Aqeel A. Hussein*, Nadhir N. A. Jafar, and Yumiao Ma, Elucidating the Mechanism of Tetrahydrofuran-diol Formation Through Os(VI)-Catalyzed Oxidative Cyclization of 5,6-Dihydroxyalkenes Ligated by Citric Acid, J. Org. Chem., 2024, Accepted. DOI
Aqeel A. Hussein* and Azhar Ariffin, Remote Steric and Electronic Effects of NHC Ligands on Alkene Reactivity and Regioselectivity Towards Hydrocupration Reactions: Role of Expanded-Ring NHCs, J. Org. Chem., 2023, 88, 13009–13021. DOI
Hassan Hammud*, Mohamad Hammoud, Aqeel A. Hussein*, Youssef Fawaz, Malai Hamid, Nadeem Sheikh*, Removal of Malachite Green using Hydrochar from Palm Leaves, Sustainability, 2023, 15, 8939. DOI
Valentin Magnéa, Corentin Bellangera, Aqeel A. Hussein, Nathalie Saffon-Merceron, Sami Lakhdar*, Visible Light-Mediated Germanylation of Aryl Fluorides: Synthetic and Mechanistic Insights, Synthesis, 2023, 55. DOI
Hafiz Saqib Ali, Aqeel A. Hussein*, and Mohammed Obies, Impact of Counteranions on N-Heterocyclic Carbene Gold(I)-Catalyzed Cyclization of Propargylic Amide, RSC Advances, 2023, 13, 2896–2902.DOI
Yumiao Ma* and Aqeel A. Hussein*, Partner Effect in Accelerating Pincer-Co Catalyzed Nitrile Hydroboration Reaction, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2023, 25, 3110–3120. DOI.
Yumiao Ma* and Aqeel A. Hussein*, Formal Pericyclic-Coupled Electron Transfer: I. Stepwise Formal Diels-Alder Cycloaddition Enabled by Addition-Coupled Electron Transfer, ChemistrySelect, 2022, 7, e202202354. DOI.
Yumiao Ma and Aqeel A. Hussein*, Unveiling the Origin of Chemoselectivity of Bismacycles-Mediated C─H Arylation of Phenols: From Mechanism Concept to New Coupling Design, Org. Chem. Front., 2022, 9, 4890–4901. DOI.
Yumiao Ma* and Aqeel A. Hussein*, Formal Pericyclic-Coupled Electron Transfer: I. Stepwise Formal Diels-Alder Cycloaddition Enabled by Addition-Coupled Electron Transfer, ChemRxiv, 2022, DOI.
Yumiao Ma* and Aqeel A. Hussein*, The Potential Role of Addition Coupled Electron Transfer (ACET) in Single Atom Catalysis: The Hydrogen Transfer from Metalloporphyrin to Imine is an ACET, ChemRxiv, 2022, DOI.
Mohammed Obies* and Aqeel A. Hussein*, The Nature of Metal-Metal Bonding in Re-, Ru- and Os-Corrole Dimer, RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 18728–18735. DOI.
Mohammed Obies* and Aqeel A. Hussein*, The Nature of Metal-Metal Bonding in Re- and Os-Corrole Dimer, ChemRxiv, 2022. DOI.
Yuri M. Shafran, Aqeel A. Hussein, Nikolai A. Belyaev, Vadim A. Shevyrin, Sergey Shityakov, Tetyana V. Beryozkina, and Vasiliy А. Bakulev*, Selective Synthesis of Azoloyl NH-1,2,3-Triazoles and Azolyl Diazoketones: Experimental and Computational Insights, ACS Omega, 2022, 7, 5008–5031. DOI.
Aqeel A. Hussein*, Yumiao Ma, and Gamal A. I. Moustafa, Predominance of the Second Cycle in the Homogeneous Os-Catalyzed Dihydroxylation: Nature of Os(VI)→Os(VIII) Reoxidation and Unprecedented Roles for the Amine-N-Oxide, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2022, 12, 880–893. DOI
Yumiao Ma, Hafiz Saqib Ali, and Aqeel A. Hussein*, A Mechanistic Study on Gold(I)-Catalyzed Cyclization of Propargylic Amide: Revealing the Impact of Expanded-Ring N-Heterocyclic Carbenes, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2022, 12, 674–685 . DOI
Yumiao Ma*, Aqeel A. Hussein*, and Zhaohong Wang, Boosting Palladium Catalyzed Aryl–Nitro Bond Activation Reaction by Understanding the Electronic, Electrostatic and Polarization Effect: A Computational Study from Basic Understanding to Ligand Design, J. Org. Chem., 2022, 87, 531–539 . DOI
Fatima Rammal, Di Gao, Sondes Boujnah, Aqeel A. Hussein, Jacques Lalevée, Annie–Claude Gaumont, Fabrice Morlet-Savary, and Sami Lakhdar, Photochemical C–H Silylation and Hydroxymethylation of Pyridines and Related Structures: Synthetic Scope and Mechanisms, ACS Catal., 2020, 10, 13710–13717. DOI
Aqeel A. Hussein*, Yumiao Ma, and Ahmed A. Al-Yasari, Hypervalent Iodine-Mediated Styrene Hetero- and Homodimerizations Initiation Proceeds with Two-Electron Reductive Cleavage, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2020, 7219–7228. DOI
Aqeel A. Hussein*, Yumiao Ma, and Ahmed A. Al-Yasari, Hypervalent Iodine-Mediated Styrene Hetero- and Homodimerizations Initiation Proceeds with Two-Electron Reductive Cleavage, ChemRxiv, 2020, DOI
Fatma Rammal, Di Gao, Annie–Claude Gaumont, Jacques Lalevée, Fabrice Morlet-Savary, Aqeel A. Hussein, and Sami Lakhdar*, Visible-Light-Mediated C–H Alkylation of Pyridine Derivatives, Org. Lett., 2020, 22, 7671–7675. DOI
Aqeel A. Hussein* and Hafiz S. Ali, Revealing the Mechanism and Origin of Reactivity of Au(I)-Catalyzed Functionalized Indenone Formation of Cyclic and Acyclic Acetals of Alkynylaldehydes, J. Org. Chem., 2020, 85, 12682–12691. DOI
Aqeel A. Hussein* and Hafiz S. Ali, Revealing the Mechanism and Origin of Reactivity of Au(I)-Catalyzed Functionalized Indenone Formation of Cyclic and Acyclic Acetals of Alkynylaldehydes, ChemRxiv, 2020, DOI
Sergey Shityakov, Anneli Fischer, Kuan-Pin Su, Aqeel A. Hussein and Jens Broscheit, A Novel Approach for Characterizing Propofol Binding Affinities to Serum Albumins from Different Species, ACS Omega, 2020, 5, 25543–25551. DOI
Aqeel A. Hussein*, Ru-catalysed oxidative cyclisation of 1,5-dienes: an unprecedented role for the co-oxidant, RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 15228−15238. DOI
D. Esmaeilpour, Aqeel A. Hussein, F. A. Almalki, Sergey. Shityakov, A. K. Bordbar, Probing Inclusion Complexes of 2-Hydroxypropyl-β-Cyclodextrin with Mono-Amino Mono-Carboxylic Acids: Physicochemical Specification and Characterization and Molecular Modelling, Heliyon, 2020, 6, e03360. DOI
Aqeel A. Hussein*, Azzam A. M. Al-Hadedi, Alaa J. Mahrath, Gamal A. I. Moustafa, Faisal A. Almalki, Alaa Alqahtani, Sergey Shityakov, and Moaed E. Algazally, Mechanistic investigations on Pinnick oxidation: a density functional theory study, R. Soc. Open Sci., 2020, 7, 191568.DOI
Aqeel A. Hussein, Maximillian J. S. Phipps, Chris-Kriton Skylaris, and Richard C. D. Brown*, Mechanism of the Os-Catalyzed Oxidative Cyclization of 1,5-Dienes, J. Org. Chem., 2019, 84, 15173−15183. DOI
Aqeel A. Hussein*, Faisal A. Almalki, Alaa M. Alqahtani, and Sergey Shityakov, Computational Assessments on Diastereoselective [4+2] Cycloaddition and 1,3-Borotopic Shift of Dearomatized Tertiary Boronic Ester Intermediate: Reactivities Explained Through Transition-State Distortion Energies, RSC Advances, 2019, 9, 23148–23155. DOI
Sergey Shityakov, Ehsan Bigdelian, Aqeel A. Hussein, Muhammad Bilal Hussain, Yogesh Chndra Tripathi, Muhammad Usman Khan, Mohammad Ali Shariati, Phytochemical and Pharmacological Attributes of Piperine: A Bioactive Ingredient of Black Pepper, Eur. J. Med. Chem, 2019, 176, 149-161. DOI