36. Mary Froemming, and Dalibor Sames. Harnessing Functional Plasticity of Enzymes: A Fluorogenic Probe for Imaging 17-HSD10 Dehydrogenase, an Enzyme Involved in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases Journal of the American Chemical Society ASAP DOI: 10.1021/ja072601x [Full Text - pdf] .
35. Denis V. Gribkov, Stefan J. Pastine, Michael Schnurch, and Dalibor Sames. Ruthenium Catalyzed Decarbonylative Arylation at sp3 Carbon Centers in Pyrrolidine and Piperidine Heterocycles Journal of the American Chemical Society 2007 ,129, 11750-11755. [Full Text - pdf] .
34. Marlin Halim, Matthew S. Tremblay, Steffen Jockusch, Nicholas J. Turro, and Dalibor Sames. Transposing Molecular Fluorescent Switches into the Near-IR: Development of Luminogenic Reporter Substrates for Redox Metabolism Journal of the American Chemical Society 2007 ,129, 7704 - 7705. [Full Text - pdf] .
33. Matthew S. Tremblay, Marlin Halim, and Dalibor Sames. Cocktails of Tb3+ and Eu3+ Complexes: A General Platform for the Design of Ratiometric Optical Probes Journal of the American Chemical Society 2007 ,129, 7570 - 7577.[Full Text - pdf] .
32. Steffen Jockusch, Qingdong Zheng, Guang S. He, Haridas E. Pudavar, Dominic J., Yee, Vojtech Balsanek, Marlin Halim, Dalibor Sames, Paras N. Prasad, and Nicholas J. Turro. Two-Photon Excitation of Fluorogenic Probes for Redox Metabolism: Dramatic Enhancement of Optical Contrast Ratio by Two-Photon Excitation Journal of Physical Chemistry 2007 ,111, 8872 - 8877.[Full Text - pdf] .
2006
31. Xiang Wang, Denis V. Gribkov, and Dalibor Sames. Phosphine-Free Palladium-Catalyzed C-H bond Arylation of Free (N-H)-Indoles and Pyrroles Journal of Organic Chemistry 2006 ,72, 1476 - 1479.[Full Text - pdf] .
30. Stefan J. Pastine, Denis V. Gribkov, and Dalibor Sames. sp3 C-H Bond Arylation Directed by Amidine Protecting Group: Alpha-arylation of Pyrrolidines and Piperidines Journal of the American Chemical Society ASAP DOI: 10.1021/ja064481j [Full Text - pdf] .
29. Matthew S. Tremblay and Dalibor Sames. Synthesis of Luminescent Heterometallic bis-Lanthanide Complexes via Selective, Sequential Metallation Chemical Communications 2006, 4116 - 4118.[Full Text - pdf] .
28. Dominic J. Yee, Vojta Balsanek, David R. Bauman, Trevor M. Penning, and Dalibor Sames. Fluorogenic Metabolic Probes for Direct Activity Readout of Redox Enzymes: Selective Measurement of Human AKR1C2 in Living Cells Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2006,103, 13304 - 13309.[Full Text - pdf] .
27. Matthew S. Tremblay, Qing Zhu, Angel A. Marti, Joanne Dyer, Marlin Halim, Steffen Jockusch, Nicholas J. Turro, and Dalibor Sames. Phosphorylation State-Responsive Lanthanide Peptide Conjugates: A Luminescence Switch Based on Reversible Complex Reorganization Organic Letters 2006,8, 2723 - 2726.[Full Text - pdf] .
26. 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] .
25. Kamil Godula and Dalibor Sames. C-H Bond Functionalization in Complex Organic Synthesis Science 2006,312, 67 - 72. [Full Text - pdf] .
24. Mary K. Froemming and Dalibor Sames. Fluoromorphic Substrates for Fatty Acid Metabolism: Highly Sensitive Probes for Mammalian Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 2006,45, 637 - 642. [Full Text - pdf] .
2005
23. 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] .
22.*** 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] .
*** this work was recently highlighted: Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 2006,45, 1683 - 1684. [Full Text - pdf]
21. Matthew S. Tremblay and Dalibor Sames. A New Fluorogenic Transformation: Development of an Optical Probe for Coenzyme Q Organic Letters 2005,7 (12), 2417 - 2420. [Full Text - pdf] .
20. 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] .
19. 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] .
18. Joanne Dyer, Steffen Jockusch, Vojtech Balsanek, Dalibor Sames, and Nicholas J. Turro. Two-Photon Induced Uncaging of a Reactive Intermediate. Multiphoton In Situ Detection of a Potentially Valuable Label for Biological Applications Journal of Organic Chemistry 2005,70 (6), 2143 - 2147. [Full Text - pdf] .
17. Gong Chen, Dominic J. Yee, Niko Gubernator, and Dalibor Sames. Design of Optical Switches as Metabolic Indicators: New Fluorogenic Probes for Monoamine Oxidases (MAO A and B) Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005,127 (13), 4544 - 4545.[Full Text - pdf] .
2004
16. 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] .
15. 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] .
14. Dominic J. Yee, Vojtech Balsanek, and Dalibor Sames. New Tools for Molecular Imaging of Redox Metabolism: Development of a Fluorogenic Probe for 3a-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases Journal of the American Chemical Society 2004, 126 (8), 2282 - 2283.[Full Text - pdf] .
13. 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] .
2003
12. 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] .
11. Gong Chen, Alexander Heim, Doris Riether, Dominic Yee, Yelena Milgrom, Mary Ann Gawinowicz, and Dalibor Sames. Reactivity of Functional Groups on the Protein Surface: Development of Epoxide Probes for Protein Labeling Journal of the American Chemical Society 2003, 125(27), 8130 - 8133. [Full Text - pdf] .
10. 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] .
9. 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] .
2002
8. 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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7. 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] .
2001
6. 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]
*** this work was highlighted in: Chem. & Eng. News 2001,September 10, 33. [Full Text - pdf]
5. Rayane Moreira, Miroslav Havranek, and Dalibor Sames* ; New Fluorogenic Probes for Oxygen and Carbene Transfer: A Sensitive Assay for Single Bead-Supported Catalysts, Journal of the American Chemical Society; 2001; 123(17); 3927-3931. [Full Text - pdf] . [Supporting Information]
2000
4. 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]
*** this work was highlighted in: Chem. & Eng. News 2000,July 10, 12. [Full Text - pdf]
3. Singh, A.; Yao, Q.; Tong, L.; Clark Still, W.; Sames, D.. Combinatorial approach to the development of fluorescent sensors for nanomolar aqueous copper Tetrahedron Lett. 2000, 41(49), 9601-9605. [Full Text - pdf] . [Supporting Information]
2. Moreira, Rayane F.; Wehn, Paul M.; Sames, Dalibor. Highly regioselective oxygenation of C-H bonds: diamidomanganese constructs with attached substrates as catalyst models Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2000, 39(9), 1618- 1621. [Full Text - pdf]
1999
1. Miroslav Havranek, Arun Singh, and Dalibor Sames* ; Evolution and Study of Polymer-Supported Metal Catalysts for Oxygen Atom Transfer: Oxidation of Alkanes and Alkenes by Diamide Manganese Complexes [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 8965- 8966]., Journal of the American Chemical Society; 1999; 121(45); 10668-10668. [Full Text - pdf]