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B. Barry Toure, Benjamin S. Lane, and Dalibor Sames. Catalytic C-H Arylation of SEM- Protected Azoles with Palladium Complexes of NHCs and Phosphines Organic Letters 2006,81979 - 1982[Full Text - pdf] .

Benjamin S. Lane, Meghann A. Brown, and Dalibor Sames. Direct Palladium-Catalyzed C -2 and C-3 Arylation of Indoles: A Mechanistic Rationale for Selectivity. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005,127 (22), 8050 - 8057. [Full Text - pdf] .

Xiang Wang, Benjamin S. Lane, and Dalibor Sames. Direct C-Arylation of Free (NH)- Indoles and Pyrroles Catalyzed by Ar-Rh(III) Complexes Assembled In Situ Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005,127 (14), 4996 - 4997. [Full Text - pdf] .

Benjamin S. Lane and Dalibor Sames. Direct C-H Bond Arylation: Selective Palladium-Catalyzed C2- Arylation of N-Substituted Indoles Organic Letters 2004, 6 (17), 2897 - 2900[Full Text - pdf] .

Hydride Transfer

Stefan J. Pastine and Dalibor Sames. Room Temperature Intramolecular Hydro-O- alkylation of Aldehydes: sp3 C-H Functionalization via a Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Tandem 1,5- Hydride Transfer/Cyclization Organic Letters 2005,7 (24), 5429 - 5431. [Full Text - pdf] .

Stefan J. Pastine, Kevin M. McQuaid, and Dalibor Sames. Room Temperature Hydroalkylation of Electron-Deficient Olefins: sp3 C-H Functionalization via a Lewis Acid- Catalyzed Intramolecular Redox Event Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005,127 (35), 12180 - 12181. [Full Text - pdf] .

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sp3 Functionalization

Brenton DeBoef, Stefan J. Pastine, and Dalibor Sames. Cross-Coupling of sp3 C-H Bonds and Alkenes: Catalytic Cyclization of Alkene-Amide Substrates Journal of the American Chemical Society 2004, 126 (21), 6556 - 6557.[Full Text - pdf] .

Hydroarylation

So Won Youn, Stefan Pastine, and Dalibor Sames. Ru(III)-Catalyzed Cyclization of Arene-Alkene Substrates via Intramolecular Electrophilic Hydroarylation Organic Letters 2004,6 (4), 581 - 584. [Full Text - pdf] .

Stefan Pastine and Dalibor Sames. Concise Synthesis of the Chemopreventitive Agent (+/-)-Deguelin via a Key 6-endo Hydroarylation Organic Letters 2003, 5(22), 4053 - 4055. [Full Text - pdf] .

Stefan Pastine, So Won Youn, and Dalibor Sames. Pt(IV)-Catalyzed Cyclization of Arene-Alkyne Substrates via C-H Bond Functionalization (Symposium Series) Tetrahedron 2003, 59(45), 8859 - 8868. [Full Text - pdf] .

Stefan Pastine, So Won Youn, and Dalibor Sames. Pt(IV)-Catalyzed Cyclization of Arene-Alkyne Substrates via Intramolecular Electrophilic Hydroarylation Organic Letters 2003, 5(7), 1055-1058. [Full Text - pdf] .

C-H Functionalization in Complex Synthesis

Kamil Godula and Dalibor Sames. C-H Bond Functionalization in Complex Organic Synthesis Science 2006,312, 67 - 72. [Full Text - pdf] .

Brian D. Dangel, Kamil Godula, So Won Youn, Bengu Sezen, and Dalibor Sames ; C-C Bond Formation via C-H Bond Activation: Synthesis of the Core of Teleocidin B4, Journal of the American Chemical Society; 2002; 124(40); 11856-11857. [Full Text - pdf]

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James A. Johnson, Ning Li, and Dalibor Sames; Total Synthesis of (-)-Rhazinilam: Asymmetric C-H Bond Activation via the Use of a Chiral Auxiliary, Journal of the American Chemical Society; 2002; 124(24); 6900-6903. [Full Text - pdf] .

James A. Johnson and Dalibor Sames* ; C-H Bond Activation of Hydrocarbon Segments in Complex Organic Molecules: Total Synthesis of the Antimitotic Rhazinilam, Journal of the American Chemical Society; 2000; 122(26); 6321-6322. [Full Text - pdf] . [Supporting Information]

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C-H Functionalization of Amino Acids

Brian D. Dangel, James A. Johnson, and Dalibor Sames* ; Selective Functionalization of Amino Acids in Water: A Synthetic Method via Catalytic C-H Bond Activation, Journal of the American Chemical Society; 2001; 123(33); 8149-8150. [Full Text - pdf] . [Supporting Information]

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