[20]  Zhi-Qi Zhang, Meng-Meng Zheng, Xiao-Song Xue, Ilan Marek,* Fa-Guang Zhang,* and Jun-An Ma*. Catalytic Enantioselective Cyclopropenation of Internal Alkynes: Access to Difluoromethylated Three-Membered Carbocycles[J]. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 18191–18196. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201911701; DOI: 10.1002/anie.201913897 (Hot Paper, Back Cover)

[19]  Shao-Peng Wang, Chi Wai Cheung,* and Jun-An Ma*. Direct Amidation of Carboxylic Acids with Nitroarenes[J]. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 13922-13934.  DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b02068

[18] Ni Shen, Chi Wai Cheung* and Jun-An Ma*. Direct amide synthesis via Ni-mediated aminocarbonylation of arylboronic acids with CO and nitroarenes[J]. Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 13709—13712.  DOI: 10.1039/c9cc06638a

 

[17] Jun-Liang Zeng, Yue Zhang, Meng-Meng Zheng, Zhi-Qi Zhang, Xiao-Song Xue, Fa-Guang Zhang*, and Jun-An Ma*. Chemodivergent and Stereoselective Construction of gemDifluoroallylic Amines from Masked Difluorodiazo Reagents [J]. Org. Lett. 2019. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b02989

[16] Zhen Chen, Wakana Mori, Jun-An Ma, Ming-Rong Zhang*, and Steven H. Liang*. Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of 18F‑Labeled Monoacylglycerol Lipase Inhibitors as Novel Positron Emission Tomography Probes[J]. J. Med. Chem.2019. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b00936

[15] Fang-Fang Feng, Shen Li, Chi Wai Cheung*, and Jun-An Ma*. Chiral β‑Keto Propargylamine Synthesis via Enantioselective Mannich Reaction of Enamides with C‑Alkynyl N‑Boc N,O‑Acetals[J]. Org. Lett. 2019. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03181

[14] Fang-Fang Feng, Jin-Shan Li, Shen Li* and Jun-An Ma*, Enantioselective Addition of Enamides to Cyclic Ketimines: Access to Chiral 3,3-Disubstituted Isoindolin-1-ones[J]. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2019. DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201900710

[13] Zhen Chen, Meng-Yu Rong, Jing Nie, Xue-Feng Zhu*, Bing-Feng Shi * and Jun-An Ma *. Catalytic alkylation of unactivated C(sp3)–H bonds for C(sp3)–C(sp3) bond formation[J]. Chem. Soc. Rev, 2019. DOI: 10.1039/c9cs00086k

[12] Yu-Ting Tian, Yu-Wei Zong, Jing Nie, Fa-Guang Zhang*, and Jun-An Ma*. Construction of pyrrole- and indole-fused CF3-piperazine derivatives[J]. Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluchem.2019.109361

[11] Xing Peng, Ming-Yang Xiao, Jun-Liang Zeng, Fa-Guang Zhang*, and Jun-An Ma*. Construction of Difluoromethylated Tetrazoles via Silver-Catalyzed Regioselective [3 + 2] Cycloadditions of Aryl Diazonium Salts[J]. Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 4808-4811.  DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b01697

[10]  Wenge Jiang, Dimitra Athanasiadou, Jun-An Ma, Julian D. Gale & Marc D. McKee. Homochirality in biomineral suprastructures induced by assembly of single-enantiomer amino acids from a nonracemic mixture[J]. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | (2019) 10:2318. | Doi:  10.1038/s41467-019-10383-x

[9] Meng-Yu Rong, Lijun Yang, Jing Nie, Fa-Guang Zhang*, and Jun-An Ma*. Construction of Chiral β‑Trifluoromethyl Alcohols Enabled by Catalytic Enantioselective Aldol-Type Reaction of CF₃CHN₂[J]. Org. Lett. 2019. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b01468

 

[8]  Yue Zhang, Zhen Chen, Jing Nie, Fa-Guang Zhang*, and  Jun-An Ma*. Development of Cyanopyrazoles as Building Blocks to Fungicide Fluxapyroxad and Analogues[J]. J. Org. Chem. 2019. DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b00819

[7]  Zhen Chen, Nan Ren, Xiaoxiao Ma, Jing Nie, Fa-Guang Zhang*, and Jun-An Ma*. Silver-Catalyzed [3 + 3] Dipolar Cycloaddition of Trifluorodiazoethane and Glycine Imines: Access to Highly Functionalized Trifluoromethyl-Substituted Triazines and Pyridines[J].  ACS Catal., 2019, 9, pp 4600–4608. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00846

        

[6] Zhen Chen, Wakana Mori,Xiaoyun Deng, Ran Cheng, Jun-An Ma, Ming-Rong Zhang* and Steven H. Liang*.Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Reversible and Irreversible Monoacylglycerol Lipase Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Tracers Using a “Tail Switching” Strategy on a Piperazinyl Azetidine Skeleton[J].2019. J. Med. Chem. DOI:  10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b01778

[5] Beibei Liu, Ge Qu, Jun-Kuan Li, Wenchao Fan, Jun-An Ma, Yan Xu, YaoNie*, and Zhoutong Sun*.Conformational Dynamics-Guided Loop Engineering of an Alcohol Dehydrogenase: Capture, Turnover and Enantioselective Transformation of Difficult-to-Reduce Ketones[J]. 2019. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201900249

 

[4] Ge Qu, Mingxing Fu, Lili Zhao, Beibei Liu, Pi Liu, Wenchao Fan, Jun-An Ma, and Zhoutong Sun*. Computational Insights into the Catalytic Mechanism of Bacterial Carboxylic Acid Reductase[J]. J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2019, 59 (2), pp 832–841. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.8b00763

 

[3] Ning Lv^a, Yi-Qiang Tian^a, Fa-Guang Zhang*, Jun-An Ma*.One-Pot Sequential Multistep Transformation of α,β-Unsaturated Trifluoromethyl Ketones: Facile Synthesis of Trifluoromethylated 2-Pyridones[J]. Synlett, 2019, 30(05): 605-609. DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1612077

        

[2] Chi Wai Cheung*^a, Ni Shen^a, Shao-Peng Wang, Asim Ullah, Xile Hu, and Jun-An Ma *^a. Manganese-mediated reductive amidation of esters with nitroarenes[J]. Org. Chem. Front. 2019, 6, 756. DOI: 10.1039/c8qo01405a

 

    

[1]Yue Zhang^[a], Yi Wei^[a], Shen Li^*[a] and Jun-An Ma^*[a]. Stereoselective One-Pot Synthesis of cis-1,2-Dicyanoalkenes from 1,1-Bis(benzenesulfonyl)alkenes and KCN[J]. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2019. DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201801504