Selected publications

1. Jin, S., Zhao, X., Ma, D. (2022). Divergent total syntheses of napelline-type C20-diterpenoid alkaloids: (–)-napelline, (+)-dehydronapelline, (–)-songorine, (–)-songoramine, (–)-acoapetaldine D, and (–)-liangshanone. J. Am. Chem. Soc, 144, xxxx.

2. Gao, Y., Ma, D. (2022). Samarium iodide-mediated C–C bond formation in the total synthesis of natural product. Nature Synthesis, 1, 275-288.

3. Gao, Y., Ma, D. (2021). In pursuit of synthetic efficiency: convergent approaches, Acc. Chem. Res. 54, 569-582.

4. Chen, Y., Xu, L., Jiang, Y., Ma, D. (2021). Assembly of a-(Hetero)aryl Nitriles via Copper-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions with (Hetero)aryl Chlorides and Bromides, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60, 7082-7086.

5. Nagaraju, K., Ni, D., Ma, D. (2020). Total Synthesis of Kopsinitarine E, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59, 22039-22043.

6. He, W., Zhang, Z., Ma, D. (2019). A scalable total synthesis of the antitumor agents Et-743 and lurbinectedin, Weiming He, Zhigao Zhang, Dawei Ma*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58, 3972-3976.

7.  Chen. Z., Jiang, Y., Zhang, L., Guo, Y., Ma, D. (2019). Oxalic diamides and tert-butoxide: Two types of ligands enabling practical access to alkyl aryl ethers via Cu-catalyzed coupling reaction, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 141, 3541-3549.

8. Wang, J., Ma, D. (2019). 6-Methylenebicyclo[3.2.1]oct-1-en-3-one: A twisted olefin as Diels-Alder dienophile for expedite syntheses of four kaurane diterpenoids. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58, 15731-15734.

9. Liu, J., Ma, D. (2018). A unified approach for the assembly of atisine- and hetidine-type diterpenoid alkaloids: total syntheses of azitine and the proposed structure of navirine C. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57, 6676-6680.

10. Ni, D., Wei, Y., Ma, D. (2018). Thiourea-catalyzed asymmetric michael addition of carbazolones to 2-chloroacrylonitrile: total synthesis of 5,22-dioxokopsane, kopsinidine C, and demethoxycarbonylkopsin. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57, 10207-10211.

11. Wang, P., Gao, Y., Ma, D. (2018). Divergent entry to gelsedine-type alkaloids: total syntheses of (-)-Gelsedilam, (-)-Gelsenicine, (-)-Gelsedine, and (-)-Gelsemoxonine. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 11608-11612.

12. Bhunia, S., Pawer, G. G., Kumar, S. V., Jiang, Y., Ma, D. (2017) Selected copper-based reactions for C-N, C-O, C-S and C-C bond formation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 16136-16179.