9. Wengang Guo, Min Wang, Zhengyu Han, Hai Huang*, and Jianwei Sun*. Organocatalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of alpha-Amino Esters from Sulfoxonium Ylides.

Chem. Sci., 2021, advance article.

This article has been highlighted by school of petrochemical engineering, Changzhou University.

                                            highlighted by Synfacts, 2021, 17, 1166.

Before Changzhou University:

8. Wengang Guo1, Yuzheng Luo1, Herman H.-Y. Sung, Ian D. Williams, Pingfan Li*, and Jianwei Sun*. Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed Enantioselective Synthesis of alpha-Tertiary Amino Ketones from Sulfonium Ylides.  

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 14384-14390 (1: equal contribution).

This artile has been highlighted by XMOL, Synfacts (by Benjamin List), and Synfacts (by Hisashi Yamamoto).     

     

7. Renwei Zhang1, Wengang Guo1, Meng Duan1, K. N. Houk*, and Jianwei Sun.* Asymmetric Desymmetrization of Oxetanes for the Synthesis of Chiral Tetrahydrothiophenes and Tetrahydroselenophenes. 

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 18055-18060 (1: equal contribution).

6. Wengang Guo, Lu Li, Qian Ding, Xiangfeng Lin, Xianghui Liu, Kai Wang, Yan Liu*, Hongjun Fan*, and Can Li*. Synthesis of Chiral Trispirocyclic Oxindoles via Organic-Base/Au(I)-Catalyzed Sequential Reactions. 

ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 10180-10189.

5. Wengang Guo, Xianghui Liu, Yan Liu, and Can Li.  Chiral Catalysis at the Water/Oil Interface. 

ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 328-341 (invited Perspective).

4. Wengang Guo, Yan Liu*, and Can Li*. Asymmetric Catalytic 1,2-Hydroperoxidation of Isatin-Derived Ketimine with Hydrogen Peroxide in the Crowding Environment of PEGs. 

Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 1044-1047. 

3. Wengang Guo, Bo Wu, Xin Zhou, Ping Chen, Xu, Wang, Yong-Gui Zhou, Yan Liu*, and Can Li*. Formal Asymmetric Catalytic Thiolation with a Bifunctional Catalyst at a Water-Oil Interface: Synthesis of Benzyl Thiols. 

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 4522-4526 (highly cited article, >100 cites). 

This article has been highlighted by Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 35, 1380-1382.

2. Wengang Guo1, Xu Wang1, Dr. Boyu Zhang, Shuai Shen, Xin Zhou, Peng Wang, Yan Liu*, Can Li*. Facile Synthesis of Chiral Spirooxindole-Based Isotetronic Acids and 5-1H-Pyrrol-2-ones through Cascade Reactions with Bifunctional Organocatalysts. 

Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 8545-8550 (1: equal contribution).

This article was one of the top 15 most accessed articles in June 2014.

1. Wengang Guo, Jianwei Wei, Yan Liu*, Can Li*. Construction of anti-1,2-diol bearing chiral tertiary alcohol moiety using free hydroxyacetone as aldol donor by imidazole-based prolineamide catalyst. 

Tetrahedron, 2014, 70, 6561-6568.