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Yilin Cao, Warabhorn Rodphon, Turki M. Alturaifi, Al Vicente Riano D. Lisboa, Zhouyang Ren, Job J. C. Struijs, Hui-Qi Ni, Taras Savchuk, Richard P. Loach, Shouliang Yang, Indrawan J. McAlpine, Donna G. Blackmond, Pavel K. Mykhailiuk, Peng Liu, K. Barry Sharpless, Keary M. Engle (2026). Alkyl sulfonyl fluorides as ambiphiles in the stereoselective palladium(II)-catalysed cyclopropanation of unactivated alkenes. Nature Synthesis 2026, 5, 281.

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Amit Kumar Simlandy, Yiyao Hu, Turki M. Alturaifi, Wen-Ji He, Madeline J. Fitzgerald, Peng Liu, Keary M. Engle (2025). Equivalent Atrop- and Positional Isomerism in Styrene Derivatives Prepared by Enantioselective 1,3-Diarylation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 40244.

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Wei Huang, Gessica M. Adornato, Maggie Horst, Turki M. Alturaifi, Kaipeng Hou, Peng Liu, William F. DeGrado, Yang Yang (2025). De Novo Design, Directed Evolution and Computational Study of Heme-Binding Helical Bundle Protein Catalysts for Biocatalytic Enantioselective Ge–H Insertion. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 40869.

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Chen Zhang, Jun Zhou, Pei-Pei Xie, Silvia M. Rivera, Turki M. Alturaifi, James Finnigan, Simon Charnock, Peng Liu, Yang Yang (2025). Diversity-oriented photobiocatalytic synthesis via stereoselective three-component radical coupling. Science 2025, 389, eadx2935.

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Sidhant Wagulde, Kevin P. Quirion, Turki M. Alturaifi, Peng Liu, Vladimir Gevorgyan (2025). Directed Halogen Atom Transfer (DIXAT): A Powerful Tool for Chemoselective Generation of Aryl Radicals Toward Remote C(sp³)–H Functionalization of Aliphatic Amines. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 29367.

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Turki M. Alturaifi, Grace E. Scofield, Shengchun Wang, Peng Liu (2025). A database of steric and electronic properties of heteroaryl substituents. Scientific Data 2025, 12, 1319.

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Yun-Pu Chang, Kevin Blanco-Herrero, Turki M. Alturaifi, James C. Fettinger, Peng Liu, Annaliese K. Franz (2025). Multifunctional chiral silanol ligands for enantioselective catalysis. Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 13678.

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Kaipeng Hou, Wei Huang, Miao Qi, Thomas H. Tugwell, Turki M. Alturaifi, Yuda Chen, Xingjie Zhang, Lei Lu, Samuel I. Mann, Peng Liu, Yang Yang, William F. DeGrado (2025). De novo design of porphyrin-containing proteins as efficient and stereoselective catalysts. Science 2025, 388, 665.

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Turki M. Alturaifi, Kristin Shimabukuro, Jack C. Sharland, Binh Khanh Mai, Evan Weingarten, Mithun C. Madhusudhanan, Djamaladdin G. Musaev, Peng Liu, Huw M. L. Davies (2025). Hexafluoroisopropanol Solvent Effects on Enantioselectivity of Dirhodium Tetracarboxylate-Catalyzed Cyclopropanation. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147, 14694.

Zi-Qi Li, Turki M. Alturaifi, Yilin Cao, Matthew V. Joannou, Peng Liu, Keary M. Engle (2024). Hemilabile Quinone Ligands Enable Nickel-Catalyzed C−S(Alkyl) Bond Formation in the Carbosulfenylation of Unactivated Alkenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2024, e202411870.

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Hui-Qi Ni, Turki M. Alturaifi, Warabhorn Rodphon, Nicholas F. Scherschel, Shouliang Yang, Fen Wang, Indrawan J. McAlpine, Davin G. Piercey, Peng Liu, Keary M. Engle (2024). Anti-selective Cyclopropanation of Nonconjugated Alkenes with Diverse Pronucleophiles via Directed Nucleopalladation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2024, e202409149.

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Mingwan Leng, Turki M. Alturaifi, Josiah Pearce, Hengyu Lin, Guanghua Yu, Mohammed Al-Hashimi, Hong-Cai Zhou, Peng Liu, Lei Fang (2024). Resonance-Assisted Self-Doping in Robust Open-Shell Ladder-Type Oligoaniline Analogues. Journal of American Chemical Society 2024, 146, 35, 24503–24514.

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Amit Kumar Simlandy, Turki M. Alturaifi, Johny M. Nguyen, Lucas J. Oxtoby, Quynh Nguyen Wong, Jason S. Chen, Peng Liu, Keary M. Engle (2023). Enantioselective Hydroalkenylation and Hydroalkynylation of Alkenes Enabled by a Transient Directing Group: Catalyst Generality through Rigidification. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2023, e202304013.

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Juan V. Alegre-Requena, Shree Sowndarya, Raúl Pérez-Soto, Turki M. Alturaifi, Robert S. Paton (2023). AQME: Automated Quantum Mechanical Environments for Researchers and Educators. WIREs Computational Molecular Science. 2023. e1663..

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Amit Kumar Simlandy, Warabhorn Rodphon, Turki M. Alturaifi, Binh Khanh Mai, Hui-Qi Ni, John A. Gurak, Peng Liu, Keary M. Engle (2022). Catalytic Addition of Nitroalkanes to Unactivated Alkenes via Directed Carbopalladation. ACS Catalysis 2022, 12, 13755–1376.

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Omar Apolinar, Taeho Kang, Turki M. Alturaifi, Pranali G. Bedekar, Camille Z. Rubel, Joseph Derosa, Brittany B. Sanchez, Quynh Nguyen Wong, Emily J. Sturgell, Jason S. Chen, Steven R. Wisniewski, Peng Liu, Keary M. Engle (2022). Three-Component Asymmetric Ni-Catalyzed 1,2-Dicarbofunctionalization of Unactivated Alkenes via Stereoselective Migratory Insertion. Journal of American Chemical Society 2022, 144, 19337–19343.

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