Publications
95. Tunge, J. A. "The Evolution of Decarboxylative Allylation: Overcoming pKa Limitations" Isr. J.Chem. 2020. In honor of Profs. Hartwig and Buchwald receipt of the Wolf Prize
94. Cartwright, K. C.; Davies, A. M.; Tunge, J. A. "Cobaloxime-catalyzed Hydrogen Evolution in Photoredox-facilitated Small Molecule Functionalization" Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2020, 1186. Front cover and part of a ChemPhotoChem virtual collection on photochemical synthesis.
93. Senaweera, S.; Cartwright, K. C.;Tunge, J. A. "Decarboxylative Acetoxylation of Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids" J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 12553-12561.
92. Allegre, K.; Tunge, J. A. "Aryl Vinyl Cyclopropane Cope Rearrangements" Tetrahedron 2019, 75, 3319-3329. Special issue in honor of Ryan Shenvi's Young Investigator Award
91. Cartwright, K. C.; Lang, S. B.; Tunge, J. A. "Photoinduced Kochi Decarboxylative Elimination for the Synthesis of Enamides and Enecarbamates from N-Acyl Amino Acids" J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 2933-2940.
90. Cartwright, K. C.; Tunge, J. A. "Decarboxylative Elimination of N-Acyl Amino Acids via Photoredox/Cobalt Dual Catalysis" ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 11801-11806.
89. Allegre, K. A.; Brennan, N.; Tunge, J. A. "Synthesis of Vinyl Cyclopropanes via Anion Relay Cyclization" Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 4191-4194.
88. Maity,P. K.; Tunge, J. A. "Assisted Tandem Catalytic Conversion of Acrylates into Adipic Esters" ChemCatChem 2018, 10, 3419-3423.
87. Torregrosa, R. R. P.; Mendis, S. N.; Davies A.; Tunge, J. A. "Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Benzylation of Acetylides and Enolates" Synthesis 2018, 50, 3205-3216. Published as part of the Special Topic Modern Coupling Approaches and their Strategic Applications in Synthesis, Erick M. Carreira Ed.
86. Li, T-R.; Maliszewski, M. L.;Xiao, W-J.; Tunge, J. A. "Stereospecific Decarboxylative Benzylation of Enolates: Development and Mechanistic Insights" Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 1730-1734.
85. Smith, M. K.; Tunge, J. A. "Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Conjugated Allenynes via Decarboxylative Coupling" Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 5497-5500.
84. Ramakumar, K.; Maji, T.; Partridge, J. J.; Tunge, J. A. "Synthesis of Spiroxindoles via the tert-Amino Effect" Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 4014-4017.
83. Locascio, T. M.; Tunge, J. A. "Palladium-catalyzed Regiodivergent Substitution of Propargylic Carbonates" Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 18140-18146.
82. Maji, T.; Mendis, C. H.; Thompson, W. H.; Tunge, J. A. "Evidence for Isomerizing Hydroformylation of Butadiene. A Combined Experimental and Computational Study" J. Mol. Catal. A 2016, 424, 145-152.
81. Maji, T.; Maliszewski, M. L.; Smith, M. K.; Tunge, J. A. "Catalytic Addition of Fluorinated Benzoic Acids to Butadiene" ChemCatChem 2016, 3343-3346. Highlighted by ChemistryViews.
80. Lang, S. B.; Cartwright, K. C.; Welter, R. S.; Locascio, T. M.; Tunge, J. A. "Photocatalytic Aminodecarboxylation of Carboxylic Acids" Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 2016, 3331-3334.
79. Mendis, S. N.; Tunge, J. A. "Decarboxylative dearomatization and mono-alpha-arylation of ketones" Chem. Commun. 2016, 7695-7698.
78. Lang, S. B.; O'Nele, K. M.; Douglas, J. T.; Tunge, J. A. "Dual Catalytic Decarboxylative Allylation of alpha-Amino Acids and Their Divergent Mechanisms" Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 18589-18593.
77. Mendis, S.; Tunge, J. A. "Palladium-catalyzed Stereospecific Decarboxylative Benzylation of Alkynes" Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 5164-5167.
76. Maji, T.; Tunge, J. A. "Palladium-catalyzed Double-decarboxylative Addition to Pyrones: Synthesis of Conjugated Dienoic Esters" Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 4766-4769.
75. Wu, X.; Lan, L.; Wilson, D. M.; Marquez, R. T.; Tsao, W.-c.; Gao, R.; Roy, A.; Turner, B. A.; McDonald, R. Tunge, J. A.; Rogers, S. A.; Dixon, D. A.; Aube, J.; Xu, L. "Identification and validation of novel small molecule disruptors of HuR-mRNA Interaction" ACS Chem. Biol. 2015, 10, 1476-1484.
74. Lang, S. B.; O'Nele, K. M.; Tunge, J. A. "Decarboxylative allylation of amino alkanoic acids and esters via dual catalysis" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 13606-9.
73. Maji, T.; Ramakumar, K.; Tunge, J. A. "Retro-Claisen benzylation: direct use of benzyl alcohols in Pd-catalyzed couplings with nitriles" Chem. Commun. 2014, 14045-8.
72. Ariyarathna, Y.; Tunge, J. A. "Multicomponent decarboxylative allylations" Chem. Commun. 2014, 14049-14052.
71. Maji, T.; Tunge, J. A. "Catalytic alpha-monoallylation of aryl acetonitriles" Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 5072-5075.
70. Ariyarathna, Y.; Tunge, J. A. "Decarboxylative allylations of ester enolate equivalents" Org. Biomol. Chem. 2014, 8386-8389.
69. Ramakumar, K.; Tunge, J. A. "Synthesis of N-aryl-1-aminoindoles via intermolecular redox amination" Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 13056-13058.
68. Lang, S. B.; Locascio, T. M.; Tunge, J. A. "Activation of alcohols with carbon dioxide: Intermolecular allylation of weakly acidic pronucleophiles" Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 4308-4311.
67. Xie, Z.; Fang, J.; Subramaniam, B.; Maiti, S. K.; Snavely, W.; Tunge, J. A. "Enhanced hydroformylation by carbon dioxide-expanded media with soluble Rh complexes in nanofiltration membrane reactors" AIChE J. 2013, 59, 4287-4296.
66. Grenning, A. J.; Van Allen, C. K.; Maji, T.; Lang, S. B.; Tunge, J. A. "Development of asymmetric deacylative allylation" J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 7281-7287.
65. Chattopadhyay, K.; Fenster, E.; Grenning, A. J.; Tunge, J. A. "Palladium-catalyzed substitution of (coumarinyl)methyl acetates with C-, N-, and S-nucleophiles" Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1200-1207.
64. Chattopadhyay, K.; Recio, A., III; Tunge, J. A. "Palladium-catalyzed, pyrrolidine mediated arylmethylation of ketones and aldehydes with coumarinyl(methyl) acetates" Org. Biomol. Chem. 2012, 10, 6826-6829.
63. Dunn, E.; Tunge, J. "Decarboxylative Allylation of Ketone Enolates with Rh, Ir, and Mo" Latvian J. Chem. 2012, 31.
62. Schmitt, M.; Grenning, A. J.; Tunge, J. A. "Intercepted decarboxylative allylations of nitroalkanes" Tetrahedron Lett. 2012, 53, 4494-4497.
61. Recio, A. III; Heinzman, J. D.; Tunge, J. A. "Decarboxylative benzylation and arylation of nitriles" Chem. Commun. 2012, 142-144.
60. Jana, R.; Tunge, J. A. "A homogeneous, recyclable polymer support for Rh(I)-catalyzed C-C bond formation" J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 8376-8385.
59. Grenning, A. J.; Tunge, J. A. "Deacylative allylation: allylic alkylation via retro-Claisen activation" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 14785-14794.
58. Jana, R.; Tunge, J. A. “Migratory decarboxylative coupling of coumarins: synthetic and mechanistic aspects“ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 5157-5161.
57. Grenning, A. J.; Tunge, J. A. “Deacylative allylation of nitroalkanes: Unsymmetric bisallylation by a three-component coupling” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 1688-1691.
56. Weaver, J. D.; Recio III, A.; Grenning, A. J.; Tunge, J. A. “Transition Metal-catalyzed Decarboxylative Allylation and Benzylation Reactions” Chem. Rev. 2011, 111, 1846-1913.
55. Fang, J.; Jana, R.; Tunge, J. A.; Subramaniam, B. “Continuous hoomogeneous hydroformylation with bulky rhodium catalyst complexes retained by nano-filtration membranes“ Appl. Catal. A 2011, 393, 294-301.
54. Weaver, J. D.; Ka, B. J.; Morris, D. K.; Thompson, W.; Tunge, J. A. “Stereospecific Decarboxylative Allylation of Sulfones” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 12179-12181.
53. Torregrosa, R. R. P.; Ariyarathna, Y.; Chattopadhyay, K.; Tunge, J. A. “Decarboxylative Benzylations of Alkynes and Ketones” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 9280-9282.
52. Tunge, J. A. “Tetra-3-chlorotetrakis[(1,2,3,4,5-)-1,2,3,4,5-pentamethyl-2,4-cyclopentadien-1-yl]tetra-ruthenium” electronic-Encyclopaedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS) 2010
51. Chattopadhyay, K.; Jana, R.; Day, V. W.; Douglas, J. T.; Tunge, J. A. “Mechanistic Origin of the Stereodivergence in Decarboxylative Allylation” Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 3042-3045.
50. Grenning, A. J.; Tunge, J. A. “Rapid Decarboxylative Allylation of Nitroalkanes” Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 740-742.
49. Weaver, J. D.; Morris, D. K.; Tunge, J. A. “Synthesis of Chiral Nonracemic Tertiary α-Thio and α-Sulfonyl Acetic Esters via SN2 Reactions of Tertiary Mesylates” Synlett, 2010, 470-474.
48. Pahadi, N. K.; Paley, M.; Jana, R.; Waetzig, S. R.; Tunge, J. A. “Formation of N-Alkylpyrroles via Intermolecular Redox Amination” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 16626-16627.
47. Recio III, A.; Tunge, J. A. “Regiospecific Decarboxylative Allylation of Nitriles” Org. Lett. 2009, 11, 5630-5633.
46. Trivedi, R.; Tunge, J. A. “Regioselective Iron-catalyzed Decarboxylative Allylic Etherification” Org. Lett. 2009, 11, 5650-5652.
45. Pahadi, N. K.; Tunge, J. A. “Catalytic Intermolecular Hydroamination of Vinyl Ethers” Synlett 2009, 3135-3138.
44. Jana, R.; Trivedi, R.; Tunge, J. A. “Mild Decarboxylative Coupling of Coumarins” Org. Lett. 2009, 11, 3434-3436.
43. Wang, R.; Cai, H.; Jin, H.; Xie, Z.; Subramaniam, B.; Tunge, J. A., “Hydroformylation in CO2-expanded media” ACS Symposium Series 2009, 1006 (Gas-Expanded Liquids and Near-Critical Media: Green Chemistry and Engineering).
42. Duan, S.; Jana, R.; Tunge, J. A. “Lewis acid-catalyzed diastereoselective hydroarylation of benzylidene malonic esters” J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 4612-4614.
41. Wang, C.; Pahadi, N.; Tunge, J. A. “Decarboxylative cyclizations and cycloadditions of palladium-polarized aza-ortho-xylylenes” Tetrahedron 2009, 65, 5102-5109. (invited contribution to a Tetrahedron Young Investigator Symposium-in-print issue honoring Prof. Michael Krische)
40. Jana, R.; Tunge, J. A. “A Homogeneous, Recyclable Rhodium(I) Catalyst for the Hydroarylation of Michael Acceptors“ Org. Lett. 2009, 11, 971-974.
39. Subramaniam, B.; Tunge, J.; Jin, H.; Ghosh, A. “Tuning Product Selectivity in Catalytic Hydroformylation Reactions with Carbon Dioxide Expanded Liquids.” U. S. Patent 7,365,234, Issued April 29, 2008.
38. Weaver, J. D.; Tunge, J. A. “Decarboxylative Allylation using Sulfones as Surrogates of Alkanes” Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 4657-4660.
37. Li, K.; Tunge, J. A. “Reduction of Pyrrolyl- and Indolylamides with BH3.THF: Cyclodeoxygenation versus Deoxygenation” J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 8651-8653.
36. Waetzig, Shelli R.; Tunge, Jon A. “Synthesis of allyl selenides by palladium-catalyzed decarboxylative coupling.” Chem. Comm. 2008, 3311-3313.
35. Wang, C.; Tunge, J. A. “Asymmetric Cycloadditions of Palladium-Polarized Aza-o-xylylenes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 8118-8119.
34. Li, K.; Tunge, J. A. “Chemical Libraries via Sequential C-H Functionalization of Phenols” J. Comb. Chem. 2008, 10, 170-174.
33. Waetzig, S. R.; Tunge, J. A. “Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative sp3-sp3 Coupling of Nitrobenzene Acetic Esters” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 14860-14861.
32. Waetzig, S. R.; Tunge, J. A. “Regio- and Diastereoselective Decarboxylative Coupling of Heteroaromatic Alkanes“ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 4138-4139.
31. Li, K.; Tunge, J. A. “Stereochemical Control in the Reduction of 2-Chromanols” Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 4711-4714.
30. Burger, E. C.; Barron, B. R.; Tunge, J. A. “Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Cyclic alpha-Allylated alpha-Fluoroketones. Synlett 2006, 2824-2826.
29. Yi L.; Dratter J.; Wang C., Tunge J.; Desaire H. “Identification of the biological effects of sulfation using tandem mass spectrometry” Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 2006. 386, 666-674.
28. Wang, C.; Tunge, J. A. “Decarboxylative Ring Contractions and Olefin Insertions of Vinyl Oxazinanones” Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 3211-3214.
27. Burger, E., C.; Tunge, J. A. “Synthesis of Homoallylic Amines via the Palladium-catalyzed Decarboxylative Coupling of Amino Acids” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006 128, 10002-10003.
26. Waetzig, S. R.; Rayabarapu, D. K.; Weaver, J. D.; Tunge, J. A. “A Versatile Hexadiene Synthesis via Decarboxylative sp3-sp3 Coupling/Cope Rearrangement” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 4977-4980.
25. Mellegaard-Waetzig, S. R.; Wang, C.; Tunge, J. A. “Selenium-catalyzed Oxidative Halogenation” Tetrahedron 2006, 62, 7191-7198. (invited contribution to a Symposium-in-print issue)
24. Jin, H.; Ghosh, A.; Tunge, J. A.; Subramaniam, B. “Intensification of catalytic olefin hydroformylation in CO2-expanded media” AIChE J. 2006, 52, 2575-2581.
23. Foresee, L. N.; Tunge, J. A. “Mechanistic Studies of Fujiwara Hydroarylation. C-H Activation vs. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution” Organometallics 2005, 24, 6440-6444.
22. Mellegaard-Waetzig, S. R.; Rayabarapu, D. K.; Tunge, J. A. “Allylic Amination via Decarboxylative C-N Bond Formation” Synlett 2005, 2759-2762.
21. Rayabarapu, D. K.; Tunge, J. A. “Catalytic Decarboxylative sp-sp3 Coupling” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 13510-13511.
20. Li, K.; Zeng, Y.; Neuenswander, B.; Tunge, J. A. “Sequential Pd(II)-Pd(0) Catalysis for the Rapid Synthesis of Coumarins” J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 6515-6518.
19. Burger, E. C.; Tunge, J. A. “Ruthenium-catalyzed Stereospecific Decarboxylative Allylation of Non-stabilized Ketone Enolates” Chem. Commun. 2005, 2835-2837.
18. Wang, C.; Tunge, J. A. “Ruthenium-catalyzed Decarboxylative Insertion of Electrophiles” Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 2137-2139.
17. Tunge, J. A.; Burger E. C. “Transition Metal Catalyzed Decarboxylative Additions of Enolates” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 1715-1726.
16. Li, K.; Foresee, L. N.; Tunge, J. A., “Trifluoroacetic Acid-Mediated Hydroarylation: Synthesis of Dihydrocoumarins and Dihydroquinolones” J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 2881-2883.
15. Mellegaard, S. R.; Tunge, J. A. “Selenium-Catalyzed Halolactonization: Nucleophilic Activation of Electrophilic Halogenating Reagents” J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 8979-8981.
14. Burger, E. C.; Tunge, J. A. “Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation of Ketone Enolates: An Asymmetric Claisen Surrogate” Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 4113-4115.
13. Wang, C., Tunge, J. A. “Selenium-catalyzed alpha-Halogenation” Chem. Commun. 2004, 2694 - 2695.
12. Burger, E. C.; Tunge, J. A. “Ruthenium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Allylation of Nonstabilized Ketone Enolates” Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 2603-2605.
11. Tunge, J. A.; Mellegaard, S. R. “Selective Selenocatalytic Allylic Chlorination” Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 1205-1207.
10. Cummings, S. A.; Tunge, J. A.; Norton, J. R. “Direct measurement of the rate of interconversion of zirconaaziridine enantiomers” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 4669-4679.
9. Cummings, S.; Tunge, J. A.; Norton, J. A. In New Aspects of Zirconium Containing Organic Compounds; Editor, Marek, I.; Topics in Organometallic Chemistry; Springer: 2005, 10, pp. 1-41.
8. Casey, C. P.; Tunge, J. A.; Lee, T-Y.; Fagan, M. A. “Structural Dependence of Thermodynamics of Alkene Binding to Yttrium Alkyl Complexes and of Kinetics of Alkyl Migration to Coordinated Alkenes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 2641-2651.
7. Casey, C. P.; Tunge, J. A.; Fagan, M. A. “Why propene is not polymerized by (Cp*2YH)2: Reactions of yttrium alkyl complexes with alkenes produce allyl and vinyl yttrium complexes” J. Organomet. Chem. 2002, 663, 91-97.
6. Chen, J-X.; Tunge, J. A.; Norton, J. R. “Asymmetric Synthesis of Silylated a-Amino Acid Esters through Dynamic Kinetic Resolution” J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 4366-69.
5. Casey, C. P.; Tunge, J. A.; Lee, T-Y.; Carpenetti, D. W. “Kinetics and Mechanism of Formation of Yttrium Alkyl Complexes from (Cp2YH)2 and Alkenes” Organometallics 2002, 21, 389-96.
4. Casey, C. P.; Lee, T-Y.; Tunge, J. A.; Carpenetti, D. W. “Direct Observation of a Nonchelated Metal-Alkyl-Alkene Complex and Measurement of the Rate of Alkyl Migration to a Coordinated Alkene” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 10762-63.
3. Tunge, J. A.; Czerwinski, C. J.; Gately, D. A.; Norton, J. R. “Mechanism of Insertion of Carbodiimides into the Zr-C Bonds of Zirconaaziridines. Formation of a-Amino Amidines” Organometallics 2001, 20, 254-60.
2. Harlan, C. J.; Tunge, J. A.; Bridgewater, B. M.; Norton, J. R. “Trapping of Acetylene by a Zirconocene Terminal Imido Complex” Organometallics 2000, 19, 2365-72.
1. Tunge, J. A.; Gately, D. A.; Norton, J. R. “Asymmetric Formation of a-Amino Acid Esters through Dynamic Kinetic Resolution: A Cyclic Carbonate as an Optically Active CO2 Synthon” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 4520-21.