Publications 2015

• 60) Saad Shaaban, Alexander Roller and Nuno Maulide*
  Visible-light, Metal-free α-amino C(sp3)-H activation via 1,5-hydrogen migration: a concise method for the preparation of bis(indolyl)alkanes
  European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2015, 7643–7647.
  
  Among the "Top 5 most downloaded EurJOC articles" in December 2015.
  Selected as #1 on "Hottest Articles in Photocatalysis".

• 59) Stefan Ruider and Nuno Maulide*
  Strong Bonds Made Weak - Towards the General Utility of Amides as Synthetic Modules
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2015, 54, 13856–13858.
  Angewandte Chemie 2015, 127, 14062–14064.

• 58) Caroline Souris, Antonio Misale, Yong Chen, Marco Luparia and Nuno Maulide*
  From Stereodefined Cyclobutenes to Dienes: Total Syntheses of Ieodomycin D and the Southern Fragment of Macrolactin A
  Organic Letters 2015, 17, 4486–4489.

• 57) Saad Shaaban, Anais Jolit, Desislava Petkova and Nuno Maulide*
  A family of low molecular-weight, organic catalysts for reductive C-C bond formation
  Chemical Communications 2015, 51, 13902–13905.

• 56) Lan-Gui Xie, Viktor Bagutski, Davide Audisio, Larry Wolf, Volker Schmidts, Kathrin Hofmann, Cornelia Wirtz, Walther Thiel, Christina M. Thiele* and Nuno Maulide*
  Dynamic behaviour of monohaptoallylpalladium species: internal coordination as a driving force in allylic alkylation chemistry
  Chemical Science 2015, 6, 5734–5739.

• 55) Sebastian Klimczyk, Antonio Misale, Xueliang Huang and Nuno Maulide*
  Dimeric TADDOL Phosphoramidites in Asymmetric Catalysis: Domino Deracemization and Cyclopropanation of Sulfonium Ylides
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2015, 54, 10365–10369.
  Angewandte Chemie 2015, 127, 10507–10511.
  
  Highlighted in Synfacts 2015, 11, 1057. (Download PDF)

• 54) Mohan Padmanaban, Luísa C. R. Carvalho, Desislava Petkova, Ji-Woong Lee, A. Sofia Santos, M. Manuel B. Marques and Nuno Maulide*
  Investigation of cationic Claisen-type electrophilic rearrangements of amides
  Tetrahedron 2015, 71, 5994–6005.
  
  Commemorative issue for Prof. Barry M. Trost's Tetrahedron Prize 2014

• 53) Sebastian Klimczyk, Xueliang Huang, Hanspeter Kählig, Luís F. Veiros* and Nuno Maulide*
  Stereoselective Gold(I) Domino Catalysis of Allylic Isomerization and Olefin Cyclopropanation: Mechanistic Studies
  The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2015, 80, 5719–5729.

• 52) Luís, F. R. Gomes, Luís F. Veiros, Nuno Maulide* and Carlos A. M. Afonso*
  Diazo- and Transition Metal-Free C-H Insertion: a Direct Synthesis of ß-lactams
  Chemistry – A European Journal 2015, 21, 1449–1453.
  
  Selected as a VIP Paper by the Editorial Office.