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  1. Aspartic acid residues in BBE-like enzymes from Morus alba promote a function shift from oxidative cyclization to dehydrogenation

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Kendall N Houk

  2. Origin of iodine preferential attack at sulfur in phosphorothioate and subsequent P-O or P-S bond dissociation

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Kendall N Houk

  3. Computational generation of an annotated gigalibrary of synthesizable, composite peptidic macrocycles

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Kendall N Houk

  4. Molecular dynamics of the intramolecular 1, 3-dipolar ene reaction of a nitrile oxide and an alkene: non-statistical behavior of a reaction involving a diradical intermediate

    Article • Molecular Physics, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Kendall N Houk

  5. Discovery of new mutually orthogonal bioorthogonal cycloaddition pairs through computational screening

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Kendall N Houk

  6. An asymmetric pericyclic cascade approach to 3-alkyl-3-aryloxindoles: generality, applications and mechanistic investigations

    Article • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Kendall N Houk

  7. Can acyclic conformational control be achieved via a sulfur–fluorine gauche effect?

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Kendall N Houk

  8. Torsional control of stereoselectivities in electrophilic additions and cycloadditions to alkenes

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Kendall N Houk

  9. Distortion-accelerated cycloadditions and strain-release-promoted cycloreversions in the organocatalytic carbonyl-olefin metathesis

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Kendall N Houk