
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison 1994
B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College 1989
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Liu, Cong, and Ross A. Widenhoefer. “Gold(I)-catalyzed intramolecular enantioselective hydroarylation of allenes with indoles.” Organic Letters, vol. 9, no. 10, May 2007, pp. 1935–38. Epmc, doi:10.1021/ol070483c. Full Text
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Bender, Christopher F., and Ross A. Widenhoefer. “Room temperature hydroamination of N-alkenyl ureas catalyzed by a gold(i) N-heterocyclic carbene complex.” Organic Letters, vol. 8, no. 23, Nov. 2006, pp. 5303–05. Epmc, doi:10.1021/ol062107i. Full Text
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Bender, Christopher F., and Ross A. Widenhoefer. “Gold(I)-catalyzed intramolecular hydroamination of unactivated alkenes with carboxamides.” Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England), no. 39, Oct. 2006, pp. 4143–44. Epmc, doi:10.1039/b608638a. Full Text
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Han, Xiaoqing, and Ross A. Widenhoefer. “Platinum-catalyzed intramolecular asymmetric hydroarylation of unactivated alkenes with indoles.” Organic Letters, vol. 8, no. 17, Aug. 2006, pp. 3801–04. Epmc, doi:10.1021/ol061441b. Full Text