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., 50, 12012-12015 (2011).
2. Guan, B., Hou, Z.:
   "Rare-Earth-Catalyzed C-H Bond Addition of Pyridine to Olefins"
   J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 18086-18089 (2011).
3. Oyamada, J. , Nishiura, M., Hou, Z.:
   "Scandium-Catalyzed Silylation of Aromatic C-H Bonds"
   Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 10720-10723 (2011).
4. 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).
5. 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).
6. Chen, J., Shima, T., Hou,. Z.:
   "Rare-Earth Polyhydride Complexes Bearing Bis(phosphinophenyl)amido Pincer Ligands."
   Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50, 1857-1860 (2011).
7. Li, S., Cheng, J., Chen, Y., Nishiura, M., Hou, Z.:
   "Rare-Earth Metal Boryl Complexes: Synthesis, Structure, and Insertion of a Carbodiimide and Carbon Monoxide"
   Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 6360-6363 (2011).
8. Zhang, L. ., Cheng, J., Ohishi , T., and Z. Hou.:
   "Copper-Catalyzed Direct Carboxylation of C-H Bonds with Carbon Dioxide"
   Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 49, 8670-8673 (2010).
9. Nishiura, M., Hou, Z.:
   "Novel polymerization catalysts and hydride clusters from rare-earth metal dialkyls "
   Nature Chem., 2, 257-268 (2010).
10. Takimoto, M., Usami, S., Hou, Z.:
    "Scandium-Catalyzed Regio- and Stereospecific Methylalumination of Silyloxy/Alkoxy-Substituted Alkynes and Alkenes."
    J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 18266-18268 (2009).

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