1.   Ruthenium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrogenation/Lactonization of 2-Acylarylcarboxylates：Direct Access to Chiral 3-Substituted Phthalides, Lu, B.; Zhao, M. M.; Ding, G. N.; Xie, X. X.; Jiang, L. L.; Ratovelomanana-Vidaland, V.; Zhang, Z. G*. ChemCatChem 2017, 9, 3989-3996.

2. Coordination determined chemo- and enantioselectivities in asymmetric hydrogenation of multi-functionalized ketones, Xie, X. M.; Lu, B.; Li, W. F.; Zhang, Z. G*. Coordination Chemistry Reviews 2018, 355, 39-53.      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Synthesis of 3‑CF2‑Containing Chromones via a Visible-Light-Induced Radical Cascade Reaction of o‑Hydroxyaryl Enaminones, Gao, H.; Hu, Bei.; Dong, W. H.; Gao, X. S.; Jiang, L. L.; Xie, X. M.; Zhang, Z. G*. ACS Omega. 2017, 2, 3168-3174. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Reduction of Benzolactams to Isoindoles via an Alkoxide-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation, Ding, G. N.; Wu, X. Y.; Jiang, L. L.; Zhang, Z. G*.; Xie, X. M*. Organic Letters. 2017, 19, 6048-6051. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Visible-light induced tandem radical cyanomethylation and cyclization of N-aryl acrylamides: access to cyanomethylated oxindoles, Gao, X. S.; Dong, W. H.; Hu, B.; Gao, H.; Yuan, Y.; Xie, X. M.; Zhang, Z. G*. RSC Adv. 2017, 7, 49299–49302.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. Asymmetric carbonyl-ene reaction of trifluoropyruvate catalyzed by Pd(II)-SunPhos complex, Jiang, L. L.; Hu, B.;  Xie, X. M.; Zhang, Z. G*. Tetrahedron. 2017, 73, 6901-6905.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. PdCl₂(Ph₃P)₂/Salicylaldimine Catalyzed Diarylation of Anilines with Unactivated Aryl Chlorides, Tao, X. C.; Li, L.; Zhou, Y.; Qian, X. Y.; Zhao, M*.; Cai, L. Z.;  Xie, X. M*.  Chin. J. Chem. 2017, 35, 1749-1754.