1) Yuan Cai, Xin-Tuo Yang, Shuo-Qing Zhang, Feng Li, Yu-Qing Li, Lin-Xin Ruan, Xin Hong,* and Shi-Liang Shi*
“Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Markovnikov Protoboration of ?-Olefins Enabled by a Buttressed N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand”
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 1376.
2) Shi-Liang Shi, Zackary L. Wong, Stephen L. Buchwald*
“Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Stereodivergent Synthesis of Amino Alcohols”
Nature 2016, 532, 353–356.
3) Yang Yang#, Shi-Liang Shi#, Dawen Niu, Peng Liu, Stephen L. Buchwald*
“Catalytic Asymmetric Hydroamination of Unactivated Internal Olefins to Aliphatic Amines”
Science 2015, 349, 62–66. (#: Co-first author)
(Highlighted in Chemistry World and Chemical & Engineering News)
4) Shi-Liang Shi, Stephen L. Buchwald*
“Copper-catalysed Selective Hydroamination Reactions of Alkynes”
Nature Chemistry 2015, 7, 38–44. (Highlighted in Nature. Nature 517, 280–281)
5) Shi-Liang Shi, Stephen L. Buchwald*
“Palladium-Catalyzed Intramolecular C–H Difluoroalkylation: Synthesis of Substituted 3,3-Difluoro-2-oxindoles”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 1646-1650.
6) Shi-Liang Shi, Xiao-feng Wei, Yohei Shimizu, Motomu Kanai*
“Copper(I)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Incorporation of Ketones to Cyclic Hemiaminals for the Synthesis of Versatile Alkaloid Precursor”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 17019-17022.
7) Shi-Liang Shi, Motomu Kanai* and Masakatsu Shibasaki*
“Asymmetric Synthesis of Dihydropyranones from Ynones by Sequential Copper(I)-Catalyzed Direct Aldol and Silver(I)-Catalyzed Oxy-Michael Reactions”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 3932-3935.
8) Shi-Liang Shi, Li-Wen Xu, Kounosuke Oisaki, Motomu Kanai* and Masakatsu Shibasaki*
“Identification of Modular Chiral Bisphosphines Effective for Cu(I)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylation and Propargylation of Ketones”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 6638-6639.
9) Yohei Shimizu, Shi-Liang Shi, Hiroyuki Usuda, Motomu Kanai* and Masakatsu Shibasaki*
“Catalytic Asymmetric Total Synthesis of ent-Hyperforin”
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 1103-1106.