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20. Xue, C.-W., Li, J., Lee, J. P., Zhang, P.,* Wu, J.* "Continuous Amination of Aryl/Heteroaryl Halides Using Aqueous Ammonia in a Teflon AF-2400 Tube-in-Tube Micro-Flow Reactor" Reaction Chemistry & Engineering 2018, 4, 346–350  (Invited article for special issue "RCE Emerging Investigators 2019"). [PDF Download] DOI: 10.1039/C8RE00216A.

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19. Cao, H., Jiang, H., Feng, H., Kwan, J. M. C., Liu, X., Wu, J.* "Photo-Induced Decarboxylative Heck-Type Coupling of Unactivated Aliphatic Acids and Terminal Alkenes in the Absence of Sacrificial Hydrogen Acceptors" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 47, 16360–16367. [PDF Download] DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b11218.

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18. Hou, J., Ee, A., Cao, H., Ong, H.-W., Xu, J.-H. Wu, J.* "Visible‐Light‐Mediated Metal‐Free Difunctionalization of Alkenes with CO2 and Silanes or C(sp3)-H Alkanes" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 17220–17224. [PDF Download] DOI: 10.1002/anie.201811266.

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17. Deng, H.-P., Zhou, Q., Wu, J.* "Micro-Tubing Reactor-Assisted Aliphatic C-H Functionalization Utilizing HCl as the Hydrogen Atom Transfer Catalyst Precursor in Conjunction with an Organo Photoredox Catalyst" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57,12661–12665. [PDF Download] DOI: 10.1002/anie.201804844.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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16. Wu, W.-B., Wong, Y.-C., Tan, Z.-K.,* Wu, J.* "Photo-induced thiol coupling and C–H activation using nanocrystalline lead-halide perovskite catalysts" Catal. Sci. Technol. 2018, 8, 4257–4263.[PDF Download] DOI: 10.1039/c8cy01240g.

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15. Li, J.-S., Wu, J.* "Recent Development of Photo-Mediated Generation of Silyl Radicals and Their Application in Organic Synthesis" ChemPhotoChem 2018, 2, 839–846. [PDF Download] DOI: 10.1002/cptc.201800110 (Invited Review).

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14. Liu, H., Ma, L., Zhou, R., Chen, X.,* Fang, W., Wu, J.* "One-Pot Photo-Mediated Giese Reaction/Friedel-Crafts Hydroxyalkylation/Oxidative Aromatization to Access Naphthalene Derivatives from Toluenes and Enones" ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 6224–6229. [PDF Download] DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b00481. 

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13. Hou, J., Li, J.-S., Wu, J.* "Recent Development of Light-Mediated Carboxylation Using CO2 as the Feedstock" Asian J. Org. Chem. 2018, 7, 1439–1447. [PDF Download] DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.201800226 (Invited Review).

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12. Fan, X.-Z., Rong, J.-W., Wu, H.-L., Zhou, Q., Deng, H.-P., Tan, J. D., Xue, C.-W., Wu, L.-Z., Tao, H.-R., Wu, J.* 
"Eosin Y as a Direct Hydrogen Atom Transfer Photocatalyst for the Functionalization of C-H Bonds" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 8514–8518. [PDF Download] DOI: 10.1002/anie.201803220.

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11. Hou, J., Ee, A., Feng, W., Xu, J.-H., Zhao, Y.,* Wu, J.* "Visible-Light-Driven Alkyne Hydro-/Carbocarboxylation Using CO2 via Iridium/Cobalt Dual Catalysis for Divergent Heterocycle Synthesis" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 5257–5263. [PDF Download] DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b01561.

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10. Toh, R. W., Li, J. S., Wu, J. Utilization of Stop-flow Micro-tubing Reactors for the Development of Organic Transformations. J. Vis. Exp. 2018, (131), e56897. [PDF Download] DOI:10.3791/56897.