| Highly Chemoselective, Transition-Metal-Free Transamidation of Unactivated Amides and Direct Amidation of Alkyl Esters by N–C/O–C Cleavage Guangchen Li, Chong-Lei Ji, Xin Hong, Michal Szostak Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019 | 196 | 2019 |
| Highly selective transition-metal-free transamidation of amides and amidation of esters at room temperature G Li, M Szostak Nature Communications, 2018 | 184 | 2018 |
| Amide Bond Activation: The Power of Resonance G Li, S Ma, M Szostak Trends in Chemistry, 2020 | 153 | 2020 |
| [Pd(NHC)(acac)Cl]: Well-Defined, Air-Stable, and Readily Available Precatalysts for Suzuki and Buchwald−Hartwig Cross-coupling (Transamidation) of Amides and Esters by N−C/O−C … Tongliang Zhou, Guangchen Li, Steven P. Nolan, Michal Szostak* Organic letters, 2019 | 110 | 2019 |
| Acyl- and Decarbonylative Suzuki Coupling of N-Acetyl Amides: Electronic-Tuning of Twisted, Acyclic Amides in Catalytic Carbon–Nitrogen Bond Cleavage C Liu, G Li, S Shi, G Meng, AR Lalancette, R Szostak, M Szostak ACS Catalysis, 2018 | 96 | 2018 |
| Transition-Metal-Free Esterification of Amides via Selective N−C Cleavage under Mild Conditions G Li, P Lei, M Szostak Org. Lett., 2018 | 92 | 2018 |
| Mechanistic Study of Suzuki‐Miyaura Cross‐Coupling Reactions of Amides Mediated by [Pd(NHC)(allyl)Cl] Precatalysts G Li, P Lei, M Szostak, E * Casals-Cruañas, A Poater, L * Cavallo, ... Chemcatchem, 2018 | 87 | 2018 |
| Transition-Metal-Free Activation of Amides by N–C Bond Cleavage G Li, M Szostak Chem. Rec. 19, 2019 | 85 | 2019 |
| Metal-Free Transamidation of Secondary Amides by N–C Cleavage M Rahman, G Li, M Szostak The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 84, 2019 | 73 | 2019 |
| Non-Classical Amide Bond Formation: Transamidation and Amidation of Activated Amides and Esters by Selective N–C/O–C Cleavage G Li, M Szostak Synthesis, 2020 | 70 | 2020 |
| Buchwald-Hartwig Cross-Coupling of Amides (Transamidation) by Selective N–C(O) Cleavage Mediated by Air- and Moisture-Stable [Pd(NHC)(allyl)Cl] Precatalysts: Catalyst … G Li, T Zhou, A Poater, L Cavallo, SP Nolan, M Szostak Catalysis Science & Technology, 2019 | 54 | 2019 |
| Pd-PEPPSI: Water-Assisted Suzuki–Miyaura Cross-Coupling of Aryl Esters at Room Temperature using a Practical Palladium-NHC (NHC = N-Heterocyclic Carbene) Precatalyst G Li, S Shi, P Lei, M Szostak Advance synthesis & catalysis, 2018 | 54 | 2018 |
| IPr#–highly hindered, broadly applicable N-heterocyclic carbenes Q Zhao, G Meng, G Li, C Flach, R Mendelsohn, R Lalancette, R Szostak, ... Chemical Science 12 (31), 10583-10589, 2021 | 50 | 2021 |
| Kinetically controlled, highly chemoselective acylation of functionalized grignard reagents with amides by N− C cleavage G Li, M Szostak Chemistry–A European Journal 26 (3), 611-615, 2020 | 29 | 2020 |
| Chemoselective Transamidation of Thioamides by Transition‐Metal‐Free N− C (S) Transacylation G Li, Y Xing, H Zhao, J Zhang, X Hong, M Szostak Angewandte Chemie International Edition 61 (16), e202200144, 2022 | 21 | 2022 |
| Thioesterification and selenoesterification of amides via selective N–C cleavage at room temperature: N–C (O) to S/Se–C (O) interconversion MM Rahman, G Li, M Szostak Synthesis 52 (07), 1060-1066, 2020 | 21 | 2020 |
| Palladium (II) Acetate‐Catalyzed Dual C–H Functionalization and C–C Bond Formation: A Domino Reaction for the Synthesis of Functionalized (E)‐Bisindole‐2‐ones from Diarylbut‐2 … G Li, G Zhou, D Zhang‐Negrerie, Y Du, J Huang, K Zhao Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 358 (22), 3534-3540, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Suzuki‐Miyaura Cross‐Coupling of Amides using Well‐Defined, Air‐Stable [(PR3)2Pd(II)X2] Precatalysts S Ma, T Zhou, G Li, M Szostak Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 362 (9), 1887-1892, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
| Cascade Formation of C3‐Unsymmetric Spirooxindoles via PhI(OAc)2‐Mediated Oxidative C−C/C−N Bond Formation J Sun, G Li, G Zhang, Y Cong, X An, D Zhang‐Negrerie, Y Du Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 360 (13), 2476-2481, 2018 | 15 | 2018 |
| Transamidation of thioamides with nucleophilic amines: thioamide N–C (S) activation by ground-state-destabilization J Zhang, H Zhao, G Li, X Zhu, L Shang, Y He, X Liu, Y Ma, M Szostak Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 20 (30), 5981-5988, 2022 | 13 | 2022 |
