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Fields of interest:
Developing reactions and reagents
Creating proper network of reactions to make complex targets readily available from simple starting materials

Recent publications:
B.M. Trost, Z.T. Ball:
Alkyne Hydrosilylation Catalyzed by a Cationic Ruthenium Complex: Efficient and General trans Addition
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127 17644 (2005)

B.M. Trost, J. Xu:
Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic ?-Alkylation of Acyclic Ketones
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127 17181 (2005)

B.M. Trost, J.P.N. Papillon, T. Nüssbaumer:
Ru-Catalyzed Alkene-Alkyne Coupling. Total Synthesis of Amphidinolide P
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127 17921 (2005)

B.M. Trost, A.H. Weiss, A. Jacobi von Wangelin:
A Dinuclear Zinc Catalyzed Asymmetric Alkynylation of Unsaturated Aldehydes
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127 8 (2006)

B.M. Trost, J. Jaratjaroonphong, V. Reutrakul:
A Direct Catalytic Asymmetric Mannich-type Reaction via a Dinuclear Zinc Catalyst: Synthesis of Either anti- or syn-?-Hydroxy-?-Amino Ketones
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128 2778 (2006)

B.M. Trost, J. Xie:
Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Ring Expansion of Allenylcyclobutanols: An Atom Economic Approach for Asymmetric Wagner-Meerwein Shift
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128 6044 (2006)

B.M. Trost, Y. Zhang:
Molybdenum-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylation of 3-Alkyloxindoles:Application to the formal Total Synthesis of (-)-Physostigmine
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128 4590 (2006)

B.M. Trost, M.R. Machacek, B.D. Faulk:
Sequential Ru-Pd Catalysis: A Two-Catalyst One-Pot Protocol for the Synthesis of N- and O- Heterocycles
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128 6745 (2006)

B.M. Trost, J. Quancard:
Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective C-3 Allylation of 3-Substituted-1H-Indoles Using Trialkylboranes
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128 6314 (2006)

B.M. Trost, G. Dong:
New Nucleophiles for Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation. Total Synthesis of Agelastatin A
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128 6054 (2006)