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Catalytic asymmetric C–H insertion reactions of vinyl carbocations 
Nistanaki, S.K.; Williams, C.G.; Wigman, B.; Wong J.J.; Haas, B.C.; Popov, S.; Werth, J.; Sigman, M.S.; Houk, K.N.; Nelson, H. M.; Science ​2022, 378, 1085-1091. ​
This article was highlighted in Nature, C&EN, & The Caltech Weekly.
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Sterically Invariant Carborane-Based Ligands for the Morphological and Electronic Control of Metal–Organic Chalcogenolate Assemblies 
Mills, H. A.; Jones, C. G.; Anderson, K. P.; Ready, A. D.; Djurovich, P. I.; Khan, S. I.; Hohman, N. J.; Nelson, H. M.; Spokoyny, A. M. Chem. Mat. ​2022, 15, 6933–6943.
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Cesium carbonate mediated C–H functionalization of perhalogenated 12-vertex carborane anions
Lovera, S. O; Bagsdasarian, A. L; Guo, J; Nelson, H. M.; Lavallo, V. Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 4060–4062.
Electrochemical Fluorination of Vinyl Boronates Through Donor-Stabilized Vinyl Carbocation Intermediates 
Wigman, B.; Lee, W.; Wei, W.; Houk, K. N.; Nelson, H. M. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. ​2022, 60, e202113972.   
First appeared on ChemRxiv.
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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 2020.
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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 2020.
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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, 22, 7775–7779.
This article was highlighted in Synfacts.
First appeared on ChemRxiv.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. (Asterisks indicate equal contribution.) 
This article was highlighted in Synform.
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