(22) Hackett, S.; Bray, C. D. ‘Synthesis of aryl and heteroaryl substituted cyclopropanes by catalytic decarboxylation’ under revision.
(21) Shirley, H. S.; Bray, C. D. ‘Spiroketal Formation via Cascade Oxidative Dearomatization: An Approach to the Phorbaketal Skeleton’ Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 1504–1507
(20) Smith, G. M. T.; Burton, P. M.; Bray, C. D. ‘Sultones and Sultines via a Julia-Kocienski Reaction of Epoxides’ Angew. Chem., Int, Ed. Engl. 2015, 54, 15236. Highlighted in the online version of Forbes Magazine.
(19) Willis, N. J.; Bray, C. D. ‘An ortho-quinone methide based strategy towards the rubromycin spiroketal family’ RSC Advances, 2015, 5, 80212.
(18) Llortente-Garcia I, Lenn T, Erhardt H, Harriman O, Liu L N, Robson A, Chiu S W, Matthews S, Willis N, Bray C, Lee S H, Shin J Y, Bustamante C, Liphardt J, Friedrich T, Mullineaux C W, Leake M. ‘Single-molecule in vivo imaging of bacterial respiratory complexes indicates delocalized oxidative phosphorylation’ Biochim Biophys Acta–Bioenergetics, 2014, 811-824.
(17) Minicone, F.; Rogers, W. J.; Green, J. F. J.; Bray, C. D. ‘Direct conversion of epoxides to aziridines with N-arylphosphoramidates’ submitted to Tetrahedron Letters, 2014, 55, 5890-5891.
(16) Hackett, S.; Bray, C. D. Iodomethyltrimethylsilane in e-Encyclopedia of reagents for Organic Synthesis, Wiley InterScience, 2013.
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(14) Minicone, F.; Bray, C. D. ‘Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Quaternary Cyclopropyl Esters’ Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 5867-5869.
(13) De Faveri, G.; Bray, C. D. ‘Stereocontrolled Synthesis of trans-Cyclopropyl Sulfones from Terminal Epoxides’ J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 4652-4655.
(12) Bray, C. D.; Olasoji, J. ’A Total Synthesis of (+)-Bacillamide B’ Synlett, 2010, 599-601.
(11) Bray, C. D. ‘An Approach to Benzannelated [5,6]-Spiroketals’ Synlett, 2008, 2500-2502. Highlighted in SynFacts and chosen as the ‘SynFact of the Month’ by Victor Snieckus, see: SynFacts, 2008, 1259. For a related SynStory, see: SynForm 2009, 04, A31.
(10) Bray, C. D. ‘Generation and Hetero-Diels-Alder Reactions of an o-Quinone Methide under Mild, Anionic Conditions: Rapid Synthesis of mono-Benzannelated Spiroketals’ Org. Biomol. Chem. 2008, 6, 2815-2819.
(9) Tang, B.; Bray, C. D.; Pattenden, G.; Rogers, J. ’Total Synthesis of (+)-Z-Deoxypukalide, a Furanobutenolide-based Cembranoid Isolated from the Pacific Octocoral Leptogorgia spp’ Tetrahedron, 2010, 66, 2492-2500.
(8) Tang, B.; Bray, C. D.; Pattenden, G. ‘Total synthesis of (+)-intricarene using a biogenetically patterned pathway from (-)-bipinnatin J, involving a novel transannular [5+2] (1,3-dipolar) cycloaddition‘ Org. Biomol. Chem. 2009, 7, 4448-4457.
(7) Tang, B.; Bray, C. D.; Pattenden, G. ‘A Biomimetic Total Synthesis of (+)-Intricarene’ Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 6401-6404. Highlighted in SynFacts by Philip Kocienski; see, SynFacts, 2007, 1, 6.
(6) Bray, C. D.; Pattenden, G. ‘A Biogenetically Patterned Approach to the Unusual Methylenecyclobutanol Moiety in Providencin’, Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 3937-3939.
(5) Hodgson, D. M.; Bray, C. D.; Kindon, N. D.; Reynolds, N. J.; Coote, S. J.; Um, J.; Houk, K. N. ‘Synthesis and C-Alkylation of Hindered Aldehyde Enamines’ J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 1019-1028.
(4) Hodgson, D. M.; Bray, C. D.; Humphreys, P. G. ‘Expanding the Utility of Lithiated Epoxides and Aziridines in Synthesis’, Synlett. 2006, 1-22. 2nd Most Accessed Synlett paper of 2006.
(3) Hodgson, D. M.; Bray, C. D. ‘Metalated Epoxides and Aziridines in Synthesis’ in Aziridines and Epoxides in Organic Synthesis, Ed. A. Yudin, WILEY-VCH: Weinheim, 2006, pp 145-184.
(2) Hodgson, D. M.; Bray, C. D.; Kindon, N. D. ’2-Ene-1,4-diols by Dimerization of Terminal Epoxides with Hindered Lithium Amides’, Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 2305-2308. Highlighted in SynFacts by Paul Knochel; see, SynFacts, 2005, 2, 162.
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