Synthetic Organic Chemistry & Catalysis • University of Oxford

• Functional Group Tolerant Hydrogen Borrowing C-alkylation

• Harnessing Triaryloxonium Ions for Aryne generation

• An energy transfer mediated 4π spirocyclization intercepts the Staudinger β-lactam synthesis

• Interrogating the Configurational Stability of Atropisomers

• A Radical-Polar Crossover Approach to Complex Nitrogen Heterocycles via the Triplet State

• Control of Stereogenic Oxygen in a Helically Chiral Oxonium Ion

Owen Smith, Mihai V. Popescu, Madeleine J. Hindson, Robert Paton, Jonathan W. Burton & Martin D. Smith.

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-l5qms

• Neutral Iodotriazole Foldamers as Tetradentate Halogen Bonding Anion Receptors

• Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Atropisomeric Biaryls by a Cation-Directed O-Alkylation

• A Cascade Strategy Enables a Total Synthesis of Morphine

• A Counterion-Directed Approach to the Diels-Alder Paradigm: Cascade Synthesis of Tricyclic Fused Cyclopropanes

• Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of C1 and C2-Symmetric Spirobiindanones Through Counterion-Directed Enolate C-Acylation

• Torsional and Electronic Factors Control the C-H···O Interaction

• N-Benzyl quininium chloride

• Cation-Directed Enantioselective N-Functionalization of Pyrroles (S. V. Ley 70th Birthday Special Edition)

• Enantioselective Synthesis of 4- and 6-Azaindolines by a Cation-Directed Cyclisation

• Cation-Controlled Enantio- and Diastereoselective Synthesis of Indolines: an Autoinductive Phase–Transfer Initiated 5-Endo-Trig Process

• Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Indanes by a Cation-Directed 5-Endo-Trig Cyclization

• Bifunctional Crosslinking Ligands for Transthyretin

• A Cascade Strategy Enables a Total Synthesis of Gephyrotoxin

• Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Atropisomeric Biaryls: A Cation-Directed Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution Reaction

• Enantioselective One-Pot Synthesis of Dihydroquinolones via BINOL-Derived Lewis Acid Catalysis

• Remote Stereocontrol Transmitted Through Helicity

• A Cation-Directed Two-Component Cascade Approach to Enantioenriched Pyrroloindolines

• Phase Transfer Catalysed Synthesis of Pyrroloindolines and Pyridoindolines by a Hydrogen Bond Assisted Isocyanide Cyclization Cascade

• Cation-Directed Synthesis of Quaternary-Substituted Indolenines

• Can A C-H···O Interaction Be A Determinant Of Conformation?

Christopher R. Jones, Pranjal K. Baruah, Amber L. Thompson, Steve Scheiner & Martin D. Smith
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 12064.

• Catalytic Enantioselective Electrocyclic Cascades

Eleanor E. Maciver, Peter C. Knipe, Andrew Cridland, Amber L. Thompson & Martin D. Smith
Chem. Sci. 2012, 3, 537-440.

• Catalytic Asymmetric 6π Electrocyclization: Asymmetric Synthesis Of Functionalized Indolines

E. E. Maciver, S. Thompson & Martin. D Smith
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 9979

• Plagiarizing Proteins: Enhancing Efficiency In Asymmetric Hydrogen Bonding Catalysis Through Positive Cooperativity

C. R. Jones, G. D. Pantos, A. J. Morrison & Martin D. Smith
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 9979

• A Nonpeptidic Reverse-Turn That Promotes Parallel Sheet Structure Stabilized By C-H···O Hydrogen Bonds In A Cyclopropane γ-Peptide

C. R. Jones, M. K. N. Qureshi, F. R. Truscott, S.-Te D. Hsu, A. J. Morrison & Martin D. Smith
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 7099