Publications

Wencke Leinung, Nobuya Tsuji, Michael Merher, Markus Leutzsch, Ravindra K. Raut, Benjamin List*

“Catalytic Asymmetric Ionic Hydrogenation of α-Alkyl Styrenes”

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 31463–31469.

Chandra Kanta De, Masumi Tsuda, Chendan Zhu, Stefanie Dehn, Heike Hinrichs, Nobuya Tsuji, Hui Jin, Hisashi Arase, Shinya Tanaka*, Benjamin List*

“The Overlooked Stereoisomers of the Ionizable Lipid ALC315”

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 28595–28600. 

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Ravindra Krushnaji Raut, Satoshi Matsutani, Fuxing Shi, Shuta Kataoka, Margareta Poje, Benjamin Mitschke, Satoshi Maeda, Nobuya Tsuji*, Benjamin List*

“Catalytic asymmetric fragmentation of cyclopropanes”

Science, 2024, 386, 225-230.

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Manuel J. Scharf, Nobuya Tsuji, Monika M. Lindner, Markus Leutzsch, Märt Lõkov, Elisabeth Parman, Ivo Leito, Benjamin List*

“Highly Acidic Electron-Rich Brønsted Acids Accelerate Asymmetric Pictet–Spengler Reactions by Virtue of Stabilizing Cation–π Interactions”

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, 146, 28339–28349.

Jung Tae Han, Nobuya Tsuji, Hui Zhou, Markus Leutzsch, Benjamin List*

“Organocatalytic asymmetric synthesis of Si-stereogenic silacycles”

Nature Commun., 2024, 15, 5846.

Vijay Wakchaure, William DeSnoo, Croix Laconsay, Markus Leutzsch, Nobuya Tsuji, Dean Tantillo*, Benjamin List*

“Catalytic Asymmetric Cationic Shifts of Aliphatic Hydrocarbons”

Nature, 2024, 625, 287–292.

Pavel Sidorov*, Nobuya Tsuji*

“A Primer on 2D Descriptors in Selectivity Modeling for Asymmetric Catalysis” 

Chem. -Eur. J. 2023, e202302837.

Rajat Maji, Santanu Ghosh, Oleg Grossmann, Pinglu Zhang, Markus Leutzsch, Nobuya Tsuji, Benjamin List*

“A Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrolactonization”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 8788–8793. 

Hui Zhou, Roberta Properzi, Markus Leutzsch, Paola Belanzoni, Giovanni Bistoni, Nobuya Tsuji, Jung Tae Han, Chendan Zhu, Benjamin List*

“Organocatalytic DYKAT of Si-Stereogenic Silanes”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 4994–5000.

Nobuya Tsuji†*, Pavel Sidorov†*, Chendan Zhu, Yuuya Nagata, Timur Gimadiev, Alexandre Varnek*, Benjamin List*

“Predicting Highly Enantioselective Catalysts Using Tunable Fragment Descriptors”

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202218659.

preprint: ChemRxiv, 2023 DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-bsmdl

†Equal contributions.

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Hui Zhou, Jung Tae Han, Nils Nöthling, Monika M. Lindner, Judith Jenniches, Clemens Kühn, Nobuya Tsuji, Li Zhang, and Benjamin List*

“Organocatalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Si-Stereogenic Silyl Ethers”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 10156–10161.

Tynchtyk Amatov, Nobuya Tsuji, Rajat Maji, Lucas Schreyer, Hui Zhou, Markus Leutzsch, and Benjamin List*

“Confinement-Controlled, Either syn- or anti-Selective Catalytic Asymmetric Mukaiyama Aldolizations of Propionaldehyde Enolsilanes”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 14475–14481.

Pinglu Zhang, Nobuya Tsuji, Jie Ouyang, and Benjamin List*

“Strong and Confined Acids Catalyze Asymmetric Intramolecular Hydroarylations of Unactivated Olefins with Indoles”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 675–680.