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Prior to ISU:
Xin Gu‡, Yu-An Zhang‡, Shuo Zhang, Leon Wang, Xiyun Ye, Gino Occhialini, Jonah Barbour, Bradley L. Pentelute, Alison E. Wendlandt* (‡ contributed equally) Synthesis of Non-Canonical Amino Acids through Dehydrogenative Tailoring. Nature 2024, 634, 352.
Yu-An Zhang‡, Vignesh Palani‡, Alexander E. Seim, Yong Wang, Kathleen J. Wang, Alison E. Wendlandt* (‡ contributed equally) Stereochemical Editing Logic Powered by the Epimerization of Unactivated Tertiary Stereocenters. Science 2022, 378, 383.
Yu-An Zhang‡, Xin Gu‡, Alison E. Wendlandt* (‡ contributed equally) A Change from Kinetic to Thermodynamic Control Enables trans-Selective Stereochemical Editing of Vicinal Diols. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 599.
Yu‐An Zhang, Amanda Milkovits, Valay Agarawal, Cooper A Taylor, Scott A Snyder* Total Synthesis of the Meroterpenoid Manginoid A as Fueled by a Challenging Pinacol Coupling and Bicycle-Forming Etherification. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 11127.
Jerzy Osipiuk, Saara-Anne Azizi, Steve Dvorkin, Michael Endres, Robert Jedrzejczak, Krysten A Jones, Soowon Kang, Rahul S Kathayat, Youngchang Kim, Vladislav G Lisnyak, Samantha L Maki, Vlad Nicolaescu, Cooper A Taylor, Christine Tesar, Yu-An Zhang, Zhiyao Zhou, Glenn Randall, Karolina Michalska, Scott A Snyder*, Bryan C Dickinson*, Andrzej Joachimiak* Structure of Papain-Like Protease from SARS-CoV-2 and Its Complexes with Non-Covalent Inhibitors. Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 743.
Cooper A. Taylor‡, Yu-An Zhang‡, Scott A. Snyder* (‡ contributed equally) The Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Laurendecumallene B. Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 3036.
Yu-An Zhang, Natalie Yaw, Scott A Snyder* General Synthetic Approach for the Laurencia Family of Natural Products Empowered by a Potentially Biomimetic Ring Expansion. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 7776.
Qiang Liu‡, Yu-An Zhang‡, Ping Xu, Yanxing Jia* (‡ contributed equally) Total Synthesis of (+)-Lysergic Acid. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 10885.
Yu-An Zhang, Qiang Liu, Chao Wang, Yanxing Jia* Total Synthesis of Rugulovasine A. Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 3662.