List of Selected Publications

1. Pan, L., Zhang, K., Nishiura, M., Hou, Z.:
   "Chain-Shuttling Polymerization at Two Different Scandium Sites: Regio- and Stereospecific "One-Pot" Block Copolymerization of Styrene, Isoprene, and Butadiene"
   Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 12012-12015 (2011).
2. Ohishi, T., Zhang, L., Nishiura, M., Hou, Z.:
   "Carboxylation of Alkylboranes by N-Heterocyclic Carbene Copper Catalysts:Synthesis of Carboxylic Acids from Terminal Alkenes and Carbon Dioxide"
   Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 8114-8117 (2011).
3. Guan, B., Hou, Z.:
   "Rare-Earth-Catalyzed C-H Bond Addition of pyridine to Olefins"
   J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 18086-18089 (2011).
4. Oyamada, J. , Nishiura, M., Hou, Z.:
   "Scandium-Catalyzed Silylation of Aromatic C-H Bonds"
   Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 10720-10723 (2011).
5. Shima, T., Luo, Y. , Stewart, T. , Bau, R., Mclntyre, G. J., Mason, S. A., Hou, Z.:
   "Molecular heterometallic hydride clusters composed of rare-earth and d-trantion metals"
   Nature Chem., 3, 814-820 (2011).
6. Guo, F., Nishiura, M., Koshino, H., Hou, Z.:
   "Scandium-Catalyzed Cyclocopolymerization of 1,5-Hexadiene with Styrene and Ethylene: Efficient Synthesis of Cyclopolyolefins Containing Syndiotactic Styrene-Styrene Sequences and Methylene-1,3-cyclopentane Units"
   Macromolecules, 44, 6335-6344 (2011).
7. Chen, J., Shima, T., Hou,. Z.:
   "Rare-Earth Polyhydride Complexes Bearing Bis(phosphinophenyl)amido Pincer Ligands."
   Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50, 1857-1860 (2011).
8. Zhang, L., Cheng, J., Ohishi , T., Hou, Z.:
   "Copper-Catalyzed Direct Carboxylation of C-H Bonds with Carbon Dioxide"
   Angew.Chem.Int.Ed., 49, 8670-8673 (2010).
9. Hamashima, Y., Nagi, T., Shimizu, R., Tsuchimoto, T., Sodeoka, M.:
   "Catalytic Asymmetric α-Chlorination of 3-Acyloxazolin-2-one with a Trinary Catalytic System."
   Eur. J. Org. Chem., 3675-3678 (2011).
10. Umebayashi, N., Hamashima, Y., Hashizume, D., Sodeoka, M.:
    "Catalytic Enantioselective Aldol-type Reaction of β-Ketoesters with Acetals."
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47, 4196-4199 (2008).

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