Dinuclear Palladium Complexes – Precursors or Catalysts? Paton*, R. S.; Brown, J. M. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 10448–10450.
Enzymatic Catalysis of Anti-Baldwin Ring-Closure in Polyether Biosynthesis Hotta, K.; Chen, X.; Paton, R. S.; Minami, A.; Li, H. Swaminathan, K. T.; Mathews, I. I.; Watanabe, K.; Oikawa, H.; Houk, K. N.; Kim, C. Y. Nature 2012, 483, 355-358.
An Efficient Computational Model to Predict the Synthetic Utility of Heterocyclic Arynes Goetz, A. E.; Bronner, S. M. ; Cisneros, J.; Melamed, J.; Paton*, R. S.; Houk, K. N.; Garg, N. K. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 2758-2762.
Experimental Diels-Alder Reactivities of Cycloalkenones and Cyclic Dienes Explained Through Transition State Distortion Energies
Paton*, R. S.; Kim, S.; Ross, A. G.; Danishefsky, S. J.; Houk, K. N. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 10366-10368.
Unravelling the Mechanism of Cascade Reactions of Zincke Aldehydes
Paton, R. S.; Steinhardt, S. E.; Vanderwal, C. D.; Houk, K. N. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 3895-3905.
Indolyne Experimental and Computational Studies: Synthetic Applications and Origins of Selectivities of Nucleophilic Additions
Im, G.-Y. J.; Bronner, S. M.; Goetz, A. E.; Paton, R. S.; Cheong, P.-H. Y.; Houk, K. N. Garg, N. K. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 17933-17944
The [4+2], not [2+2], Mechanism Occurs in the Gold-Catalyzed Intramolecular Oxygen Transfer Reaction of 2-Alkynyl-1,5-Diketones
Liu, L.-P.; Malhotra, D.; Paton, R. S.; Houk, K. N.; Hammond, G. B. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 9318-9321.
Origins of Stereoselectivity in the trans-Diels-Alder Paradigm
Paton, R. S.; Mackey, J. L.; Kim, W. H.; Lee, J. H.; Danishefsky, S. J.; Houk, K. N. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 9335-9340.
Indolyne and Aryne Distortions and Nucleophilic Regioselectivities
Cheong, P. H. Y.; Paton, R. S.; Bronner, S. M.; Im, G. Y.; Garg, N. K.; Houk, K. N. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 1267-1269.