Houk, Kendall N.

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• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• Pierre Vogel and Kendall N. Houk: “Organic Chemistry and Synthesis Rely More and More upon Catalysts,” Catalysts, 12, 758 (2022). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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., Early View Article (2022). (PDF)
• 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., Early View Article (2022). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• Caner Deger, Shaun Tan, K. N. Houk, Yang Yang, and Ilhan Yuvuz: “Lattice Strain Suppresses Point Defect Formation in Halide Perovskites,” Nano Research, Early View Article (2022). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
•  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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
•  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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
•  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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
•  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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
•  Alexander Q. Cusumano, K. N. Houk, and Brian M. Stoltz: “Synthetic Strategy toward Ineleganolide: A Cautionary Tale,” Tetrahedron, 93, Article 132289 (2021). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
•  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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
•  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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)
• 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). (PDF)