Reaction Design

"Intramolecular Delivery of a Water Equivalent in the Oxymercuration Reaction. Conversion of an Allylic Alcohol Into a cis-Vicinal Diol"
Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications 1972, 1196-1198
L. E. Overman

"Thermal and Mercuric Ion Catalyzed [3,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangements of Allylic Trichloroacetimidates. The 1,3-Transposition of Alcohol and Amine Functions"
Journal of the American Chemical Society 1974, 96, 597-599
L. E. Overman

"Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation via Directed 2-Azonia-[3,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangements. A New Pyrrolidine Synthesis"
Journal of the American Chemical Society 1979, 101, 1310-1313
L. E. Overman and M. Kakimoto

"Palladium(II) Chloride Catalyzed Cope Rearrangements of Acyclic 1,5-Dienes"
Journal of the American Chemical Society 1980, 102, 865-867
L. E. Overman and F. M. Knoll

"Allylic and Propargylic Imidic Esters in Organic Synthesis"
Accounts of Chemical Research 1980, 13, 218-224
L. E. Overman

"Palladium Catalyzed Polyene Cyclizations of Trienyl Triflates"
Journal of Organic Chemistry 1989, 54, 5846-5848
N. E. Carpenter, D. J. Kucera and L. E. Overman

"Charge as a Key Component in Reaction Design. The Invention of Cationic Cyclization Reactions of Importance in Synthesis"
Accounts of Chemical Research 1992, 25, 352-359
L. E. Overman

"Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Quaternary Carbon Centers. Exploratory Studies of Intramolecular Heck Reactions of (Z)-a,B-Unsaturated Anilides and Mechanistic Investigations of Asymmetric Heck Reactions Proceeding via Neutral Intermediates"
Journal of the American Chemical Society 1998, 120, 6488-6499
A. Ashimori, B. Bachand, M. A. Calter, S. P. Govek, L. E. Overman and D. J. Poon

"Enantioselective Construction of Vicinal Stereogenic Quaternary Centers by Dialkylation: Practical Total Syntheses of (+)- and Meso-Chimonanthine"
Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 2000, 39, 213–215
L. E. Overman, J. F. Larrow, B. A. Stearns and J. M. Vance


"Catalytic Asymmetric Rearrangement of Allylic Trichloroacetimidates. A Practical Method for Preparing Allylic Amines and Congeners of High Enantiomeric Purity"
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2003, 125, 12412-12413
C. E. Anderson and L. E. Overman

“Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Allylic Esters”
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005, 127, 2866–2867
S. F. Kirsch and L. E. Overman