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  1. Wender, Paul A., "Art, Architecture and the Molecular Frontier"; Acc. Chem. Res., 2015, 48, 2169-2170.

  2. 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.

  3. Wender, P. A., “The Future of Chemistry – What Lies Ahead – Look Through a Molecular Lens”, Nature, 2011, 469, 23-25.

  4. Wender, P. A.; Jeon, R. "Photoinduced Cleavage of DNA by Bromofluoroacetophenone-pyrrolecarboxamide Conjugates" Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett.2003, 13, 1763-1766.

  5. Jeon, R; Wender, P. A. "Photocleavage of DNA By 4'-Bromoacetophenone Analogs". Arch. Pharm. Res. 2001, 24, 39-43.

  6. 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.

  7. Jeon, R.; Wender, P. A. "Design and Synthesis of New DNA Photocleavers, 4'-Bromoacetophenone-Pyrrolecarboxamide Hybrid Compounds." Arch. Pharm. Res. 2000, 23, 585-588.

  8. Paul A. Wender; "Foreward"; l'actualite chimique 2003, 7-8. Article.

  9. Wender, P. A.; Jeon, R. "Bromoacetophenone-Based Photonucleases: Photoinduced Cleavage of DNA By 4'-Bromoacetophenone-Pyrrolecarboxamide Conjugates" Org. Lett. 1999, 1, 2117-2120.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. Yang, J. W.; Wender, P. A. "Synthesis of 1-(2-Naphthoyl) Benzotriazoles As Photoactivated DNA Cleaving Agents" Arch. Pharm. Res. 1997, 20, 197-199.

  15. 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.

  16. Wender, P. A. "Frontiers in Organic Synthesis: Introduction" Chem. Rev. 1996, 96, 1-2.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. Wender, P. A.; Glass T. E. "The Pinene Approach to Taxanes .2. Development of A Versatile C9, C10 Linker" Synlett 1995, 516-518.

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

  26. 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.

  27. 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.

  28. 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.

  29. 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.

  30. 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.

  31. 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.

  32. Wender, P. A.; Manly, C. J. "Discovery of A New Fragmentation Reaction" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1990, 112, 8579-8581.

  33. 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.

  34. 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.

  35. 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.

  36. 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.

  37. 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.

  38. Wender, P. A.; Cooper, C. B. "Indole Synthesis Based on Triazole Photochemistry: Total Synthesis of 7 Methoxymitosene" Tetrahedon Lett. 1987,28, 6125-6128.

  39. 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.

  40. 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.

  41. Wender, P. A.; Cooper, C. B."The Photochemistry of 1-Alkenylbenzotriazoles: Methodology for the Synthesis of Indoles" Tetrahedron 1986, 42, 2985-2991.

  42. Wender, P. A.; Ternansky, R. J.; Sieburth, S.M."Macroexpansion Methodology .5. An Enolate-Accelerated Cope Rearrangement" Tetrahedon Lett.1985, 26, 4319-4322.

  43. 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.

  44. Wender, P. A.; White, A. W. "Methodology for the Facile and Regio-Controlled Synthesis of Indoles" Tetrahedron 1983, 39, 3767-3776.

  45. 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.

  46. Wender, P. A.; Sieburth, S. M. "Macroexpansion Methodology: An Efficient 8 Unit Ring Expansion" Tetrahedon Lett. 1981, 22, 2471-2474.

  47. 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.

  48. Wender, P. A.; White, A. W. "Methodology for Indole Synthesis" Tetrahedon Lett. 1981, 22, 1475-1478.

  49. 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.

  50. 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.

  51. Wender, P. A.; Schaus, J. M.; Torney D.C."General-Method for cis-Hydroisoquinoline Synthesis" Tetrahedon Lett. 1979 2485-2488.

  52. 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.

  53. Wender, P. A.; Schaus, J. M. "Imine Prototropy: Synthetic Consequences in Generation of Metalloenamines" J. Org. Chem. 1978, 43, 782-784.

  54. 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

  55. Frederick E. Ziegler and Paul A. Wender, "Methyldialkylcyanodiazenecarboxylates as Intermediates for Transforming Aliphatic Ketones into Nitriles," J. Org. Chem., 1977, 42, 2001.

  56. 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.

  57. 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.

  58. Wender, P. A.; Eck, S. L. "Organobiscuprates: Single-Step Spiroannelation Method" Tetrahedon Lett. 1977, 1245-1248.

  59. 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.

  60. 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.

  61. 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.

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