Independent Work
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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.
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.

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Mentored Work

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.
​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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.