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    Silencing LINC00987 ameliorates adriamycin resistance of acute myeloid leukemia via miR-4458/HMGA2 axis

    Most patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) eventually develop drug resistance, leading to a poor prognosis. Dysregulated long gene non coding RNAs (lincRNAs) have been implicated in chemoresistance in AML...

    Yue Liu, **ao-ya Zhu, Li-li Liao, Zhan-hui Zhang, Tao-sheng Huang in Biology Direct (2024)

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    Visible-light-driven synthesis of N-heteroaromatic carboxylic acids by thiolate-catalysed carboxylation of C(sp²)–H bonds using CO2

    Catalytic carboxylation of C–H bonds using CO2 is a sustainable and economic strategy to produce valuable carboxylic acids. However, this process presents challenges due to the low reactivity of C–H bonds and dif...

    Yuan-Xu Jiang, Li-Li Liao, Tian-Yu Gao, Wen-Hao Xu, Wei Zhang, Lei Song in Nature Synthesis (2024)

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    Arylcarboxylation of unactivated alkenes with CO2 via visible-light photoredox catalysis

    Photocatalytic carboxylation of alkenes with CO2 is a promising and sustainable strategy to synthesize high value-added carboxylic acids. However, it is challenging and rarely investigated for unactivated alkenes...

    Wei Zhang, Zhen Chen, Yuan-Xu Jiang, Li-Li Liao, Wei Wang in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Visible-light-driven thio-carboxylation of alkynes with CO2: facile synthesis of thiochromones

    Difunctionalizing carboxylation of alkynes with CO2 is a sustainable and important strategy to generate valuable acrylate derivatives from both readily available starting materials. Such protocols, however, alway...

    Meng Miao, Lei Zhu, Hong Zhao, Lei Song, Si-Shun Yan, Li-Li Liao in Science China Chemistry (2023)

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    Electrochemical reactor dictates site selectivity in N-heteroarene carboxylations

    Pyridines and related N-heteroarenes are commonly found in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and other biologically active compounds1,2. Site-selective C–H functionalization would provide a direct way of making thes...

    Guo-Quan Sun, Peng Yu, Wen Zhang, Wei Zhang, Yi Wang, Li-Li Liao, Zhen Zhang in Nature (2023)

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    Visible-light photocatalytic di- and hydro-carboxylation of unactivated alkenes with CO2

    High value utilization of carbon dioxide (CO2) has attracted worldwide attention for decades. Catalytic carboxylation of alkenes with CO2 to synthesize valuable carboxylic acids and diacids is highly important. A...

    Lei Song, Wei Wang, Jun-** Yue, Yuan-Xu Jiang, Ming-Kai Wei in Nature Catalysis (2022)

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    Nickel-catalyzed electrochemical carboxylation of unactivated aryl and alkyl halides with CO2

    Electrochemical catalytic reductive cross couplings are powerful and sustainable methods to construct C−C bonds by using electron as the clean reductant. However, activated substrates are used in most cases. H...

    Guo-Quan Sun, Wei Zhang, Li-Li Liao, Li Li, Zi-Hao Nie, **-Gui Wu in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Visible-light-driven external-photocatalyst-free alkylative carboxylation of alkenes with CO2

    Herein, we report a novel protocol for visible-light-driven alkylative carboxylation of alkenes with CO2 in the absence of external photocatalyst. Under the irradiation of visible light, a variety of 4-alkyl-1,4-...

    Ya-Nan Niu, **ng-Hao **, Li-Li Liao, He Huang, Bo Yu in Science China Chemistry (2021)

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    Visible-light photoredox-catalyzed umpolung carboxylation of carbonyl compounds with CO2

    Photoredox-mediated umpolung strategy provides an alternative pattern for functionalization of carbonyl compounds. However, general approaches towards carboxylation of carbonyl compounds with CO2 remain scarce. H...

    Guang-Mei Cao, **n-Long Hu, Li-Li Liao, Si-Shun Yan, Lei Song in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Dicarboxylation of alkenes, allenes and (hetero)arenes with CO2 via visible-light photoredox catalysis

    Light-driven utilization of CO2 in organic synthesis is highly attractive because it mimics nature. However, such transformations are mainly limited to the incorporation of only a single CO2 molecule into organic...

    Tao Ju, Yu-Qin Zhou, Ke-Gong Cao, Qiang Fu, Jian-Heng Ye, Guo-Quan Sun in Nature Catalysis (2021)

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    Reductive dearomative arylcarboxylation of indoles with CO2 via visible-light photoredox catalysis

    Catalytic reductive coupling of two electrophiles and one unsaturated bond represents an economic and efficient way to construct complex skeletons, which is dominated by transition-metal catalysis via two elec...

    Wen-Jun Zhou, Zhe-Hao Wang, Li-Li Liao, Yuan-Xu Jiang, Ke-Gong Cao in Nature Communications (2020)

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    Visible-light-mediated external-reductant-free reductive cross coupling of benzylammonium salts with (hetero)aryl nitriles

    Herein we report a novel visible-light-mediated external reductant-free reductive cross coupling for the construction of C sp2–C sp3 bonds. A variety of benzylammonium salts underwent selective coupling with (het...

    Meng Miao, Li-Li Liao, Guang-Mei Cao, Wen-Jun Zhou, Da-Gang Yu in Science China Chemistry (2019)

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    Transition metal-free phosphonocarboxylation of alkenes with carbon dioxide via visible-light photoredox catalysis

    Catalytic difunctionalization of alkenes has been an ideal strategy to generate structurally complex molecules with diverse substitution patterns. Although both phosphonyl and carboxyl groups are valuable func...

    Qiang Fu, Zhi-Yu Bo, Jian-Heng Ye, Tao Ju, He Huang, Li-Li Liao in Nature Communications (2019)