205. The Nature of meso- and pyro-Borate Precatlysts to the VANOL and VAPOL BOROX Catalysts, Zhao, W.; Yin, X.; Gupta, K. A.; Zhang, X.; Wulff, W.D. Synlett. 2015, 26, 1606.
204. Catalytic synthesis of 2H-chromenes, Majumdar, N.; Paul, N. D.; Mandal, S.; Bruin B.; Wulff, W.D. ACS. Catal. 2015, 5, 2329.
203.Self-assemble of a Library of Polyborate Chiral Anions for Asymmetric Catalytic Quinoline Reduction, Desai, A.; Guan, Y.; Odom, A. L.; Majumder, S.; Wulff, W. D.; Vetticatt, M. J. Tetrahedron Lett. 2015, 56, 3481.
202. β-Amino Esters from the Reductive Ring Opening of Aziridine-2-carboxylates, Zhao, W.; Lu, Z.; Wulff, W. D. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 10068.
201. Catalytic Asymmetric α-Iminol Rearrangement: New Chiral Platforms, Zhang, X.; Staples, R. J.; Rheingold, A. L.; Wulff, W. D. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 13971-13974.
200. Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Alkynyl Aziridines: Both Enantiomers of cis-Aziridines from One Enantiomer of the Catalyst, Guan, Y.; López-Alberca, M. P.; Lu, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Desai, A. A.; Patwardhan, A. P.; Dai, Y.; Vetticatt, M. J.; Wulff, W. D. Chem. Eur. J, 2014, 20, 13894-13900.
199. The iso-VAPOL ligand: synthesis, solid-state structure and its evaluation as a BOROX catalyst, Gupta, A. K.; Zhang, X.; Wulff, W. D. Catal. Sci. Technol. 2014, 4, 4406.
198. Transition State Analysis of Enantioselective Brønsted Base Catalysis by Chiral Cyclopropenimines, Bandar, J. S.; Sauer, G. S.; Wulff, W. D.; Lambert, T. H.; Vetticatt, M. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 10700-10707.
197. Enantioselective Biomimetic Total Syntheses of Kuwanons I and J and Brosimones A and B, Han, J.; Li, X.; Guan, Y.; Zhao, W.; Wulff, W. D., Lei, X. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 126, 9411-9415.
196. Three-Component Asymmetric Catalytic Ugi Reaction--Concinnity from Diversity by Substrate-Mediated Catalyst Assembly, Zhao, W.; Huang, L.; Guan, Y.; Wulff, W. D. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 3436-3441.
195. A General Synthesis of Sphinganines through Multicomponent Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination, Mukherjee, M.; Zhou, Y.; Gupta, A. K.; Guan, Y.; Wulff, W. D. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7, 1386-1390.
194. Vaulted Biaryls in Catalysis: A Structure-Activity Relationship Guided Tour of the Immanent Domain of the VANOL Ligand, Guan, Y.; Ding, Z.; Wulff, W. D. Chem. Eur. J. 2013,19, 15565-15571
193. Synthesis of [m.n]Cyclophanes: Regiochemistry Transfer from Vinyl Halides to Cyclophanes via Fischer Carbene Complexes, Wang, H.; Predeus, A. V.; Wulff, W. D. Chem. Eur. J. 2013,19, 8261-8267
192. Isotope Effects and Mechanism of the Asymmetric BOROX Bronsted Acid Catalyzed Aziridination Reaction, Vetticatt, M. J.; Desai,A. A.; Wulff, W. D. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 5142-5152.
191. Total Synthesis of Sedium Alkaloids via Catalyst Controlled aza-Cope Rearrangement and Hydroformylation with Formaldehyde, Ren, H.; Wulff, W. D. Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 242-245.
190. Rational Synthesis of All All-Homocalixarenes, Predeus, A. V.; Gopalsamuthiram, V.; Staples, R. J.; Wulff, W. D. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013,52, 912-915.
189. Multifaceted Interception of 2-Chloro-2-Oxoacetic Anhydrides: A Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of ß-Lactams, Huang, L.; Zhao, W.; Staples, R. J.; Wulff, W. D. Chem. Sci. 2013, 4, 622-628.
188. BOROX Catalysis: Self-assembled amino-BOROX and imino-BOROX Intermediates in a Singular Five Component Catalyst Assembly/Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination, Gupta, A. K.; Mukherjee, M.; Hu, G.; Wulff, W. D. J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 7932-7944.
187. Double Stereodifferentiation in the Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination of Imines Prepared from a-Chiral Amine, Huang, L.; Zhang, Y.; Staples, R. J.; Huang, R. H.; Wulff, W. D. Chem. Eur. J., 2012, 18, 5302-5313.
186. Simultaneous Synthesis of both Rings of Chromenes via a Benzannulation/o-Quinone Methide Formation/Electrocyclization Cascade, Majumdar, N.; Korthals, K. A.; Wulff, W. D. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 1357-1362.
185. Scalable Syntheses of the Vaulted Biaryl Ligands VAPOL and VANOL via the Cycloaddition/Electrocyclization Cascade, Ding, Z.; Osminski, W. E. G.; Ren, H.; Wulff, W. D. Org. Process. Res. & Dev. 2011, 15, 1089-1107.
184. Practical Gram Scale Asymmetric Catalysis with Boroxinate Brønsted Acids Derived from the VAPOL and VANOL Ligands, Desai, A. A.; Ren, H.; Mukherjee, M.; Wulff, W. D. Org. Process. Res. & Dev. 2011, 15, 1108-1115.
183. Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Tri-substituted Aziridines, Li Huang and William D. Wulff, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 8892-8895.
182. Multicomponent Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination of Aldehydes, Gupta, A. K.; Mukherjee, M.; Wulff, W. D. Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 5866-5869.
181. Direct Catalytic Asymmetric Aminoallylation of Aldehydes – Synergism of Chiral- and Non-Chiral Brønsted Acids, Hong Ren and William D. Wulff, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 5656-5659.
180. One Pot Synthesis of 2-Imidazolines via the Ring Expansion of Imidoyl Chlorides with Aziridines, Kuszpit, M. R.; Wulff, W. D.; Tepe, J. J., J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 2913-2919.
179. A Succinct Synthesis of the Vaulted Biaryl Ligand VANOL via a Dienone-Phenol Rearrangement, Zhensheng Ding, Song Xue and William D. Wulff, Chemistry—An Asian Journal 2011, 6, 2130-2146.
178. Preparation of (2R,3R)-Ethyl 1-Benzhydr yl-3-(4-bromophenyl)aziridine-2-carboxylate by Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination, Aman A. Desai, Roberto Morán-Ramallal and William D. Wulff, Organic Synthesis, 2011, 88, 224-237.
177. The Synthesis of Optically Active Calix[4]arenes with One or Three Substituents on the Methylene Bridges, Vijayagopal Gopalsamuthiram, Rui H. Huang and William D. Wulff, Chem. Commun. 2010, 8213-8215.
176. Substrate-Induced Covalent Assembly of a Chemzyme and Crystallographic Characterization of a Chemzyme-substrate Complex, Gang Hu, Anil K. Gupta, Rui H. Huang, Munmun Mukherjee and William D. Wulff, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 14669-14675.
175. Trimethylsilyldiazomethane as a Versatile Stitching Agent for the Introduction of Aziridines into Functionalized Organic Molecules, Hong Ren and William D. Wulff, Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 4908-4911.
174. Origin of the Regioselectivity in an Intramolecular Nucleophilic Addition to Arene Chromium Tricarbonyl Complexes, Steven Chamberlin, Nilanjana Majumdar, William D. Wulff, John V. Muntean, Robert L. Ostrander and Arnold L. Rheingold, Inorganic Chemica Acta, 2010, 364, 205-219.
173. New Derivatives of VAPOL and VANOL: Structurally Distinct Vaulted Chiral Ligands and Brønsted Acid Catalysts, Aman A. Desai and William D. Wulff, Synthesis, 2010, 3670-3680.
172. How the Binding of Substrates to a Chiral Polyborate Counterion Governs Diastereoselection in an Aziridination Reaction: H-Bonds in Equipoise, Mathew J. Vetticatt, Aman A. Desai and William D. Wulff, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 13104-13107.
171. Controlled Diastereo- and Enantioselection in a Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination, Aman A. Desai and William D. Wulff, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 13100-13103.
170. Seeking Passe-Partout in the Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination of Imines: Evolving Towards Substrate Generality for a Single Chemzyme, Munmun Mukherjee, Anil K. Gupta, Zhenjie Lu, Yu Zhang and William D. Wulff, J. Org. Chem.. 2010, 75, 5643-5660.
169. Gram Scale Preparation of VAPOL Hydrogenphosphate, a Structurally Distinct Chiral Brønsted Acid, Aman A. Desai, Li Huang, William D. Wulff, Gerald B. Rowland and Jon C. Antilla, Synthesis, 2010, 2106-2109.
168. Alkyne Competition in the Benzannulation Reaction with Chromium Carbene Complexes, Chunrui Wu, Dmytro O. Berbasov, William D. Wulff, J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 4441-4452.
167. Optically Active Calixarenes Conduced by Methylene Substitution, Vijay Gopalsamuthiram, Alexander V. Predeus, Rui H. Huang and William D. Wulff, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 18018-18019.
166. Evidence for a Boroxinate Based Brønsted Acid Derivative of VAPOL as the Active Catalyst in the Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination Reaction, Gang Hu, Li Huang, Rui H. Huang and William D. Wulff, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 15615-15617.
165. Optically Active (R)- and (S)-Linear and Vaulted Biaryl Ligands: Deracemization Versus Oxidative Dimerization, Gang Hu, Daniel Holmes, Brina F. Gendhar and William D. Wulff, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 14355-14364.
164. Absolute Configuration of 3,3'-Diphenyl-[2,2'-binaphthalene]-1,1'-diol Revisited, Prasad L. Polavarapu, Ana G. Petrovic, Sarah E. Vick, William D. Wulff, Hong Ren, Zhensheng Ding, Richard J. Staples, J. Org. Chem., 2009, 74, 5451-5457.
163. Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination with VAPOL and/or VANOL Derived Catalysts, Yu Zhang, Zhenjie Lu and William D. Wulff, SynLett, 2009, 2715-2739.
162. Enantioselective Organocatalytic Direct Michael Addition of Nitroalkanes to Nitroalkenes Promoted by a Unique Bifunctional DMAP-Thiourea, Constantinos Rabalakos and William D. Wulff, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 13524-13525.
161. Diastereoselective synthesis of syn 1,3-dinitro compounds by Michael addition of nitroalkanes to nitroalkenes with a thiourea catalyst, Constantinos Rabalakos and William D. Wulff, SYNLETT 2008, 2826-2830.
160. Mapping the Active Site in a Chemzyme: Diversity in the N-Substituent in the Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination of Imines, Yu Zhang, Zhenjie Lu, Aman Desai and William D. Wulff, Org. Lett. 2008, 8, 5429-5432.
159. A Novel Bis-Thiourea Organocatalyst for the Asymmetric Aza-Henry Reaction, Rampalakos, C.; Wulff, W. D. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2008, 1785-1790.
158. Traceless Stereoinduction in the One-Pot Assembly of all Three Rings of Hexahydrodibenzopyrans, Keith A. Korthals and William D. Wulff, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 2898-2899.
157. Asymmetric Catalytic Aziridination with Borate Catalysts Derived from the VANOL and VAPOL Ligands – Scope and Mechanistics Studies, Yu Zhang, Aman Desai, Zhenjie Lu, Gang Hu, Zhensheng Ding and William D. Wulff, Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 3785-3803.
156. Central-to-Axial Chirality Transfer in the Benzannulation Reaction of Optically Pure Fischer Carbene Complexes in the Synthesis of Allocolchicinoids, Andrei V. Vorogushin, William D. Wulff and Hans-Jürgen Hansen, Tetrahedron 2008, 64, 949-968.
155. The Synthesis of Phenols and Quinones via Fischer Carbene Complexes, Waters, M. L.; Wulff, W. D., Organic Reactions, 2008, 70, 121-623.
154. Total Synthesis of (±)-Phomactin B2 via an Intramolecular Cyclohexadienone Annulation of a Chromium Carbene Complex, Jie Huang, Chunrui Wu and William D. Wulff, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 13366-13367.
153. Intramolecular Cyclohexadienone Annulations of Fischer Carbene Complexes: Model Studies for the Synthesis of Phomactins, Jie Huang, Huan Wang, Chunrui Wu and William D. Wulff, Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 2799-2802.
152. Direct Access to N-H Aziridines from the Asymmetric Catalytic Aziridination with
Borate Catalysts Derived from the VANOL and VAPOL Ligands, Lu, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Wulff, W. D. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 7185-7194.
151. Aziridinyl Vinyl Ketones from the Asymmetric Catalytic Aziridination Reaction, Deng, Y.; Lee, Y. R.; Newman, C. A.; Wulff, W. D. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2007, 2068-2071.
150. Regulation of Orthogonal Functions in a Dual Catalyst System. Subservient Role of a Non-chiral Lewis Acid in an Asymmetric Catalytic Heteroatom Diels-Alder Reaction, Newman, C. A.; Antilla, J. C.; Chen, P.; Wulff, W. D., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 7216-7217.
149. Reactions of Alkenyl Fischer Carbene Complexes with Ketene Acetals: Formation of Alkynes, Siu Ling B. Wang, Xuejun Liu, Miriam C. Ruiz, Vijay Gopalsamuthiram and William D. Wulff, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 5219-5234.
148. Studies on the Synthesis of Richardianidin-1 via the Tautomer-Arrested Annulation of Fischer Carbene Complexes, Bos, M. E.; Loncaric, C.; Wu, C.; Wulff, W. D., Synthesis 2006, 3679-3705.
147. An Examination of VANOL, VAPOL and VAPOL Derivatives as Ligands for Asymmetric Catalytic Diels-Alder Reactions, Heller, D. P.; Goldberg, D. R.; Wu, H.; Wulff, W. D., Can. J. Chem., 2006, 84, 1487-1503.
146. Chromene Chromium Carbene Complexes in the Syntheses of Naphthopyran and Naphthopyrandione Units in Photochromic Materials and Biologically Active Natural Products, Rawat, M.; Prutyanov, V.; Wulff, W. D., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 11044-11053.
145. Metal Carbenes in Organic Synthesis. Topics in Organometallic Chemistry, 13. Edited by K. H. Doetz (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat). Springer-verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg. 2004 x + 378 pp. $349.00 ISBN 3-540-21833-5. Reviewed by W. W. Wulff. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 15991-15992.
144. Iron in the Service of Chromium – the ortho-Benzannulation of trans,trans-dienyl Fischer Carbene Complexes, Lian, Y.; Wulff, W. D., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 17162-17163.
143. The First Synthesis of Cyclopropanone Acetals from the Reaction of Fischer Carbene Complexes with Ketene Acetals, Wang, S. L. B.; Goldberg, D. R.; Liu, X.; Su, J.; Zheng, Q.-H.; Liptak, V.; Wulff, W. D., J. Oganometal. Chem. 2005, 690, 6101-6110.
142. Novel Ozone-Mediated Cleavage of the Benzhydryl Protecting Group from Aziridinyl Esters, Patwardhan, A. P.; Lu, Z.; Pulgam, V. R.; Wulff, W. D., Org. Lett., 2005, 7, 2201-2204.
141. Highly Diastereoselective Alkylation of Aziridine-2-carboxylate Esters. Enantioselective Synthesis of LFA-1 Antagonist BIRT-377, Patwardhan, A. P.; Pulgam, V. R.; Zhang, Y.; Wulff, W. D., Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 2005, 44, 6169-6172.
140. ESI-Mass Spectrometry Study of the Intimate Mechanism of a Gas-Phase Organometallic Reaction by Selective Deuterium Labelling, Wulff, W. D.; Korthals, K. A.; Martinez-Alvarez, R.; Gomez-Gallego, M.; Fernaneez, I.; Sierra, M. A., J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70, 5269-5277.
139. A New Synthesis of Vaulted Biaryl Ligands via the Snieckus Phenol Synthesis, Yu, S.; Rabalakos, C.; Mitchell, W. D.; Wullff, W. D., Org. Lett., 2005, 7, 367.
138. A New Convergent Strategy for the Synthesis of Calixarenes via a Triple Annulation of Fischer Carbene Complexes, Gopalsamuthiram, V.; Wulff, W. D., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 13936.
137. Vaulted Biaryls: Efficient Ligands for the Aluminum-Catalyzed Asymmetric Baeyer-Villiger Reaction, Bolm, C.; Frison, J.-C.; Zhang, Y.; Wulff, W. D., SynLett., 2004, 1619-1621.
136. Contingency and Serendipity in the Reactions of Fischer Carbene Complexes with Conjugated Triynes, Jiang, M. X.-W.; Rawat, M.; Wulff, W. D., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 5970-5971.
135. Total Synthesis of Carbazoquinocin C: Application of the ortho-Benzannulation of Fischer Carbene Complexes to Carbazole-3,4-quinone Alkaloids, Rawat, M.; Wulff, W. D., Org. Lett., 2004, 6, 329-332.
134. Diels-Alder Reaction – Aromatization Approach toward Functionalized Ring C Allocolchicinoids. Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (-)-7S-Allocolchicine, Vorogushin, A. V.; Predeus, A. V.; Wulff, W. D.; Hansen, H.-J., J. Org. Chem., 2003, 68, 5826.
133. The First Examples of a Meta-Benzannulation from the Reaction of Fischer Carbene Complexes with Alkynes, Wang, H.; Huang, J.; Wulff, W. D.; Rheingold, A. L., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 8980.
132. Highly Enantioselective Deracemization of Linear and Vaulted Biaryl Ligands, Zhang, Y.; Yeung, S.-M.; Wu, H.; Heller, D. P.; Wu; C.; Wulff, W. D., Org. Lett., 2003, 5, 1813.
131. Steric vs. Hydrogen Bonding Control of Atropisomerization: Preparation of Either Diastereomer of Configurationally Stable Allocolchicinoids, Vorogushin, A. V.; Wulff, W. D.; Hansen, H.-J., J. Org. Chem., 2003, 68, 9618-9623.
130. An Efficient Synthesis of Chloramphenicol via Asymmetric Catalytic Aziridination: A Comparison of Catalysts Prepared from Triphenylborate and Various Linear and Vaulted Biaryls, Loncaric, C.; Wulff, W. D., Org. Lett., 2001, 3, 3675-3678.
129. 2,2’-Diphenyl-[3,3’-biphenanthrene]-4,4’diol and 3,3’-diphenyl-[2,2’-binaphthalene]-1,1’-diol, Patwardhan, A. P.; Wulff, W. D., Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, Online posting date: October 15, 2002.
128. An Efficient Synthesis of Chloramphenicol via Asymmetric Catalytic Aziridination: A Comparison of Catalysts Prepared from Triphenylborate and Various Linear and Vaulted Biaryls, Loncaric, C.; Wulff, W. D., Org. Lett., 2001, 3, 3675-3678.
127. Convergent Synthesis of Fully Functionalized Ring C Allocolchicinoids. Benzannulation Approach. Vorogushin, A. V.; Wulff, W. D.; Hansen, H.-J., Org. Lett., 2001, 3, 2641-2644.
126. Simultaneous and Stereoselective Construction of Planar and Axial Centers of Chirality, Fogel, L.; Hsung, R. P.; Wulff, W. D.; Sommer, R. D.; Rheingold, A. L., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001, 123, 5580-5581.
125. The Preparation of Imidazolidinone and Oxazolidinone Chelated Carbene Complexes, Powers, T. S.; Wulff, W. D.; Quinn, J.; Shi, Y.; Jiang, W.; Hsung, R.; Parisi, M.; Rahm, A., Jiang, X. W., J. Organometal. Chem., 2001, 617-618, 182-208.
124. Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination with Aryl Borate Catalysts Derived from VAPOL and VANOL Ligands, Antilla, J.; Wulff W. D., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 2000, 39, 4518-4521.
123. Active Site Design in a Chemzyme: Development of a Highly Asymmetric and Remarkably Temperature Independent Catalyst for the Imino Aldol Reaction, Xue, S.; Yu, S.; Deng, Y.; Wulff, W. D., Angew. Chem. Int.. Ed. Engl. 2001, 40, 2271-2274.
122. Chiral Ancillaries in the Benzannulations of Alkoxy and Amino Carbene Complexes with Alkynes, Hsung, R. P.; Wulff, W. D.; Chamberlin, S.; Liu, Y.; Liu, R.-Y.; Wang, H.; Quinn, J. F.; Wang, S. L. B.; Rheingold, A. L., Synthesis, 2001, 200-220.
121. Unexpected Regiochemistry in the Benzannulation Reaction of Fischer Carbene Complexes in the Synthesis of Cyclophanes, Wang, H.; Wulff, W. D.; Rheingold, A. L., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2000, 122, 9862-9863.
120. The Preparation and Evaluation of Electron Deficient Benzylidene Fischer Carbene Complexes: Studies Toward the Total Synthesis of (+)-Olivin, Liptak, V. P.; Wulff, W. D., Tetrahedron, 2000, 56, 10229-10247.
119. Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reactions with Chiral Acetylenic Carbene Complexes as Dienophiles, Rahm, A.; Rheingold, A. L.; Wulff, W. D.; Tetrahedron, 2000, 56, 4951-4965.
118. Chiral Aluminum Lewis acids in Organic Synthesis, Wulff, W. D.; Handbook of Lewis Acids, Yamamoto, H., Ed., 2000, Vol 1, 283-354, Wiley-VCH.
117. Electronic tuning of Fischer Carbene Complexes in the Preparation of Bicyclo[3.1.1]heptanones as Taxane A-ring Synthons, Jiang, W.; Fuertes, M. J.; Wulff, W. D., Tetrahedron, 2000, 56, 2183-2194