2025

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  [1,3]-Hydride Shift in α-Boryl Cations: Strategic Design of Fluorine-triggered Cyclopropanation

  Seungcheol Han, Yeosan Lee, Jaeyoon Seo, Junseok Lee, Seung Hwan Cho*

  In revision.

  

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  1,1-Diborylalkanes as Versatile Precursors for Copper-Catalyzed Diastereo- and Enantioselective Allylic Substitution

  Minjae Kim, Jun Hee Lee*, Seung Hwan Cho*

  Synlett 2025, just published.

  [Mini Review: Invited Synpact article]

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  Size-Programmable Matteson-Type Annulation: Construction of Spirocycles from Simple Cyclic Ketones

  Woohyun Jo, Juliane K. Scholz, Hairong Lyu, Seung Hwan Cho, Guangbin Dong*

  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202503269. 

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• Review paper

  Recent advances in allylation of chiral secondary alkylcopper species

  Minjae Kim, Gwanggyun Kim, Doyoon Kim, Jun Hee Lee*, Seung Hwan Cho*

  Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 639-658. 

  [Special issue on “Copper catalysis a constatntly evolving field”]

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  Regiodivergent Alkylation of Pyridines: Alkyllithium Clusters Direct Chemical Reactivity

  Woohyun Jo+, Chattawat Thangsrikeattigun+, Changsu Ryu, Seungcheol Han, Changjin Oh, Mu-Hyun Baik*, and Seung Hwan Cho* (+These authors contributed equally to this work) 

  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 8597-8606.

  Highlighted in Synfacts, 2025, 21, 453. 

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