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  • Wender, Paul A., "Art, Architecture and the Molecular Frontier"; Acc. Chem. Res., 2015, 48, 2169-2170. PDF.
  • Boudreault, Pierre-Luc; Mattler, Jennifer K.; Wender, Paul A.,; "Studies on the Regio- and Diastereo-selective Epoxidation of Daphnanes and Tiglianes"; Tetrahedron Letters, 2015, 56(23), 3423-3427. Abstract, PDF, Supporting Information.
  • Wender, P. A., “The Future of Chemistry – What Lies Ahead – Look Through a Molecular Lens”, Nature, 2011, 469, 23-25. Article.
  • Wender, P. A.; Jeon, R. "Photoinduced Cleavage of DNA by Bromofluoroacetophenone-pyrrolecarboxamide Conjugates" Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett.2003, 13, 1763-1766.
  • Jeon, R; Wender, P. A. "Photocleavage of DNA By 4'-Bromoacetophenone Analogs". Arch. Pharm. Res. 2001, 24, 39-43.
  • Irie, K.; Nakahara, A.; Ikawa, Y.; Tanaka, M.; Nakagawa, Y.; Nakamura, Y.; Ohigashi, H.; Wender, P. A."Synthesis and Tumor-Promoting Activities of 12-Epi-Phorbol-12, 13-Dibutyrate" Biosci. Biotech. Biochem. 2000, 64, 2429-2436.
  • Jeon, R.; Wender, P. A. "Design and Synthesis of New DNA Photocleavers, 4'-Bromoacetophenone-Pyrrolecarboxamide Hybrid Compounds." Arch. Pharm. Res. 2000, 23, 585-588.
  • Paul A. Wender; "Foreward"; l'actualite chimique 2003, 7-8. Article.
  • Wender, P. A.; Jeon, R. "Bromoacetophenone-Based Photonucleases: Photoinduced Cleavage of DNA By 4'-Bromoacetophenone-Pyrrolecarboxamide Conjugates" Org. Lett. 1999, 1, 2117-2120.
  • Irie, K; Nakahara, A.; Ohigashi, H.; Fukuda, H.; Wender, P. A.; Konishi, H.; Kikkawa, U. "Synthesis and Phorbol Ester-Binding Studies of the individual Cysteine-Rich Motifs of Protein Kinase D" Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 1999, 9, 2487-2490.
  • Wender, P. A.; Debrabander, J.; Harran, P. G.; Hinkle, K.W.; Lippa, B.; Pettit, G. R. "Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Fully Synthetic Bryostatin Analogues" Tetrahedon Lett. 1998, 39, 8625-8628.
  • Wender, P. A.; Delong, M. A.; Wireko, F. C. "Novel Oxidative Rearrangement Product of the First Trans,cis,cis,cis-[5.5.5.5]Fenestrane Derivative"Acta Crystallographica C-Crystal Structure Comm.1997, 53, 954-956.
  • Wender, P. A.; Lee, D. S., Lal, T. K., Horwitz, S. B.; Rao, S."Synthesis of Novel Taxol Analogs and Evaluation of their Biological Activities"Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 1997, 7, 1941-1944.
  • Yang, J. W.; Wender, P. A. "Synthesis of 1-(2-Naphthoyl) Benzotriazoles As Photoactivated DNA Cleaving Agents" Arch. Pharm. Res. 1997, 20, 197-199.
  • Touami, S. M., Poon, C. C., Wender, P. A. "Sequence Specific DNA Cleavage By Conjugates of Benzotriazoles and Minor Groove Binders" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 7611-7612.
  • Wender, P. A. "Frontiers in Organic Synthesis: Introduction" Chem. Rev. 1996, 96, 1-2.
  • Wender, P. A.; Touami, S. M.; Alayrac, C; Philipp, U. C. "Triazole Photonucleases: A New Family of Light Activatable DNA Cleaving Agents" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 6522-6523.
  • Wender, P. A.; Glass, T. E.; Krauss, N. E.; Muhlebach, M.; Peschke, B.; Rawlins, D. B. "The Pinene Path To Taxanes .4. Approaches to Taxol and Taxol Analogs Through Elaboration of Aromatic C-Ring Precursors" J. Org. Chem. 1996, 61, 7662-7663.
  • Wender, P. A.; Wessjohann, L. A.; Peschke, B.; Rawlins, D. B. "The Pinene Path to Taxol: Readily Accessible A-Ring Building-Blocks Based on Novel Alkyllithium and Alkenyllithium Reagents with Internal Carbonyl Groups" Tetrahedon Lett. 1995, 36, 7181-7184.
  • Wender, P. A.; Floreancig, P. E.; Glass, T. E.; Natchus, M. G.; Shuker, A. J.; Sutton, J. C. "Toward the Synthesis of Taxol and its Analogs: incorporation of Nonaromatic C-Rings in the Pinene Pathway" Tetrahedon Lett. 1995, 36, 4939-4942.
  • Wender, P. A.; Beckham, S.; Mohler, D. L. "The Intramolecular Addition of Silylated Alkynes to Aldehydes: Methodology for the Construction of Cyclic Enediynes and Its Application to Dynemicin Analogs" Tetrahedon Lett. 1995, 36, 209-212.
  • Wender, P. A.; Glass T. E. "The Pinene Approach to Taxanes .2. Development of A Versatile C9, C10 Linker" Synlett 1995, 516-518.
  • Wender, P. A.; Tebbe, M. J. "The Synthesis and Chemistry of a Simplified, Functional Analog of Neocarzinostatin Chromophore: Identification of An Intramolecular 1,5-Hydrogen Atom-Transfer Relevant to the Mechanism and Cleavage Selectivity of Diyl-Based DNA-Cleaving Agents" Tetrahedron1994, 50, 1419-1434.
  • Wender, P. A.; Zercher, C. K.; Beckham, S.; Haubold, E.M.>"A Photochemically Triggered DNA-Cleaving Agent: Synthesis, Mechanistic and DNA Cleavage Studies on a New Analog of the Antitumor Antibiotic Dynemicin" J. Org. Chem. 1993, 58, 5867-5869.
  • Wender, P. A.; Rawlins D. B."Toward the Synthesis of the Taxol C,D Ring-System: Photolysis of Alpha-Methoxy Ketones" Tetrahedron 1992, 48, 7033-7048.
  • Wender, P. A.; Mascarenas, J. L."Preparation and Cycloadditions of a 4-Methoxy-3-Oxidopyrylium Ylide: A Reagent for the Synthesis of Highly Substituted 7-Membered Rings and Tetrahydrofurans" Tetrahedon Lett. 1992, 33, 2115-2118.
  • Wender, P. A.; Kelly R. C.; Beckham, S.; Miller, B. L. "Studies on DNA-Cleaving Agents: Computer Modeling Analysis of the Mechanism of Activation and Cleavage of Dynemicin Oligonucleotide Complexes" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1991, 88, 8835-8839.
  • Wender, P. A.; Mascarenas J. L. "Studies on Tumor Promoters .11. A New [5+2] Cycloaddition Method and Its Application To the Synthesis of BC. Ring Precursors of Phoboids"J. Org. Chem. 1991, 56, 6267-6269.
  • Wender, P. A.; Tebbe, M. J. "Studies on DNA Cleaving Agents: Synthesis and Chemically-Induced Cycloaromatization of a Monocyclic Neocarzinostatin Chromophore Analog" Tetrahedon Lett. 1991, 32, 4863-4866.
  • Wender, P. A.; Zercher, C.K. "Studies on DNA-Cleaving Agents: Synthesis of A Functional Dynemicin Analog" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1991, 113, 2311-2313.
  • Wender, P. A.; Grissom J. W.; Hoffmann, U.; Mah, R. "Heteroatom Substituted Chromium Allyls: Synthetic Studies on Neocarzinostatin Chromophore Analogs" Tetrahedon Lett. 1990, 31, 6605-6608.
  • Wender, P. A.; Manly, C. J. "Discovery of A New Fragmentation Reaction" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1990, 112, 8579-8581.
  • Wender, P. A.; Mcdonald, F. E. "Studies on Tumor Promoters .10. Synthesis of the ABC Ring-System of the Tiglianes and Daphnanes By A Zirconium-Mediated Intramolecular Enyne Carbocyclization" Tetrahedon Lett. 1990, 31, 3691-3694.
  • Wender, P. A.; Mckinney, J. A.; Mukai, C. "General Methodology for the Synthesis of Neocarzinostatin Chromophore Analogs: Intramolecular Chromium-Mediated Closures for Strained-Ring Synthesis"J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1990, 112, 5369-5370.
  • Wender, P. A.; Lee, H. Y.; Wilhelm, R. S.; Williams P. D."Studies on Tumor Promoters .7. the Synthesis of A Potentially General Precursor of the Tiglianes, Daphnanes, and Ingenanes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1989, 111, 8954-8957.
  • Wender, P. A.; Cribbs, C. M.; Koehler, M. K. F., Sharkey, N. A.; Herald, C. L.; Kamano, Y.; Pettit, G. R.; Blumberg, P. M. "Modeling of the Bryostatins to the Phorbol Ester Pharmacophore on Protein Kinase-C" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1988, 85, 7197-7201.
  • Wender, P. A.; Brighty, K."Studies on Tumor Promoters .5. Complementary 1,4-Stereocontrol in Phorboid Cycloheptene Synthesis Via the Divinylcyclopropane Rearrangement" Tetrahedon Lett. 1988, 29, 6741-6744.
  • Wender, P. A.; Cooper, C. B. "Indole Synthesis Based on Triazole Photochemistry: Total Synthesis of 7 Methoxymitosene" Tetrahedon Lett. 1987,28, 6125-6128.
  • Wender, P. A.; Keenan, R. M., Lee, H. Y. "Studies on Tumor Promoters: the 1st Synthesis of the Phorbol Skeleton" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1987, 109, 4390-4392.
  • Wender, P. A.; Correia, C. R. D."Intramolecular Photoinduced Diene-Diene Cycloadditions: A Selective Method for the Synthesis of Complex 8-Membered Rings and Polyquinanes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1987, 109, 2523-2525.
  • Wender, P. A.; Cooper, C. B."The Photochemistry of 1-Alkenylbenzotriazoles: Methodology for the Synthesis of Indoles" Tetrahedron 1986, 42, 2985-2991.
  • Wender, P. A.; Ternansky, R. J.; Sieburth, S.M."Macroexpansion Methodology .5. An Enolate-Accelerated Cope Rearrangement" Tetrahedon Lett.1985, 26, 4319-4322.
  • Paul A. Wender, "Selectivity in Excited State Chemistry" Tetrahedron ,  In Selectivity: A Goal for Synthetic Efficiency, W. Bartmann and B. Trost, Eds.; Verlag Chemie, 1984, 335-348.
  • Wender, P. A.; White, A. W. "Methodology for the Facile and Regio-Controlled Synthesis of Indoles" Tetrahedron 1983, 39, 3767-3776.
  • Wender, P. A.; Holt, D. A.; Sieburth, S. M. "Practical Method for Alpha-Alkenyl Ketone Synthesis Based on A Facile Reductive Rearrangement of Alkynyl Halohydrins" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1983, 105, 3348-3350.
  • Wender, P. A.; Sieburth, S. M. "Macroexpansion Methodology: An Efficient 8 Unit Ring Expansion" Tetrahedon Lett. 1981, 22, 2471-2474.
  • Wender, P. A.; Erhardt, J. M.; Letendre, L.J."Reaction of Allylically Substituted Enolates With Organometallic Reagents: A Convenient Source of Enolonium Ion Equivalents" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1981, 103, 2114-2116.
  • Wender, P. A.; White, A. W. "Methodology for Indole Synthesis" Tetrahedon Lett. 1981, 22, 1475-1478.
  • Wender, P. A.; Sieburth, S. M.; Petraitis, J. J.; Singh, S. K."Macroexpansion Methodology: Medium Ring Synthesis Based on An 8 Unit Ring Expansion Process" Tetrahedron 1981, 37, 3967-3975.
  • Wender, P. A.; Hillemann C. L., Szymonifka, M. J. "An Approach To the Tiglianes, Daphnanes, and Ingenanes Via the Divinylcyclopropane Rearrangement" Tetrahedon Lett. 1980, 21, 2205-2208.
  • Wender, P. A.; Schaus, J. M.; Torney D.C."General-Method for cis-Hydroisoquinoline Synthesis" Tetrahedon Lett. 1979 2485-2488.
  • Wender, P. A.; Eissenstat, M. A."Regiospecific Generation of Lithio-Enamines From Alpha,Beta-Unsaturated Imines: Alternative Method for Reduction-Alkylation of Enones" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1978, 100, 292-294.
  • Wender, P. A.; Schaus, J. M. "Imine Prototropy: Synthetic Consequences in Generation of Metalloenamines" J. Org. Chem. 1978, 43, 782-784.
  • P. A. Wender, M. A. Eissenstat, N. Sapuppo, and F. E. Ziegler, "Nitriles from Ketones: Cyclohexylnitrile," Organic Syntheses W. A. Sheppard, Ed.; Vol. 58; J. Wiley and Sons; New York, 1978,  101
  • Frederick E. Ziegler and Paul A. Wender, "Methyldialkylcyanodiazenecarboxylates as Intermediates for Transforming Aliphatic Ketones into Nitriles," J. Org. Chem., 1977, 42, 2001.
  • Wender, P. A.; Lechleiter, J. C. "Methods for Preparation of 1,5-Dienes: Metathetical Route To Medium-Sized Carbocycles" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1977,99, 267-268.
  • Frederick E. Ziegler, Gary R. Reid, William L. Studt, and Paul A. Wender, "Stereochemistry of Dialkylcuprate Additions to Cyclopropylacryclic Esters. An Application to the Synthesis of (±)-Eremophilone," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1977,42, 1991.
  • Wender, P. A.; Eck, S. L. "Organobiscuprates: Single-Step Spiroannelation Method" Tetrahedon Lett. 1977, 1245-1248.
  • Wender, P. A.; Filosa, M. P. "Facile Route to Divinylcyclopropanes: Efficient Method for Annelative Formation of Functionalized Cycloheptanes" J. Org. Chem. 1976, 41, 3490-3491.
  • F. E. Ziegler and Paul A. Wender, "The Stereospecific Generation of the cis-Vicinal Methyls in Eremophilane and Valencane Sesquiterpenes: The Total Synthesis of (±)-Eremophilone and (±)-Epieremophilone," Tetrahedron Lett. 1974, 449.
  • F. E. Ziegler and Paul A. Wender, "The Base-Induced Decomposition of Methyl Dialkyl cyanodiazenecarboxylates. The Transformation of Ketones into Nitriles, a-Carbomethoxynitriles, and a-Methylnitriles," ," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1971,93, 4318.