1. Copper-Mediated Fluoroalkylation of Aryl Iodides Enables Facile Access to Diverse Fluorinated Compounds: The Important Role of the (2-Pyridyl)sulfonyl Group Yanchuan Zhao, Bing Gao, Chuanfa Ni, and Jinbo Hu* Org. Lett. 2012, 14 (23), pp 6080-6083. <Link>

2. From Olefination to Alkylation: In-Situ Halogenation of Julia–Kocienski Intermediates Leading to Formal Nucleophilic Iodo- and Bromodifluoromethylation of Carbonyl Compounds Yanchuan Zhao, Bing Gao, and Jinbo Hu* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134 (13), pp 5790-5793. <Link>

3. Palladium‐Catalyzed 2,2,2‐Trifluoroethylation of Organoboronic Acids and Esters Yanchuan Zhao, and Jinbo Hu* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51 (4), pp 1033-1036. <Link>

4. Palladium-catalyzed allylation of 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl phenyl sulfone, a potential 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl pronucleophile Wei Zhang, Yanchuan Zhao, Chuanfa Ni, Thomas Mathew, and Jinbo Hu* Tetrahedron Lett. 2012, 53 (48), pp 6565-6568. <Link>

5. Nucleophilic difluoromethylation of N,N-acetals with TMSCF₂SO₂Ph reagent promoted by trifluoroacetic acid: A facile access to α-difluoromethylated tertiary amines Weizhou Huang, Chuanfa Ni, Yanchuan Zhao, Bing Gao and Jinbo Hu* J. Fluorine Chem. 2012, 143, pp 161-166. <Link>

6. Difluoro(phenylchalcogen)methylation of aldehydes, ketones, and imines with S-, Se-, and Te-containing reagents PhXCF₂H (X = S, Se, Te) Mingyou Hu, Fei Wang, Zhengbiao He, Wei Zhang, and Jinbo Hu* J. Fluorine Chem. 2012, 135, pp 45-58. <Link>

7. Nucleophilic difluoromethylation of CN bonds in heterocycles with difluoromethyl silane reagents Weizhou Huang, Chuanfa Ni, Yanchuan Zhao, Wei Zhang, Alexander D. Dilman, and Jinbo Hu* Tetrahedron. 2012, 68 (26), pp 5137-5144. <Link>