| Green oxidation of indoles using halide catalysis J Xu, L Liang, H Zheng, YR Chi, R Tong Nature Communications 10 (1), 4754, 2019 | 97 | 2019 |
| In Situ Generation of Nitrile Oxides from NaCl–Oxone Oxidation of Various Aldoximes and Their 1, 3-Dipolar Cycloaddition G Zhao, L Liang, CHE Wen, R Tong Organic letters 21 (1), 315-319, 2018 | 74 | 2018 |
| A general, concise strategy that enables collective total syntheses of over 50 protoberberine and five aporhoeadane alkaloids within four to eight steps S Zhou, R Tong Chemistry–A European Journal 22 (21), 7084-7089, 2016 | 73 | 2016 |
| Catalytic Environmentally friendly protocol for achmatowicz rearrangement Z Li, R Tong The Journal of Organic Chemistry 81 (11), 4847-4855, 2016 | 72 | 2016 |
| An environmentally friendly protocol for oxidative halocyclization of tryptamine and tryptophol derivatives J Xu, R Tong Green chemistry 19 (13), 2952-2956, 2017 | 71 | 2017 |
| Total syntheses of durgamone, nakorone, and abudinol B via biomimetic oxa-and carbacyclizations R Tong, JC Valentine, FE McDonald, R Cao, X Fang, KI Hardcastle Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (5), 1050-1051, 2007 | 68 | 2007 |
| Stereoselective reactions of ortho-quinone methide and ortho-quinone methide imines and their utility in natural product synthesis CDT Nielsen, H Abas, AC Spivey Synthesis 50 (20), 4008-4018, 2018 | 64 | 2018 |
| Unification of anion relay chemistry with the Takeda and Hiyama cross-coupling reactions: identification of an effective silicon-based transfer agent AB Smith III, AT Hoye, D Martinez-Solorio, WS Kim, R Tong Journal of the American Chemical Society 134 (10), 4533-4536, 2012 | 64 | 2012 |
| Asymmetric total syntheses of (−)-penicipyrone and (−)-tenuipyrone via biomimetic cascade intermolecular Michael addition/cycloketalization L Song, H Yao, L Zhu, R Tong Organic letters 15 (1), 6-9, 2013 | 58 | 2013 |
| Synthesis of four monoterpene-derived organosulfates and their quantification in atmospheric aerosol samples Y Wang, J Ren, XHH Huang, R Tong, JZ Yu Environmental Science & Technology 51 (12), 6791-6801, 2017 | 57 | 2017 |
| Uniting anion relay chemistry with Pd-mediated cross coupling: Design, synthesis and evaluation of bifunctional aryl and vinyl silane linchpins AB Smith III, WS Kim, R Tong Organic letters 12 (3), 588-591, 2010 | 55 | 2010 |
| Total Synthesis and Structural Revision of (+)‐Uprolide G Acetate L Zhu, Y Liu, R Ma, R Tong Angewandte Chemie International Edition 54 (2), 627-632, 2015 | 50 | 2015 |
| Scalable Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (+)-Psoracorylifol B and (+)-ent-Psoracorylifol C J Ren, Y Liu, L Song, R Tong Organic letters 16 (11), 2986-2989, 2014 | 49 | 2014 |
| Highly trans‐Selective Arylation of Achmatowicz Rearrangement Products by Reductive γ‐Deoxygenation and Heck–Matsuda Reaction: Asymmetric Total … Z Li, FCF Ip, NY Ip, R Tong Chemistry–A European Journal 21 (31), 11152-11157, 2015 | 47 | 2015 |
| Convenient in situ generation of various dichlorinating agents from oxone and chloride: diastereoselective dichlorination of allylic and homoallylic alcohol derivatives J Ren, R Tong Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 11 (26), 4312-4315, 2013 | 46 | 2013 |
| Asymmetric total synthesis of (+)-attenol B J Ren, J Wang, R Tong Organic letters 17 (3), 744-747, 2015 | 43 | 2015 |
| Biomimetic asymmetric total syntheses of spirooliganones A and B L Song, H Yao, R Tong Organic letters 16 (14), 3740-3743, 2014 | 43 | 2014 |
| Asymmetric total synthesis of (+)-didemniserinolipid B via Achmatowicz rearrangement/bicycloketalization J Ren, R Tong The Journal of Organic Chemistry 79 (15), 6987-6995, 2014 | 40 | 2014 |
| Benzyl and phenylthiomethyl silanes: A new class of bifunctional linchpins for type II anion relay chemistry (ARC) AB Smith III, R Tong Organic letters 12 (6), 1260-1263, 2010 | 37 | 2010 |
| Fenton chemistry enables the catalytic oxidative rearrangement of indoles using hydrogen peroxide G Zhao, L Liang, E Wang, S Lou, R Qi, R Tong Green Chemistry 23 (6), 2300-2307, 2021 | 35 | 2021 |
