New Reactions Development: Metal Catalyzed Cycloadditions 
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  • Wender, Paul A.; Ebner, Christian; Fennell, Brandon D.; Inagaki, Fuyuhiko; Schröder, Britte, "Ynol Ethers as Ketene Equivalents in Rhodium-Catalyzed Intermolecular [5 + 2] Cycloaddition Reactions”. Org. Lett., 2017, 19(21), 5810-5813. Abstract, Full Text, PDF.
  • Liu, Bowen; Ramsundar, Bharath; Kawthekar, Prasad; Shi, Jade; Gomes, Joseph; Luu-Nguyen, Quang; Ho, Stephen; Sloane, Jack; Wender, Paul; Pande, Vijay, "Retrosynthetic reaction prediction using neural sequence-to-sequence models", ACS Central Science, 2017, 358, 218-223. Abstract, Full Text, PDF.
  • Paul A. Wender, Clayton T. Hardman, Stephen Ho, Matthew S. Jeffreys, Ryan V. Quiroz, Steven M. Ryckbosch, Akira J. Shimizu, Jack L. Sloane, Matthew C. Stevens, Jana K. Maclaren, "Scalable synthesis of bryostatin 1 and analogs, adjuvant leads against latent HIV", Science, 2017, 358, 218-223. Abstract, Full Text, PDF.
  • Steven M. Ryckbosch, Paul A. Wender, Vijay S. Pande, "Molecular Dynamics Simulations Reveal Ligand-controlled Positioning of a Peripheral Protein Complex in Membranes", Nature Comm.., 2017,8, 6.  Abstract, PDF
  • Hsiao-Tieh Hsu, Brian M. Trantow, Robert M. Waymouth, and Paul A. Wender, "Bioorthogonal Catalysis: A General Method to Evaluate Metal-Catalyzed Reactions in Real Time in Living Systems Using a Cellular Luciferase Reporter System", Bioconjugate Chem., 2016, 27(2), 376-382. Abstract, PDF,  Supporting Information.
  • Wender, Paul A.; Jeffreys, Matthew S.; Raub, Andrew G.; "Tetramethyleneethane Equivalents: Recursive Reagents for Serialized Cycloadditions", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137(28), 9088-9093. Abstract, PDF,  Supporting Information.
  • Thomas J. L. Mustartd, Paul A. Wender, Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong; "Catalytic Efficiency is a Function of How Rhodium(I) (5+2)-Catalysts Accommodate a Conserved Substrate Transition State Geometry: Induced Fit Model for Explaining Transition Metal Catalysis", ACS Catalysis, 2015, 5(3), 1758-1763. Abstract, PDF,  Supporting Information.
  • Wender, Paul A.; Fournogerakis, Dennis N.; Jeffreys, Matthew S.; Quiroz, Ryan V.; Inagaki, Fuyuhiko; Pfaffenbach, Magnus; "Structural Complexity Through Multicomponent Cycloaddition Cascades Enabled by Dual-Purpose, Reactivity Regenerating 1,2,3-Triene Equivalents", Nature Chemistry, 2014, 6, 448-452. Abstract, PDF.
  • Paul A. Wender, Fuyuhiko Inagaki, Magnus Pfaffenbach, Matthew C. Stevens, "Propargyltrimethylsilanes as Allene Equivalents in Transition Metal Catalyzed [5+2] Cycloadditions", Organic Letters, 2014, 16(11), 2923-2925. Abstract, PDF.
  • Hong, Xin; Stevens, Matthew; Liu, Peng; Wender, Paul; Houk, K., "Reactivity and Chemoselectivity of Allenes in Rh(I)-Catalyzed Intermolecular (5+2) Cycloadditions with Vinylcyclopropanes: Allene-Mediated Rhodacycle Formation Can Poison Rh(I)-Catalyzed Cycloadditions"; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 17273-17283. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Xiufang Xu, Peng Liu, Adam Lesser, Lauren E. Sirois, Paul A. Wender, and K.N. Houk, "Ligand Effects on Rates and Regioselectivities of Rh(I)-Catalyzed (5+2) Cycloadditions: A Computational Study of Cycloctadiende and Dinaphthocyclooctatetraene as Ligands"; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134(26), 11012-11025. Abstract, PDF.
  • Wender, Paul A.; Lesser, Adam B.; Sirois, Lauren E.; "Rhodium Dinaphthocyclooctatetraene Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization and Catalytic Activity in [5+2] Cycloadditions", Angewandte Chemie, 2012, Published online: 1 Feb 2012. Abstract, PDF.
  • Wender, Paul A.; Lesser, Adam B.; Sirois, Lauren E., "The Preparation of Cyclohelpt-4-Enones by Rhodium Catalyzed Intermolecular [5+2] Cycloaddition" Organic Syntheses, 2011, 88, 109-120. PDF.
  • Wender, Paul A.; Sirois, Lauren E.; Stemmler, René T.; Williams, Travis J. "Highly Efficient, Facile, Room Temperature Intermolecular [5+2] Cyclcoadditions Catalyzed by Cationic Rhodium(I): One Step to Cycloheptenes and Their Libraries" Organic Lett., 2010, 1604-1607. Abstract, PDF,Supporting Information.
  • Liu, Peng; Sirois, Lauren E.; Cheong, Paul H.-Y.; Yu, Zhi-Xiang.; Hartung, Ingo, V.; Rieck, Heiko; Wender, Paul A.; Houk, Kendall N "Electronic and Steric Control of Regioselectivities in Rh(I)-Catalyzed (5+2) Cycloadditions: Experiment and Theory" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 10127-10135.Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Paul A. Wender, René T. Stemmler, Lauren E. Sirois, "A Metal-Catalyzed Intermolecular [5+2] Cycloaddition / Nazarov Cyclization Sequence and Cascade" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 2532-2533. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Paul A. Wender, Justin P. Christy, Adam B. Lesser, and Marc T. Gieseler, "The Synthesis of Highly-Substituted Cyclooctatetraene Scaffolds by Metal-Catalyzed [2+2+2+2] Cycloadditions: Studies on Regioselectivity, Dynamic Properties and Metal Chelation", Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed 2009, 7823-7826. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Wender, Paul A., Strand, Daniel, “Cyclocarboamination of Alkynes with Aziridines: Synthesis of 2,3-Dihydropyrroles by a Catalyzed Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition”, JACS, 2009, 7528-7529. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Croatt, Mitchell P.; Wender, Paul A.; "The Diene Effect: The Design, Development, and Mechaqnistic Investigation of Metal-Catalyzed Diene-yne, Diene-ene, and Diene-allene [2+2+1] Cycloaddition Reactions", Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2009, Volume 2010, Issue 1, Date: January 2010, Pages 19-32.Abstract, PDF.
  • Wender, Paul; Croatt, Mitch; Kuhn, Bjorn; "Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed [2+2], [2+2+2], and [2+2+2+2] Cycloadditions of Dienes or Alkynes with a Bis-ene", Organometallic, 2009, 28(20), 5841-5844. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Liu, P.; Cheong, P. H.; Yu, Z.-X.; Wender, P. A.; Houk, K. N. "Substituent Effects, Reactant Preorganization, and Ligand Exchange Control the Reactivity in Rh(I)-Catalyzed (5+2) Cycloadditions between Vinylcyclopropanes and Alkynes"; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 3939-3941.Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Z.-X. Yu, P. Ha-Yeon Cheong, P. Liu, C. Legault, P. Wender, K. Houk “Origins of Differences in Reactivities of Alkenes, Alkynes, & Allenes in [Rh(CO)2Cl]2-Catalyzed (5+2) Cycloaddition Reactions with Vinylcyclopropanes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 2378-2379. Abstract, PDF,Supporting Information.
  • Wender, P. A.; Christy, J. P. "Nickel(0)-Catalyzed [2 + 2 + 2 + 2] Cycloadditions of Terminal Diynes for the Synthesis of Substituted Cyclooctatetraenes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 13402-13403. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Fernando J. Gomez, Nahrain E. Kamber, Nicole M. Deschamps, Adam P. Cole, Paul A. Wender, Robert M. Waymouth; "N-Alkoxyimidazolylidene transition metal complexes: Application to [5+2] and [4+2] cycloaddition reactions" Organometallics 2007, 26, 4541-4545. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Yuanyuan Wang, Jingxin Wang, Jiachun Su, Feng Huang, Lei Jiao, Yong Liang, Dazhi Yang, Shiwei Zhang, Paul A. Wender, and Zhi-Xiang Yu; "A Computationally Design Rh(I)-Catalyzed Two-Component [5 + 2 + 1] Cycloaddition of Ene-Vinylcyclopropanes and CO for the Synthesis of Cyclooctenones" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 10060-10061. PDF.
  • Wender, Paul A.; Croatt, Mitch P.; Deschamps, Nicole M.; In Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III, "C-C Bond Formation (Part 1) by Addition Reaction: Higher-Order Cycloadditions" [Review Chapter], Iwao Ojima (Ed.), Elsevier Ltd. 2007, Vol. 10, 603-648.
  • Wender, P. A.; Paxton, T. J.; Williams, T. J.; "Cyclopentadienone Synthesis by Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed [3 + 2] Cycloaddition Reactions of Cyclopropenones and Alkynes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 14814-14815. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Wender P. A.; Croatt, M. P.; Witulski, B. " New reactions and step economy: the total synthesis of (+/-)-salsolene oxide based on the type II transition metal-catalyzed intramolecular [4+4] cycloaddition" Tetrahedron 2006, 62, 7505-7511. Abstract, PDF.
  • Wender P. A.; Deschamps, N. M.; Sun R. "Rh(I)-Catalyzed C-C Bond Activation: Seven-Membered Ring Synthesis by a [6+1] Carbonylative Ring-Expansion Reaction of Allenylcyclobutanes" Agnew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 3957-3960. Abstract, PDF. Supporting Information.
  • Wender, P. A.; Christy, J. P. "Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed [4+2+2] Cycloadditions of 1,3-Dienes, Alkenes, and Alkynes for the Synthesis of Cyclooctadienes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 5354-5355. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Wender, P. A.; Haustedt, L. O.; Lim, J.; Love, J. A.; Williams, T. J.; Yoon, J.-Y. "Asymmetric Catalysis of the [5 + 2] Cycloaddition Reaction of Vinylcyclopropanes and Pi-Systems" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 5354-5355. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Wender, P. A.; Croatt, M. P.; Deschamps, N. M. "Metal-Catalyzed [2+2+1] Cycloadditions of 1,3-Dienes, Allenes, and CO" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2006, 45, 2459-2462. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Wender, Paul A.; Gamber, Gabriel G.; Williams, Travis J.; "Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed [5+2], [6+2], and [5+2+1] Cycloadditions: New Reactions for Organic Synthesis"; In "Modern Rhodium-Catalyzed Organic Reactions", P. Andrew Evans (Ed.) Wiley-VCH Verlag Gmbh & Co.KgaA, Weinheim,  2005,  263-299. PDF.
  • Wender P. A.; Deschamps, N. M.; Sun R. "Rh(I)-catalyzed cleavage of unactivated C-O bonds - Carbonylative rearrangement reactions of allenyl ethers to 2-carboalkoxy-1,3-dienes" Can. J. Chem. 2005, 83, 838-842. Abstract, PDF.
  • Wegner, H. A.; de Meijere, A.; Wender, P. A. "Transition Metal-catalyzed Intermolecular [5+2] and [5+2+1] Cycloadditions of Allenes and Vinylcyclopropanes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 6530-6531. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Wender, P. A.; Gamber, G. G.; Hubbard, R. D.; Pham, S. M.; Zhang, L. "Multicomponent Cycloadditions: The Four-component [5+1+2+1] Cycloaddition of Vinylcyclopropanes, Alkynes, and CO" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 2836-2837. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Wender, P. A.; Yu, Z.; Houk, K. N. "On the Mechanism of [Rh(CO)2Cl]2 Catalyzed Intermolecular [5+2] Reactions Between Vinylcyclopropanes and Alkynes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 9154-9155. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Wender, P. A.; Deschamps, N. M.; Williams, T. J. "Intermolecular Dienyl Pauson-Khand Reaction" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 3076-3079.Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Wender, P. A.; Croatt, M. P.; Deschamps, N. M. "Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed [2+2+1] Cycloadditions of 1,3-Dienes, Alkenes, and CO." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 5948-5949. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Wender, P. A.; Love, J. A.; Williams, T. J. "Rhodium-Catalyzed [5+2] Cycloaddition Reactions in Water" Synlett 2003, 1295-1298. Abstract, PDF.
  • Wender, P. A.; Deschamps, N. M.; Gamber, G. G. "The Dienyl Pauson-Khand Reaction" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 1853-1857. Abstract,PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Wender, P. A.; Baryza, J. L.; Brenner, S. E.; Clarke, M. O.; Gamber, G. G.; Horan, J. C.; Jessop, T. C.; Kan, C.; Pattabiraman, K.; Williams, T. J. "Inspirations from Nature. New Reactions, New Therapeutic Leads, and New Drug Delivery Systems" Pure Appl. Chem., 2003, 75, 143-156.Abstract, PDF.
  • Wender, P. A.; Williams, T. J. "[(Arene)Rh(COD)]+ Complexes as Catalysts for [5+2] Cycloadditions" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2002, 41, 4550-4553.Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Wender, P. A.; Pedersen, T. M.; Scanio, M. J. C. "Transition Metal-Catalyzed Hetero-[5+2] Cycloadditions of Cyclopropyl Imines and Alkynes: Hydroazepines from Simple, Readily Available Starting Materials" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 15154-15155. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Bi, F. C.; Gamber, G. G.; Gosselin, F.; Hubbard, R. D.; Scanio, M. J. C.; Sun, R.; Williams, T. J.; Zhang, L. "Toward the Ideal Synthesis. New Transition Metal-catalyzed Reactions Inspired by Novel Medicinal Leads," Pure Appl. Chem. 2002, 74, 25-31. Abstract, PDF.
  • Wender, P. A.; Gamber, G. G.; Hubbard, R. D.; Zhang, L. "Three Component Cycloadditions: The First Transition Metal-Catalyzed [5+2+1] Cycloaddition Reactions" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 2876-2877. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Gamber, G. G.; Scanio, M. J. C."Serial [5+2]/[4+2] Cycloadditions: Facile, Preparative, Multi-Component Syntheses of Polycyclic Compounds From Simple, Readily Available Starting Materials" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2001, 40, 3895-3897. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Barzilay, C. M.; Dyckman, A. J. "The First Intermolecular Transition Metal-Catalyzed [5+2] Cycloadditions with Simple, Unactivated, Vinylcyclopropanes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 179-180. PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Bi, F. C.; Brodney, M. A.; Gosselin, F. "Asymmetric Synthesis of the Tricyclic Core of NGF-inducing Cyathane Diterpenes via a Transition-Metal-Catalyzed [5+2] Cycloaddition" Org. Lett. 2001, 3, 2105-2108. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Correa, A. G.; Sato, Y; Sun, R. "Transition Metal-Catalyzed [6+2] Cycloadditions of 2-Vinylcyclobutanones and Alkenes: A New Reaction for the Synthesis of Eight-Membered Rings" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 7815-7816. PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Zhang L. "Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Aphanamol I Based on the Transition Metal Catalyzed [5+2] Cycloaddition of Allenes and Vinylcyclopropanes Org. Lett. 2000, 2, 2323-2326. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Dyckman, A. J.; Husfeld, C. O.; Scanio, M. J. C. "A New and Practical Five-Carbon Component for Metal-Catalyzed [5+2] Cycloadditions: Preparative Scale Syntheses of Substituted Cycloheptenones Org. Lett. 2000, 2, 1609-1611. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Dyckman, A. J.; Husfeld, C. O.; Kadereit, D.; Love, J. A. Rieck, H. "Transition Metal-Catalyzed [5+2] Cycloadditions with Substituted Cyclopropanes: First Studies of Regio- and Stereoselectivity" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 10442-10443. PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Dyckman, A. J. "Transition Metal-Catalyzed [5+2] Cycloadditions of 2-Substituted-1-Vinylcyclopropanes: Catalyst Control and Reversal of Regioselectivity" Org. Lett. 1999, 1, 2089-2092. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A. ; Fuji, M.; Husfeld, C. O.; Love, J. A. "Rhodium-Catalyzed [5+2] Cycloadditions of Allenes and Vinylcyclopropanes: Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Dictamnol" Org. Lett. 1999, 1, 137-139. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Glorius, F.; Husfeld, C. O.; Langkopf, E.; Love, J. A. "Transition Metal-Catalyzed [5+2] Cycloadditions of Allenes and Vinylcyclopropanes: First Studies of Endo-Exo Selectivity, Chemoselectivity, Relative Stereochemistry, and Chirality Transfer" J. Am. Chem. Soc.1999, 121, 5348-5349. PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Love, J. A. "The Synthesis of Seven-Membered Rings: General Strategies and the Design and Development of a New Class of Cycloaddition Reactions" In Advances in Cycloaddition, Hermata, M. Ed.; JAI Press, Samford, CT, 1- 45, 1999.
  • Wender, P. A.; Rieck, H.; Fuji, M. "The Transition Metal-Catalyzed Intermolecular [5+2] Cycloaddition: The Homologous Diels-Alder Reaction" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 10976-10977. PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Husfeld, C. O.; Langkopf, E; Love, J. A."First Studies of the Transition Metal-Catalyzed [5+2] Cycloadditions of Alkenes and Vinylcyclopropanes: Scope and Stereochemistry" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 1940-1941. PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Sperandio, D. "A New and Selective Catalyst for the [5+2] Cycloaddition of Vinylcyclopropanes and Alkynes" J. Org. Chem. 1998,63, 4164-4165. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Husfeld, C. O.; Langkopf, E.; Love, J. A.; Pleuss N. "The First Metal-Catalyzed Intramolecular [5+2] Cycloadditions of Vinylcyclopropanes and Alkenes: Scope, Stereochemistry, and Asymmetric Catalysis" Tetrahedron 1998, 54, 7203-7220. Abstract, PDF.
  • Wender, P. A.; Smith, T. E. "Transition Metal-Catalyzed Intramolecular [4+2] Cycloadditions: Mechanistic and Synthetic Investigations" Tetrahedron, 1998, 54, 1255-1275. Abstract, PDF.
  • Paul A. Wender, Alan W. White, and Frank E. McDonald, "Spiroannelation Via Organobis(cuprates): 9,9-Dimethylspiro[4.5]decan-7-one"'; Organic Syntheses Coll. 1997,9, 350.
  • Wender, P. A.; Nuss, J. M.; Smith, D. B.; Suarezsobrino, A.; Vagberg, J.; Decosta, D.; Bordner, J. "Transition Metal Catalyzed Cycloadditions: An Intramolecular [4+4] Cycloaddition Strategy for the Efficient Synthesis of Dicyclopenta[A,D]Cyclooctene 5-8-5 Ring Systems" J. Org. Chem. 1997,62, 4908-4909. PDF, Supporting Information
  • Paul A. Wender and Patrick G. Harran, Condensation and Commentary on: "Alkynylation of C-H Bonds Via Reaction with Acetylenic Triflones", CHEMTRACTS--ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, 1997, 10, 522.
  • Wender, P. A.; Smith, T.E. "Transition Metal-Catalyzed Intramolecular [4+2] Cycloadditions: A Novel Method for the Assembly of Nitrogen Heterocycles and Its Application to Yohimban Alkaloid Synthesis" J. Org. Chem. 1996, 61, 824-825. PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Takahashi, H.; Witulski, B. "Transition-Metal-Catalyzed [5+2] Cycloadditions of Vinylcyclopropanes and Alkynes: A Homolog of the Diels-Alder Reaction for the Synthesis of 7-Membered Rings" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 4720-4721. PDF, Supporting Information
  • Wender, P. A.; Jenkins, T. E.; Suzuki, S. "Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Intramolecular [4+2]-Diene Allene Cycloadditions: A Convenient Synthesis of Angularly Substituted Ring-Systems With Provision for Catalyst-Controlled Chemocomplementarity and Stereocomplementarity" J. Am. Chem. Soc.1995, 117, 1843-1844. PDF
  • Wender, P. A.; Smith T. E."Transition Metal-Catalyzed Intramolecular [4+2] Cycloadditions: Initial Studies on Stereochemistry and on Steroid and Vitamin-D Analog Syntheses" J. Org. Chem. 1995, 60, 2962-2963. PDF
  • Paul A. Wender, Michael G. Natchus, Anthony J. Shuker, "Toward the Total Synthesis of Taxol and Its Analogues," In Taxol: Science and Applications; Matthew Suffness, Ed.; CRC Press, Inc, London; 1995, 108, 123-187. 
  • Paul A. Wender, Timothy M. Dore, "Intra-and Inter-Molecular Cycloadditions to Benzene Derivatives," In CRC Handbook of Organic Photochemistry and Photobiology,; Horspool, William, Ed.; CRC Press, London, 1995.
  • Paul A. Wender, Alan W. White, and Frank E. McDonald, "Spiroannelation Via Organobis(cuprates): 9,9-Dimethylspiro[4.5]decan-7-one," In Organic Syntheses Coll. Organic Syntheses Vol. 70, ; 204, 1992.
  • Paul A. Wender, Alan W. White, Frank E. McDonald, "Spiroannelation via Organobis(cuprates): 9,9-Dimethylspiro[4.5]decan-7-one, 9,9-dimethyl-)," Organic Syntheses, 70, 204, 1991.
  • Wender, P. A.; Tebbe, M. J. "Nickel(0)-Catalyzed Intramolecular [4+4] Cycloadditions: 5. The Type-II Reaction in the Synthesis of Bicyclo[5.3.1]Undecadienes" Synthesis 1991, 12, 1089-1094. PDF.
  • Wender, P. A.; Jenkins, T. E."Nickel-Catalyzed Intramolecular [4+2] Dienyne Cyclo-Additions: An Efficient New Method for the Synthesis of Polycycles Containing Cyclohexa-1,4-Dienes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1989, 111, 6432-6434. PDF
  • Wender, P. A.; White, A. W. "Organobis(Cuprates): A New Class of Reagents and Method for Spiroannelation" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1988, 110, 2218-2223. PDF
  • Paul A. Wender, Lorenz Siggel, John M. Nuss, "Arene-alkene Photocycloadditions," In Organic Photochemistr; Albert Padwa, Ed.; Vol. 10; Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1988, 450-650.
  • Wender, P. A.; White, A. W. "Organobis(Cuprates): A New Class of Reagents and Method for Spiroannelation" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1988, 110, 2218-2223. PDF
  • Wender, P. A.; Ihle N. C. "Nickel-Catalyzed Intramolecular [4+4] Cycloadditions: 2. Allylic Stereoinduction and Modeling Studies in the Preparation of Bicyclo[6.4.0]Dodecadienes" Tetrahedon Lett. 1987, 28, 2451-2454. Abstract, PDF.
  • Wender, P. A.; Snapper, M. L. "Intramolecular Nickel Catalyzed Cycloadditions of Bis-Dienes: 3 Approaches to the Taxane Skeleton" Tetrahedon Lett. 1987, 28, 2221-2224. Abstract, PDF.
  • Wender, P. A.; Ihle N. C. "Nickel-Catalyzed Intramolecular [4+4] Cycloadditions: A New Method for the Synthesis of Polycycles Containing 8-Membered Rings" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1986, 108, 4678-4679. PDF.
  • Paul A. Wender, Tom W. von Geldern, "Aromatic Compounds: Isomerisation and Cycloaddition"  In Photochem. Org. Synth.; J. Coyle, Ed.; The Royal Society of Chemistry, ISBN 0-85186-656-5, 1986, 226-255.
  • Paul A. Wender, Dennis A. Holt, and Scott McN. Sieburth, "2-Alkenyl Carbinols from 2-Halo Ketones: 2-E-Propenylcyclohexanol,"  Organic Syntheses, ; A.S. Kende, Ed., 1985, 64(10), 226-255.