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"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
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