1. Nickel-Catalyzed Highly Regioselective Hydrocyanation of Terminal Alkynes with Zn(CN)2 Using Water as the Hydrogen Source. Xingjie Zhang, Xin Xie, and Yuanhong Liu* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 7385.
2. Gold(I)-Catalyzed Formal Intramolecular Dehydro-Diels?Alder Reaction of Ynamide-ynes: Synthesis of Functionalized Benzo[b]carbazoles. Wei Xu, Gaonan Wang, Xin Xie, and Yuanhong Liu* Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 3273.
3. Copper-Catalyzed Borylative Cyclization of o?(Cyano)phenyl Propargyl Carbonates: Synthesis of Functionalized 1?Naphthylamines. Meijun Xiong,? Hui Hu,? Xiaoping Hu, and Yuanhong Liu* Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 3661.
4. Gold-Catalyzed Oxidative Cyclizations of {o?(Alkynyl)phenyl propargyl} Silyl Ether Derivatives Involving 1,2-Enynyl Migration: Synthesis of Functionalized 1H?Isochromenes and 2H?Pyrans. Jidong Zhao, Wei Xu, Xin Xie, Ning Sun, Xiangdong Li, and Yuanhong Liu* Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 5461.
5. Gold-Catalyzed Cadiot-Chodkiewicz-type Cross-Coupling of Terminal Alkynes with Alkynyl Hypervalent Iodine Reagents: Highly Selective Synthesis of Unsymmetrical 1,3-Diynes. Xiangdong Li, Xin Xie, Ning Sun, and Yuanhong Liu*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 6994 -6998.
6. Synthesis of δ- and α-Carbolines via Nickel-Catalyzed [2+2+2] Cycloaddition of Functionalized Alkyne-Nitriles with Alkynes. Gaonan Wang, Xu You, Yi Gan, and Yuanhong Liu*, Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 110-113.
7. General and Mild Nickel-Catalyzed Cyanation of Aryl/Heteroaryl Chlorides with Zn(CN)2 : Key Roles of DMAP. Xingjie Zhang, Aiyou Xia, Haoyi Chen, and Yuanhong Liu*, Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 2118-2121.
8. Gold-Catalyzed Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition of Ynamides with 4,5-Dihydro-1,2,4-oxadiazoles: Synthesis of Functionalized 4-Aminoimidazoles. Wei Xu, Gaonan Wang, Ning Sun, and Yuanhong Liu*, Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 3307-3310.
9. Copper-Catalyzed Borylative Cyclization of in Situ Generated o Allenylaryl Nitriles with Bis(pinacolato)diboron. Meijun Xiong, Xin Xie, and Yuanhong Liu*, Org. Lett. 2017, Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 3398?3401.
10.Nickel-Catalyzed [2++2+2] Cycloaddition of Alkyne-Nitriles with Alkynes Assisted by Lewis Acids: Efficient Synthesis of Fused Pyridines. Xu You, Xin Xie, Gaonan Wang, Meijun Xiong, Renhong Sun, Haoyi Chen, and Yuanhong Liu*, Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 16765– 16769.
11.Gold-Catalyzed Cyclization of Furan-Ynes bearing a Propargyl Carbonate Group: Intramolecular Diels–Alder Reaction with In Situ Generated Allenes. Ning Sun, Xin Xie, Haoyi Chen, and Yuanhong Liu*, Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 14175– 14180.
12.Dioxazoles, a new mild nitrene transfer in gold catalysis: highly efficient synthesis of functionalized oxazoles. Ming Chen, Ning Sun, Haoyi Chen and Yuanhong Liu, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 6324-6327.
13.Nickel-catalyzed cyclization of alkyne-nitriles with organoboronic acids involving anticarbometalation of alkynes. Xingjie Zhang, Xin Xie and Yuanhong Liu. Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 5815-5820.
14.Gold-catalyzed cyclization of 1,6-diynyl dithioacetals via 1,7-carbene transfer and aromatic C–H functionalization. Wei Xu, Ming Chen, Ning Sun and Yuanhong Liu. Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 11000-11003.
15.Gold-Catalyzed Synthesis of Tropone and Its Analogues via Oxidative Ring Expansion of Alkynyl Quinols. Jidong Zhao, Jun Liu, Xin Xie, Shi Li,* and Yuanhong Liu* Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 5926?5929.
16.Gold-Catalyzed Ring Expansion of Alkynyl Heterocycles through 1,2-Migration of an Endocyclic Carbon–Heteroatom Bond. Ming Chen, Ning Sun, Wei Xu, Jidong Zhao, Gaonan Wang, and Yuanhong Liu*. Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 18571-18575.
17.Gold-Catalyzed Oxidative Ring Expansion of 2-Alkynyl-1,2-Dihydropyridines or -quinolines: Highly Efficient Synthesis of Functionalized Azepine or Benzazepine Scaffolds, Ming Chen, Yifeng Chen, Ning Sun, Jidong Zhao, Yuanhong Liu,* and Yuxue Li*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 1200-1204.
18.Zirconium-Mediated Multicomponent Reactions of 1,3-Butadiynes with Ylidenemalononitriles to Form Functionalized 1,8-Naphthyridine and Cyclopenta[b]pyridine Derivatives. Shasha Yu, Renhong Sun, Haoyi Chen, Xin Xie, and Yuanhong Liu*, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 1420 – 1424.