Publications
Green Chemistry-Related Publications
2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013
2013
Zhao, H.C.; Mello, B.; Fu, B.-L.; Chowdhury, H.; Szalda, D.J.; Tsai, M.-K.; Grills, D.C.; Rochford, J. "An investigation of monomeric versus dimeric fac-Re(I) tricarbonyl systems containing the non-innocent 8-oxyquinolate ligand.” Organometallics. 2013, asap.
2012
Gennaco, M. A.; Huang, Y.-w.; Hannun, R. A.; Dransfield, T. J. “Absolute Rate Constants for the Reaction of OH with Cyclopentane and Cycloheptane from 233 to 351 K” J. Phys. Chem. A, 2012, 116, 12438-12443.
Cullipher, S.; Sevian, H.; Talanquer, V. "A learning progression approach to studying benefits, costs and risks in chemical design." La Chimica Nella Scuola. 2012, 34, 344-351.
Prof. Nicholas Anastas published a chapter, “Green Toxicology,” in Green Techniques in Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry (Wiley, 2012) which is edited by Wei Zhang and Berkeley Cue.
Lu, Q.; Song, G.; Jasinski, J. P.; Keeley, A. C.; Zhang, W. “One-pot double [3+2] Cycloaddition for Diastereoselective Synthesis of Tetracyclic Pyrrolidine Compounds.” Green Chem. 2012, 14, 3010-3012.
Yi, W.-B.; Huang, X.; Cai, C.; Zhang, W. “One-Pot Fluorination Followed by Michael Addition or Robinson Annulation for Preparation of α-Fluorinated Carbonyl Compounds.” Green Chem. 2012, 14, 3185-3189.
Yi, W.-B.; Huang, X.; Zhang, Z.; Zhu, D.-Z.; Cai, C.; Zhang, W. “Recyclable Fluorous Cinchona Alkaloid Ester as an Organocatalyst for Asymmetric Fluorination of β-Ketoesters.” Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1233-1240.
Zhang, W., Cue, B. Eds. Green Techniques for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry; Wiley, 2012.
Zhang, W. “Fluorous Synthesis” in Green Techniques for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry, Zhang, W.; Cue, B. W. Eds., Wiley, 2012, p443-468.
Cue, B. “Green chemistry strategies for medicinal chemists” in Green Techniques for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry, Zhang, W.; Cue, B. W. Eds., Wiley, 2012, p553-572.
Zhang, J.; Cue, B. “Green process chemistry in the pharmaceutical industry: Recent cases studies” in Green Techniques for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry, Zhang, W.; Cue, B. W. Eds., Wiley, 2012, p631-658.
Zhang, W. “Laboratory profile of the Green Organic and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Boston” Green Processing and Synth. 2012, 1, 291-293.
Yi, W.-B., Shi, X.-L., Cai, C., Zhang, W. “Polymer-supported Pd(0) Catalyst for Copper- and Ligand-free Sonogashira Reactions in Aqueous Media” Green Processing and Synth. 2012, 1, 175-180.
Zhao, H.; Harney, J.; Huang, Y.-T.; Yum, J.-H. Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; Grätzel, M.; Tsai, M.-K.; Rochford, J. "Evaluation of a Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Architecture for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells" Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 1-3.
A. Daştan, A. Kulkarni, B. Török "Environmentally Benign Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds by Combined Microwave-Assisted Heterogeneous Catalytic Approaches" Green Chem. 2012, 14, 17-37.
2011
A. Kulkarni, W.-H. Zhou, B. Török "Heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation of unprotected indoles in water: A green solution to a long-standing challenge" Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 5124-5127.
Zhang, W. “Fluorous Organocatalysis” a book chapter in Fluorous Chemistry, Top. in Curr. Chem. Horvath, I. Ed. Springer, 2011, p175-190.
B. Török, A. Kulkarni, R. DeSousa, K. Satuluri, M. Török, G. K. S. Prakash "Synthesis and application of polystyrene nanospheres supported platinum catalysts in enantioselective hydrogenations" Catal. Lett. 2011, 141, 1435-1441.
Atanassova, V.; Ganno, K.; Kulkarni, A.; Landge, S. M.; Curtis, S.; Foster, M.; Török, B. "Oxidative Coupling of Amines to Imines on K-10 Montmorillonite: A Mechanistic Study" Appl. Clay Sci. 2011, in press.
Borkin, D.; Landge, S. M.; Török, B. "Enantioselective Friedel-Crafts reaction of indoles with trifluoroacetaldehyde catalyzed by cinchona alkaloids" Chirality 2011, in press.
Zhang, Z.; Zhang, W. "Fluorous Organocatalysis - A Green Approach for Asymmetric Synthesis” Chimica Oggi (Chemistry Today) , 2011, 28 (3), 32-34.
Ding, S.; Le-Nguyen, M., Xu, T.; Zhang, W. "Fluorous Benzaldehyde-based Synthesis of Biaryl-substituted Oxazabicyclo[3.3.1]nonanes" Green Chem. 2011, 13, 847-849.
Kulkarni, A.; Gianatassio, R.; Török, B. "Pd/C catalyzed reductive formylation of indoles and quinolines using formic acid" Synthesis 2011, 1227-1232.
Borkin, D.; Morzhina, E.; Datta, S.; Rudnitskaya, A.; Sood, A.; Török, M.; Török, B. "Heteropoly Acid-Catalyzed Microwave-Assisted Three-Component Aza-Diels-Alder Cyclizations: Diastereoselective Synthesis of Potential Drug Candidates for Alzheimer’s Disease" Org. Biomol. Chem. 2011, 9, 1394-1401.
Zhang, W. "Review of Microwave Heating as a Tool for Sustainable Chemistry" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 3218
Kulkarni, A.; Torok, B. "Heterogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenations as an Environmentally Benign Tool for Organic Synthesis" Curr. Org. Synth. 2011, 8, 187-207.
Bag, S.; Dasgupta, S.; Torok, B. “Microwave-Assisted Heterogeneous Catalysis: An Environmentally Benign Tool for Contemporary Organic Synthesis" Curr. Org. Synth. 2011, 8, 237-261.
Datta, S.; Sood, A.;Torok, M. “Steps Toward Green Peptide Synthesis” Curr. Org. Synth. 2011, 8, 262-280.
Kadam, A.; Zhang, Z.; Zhang, W. “Microwave-Assisted Fluorous Multicomponent Reactions - A Combinatorial Chemistry Approach for Green Organic Synthesis” Curr. Org. Synth. 2011, 8, 295-309.
Li, D.-P.; Zhang, G.-L.; An, L.-T.; Zou, J.-P.; Zhang, W. "Solvent- and Catalyst-free Synthesis of 2,3-Dihydro-1H-benzo[d] imidazoles" Green Chem. 2011, 13, 594-597
Rudnitskaya, A.; Torok, B.; Dransfield, T. “A B3LYP/6-31+G(d) study of the reaction pathways and conformational preference in a model Chichibabin reaction” Comput. Theoretical Chem. 2011, 963, 191-199.
2010
Mudhoo, A.; Sharma, S. K.; Zhang, W. “Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Versatile Research Perspective”, a book chapter in Green Chemistry and Green Engineering Research; Mudhoo, A.; Sharma, S. K. Eds., CRC Press Taylor & Francis, 2010, pp1-52.
Borkin, D. A.; Carlson, A.; Torok, B. “K-10-Catalyzed Highly Diastereoselective Synthesis of Aziridines” Synlett 2010, 745-748
Kulkarni, A. Torok, B. “Microwave-assisted Multicomponent Domino Cyclization-Aromatization: An Efficient Approach for the Synthesis of Substituted Quinolines” Green Chem. 2010, 12, 875-878.
Pan, X.-Q.; Zou, J.-P.; Wang, L.; Zhang, W. “Manganese(III)-Mediated Direct Phosphonation of Arylalkenes and Arylakynes” Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 1721-1723.
Wang, L.; Cai, C.; Curran, D. P.; Zhang, W. “Enantioselective α-Chlorination of Aldehydes with Recyclable Fluorous (S)-Pyrrolidine-Thiourea Bifunctional Organocatalyst” Synlett 2010, 433-436.
2009
Zhang, W. “Green Chemistry Aspects of Fluorous Techniques – Opportunities and Challenges for Small-Scale Organic Synthesis” Critical review article, Green Chem. 2009, 11, 911-920.