The Jiao Group

10. Direct Transformation of Methyl Arenes to Aryl Nitriles at Room Temperature, Wang Zhou, Liangren Zhang, and Ning Jiao, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 7094 –7097, DOI : 10.1002/anie.200903838 9. The tandem reaction combining radical and ionic processes: an efficient approach to substituted 3,4-dihydroquinolin-2-ones, Wang Zhou and Ning Jiao, Tetrahedron 65 (2009) 1982–1987, doi:10.1016/j.tet.2009.01.027 8. Sp–sp3 C–C bond formation viaFe(OTf)3/TfOH cocatalyzed coupling reaction of terminal alkynes with benzylic alcohols, Shi-Kai Xiang,Li-He Zhang and Ning Jiao*, Chem. Commun., 2009, 6487–6489.doi: 10.1039/b911905a 7. Control of Chemo-, Regio-, and Stereoselectivities in Ligand-Free Pd-Catalyzed Oxidative Heck Reactions of Arylboronic Acids or Alkenylboronate with Allyl Esters,Yijin Su and Ning Jiao, Org. Lett., 2009, 11 (14), pp 2980–2983 6. Indoles from Simple Anilines and Alkynes : Palladium-Catalyzed C-H Activation Using Dioxygen as the Oxidant, Zhuangzhi Shi and Ning Jiao, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 4572 –4576, DOI : 10.1002/anie.200901484 5. A Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Cycloaromatization of Biaryls with Alkynes Using Molecular Oxygen as the Oxidant, Zhuangzhi Shi and Ning Jiao, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 7895 –7898, doi:10.1002/anie.200903975 4. Copper/Iron-Cocatalyzed Highly Selective Tandem Reactions : Efficient Approaches to Z-g-Alkylidene Lactones, Si Li, Wei Jia and Ning Jiao, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2009, 351, 569 – 575, doi: 10.1002/adsc.200800695 3. AgNO3 catalyzed cyclization of propargyl-Meldrum’s acids in aqueous solvent: highly selective synthesis of Z-γ-alkylidene lactones, Wei Jia and Ning Jiao, Tetrahedron Letters 50 (2009) 5406–5408, doi:10.1016/j.tetlet.2009.07.050 2. Fe-catalyzed highly selective ring expansion of alkynylcyclopropyl alkanols to cyclobutanols, Anjun Chen and Ning Jiao, Chem. Commun., 2009, 6842–6844, doi:10.1039/b916623h