1)Hua Cheng, Maoqian Xiong, Ni Zhang, Huajing Wang, Yang Miao, Wei Su, Ye Yuan, Cheng Chen*, and Francis Verpoort*,Efficient N-heterocyclic carbene/ruthenium catalytic systems for the alcohol amidation with amines: Involvement of poly-carbene complexes? ChemCatChem, 2018, DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201800945.
2)Hua Cheng, Wei Song, Ren Nie, Yuxia Wang, Huilian Li, Xiangsheng Jiang, Junjun Wu, Cheng Chen*, Qiongyou Wu*. Synthesis of new 4-aryloxy-N-arylanilines and their inhibitory activities against succinate-cytochrome c reductase. Bioorg. Med. Chem.Lett.2018, 28, 1330.
3)Hua Cheng, Maoqian Xiong,Chuanxiang Cheng, Huajing Wang, Qiang Lu, Hongfu Liu, Fubin Yao, Cheng Chen*, Francis Verpoort*. In situ generated ruthenium catalytic systems bearing diverse N-heterocyclic carbene precursors for the atom-economic amide synthesis from alcohols and amines.Chem. Asian J., 2018, 13, 440–448.
4)Ye Yuan, Yu Xie, Cheng Zeng, Dandan Song, Somboon Chaemchuen,Cheng Chen*, Francis Verpoort*, A Recyclable AgI/OAc- Catalytic System for the Efficient Synthesis of α-Alkylidene Cyclic Carbonates: Carbon Dioxide Conversion at Atmospheric Pressure, Green Chem.2017, 19, 2936-2940.
5)Wei Su, Hussein A. Younus,Kui Zhou, Zafar A. K. Khattak,Somboon Chaemcheun, Cheng Chen*, and F. Verpoort*, Chemical and Photochemical Water Oxidation Catalyzed by Novel Ruthenium Complexes Comprising a Negatively Charged NCNHCO Ligand, Catal. Sci. Technol.2017,7, 387-395.
6)Ye Yuan, Yu Xie, Cheng Zeng, Dandan Song, Somboon Chaemchuen, Cheng Chen*, Francis Verpoort*, A simple and robust AgI/KOAc catalytic system for the carboxylative assembly of propargyl alcohols and carbon dioxide at atmospheric pressure. Catal. Sci. Technol. 2017, 7, 2935-2939.
7)Hua Cheng, Ren Nie, Wanqiang Wang, Lin Huang, Ke Liu,Cheng Chen*, Wu, Qiongyou*. Research Progress in Structural Modification of Antimycin A. Chin. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 37, 1368.
8)Cheng Chen, Pullaiah Kattanguru, Olesya A. Tomashenko, Rafał Karpowicz, Gabriela Siemiaszko, Ahanjit Bhattacharya, Vinícius Calasansa and Yvan Six. Synthesis of functionalised azepanes and piperidines from bicyclic halogenated aminocyclopropane derivatives. Org. Biomol. Chem., 2017, 15, 5364.
9)Cheng Chen, Qiong-You Wu,* Lian-Ying Shan, Bei Zhang, Francis Verpoort, Guang-Fu Yang*. Discovery of cytochromebc1 complex inhibitors inspired by the natural product karrikinolide. RSC Adv.2016, 6, 97580.
10)Cheng Chen, Francis Verpoort*, Qiongyou Wu*. Atom-Economic Dehydrogenative Amide Synthesis via Ruthenium Catalysis. RSC Adv.2016, 6, 55599.
11)Cheng Chen, Rui Zhang, Long Lin, Guang-Fu Yang*, Qiong-You Wu*. Brønsted Acid Promoted One-Pot Synthesis of 4-Aryl-3,4-Dihydrocoumarins. Tetrahedron2016, 72, 3917.
12)Cheng Chen, Min Ha Kim, Soon Hyeok Hong*. N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Based Ruthenium-Catalyzed Direct Amidation of Aldehydes with Amines. Org. Chem. Front.2015, 2, 241.
13)Cheng Chen, Soon Hyeok Hong*. Selective Catalytic sp3 C-O Bond Cleavage with C-N Bond Formation in 3-Alkoxy-1-propanols. Org. Lett.2012, 14, 2992.
14)Cheng Chen, Yao Zhang, and Soon Hyeok Hong*. N-Heterocyclic Carbene Based Ruthenium-Catalyzed Direct Amide Synthesis from Alcohols and Secondary Amines - Involvement of Esters. J. Org. Chem.2011, 76, 10005.
15)Cheng Chen, Soon Hyeok Hong*. Oxidative Amide Synthesis Directly from Alcohols with Amines.” Org. Biomol. Chem.2011, 9, 20.
16)Cheng Chen, Shu-Lin Liu, Ran Cui, Bi-Hai Huang, Zhi-Quan Tian, Peng Jiang, Dai-Wen Pang, Zhi-Lin Zhang*. Diffusion Behaviors of Water-Soluble CdSe/ZnS Core/Shell Quantum Dots Investigated by Single-Particle Tracking. J. Phys. Chem. C.2008, 112, 18904.