Selected Publications of Fang Wang
- Daniel S. Honeycutt, Waldo Salgado-Bello, Harlan S. Greenberg, William K. McCarthy, Jason M. Mrosla, Brian Pallares, Jacob M. Goldberg,* Fang Wang,*, Direct Editing of Cysteine to Electrophilic Alkyl Halides in Peptides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025 147 28546–28551
- Matthew E. Paolella,‡ Daniel S. Honeycutt, Bradley M. Lipka, Jacob M. Goldberg,* and Fang Wang,*, Quantifying the Ability of the CF2H group as a Hydrogen Bond Donor. Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025 21 189–199 (‡ = URI undergraduate researcher)
- Fang Wang,* Jonathan Braverman,* George Eng, Ozen Leylek, Nicholas L. Petrone,‡ Daniel S. Honeycutt, Shinya Imada, Brian Pallares, Daiyao Zhang, Jason M. Mrosla, Camellia S. Huang, Anna A. Griadunova, William K. McCarthy, Jacob M. Goldberg, Michael T. Hemann, Stephen J. Lippard,* Ömer H. Yilmaz,*, Leveraging platinum-protein interactions to overcome chemoresistance. Nat. Commun. 2025 16 9263 (‡ = researcher intern, MD student at Brown University)
- Bradley M. Lipka, Daniel S. Honeycutt, Gregory M. Bassett, Taylor N. Kowal,‡ Max Adamczyk,‡ Zachary C. Cartnick, Vincent M. Betti, Jacob M. Goldberg*, Fang Wang*, Ultra-rapid Electrophilic Cysteine Arylation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023 145 23427-23432 (‡ = URI undergraduate researchers)
- Bradley M. Lipka, Vincent M. Betti, Daniel S. Honeycutt, Daniel L. Zelmanovich, Max Adamczyk,‡ Ruojun Wu, Harrison S. Blume, Caitlin A. Mendina, Jacob M. Goldberg*, Fang Wang*, Rapid Electrophilic Cysteine Arylation with Pyridinium Salts. Bioconjugate Chem. 2022 33 2189-2196 (‡ = URI undergraduate researchers)
- Jacob M. Goldberg,† Fang Wang,† Chanan D. Sessler, Nathan W. Vogler, Daniel Y. Zhang, William H. Loucks, Thanos Tzounopoulos, Stephen J. Lippard*, Photoactivatable Sensors for Detecting Mobile Zinc. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018 140 2020-2023 († = contributed equally)
- Chanan D. Sessler,‡ Sabine Becker, Martin Rahm, Jacob M. Goldberg, Fang Wang, Stephen J. Lippard*, CF2H, a Hydrogen Bond Donor. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017 139 9325-9332 (‡ = undergraduate researcher)
- Fang Wang, Sabine Becker, Mik A. Minier, Andrei Loas, Megan N. Jackson, Stephen J. Lippard*, Tuning the Diiron Core Geometry in Carboxylate-Bridged Macrocyclic Model Complexes Affects their Redox Properties and Supports Oxidation Chemistry. Inorg. Chem. 2017 56 11050-11058
- Zhe Zhang, Ángel Puente, Fang Wang, Martin Rahm, Yuncai Mei, Herbert Mayr,* G. K. Surya Prakash*, The Nucleophilicity of Persistent α-Monofluoromethide Anions. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016 55 112845-12849
- G. K. Surya Prakash,* Fang Wang, Martin Rahm, Zhe Zhang, Chuanfa Ni, Jingguo Shen, George A. Olah*, The Trifluoromethyl Group as a Conformational Stabilizer and Probe: Conformational Analysis of Cinchona Alkaloid Scaffolds. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014 136 10418-10431
- G. K. Surya Prakash,* Fang Wang, Zhe Zhang, Ralf Haiges, Martin Rahm, Karl O. Christe, Thomas Mathew, George A. Olah*, The Long-Lived Trifluoromethide Anion: A Key Intermediate in Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylations. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014 53 11575-11578
- G. K. Surya Prakash,* Zhe Zhang,† Fang Wang,† Marc Iuliucci, Chuanfa Ni, Martin Rahm, Ralf Haiges, George A. Olah*, Stereoselective Synthesis of Fluoroalkenoates and Fluorinated Isoxazolidinones: N-Substituents Governing the Dual Reactivity of Nitrones. Chem. Eur. J. 2014 20 831-838 († = contributed equally)
- G. K. Surya Prakash,* Chuanfa Ni, Fang Wang, Zhe Zhang, Ralf Haiges, George A. Olah*, Difluoro(sulfinato)methylation of N-Sulfinyl Imines Facilitated by 2-Pyridyl Sulfone: Stereoselective Synthesis of Difluorinated β-Amino Sulfonic Acids and Peptidosulfonamides. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013 52 10835-10839
- G. K. Surya Prakash,* Zhe Zhang, Fang Wang, Socrates Munoz, George A. Olah*, Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation of Carbonyl Compounds: Trifluoroacetaldehyde Hydrate as a Trifluoromethyl Source. J. Org. Chem. 2013 78 3300-3305
- G. K. Surya Prakash,* Fang Wang, Zhe Zhang, Chuanfa Ni, Ralf Haiges, George A. Olah*, Enantioselective Synthesis of α-Stereogenic γ-Keto Esters via Formal Umpolung. Org. Lett. 2012 13 3260-3263
- G. K. Surya Prakash,* Fang Wang, Chuanfa Ni, Jingguo Shen, Ralf Haiges, Andrei Yudin, Thomas Mathew, George A. Olah*, Conformational Study of 9-Dehydro-9-Trifluoromethyl Cinchona Alkaloids via 19F NMR Spectroscopy: Emergence of Trifluoromethyl Moiety as a Conformational Stabilizer and a Probe. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011 133 9992-9995
- G. K. Surya Prakash,* Fang Wang, Martin Rahm, Jingguo Shen, Chuanfa Ni, Ralf Haiges, George A. Olah*, On the Nature of C-H···F-C Interactions in Hindered CF3-C(sp3) Bond Rotations. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011 50 11761-11764
- G. K. Surya Prakash,* Chuanfa Ni, Fang Wang, Jinbo Hu, George A. Olah*, From Difluoromethyl 2-Pyridyl Sulfone to Difluorinated Sulfonates: A Protocol for Nucleophilic Difluoro(sulfonato)methylation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011 50 2559-2563
- G. K. Surya Prakash,* Fang Wang, Timothy Stewart, Thomas Mathew, George A. Olah*, α-Fluoro-α-nitro(phenylsulfonyl)methane as a Fluoromethyl Pronucleophile: Efficient Stereoselective Michael Addition to Chalcones. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2009 106 4090-4094
- G. K. Surya Prakash,* Fang Wang, Nan Shao, Thomas Mathew, Golam Rasul, Ralf Haiges, Timothy Stewart, George A. Olah*, A Persistent α-Fluorocarbanion and Its Analogues: Preparation, Characterization, and Computational Study. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009 48 5358-5362