4. Asymmetric Synthesis of Molecules Featuring Metal-Centered Chirality through Pd-Catalyzed Kinetic Resolution. Nat. Commun. 2024, under revision.

Chu, Y.-P.; Yue, X.-L.; Liu, D.-H.; Wang C.; Ma, J.*

A related preprint version was posted in ChemRxiv. 2024, doi:10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-krgpl-v2.

3. Recent Advances in Dearomative Partial Reduction of Benzenoid Arenes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, e202402819.

Liu, D.-H.; Ma, J.*

2. Late-Stage Saturation of Drug Molecules. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 10.1021/jacs.4c00807. 

Liu, D.-H.;† Pflüger P. M.;† Outlaw A.;† Lückemeier L.; Zhang F.; Regan C.; Nodeh H. R.; Cernak T.*; Ma, J.*; Glorius F.* (†Equal contribution)

Highlighted by Roche and Pfizer chemists Stepan & Richardson in Synfacts (Synfacts 2024, 0752)

Highlighted in Chemistry World NEWS (Late-stage saturation could improve drugs' effectiveness)

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1. Chemoselective Quinoline and Isoquinoline Reduction by Energy Transfer Catalysis Enabled Hydrogen Atom Transfer. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202312203. 

Liu, D.-H.;† Nagashima, K.;† Liang, H.; Yue, X.-L.; Chu, Y.-P.; Chen, S.*; Ma, J.* (†Equal contribution)

Highlighted in Organic Chemistry Portal 

Prior to SJTU 

15. Ma, J.;† Chen, S.;† Bellotti, P.;† Wagener, T.; Daniliuc, C.; Houk, K. N.; Glorius, F. Facile access to fused 2D/3D rings via intermolecular cascade dearomative [2+2] cycloaddition/rearrangements of quinolines with alkenes. Nat. Catal. 2022, 5, 405. (†Equal contribution) 

14. Ma, J.;† Chen, S.;† Bellotti, P.;† Guo, R.; Schäfer, F.; Heusler, A., Zhang, X., Daniliuc, C., Brown, M. K.; Houk, K. N.; Glorius, F.  Photochemical intermolecular dearomative cycloaddition of bicyclic azaarenes with alkenes. Science 2021, 371, 1338. (†Equal contribution) 

13. Huang, H.-M.; Bellotti, P.; Ma, J.; Dalton, T.; Glorius, F. Bifunctional reagents in organic synthesis. Nat. Rev. Chem. 2021, 5, 301.

12. Ma, J.; Schäfers, F.; Daniliuc, C.; Bergander, K.; Strassert, C. A.; Glorius, F. Gadolinium photocatalysis: Dearomative [2+2] cycloaddition/ring-expansion sequence with indoles. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 9639.

11. Ma, J.; Strieth-Kalthoff, F.; Dalton, T.; Freitag, M.; Schwarz, J. L.; Bergander, K.; Daniliuc, C.; Glorius, F. Direct dearomatization of pyridines via an energy-transfer-catalyzed intramolecular [4+2] cycloaddition. Chem 2019, 5, 2854. (Cover art, 封面文章)

10. Patra, T.; Mukherjee, S.; Ma, J.; Strieth-Kalthoff, F.; Glorius, F. Visible-light-photosensitized aryl and alkyl decarboxylative functionalization reactions. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 10514.

9. Ma, J.; Lin J.; Zhao L.; Harms K.; Marsch M.; Xie X.; Meggers, E. Synthesis of beta-substituted gama-aminobutyric acid derivatives via enantioselective photoredox catalysis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 11193.

8. Ma, J.;† Zhang, X.;† Huang, X.; Luo, S.; Meggers, E. Preparation of chiral-at-metal catalysts and their use in asymmetric photoredox chemistry. Nat. Protoc. 2018, 13, 605. (†Equal contribution)

7. Ma, J.; Xie, X.; Meggers, E. Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of fluoroalkyl‐containing compounds by three‐component photoredox chemistry. Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 259.

6. Ma, J.; Rosales, R. A.; Huang, X., Harms, K.; Riedel, R.; Wiest, O.; Meggers, E. Visible-light-activated asymmetric beta-C–H functionalization of acceptor-substituted ketones with 1,2-dicarbonyl compounds. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 17245. 

5. Ma, J.; Harms, K.; Meggers, E. Enantioselective rhodium/ruthenium photoredox catalysis en route to chiral 1,2-aminoalcohols. Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 10183.

4. Ma, J.; Shen, X.; Harms, K.; Meggers, E. Expanding the family of bis-cyclometalated chiral-at-metal rhodium(iii) catalysts with a benzothiazole derivative. Dalton Trans. 2016, 45, 8320.

3. Ma, J.; Ding, X.; Hu, Y.; Huang, Y.; Gong, L.; Meggers, E. Metal-templated chiral Brønsted base organocatalysis. Nat. Commun. 2014, 5, 4531. 

2. Chen, L.-A.; Xu, W.; Huang, B.; Ma, J.; Wang, L.; Xi, J.; Harms, K.; Gong, L.; Meggers, E. Asymmetric catalysis with an inert chiral-at-metal iridium complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 10598.

1. Chen, L.-A.; Ma, J.; Celik, M. A.; Yu, H.-L.; Cao, Z.; Frenking, G.; Gong, L.; Meggers, E. Active versus passive substituent participation in the auxiliary-mediated asymmetric synthesis of an octahedral metal complex. Chem. Asian J. 2012, 7, 2523.