Waterfall
A secluded waterfall off of "The Loch" trail in Rocky Mountain National Park (August 2007)
 


Publications

 

  1. Baoguo Zhao, Haifeng Du, & Yian Shi.  “Cu(I)-Catalyzed Cycloguanidination of Olefins”, Org. Lett. 2008 In Press.
  2. Liang Xu & Yian Shi.  “Chiral N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Pd(0)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Diamination of Conjugated Dienes and Triene”, J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 749-751. Click here to see article.
  3. Baoguo Zhao, Weicheng Yuan, Haifeng Du, & Yian Shi.  “Cu(I)-Catalyzed Intermolecular Diamination of Activated Terminal Olefins”, Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 4943-4945. Click here to see article.
  4. Haifeng Du, Weicheng Yuan, Baoguo Zhao, & Yian Shi. “Catalytic Asymmetric Diamination of Conjugated Dienes and Triene”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 11688-11689.  Click here to see article.
  5. Liang Xu, Haifeng Du, & Yian Shi. “Diamination of Conjugated Dienes and Trienes Catalyzed by N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Pd(0) Complexes”, J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 7038-7041.  Click here to see article.
  6. Christopher P. Burke, Lianhe Shu, & Yian Shi. “An N-Aryl-Substituted Oxazolidinone-Containing Ketone-Catalyzed Asymmetric Epoxidation with Hydrogen Peroxide as the Primary Oxidant”, J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 6320-6323.  Click here to see article.
  7. Weicheng Yuan, Haifeng Du, Baoguo Zhao, & Yian Shi. “A Mild Cu(I)-Catalyzed Regioselective Diamination of Conjugated Dienes”, Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 2589-2591.  Click here to see article.
  8. Haifeng Du, Weicheng Yuan, Baoguo Zhao, & Yian Shi. “A Pd(0)-Catalyzed Diamination of Terminal Olefins at Allylic and Homoallylic Carbons via Formal C-H Activation under Solvent-Free Conditions”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 7496-7497.  Click here to see article.
  9. Christopher P. Burke & Yian Shi. “Enantioselective Epoxidation of Conjugated cis-Enynes by Chiral Dioxirane”, J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 4093-4097.  Click here to see article.
  10. Haifeng Du, Baoguo Zhao, & Yian Shi. “A Facile Pd(0)-Catalyzed Regio- and Stereoselective Diamination of Conjugated Dienes and Trienes”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 762-763.  Click here to see article.
  11. David Goeddel & Yian Shi.  "An Oxazolidinone Ketone Catalyst for the Asymmetric Epoxidation of cis-Olefins", Catalysts for Fine Chemical Synthesis:  Regio- and Stereo- Controlled Oxidations and Reduction”, Roberts, S.M. and Whittall, J. Eds., John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, West Sussex, England, 2007, pp 215-224.
  12. Yu-Mei Shen, Mei-Xin Zhao, Jiaxi Xu, & Yian Shi.  “An Amine-Promoted Aziridination of Chalcones”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 8005-8008.  Click here to see article.
  13. Bin Wang, Yu-Mei Shen, & Yian Shi.  “Enantioselective Synthesis of g-Aryl-g-butyrolactones by Sequential Asymmetric Epoxidation, Ring Expansion, and Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation”, J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 9519-9521.  Click here to see article.
  14. Mei-Xin Zhao, David Goeddel, Kai Li, & Yian Shi. “A Practical Synthesis of N-Aryl-Substituted Oxazolidinone-Containning Ketone Catalysts for Asymmetric Epoxidation”, Tetrahedron 2006, 62, 8064-8068. Click here to see article.
  15. Yu-Mei Shen, Bin Wang, & Yian Shi. “Enantioselective Synthesis of 2-Alkyl-2-Aryl Cyclopentanones by Asymmetric Epoxidation of Tetrasubstituted Cyclobutylidene Olefins and Epoxide Rearrangement”, Tetrehedron Lett. 2006, 47, 5455-5458. Click here to see article.
  16. Haifeng Du, Jiang Long, & Yian Shi. “Catalytic Asymmetric Simmons-Smith Cyclopropanation of Silyl Enol Ethers. Efficient Synthesis of Optically Active Cyclopropanol Derivatives”, Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 2827-2829. Click here to see article.
  17. Mei-Xin Zhao, & Yian Shi. “Practical Synthesis of an L-Fructose-Derived Ketone Catalyst for Asymmetric Epoxidation of Olefins”, J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 5377-5379. Click here to see article.
  18. Christopher P. Burke, & Yian Shi. “Regio- and Enantioselective Epoxidation of Dienes by a Chiral Dioxirane: Synthesis of Optically Active Vinyl cis-Epoxides”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 4475-4478. Click here to see article.
  19. Andrea O. Wong, & Yian Shi. “Studies of Substituent Effect on Asymmetric Epoxidation of Chromenes by Chiral Dioxirane”, J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 3973-3976. Click here to see article.
  20. Yu-Mei Shen, Bin Wang, & Yian Shi. “Enantioselective Synthesis of 2-Aryl Cyclopentanones by Asymmetric Epoxidation and Epoxide Rearrangement”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 1429-1432. Click here to see article.
  21. David Goeddel, Lianhe Shu, Yi Yuan, Andrea O. Wong, Bin, Wang, & Yian Shi. “Effective Asymmetric Epoxidation of Styrenes by Chiral Dioxirane”, J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 1715-1717. Click here to see article.
  22. Yian Shi.  "Asymmetric Epoxidation of Olefins by Chiral Ketones", Handbook of Chiral Chemicals”, Ager, D. Ed., CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, USA, 2006, pp 147-163.
  23. Zackary Crane, David Goeddel, Yonghong Gan, & Yian Shi. "Exploring Structural Effects of Ketone Catalysts on Asymmetric Epoxidation of Olefins", Tetrahedron 2005, 61, 6409-6417. Click here to see article.
  24. Jiang Long, Haifeng Du, Kai Li, & Yian Shi. "Catalytic Asymmetric Simmons-Smith Cyclopropanation of Unfunctionalized olefins", Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 2737-2740. Click here to see article.
  25. Jon C. Lorenz, Michael Frohn, Xiaoming Zhou, Jian-Rong Zhang, Yong Tang, Christopher P. Burke, & Yian Shi. "Transition State Studies on the Dioxirane-Mediated Asymmetric Epoxidation via Kinetic Resolution and Desymmetrization", J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 2904-2911. Click here to see article.
  26. Yian Shi. "Organocatalytic Oxidation. Ketone-catalyzed Asymmetric Epoxidation of Olefins", Modern Oxidation Methods, Backvall, J.E. Ed., WILEY- VCH, Germany, 2004, pp 51-82.
  27. Yian Shi. "Organocatalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation of Olefins by Chiral Ketones", Acc. Chem. Res. 2004, 37, 488-496. Click here to see article.
  28. Lianhe Shu & Yian Shi. "Asymmetric Epoxidation of cis-ß-Methylstyrenes Catalyzed by N-aryl Substituted Oxazolidinone-containing Ketones. A Beneficial Substituent Effect", Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 8115-8117. Click here to see article.
  29. Matthew Hickey, David Goeddel, Zackary Crane, & Yian Shi. "Highly enantioselective epoxidation of styrenes: implication of an electronic effect on the competition between spiro and planar transition states", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2004, 101, 5794-5798. Click here to see article.
  30. Jon C. Lorenz, Jiang Long, Zhiqiang Yang, Song Xue, Yinong Xie, & Yian Shi. "A Novel Class of Tunable Zinc Reagents (RXZnCH2Y) for Efficient Cyclopropanation of Olefins", J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 327-334. Click here to see article.
  31. Jiang Long, Yi Yuan, & Yian Shi. "Asymmetric Simmons-Smith Cyclopropanation of Unfunctionalized Olefins", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 13632-13633. Click here to see article.
  32. Lianhe Shu, Yu-Mei Shen, Christopher Burke, David Goeddel, & Yian Shi. "An Improved Synthesis of a Ketone Catalyst for Asymmetric Epoxidation of Olefins", J. Org. Chem. 2003, 68, 4963-4965. Click here to see article.
  33. Lianhe Shu, Pingzhen Wang, Yonghong Gan, & Yian Shi. "Asymmetric Epoxidation Catalyzed by N-Aryl-Substituted Oxazolidinone-Containing Ketones: Further Evidence for Electronic Effects", Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 293-296. Click here to see article.
  34. Zhi-Xian Wang, Lianhe Shu, Michael Frohn, Yong Tu, & Yian Shi.  "Asymmetric Epoxidation of trans-b-Methylstyrene and 1-Phenylcyclohexene Using a D-Fructose-Derived Ketone", Org. Synth. 2003, 80, 9-17. Click here to see article.
  35. Yong Tu, Michael Frohn, Zhi-Xian Wang, & Yian Shi.  "Synthesis of 1,2:4,5-Di-O-Isopropylidene-D-Erythro-2,3-Hexodiulo-2,6-Pyranose.  A Highly Enantioselective Ketone Catalyst for Epoxidation", Org. Synth. 2003, 80, 1-8. Click here to see article.
  36. Xin-Yan Wu, Xuegong She, & Yian Shi. "Highly Enantioselective Epoxidation of alpha, beta-Unsaturated Esters by Chiral Dioxirane", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2002, 124, 8792-8793. Click here to see article.
  37. Xiaoming Feng, Lianhe Shu, & Yian Shi. "Chiral Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Resolution of Racemic Enol Ester Epoxides. Conversion of Both Enantiomers of an Enol Ester Epoxide to the Same Enantiomer of Acyloxy Ketone", J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 2831-2836. Click here to see article.
  38. Hongqi Tian, Xuegong She, Hongwu Yu, Lianhe Shu, & Yian Shi. "Designing New Chiral Ketone Catalysts. Asymmetric Epoxidation of cis-Olefins and Terminal Olefins", J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 2435-2446. Click here to see article.
  39. Yian Shi. "Organo-Catalysis: Developing Ketone Catalysts for Asymmetric Epoxidation of Olefins", J. Synth. Org. Chem. Jpn 2002, 60, 342-349.
  40. Hongqi Tian, Xuegong She, Jiaxi Xu, & Yian Shi. "Enantioselective Epoxidation of Terminal Olefins by Chiral Dioxirane," Org. Lett. 2001, 3, 1929-1931. Click here to see article.
  41. Lianhe Shu & Yian Shi. "An Efficient Ketone Catalyzed Asymmetric Epoxidation Using Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) as Primary Oxidant," Tetrahedron 2001, 57, 5213-5218. Click here to see article.
  42. Hongqi Tian, Xuegong She, & Yian Shi. "Electronic Probing of Ketone Catalysts for Asymmetric Epoxidation. Search for More Robust Catalysts," Org. Lett. 2001, 3, 715-718. Click here to see article.
  43. Yuanming Zhu, Lianhe Shu, Yong Tu, & Yian Shi. "Enantioselective Synthesis and Stereoselective Rearrangements of Enol Ester Epoxides." J. Org. Chem. 2001, 66, 1818-1826. Click here to see article.
  44. Zhi-Xian Wang, Susie M. Miller, Oren P. Anderson, & Yian Shi. "Asymmetric Epoxidation by Chiral Ketones Derived From Carbocyclic Analogues of Fructose," J. Org. Chem. 2001, 66, 521-530. Click here to see article.
  45. Michael Frohn & Yian Shi. "Chiral Ketone-Catalyzed Asymmetric Epoxidation of Olefins," Synthesis 2000, 1979-2000.
  46. Hongqi Tian, Xuegong She, Lianhe Shu, Hongwu Yu, & Yian Shi. "Highly Enantioselective Epoxidation of cis-Olefins by Chiral Dioxirane," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 11551-11552. Click here to see article.
  47. Lianhe Shu & Yian Shi. "An Efficient Ketone-Catalyzed Epoxidation Using Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) as Oxidant," J. Org. Chem. 2000, 65, 8807-8810. Click here to see article.
  48. Xiaoming Feng, Lianhe Shu, & Yian Shi. "Complete Conversion of Racemic Enol Ester Epoxides into Optically Active Alpha-Acyloxy Ketones," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 11002-11003. Click here to see article.
  49. Lianhe Shu & Yian Shi. "Asymmetric Epoxidation Using Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) as Primary Oxidant," Tetrahedron Lett. 1999, 40, 8721-8724. Click here to see article.
  50. J. David Warren & Yian Shi. "Chiral Ketone-Catalyzed Asymmetric Epoxidation of 2,2-Disubstituted Vinylsilanes," J. Org. Chem. 1999, 64, 7675-7677. Click here to see article.
  51. Zhi-Xian Wang, Guo-An Cao, & Yian Shi. "Chiral Ketone Catalyzed Highly Chemo- and Enantioselective Epoxidation of Conjugated Enynes," J. Org. Chem. 1999, 64, 7646-7650. Click here to see article.
  52. Michael Frohn, Xiaoming Zhou, Jian-Rong Zhang, Yong Tang, & Yian Shi. "Kinetic Resolution of Racemic Cyclic Olefins via Chiral Dioxiranes," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 7718-7719. Click here to see article.
  53. Zhi-Xian Wang, Susie M. Miller, Oren P. Anderson, & Yian Shi. "A Class of C2 and Pseudo C2 Symmetric Ketone Catalysts for Asymmetric Epoxidation. Conformational Effect on Catalysis," J. Org. Chem. 1999, 64, 6443-6458. Click here to see article.
  54. Yuanming Zhu, Karl J. Manske, & Yian Shi. "Dual Mechanisms of Acid-Catalyzed Rearrangement of Enol Ester Epoxides: Enantioselective Formation of Alpha-Acyloxy Ketones," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 4080-4081. Click here to see article.
  55. Yong Tu, Zhi-Xian Wang, Michael Frohn, Mingqi He, Hongwu Yu, Yong Tang, & Yian Shi. "Structural Probing of Ketone Catalysts for Asymmetric Epoxidation," J. Org. Chem. 1998, 63, 8475-8485. Click here to see article.
  56. Zhiqiang Yang, Jon C. Lorenz, & Yian Shi. "Exploring New Reactive Species for Cyclopropanation," Tetrahedron Lett. 1998, 39, 8621-8624. Click here to see article.
  57. Yuanming Zhu, Yong Tu, Hongwu Yu, & Yian Shi. "Highly Enantioselective Epoxidation of Enol Silyl Ethers and Esters," Tetrahedron Lett. 1998, 39, 7819-7822. Click here to see article.
  58. Michael Frohn, Zhi-Xian Wang, & Yian Shi. "A Mild and Efficient Epoxidation of Olefins Using in situ Generated Dimethyldioxirane at High pH," J. Org. Chem. 1998, 63, 6425-6426. Click here to see article.
  59. Guo-An Cao, Zhi-Xian Wang, Yong Tu, & Yian Shi. "Chemo- and Enantioselective Epoxidation of Enynes," Tetrahedron Lett. 1998, 39, 4425-4428. Click here to see article.
  60. Zhi-Xian Wang & Yian Shi. "A pH Study on the Chiral Ketone Catalyzed Asymmetric Epoxidation of Hydroxyalkenes," J. Org. Chem. 1998, 63, 3099-3104. Click here to see article.
  61. Michael Frohn, Molly Dalkiewicz, Yong Tu, Zhi-Xian Wang, & Yian Shi. "Highly Regio- and Enantioselective Monoepoxidation of Conjugated Dienes," J. Org. Chem. 1998, 63, 2948-2953. Click here to see article.
  62. Zhi-Xian Wang & Yian Shi. "A New Type of Ketone Catalyst for Asymmetric Epoxidation," J. Org. Chem. 1997, 62, 8622-8623. Click here to see article.
  63. Zhi-Xian Wang, Yong Tu, Michael Frohn, Jian-Rong Zhang, & Yian Shi. "An Efficient Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation Method," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 11224-11235. Click here to see article.
  64. Zhi-Xian Wang, Yong Tu, Michael Frohn, & Yian Shi. "A Dramatic pH Effect Leads to a Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation," J. Org. Chem. 1997, 62, 2328-2329. Click here to see article.
  65. Yong Tu, Zhi-Xian Wang, & Yian Shi. "An Efficient Asymmetric Epoxidation Method for trans-Olefins Mediated by a Fructose-Derived Ketone," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 9806-9807. Click here to see article.
  66. Chang Fan, Paul C. Moews, Yian Shi, Christopher T. Walsh, & James R. Knox. "A Common Fold for Peptide Synthetases Cleaving ATP to ADP: Glutathione Synthetase and D-Alanine:D-Alanine Ligase of Escherichia coli," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 1995, 92, 1172-1176.
  67. Yian Shi & Christopher T. Walsh. "Active Site Mapping of Escherichia coli D-Ala-D-Ala Ligase by Structure-Based Mutagenesis," Biochemistry 1995, 34, 2768-2776.
  68. Yian Shi, Eric D. Brown, & Christopher T. Walsh. "Expression of Recombinant Human Casein Kinase II and Recombinant Heat Shock Protein 90 in Escherichia coli and Characterization of Their Interactions," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 1994, 91, 2767-2771.
  69. Jasna Fejzo, Felicia A. Etzkorn, Robert T. Clubb, Yian Shi, Christopher T. Walsh, & Gerhard Wagner. "The Mutant Escherichia coli F112W Cyclophilin Binds Cyclosporin A in Nearly Identical Conformation as Human Cyclophilin," Biochemistry 1994, 33, 5711-5720.
  70. Barry M. Trost & Yian Shi. "Diastereoselective Cycloisomerizations of Enediynes via Palladium Catalysis," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1993, 115, 12491-12509.
  71. Barry M. Trost & Yian Shi. "Palladium-Catalyzed Cyclizations of Polyenynes. A Palladium Zipper," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1993, 115, 9421-9438.
  72. Barry M. Trost & Yian Shi. "Cycloisomerization for Atom Economy. Polycycle Construction via Tandem Transition Metal Catalyzed Electrocyclic Processes," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 791-792.
  73. Barry M. Trost & Yian Shi. "A Pd-Catalyzed Zipper Reaction," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1991, 113, 701-703.
  74. Ian W. J. Still & Yian Shi. "A Stereoselective Synthesis of Clavularin A from 2-Cycloheptenone," Tetrahedron Lett. 1987, 28, 2489-2490.
 
     

 

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