Publications

1.      Yu, H.; Zhang, Q.; Huang, W. A Two-step Approach to 2-Polyfluoroalkyl Quinolines from N-aryl Polyfluoroalkyl Imidoyl Iodides. Chinese Journal of Chemistry 1997, 15, 278–282.

2.      Zhang, Q.; Lu, L. A Novel Synthetic Route to Ethyl 3-Substituted-trans-2,3-difluoro-2-acrylates and Their Reactions with Nucleophiles. Tetrahedron Letters 2000, 41, 8545–8548.

3.      Zhang, Q.; Luo, Z.; Curran, D. P. Separation of “Light Fluorous” Reagents and Catalysts by Fluorous Solid-Phase Extraction: Synthesis and Study of a Family of Triarylphosphines Bearing Linear and Branched Fluorous Tags. Journal of Organic Chemistry 2000, 65, 8866–8873.

4.      Luo, Z.; Zhang, Q.; Oderaotoshi, Y.; Curran, D. P. Fluorous Mixture Synthesis: A Fluorous-Tagging Strategy for the Synthesis and Separation of Mixtures of Organic Compounds. Science 2001, 291, 1766–1769.

5.      Zhang, Q.; Rivkin, A.; Curran, D. P. Quasiracemic Synthesis: Concepts and Implementation with a Fluorous Tagging Strategy to Make Both Enantiomers of Pyridovericin and Mappicine. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2002, 124, 5774–5781.

6.      Curran, D. P.; Zhang, Q. Microwave Heating Effects Rapid and Selective Decarboalkoxylation of Mono-Alkylated Malonates and -Ketoesters. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 2003, 345, 329–333.

7.      Vallin, K. S. A.; Zhang, Q.; Larhed, M.; Curran, D. P.; Hallberg, A. A New Regioselective Heck-Vinylation with Enamides: Synthesis and Investigation of Fluorous-Tagged Bidentate Ligands for Fast Separation. Journal of Organic Chemistry 2003, 68, 6639–6645.

8.      Chen, S.; Zhang, Q.; Wu, X.; Schultz, P. G.; Ding, S. Cellular Dedifferentiation of Lineage-Committed Myogenic Cells Induced by Reversine. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2004, 126, 410–411.

9.      Zhang, Q.; Lu, H.; Richard, C. R.; Curran, D. P. Synthesis of Sixteen Stereoisomers of Murisolin, Murisolin A and 16,19-cis-Murisolin by Fluorous Mixture Synthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2004, 126, 36–37.

10.  Curran, D. P.; Wang, X.; Zhang, Q. Heavy, Medium and Light Fluorous Triarylphosphines Exhibit Comparable Reactivities to Triphenylphosphine in Typical Reactions of Triarylphosphines. Journal of Organic Chemistry 2005, 70, 3716–3719.

11.  Zhang, Q.; Curran, D. P. Quasienantiomers and Quasiracemates: New Tools for Identification, Analysis, Separation and Synthesis of Quasienantiomers.  Chemistry- A European Journal 2005, 11, 4866–4880.

12.  Curran, D. P.; Zhang, Q.; Lu, H.; Gudipati, V. On the Proof and Disproof of Natural Product Stereostructures: Characterization and Analysis of a Twenty-Eight Member Stereoisomer Library of Murisolins and Their Mosher Ester Derivatives. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2006, 128, 9943–9956.

13.  Curran, D. P.; Zhang, Q.; Richard, C. R.; Lu, H.; Gudipati, V. Total Synthesis of a Twenty-eight Member Stereoisomer Library of Murisolins. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2006, 128, 9561–9573.

14.  Chen, S.; Do, J.; Zhang, Q.; Yao, S.; Yan, F.; Scholer, H. Schultz, P. G.; Ding, S. Maintenance of human and mouse embryonic stem cells self-renewal by a small molecule. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2006, 103, 17266–17271.

15.  Zhang, Q.; Major, B.; Takanashi, S.; Camp, N. D.; Nishiya, N.; Peters, E. C.; Ginsberg, M.; Schultz, P. G.; Moon, R. T.; Ding, S. A Small Molecule Synergist of the Wnt/β-catenin Signaling Pathway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007, 104, 7444–7448.

16.  Chen, S.; Takanashi, S.; Zhang, Q.; Xiong, W.; Peters, E.C.; Ding, S.; Schultz, P.G. Reversine Induces Cellular Reprogramming of Lineage-Committed Mammalian Cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007, 104, 10482-10487.

17.     Song, Z. and Zhang, Q. “Fluorous Aryl Diazirine Photoaffinity Labeling Reagents”, Organic Letters 2009, 11, 4882-4885.     

18.     Jones, C. A.; Nishiya, N.; London, N. R.; Zhu, W.; Sorensen, L. K.; Chan, A.; Lim, C. J.; Chen, H.; Zhang, Q.; Schultz, P. G.; Hayallah, A. M.; Thomas, K. R.; Famulok, M.; Zhang, K.; Ginsberg, M. H.; Li, D. Y. “Slit2-Robo4 Signaling Promotes Vascular Stability by Blocking Arf6 Activity”, Nature Cell Biology 2009, ASAP article.