Book Chapters
2. Graham K. Murphy* and Tanja Gulder,* "Hypervalent iodine fluorination for preparing alkyl fluorides (stoichiometrically and catalytically" in "Synthetic Organofluorine Chemistry: Fluorination" Springer, 2018.
1. Graham K. Murphy and F.G. West, "Oxonium Ylide Rearrangements in Synthesis" in Molecular Rearrangements in Organic Synthesis, Wiley, Oct. 2015. (Angewandte Review)
Journal Articles
48. Natasha M. Evans, Lindsey R. Shivers, Avery J. To, Graham K. Murphy, and Thorsten Dieckmann, "Biophysical Characterization and Design of a Minimal Version of the Hoechst RNA Aptamer" Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2024, accepted. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2024.149908.
47. Radell Echemendía, Avery J. To, Graham K. Murphy,* and Antonio C. B. Burtoloso* "Copper-Catalyzed α-Arylation of Sulfoxonium Ylides using Hypervalent Iodine Compounds", Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2023, 366 (3), 396-401.
46. Carlee A. Montgomery and Graham K. Murphy,* "Exploring the Role of Halogen Bonding in Iodonium Ylides: Insights into Unexpected Reactivity and Reaction Control" Beilstein J. Org. Chem., 2023, 19, 1171–1190.
45. Léanne Racicot, John F. Valliant and Graham K. Murphy,* "Synthesis and Evaluation of Fluorous- and Polystyrene-Supported Precursors for Fluoro-benziodoxole" Synthesis, 2023, DOI: 10.1055/a-2085-3284
44. Michael V. Tarasca, Cassidy J. Tomlinson, Dr. Pavel Gris and Dr. Graham K. Murphy,* "One-Step, Gram-Scale Synthesis of Caffeine-d9 from Xanthine and CD3I" Synthesis, 2022, 55(05) 821-825. (2023 Synform News Article)
43. Carlee A. Montgomery,t Islam Jameel,t Fabio Cuzzucoli, Tristan Chidley, Dr. W. Scott Hopkins* and Dr. Graham K. Murphy,* “Sigma-Holes in Iodonium Ylides: Halogen-Bond Activation of Carboxylic Acids, Phenols and Thiophenols May Enable Their X–H Insertion Reactions” Chem. Eur. J., 2022, 28(71), e202202029.
42. Fabio Cuzzucoli, Leanne Racicot, John F. Valliant and Graham K. Murphy,* “Transition metal-free fluorocyclization of unsaturated N-methoxyamides gives cyclic N-methoxyimidates” Tetrahedron, 2022, 123, 132982.
41. Avery J. To and Graham K. Murphy,* “Iodolium Salts as Halogen-Bond Donor Catalysts in the Nazarov Cyclization: The Molecular Oxygen Enigma” New. J. Chem., 2022, 46, 15313 - 15320.
40. Liam H. Britt, Zhensheng Zhao and Graham K. Murphy,* “Hypervalent Iodine-Mediated Oxidative Alkene Arylation: A Thorough Analysis” Can. J. Chem. 2022, 100(8), 606-621. (Keith Fagnou Award Lecture Paper)
39. Raed Al-Zoubi,* Walid K. Al-Jammal, Michael J. Ferguson and Graham K. Murphy, "Domino C–C/C–O bond formation: palladium-catalyzed regioselective synthesis of 7-iodobenzo[b]furans using 1,2,3-triiodobenzenes and benzylketones" RSC Advances, 2021, 11, 30069.
38. Zhensheng Zhao, Avery J. To and Dr. Graham K. Murphy*, "Difluorinative Ring Expansions of Benzo-Fused Carbocycles and Heterocycles are Achieved with p-(Difluoroiodo)toluene" Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 14821.
37. Tristan Chidley, Islam Jameel, Shafa Rizwan, Philippe A. Peixoto, Dr. Laurent Pouységu, Dr. Stéphane Quideau,* Dr. W. Scott Hopkins* and Dr. Graham K. Murphy*, "Blue LED Irradiation of Iodonium Ylides Gives Diradical Intermediates for Efficient Metal-ˇfree Cyclopropanation with Alkenes" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 16959. (Cover Art)
36. Zhensheng Zhao, Kevin C.Y. Ma, Dr. Claude Y. Legault* and Dr. Graham K. Murphy*, "Denitrogenative Hydrotrifluoromethylation of Benzaldehyde Hydrazones: Synthesis of (2,2,2-Trifluoroethyl)arenes" Chem. Eur. J., 2019, 25, 11240.
35. Zhensheng Zhao, Islam Jameel and Graham K. Murphy*, "Vicinal Dichlorination of o-Vinylbiphenyls and the Synthesis of 9-(Arylmethyl)fluorenes via Tandem Friedel-Crafts Alkylations" Synthesis, 2019, 51, 2648.
34. Jason Tao and Graham K. Murphy*, "A Practical, Large-Scale Synthesis of p-(Difluoroiodo)toluene (p-TolIF2)" Synthesis, 2019, 51, 3055.
33. Tristan Chidley and Graham K. Murphy*, Cyclopropanation of Alkenes with Metallocarbenes Generated from Monocarbonyl Iodonium Ylides" Org. Biomol. Chem., 2018, 16, 8486. (Invited submission to Theme Issue on Carbenes in Organic Synthesis)
32. Zhensheng Zhao, Liam H. Britt and Graham K. Murphy*, "Oxidative, Iodoarene-Catalyzed Intramolecular Alkene Arylation for the Synthesis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons" Chem. Eur. J., 2018, 24 (64), 17002. (Synfacts highlight in 2019)
31. Jasmin Eljo and Graham K. Murphy*, "Direct, Oxidative Halogenation of Diaryl- or Dialkylphosphine oxides with (Dihaloiodo)arenes" Tetrahedron Lett., 2018, 59, 2965.
30. Zhensheng Zhao and Graham K. Murphy*, " Chlorination of Phenylallene Derivatives with 1-Chloro-1,2-benziodoxol-3-one: Synthesis of vicinal-Dichlorides and Chlorodienes" Beilstein J. Org. Chem, 2018, 14, 796. (Invited submission to issue on Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry)
29. Graham K. Murphy,* Léanne Racicot and Myriam S. Carle " The Chemistry Between Hypervalent Iodine(III) Reagents and Organophosphorus Compounds", Asian J. Org. Chem. 2018, 7, 837.
28. Zhensheng Zhao, Léanne Racicot and Graham K. Murphy* "Fluorinative Rearrangements of Substituted Phenylallenes Mediated by (Difluoroiodo)toluene: Synthesis of a-(Difluoromethyl)styrenes", Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 11620.
27. Benjamin A. Laevens, Jason Tao and Graham K. Murphy*, " Iodide-Mediated Synthesis of Spirooxindolo Dihydrofurans from Iodonium Ylides and 3-Alkylidene-2-oxindoles" J. Org. Chem., 2017, 82, 11903. Invited submission to issue on Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry.
25. Jasmin Eljo, Myriam S. Carle, and Graham K. Murphy*, " Hypervalent Iodine-Based Activation of Triphenylphosphine for the Functionalization of Alcohols" Synlett, 2017, 28, 2871. Invited submission to issue dedicated to Dr. Vic. Snieckus.
24. Zhensheng Zhao, Kaivalya G. Kulkarni, and Graham K. Murphy*, " Synthesis of Aryldihalomethanes by Denitrogenative Dihalogenation of Benzaldehyde Hydrazones" Adv. Synth. Catal. 2017, 359, 2222.
23. Abhinandan Shyamsunder, Witali Beichel, Petra Klose, Quan Pang, Harald Scherer, Anke Hoffmann, Prof. Graham. K. Murphy, Prof. Ingo Krossing, Prof. Linda F. Nazar*, " Inhibiting polysulfide shuttle in Li-S batteries through low ion-pairing salts and a triflamide solvent" Angewandte Chem., Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 6192.
22. Kaivalya G. Kulkarni, Boris Miokovic, Matthew Sauder and Graham K. Murphy*, "Denitrogenative hydrofluorination of Aromatic Aldehyde Hydrazones Using (Difluoroiodo)toluene", Org. Biomol. Chem. 2016, 14, 9907-9911.
21. Geoffrey S. Sinclair, Richard Tran, Jason Tao, W. Scott Hopkins* and Graham K. Murphy*, “Borosilicate Activation of (Difluoroiodo)toluene in the gem-Difluorination of Phenyldiazoacetate Derivatives” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 27, 4603. (EurJOC Cover Art)
20. Myriam S. Carle, Grace K. Shimokura and Graham K. Murphy*, ”Iodobenzene Dichloride in the Esterification and Amidation of Carboxylic acids: In-Situ Synthesis of Ph3PCl2” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 23, 3930. (Top 10 downloaded article for August 2016.)
19. Robert Black, Abhinandan Shyamsunder, Parvin Adeli, Dipan Kundu, Graham K. Murphy and Linda F. Nazar, "The Nature and Impact of Side Reactions in Glyme-based Sodium-Oxygen Batteries" ChemSusChem 2016, 9, 1-10.
18. Jason Tao, Tina N. Tuck and Graham K. Murphy, "Geminal Dichlorination of Phenyliodonium Ylides of β-Dicarbonyl Compounds via Double Ligand Transfer from (Dichloroiodo)benzene" Synthesis 2016, 48, 772–782.
17. Charlotte Hepples and Graham K. Murphy, "Synthesis of 3,3-dichloro-2-oxindoles from isatin-3-p-tosylhydrazones and (dichloroiodo)benzene" Tet. Lett. 2015, 35, 4971.
16. Jason Tao and Graham K. Murphy, "(Difluoroiodo)toluene" e-EROS update May 2015.
15. Keith E. Coffey and Graham K. Murphy,"Dichlorination of α-Diazo-β-Dicarbonyls with (Dichloroiodo)benzene" Synlett 2015, 26, 1003. (Invited Synpacts Article)
14. Keith E. Coffey, Ryan Moreira, Farhana Z. Abbas and Graham K. Murphy, "Synthesis of 3,3-dichloroindolin-2-ones from Isatin-3-hydrazones and (Dichloroiodo)benzene" Org. Biomol. Chem. 2015, 3, 682.
13. Graham K. Murphy,* Farhana Z. Abbas and Amy V. Poulton, "a,a-Dichlorination of Oxindole Derivatives Using (Dichloroiodo)benzene," Adv. Synth. Cat. 2014, 356, 2919.
12. Brian D. Adams, Robert Black, Zack Williams, Russel Fernandes, Marine Cuisinier, Erik Jaemstorp Berg, Petr Novak, Graham K. Murphy, and Linda F. Nazar* "Towards a Stable Organic Electrolyte for the Lithium Oxygen Battery," Adv. Energy Mater. 2015, 5, 1400867.
11. Jason Tao, Richard Tran and Graham K. Murphy,* "Dihaloiodoarenes: a,a-Dihalogenation of Phenylacetate Derivatives," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135 (44), pp 16312–16315. (Synfacts highlight in 2014)
10. Phyllis E. Ho, Jason Tao and Graham K. Murphy,* "Wittig Reagents as Metallocarbene Precursors: In situ Generated Monocarbonyl Iodonium Ylides," Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6540.
9. Dr. Joyce C. Leung, Dr. Aaron A. Bedermann, Prof. Jón T. Njardarson, Prof. David A. Spiegel, Prof. Graham K. Murphy, Dr. Naoto Hama, Dr. Barry M. Twenter, Dr. Ping Dong, Prof. Tatsuya Shirahata, Dr. Ivar M. McDonald, Dr. Munenori Inoue, Dr. Nobuaki Taniguchi, Dr. Travis C. McMahon, Dr. Christopher M. Schneider, Dr. Nancy Tao, Prof. Brian M. Stoltz and Prof. John L. Wood,* "Total Synthesis of (±)-Phomoidride D", Angewandte. Chem., Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 1.
8. Graham K. Murphy,* Craig Stewart and Frederick G. West,* “Intramolecular generation and rearrangement of oxonium ylides: methodology studies and their application in synthesis,” Tetrahedron 2013, 69, 2667.
7. Graham K. Murphy, Tatsuya Shirahata, Naoto Hama, Aaron Bedermann, Ping Dong, Travis C. McMahon, Barry M. Twenter, David A. Spiegel, Ivar M. McDonald, Nobuaki Taniguchi, Munenori Inoue, and John L. Wood,* “Towards the Synthesis of Phomoidride D,” J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 477.
6. Graham K. Murphy, Naoto Hama, Aaron Bedermann, Ping Dong, Chris M. Schneider, Travis C. McMahon, Ran N. Tao, Barry M. Twenter, Davis A. Spiegel, John L. Wood, “Wharton Fragmentation-Based Approach to the Carbocyclic Core of the Phomoidrides,” Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 4544.
5. Graham K. Murphy, Frederik P. Marmsäter, F.G. West, “Polycyclic Oxonium Ylides: Use of Cyclic Acetals as Convenient Scaffolds in the Construction of Fused Bicyclic Compounds Containing a Medium Ring,” Can. J. Chem. 2006, 84, 1470–1486.
4. Graham K. Murphy, F.G. West, “[1,2]- or [2,3]-Rearrangement of Onium Ylides of Allyl and Benzyl Ethers and Sulfides via in Situ-Generated Iodonium Ylides,” Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 4359–4361.
3. Graham K. Murphy, F.G. West, “Hydrazulene Ring Systems via Heteroatom-Assisted [1,2]-Shift of Oxonium and Sulfonium Ylides,” Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 1801–1804.
2. Fredrik P. Marmsäter, Graham K. Murphy, F.G. West, “Cyclooctanoid Ring Systems from Mixed Acetals via Heteroatom-Assisted [1,2]-Shift of Oxonium Ylides,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 14724–14725.
1. Yusuke Shibuya, Hiroshi Kusuoku, Graham K. Murphy, and Yoshinori Nishizawa, “Isolation and Structure Determination of New Macrocarpals from a Herbal Medecine, Eucalyptus Globulus Leaf,” Journal of Natural Medicines, 2001, 55 (1), 28–31.