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Schomaker, J. M.; Pulgam, V. R.; Borhan, B. "Synthesis of diastereomerically and enantiomerically pure 2,3-disubstituted tetrahydrofurans using a sulfoxonium ylide."  J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 13600-13601.

Schomaker, J. M.; Borhan, B. "Total synthesis of (+)-tanikolide via oxidative lactonization."  Org. Biomol. Chem. 2004, 2, 621-624.

Borhan, B.; Travis, B. R.; Schomaker, J. M. "Catalytic osmium-assisted oxidative cleavage of olefins using peroxymonosulfuric acid and salts thereof."  U.S. Pat. Appl. Publ. 2003, 40 pp. US 2003149299 A1 20030807

Schomaker, J. M.; Travis, B. R.; Borhan, B.  "Direct lactonization of alkenols via osmium tetroxide-mediated oxidative cleavage."  Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 3089-3092. 

Sivakumar, M.; Borhan, B. "Regiochemical control in intramolecular cyclizations of 2,3-epoxysulfides mediated by solvent effects."  Tetrahedron Lett. 2003, 44, 5547-5551.

Travis, B. R.; Sivakumar, M.; Hollist, G. O.; Borhan, B. "Facile oxidation of aldehydes to acids and esters with Oxone."  Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 1031-1034.

Travis, B. R.; Ciaramitaro, B. P.; Borhan, B. "Preparation of purified KHSO₅.H₂O and nBu₄NHSO₅ from Oxone by simple and efficient methods."  Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2002, 20, 3429-3434.

Yang, Q.; Olmsted, C.; Borhan, B. "Absolute stereochemical determination of chiral carboxylic acids."  Org. Lett. 2002, 4, 3423-3426.

Reddy, P. V.; Borhan, B. "Synthesis of C15,C14'-ring locked all-trans-b-carotene."  Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43, 3867-3869.

Travis, B. R.; Narayan, R. S.; Borhan, B. "Osmium tetroxide-promoted catalytic oxidative cleavage of olefins: An organometallic ozonolysis."  J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 3824-3825.

Reddy, P. V.; Rabago-Smith, M.; Borhan, B. "Synthesis of all-trans-[10'-3H]-8'-apo-b-carotenoic acid."  Journal of Labelled Compounds & Radiopharmaceuticals 2002, 45, 79-89.

Travis, B. R.; Borhan, B. "Oxidative cyclization of 1,4-dienes to yield 2,3,5-trisubstituted tetrahydrofuran-diols."  Tetrahedron Lett. 2001, 42, 7741-7745.

Crist, R. M.; Reddy, P. V.; Borhan, B. "Synthesis of isomeric 1,4-[13C]2-labeled 2-ethoxycarbonyl-1,4-diphenylbutadienes."  Tetrahedron Lett. 2001, 42, 619-621.

Borhan, B.; Souto, M. L.; Imai, H.; Shichida, Y.; Nakanishi, K. "Movement of retinal along the visual transduction path."  Science (Washington, D. C.) 2000, 288, 2209-2212.