Institute for Advanced and Applied Chemical Synthesis

  • Cervi, A., Vo, Y., Chai, C. L., Banwell, M. G.,* Lan, P., & Willis, A. C. (2021). Gold (I)-catalyzed intramolecular hydroarylation of phenol-derived propiolates and certain related ethers as a route to selectively functionalized coumarins and 2H-Chromenes. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86, 178-198.

  • Ye, S., & Banwell, M. G.* (2021). Chemoenzymatic and enantiomeric switching regimes enabling the synthesis of homochiral cyclohexa-2,5-dienones incorporating all-carbon quaternary centers. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Published online 7 October 2021.

  • Qiu, S., Zhou, Y., Kim, J. T., Bao, C., Lee, H. J.,* & Chen, J.* (2021). Amentoflavone inhibits tumor necrosis factor-α-induced migration and invasion through AKT/mTOR/S6k1/hedgehog signaling in human breast cancer. Food & Function, 12, 10196-10209.

  • 2. Zhao, Y., Zhou, Z., Liu, L., Chen, M., Yang, W., Chen, Q., Gardiner, M. G., & Banwell, M. G.* (2021). The copper-catalyzed reaction of 2-(1-hydroxyprop-2-yn-1-yl) phenols with sulfonyl azides leading to C3-unsubstituted N-sulfonyl-2-iminocoumarins. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86, 9155-9162.

  • Francisco Washington A. Barros‐Nepomuceno .; Daniel de Araújo Viana .; Daniel Pascoalino Pinheiro .; Fátima de Cássia Evangelista de Oliveira.; Jamile Magalhães Ferreira.; Maria Goretti R. de Queiroz .; Xinghua Ma.; Bruno Coêlho Cavalcanti.; Claudia Pessoa.; Martin G. Banwell. The Effects of the Alkaloid Tambjamine J on Mice Implanted with Sarcoma 180 Tumor Cells. ChemMedChem, 16, 420– 428.

  • Banwell, M. G.,* Pollard, B., Liu, X., & Connal, L. A. (2021). Exploiting nature's most abundant polymers: developing new pathways for the conversion of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin and chitin into platform molecules (and beyond). Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 16, 604-620.