Siyuan Su and Daesung Lee*. "Rearrangement of Alkyne-tethered N-Acyloxyloxycarbamates to 2-(3H)Oxazolones through Nitrenoid-mediated Intramolecular Carboxyamidation" Chem. Eur. J. 2023, Accepted article. [Link]

Siyuan Su and Daesung Lee* . "Synthesis of N-Acyl Pyrroles and Isoindoles from Oxime Precursors via Transition Metal-Catalyzed Iminocarboxylation" Synlett 2022, 33. (Special Issue Honoring Masahiro Murakami’s Contributions to Science) [Link]

Erandi Liyanage Perera and Daesung Lee*. "Hydrogen Bonding-directed Sequential 1,6/1,4-Addition of Heteroatom Nucleophiles onto Electron-deficient 1,3-Diynes" Org. Chem. Front. 2023, 10, 209-215. [Link]

Erandi Liyanage Perera and Daesung Lee*. "Synthesis of 4-Pyrones by Formal Hydration of 1,3-Diynones Promoted by 1,4-Addition of Piperidine" Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 7042-7046. [Link]

Anh Le, Saswata Gupta, and Daesung Lee*. "Development of an Allenyne-Alkyne [4+2] Cycloaddition and its Application to Total Synthesis of Selaginpulvilin A" Chem. Eur. J. 2022, 28, e202202015. [Link]

Raju S. Thombal, Peter Yuosef M. Rubio, Daesung Lee*, Debabrata Maiti*, and Yong Rok Lee*. "Modern Palladium-Catalyzed Transformations Involving C−H Activation and Subsequent Annulation" ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 5217−5230 (Perspective). [Link]

Sourav Ghorai and Daesung Lee*. "Strain-induced Transformations of Bicyclo[3.1.0]hex-1-enes " Synthesis 2022, 54, 111-123. (Short review) [Link]

Saswata Gupta and Daesung Lee*. "Aryne-Mediated Construction of Fluorene Skeletons and Its Applications to Total Synthesis of Selaginpulvilins " in Strategies and Tactics in Organic Synthesis, M. Harmata Ed, Academic Press 2022, 15, 149-175. [Link]

Siyuan Su and Daesung Lee*. "Regiodivergent Alkene Difunctionalization" Trends in Chem. 2021, 3, 1100-1101. [Link]

Fa-Jie Chen, Phani Mamidipalli, Venkata Reddy Sabbasani, Huaqing Liu, Yuanzhi, Xia* and Daesung Lee*. "Three-component Coupling Reaction for the Synthesis of Fully Substituted Triazoles: Reactivity Control of Cu-Acetylide toward Alkyl Azides and Diazo Compounds" Org. Chem. Front. 2021, 8, 6095–6107. [Link]

Saswata Gupta, Siyuan Su, Yu Zhang, Peng Liu*, Donald J. Wink and Daesung Lee*. "Ruthenabenzene: Robust Precatalyst" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 7490–7500. [Link]

Anh Le and Daesung Lee*. "Selectivity between an Alder-Ene Reaction and a [2+2] Cycloaddition in the Intramolecular Reactions of Allene-Tethered Arynes" Org. Chem. Front. 2021, 8, 3390–3397. [Link]

Fa-Jie Chen, Zhenguo Hua, Jianhui Chen, Jiajia Chen, Daesung Lee* and Yuanzhi, Xia*. "One-Pot Synthesis of (Z)-β-Halovinyl Ketones via the Cascade of Sonogashira Coupling and Hydrohalogenation" Front. Chem. 2021, [Link]

Alexander Ticho, Nathan Calzadilla, Pooja Malhotra, Hyunjin Lee, Arivarasu Anbazhagan, Seema Saksena, Pradeep Dudeja, Daesung Lee, Ravinder Gill, and Waddah Alrefai*. "NPC1L1-Dependent Transport of 27-Alkyne Cholesterol in Intestinal Epithelial Cells" Am. J. Physio-Cell Physiol. 2021, 320, C916–C925. [Link]

Saswata Gupta, Venkata R Sabbasani, Siyuan Su, Donald J Wink and Daesung Lee*. "Alkene-Chelated Ruthenium Alkylidenes: A Missing Link to New Catalysts" ACS Catal. 2021, 11, 1977–1987. [Link]

Sourav Ghorai and Daesung Lee*. "Selectivity for Alkynyl or Allenyl Imidamides and Imidates in Copper-Catalyzed Reactions of Terminal 1, 3-Diynes and Azides" Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 697–701. [Link]

Ashutosh Sharma, Jiachen Sun, Indira Singaram, Arthur Ralko, Daesung Lee, Wonhwa Cho*. "Photostable and Orthogonal Solvatochromic Fluorophores for Simultaneous In Situ Quantification of Multiple Cellular Signaling Molecules" ACS Chem. Biol. 2020, doi:10.1021/acschembio.0c00241 [Link]

Sourav Ghorai and Daesung Lee*. "Aryne-Based Multi-Component Coupling Reactions" Synlett  2020, 31, 750–711. [Link]

Ivan Volchkov, Sang Young Yun, and Daesung Lee*. "Alkyne Metathesis" Organic Reactions 2020, 102, 613. [Link]

Fa-Jie Chen, Yongjia Lin, Man Xu, Yuanzhi Xia*, Donald J. Wink and Daesung Lee*. "C–H Insertion by Alkylidene Carbenes To Form 1,2,3-Triazines and Anionic [3 + 2] Dipolar Cycloadditions To Form Tetrazoles: Crucial Roles of Stereoelectronic and Steric Effects" Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 718–723. [Link]

Sourav Ghorai, Yongjia Lin, Yuanzhi Xia*, Donald J. Wink and Daesung Lee*. "Silver-Catalyzed Selective Multicomponent Coupling Reactions of Arynes with Nitriles and Isonitriles" Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 642–647.[Link]

Sourav Ghorai, Yongjia Lin, Yuanzhi Xia, Donald J. Wink and Daesung Lee*. "Silver-Catalyzed Annulation of Arynes with Nitriles for Synthesis of Structurally Diverse Quinazolines" Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 626–630. [Link]

Sourav Ghorai and Daesung Lee*. "Synthesis of Imides, Imidates, Amidines, and Amides by Intercepting the Aryne–Isocyanide Adduct with Weak Nucleophiles" Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 7390–7393.[Link]

 Jinqiang Kuang, Yuanzhi Xia,* An Yang, Heng Zhang, Chenliang Su* and Daesung Lee. "Copper-catalyzed aminothiolation of terminal alkynes with tunable regioselectivity" Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 1813–1816.[Link]

Saswata Gupta, Yongjia Lin, Yuanzhi Xia,* Donald J. Wink and Daesung Lee* "Alder-ene reactions driven by high steric strain and bond angle distortion to form benzocyclobutenes" Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 2212–2217.[Link]

Saswata Gupta, and Daesung Lee* "Trimethylsilyldiazomethane (TMSCHN₂) in Carbon–Carbon and Carbon–Heteroatom Bond-Forming Reactions" Aldrichimica ACTA 2018, Vol. 51, No. 3,  77–78.[Link]

 Daesung Lee* and Saswata Gupta "Trimethylsilyldiazomethane" update in Encylopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis 2018. [Link]

 Sourav Ghorai, and Daesung Lee* "Silver-catalyzed Cycloaddition Reactions" In Silver Catalysis in Organic Synthesis, Li, C.-J.; Bi, X.; Wiley-VCH, 2018, p 33–83.[Link]

Alexander L. Ticho, Hyunjin Lee, Ravinder K. Gill, Pradeep K. Dudeja, Seema Saksena, Daesung Lee, and Waddah A. Alrefei* “A Novel Method for Measuring Bile Acid Transporter Activity in Real Time” Am. J. Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2018, 315, G529–G537.[Link]

Yuanzhi Xia, Nam-Kyu Lee, Venkata R. Sabbasani, Saswata Gupta and Daesung Lee* “Reaction of silylallenes with triplet molecular oxygen” Org. Chem. Front. 2018, 5, 2542–2546.[Link]

Rajdip Karmakar, Anh Le, Peipei Xie, Yuanzhi Xia* and Daesung Lee* “Aryne-mediated Dearomatization of Arylsulfonyl Group” Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 4168–4172.[Link]

Saswata Gupta, Peipei Xie, Yuanzhi Xia* and Daesung Lee* “Reactivity of Arynes toward Functionalized Alkenes: Intermolecular Alder-Ene vs. Addition Reactions” Org. Chem. Front. 2018, 5, 2208–2213.[Link]

Venkata R. Sabbasani, Saswata Gupta, Sang Young Yun, and Daesung Lee* “A General Approach to the Formation of Oxygen-Chelated Ruthenium Alkylidene Complexes Relying on the Thorpe-Ingold Effect”  Org. Chem. Front. 2018, 5, 1532–1536.[Link]

Saswata Gupta, Piepie Xie, Yuanzhi Xia,* and Daesung Lee* “Reactivity and Selectivity in the Intermolecular Alder-Ene Reactions of Arynes with Functionalized Alkenes” Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 5162–5165.[Link]

Venkata R. Sabbasani, Hyunjin Lee, Wei Guo, Yuanzhi Xia* and Daesung Lee* “Cyclization of Ynamide-based 1,3,8-Triynes” Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 8161–8165.[Link]

Sourav Ghorai and Daesung Lee* “Aryne Formation via the Hexadehydro Diels-Alder Reaction and Their Ritter-type Transformations Catalyzed by a Cationic Silver Complex” Tetrahedron 2017, 73, 4062–4069.[Link]

Shu-Lin Liu, Ren Sheng, Jae Hun Jung, Li Wang, Ewa Stec, Matthew J. O’Connor, Seohyoen Song, Rama Kamesh Bikkavilli, Robert A. Winn, Daesung Lee, Kwanghee Baek, Kazumitsu Ueda, Irena Levitan, Kwang-Pyo Kim, and Wonhwa Cho “Orthogonal lipid sensors identify transbilayer asymmetry of plasma membrane cholesterol” Nat. Chem. bio. 2017, 13, 268–274.[Link]

Rajdip Karmakar Daesung Lee* “Total Synthesis of Selaginpulvilin C and D Relying on in situ Formation of Arynes and Their Hydrogenation” Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 6105–6107.[Link]

Daesung Lee* and Venkata R. Sabbasani, “Ring-Closing Metathesis and Applications” In Science of Synthesis: Metal Catalyzed Cyclization Reactions, Ma, S.; Gao, S., Eds.; Thieme: Stuttgart, 2016; Vol. 2, p 543–677.

Rajdip Karmakar, Phani Mamidipalli, Ryan M. Salzman, Seongwon Hong, Sang Young Yun, Yuanzhi Xia,* and Daesung Lee* “Benzannulation of Triynes Initiated by an Alder-Ene Reaction and Subsequent Trifluoromethylthiolate Addition”. Org. Lett. 2016,18, 3530–3533. [Link]

Venkata R. Sabbasani, Sang Young Yun, and Daesung Lee* “Structure and Reactivity of Sulfonamide- and Acetate-Chelated Ruthenium Alkylidene Complexes”. Org. Chem. Front. 2016, 3, 939–943. [Link]

Rajdip Karmakar, Kung-Pern Wang, Sang Young Yun, Phani Mamidipalli and Daesung Lee* “Hydrohalogenative aromatization of multiynes promoted by ruthenium alkylidene complexes” Org. Biomol. Chem. 2016, 14, 4782–4788. [Link]

Rajdip Karmakar and Daesung Lee* “Reactions of Arynes Promoted by Silver Ion" Chem. Soc. Rev. 2016, 45, 4459–4470. [Link]

Matthew J. O’Connor, Chunrui Sun, Xinyu Guan, Venkata R. Sabbasani, and Daesung Lee* "Sequential 1,4-/1,2-Addition of Lithiumtrimethylsilydiazomethane onto Cyclic Enones to Induce C–C Fragmentation and N–Li Insertion” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 2222–2225. [Link] Cover [Link]

Venkata R. Sabbasani, Hyunjin Lee, Yuanzhi Xia*, and Daesung Lee* “Complementary Iron-Catalyzed Oxidative Transformations of Allenes with Different Oxidants” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 1151–1155. [Link]

Yanhua Mi, Tao Zhou, Kung-Pern Wang, Daesung Lee* and Yuanzhi Xia* “Mechanistic Study on the Divergent Cyclizations of o-Alkynylbenzaldehyde Acetals and Thioacetals Catalyzed by Metal Halides: Insights into the Regioselective Cyclization of π-Alkyne Complexes and the Chemoselective [1,2]-Migration in Carbenoid Intermediates” Chem.–Eur. J. 2015, 21, 17256– 17268 [Link]  (17133–Cover Picture [Link]; 17137–Cover Profile [Link]; Hot Paper).

Chunrui Sun, Hyunjin Lee, and Daesung Lee* “Synthesis of the Carbocyclic Core of Massadine” Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 5348–5351. [Link]

Rajdip Karmakar, Sourav Ghorai, Yuanzhi Xia, and Daesung Lee,* “Synthesis of Phenolic Compounds by Trapping Arynes with a Hydroxy Surrogate” Molecules 2015, 20, 15862–15880. [Link]

Jingwei Li and Daesung Lee* “Enyne Metathesis” in Handbook of Metathesis. Applications in Organic Synthesis, Vol. 2, 2^nd ed., 2015, pp381–444; Grubbs and O’Leary (Eds)

Shu-Lin Liu, Ren Sheng, Matthew J. O’Connor, Yang Cui, Youngdae Yoon⁺, Svetlana Kurilova, Daesung Lee*, and Wonhwa Cho* “Simultaneous In Situ Quantification of Two Cellular Lipid Pools Using Orthogonal Fluorescent Sensors” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2014, 52, 14387–14391.[Link]

Phani Mamidipalli, Sang Young Yun, Kung-Pern Wang, Tao Zhou, Yuanzhi Xia*, and Daesung Lee* “Formal Hydrogenation of Aryne with Silyl C_β–H Bonds as an Active Hydride Source” Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 2362–2367. [Link]

Chunrui Sun, Matthew J. O’Connor, Daesung Lee*, Donald J. Wink, and Robert D.Milligan “Formal Aminocyanation of α,β-Unsaturated Cyclic Enones as an Efficinet Entry to the Synthesis of α-Amino Ketones” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.  2014, 53, 3197–3200.[Link] Synfact [Link]

Rajdip Karmakar, Sang Young Yun, Kung-Pern Wang, and Daesung Lee* "Regioselectivity in the Nucleophile Trapping of Arynes: The Electronic and Steric Effects of Nucleophiles and Substituents" Org. Lett.  2014, 16, 6–9.[Link]

Kung-Pern Wang, Eun Jin Cho, Sang Young Yun, Jee Young Rhee, and Daesung Lee* "Regio- and Stereoselectivity in the Enyne Cross Metathesis-Metallotropic [1,3]-Shift of Terminal 1,3-Diynes" Tetrahedron 2013, 69, 9105–9110.[Link]

Venkata R. Sabbasani and Daesung Lee* “Nitration of Silyl Allenes To Form Functionalized Nitroalkenes” Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 3954–3957. [Link]

Kung-Pern Wang, Sang Young Yun, Phani Mamidipalli, and Daesung Lee*“Silver-mediated fluorination, trifluoromethylation, and trifluoromethylthiolation of arynes” Chem. Sci. 2013, 4, 3205.[Link]

Huaqing Liu, Matthew J.  O’Connor, Chunrui Sun, Donald J. Wink, and Daesung Lee* “Sequential Reactions of Trimethylsilyldiazomethane with Carbonyls & Tethered Alkenes Catalyzed by Lewis Bases” Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 2974. [Link] Org. Chem. Highlights [Link]

Rajdip Karmakar, Phani Mamidipalli, Sang Young Yun, and Daesung Lee* “Alder-Ene Reactions of Arynes ” Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 1938. [Link]

Ivan Volchkov and Daesung Lee* “Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (–)-Amphidinolide V through Effective Combinations of Transition Metal and Organocatalysis” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 5324. [Link]

Venkata R. Sabbasani, Phani Mamidipalli, and Daesung Lee* “Subtle Electronic Effects in Metal-Free Allylic 1,3-Transposition of Allenic Alcohols ” Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 1552. [Link]

Sang Young Yun, Kung-Pern Wang, Nam-Kyu Lee, Phani Mamidipalli and Daesung Lee* “Alkane C–H Activation by Aryne Intermediates with a Silver Catalyst” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 4668. [Link]  Org. Chem. Highlights [Link]

Genping Huang, Yuanzhi Xia*, Chunrui Sun, Jingwei Li, Daesung Lee* “Theoretical Studies on the Mechanism of the C–H Amination of Silyl Cyclopropenes by Azodicarboxylates” J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 988–995. [Link]

Chunrui Sun, Jingwei Li, Daesung Lee*, Genping Huang, and Yuanzhi Xia* “C–H Amination of Cyclopropenes” Chem Comm. 2012, 48, 10990–10992. [Link]

Jingwei Li, Daesung Lee* “Diastereoselective Ring-Rearrangement Metathesis to Set the Stereochemistry of All-Carbon Quaternary Centres” Chem. Sci. 2012, 3, 3296–3301.[Link] Org. Chem. Highlights [Link]

Huaqing Liu, Chunrui Sun, Nam-Kyu Lee, Roger F. Henry, and Daesung Lee* “New Methylene Homologation Method for Cyclic Ketones” Chem.–Eur. J. 2012, 18, 11889–11893. [Link]

Genping Huang, Kelei Xie, Daesung Lee, and Yuanzhi Xia* “Reactivity of Alkynyl Metal-Carbenoids: DFT Study on the Pt-Catalyzed Cyclopropanation of Propargyl Ester-containing 1,3-Diynes” Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 3850–3853. [Link]

Sang Young Yun; Kung-Pern Wang; Mansuk Kim; Daesung Lee "Nonmetathetic activity of ruthenium alkylidene complexes: 1,4-hydrovinylative cyclization of multiynes with ethylene." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 10783–10786. [Link]

Jingwei Li, Xiaoguang and Daesung Lee* “Gold-catalyzed Formation of Oxonium Ions from Enynes and Their Intra- and Intermolecular Trapping with Allylsilanes” Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 410–413. [Link]

Jingwei Li, Chunrui Sun, Silviya Demerzhan, and Daesung Lee* "Metal-Catalyzed Rearrangement of Cyclopropenes to Allenes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 12964–12967. [Link] Org. Chem. Highlights [Link]

Jingwei Li and Daesung Lee* "Enyne Metathesis-based Tandem Processes" Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2011, 4269–4287. (Cover Picture, Micoreview) [Link]

Ivan Volchkov, Sangho Park, and Daesung Lee* "Ring Strain-Promoted Allylic Transposition of Cyclic Silyl Ethers" Org, Lett. 2011, 13, 3530–3533. [Link]

Ivan Volchkov, Kamlesh Sharma, Eun Jin Cho and Daesung Lee* "Efficient One-Step Synthesis of Bis-Spiroketals from Diynediols via π-Lewis Acid-CatalyzedHydroalkoxylation/Hydration" Chem.-Asian J. 2011, 6, 1961–1966. [Link]

Daesung Lee "Overcoming catalytic bias" Nature 2011, 471, 452–453. (News & Views). [Link]

Jun-Cheng Zheng, Sang Young Yun, Chunrui Sun, Nam-Kyu Lee and Daesung Lee* “Selectivity Control in Alkylidene Carbene-Mediated C–H Insertion and Allene Formation” J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 1086–1099. [Link]

Chunrui Sun, Jingwei Li, Silviya Demerzhan and Daesung Lee* “Mild and efficient catalytic method for α-trimethylsilyl ketones” ARKIVOC 2011 (iv), 17–25. [Link]

Sang Young Yun, Kung-Pern Wang, Mansuk Kim, and Daesung Lee* "Initiation and Termination Mode of Enyne Cross-Metathesis and  Metallotropic [1,3]-Shift Controlled by Remote Substituents" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 8840–8841. [Link] Org. Chem. Highlights [Link]

Jingwei Li, Chunrui Sun, and Daesung Lee* "Cyclopropenation of Alkylidene Carbenes Derived from a-Silyl Ketones" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 6640–6641. [Link] Org. Chem. Highlights [Link] and Org. Chem. Portal Abstract [Link]

Jingwei Li and Daesung Lee* "Application of a Tandem Metathesis to the Synthesis of (+)-Panepophenanthrin" Chem. Asian J.  2010, 5, 1298–1302. [Link]

Sang Young Yun, Eric C. Hansen, Ivan Volchkov, Eun Jin Cho, Wai Yip Lo, and Daesung Lee* "Total Synthesis of (–)-Dactylolide" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 4261–4263 [Link] Synfact [Link]

Sumit Mukherjee, Dimitra Kontokosta, Aditi Patil, Sivakumar Rallapalli, and Daesung Lee* "Improved Method for the Synthesis of β-Carbonyl Silyl-1,3-Dithianes by the Double Conjugate Addition of 1,3-Dithiol to Propargylic Carbonyl Compounds" J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 9206–9209. [Link]

Kung-Pern Wang, Sang Young Yun, Daesung Lee* and Donald J. Wink "Structure and Reactivity of Alkyne-Chelated Ruthenium Alkylidene Complexes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 15114–15115. [Link]

Sumit Mukherjee and Daesung Lee* "Enyne Metathesis-Based Formal Total Synthesis of (+)-Cochleamycin A" Org. Lett. 2009, 11, 2916–2919. [Link] RSC Chemistry World [Link]

Sang Young Yun, Jun-Cheng Zheng and Daesung Lee* "Stereoelectronic Effect for the Selectivity in C-H Insertion of Alkylidene Carbenes and Its Application to the Synthesis of Platensimycin" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 8413–8415.[Link] Synfact [Link] and Org. Chem. Highlights [Link]

Jingwei Li, Sangho Park, Reagon L. Miller, Daesung Lee* "Tandem Enyne Metathesis-Metallotropic [1,3]-Shift for a Concise Total Synthesis of (+)-Asperpentyn, (-)-Harveynone, and (-)-Tricholomenyn A" Org, Lett. 2009, 11. 571–574. [Link] Org. Chem. Highlights [Link]

Sang Young Yun, Mansuk Kim, Daesung Lee*, Donald J. Wink "Structure and Reactivity of Alkynyl Ruthenium Alkylidenes" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 24–25. [Link]

Eun Jin Cho, Daesung Lee* "Substituent Effect on the Formation and Their Reactivity of Platinum Carbenoids" Adv. Synth. Catal., 2008, 350, 2719–2723. [Link]

Sang Young Yun, Jun-Cheng Zheng, Daesung Lee* "Concise Synthesis of the Tricyclic Core of Platencin" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 6201–6203.[Link] Synfact [Link]

Eun Jin Cho and Daesung Lee* “Total Synthesis of (3R,9R,10R)-Panaxytriol via Tandem Metathesis and Metallotropic [1,3]-Shift as a Key Step” Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 257–259. [Link] Synfact [Link] and Org. Chem. Highlights [Link]

Mansuk Kim and Daesung Lee* “Advances in the Metallotropic [1,3]-Shift of Alkynyl Carbenoides” Org. Biomol. Chem. 2007, 5, 3418–3427. [Link]

Yi Jin Kim, Jonathan B. Grimm and Daesung Lee* “Absence of the Thorp-Ingold Effect by gem-Diphenyl Group in Enyne Ring-Closing Metathesis” Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 7961–7964. [Link]

Sangho Park and Daesung Lee* “Transition Metal-Based Synthesis of Dendralenes” Synthesis 2007, 2313. [Link]

Eun Jin Cho and Daesung Lee* “Selectivity in the Ruthenium-Catalyzed Alder Ene Reaction of Di- and Triynes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 6692–6693. [Link]

Eun Jin Cho, Mansuk Kim and Daesung Lee* “Selectivity in the Structural Reorganization of 1,3-Diynes” Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 5413–5416. [Link]

Yi Jin Kim, Daesung Lee* “Synthesis of the Entire Framework of Tartrolon B Utilizing a Silicon-Tethered Ring-Closing Metathesis Strategy” Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 5219–5222. [Link]

Yi Jin Kim, Daesung Lee* “Chlorodiisopropylsilane” update in Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis 2006.

Sangho Park and Daesung Lee* “Gold-Catalyzed Intramolecular Allylation of Silyl Alkynes Induced by Silane Alcoholysis” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 10664–10665. [Link]

Eric C. Hansen and Daesung Lee* “Search for Solutions to the Reactivity and Selectivity Problems in Enyne Metathesis” Acc. Chem. Res. 2006, 39, 509–519. [Link]

Sarah V. Maifeld and Daesung Lee* “Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Guanacastepene A” Synlett  2006, 1623–1644. [Link]

Eun Jin Cho, Mansuk Kim and Daesung Lee* “Metal-Catalyzed Bond Reorganization of 1,3-Diynes ” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 3074–3076. [Link]

Eric C. Hansen and Daesung Lee* “Regiochemical Control in the Metal-Catalyzed Transposition of Allylic Silyl Ethers” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 8142–8143.  [Link]

Mansuk Kim and Daesung Lee* “Metathesis and Metallotropy: A Versatile Combination for the Synthesis of Oligoenynes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 18024–18025. [Link]

Sarah V. Maifeld and Daesung Lee* “Unusual Tandem Alkynylation and trans-Hydrosilylation to Form Oxasilacyclopentenes” Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 4995–4998. [Link]  

Jonathan B. Grimm, Ryan D. Otte and Daesung Lee* “Tandem Ring Closing Enyne Metathesis of Akynyl Bisalkeneyl Silaketals” J. Organomet. Chem. 2005, 690, 5508–5516 [Link]

Sarah V. Maifeld and Daesung Lee* “Group Selective Ring-Closing Enyne Metathesis” Chem. Eur. J. 2005, 11, 6118–6126 (Concept Article). [Link]

Mansuk Kim, Reagan L. Miller and Daesung Lee* “Cross and Ring-Closing Metathesis of 1,3-Diynes: A Facile Metalotropic [1,3]-Shift” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 12818–12819. [Link]

Sangho Park, Mansuk Kim and Daesung Lee* “Regio- and Stereoselectivity Control in Cross Enyne Metathesis of Silylated Internal Alkynes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 9410–9415. [Link]

Mansuk Kim and Daesung Lee* “Boron-Directed Regio- and Stereoselective Enyne Cross Metathesis: Efficient Synthesis of Vinyl Boronate-Containing 1,3-Dienes” Org. Lett. 2005, 7.1865–1868. [Link]

Eric C. Hansen and Daesung Lee* “Regio- and Stereoselctive Ruthenium-Catalyzed Alder Ene Reaction between Boronylated Alkynes and Alkenes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 3252–3253. [Link]

Ryan D. Otte, Tomoyo Sakata and Daesung Lee* “Reactivity of Mitsunobu Reagent toward Carbonyl Compounds” Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 495–498. [Link]

Sarah V. Maifeld, Michael N. Tran and Daesung Lee* “Hydrosilylation of Alkynes Catalyzed by Ruthenium Carbene Complexes” Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 105–108. [Link]

Jonathan B. Grimm and Daesung Lee* “Base-Induced Alkynylsilane Alcoholysis: Efficient Synthesis of Alkynylsilyl Ethers and Unsymmetrical Silaketals” J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 8967–8970. [Link]

Eric C. Hansen and Daesung Lee* “Macrocyclic Ring Closing Enyne Metathesis: Exo/Endo-Mode and Stereoselectivity Control” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 15074–15080.[Link]

Yi Jin Kim and Daesung Lee* “Use of N–N Bond Stereodynamics for the Efficient Ring Closing Metathesis Reaction” Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 4351–4353. [Link] Org. Chem. Highlights [Link]

Sarah V. Maifeld, Reagan L. Miller and Daesung Lee* “Group-Selective Ring Closing Enyne Metathesis: Concentration-Dependent Selectivity Profile of Alkynylsilyloxy-Tethered Dienynes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 12228–12229. [Link]

Eric C. Hansen and Daesung Lee* “Stereocontrolled Synthesis of 2-Alkenyl-4-Methylene Tetrahydropyrans” Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 7151–7155. [Link]

Mansuk Kim, Sangho Park, Sarah V. Maifeld and Daesung Lee* “Regio- and Stereoselective Cross Enyne Metathesis of Silylated Internal Alkynes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 10242–10243. [Link]

Reagan L. Miller, Sarah V. Maifeld and Daesung Lee* “Ru-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Condensation–Enyne Metathesis Sequence: Synthesis of Siloxacycles from Terminal Alkenyl Alcohols and Alkynyl Silanes” Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 2773–2776. [Link]

Eric C. Hansen and Daesung Lee* “Efficient and Z-Selective Cross Metathesis of Conjugated Enynes” Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 2035–2038. [Link]

Ryan D. Otte and Daesung Lee* “Transition Metal-Catalyzed Aldehydic C–H Activation by Azodicarboxylates” J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 3569–3571. [Link]

Eric C. Hansen and Daesung Lee* “Enyne Metathesis for the Formation of Macrocyclic 1,3-Dienes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 9582–9583. [Link]

Truc M. Nguyen, Robert J. Seifert, Dale R. Mowrey and Daesung Lee* “Synthesis of the 5-7-6 Core of Guanacastepenes. Construction of C8 Quaternary Carbon via the Inversion of Stereochemistry” Org. Lett. 2002, 4, 3959–3962. [Link]

Truc M. Nguyen and Daesung Lee* “Novel Reactivity of SeO₂ with 1,3-Dienes: Selenophene Formation” J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 6553–6556. [Link]

Sarah V. Maifeld, Reagan L. Miller and Daesung Lee* “Activation of Silanes by Grubbs’ Carbene Complex Cl₂(PCy₃)₂Ru=CHPh: Dehydrogenative Condensation of Alcohols and Hydrosilylation of Carbonyls” Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43, 6363–6366. [Link]

Truc M. Nguyen and Daesung Lee* “Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Guanacastepene A. Approaches to the Construction of Quaternary Carbons and the 5-7-6 Tricyclic Carbon Skeleton” Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43, 4033–4036. [Link]

Truc M. Nguyen and Daesung Lee* “A Novel Reactivity of SeO₂ with 1,3-Dienes: Formation of syn 1,2- and 1,4-Diols via a Facile C-Se Bond Oxidation” Org. Lett. 2001, 3, 3161–3163. [Link]

Jason K. Sello, Peter, R. Andreana, Daesung Lee, Stuart, L. Schreiber* “Stereochemical Control of Skeletal Diversity” Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 4125–4127. [Link]

Daesung Lee, Jason Sello, Stuart L. Schreiber* “Pairwise Use of Complexity-Generating Reactions in Diversity-Oriented Organic Synthesis” Org. Lett. 2000, 2, 709–712. [Link]

Daesung Lee, Jason Sello, Stuart L. Schreiber* “A Strategy for Macrocyclic Ring Closure and Functionalization Aimed Towards Split-Pool Syntheses” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 10648–10649. [Link]

Paul A. Wender*, Daesung Lee, Tapan Lal, Susan B. Horwitz, Srinivasa Rao “Synthesis of Novel Taxol Analogs and Evaluation of Their Biological Activities” Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 1997, 7, 1941–1944. [Link]

Paul A. Wender*, Neil F. Badham, Simon P. Conway, Paul E. Floreancig, Timothy E. Glass, Christian Gränicher, Jonathan B. Houze, Jan Jänichen, Daesung Lee, and et al. “The Pinene Path to Taxanes. 5. Stereocontrolled Synthesis of a Versatile Taxane Precursor” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 2755–2756. [Link]

Paul A. Wender*, Neil F. Badham, Simon P. Conway, Paul E. Floreancig, Timothy E. Glass, Jonathan B. Houze, Nancy E. Krauss, Daesung Lee, and et al. “The Pinene Path to Taxanes.6. A Concise Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Taxol®” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 2757–2758. [Link]

Paul A. Wender*, Daesung Lee “Enantioselective Synthesis of Neocarzinostatin Chromophore Aglycon” Chemtracts-Organic Chemistry 1997, 10, 653–660.

Paul A. Wender*, Neil F. Badham, Simon P. Conway, Paul E. Floreancig, Timonthy E. Glass, Jonathan B. Houze, Nancy E. Krauss, Daesung Lee, and et al. “The Pine Path to Taxanes” In Taxane Anticancer Agent: Basic Science and Current Status; Gunda I. Georg, Thomas T. Chen, Iwao Ojima, and Dolatrai M. Vyas Eds.; ACS Symposium Series no. 583, Washington, DC, 1995, pp 326–339.

Eun Lee*, Daesung Lee, Yoonwhan Choi, Kwangho Lee “Reduction of -Iodospirolactones. Total Synthesis of Liguloxide” Tetrahedron Lett. 1992, 33, 6673–6677. [Link]

Eun Lee*, Daesung Lee, Kwangho Lee, Insung Choi “Intramolecular Dimerization of Carbenoids” Bull. Korean Chem. Soc. 1992, 13, 470. [Link]

Eun Lee*, Daesung Lee “Alkylation and Spiroannulation of 3-Bromo-2-cycloalken-1-ones via Radical Intermediates” Tetrahedron Lett. 1990, 31, 4341–4344. [Link]