Research Articles
34) Li, J.; Pan, Y.; Liu, C.*; Tan, X.* Iron-modulated Chemoselective Cyclopropanation and Chlorocarbonation of Alkenes with Diborodichloromethane, CCS Chem. 2025, online. <link>
33) Liu, H.; Zhang, X.; Chen, D.; Su, Y.*; Zhang, P.*; Qi, X.*; Liu, C.* Enantioconvergent Borylation of α-Benzoyl Alkyl Bromides by Zinc Catalysis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202514261. <link>
32) Ren, B.; Fang, T.; Liu, C.* Visible-Light-Induced Diborylation to Access gem-Diborylalkanes, Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2025, 45, 3343-3350. <link>
31) Wu, M.; Fang, T.; Xu, L.; Xu, Q.*; Lu, J.*; Liu, C.* Synthesis of 1,4-Diketones from Esters Enabled by a Tetraborylethane Reagent. Org. Lett. 2025, 27, 1175–1180. <link>
30) Wu, C.; Xu, L.; Ren, B.; Lu, J.*; Liu, C.* Controlled Synthesis of α-Mono- and α,α-Di-Halogenated Ketones Through Coupling of Halogenated Diboromethanes with Carboxylic Acid Esters. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2025, e202401396. <link>
29) Li, M.; Wei, Y.; Chen, D.; Ning, P.-F.; Yang, Y.-F.; Xie, X.-Y.; Liu, C.*; Hong, K.* Construction of 1,3-Diboryl Allenes from gem-Iododiboron Compounds via Intermolecular Boryl Group Transfer, Chin. J. Chem. 2025, 43, 949-955.
28) Fang, T.; Zhang, P.*; Liu, C.* "Boron Ylide" Enables Stereoselective Construction of gem-Diborylcyclopropanes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202415301.(Hot Paper) <link>
27) Yang, T.; Chen, D.; Zhang, P.*; Liu, C.* Application of Triborylmethane Reagent in the Stereoselective Synthesis of Dissymmetric gem-Diborylalkenes, Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2025, 45, 212-219. <link>
26) Xu, L.; Chen, D.; Zhang, P.*; Xia, C.*; Liu, C.* Atom Swap in Triple Bonds via Nitrogen Deletion Coupling with gem-Diborylalkanes, Chem 2024, 10, 3474. <link>
25) Ren, B.; Xu, J.; Liu, C.* Rapid and Practical Synthesis of gem-Dibromoalkanes from Aldehydes by Tribromide Reagent, Chem. Asian J. 2024, 19, e202301087. <link>
-Invited for special issue: “Special Collection: 30th Years of Suzhou Industrial Park”
24) Fang, T.; Wang, L.; Wu, M.; Qi, X.*; Liu, C.* Diborodichloromethane as Versatile Reagent for Chemodivergent Synthesis of gem-Diborylalkanes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202315227.<link>
23) Chen, D.; Xu, L.; Wang, Z.; Liu, C.*， Enriched 10B-Diboron Reagents Synthesis from10BF3 , Chem 2023, 9, 3212-3223. <link>
-See Preview by Prof. Z. Xie and Prof. T. B. Marder: Chem 2023, 9, 3015-3017.<link>
-Highlighted by Chemstation <link>
22) Chen, D.; Xu, L.; Ren, B.; Wang, Z.; Liu, C.* Triflylpyridinium as Coupling Reagent for Rapid Amide and Ester Synthesis, Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 4571-4575. <link>
- Highlighted by "多肽加" <link>
- Highlighted by Organic Chemistry Portal <link>
21) Xu, J.; Qin, Y.; Liu, C.* Direct Amination of Benzylic Pinacol Boronates by an Aminoazanium, Synlett 2023, 34, 2244-2248. <link>
- Invited for Special Issue on Modern Boron Chemistry: 60 years of the Matteson Reaction
20) Sun, W.+; Xu, L.+; Qin, Y.; Liu, C.* Alkyne synthesis through coupling of gem-diborylalkanes with carboxylic acid esters Nat. Synth. 2023, 2, 413-425.<link>
- See News & Views by Prof. A. Masarwa in Nat. Synth. : "Triple coupling to make alkynes" <link>
- Highlighted by Organic Chemistry Portal <link>
19) Chen, D.; Xu, L.; Yu, Y.; Mo, Q.; Qi, X.*; Liu, C.* Triflylpyridinium Enables Rapid and Scalable Controlled Reduction of Carboxylic Acids to Aldehydes using Pinacolborane, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202215168 <link>.
- Highlighted by OPR&D：Org. Process Res. Dev. 2023, 27, 1–9 <link>
- Highlighted by CJOC: Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2023, 43, 783-785 <link>
- Highlighted by Organic Chemistry Portal <link>
- Highlighted by "Organicsyntheses" <link>
18) Qin, Y.; Xu, L.; Xu, J.; Liu, C.* 1,2-Migration Enabled Borylation of Benzylic Quaternary Ammonium, Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2023, 43, 1868-1874 <link>.
-Invited for Special Issue: Organoboron Chemistry
17）Fang, T.; Xu, L.; Qin, Y.; Jiang, N.; Liu, C.* A Novel Synthesis of Halogenated gem-Diboron Reagents, Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2023, 43, 777-780 <link>.
16) Xu, L.; Hu, Y.; Zhu, X.; He, L.; Wu, Q.; Li, C.; Xia, C.; Liu, C.* Momentary Clicking Nitrile Synthesis Enabled by an Aminoazanium Reagent, Org. Chem. Front. 2022, 9, 3420-3427 <link>.
- Hot Paper
- A new application of H2N-DABCO reagent
15) Xu N.; Xu J.; Zhu Q.; Liu C.* Synthesis of Allylboronates via Zweifel‐type Deprotonative Olefination, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2021, 363, 2403-2407 <link>
- VIP paper
- Invited for themed issue: Boron in Catalysis and Organic Synthesis
14）Zhu Q.; Xia C.; Liu C.*Iron-Catalyzed Borylation of Ketones to α-Hydroxyboronates, Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2021, 41, 661-668. <link>
13) Shi, D.; Xia, C.; Liu, C.* Photoinduced Transition-Metal-Free Alkynylation of Alkyl Pinacol Boronates, CCS Chem. 2021, 3, 1718-1728. <link>
12) Sun, W.; Wang, L.; Hu, Y.; Wu, X.; Xia, C.; Liu, C.* Chemodivergent Transformations of Amides using gem-Diborylalkanes as Pro-nucleophiles, Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 3113. <link>
11) Liu, X.; Zhu, Q.; Chen, D.; Wang, L.; Jin, L.*; Liu, C.* Aminoazanium of DABCO: An Amination Reagent for Alkyl and Aryl Pinacol Boronates, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 2745-2749. <link>
- Highlighted by CJOC: Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2020, 40, 547-548
- China Patent: Chao Liu, Xingxing Liu, CN110845506A
10) Zou, L.*; Fan, M.; Wang, L.*; Liu, C.* Hetero Diacylation of 1,1-Diborylalkanes: Practical Synthesis of 1,3-Diketones, Chin. Chem. Lett., 2020, 31, 1911-1913. <link>
9) Hu, Y.; Sun, W.; Zhang, T.; Xu, N.; Xu, J.; Lan, Y.; Liu, C.* Stereoselective Synthesis of Trisubstituted Vinylboronates from Ketone Enolates Triggered by 1,3-Metalate Rearrangement, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 15813-15818. <link>
- Hot paper
8) Zhu, Q.; He, Z.; Wang, L.; Hu, Y.; Xia, C.; Liu, C.* α-C-H Borylation of Secondary Alcohols via Ru/Fe Relay Catalysis: Building a Platform for Alcoholic C-H/C-O Functionalizations, Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 11884-11887. <link>
7) He, Z.; Zhu, Q.; Hu, X.; Wang, L.; Xia, C.; Liu, C.* Cooperation between an alcoholic proton and boryl species in the catalytic gem-hydrodiborylation of carboxylic esters to access 1,1-diborylalkanes, Org. Chem. Front. 2019, 9, 900-907. <link><pdf>
- Hot paper
6) He, Z.; Fan, M.; Xu, J.; Hu, Y.; Wang, L.; Wu, X.; Xia, C.; Liu, C.* Iron-catalyzed deoxygenative diborylation of ketones to internal gem-diboronates, Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 39, 3438-3445. <link>
- Cover Article
5) Wang, L.; Sun, W.; Liu, C.* Cu-Catalyzed Deoxygenative gem-Hydroborylation of Aromatic Aldehydes and Ketones to Access Benzylboronic Esters, Chin. J. Catal. 2018, 39, 1725 -1729. <link>
- Award Invitation
- Cover Article
4) Shi, D.; Wang, L.; Xia, C.; Liu, C.* Access to Secondary and Tertiary Alkyl Boronic Esters via gem-Carboborylation using Carbonyl as Bis(electrophile) Equivalent, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 10318-10322. <link>
- highlighted by CJOC: Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2018, 38, 2805
3) Sun, W.; Wang, L.; Xia, C.*; Liu, C.* Dual Functionalization of α-Monoboryl Carbanion via A Deoxygenative Enolization with Carboxylic Acids, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 5501-5505. <link>
- Highlighted by CJOC: Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2018, 38, 2184
2）Kuan, S. H. C.; Sun, W.; Wang, L.; Xia, C.; Tay, M. G.; Liu, C.* Double Carbonylation Using Glyoxal (HCOCOH): A Practical Copper-Promoted Synthesis of Isatins from Primary and Secondary Anilines, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2017, 359, 3484-3489.
1) Wang, L.; Zhang, T.; Sun, W.; He, Z.; Xia, C.; Lan, Y.*; Liu, C.* C-O Functionalization of α-Oxyboronates: A Deoxygenative gem-Diborylation and gem-Silylborylation of Aldehydes and Ketones, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 5257-5264. <link>
Review Articles
15) Fang, T.; Ren, B.; Liu, C.* When gem-Diborylalkanes Meet Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives: Enolate/Enamine Chemistry beyond Conventional Reactivity, Acc. Chem. Res. 2025, 10.1021/acs.accounts.5c00373 <link>
14) Fang, T.; Liu, C.* Formal Buchner-Curtius-Schlotterbeck Reaction enabled by Acyl Radical Addition, Chem Catal. 2023, 10, 100872. (Invited Preview)<link>
13) Jiang, N.; Chen, D.; Liu, C.* Recent Advances in the Chemistry of α-Oxylboronate Reagents, Org. Chem. Front. 2023, 10, 3684-3700. (Invited review) <link>
12) Xu, J.; Chen, D.; Liu, C.* Recent advances of aminoazanium salts as amination reagents in organic synthesis, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2022, 20, 8353-8365 <link>. (Review article)
11) Yi, W.; Sun, W.; Hu, X.; Liu, C.*; Jin, L.* Recent Advance of Ketones Synthesis from Carboxylic Esters, Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2022, 42, 1626-1639. <link> (Reivew article).
10) Zhu, Q.; Liu, C.* The future directions of synthetic chemistry, Pure Appl. Chem. 2021, 93, 1463-1472. (Invited paper as part of "IUPAC organizational structure review" for the "future direction of chemistry survey") <link>
9) Shi, D; Wang, L.; Xia, C.; Liu, C.* Recent Advances in Photoinduced Transformation of Alkyl Boron Compounds, Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2020, 40, 3605-3619. (Invited Review ) <link>
8）Zhu, Q.; Liu, C.* New Chiral Brønsted Acid for Asymmetric Reduction of Indoles, Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2020, 40, 2164-2166.(Invited Highlight). <link>
7) Xu，N.; Hu, Y.*; Liu, C.* 烯基偕二硼的催化合成及应用研究进展, 分子催化. 2020, 34, 88-96. (Invited Review) <link>
6) Sun, W.; Hu, Y.; Xia, C.; Liu, C.* Recent advances in the synthesis and transformation of gem-borylsilylalkanes, New J. Chem. 2021, 45, 14847-14854. <link><pdf> (Invited Perspective for the Themed issue "Celebrating Todd B. Marder's Contributions to Chemistry")
5) Hu, Y.; Liu, C.* Introduction of 1, 2-Migration for Organoboron Compounds, Univ. Chem. 2019, 34, 39-44. <link>
4) He, Z.; Hu, Y.*; Xia, C.; Liu, C.* Recent Advances in the Borylative Transformation of Carbonyl and Carboxyl Compounds, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2019,17, 6099-6113 (Invited Review for the themed collections: "Trends in Organoboron Chemistry"). <link>
3) Hu, Y.; Sun, W.; Liu, C.* Deoxygenative Transformation of Carbonyl and Carboxyl Compounds Using gem-Diborylalkanes, Synlett 2019, 30, 1105-1110 (Invited Synpacts). <link>
2) Wang, L.; Sun, W.; Liu, C.* Recent Advances in Homogeneous Carbonylation Using CO2 as CO Surrogate, Chin. J. Chem. 2018, 36, 353-362. <link> (Invited Review)
1) Zhu Q.; Wang, L.; Xia, C.; Liu, C.* Recent Advance of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Direct C-H Bond Carboxylation with CO2, Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 36, 2813-2821. <link> (Invited Review)