1. Jing Li,Yasuhiro Okuda, Jiaji Zhao, Seiji Mori, and Yasushi Nishihara*.A Skeletal Rearrangement of Cyano-Substituted Iminoisobenzofurans into Alkyl 2-Cyanobenzoates Catalyzed by B(C6F5)3. Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 5220−5223.
2. Jing Li, ShintaroNoyori, Kiyohiko Nakajima, and Yasushi Nishihara*. A new entry to the synthesis of α-Iminonitriles by Lewis acid-mediated isomerization of cyano-substituted iminoisobenzofuransprepared by palladium-catalyzedthree-component coupling of arynes, isocyanides, and cyanoformates. Organometallics 2014, 33, 3500−3507.
3. Yasuhiro Okuda, Takeru Okamoto, Arisa Yamamoto, Jing Li, Kiyohiko Nakajima, Yasushi Nishihara*.Synthesis, Structure, and Isomerization of Alkoxycarbonyl(chloro)(cyano)rhodium(III) Complexes, mer-RhCl(CO2R)(CN)(PMe3)3 (R = Me, Et, nPr, iPr, nBu, and Bn) through C–C Bond Cleavage of Cyanoformates. Chem. Lett. 2014, 43, 417–419.
4. Daisuke Ogawa, Keita Hyodo, Masato Suetsugu, Jing Li, Yoshiaki Inoue, Mamoru Fujisawa, Masayuki Iwasaki, Kentaro Takagi, Yasushi Nishihara*. Palladium-catalyzed and copper-mediated cross-coupling reaction of aryl- or alkenylboronic acids with acid chlorides under neutral conditions: efficient synthetic methods for diaryl ketones and chalcones at room temperature. Tetrahedron 2013, 69, 2565–2571.
5. Daisuke Ogawa, Jing Li, Masato Suetsugu, Jiao Jiao, Masayuki Iwasaki, Yasushi Nishihara*. Palladium-free Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Diarylethynes by Cross-coupling Reaction of Alkynylboronates with Aryl Iodides Catalyzed by CuCl. Tetrahedron Lett. 2013, 54, 518–521.
