1. Shen, Jian; Wang, Fangkun; Ma, Zhiyuan; Jiang, Jie; Zhang, Yong-Qiang*

Cooperative Bimetallic Radical Catalysis Enables Asymmetric Hydrogen-Atom Transfer 

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 31，27224-27231.

2. Yang, Shuo; Li, Longfei; Wang, Fangkun; Dong, Xuelian; Jiang, Jie; Zhang, Yong-Qiang*

Water-Mediated Radical Kinetic Resolution of Terminal Activated N-Carbamate Aziridines

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 13039-13049.

Highlighted by Synfacts 2025, 21, 694.

3. Li, Longfei; Yang, Shuo; Xu, Zhongyun; Li, Shengxiao; Jiang, Jie; Zhang, Yong-Qiang*

Dinuclear Titanium(III)-Catalyzed Radical-Type Kinetic Resolution of Epoxides for Enantioselective Synthesis of cis-Glycidic Esters

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 13546-13557.

Highlighted by Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2024, 44, 2051-2053.

4. Chen, Wanjiao; Sun, Huaxi; Jiang, Jie*; Zhang, Yong-Qiang*

Facile Construction of Quaternary Carbon Centers via Dinuclear Titanium(III)-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling of Tertiary Chlorides 

and Activated Olefins

ChemCatChem. 2024, e202400829.（Invited paper for ChineseCatChem Celebratory Collection）

5. Shen, Jian; Xu, Zhongyun; Yang, Shuo; Li, Shengxiao; Jiang, Jie;* Zhang, Yong-Qiang*

 

Quaternary Stereocenters via Catalytic Enantioconvergent Allylation of Epoxides

 

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145,  21122-21131 .

 

6. Li, Shengxiao; Zhu, Hui; Li, Longfei; Chen, Wanjiao; Jiang, Jie; Qu, Zheng-Wang;* Grimme, Stefan; Zhang, Yong-Qiang*

 

A Nuclearity-Dependent Enantiodivergent Epoxide Opening via Enthalpy-Controlled Mononuclear and Entropy-Controlled 

Dinuclear (Salen)Titanium Catalysis

 

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202309525.

Featured in Org. Chem. Highlights (July 8, 2024).

 

7. Li, Longfei; Chen, Wanjiao; Xu, Zhongyun; Jiang, Jie; Zhang, Yong-Qiang*

 

Enantioselective Synthesis of (R)-Tiagabine via Asymmetric Hydrogen Atom Transfer Protocol

 

Synthesis. 2023, 55, 2005-2010.

Highlighted by the Thieme News (April 6, 2023).

8. Xu, Zhongyun; Shen, Jian; Li, Longfei,; Chen, Wanjiao; Li, Shengxiao; Jiang, Jie; Zhang, Yong-Qiang*

 

(Salen)Titanium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogen Atom Transfer for Epoxides Reduction

 

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202214111.

Featured in Org. Chem. Highlights (July 17, 2023).

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Selected Before SDU:

1. Zhang, Y. -Q.; Bohle. F.; Bleith, R.; Schnakenburg, G.; Grimme, S.*; Gansäuer, A.*. Synthesis of 1,3-amino alcohols by hydroxyl-directed aziridination and aziridine hydrosilylation.

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 13528-13532.

2. Zhang, Y. -Q.; Vogelsang, E.; Qu, Z.-W.; Grimme, S.; Gansäuer, A.*. Titanocene-catalyzed radical opening of N-acylated aziridines.

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 12654-12657.

3. Zhang, Y. -Q.; Poppel, C.; Panfilova, A.; Bohle, F.; Gansäuer, A.*. SN2 at tertiary carbon centers in epoxides.

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 9851-9854.

4. Zhang, Y. -Q.; Jakoby, V.; Stainer, K.; Schmer, A.; Klare, S.; Bauer, M.; Grimme, S.; Cuerva, J. M.; Gansäuer, A.*. Amide-substituted titanocenes in HAT-catalysis.

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 1523-1526.

5. Zhang, Y. -Q.; Funken, N.; Winterscheid, P.; Gansäuer, A.* Hydroxy-directed, fluoride-catalyzed epoxide Hydrosilylation for the synthesis of 1,4-Diols.

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 6931-6934.

6. Zhang, Y. -Q.; Yuan, Y. –A.; Liu, G. –S.; Xu, H.*. Iron(II)-catalyzed intramolecular asymmetric aminohydroxylation of indoles.

Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 3910-3913.

7. Zhang, Y. -Q.#; Liu, J. –D.#; Xu, H.*. Copper(II)-catalyzed trifluoromethylation of N-aryl imines. (# The two authors contributed equally)

Org. Biomol. Chem. 2013, 11, 6242-6245.

8. Zhang, Y. -Q.; Zhu, D. -Y.; Li, B. -S.; Tu, Y. -Q.*; Liu, J. -X.; Lu, Y.; Wang,S. –H.. Palladim-Catalyzed cascade process to construct 1,2,5-trisubstituted pyrroles.

J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 4167-4170.

9. Zhang, Y. -Q.; Zhu, D. -Y.; Jiao, Z. -W.; Li, B. -S.; Zhang, F. -M.; Tu, Y. -Q.*; Bi, Z.. Regiodivergent annulations of alkynyl indoles to construct spiro-pseudoindoxyl and tetrahydro-β-carbolines.

Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 3458-3461.

10. Zhang, Y. -Q.; Chen, Z. -H.; Tu, Y. -Q.*; Fan, C. -A.; Zhang, F. -M.; Wang, A. -X.; Yuan, D. -Y.. Gold-catalyzed reaction of enynols by a dimerization-fragmentation process: An expeditious assembly of enyne molecular architecture.

Chem. Commun. 2009, 45, 2706-2708.