20. Tianyuan Ou, Liming Xiang, Ying Zhou, Feng Jiang, Xi Wang*, and Wengang Guo*

Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Fluorenes: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives.

Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2024, e202400795, DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202400795 (invited review).

19. Xin Yue1, Shi-Jia Li1, Tianyuan Ou, Zhenying Xiong, Feng Jiang, Ying Zhou, Lijuan Song*, Yupei Zhao*, and Wengang Guo*

Enantioselective Synthesis of Unsymmetrical a,a-Diarylacetates via Organocatalyzed Formal C-H Insertion Reactions of 

Sulfoxonium Ylides with Indoles and Pyrroles. 

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11, 4084-4093. DOI: 10.1039/D4QO00753K.

Back cover article, see the artwork(access code: rb7t )

Highlighted by Wechat Official Account Platform of Organic Chemistry Frontiers

18. Ying Zhou, Feng Jiang, Xin Yue, Xi Wang, and Wengang Guo*

Chromium(III)-Catalyzed Desymmetrization of meso-Epoxides via Remote Stereocontrol: Synthesis of Chiral Fluorenes 

Bearing All Carbon Quaternary Stereocenters.. 

Org. Lett., 2024, 26, 877-882. DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.3c04144.

17. Feng Jiang1, Tengfei Meng1, Ying Zhou1, Zhenying Xiong, Yupei Zhao*, and Wengang Guo*

Pseudo-Diastereodivergent Synthesis of Chiral Fluorenes Bearing Bis-1,3-Non-Adjacent Stereogenic Centers via Organocatalytic Desymmetrization of meso-Epoxides. 

Org. Lett., 2023, 25, 6006-6011 (1: equal contribution)

*Front Cover Article;

*Original Data

*highlighted by school of petrochemical engineering, Changzhou University

16. Wengang Guo, Qian Li, Yan Liu*, Can Li*.

One-Pot Remote Desymmetrization/Peterson-Olefination for the Construction of Silicon-Stereogenic Silyl Ethers. 

Sci. China Chem., 2023, 66, 2797-2802. DOI: 10.1007/s11426-023-1643-7

*SPECIAL ISSUE: In Honor of Professor Lixin Dai on the Occasion of his 100th Birthday.

*Highlighted by the WeChat Official Account Platform of Science China Chemistry! 

备注：该工作为郭老师在大连化物所工作期间研究成果！

15. Xin Yue1, Ying Zhou1, Yan Zhang, Tengfei Meng, Yupei Zhao*, Wengang Guo*. 

Synthesis of a Versatile 1H-indene-3-carboxylates Scaffold Enabled by Visible-Light Promoted Wolff Rearrangement of 1-Diazonaphthalen-2(1H)-ones.  

Chem. Commun., 2023, 59, 6363-6366. (1: equal contribution)

* The original data for this article (Enter Code: 5h7n )

14. Ying Zhou1, Yan Zhang1, Canghai Yu, Xin Yue, Feng Jiang, Wengang Guo*. 

Visible-Light-Mediated Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of a-Amino Esters via Free Carbene Insertion into N-H Bond. 

Tetrahedron Lett., 2023, 122, 154496. (1: equal contribution)

*The original data for this article (Enter Code: d4e2 )

13. Ying Zhou1, Xin Yue1, Feng Jiang, Jianwei Sun, Wengang Guo*. 

Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of a-Tertiary Aminoketones from Sulfoxonium Ylides Bearing Two Aryl Groups. 

Chem. Commun., 2023, 59, 1193-1196. (1: equal contribution)

*The original data for this article (Enter Code: jysy)

12. Wengang Guo*, Ying Zhou, Hongling Xie, Xin Yue, Feng Jiang, Hai Huang, 

Zhengyu Han, and Jianwei Sun*. 

Visible-Light-Induced Organocatalytic Enantioselective N-H Insertion of a-Diazoesters Enabled by Indirect Free Carbene Capture.

Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 843-848

*highlighted by Synfacts

*highlighted in a recent review as one of the representative progresses made by chinese chemist in the filed of chiral 

 phosphoric acid catalysis in recent years, see the review! 

*highlighted by school of petrochemical engineering, Changzhou University.

*most popular 2023 organic chemistry articles.

备注：论文实验工作主要由郭老师完成！

11. Wengang Guo*, Feng Jiang, Shijia Li, and Jianwei Sun*. 

Organocatalytic Asymmetric Azidation of Sulfoxonium Ylides: Mild Synthesis of Enantioenriched a-Azido Ketones Bearing a Labile Tertiary Stereocenter. 

Chem. Sci., 2022, 13, 11648-11655

*highlighted by school of petrochemical engineering, Changzhou University.

备注：论文实验工作由郭老师完成！

10. Zhibing Weng1, Ying Zhou1, Xin Yue, Feng Jiang, and Wengang Guo*

Regioselective alpha-Addition of Vinylogous alpha-Ketoester Enolate in Organo-catalytic Asymmetric Michael Reactions: Enantioselective Synthesis of Rauhut-Currier Type Products.

RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 32056-32060 (1: equal contribution).

Note: Co-operated with Dr. Weng@Changzhou Vocational Institute of 

Engineering.

9. Wengang Guo, Min Wang, Zhengyu Han, Hai Huang*, and Jianwei Sun*. 

Organocatalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of a-Amino Esters from Sulfoxonium Ylides.

Chem. Sci., 2021,12, 11191-11196.

*the original data for this article (Enter Code: zfws)

*highlighted by school of petrochemical engineering, Changzhou University.

*highlighted by Synfacts, 2021, 17, 1166 (by Prof. Hisashi Yamamoto).

备注：论文实验工作由郭老师完成！

8. Wengang Guo, Yuzheng Luo, Herman H.-Y. Sung, Ian D. Williams, Pingfan Li*, and Jianwei Sun*. 

Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed Enantioselective Synthesis of alpha-Tertiary Amino Ketones from Sulfonium Ylides.  

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 14384-14390.

*highlighted by XMOL;

*highlighted by Synfacts (by Prof. Benjamin List);

*highlighted by Synfacts (by Prof. Hisashi Yamamoto);

*This article has been one of the most read articles for previous 30 days (information provided by JACS website).

*This article is one of the most cited publications from 2020-2021.

7. Renwei Zhang1, Wengang Guo1, Meng Duan1, K. N. Houk*, and Jianwei Sun.* 

Asymmetric Desymmetrization of Oxetanes for the Synthesis of Chiral Tetrahydrothiophenes and Tetrahydroselenophenes. 

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 18055-18060 (1: equal contribution).

6. Wengang Guo, Lu Li, Qian Ding, Xiangfeng Lin, Xianghui Liu, Kai Wang, Yan Liu*, Hongjun Fan*, and Can Li*. 

Synthesis of Chiral Trispirocyclic Oxindoles via Organic-Base/Au(I)-Catalyzed Sequential Reactions. 

ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 10180-10189.

ACS Newsworthy Nomination

5. Wengang Guo, Xianghui Liu, Yan Liu, and Can Li.  

Chiral Catalysis at the Water/Oil Interface. 

ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 328-341.

4. Wengang Guo, Yan Liu*, and Can Li*. 

Asymmetric Catalytic 1,2-Hydroperoxidation of Isatin-Derived Ketimine with Hydrogen Peroxide in the Crowding Environment of PEGs. 

Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 1044-1047. 

3. Wengang Guo, Bo Wu, Xin Zhou, Ping Chen, Xu, Wang, Yong-Gui Zhou, Yan Liu*, and Can Li*. 

Formal Asymmetric Catalytic Thiolation with a Bifunctional Catalyst at a Water-Oil Interface: Synthesis of Benzyl Thiols. 

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 4522-4526 (highly cited article, >100 cites). 

This article has been highlighted by Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 35, 1380-1382.

2. Wengang Guo1, Xu Wang1, Dr. Boyu Zhang, Shuai Shen, Xin Zhou, Peng Wang, Yan Liu*, Can Li*. 

Facile Synthesis of Chiral Spirooxindole-Based Isotetronic Acids and 5-1H-Pyrrol-2-ones through Cascade Reactions with Bifunctional Organocatalysts. 

Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 8545-8550 (1: equal contribution).

This article was one of the top 15 most accessed articles in June 2014. 

1. Wengang Guo, Jianwei Wei, Yan Liu*, Can Li*. 

Construction of anti-1,2-diol bearing chiral tertiary alcohol moiety using free hydroxyacetone as aldol donor by imidazole-based prolineamide catalyst. 

Tetrahedron, 2014, 70, 6561-6568.