1. "NHC-Catalyzed ε-Umpolung via p-Quinodimethanes and Its Nucleophilic Addition to Ketones" Lei Dai, Song Ye* ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 994.

2. "N-Heterocyclic carbene/photo-cocatalyzed oxidative Smiles rearrangement: synthesis of aryl salicylates from O-aryl salicylaldehydes" Zi-Hao Xia, Lei Dai, Zhong-Hua Gao, Song Ye* Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 1525. 

3. "Photo/N-Heterocyclic Carbene Co-catalyzed Ring Opening and γ-Alkylation of Cyclopropane Enal" Lei Dai, Song Ye* Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 986.

4. "N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed Photooxidation: Intramolecular Cross Dehydrogenative Coupling of Tetrahydroisoquinoline-Tethered Aldehydes" Zhong-Hua Gao, Zi-Hao Xia, Lei Dai, Song Ye* Adv. Synth. Catal. 2020, 362, 1819.

5. "Bifunctional N-Heterocyclic Carbenes Derived from L-Pyroglutamic Acid and Their Applications in Enantioselective Organocatalysis" Xiang-Yu Chen, Zhong-Hua Gao, Song Ye* Acc. Chem. Res. 2020, 53, 690.

6. "Palladium‐Catalyzed [4+2] and [5+2] Annulation for the Synthesis of Tetrahydroquinolines and 1,4‐Benzoxazepines" Zhao-Fei Zhang,  Yan Zhang,  Chun-Lin Zhang*,  Song Ye* Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2020, 2020, 3059.

7. "Biomass Transformation of Cellulose via N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Catalyzed Umpolung of 5-(Chloromethyl)furfural" Lei Dai, Ye Qiu, Yuan-Yuan Xu, Song Ye* Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. 2020, 1, 100071.

8. "γ-Difluoroalkylation: Synthesis of γ-Difluoroalkyl-α,β-Unsaturated Esters via Photoredox NHC-Catalyzed Radical Reaction" Lei Dai, Yuan-Yuan Xu, Zi-Hao Xia, Song Ye* Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 8173.

 

9. "NHC/Copper-Cocatalyzed [4 + 3] Annulations of Salicylaldehydes with Aziridines for the Synthesis of 1,4-Benzoxazepinones" You-Feng Han, Zhong-Hua Gao, Chun-Lin Zhang*, Song Ye* Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 8396.