sesquiterpene-Tropolones Ameliorate Stereochemical Inconsistencies and Resolve an Ambiguous Biosynthetic Relationship," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 6006-6017 (2021).
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1361. Hong Zhang, Alexander J. E. Novak, Cooper S. Jamieson, Xiao-Song Xue, Shuming Chen, Dirk Trauner, and K. N. Houk: "Computational Exploration of the Mechanism of Critical Steps in the Biomimetic Synthesis of Preuisolactone A, and Discovery of New Ambimocal (5+2)/(4+2) Cycloadditions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 6601-6608 (2021).
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1362. Marc Garcia-Borras, S. B. Jennifer Kan, Russel D. Lewis, Allison Tang, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Frances H. Arnold, and K. N. Houk: "Origin and Control of Chemoselectivity in Cycochrome c Catalyzed Carbene Transfer into Si-H and N-H Bonds," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 7114-7123 (2021).
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1363. Yan-Long Zheng, Pei-Pei Xie, Omid Daneshfar, Kendall N. Houk, Xin Hong, and Stephen G. Newman: "Direct Synthesis of Ketones from Methyl Esters by Nickel-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 13476-13483 (2021).
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1364. Ru-Bing Wang, Shuang-Gang Ma, Cooper S. Jamieson, Rong-Mei Gao, Yun-Bao Liu, Yong Li, Xiao-Jing Wang, Yu-Huan Li, Kendall N. Houk, Jing Qu, and Shi-Shan Yu: "Library Construction of Stereochemically Diverse Isomers of Spirooliganin: Their Total Synthesis and Antiviral Activity," Chem. Sci., 7003-7011 (2021).
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1365. Pan-Pan Chen, Pengchen Ma, Xue He, Dennis Svatunek, Fang Liu, and Kendall N. Houk: "Computational Exploration of Ambiphilic Reactivity of Azides and Sustmann’s Paradigmatic Parabola," J. Org. Chem., 86, 5792-5804 (2021).
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1366. Lucrezia De Pascalis, Mei-Kwan Yau, Dennis Svatunek, Zhuoting Tan, Srinivas Tekkam, K. N. Houk, and M. G. Finn: "The Influence of Substitution on Thiol-Induced Oxanorbornadiene Fragmentation," Org. Lett., 23, 3751-3754 (2021).
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1367. Shuming Chen, Tuo Hu, and K. N. Houk: "Energy of Concert and Origins of Regioselectivity for 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of Diazomethane," J. Org. Chem., 86, 6840-6846 (2021).
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1368. Sarah M. Anthony, Veronica Tona, Yike Zou, Lucas A. Morrill, John M. Billingsley, Megan Lim, Yi Tang, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg: "Total Synthesis of (-)-Strictosidine and Interception of Aryne Natural Product Derivatives ‘Strictosidyne’ and ‘Strictosamidyne,’" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 7471-7479 (2021).
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1369. Nomaan M. Rezayee, Valdemar J. Enemaerke, Sif T. Linde, Johannes N. Lamhauge, Gabriel J. Reyes-Rodriguez, Karl Anker Jørgensen, Chenxi Lu, and K. N. Houk: "An Asymmetric SN2 Dynamic Kinetic Resolution," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 7509-7520 (2021).
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1370. Marcus J. Jellen, Ieva Liepuoniute, Mingoo Jin, Christopher G. Jones, Song Yang, Xing Jiang, Hosea M. Nelson, K. N. Houk, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay: "Enhanced Gearing Fidelity Achieved Through Macrocyclization of a Solvated Molecular Spur Gear," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 7740-7747 (2021).
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1371. Melissa Ramirez, Dennis Svatunek, Fang Liu, Neil K. Garg, Kendall N. Houk: "Origins of Endo Selectivity in Diels-Alder Reactions of Cyclic Allene Dienophiles," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 14989-14997 (2021).
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1372. Ga Young Lee, Elizabeth Hu, Arnold L. Rheingold, K. N. Houk, and Ellen M. Sletten: "Arene-Perfluoroarene Interactions in Solution," J. Org. Chem., 86, 8425-8436 (2021).
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1373. Bo Li, Yuli Li, Yanfeng Dang, and K. N. Houk: "Post-Transition State Bifurcation in Iron-Catalyzed Arene Aminations," ACS Catal., 11, 6816-6824 (2021).
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1374. Chuchu Jaing, Bei-Bei He, Rosalinda L. Zhao, Min-Juan Xu, K. N. Houk, and Yi-Lei Zhao: "Computational Exploration of How Enzyme XimE Converts Natural S-Epoxide to Pyran and R-Epoxide to Furan," ACS Catal., 11, 7928-7942 (2021).
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1375. Rosa V. Espinoza, Kersti Caddell Haatveit. S. Wald Grossman, Jin Yi Tan, Caylie A. McGlade, Yogan Khatri, Sean A. Newminster, Jennifer J. Schmidt, Marc Garcia-Borras, John Montgomery, K. N. Houk, and David H. Sherman: "Engineering P450 Taml as a Iterative Biocatalyst for Selective Late-Stage C-H Functionalization and Epoxidation of Tirandamycin Antibiotics," ACS Catal., 11, 8304-8316 (2021).
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1376. Grazia Bencivenni, Diana Salazar Illera, Maria Moccia, K. N. Houk, Joseph A. Izzo, Johanna Novacek, Paolo Grico, Mathew J. Vetticatt, Mario Waser, Mauro F. A. Adamo: "Study of Ground State Interactions of Enantiopure Chiral Quaternary Ammonium Salts and Amides, Nitroalkanes, Nitroalkenes, Esters, Heterocycles, Ketones, and Fluoroamides," Chem. Eur J., 27, 11352-11366 (2021).
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1377. Melissa Ramirez, Evan R. Darzi, Johann S. Donaldson, Kendall N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg: "Cycloaddition Cascades of Strained Alkynes and Oxadiazinones," Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 18201-18208 (2021).
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1378. Xu Qiu, Yueqian Sang, Hao Wu, Xiao-Song Xue, Zixi Yan, Yachong Wang, Zengrui Cheng, Xiaoyang Wang, Hui Tan, Song Song, Guisheng Zhang, Xiaohui Zhang, K. N. Houk, and Ning Jiao: "Cleaving Arene Rings for Acyclic Alkenylnitrile Synthesis," Nature, 597, 64-69 (2021).
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1379. Alexander Q. Cusumano, K. N. Houk, and Brian M. Stoltz: "Synthetic Strategy toward Ineleganolide: A Cautionary Tale," Tetrahedron, 93, Article 132289 (2021).
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1380. Yike Zou and K. N. Houk: "Mechanisms and Dynamics of Synthetic and Biosynthetic Formation of Delitschiapyrones: Solvent Control of Ambimocal Periselectivity," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 11734-11740 (2021).
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1381. Hyo Jin Gim, Jiyong Park, Michael E. Jung, and K. N. Houk: "Conformational Dynamics of Androgen Receptors Bound to Agonists and Antagonists," Sci. Rep., 11, Article 15887 (2021).
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1382. Teo Martin, Marco Galeotti, Michela Salamone, Fengjiao Liu, Yanmin Yu, Meng Duan, K. N. Houk, and Massimo Bietti: "Deciphering Reactivity and Selectivity Patterns in Aliphatic C-H Bond Oxygenation of Cyclopentane and Cyclohexane Derivatives," J. Org. Chem., 86, 9925-9937 (2021).
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1383. Li-Qiang Wan, Xia Zhang, Yike Zou, Rong Shi, Jin-Ge Cao, Shi-Yang Xu, Li-Fan Deng, Li Zhou, Yanqiu Gong, Xiaoling Shu, Ga Young Lee, Haiyan Ren, Lunzhi Daj, Shiqian Qi, K. N. Houk, and Dawen Niu: "Nonenzymatic Stereoselective S-Glycosylation of Polypeptides and Proteins," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 11919-11926 (2021).
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1384. Pamela Mackey, Aneta Turlik, Kaori Ando, Mark E. Light, K. N. Houk, and Gerard P. McGlacken: "Stereoselective Installation of Five Contiguous Centers in a Double Aldol-Tishchenko Cascade and Evaluation of the Key Transition State through DFT Calculation," Org. Lett., 23, 6372-6376 (2021).
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1385. Atena B. Solea, Sining Wang, Xiao-Song Xue, Aurelian Crochet, Katharine M. Fromm, Kendall N. Houk, Olimpia Mamula, and Christophe Allemann: "Efficient Synthesis of Isoindolones by Intramolecular Cyclisation of Pyridinylbenzoic Acids," Org. Biomol. Chem., 19, 8025-8029 (2021).
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1386. Chen Yang, Lei Zhang, Chenxi Lu, Shuyao Zhou, Xingxing Li, Yanwei Li, Yang Yang, Yu Li, Zhirong Liu, Jinlong Yang, K. N. Houk, Fanyang M, and Xuefeng Guo: "Unveiling the Full Reaction Path of the Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling in a Single-Molecule Junction," Nature Nanotech., 16, 1214-1223 (2021).
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1387. K. N. Houk, Xiao-Song Xue, Fang Liu, Yu Chen, Xiangyang Chen, and Cooper Jamieson: ":Computations on Pericyclic Reactions Reveal the Richness of Ambimodal Transition States and Pericyclases," Israel J. Chem., 62, e202100071 (2021).
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1388. Bao-Long Hou, Jonathan J. Wong, Na Lv, Yong-Qiang Wang, K. N. Houk, and Chuang-Chuang Li: "Facile Generation of Bridged Medium-Sized Polycyclic Systems by Rhodium-Catalysed Intramolecular (3+2) Dipolar Cycloadditions," Nature Commun., 12, Article 5239 (2021).
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1389. Wei Hao, Katherine L. Bay, Caleb F. Harris, Daniel S. King, Ilia A. Guzei, Michael M. Aristov, Zhe Zhuang, R. Erik Plata, David E. Hill, K. N. Houk, John F. Berry, Jin-Quan Yu, and Donna G. Blackmond: "Probing Catalyst Speciation in Pd-MPAAM-Catalyzed Enantioselective C(sp3)-H Arylation: Catalyst Improvement via Destabilization of Off-Cycle Species," ACS Catal., 11, 11040-11048 (2021).
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1390. Jun Gu, Fengyue Zhao, K. N. Houk, Qianqian Lu, and Fang Liu: "Computational Determination of the Mechanism of the Pd-Catalyzed Formation of Isatoic Anhydrides from o-Haloanilines, CO, and CO2," Dalton Trans., 50, 14453-14461 (2021).
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1391. Jonathan J Wong, Xiangyang Chen, Kendall N. Houk, and K. Peter C. Vollhardt: "The Trajectory of the (eta(5)-Cyclopentadienyl-cobalt-Mediated Cycloisomerization of the Ene-Yne-Ene-Type Allyl Propargylic Ethers to Furans: A DFT Appraisal," Synthesis, 53, 4279-4289 (2021).
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1392. Aneta Turlik, K. N. Houk, and Dennis Svatunek: "Origin of Increased Reactivity in Rhenium-Mediated Cycloadditoins of Tetrazines," J. Org. Chem., 86, 13129-13133 (2021).
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1393. Shang Gao, Meng Duan, Jiaming Liu, Peiyuan Yu, Kendall N. Houk, and Ming Chen: "Stereochemical Control via Chirality Pairing: Stereodivergent Syntheses of Enantioenriched Homoallylic Alcohols," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 24096-24106 (2021).
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1394. Xiangguang Li, Meng Duan, Peiyuan Yu, K. N. Houk, and Jianwei Sun: "Organocatalytic Enantioselective Dearomatization of Thiophenes by 1,10-Conjugate Addition of Indole Imine Methides," Nature Comm., 12, Article 4881 (2021).
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1395. Linhong Zuo, Pengchen Ma, Teng Liu, Xiangyang Chen, Robert H. Lavroff, Wei-Peng Chen, K. N. Houk, and Wusheng Guo: "Ambiphilic Reactivity of Vinyl Pd-Oxyallyl for Expeditious Construction of Highly Functionalized Cyclooctanoids," Org. Lett., 23, 7330-7335 (2021).
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1396. Tyler K. Allred, Michal B. Shaghafi, Pan-Pan Chen, Quan Tran, K. N. Houk, and Larry E. Overman: "Constructing Saturated Guanidinum Heterocycles by Cycloaddition of N-Amidinyliminium Ions with Indoles," Org. Lett., 23, 7618-7623 (2021).
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1397. Yifan Deng, Yike Zou, Chia-Ping H. Yang, K. N. Houk, and Amos B. Smith III: "Total Syntheses of (+)-Peniciketals A-B and (-)-Diocollettines A Exploiting a Photoisomerization/Cyclization Union Protocol,quot; J. Org. Chem., 86, 13583-13597 (2021).
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1398. Elesha R. Hoffarth, Kersti Caddell Haatveit, Eugene Kuatsjah, Gregory A. MacNeil, Simran Saroya, Charles J. Walsby, Lindsay E. Eltis, K. N. Houk, Marc Garcia-Borras, and Katherine S. Ryan: "A Shared Mechanistic Pathway for Pyridoxal Phosphate-Dependent Arigine Oxidases," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 118, e2012591118 (2021).
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1399. Fabio Julia, Qianzhen Shao, Meng Duan, Matthew B. Plutschack, Florian Berger, Javier Mateos, Chenxi Lu, Xiao-Song Xue, K. N. Houk, and Tobias Ritter: "High Site Selectivity in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitutions: Mechanism of C-H Thianthrenation," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 16041-16054 (2021).
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1400. Guang-Jian Mei, Jonathan J. Wong, Wenrui Zheng, Anjanay A. Nangia, K. N. Houk, and Yixin Lu: "Rational Design and Atroposelective Synthesis of N-N Axially Chiral Compounds," Chem., 7, 2743-2757 (2021).
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1401. Meng-Meng Xu, Limin Yang, Kui Tan, Xiangyang Chen, Qi-Tao Lu, K. N. Houk, and Quan Cai: "An Enantioselective Ambimodal Cross-Diels-Alder Reaction and Application in Synthesis," Nature. Catal., 4, 892-900 (2021).
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1402. Wendell A. Scott, Eric G. Gharakhanian, Alexandra G. Bell, Declan Evans, Ehab Barun, K. N. Houk, and Timothy Deming: "Active Controlled and Tunable Coacervation Using Side-Chain Functional alpha-Helical Homopolypeptides," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 18196-18203 (2021).
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1403. Lei Gao, Yike Zou, Xiaojing Liu, Jun Yang, Xiaoxia Du, Jin Wang, Xinshui Yu, Junping Fan, Mingxuan Jiang, Yuli Li, K. N. Houk, and Xiaoguang Lei: "Enzymatic Control of endo- and exo-Stereoselective Diels-Alder Reactions with Broad Substrate Scope," Nature Catal., 4, 1059-1069 (2021).
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1404. Garrett A. Kukier, Aneta Turlik, Xiao-Song Xue, and K. N. Houk: "Violations. How Nature Circumvents the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules and Promotes the Forbidden Conrotatory 4n + 2 Electron Electrocyclization of Prinzbach’s Vinylogous Sesquifulvalene," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 21694-21704 (2021).
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1405. Hong Zhang, Mathias Kirk Thøgersen, Cooper S. Jamieson, Xiao-Song Xue, Karl Anker Jørgensen, and Kendall N. Houk: "Ambimodal Transition States in Diels-Alder Cycloadditions of Tropolone and Tropolonate with N-Methylmaleimide," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 24991-24996 (2021).
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1406. Tianyi Huang, Shuan Tan, Selbi Nuryyeva, Ilhan Yavuz, Finn Babe, Yepin Zhao, Maged Abdelsamie, Marc H. Seber, Rui Wang, Kendall N. Houk, Carolin M. Sutter-Fella, and Yang Yang: "Performance-Limiting Formation Dynamics in Mixed-Halide Perovskites," Sci. Adv., 7, eabj1799 (2021).
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1407. Lorenz M. Urner, Ga Young Lee, Joseph W. Treacy, Aneta Turlik, Saeed I. Khan, K. N. Houk, and Michael E. Jung: "Intramolecular N-H---F Hydrogen Bonding Interaction in a Series of 4-Anilino-5-Fluoroquinazolines: Experimental and Theoretical Characterization of Electronic and Conformational Effects," Chem. Eur. J., 28, e202103135 (2021).
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1408. Tianyi Huang, Rui Wang, Selbi Nuryyeva, Shaun Tan, Jingjing Xue, Yepin Zhao, Quantan Wu, Marc H. Weber, Pei Cheng, Dong Meng, Ilhan Yavuz, K. N. Houk, and Yang Yang: "Wide-Gap Perovskite via Synergistic Surface Passivation and Its Application toward Efficient Stacked Tandem Photovoltaics," Small, 18, 2103887 (2021).
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1409. Sofiane Hocine, Gilles Berger, K. N. Houk, and Stephen Hanessian: "Catalytic Properties of 4,5-Bridged Proline Methano- and Ethanologues in the Hajos-Parrish Intramolecular Aldol Reaction," Org. Chem. Frontiers, 9, 649-659 (2022).
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1410. Zhen Liu, Zi-Yang Qin, Ledong Zhu, Soumitra V. Athavale, Arkajyoti Sengupta, Zhi-Jun Jia, Marc Garcia-Borras, K. N. Houk, and Frances Arnold: "An Enzymatic Platform for Primary Amination of 1-Aryl-2-alkyl Alkynes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 80-85 (2022).
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1411. Kuei-Chien Tang, Jian Cao, Lisa M. Boatner, Linwei Li, Jonathan Farhi, Kendall N. Houk, Jennifer Spangle, Keriann M. Backus, and Monika Raj: "Tunable Amine-Reactive Electrophiles for Selective Profiling of Lysine," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61, e202112107 (2021).
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1412. Junqi Su, Jia-Nan Mo, Xiangyang Chen, Alexander Umanzor, Zheng Zhang, Kendall N. Houk, and Jiannan Zhao: "Generation of Oxyphosphonium Ions by Photoredox/Cobaloxime Catalysi for Scalable Amide and Peptide Synthesis in Batch and Continuous-Flow," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61, e202112668 (2021).
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1413. Robin Padilla, K. Peter C. Vollhardt, Kendall N. Houk, and Jonathan J. Wong: "Bis(nu5-cyclopentadienyl)[mu-(4b,5,5a-nu3:9b,10,10a-nu3)-2,3,7,8-tetrakis(trimethylsilyl)benzo[3,4]cyclobuta[1,2,-b]biphenylene]-syn-dicobalt (Co-Co), a Dinuclear n-Complex of the Linear [3]Phenylene Framework," Synlett, 33, 34-37 (2022).
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1414. Benjamin J. Huffman, Tiffany Chu, Yusuke Hanaki, Jonathan J. Wong, Shuming Chen, Kendall N. Houk, and Ryan J. Shenvi: "Stereodivergent Attached-Ring Synthesis via Non-Covalent Interactions: A Short Formal Synthesis of Merrilactone A," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61, e202114514 (2022).
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1415. Fengyue Zhao, Peiyuan Yu, Yu Chen, Fang Liu, and K. N. Houk: "pi-Facial Stereoselectivity in Acyl Nitroso Cycloadditions to 5,5-Unsymmetrically Substituted Cyclopentadienes: Computational Exploration of Origins of Selectivity and the Role of Substituent Conformations on Selectivity," J. Org. Chem., 86, 17082-17089 (2021).
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1416. Philip A. Provencher, John F. Hoskin, Jonathan J. Wong, Xiangyang Chen, Jin-Quan Yu, K. N. Houk, and Erik J. Sorensen: "Pd(II)-Catalyzed Synthesis of Benzocyclobutenes by beta-Methylene-Selective C(sp3)-H Arylation with a Transient Directing Group," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 20035-20041 (2021).
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1417. Stella A. Gonsales, Zoe C. Mueller, Fengyue Zhao, Paulo H. S. Paioti, Lydia Karmazin, Jing Wan, Fang Liu, K. N. Houk, and Amir H. Hoveyda: "Cross-Metathesis of Allenes. Mechanistic Analysis and Identification of a Ru-CAAC as the Most Effective Catalyst," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 20640-20644 (2021).
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1418. Melissa Ramirez, Vito Vece, Stephen Hanessian, and K. N. Houk: "Computational and Further Experimental Explorations of the Competing Cascades Following Claisen Rearrangements of Aryl Propargyl Ethers: Substituent Effects on Reactivity and Regioselectivity," J. Org. Chem., 86, 17955-17964 (2021).
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1419. Oussama Yahiaoui, Lauren A. M. Murray, Fengyue Zhao, Bradley S. Moore, Kendall N. Houk, Fang Liu, and Jonathan H. George: "A Diazo-Hooker Reaction, Inspired by the Biosynthesis of Azamerone," Org. Lett., 24, 490-495 (2022).
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1420. Kelsey M. Kean, Stefanie A. Baril, Kelsey N. Lamb, Sarah N. Dishman, Joseph W. Treacy, Kendall N. Houk, Eric M. Brustad, Lindsey I. James, and Marcey L. Waters: "Systematic Variation of Both the Aromatic Cage and Dialkyllysine via GCE-SAR Reveal Mechanistic Insights in CBX5 Reader Protein Binding," J. Med. Chem., 65, 2646-2655 (2022).
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1421. Meng Duan, Christian David Diaz-Oviedo, Yang Zhou, Xiangyang Chen, Peiyuan Yu, Benjamin List, Kendall N. Houk, and Yu Lan: "Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed Conversion of Epoxides into Thiiranes: Mechanism, Stereochemical Model, and New Catalyst Design," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61, e202113204 (2022).
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1422. Bo Li, Hui Xu, Yangfeng Dang, and K. N. Houk: "Dispersion and Steric Effects on Enantio-/Diastereoselectivities in Synergistic Dual Transition-Metal Catalysis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 1971-1985 (2022).
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1423. Benjamin Wigman, Woojin Lee, Wenjing Wei, Kendall N. Houk, and Hosea M. Nelson: "Electrochemical Fluorination of Vinyl Boronates through Donor-Stabilized Vinyl Carbocation Intermediates," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Early View Article (2022).
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1424. Hong Deng, Minyan Wang, Yong Liang, Xiangyang Chen, Tianhang Wang, Jonathan J. Wong, Yue Zhao, Kendall N. Houk, and Zhuangzhi Shi: "Palladium-Catalyzed Stereospecific C-P Coupling toward Diverse PN-heterocycles," Chem, 8, 569-579 (2022).
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1425. Liwen Xing, Ji-Ren Liu, Xin Hong, Kendall N. Houk, and Christine K. Luscombe: "An Exception to the Carothers Equation Caused by the Accelerated Chain Extension in a Pd/Ag Cocatalyzed Cross Dehydrogenative Coupling Polymerization," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 2311-2322 (2022).
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1426. David A. Gutierrez, James Fettinger, K. N. Houk, Kaori Ando, and Jared T. Shaw: "Diastereoselective Addition of Prochiral Nucleophilic Alkenes to alpha-Chiral N-Sulfonyl Imines," Org. Lett., 24, 1164-1168 (2022).
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1427. Katherine I. Albanese, Andrew Leaver-Fay, Joseph W. Treacy, Rodney Park, K. N. Houk, Brian Kuhlman, and Marcey L. Waters: "Comparative Analysis of Sulfonium-pi, Ammonium-pi, and Sulfur-pi Interactions and Relevance to SAM-Dependent Methyltransferases," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 2535-2545 (2022).
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1428. Kevin A. Murray, Declan Evans, Michael P. Hughes, Michael R. Sawaya, Carolyn J. Hu, Kendall N. Houk, and David Eisenberg: "Extended beta-Strands Contribute to Reversible Amyloid Formation," ACS Nano, 16, 2154-2163 (2022).
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1429. Ledong Zhu, Mark A. Maskeri, Melissa Ramirez, F. Le Bideau, Leon Ghosez, and K. N. Houk: "Computational Exploration of Anomalous Regioselectivities in Cycloadditions of Ketenes to Oxazolines," J. Org. Chem., 87, 3613-3622 (2022).
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1430. Isaac Benavides, Eric D. Raftery, Alexandra G. Bell, Declan Evans, Wendell A. Scott, K. N. Houk, and Timothy J. Deming: "Poly(dehydroalanine): Synthesis, Properties, and Functional Diversifcation of a Fluorescent Polypeptide," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 4214-4223 (2022).
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1431. Rosa V. Espinoza, Mark A. Maskeri, Aneta Turlik, Anjanay Nangia, Yogan Khatri, John Montgomery, K. N. Houk, and David H. Sherman: "Epoxidation and Late-Stage C-H Functionalization by P450 Taml Are Mediated by Variant Heme-Iron Oxidixing Species," ACS Catal., 12, 3731-3742 (2022).
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1432. Bo Li, Xingyi Guan, Song Yang, Yike Zou, Wen Liu, and K. N. Houk: "Mechanism of the Stereoselective Catalysis of Diels-Alderase PyrE3 Involved in Pyrroindomycin Biosynthesis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 5099-5107 (2022).
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1433. Caner Deger, Shaun Tan, K. N. Houk, Yang Yang, and Ilhan Yuvuz: "Lattice Strain Suppresses Point Defect Formation in Halide Perovskites," Nano Research, 15, 5746-5751 (2022).
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1434. Cooper S. Jamieson, Masao Ohashi, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Computational Prediction and Experimental Validation of a Bridged Cation Intermediate in Akanthomycin Biosynthesis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 5280-5283 (2022).
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1435. Douglas A. Rose, Joseph W. Treacy, Zhongyue J. Yang, Jeong Hoon Ko, K. N. Houk, and Heather D. Maynard: "Self-Immolative Hydroxybenzylamine Linkers for Traceless Protein Modification," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 6050-6058 (2022).
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1436. Bo Chen, K. N. Houk, Robert Cammi: "High-Pressure Reaction Profiles and Activation Volumes of 1,3-Cyclohexadiene Dimerizations Computed by the Extreme Pressure-Polarizable Continuum Model (XP-PCM)," Chem. Eur. J., 28, e202200246 (2022).
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1437. Chen Zhang, Hao Zuo, Ga Young Lee, Yike Zou, Qiu-Di Dang, K. N. Houk, and Dawen Niu: "Halogen-Bond-Assisted Radical Activation of Glycosyl Donors Enables Mild and Stereoconvergent 1,2-cis¬-Glycosylation," Nature Chem., 14, 686-694 (2022).
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1438. Qiaolin Yan, Meng Duan, Cien Chen, Zhiqing Deng, Mandi Wu, Peiyuan Yu, Ming-Liang He, Guangyu Zhu, K. N. Houk, and Jianwei Sun: "Organocatalytic Discrimination of Non-Directing Aryl and Heteroaryl Groups: Enantioselective Synthesis of Bioactive Indole-Containing Triarylmethanes," Chem. Sci., 13, 5767-5773 (2022).
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1439. Fengjiao Liu, Siqi Ma, Zeying Lu, Anjanay Nangia, Meng Duan, Yanmin Yu, Guozheo Xu, Ye Mei, Massimo Bietti, and K. N. Houk: "Hydrogen Abstraction by Alkoxyl Radicals: Computational Studies of Thermodynamic and Polarity Effects on Reactivities and Selectivities," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 6802-6812 (2022).
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1440. Qiang Huang, Ga Young Lee, Jiayi Li, Chuan Wang, Rosalinda L. Zhao, Zixin Deng, K. N. Houk, and Yi-Lei Zhao: "Origin of Iodine Preferential Attack at Sulfur in Phosphorothioate and Subsequent P-O or P-S Bond Dissociation," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 119, e2119032119 (2022).
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1441. Dennis Svatunek, Martin Wilkovitsch, Lea Hartmann, K. N. Houk, and Hannes Mikula: "Uncovering the Key Role of Distortion in Bioorthogonal Tetrazine Tools that Defy the Reactivity/Stability Trade-Off," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 8171-8177 (2022).
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1442. Jiajia Ma, Shuming Chen, Peter Bellotti, Tobias Wagener, Constantin Daniliuc, Kendall N. Houk, and Frank Glorius: "Facile Access to Fused 2D/3D Rings via Intermolecular Cascade Dearomative [2 + 2] Cycloaddition/Rearrangement Reactions of Quinolines with Alkenes," Nature Catal., 4, 405-413 (2022).
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1443. Zuodong Sun, Cooper S. Jamieson, Masao Ohashi, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Discovery and Characterization of a Terpene Biosynthetic Pathway Featuring a Norbornene-Forming Diels-Alderase," Nature Commun., 13, Article Number 2568 (2022).
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1444. Feng-Lian Zhang, Bin Li, K. N. Houk, and Yi-Feng Wang: "Application of the Spin-Center Shift in Organic Synthesis," JACS Au, 2, 1032-1042 (2022).
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1445. Wenju Chang, Yu Chen, Shuo Lu, Hongyun Jiao, Yajun Wang, Tianyu Zheng, Zhuangzhi Shi, Yingbin Han, Yi Lu, Yi Wang, Yi Pan, Jin-Quan Yu, Kendall N. Houk, Fang Liu, and Yong Liang: "Computationally Designed Ligands Enable Tunable Borylation of Remote C-H Bonds in Arenes," Chem, 8, 1775-1778 (2022).
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1446. Zhi-Chen Wu, K. N. Houk, Dale L. Boger, and Dennis Svatunek: "Mechanistic Insights into the Reaction of Amidines with 1,2,3-Triazines and 1,2,3,5-Tetrazines," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 10921-10928 (2022).
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1447. Woojin Lee, Daniel Polyak, Bokai Xu, K. N. Houk, and Isaac J. Krauss: "A Mechanistic Switch from Homoallylation to Cyclopropylcarbinylation of Aldehydes," Org. Lett., 24, 4660-4664 (2022).
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1448. Sven Jaaner, Daniel Isak, Yuli Li, Kendall N. Houk, and Aubry K. Miller: "Bioinspired Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Emeriones A-C," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61, e202205878 (2022).
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1449. Pierre Vogel and Kendall N. Houk: "Organic Chemistry and Synthesis Rely More and More upon Catalysts," Catalysts, 12, 758 (2022).
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1450. David B. Konrad, Klaus-Peter Ruhmann, Hiroyasu Ando, Belinda E. Hetzler, Nina Strassner, Kendall N. Houk, Bryan W. Matsuura, and Dirk Trauner: "A Concise Synthesis of Tetrodotoxin," Science, 377, 411-415 (2022).
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1451. Xianqing Wu, Aneta Turlik, Baixue Luan, Feng He, Jingping Qu, K. N. Houk, and Yifeng Chen: "Nickel-Catalyzed Enantioselective Reductive Alkyl-Carmamoylation of Internal Alkenes," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61, e202207536 (2022).
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1452. Jeff K. Kerkovius, Andrea Stegner, Aneta Turlik, Pik Hoi Lam, Kandall N. Houk, and Sarah E. Reisman: "A Pyridine Dearomatization Approach to the Matrine-Type Lupin Alkaloids," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 15938-15943 (2022).
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1453. Lei Zhang, Chen Yang, Chenxi Lu, Xingxing Li, Yilin Guo, Jianning Zhang, Jinglong Lin, Zhizhou Li, Chuancheng Jia, Jinlong Yang, K. N. Houk, Fanyang Mo, and Xuefeng Guo: "Precise Electrical Gating of the Single-Molecule Mizoroki-Heck Reaction," Nature Commun., 13, Article Number 4552 (2022).
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1454. Peng Ji, Cassondra C. Davies, Feng Gao, Jing Chen, Xiang Meng, Kendall N. Houk, Shuming Chen, and Wei Wang: "Selective Skeletal Editing of Polycyclic Arenes Using Organophotoredox Dearomative Functionalization," Nature Commun., 13, Article Number 4565 (2022).
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1455. Zhuolong Fan, Xiangyang Chen, Keita Tanaka, Han Seul Park, Nelson Y. S. Lam, Jonathan J. Wong, K. N. Houk, and Jin-Quan Yu: "Molecular Editing of Aza-Arene C-H Bonds by Distance, Geometry, and Chirality," Nature, 610, 87-93 (2022).
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1456. Brittany Trang, Yuli Li, Xiao-Song Xue, Mohamed Ateia, K. N. Houk, and William R. Dichtel: "Low-Temperature Mineralization of Perfluorocarboxylic Acids," Science, 377, 839-845 (2022).
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1457. Peter Bellotti, Torben Rogge, Fritz Paulus, Ranjini Laskar, Nils Rendel, Jiajia Ma, K. N. Houk, and Frank Glorius: "Visible-Light Photocatalyzed peri-(3+2) Cycloadditions of Quinolines," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 15662-15671 (2022).
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1458. Arkajyoti Sengupta, Bo Li, Dennis Svatunek, Fang Liu, and K. N. Houk: "Cycloaddition Reactivities Analyzed by Energy Decomposition Analyses and the Fronter Molecular Orbital Model," Acc. Chem. Res., 55, 2467-2479 (2022).
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1459. Suhong Kim, Pan-Pan Chen, K. N Houk, and Robert R. Knowles: "Reversible Homolysis of a Carbon-Carbon sigma-Bond Enabled by Complexation-Induced Bond-Weakening," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 15488-15496 (2022).
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1460. Shang Gao, Meng Duan, Laura R. Andreola, Peiyuan Yu, Steven E. Wheeler, Kendall N. Houk, and Ming Chen: "Unusual Enantiodivergence in Chiral Bronsted Acid-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylation with beta-Alkenyl Allylic Boronates," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61, e202208908 (2022).
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1461. Renyu Guo, Souvik Adak, Peter Bellotti, Xinfeng Gao, W. Walker Smith, Sam Ngan, Jiajia Ma, K. N Houk, Frank Glorius, Shuming Chen, and M. Kevin Brown: "Photochemical Dearomative Cycloadditions of Quinolines and Alkenes: Scope and Mechanism Studies," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 17680-17691 (2022).
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1462. Xin He, Pengchen Ma, Yuhai Tang, Jing Li, Shenyu Shen, Martin J. Lear, K. N. Houk, and Silong Xu: "Phosphine-Catalyzed Activation of Cyclopropenones: A Versatile C3 Synthon for (3+2) Annulations with Unsaturated Electrophiles," Chem. Sci., 13, 12769-12775 (2022).
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1463. Wen-Jie Kang, Bo Li, Meng Duan, Guangxing Pan, Weiqiang Sun, Aishun Ding, Yanbin Zhang, K. N. Houk, and Gao Guo: "Discovery of a Tioxanthone-TfOH Complex as a Photoredox Catalyst for Hydrogenation of Alkenes Using p-Xylene as Both Electron and Hydrogen Sources," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61, e202211562 (2022).
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1464. David McLeod, Nicolaj Inunnguaq Jessen, Thanh V. Q. Nguyen, Marcus Espe, Jeremy David Erickson, Karl Anker Jorgensen, Limin Yang, and K. N. Houk: "Influence of Achiral Phosphine Ligands on a Synergistic Organo- and Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation," Chem. Eur. J., 28, e202202951 (2022).
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1465. Xin Yang, Sophie Hui Min Lim, Jiachen Lin, Jie Wu, Haidi Tang, Fengyue Zhao, Fang Liu, Chenghua Sun, Xiangcheng Shi, Yulong Kuang, Joanne Yi Hui Toy, Ke Du, Yuannian Zhang, Xiang Wang, Mingtai Sun, Zhixuan Song, Tian Wang, Ji’en Wu, K. N. Houk, and Dejian Huang: "Oxygen Mediated Oxidative Couplings of Flavones in Alkaline Water," Nature Commun., 13, Article Number 6424 (2022).
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1466. Quan Tran, Arkajyoti Sengupta, and K. N. Houk: "Probative Evidence and Quantitative Energetics for the Unimolecular Mechanism of the 1,5-Sigmatropic Hydrogen Shift of Cyclopentadiene," J. Org. Chem., 87, 14995-15000 (2022).
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1467. Shaowei Chen, Xiaoqian He, Chenyu Jin, Weilu Zhang, Yuxi Yang, Shanshan Liu, Yu Lan, Kendall N. Houk, and Xiao Shen: "Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Redistribution between Hydrosilanes and Silacyclobutanes," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61, e202213431 (2022).
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1468. Wen-Deng Liu, Woojin Lee, Hanyu Shu, Chuyu Xiao, Huiwei Xu, Xiangyang Chen, Kendall N. Houk, and Jiannan Zhao: "Diastereoselective Radical Aminoacylation of Olefins through N-Heterocyclic Carbenes Catalysis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 22767-22777 (2022).
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1469. Lucas Vidal, Pan-Pan Chen, Eva Nicolas, Andrew Hackett, Craig M. Robertson, Kendall N. Houk, and Christophe Aissa: "Enantioselective Intramolecular Iridium-Catalyzed Cyclopropanation of alpha-Carbonyl Sulfoxonium Ylides," Org. Lett., 24, 8503-8508 (2022).
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1470. Pan-Pan Chen, Peter Wipf, and K. N. Houk: "How Mono- and Diphosphine Ligands Alter Regioselectivity of the Rh-Catalyzed Annulative Cleavage of Bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes," Nature Commun., 13, Article Number 7292 (2022).
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1471. Qingyang Zhou, Mathias K. Thogersen, Nomaan M. Rezayee, Karl Anker Jorgensen, and K. N. Houk: "Ambimodal Bispericyclic [6+4]/[4+6] Transition State Competes with Diradical Pathways in the Cycloheptatriene Dimerization: Dynamics and Experimental Characterization of Thermal Dimers," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 22251-22261 (2022).
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1472. Tsuyoshi Mita, Hideaki Takano, Hiroki Hayashi, Wataru Kanna, Yu Harabuchi, K. N. Houk, and Satoshi Maeda: "Prediction of High-Yielding Single-Step or Cascade Pericyclic Reactions for the Synthesis of Complex Synthetic Targets," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 22985-23000 (2022).
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1473. Sepand K. Nistanaki, Chloe G. Williams, Benjamin Wigman, Jonathan J. Wong, Brittany C. Haas, Stasik Popov, Jacob Werth, Matthew S. Sigman, K. N. Houk, and Hosea M. Nelson: "Catalytic Asymmetric C-H Insertion Reactions of Vinyl Carbocations," Science, 378, 1085-1091 (2022).
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1474. Mark A. Maskeri, Anthony J. Fernandes, Giovanni Di Mauro, Nuno Maulide, and K. N. Houk: "Taming Keteniminium Reactivity by Steering Reaction Pathways: Computational Predictions and Experimental Validations," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 23358-23367 (2022).
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1475. Matteo Lanzi, Torben Rogge, Tan Sang Truong, K. N. Houk, and Joanna Wencel-Delord: "Cyclic Diaryl lambda3-Chloranes: Reagents and Their C-C and C-O Couplings with Phenols via Aryne Intermediates," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 345-358 (2023).
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1476. Mary C. Andorfer, Declan Evans, Song Yang, Cyndi Qixin He, Anna M. Girlich, Jaylie Vergara-Coll, Narayanasami Sukumar, K. N. Houk, and Jared C. Lewis: "Analysis of Laboratory-Evolved Flavin-Dependent Halogenases Affords a Computational Model for Predicting Halogenase Site Selectivity," Chem. Catal., 2, 2658-2674 (2022).
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1477. Lucas Schaus, Anuvab Das, Anders M. Knight, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, K. N. Houk, Marc Garcia-Borras, Frances H. Arnold, and Xiongyi Huang: "Protoglobin-Catalyzed Formation of cis-Trifluoromethyl-Substituted Cyclopropanes by Carbene Transfer," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 62, e200208936 (2023).
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1478. Ruirui Su, Kaili Xie, Yong Liang, K. N. Houk, and Fang Liu: "Fluoro, Trifluoromethyl, and Trifluoroacetyl Substituent Effects on Cycloaddition Reactivities: Computations and Analysis," J. Org. Chem., 88, 893-900 (2023).
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1479. Hongbo Wang, Yike Zou, Miao Li, Zhijun Tang, Jiabao Wang, Zhenhua Tian, Nina Strassner, Qian Yang, Qingfei Zheng, Yujiao Guo, Wen Liu, Lifeng Pan, and K. N. Houk: "A Cyclase that Catalyses Competing 2+2 and 4+2 Cycloadditions," Nature Chem., 15, 177-184 (2023).
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1480. Zhiwen Liu, Sebastian Rivera, Sean A. Newminster, Jacob N. Sanders, Qiuyue Nie, Shuai Liu, Fanglong Zhao, Joseph D. Ferrara, Hao-Wei Shih, Siddhant Patil, Weijun Xu, Mitchell D. Miller, George N. Phillips, K. N. Houk, David H. Sherman, and Xue Gao: "An NmrA-like Enzyme-Catalysed Redox-Mediated Diels-Alder Cycloaddition with anti-Selectivity," Nature Chem., 15, 526-534 (2023).
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1481. Brandon J. Bloomer, Sean N. Natoli, Marc Garcia-Borras, Jose H. Pereira, Derek B. Hu, Paul D. Adams, K. N. Houk, Douglas S. Clark, and John F. Hartwig: "Mechanistic and Structural Characterization of an Iridium-Containing Cytochrome Reveals Kinetically Relevent Cofactor Dynamics," Natural Catal., 6, 39-51 (2023).
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1482. Masao Ohashi, Dan Tan, Jiayan Lu, Cooper S. Jamieson, Daiki Kanayama, Jiahai Zhou, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Enzymatic cis-Decalin Formation in Natural Product Biosynthesis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 3301-3305 (2023).
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1483. Can Qin, Tobias Koengeter, Fengyue Zhao, Yucheng Mu, Fang Liu, K. N. Houk, and Amir H. Hoveyda: "Z-Trisubstituted alpha,beta-Unsaturated Esters and Acid Fluorides through Stereocontrolled Catalytic Cross-Metathesis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 3748-3762 (2023).
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1484. Ana Martin-Somer, Xiao-Song Xue, Cooper S. Jamieson, Yike Zou, and K. N. Houk: "Computational Design of a Tetrapericyclic Cycloaddition and the Nature of Potential Energy Surfaces with Multiple Bifurcations," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 4221-4230 (2023).
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1485. Vikram V. Shende, Natalia R. Harris, Jacob N. Sanders, Sean A. Newmister, Yogan Khatri, Mohammad Movassaghi, Kendall N. Houk, and David H. Sherman: "Molecular Dynamics Simulations Guide Chimeragenesis and Engineering Control of Chemoselectivity in Diketopiperazine Dimerases," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Article e200210254 (2023).
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1486. Kevin J. McNaught, Eugene Kuatsjah, Michael Zahn, Erica T. Prates, Huiling Shao, Gayle J. Bentley, Andrew R. Pickford, Josephine N. Gruber, Kelley V. Hestmark, Daniel A. Jacobson, Brenton C. Poirier, Chen Ling, Myrsini San Marchi, William E. Michener, Carrie D. Nicora, Jacob N. Sanders, Caralyn J. Szostkiewicz, Dusan Velickovic, Mowei Zhou, Nathalie Munoz, Young-Mo Kim, Jon K. Magnuson, Kristin E. Burnum-Johnson, K. N. Houk, John E. McGeehan, Christopher W. Johnson, and Gregg T. Beckham: "Initiation of Fatty Acid Biosynthesis in Pseudomonas putida KT2440," Metab. Eng., 76, 193-203 (2023).
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1487. Woojin Lee, Hosea M. Nelson, and K. N. Houk: "Computational Exploration of the Nature of Li+-Ureide Anion Catalysis on Formation of Highly Reactive Vinyl Carbocations and Subsequent C-C Bond Forming Reactions," J. Org. Chem., 88, 3403-3408 (2023).
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1488. Marie Peng, Chang-Sheng Wang, Pan-Pan Chen, Thierry Roisnel, Henri Doucet, K. N. Houk, and Jean-François Soule: "Merging C-H Bond Activation, Alkyne Insertion, and Rearrangements by Rh(III)-Catalysis: Oxindole Synthesis from Nitroarenes and Alkynes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 4508-4516 (2023).
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1489. Yepin Zhao, Zongqi Li, Caner Deger, Minhuan Wang, Miroslav Peric, Yanfeng Yin, Dong Meng, Wenxin Yang, Xinyao Wang, Qiyu Xing, Bin Chang, Elizabeth G. Scott, Yifan Zhou, Elizabeth Zhang, Ran Zheng, Jiming Bian, Yantao Shi, Ilhan Yavux, Kung-Hwa Wei, K. N. Houk, and Yang Yang: "Achieving Sustainability of Greenhouses by Integrating Stable Semi-Transparent Organic Photovoltaics," Nature Sustain., 6, 539-548 (2023).
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1490. Hao Wang, Zhongyu Li, Xiangyang Chen, Jonathan J. Wong, Tongyu Bi, Xiankun Tong, Zhongliang Xu, Mingyue Zhen, Yunhui Wan, Li Tang, Bo Liu, Xinlei Zong, Dandan Xu, Jianpeng Zuo, Li Yang, Wei Huang, Kendall N. Houk, and Weibo Yang: "Multicomponent Coupling and Macrocyclization Enabled by Rh(III)-Catalyzed Dual C-H Activation: Macrocyclic Oxime Inhibitor of Influenza H1N1," Chem, 9, 607-623 (2023).
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1491. Emma Alcock, Pamela Mackey, Aneta Turlik, Khushi Bhatt, Mark E. Light, Kendall N. Houk, and Gerard P. McGlacken: "The Aldol-Tishchenko Reaction of Butanone, Cyclobutanone, and a 3-Pentanone Derived Sulfinylimine and DFT Calculations of the Stereo-Determining Step," Chem. Eur. J., 29, e202203029 (2023).
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1492. Shuai Liu, Pengchen Ma, Lu Zhang, Shenyu Shen, Hong-Jie Miao, Le Liu, K. N. Houk, Xin-Hua Duan, and Li-Na Guo: "A Cheap Metal Catalyzed Ring Expansion/Cross-Coupling Cascade: A New Route to Functionalized Medium-Sized Macrolactones," Chem. Sci., 14, 5220-5225 (2023).
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1493. Chen Yang, Yanwei Li, Shuyao Zhou, Yilin Guo, Chuancheng Jia, Zhirong Liu, Kendall N. Houk, Yonatan Dubi, and Xuefeng Guo: "Real-Time Monitoring of Reaction Stereochemistry through Single-Molecule Observations of Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity," Nature Chem., 15, 972-979 (2023). Correction: Nature Chem. (2024). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-024-01670-2
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1494. Hui-Qi Ni, Malkanthi K. Karunananda, Tian Zeng, Shenghua Yang, Zhen Liu, K. N. Houk, Peng Liu, and Keary M. Engle: "Redox-Paired Alkene Difunctionalization Enables Skeletally Divergent Synthesis," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 12351-12359 (2023).
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1495. Roman Kleinmans, Subhabrata Dutta, Kristers Ozols, Huiling Shao, Felix Schafer, Rebecca E. Thielemann, Hok Tsun Chen, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Kendall N. Houk, and Frank Glorious: "ortho-Selective Dearomative [2pi + 2sigma] Photocycloadditions of Bicyclic Aza-Arenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 12324-12332 (2023).
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1496. Kanji Niwa, Masao Ohashi, Kalli Xie, Chen-Yu Chiang, Cooper S. Jamieson, Michio Sato, Kenji Watanabe, Fang Liu, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Biosynthesis of Polycyclic Natural Products from Conjugated Polyenes via Tandem Isomerization and Pericyclic Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 13520-13525 (2023).
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1497. Yaling Zhang, Chaoqin Cao, Yuanbin She, Yun-Fang Yang, and K. N. Houk: "Molecular Dynamics of Iron Porphyrin-Catalyzed C-H Hydroxylation of Ethylbenzene," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 14446-14455 (2023).
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1498. Limin Yang, Bo Li, and K. N. Houk: "The Role of Attractive Dispersion Interaction in Promoting the Catalytic Activity of Asymmetric Hydrogenation," Org. Chem. Front., 10, 3485-3490 (2023).
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1499. Fengyue Zhao, Yixuan Li, K. N. Houk, Qianqian Lu, and Fang Liu: "Computational Elucidation on the Conformational Control of Selectivity in Intramolecular Ring-Closing Metathesis vs Intermolecular Homometathesis," J. Org. Chem., 88, 8512-8521 (2023).
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1500. Raymond F. Turro, Julie L. H. Wahlman, Z. Jaron Tong, Xiahe Chen, Miao Yang, Emily P. Chen, Xin Hong, Ryan G. Hadt, K. N. Houk, Yun-Fang Yang, and Sarah E. Reisman: "Mechanistic Investigation of Ni-Catalyzed Reductive Cross-Coupline of Alkenyl and Benzyl Electrophiles," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 14705-14715 (2023).
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1501. Weipeng Li, Yu Chen, Yinghan Chen, Siyu Xia, Wenju Chang, Chengjian Zhu, K. N. Houk, Yong Liang, and Jin Xie: "Site-Selective Arylation of Carboxamides from Unprotected Peptides," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 14865-14873 (2023).
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1502. Eugene Kuatsjah, Michael Zahn, Xiangyang Chen, Ryo Kato, Daniel J. Hinchen, Mikhail O. Konev, Rui Katahira, Christian Orr, Armin Wagner, Yike Zou, Stefan J. Hausen, Kelsey J. Ramirez, Joshua K. Michener, Andrew R. Pickford, Naofumi Kamimura, Eiji Masai, K. N. Houk, John E. McGeehan, and Gregg T. Beckham: "Biochemical and Structural Characterization of a Sphingomonad Diarylpropane Lyase for Cofactorless Deformylation," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 120, e2212246120 (2023).
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1503. Angel Mendoza, Salvador J. Bernardinoa, Morris J. Dweck, Isabel Valencia, Declan Evans, Haowen Tian, William Lee, Yu Li, Kendall N. Houk, and Patrick G. Harran: "Cascade Synthesis of Fluorinated Spiroheterocyclic Scaffolding for Peptidic Macrobicycles," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 15888-15895 (2023).
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1504. Benjamin G. Hejna, Jacob M. Ganley, Huiling Shao, Haowen Tian, Jonathan D. Ellefsen, Nicholas J. Fastuca, Kendall N. Houk, Scott J. Miller, and Robert R. Knowles: "Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogen Atom Transfer: Enantioselective Hydroamination of Alkenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 16118-16129 (2023).
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1505. Runze Mao, Daniel J. Wackelin, Cooper S. Jamieson, Torben Rogge, Shilong Gao, Anuvab Das, Doris Mia Taylor, K. N. Houk, and Frances Arnold: "Enantio- and Diastereoenriched Enzymatic Synthesis of 1,2,3-Polysubstituted Cyclopropanes from (Z/E)-Trisubstituted Enol Acetates," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 16176-16185 (2023).
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1506. Liang Hu, Guangrong Meng, Xiangyang Chen, Joseph S. Yoon, Jing-Ran Shan, Nikita Chekshin, Daniel A. Strassfeld, Tao Sheng, Zhe Zhuang, Rodolphe Jazzar, Guy Bertrand, K. N. Houk, and Jin-Quan Yu: "Enhancing Substrate-Metal Catalyst Affinity via Hydrogen Bonding: Pd(II)-Catalyzed beta-C(sp3)-H Bromination of Free Carboxylic Acids," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 16297-16304 (2023).
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1507. Andy Hsien-Wei Yeh, Christoffer Norn, Yakov Kipnis, Doug Tischer, Samuel J. Pellock, Declan Evans, Pengchen Ma, Gyu Rie Lee, Jason Z. Zhang, Ivan Anishchenko, Brian Coventry, Longzing Cao, Justas Dauparas, Samer Halabiya, Michelle DeWitt, Lauren Carter, K. N. Houk, and David Baker: "De novo Design of Luciferases Using Deep Learning," Nature, 614, 774-780 (2023).
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1508. Jiawang Liu, Jiayan Lu, Chen Zhang, Qingyang Zhou, Cooper S. Jamieson, Changhui Shang, K. N. Houk, Jiahai Zhou, and Youcai Hu: "Tandem Intermolecular [4+2] Cycloadditions Are Catalysed by Glycosylated Enzymes for Natural Product Biosynthesis," Nature Chem., 1083-1090 (2023).
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1509. Huamin Wang, Huiling Shao, Ankita Das, Subhabrata Dutta, Hok Tsun Chan, Constantin Laniliuc, K. N. Houk, and Frank Glorius: "Dearomative Ring Expansion of Thiophenes by Bicyclobutane Insertion," Science, 381, 75-81 (2023).
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1510. Abigail D. Richardson, Scott J. L’Heureux, Ava M. Henry, Elizabeth A. McDonough, Cameron J. Fleischer, Cameron C. McMullen, Trevor R. Reynafarje, Gisele P. Guerrero, Quinn E. Williams, Qingyang Zhou, David M. Malouf, Spencer E. Thurman, Julia E. Soeller, Jerry Y. Sheng, Erica A. Medhurst, Angel E. Canales, Ty B. Cecil, K. N. Houk, Philip J. Costanzo, and Daniel A. Bercovici: "Experimental and Theoretical Exploraion of the Kinetics and Thermodynamics of the Nucleophile-Induced Fragmentation of Ylidenenorbornadiene Carboxylates," J. Org. Chem., 88, 11683-11693 (2023).
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1511. Dennis Svatunek, Konrad Chojnacki, Titas Deb, Hannah Eckvahl, K. N. Houk, and Raphael M. Franzini: "Orthogonal Inverse-Electron-Demand Cycloaddition Reactions Controlled by Fronter Molecular Orbital Interactions," Org. Lett., 25, 6340-6345 (2023).
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1512. Huiling Shao, Victor Adebomi, Angele Bruce, Monika Raj, and Kendall N. Houk: "Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding Enables a Zwitterionic Mechanism for Macrocyclic Peptide Formation: Computational Mechanistic Studies of CyClick Chemistry," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 62, e202307210 (2023).
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1513. Yi Sun, Fengjiao Liu, Jacob N. Sanders, and K. N. Houk: "Role of Steric Effects on Rates of Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactions," J. Org. Chem., 88, 12668-12676 (2023).
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1514. Arkajyoti Sengupta and K. N. Houk: "Origins of Periselectivity and Regioselectivity in Ambimodal Tripericyclic [8+6]/[6+4]/[4+2] Intramolecular Cycloadditions of a Heptafulvenyl-Fulvene," J. Phys. Chem. A, 127, 7976-7983 (2023).
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1515. Xiaolin Yue, Qingyang Zhou, and K. N. Houk: "Computational Exploration of the Thermal Rearrangement of Basketene: One Forbidden versus Two Allowed Pericyclic Reactions," J. Org. Chem., 88, 14303-14307 (2023).
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1516. Wen-Jie Kang, Bo Li, Zijian Zhao, Shijie Sun, Changhao Feng, Ke Hu, K. N. Houk, and Hao Guo: "Generation of Thioxanthone Hydrogen Anion by Double Photoreduction and Uses for Catalytic Photoreductions," ACS Catal., 13, 13588-13596 (2023).
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1517. Mengting Liu, Masao Ohashi, Qingyang Zhou, Jacob N. Sanders, Erin P. McCauley, Phillip Crews, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Enzymatic Benzofuranoindoline Formation in the Biosynthesis of the Strained Bridgehead Bicyclic Dipeptide (+)-Azonazine A," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 62, e202311266 (2023).
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1518. Karan Goyal, Garrett A. Kukier, Xiangyang Chen, Aneta Turlik, K. N. Houk, and Richmond Sarpong: "Rearrangement of a Carboxy-Substituted Spiro[4.4]nonatriene to Annulated Fulvenes through a Pd(II)-mediated 1,5-vinyl Shift," Chem. Sci., 14, 11809-11817 (2023).
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1519. Mikk Kaasik, Pan-Pan Chen, Sebastijan Ricko, Karl Anker Jorgensen, and K. N. Houk: "Asymmetric [4+2], [6+2], and [6+4] Cycloaddition of Isomeric Formyl Cycloheptatrienes Catalyzed by a Chiral Diamine Catalyst," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 23874-23890 (2023).
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1520. Marco Galeotti, Woojin Lee, Sergio Sisti, Martina Casciotti, Michela Salamone, K. N. Houk, and Massimo Bietti: "Radical and Cationic Pathways in C(sp3)-H Bond Oxygenation by Dioxiranes of Bicyclic and Spirocyclic Hydrocarbons Bearing Cyclopropane Moieties," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 24021-24034 (2023).
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1521. Chunsheng Yan, Wenyu Han, Qingyang Zhou, Kanji Niwa, Melody J. Tang, Jessica E. Burch, Yalong Zhang, David A. Delgadillo, Zuodong Sun, Zhongshou Wu, Steven E. Jacobsen, Hosea Nelson, K. N. Houk, and Yi Tang: "Genome Mining from Agriculturally Relevant Fungi Led to a D-Glucose Esterified Polyketide with a Terpene-like Core Structure," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 25080-25085 (2023).
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1522. Ye-Hui Chen, Meng Duan, Si-Li Lin, Yu-Wei Liu, Jun Kee Cheng, Shao-Hua Xiang, Peiyuan Yu, Kendall N. Houk, and Bin Tan: "Organocatalytic Aromatization-promoted Umpolung Reaction of Imines," Nat. Chem., 16, 408-416 (2023).
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1523. Runze Maom, Doria Mia Taylor, Daniel J. Wackelin, Torben Rogge, Sophia J. Wu, Kathleen M. Sicinski, K. N. Houk, and Frances H. Arnold: "Biocatalytic, Stereoconvergent Alkylation of (Z/E)-trisubstituted Silyl Enol Ethers," Nat. Synth., 3, 256-264 (2023).
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1524. Zi-Yang Qin, Shilong Gao, Yike Zou, Zhen Liu, James B. Wang, Kendall N. Houk, and Frances H. Arnold: "Biocatalytic Construction of Chiral Pyrrolidines and Indolines via Intramolecular C(sp3)-H Amination," ACS Cent. Sci., 9, 2333-2338 (2023).
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1525. Ruirui Su, Xue He, K. N. Houk, Qianqian Lu, and Fang Liu: "Periselectivity and Ambimodal Transition States in Cycloadditions of Tetrachloro-o-benzoquinone with 6,6-dimethylfulvene," J. Comp. Chem., 45, 752-760 (2023).
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1526. Zexian Li, Minyan Wang, Youqing Yang, Yong Liang, Xiangyang Chen, Yue Zhao, K. N. Houk, and Zhuangzhi Shi: "Atroposelective Hydroarylation of Biaryl Phosphines Directed by Phosphorus Centres," Nat. Comm., 14, Article number 8509 (2023).
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1527. Ieva Liepuoniute, Jing-Ran Shan, K. N. Houk, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay: ""Computational Study of Ground-State Destabilization Effects and Dipole-Dipole Interaction Energies in Amphidynamic Crystals," J. Org. Chem., 89, 9-15 (2024).
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1528. Qingyang Zhou, Garrett Kukier, Igor Gordiy, Roald Hoffmann, Jeffrey I. Seeman, and K. N. Houk: "A 21st Century View of Allowed and Forbidden Electrocyclic Reactions," J. Org. Chem., 89, 1018-1034 (2024).
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1529. Woojin Lee, Tyler R. Benton, Arkajyoti Sengupta, and K. N. Houk: "Molecular Dynamics of the Norbornyl Cation in Solution and Its Generation in Winstein-Trifan Solvolysis: The Timing of Sigma Bridging," J. Org. Chem., 89, 1140-1146 (2024).
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1530. Rozan Tannous, Omri Shelef, Sara Gutkin, Maya David, Thomas Leirikh, Liang Ge, Qais Jaber, Qingyang Zhou, Pengchen Ma, Micha Fridman, Urs Spitz, Kendall N. Houk, and Soron Shabat: "Spirostrain-Accelerated Chemiexcitation of Dioxetanes Yields Unprecedented Detection Sensitivity in Chemiluminescence Bioassays," ACS Cent. Sci., 10, 28-42 (2024).
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1531. Satyajit Roy, David A. Vargas, Pengchen Ma, Arkajyoti Sengupta, Ledong Zhu, K. N. Houk, and Rudi Fasan: "Stereoselective Construction of beta-, gamma-, and delta-Lactam Rings via Enzymatic C-H Amidation," Nat. Catal., 7, 65-76 (2024).
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1532. Quan-Hao Wu, Meng Duan, Yu Chen, Peiyuan Yu, Yong-Bin Wang, Jun Kee Cheng, Shao-Hua Xiang, Kendall N. Houk, and Bin Tan: "Organocatalytic Olefin C-H Functionalization for Enantioselective Synthesis of Atropisomeric 1,3-dienes," Nat. Catal., 7, 185-194 (2024).
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1533. Dennis Svatunek, Anton Murnauer, Zhuoting Tan, K. N. Houk, and Kathrin Lang: "How Cycloalkane Fusion Enhances the Cycloaddition Reactivity of Dibenzocyclooctynes," Chem. Sci., 52, 2229-2235 (2024).
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1534. Christopher R. Travis, Kelsey M. Kean, Katherine I. Albanese, Hanne C. Henriksen, Joseph W. Treacy, Elaine Y. Chao, K. N. Houk, Marcey L. Waters: "Trimethyllysine Reader Proteins Exhibit Widespread Charge-Agnostic Binding via Different Mechanisms to Cationic and Neutral Ligands," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 3086-3093 (2024).
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1535. Torben Rogge, Qingyang Zhou, Nicholas J. Porter, Frances H. Arnold, and K. N. Houk: "Iron Heme Enzyme-Catalyzed Cyclopropanations with Diazirings as Carbene Precursors: Computational Explorations of Diazirine Activation and Cyclopropanation Mechanism," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 2959-2966 (2024).
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1536. Brian J. Levandowski, Brian J. Graham, K. N. Houk, and Ronald T. Raines: "Click Organocatalysis: Accelerations of Azide-Alkyne Cycloadditions with Mutually Orthogonal Click Reactions," J. Org. Chem., 89, 2232-2237 (2024).
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1537. Zhenqi Zhao, Stasik Popov, Woojin Lee, Jessica E. Burch, David A. Delgadillo, Lee Joon Kim, Mona Shahgholi, Naiara Lebron-Acosta, K. N. Houk, and Hosea M. Nelson: "Accessing Medium-Sized Rings via Vinyl Carbocation Intermediates," Org. Lett., 26, 1000-1005 (2024).
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1538. Bin Jiang, Lei Gao, Haijun Wang, Yaping Sun, Xiaolin Zhang, Han Ke, Shengchao Liu, Pengchen Ma, Qinggang Liao, Yue Wang, Huan Wang, Yugeng Liu, Ran Du, Torben Rogge, Wei Li, Yi Shang, K. N. Houk, Xingyao Xiong, Daoxin Xie, Sanwen Huang, Xiaoguang Lei, and Jianbin Yan: "Characterization and Heterologous Reconstitution of Taxus Biosynthetic Enzymes Leading to Baccatin III," Science, 383, 622-629 (2024).
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1539. David A. Vargas, Xinkun Ren, Akrajyoti Sengupta, Ledong Zhu, Satyahit Roy, Marc Garcia-Borras, K. N. Houk, and Rudi Fasan: "Biocatalytic Strategy for the Construction of sp3-rich Polycyclic Compounds from Directed Evolution and Computational Modelling," Nature Chem., 16, 817-826 (2024).
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1540. Subhabrata Dutta, Yi-Lin Lu, Johannes E. Erchinger, Huiling Shao, Emauel Studer, Felix Schafer, Huaming Wang, Debanjan Rana, Constantin G. Daniliuc, K. N. Houk, and Frank Glorius: "Double Strain-Release [2-pi+2sigma]-Photocycloaddition," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 5232-5241 (2024).
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1541. Haowen Tian, William Lee, Yuli Li, Morris J. Dweck, Angel Mendoza, Patrick G. Harran, and K. N. Houk: "Origin of Octafluorocyclopentene Polyelectrophilicity," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 5375-5382 (2024).
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1542. Anthoony J. Fernandes, Rahul Giri, Kendall N. Houk, and Dmitry Katayev: "Review and Theoretical Analysis of Fluorinated Radicals in Direct CAr-H Functionalization of (Hetero)arenes," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., e202318377 (2024).
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1543. Maxime de Abreu, Torben Rogge, Matteo Lanzi, Tomas J. Saiegh, Kendall N. Houk, and Joanna Wencel-Delord: "Cyclic Diaryl lamda3-Bromanes as a Precursor for Regiodivergent Alkynylation Reactions," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., e202319960 (2024).
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1544. Steven J. Campbell, Chris La, Qingyang Zhou, Jason Le, Jennyfer Galvez-Reyes, Catherine Banach, K. N. Houk, Jie Rou Chen, and Suzanne E. Paulson: "Characterizing Hydroxyl Radical Formation from the Light-Driven Fe(II)-Peracetic Acid Reaction, a Key Process for Aerosol-Cloud Chemistry," Environ. Sci. Technol., 58, 7505-7515 (2024).
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1545. Evan A. Doud, James A. R. Tilden, Joseph W. Treacy, Elaine Y. Chao, Hayden R. Montgomery, Grace E. Kunkel, Eileen J. Olivares, Nima Adhami, Tyler A. Kerr, Yu Chen, Arnold L. Rheingold, Joseph A. Loo, Christopher G. Frost, K. N. Houk, Heather D. Maynard, and Alexander M. Spokoyny: "Ultrafast Au(III)-Mediated Arylation of Cysteine," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 12365-12374 (2024).
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1546. Runze Mao, Shilong Gao, Zi-Yang Qin, Torben Rogge, Sophia J. Wu, Zi-Qi Li, Anuvab Das, K. N. Houk, and Frances Arnold: "Biocatalytic, Enantioenriched Primary Amination of Tertiary C-H Bonds," Nature Catal., 7, 585-592 (2024).
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1547. Matteo Borgini, Qi-Nan Huang, Pan-Pan Chen, Steven J. Geib, K. N. Houk, and Peter Wipf: "Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed Annulation of Bicyclo[1.1.0]butyl-Substituted Dihydroquinolines and Dihydropyridines," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 14927-14934 (2024).
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1548. Jasper L. Tyler, Felix Schaefer, Huiling Shao, Colin Stein, Audrey Wong, Constantin G. Daniliuc, K. N. Houk, and Frank Glorius: "Bicyclo[1.1.0]butyl Radical Cations: Synthesis and Application to [2pi + 2sigma] Cycloaddition Reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 16237-16247 (2024).
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1549. Hairong Lyu, Thomas H. Tugwell, Zhijie Chen, Garrett A. Kukier, Aneta Turlik, Yifei Wu, K. N. Houk, Peng Liu, and Guangbin Dong: "Modular Synthesis of 1,2-Azaborines via Ring-Opening BN-Isostere Benzannulation," Nature Chem., 16, 269-276 (2024).
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1550. Ana S. Bulger, Daniel W. Turner, Qingyang Zhou, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg: "Evaluation of Retro-Aldol vs Retro-Carbonyl-Ene Mechanistic Pathways in a Complexity-Generating C-C Bond Fragmentation," Org. Lett., 26, 3602-3606 (2024).
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1551. Zengrui Cheng, Haoran Xu, Zhibin Hu, Minghui Zhu, K. N. Houk, Xiao-Song Xue, and Ning Jiao: "Carbene-Assisted Arene Ring-Opening," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 16963-16970 (2024).
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1552. Grace E. Kunkel, Qingyang Zhou, Joseph W. Treacy, Hayden R. Montgomery, Pedro Salas-Ambrosio, Austin E. Ready, Alexander M. Spokoyny, Kendall N. Houk, and Heather D. Maynard: "Comparison of Cyclic and Linear PEG Conjugates," Bioconjugate Chem., 35, 744-749 (2024).
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1553. William J. Neary, Fengyue Zhao, Megan C. Murphy, Yu Chen, Fang Liu, K. N. Houk, and Jeffrey S. Moore: "Substituent Effects on Ring Opening Allene Metathesis: Polymerization Rate Enhancement and Regioregularity," Macromolecules, 57, 5350-5357 (2024).
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1554. Meng Duan, Qianzhen Shao, Qingyang Zhou, Phil S. Baran, and K. N. Houk: "Why •CF2H Is Nucleophilic but •CF3 Is Electrophilic in Reactions with Heterocycles," Nature Comm., 15, Article number 4630 (2024).
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1555. Francesca Peccati, Elizabeth L. Noey, K. N. Houk, Silvia Osuna, and Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses: "Interplay between Substrate Polarity and Protein Dynamics in Evolved Kemp Eliminases," ChemCatChem, e202400444 (2024).
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1556. Chloe G. Williams, Sepand K. Nistanaki, Krista Dong, Woojin Lee, Kendall N. Houk, and Hosea M. Nelson: "Main Group-Catalyzed Cationic Claisen Rearrangements via Vinyl Carbocations," Org. Lett., 26, 4847-4852 (2024).
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1557. Zihuan Fu, Joseph W. Treacy, Brock M. Hosier, K. N. Houk, and Heather D. Maynard: "Controlling Rates and Reversibilities of Elimination Reactions of Hydroxybenzylammoniums by Tuning Dearomatization Energies," Chem. Sci., 27, 10448-10454 (2024).
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1558. Patrick Commins, Marieh B. Al-Handawi, Caner Deger, Srujana Polavaram, Ilhan Yavuz, Rachid Rezgui, Liang Li, K. N. Houk, and Pance Naumov: "Ferroelastic Control of the Multicolor Emission from a Triply Doped Organic Crystal," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 16540-16548 (2024).
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1559. Richard J. Monsky, Yuli Li, K. N. Houk, and William R. Dichtel: "Low-Temperature Mineralization of Fluorotelomers with Diverse Polar Head Groups," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 17150-17157 (2024).
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1560. Pengchen Ma, Dennis Svatunek, Zixi Zhu, Dale L. Boger, Xin-Hua Duan, and K. N. Houk: "Computational Studies of Reactions of 1,2,4,5-Tetrazines with Enamines in MeOH and HFIP," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 187060-18713 (2024).
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1561. Robert E. Arnold, Jan Saska, Raquel Mesquita-Ribeiro, Federico Dajas-Bailador, Laurence Taylor, William Lewis, Stephen Argent, Huiling Shao, Kendall N. Houk, and Ross M. Denton: "Total Synthesis, Biological Evaluation and Biosynthetic Re-Evaluation of Illicium-derived Neolignang," Chem. Sci., 30, 11783-11793 (2024).
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1562. Jiajing Luo, Qingyang Zhou, Zhou Xu, K. N. Houk, and Ke Zheng: "Photochemical Skeletal Editing of Pyridines to Bicyclic Pyrazolines and Pyrazoles," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 21389-21400 (2024).
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1563. Francesca M. Ippoliti, Laura G. Wonilowicz, Nathan J. Adamson, Evan R. Darzi, Joyann S. Donaldson, Daniel J. Nasrallah, Milauni M. Mehta, Andrew V. Kelleghan, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg: "Total Synthesis of Lissodendoric Acid A," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 65, e202406676 (2024).
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1564. Christopher R. Travis, Ryan G. Dumais, Joseph W. Treacy, Kelsey M. Kean, K. N. Houk, and Marcey L. Waters: "Contribution of Electrostatic CH3-pi Interactions to Recognition of Histone Asymmetric Dimethylarginine by the SPIN1 Triple Tudor Domain," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 20678-20684 (2024).
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1565. Pengchen Ma, Dennis Svatunek, Zixi Zhu, Dale L. Boger, Xin-Hua Duan, and K. N. Houk: "Computational Studies of Reactions of 1,2,4,5-Tetrazines with Enamines in MeOH and HFIP," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 18706-18713 (2024).
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1566. Liang-Wen Qi, Torben Rogge, K. N. Houk, and Yixin Lu: "Iridium Nitrenoid-Enabled Arene C-H Functionalization," Nature Catal., 7, 934-943 (2024).
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1567. Tianyu Zheng, Jiawei Ma, Haochi Chen, Hao Jiang, Shuo Lu, Zhuangzhi Shi, Fang Liu, K. N. Houk, and Yong Liang: "Computational Design of Ligands for the Ir-Catalyzed C5-Borylation of Indoles through Tuning Dispersion Interactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 25058-25066 (2024).
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1568. Sara Gutkin, Omri Shelef, Zuzana Babjakova, Laura Anna Tomanova, Matej Babjak, Tal Kopp, Qingyang Zhou, Pengchen Ma, Micha Fridman, Urs Spitz, Kendall N. Houk, and Doron Shabat: "Boosting Chemiexcitation of Phenoxy-1,2-dioxetanes through 7-Norbornyl and Homocubanyl Spirofusion," JACS Au, 4, 3558-3566 (2024).
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1569. Sanjoy Adak, Naike Ye, Logan A. Calderone, Meng Duan, Wilson Lubeck, Rebecca J. B. Schaffer, April L. Lukowski, K. N. Houk, Marai-Eirini Pandelia, Catherine L. Drennan, and Bradley S. Moore: "A Single Diiron Enzyme Catalyzes the Oxidative Rearrangement of Tryptophan to Indole Nitrile," Nature Chem., Early View Article (2024).
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1570. Chen Yang, Kendall N. Houk, Yonatan Dubi, and Xuefeng Guo: "Reply to: Questioning Claims of Monitoring the Michael Addition Reaction at the Single-Molecule Level," Nature Chem., 16, 1770-1771 (2024).
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1571. Christopher R. Travis, Hanne C. Henriksen, Jake R. Wilkinson, Noah K. Schomburg, Joseph W. Treacy, Kelsey M. Kean, K. N. Houk, and Marcey L. Waters: "WDR5 Binding to Histone Serotonylation Is Driven by and Edge-Face Aromatic Interaction with Unexpected Electrostatic Effects," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 27451-27459 (2024).
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1572. Maya David, Thomas Leirikh, Omri Shelef, Sara Gutkin, Tal Kopp, Qingyang Zhou, Pengchen Ma, Micha Fridman, Kendall N. Houk, and Doron Shabat: "Chemexcitation Acceleration of 1,2-Dioxetanes by Spiro-Fused Six-Member Rings with Electron-Withdrawing Motifs," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 63, e202410047 (2024).
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1573. Indrajit Paul, Krzysztof A. Konieczny, Roberto Chavez, Jing-Ran Shan, Kendall N. Houk, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay: "Cascade Photoreaction in Crystals: A Phase Change Caused by a Dewar Benzene Quantum Chain Triggers a Topochemical [2+2] Photodimerization," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 27988-27922 (2024).
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1574. Grace E. Kunkel, Joseph W. Treacy, Magdalena F. Polite, Hayden R. Montgomery, Evan A. Doud, Kendall N. Houk, Alexander M. Spokoyny, and Heather D. Maynard: "Heteroelechelic Organometallic PEG Reagents Enable Modular Access to Complex Bioconjugates," ACS Macro Lett., 13, 1551-1557 (2024).
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