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Independent Work
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26.  MicroED Elucidation of Diverse Solid-State Packing in a Family of Electron-Deficient Expanded Helicenes  Samkian, A.; Kiel, G. R.; Jones, C. G.; Bergman, H.; Oktawiec, J.; Nelson, H. M.; Tilley, T. D. ChemRxiv Preprint.
25.  Chemocatalytic Amplification Probes Enable Transcriptionally-Regulated Au(I)-Catalysis in E. coli and Sensitive Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA Fragments  Green, S.; Wigman, B. W.; Nistanaki, S. K.; Montgomery, H.; Jones, C. G.; Nelson, H. M. ChemRxiv Preprint.
24.  Identification of Uric Acid Gluconucleoside–Ascaroside Conjugates in Caenorhabditis elegans by Combining Synthesis and MicroED  Curtis, B. J.; Kim, L. J.; Wrobel, C. J. J.; Eagen, J. M.; Smith, R. A.; Burch, J. E.; Le, H. H.; Artyukhin, A. B.; Nelson, H. M.; Schroeder, F. C. Org. Lett. 2020, ASAP.
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23.  Structural Determination of an Orphan Natural Product Using Microcrystal Electrion Diffraction and Genome Mining
  Kim, L. J.; Ohashi, M.; Tan, D.; Asay, M.; Cascio, D.; Rodriguez, J; Tang, Y.; Nelson, H. M. ChemRxiv Preprint.
22.  Terpene Tail-to-Head Polycyclization Mediated by Small Molecule Catalysts: A Weakly-Coordinating Anion Approach Burch, J. E.; Bagdasarian, A. L.; Hooshmand, T.; Nelson, H. M. ChemRxiv Preprint.
21.  Urea-Catalyzed Vinyl Carbocation Formation Enables Mild Functionalization of Unactivated C-H Bonds  Bagdasarian, A. L.; Popov, S.; Wigman, B.; Wei, W.; Lee, W.; Nelson, H. M. Org. Lett. 2020, ASAP.

First appeared on ChemRxiv.
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20.  Dewar Heterocycles as Versatile Monomers for Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization  Nistanaki, S. K.; Nelson, H. M. ACS Macro Lett. 2020, 9, 731–735.

First appeared on ChemRxiv.
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19.  Vinyl Carbocations Generated under Basic Conditions and Their Intramolecular C–H Insertion Reactions  Wigman, B.; Popov, S.; Bagdasarian, A. L.; Shao, B.; Benton, T. R.; Williams, C. G.; Fisher, S. P.; Lavallo, V.; Houk, K. N.; Nelson, H. M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 9140–9144.

First appeared on ChemRxiv.
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18. Characterization of reactive organometallic species via MicroED  Jones, C. G.; Asay, M.; Kim, L. J.; Kleinsasser, J. F.; Saha, A.; Fulton, T. J.; Berkly, K. R.; Cascio, D.; Malyutin, A. G.; Conley, M. P.; Stoltz, B. M.; Lavallo, V.; Rodriguez, J. A.; Nelson, H. M. ACS Cent. Sci. 2019, 5, 1507–1513.

First appeared on ChemRxiv.
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17. Regulating Transition Metal Catalysis Through Interference by Short RNAs  Green, S. A.; Montgomery, H. R.; Benton, T. R.; Chan, N. J.; Nelson, H. M. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58,16400–16404.

First appeared on ChemRxiv.​
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16. Nonclassical Applications of closo-Carborane Anions: From Main Group Chemistry and Catalysis to Energy Storage  Fisher, S. P.; Tomich, A. W.; Lovera, S. O.; Kleinsasser, J. F.; Guo, J.; Asay, M. J.; Nelson, H. M.; Lavallo, V. Chem. Rev. 2019, 119, 8262–8290.
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15. A Concise Total Synthesis of (±)-Vibralactone  Nistanaki, S. K.; Boralsky, L. A.; Pan, R. D.; Nelson, H. M. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 1724–1726.

First appeared on ChemRxiv.
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14. The CryoEM method MicroED as a powerful tool for small molecule structure determination Jones, C. G.; Martynowycz, M. W.; Hattne, J.; Fulton, T. J.; Stoltz, B. M.; Rodriguez, J. A.; Nelson, H. M.; Gonen, T. ACS Cent. Sci. 2018, 4, 1587–1592. 

First appeared on ChemRxiv.

This article was highlighted in ScienceNews, Science In the Pipeline, Nature & C&EN, NIH Director's Blog.
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13. Teaching an old carbocation new tricks: Intermolecular C–H insertion reactions of vinyl cations  Popov, S.; Shao, B.; Bagdasarian, A. L.; Benton, T. R.; Zhou, L.; Yang, Z.; Houk, K. N.; Nelson, H. M. Science 2018, 361, 381-387.

This article was highlighted in Science, C&EN, & UCLA Newsroom.
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12. Arylation of Hydrocarbons Enabled by Organosilicon Reagents and Weakly Coordinating Anions  Shao, B.‡;  Bagdasarian, A. L.‡; Popov, S.; Nelson, H. M. Science 2017, 355, 1403–1407.

This article was featured in Synform, read here.
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Mentored Work

11. Enantioselective Heck–Matsuda Arylations through Chiral Anion Phase-Transfer of Aryl Diazonium Salts  Avilan C. M.; Patel, J. S.; Reddi, Y.; Saito, M.; Nelson, H. M.; Shunatona, H. P.; Sigman, M. S.; Sunoj, R. B.; Toste, F. D. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 1–7.
10. ​Enantioselective 1,1-Arylborylation of Alkenes: Merging Chiral Anion Phase Transfer with Pd Catalysis  Nelson, H. M.‡; Williams, B. D.‡; Miró, J.; Toste, F. D. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 3213–3216.
9. The Total Syntheses of Basiliolide C, epi-Basiliolide C, and Protecting-Group-Free Total Syntheses of Transtaganolides C and D  Gordon, J. R.; Nelson, H. M.; Virgil, S. C.; Stoltz, B. M.  J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 9740–9747.
8. Enantioselective α-Amination Enabled by a BINAM-Derived Phase-Transfer Catalyst  Nelson, H. M.‡; Patel, J. S.‡; Shunatona, H. P.; Toste, F. D. Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, 170–173.
7. Chiral Anion Phase-Transfer of Aryldiazonium Cations: An Enantioselective Synthesis of C3-Diazenated Pyrroloindolines  Nelson, H. M.; Reisberg, S. H.; Shunatona, H. P.; Patel, J. S.; Toste, F. D. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 5600–5603.
6. Selective Nucleic Acid Capture With Shielded Covalent Probes  Vieregg, J. R.; Nelson, H. M.; Stoltz, B. M.; Pierce, N. A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 9691–9699.
5. Total Syntheses of (–)-Transtaganolide A, (+)-Transtaganolide B, (+)-Transtaganolide C, and (–)-Transtaganolide D and Biosynthetic Implications  Nelson, H. M.; Gordon, J. R.; Virgil, S. C.; Stoltz, B. M. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 6699–6703.
4. A General Approach to the Basiliolide/Transtaganolide Natural Products: Total Syntheses of Basiliolide B, epi-8-Basiliolide B, Transtaganolide C, and Transtaganolide D  Nelson, H. M.; Murakami, K.; Virgil, S. C.; Stoltz, B. M. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 3688–3691.
3. Progress Toward the Synthesis of the Transtaganolide/Basiliolide Natural Products: An Ireland-Claisen Approach  Nelson, H. M.; Stoltz, B. M. Tetrahedron Lett.  2009, 50, 1699–1701.
2. Side Chain Chemistry Mediates Backbone Fragmentation in Hydrogen Deficient Peptide Radicals  Sun, Q.; Nelson, H. M.; Ly, T.; Stoltz, B. M.; Julian, R. R.  J. Proteome Res. 2009, 8, 958–966.
1. Progress toward the Synthesis of the Basiliolides and Transtaganolides: An Intramolecular Pyrone Diels-Alder Entry into a Novel Class of Natural Products​  Nelson, H. M.; Stoltz, B. M. Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 25–28.
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