| Asymmetric total synthesis and formal total synthesis of the antitumor sesquiterpenoid (+)-eremantholide A Y Li, KJ Hale Organic letters 9 (7), 1267-1270, 2007 | 113 | 2007 |
| Perspectives on the structural and biosynthetic interrelationships between oxygenated furanocembranoids and their polycyclic congeners found in corals Y Li, G Pattenden Natural Product Reports 28 (7), 1269-1310, 2011 | 111 | 2011 |
| Novel macrocyclic and polycyclic norcembranoid diterpenes from Sinularia species of soft coral: Structural relationships and biosynthetic speculations Y Li, G Pattenden Natural Product Reports 28 (2), 429-440, 2011 | 81 | 2011 |
| Visible-Light Photocatalytic E to Z Isomerization of Activated Olefins and Its Application for the Syntheses of Coumarins K Zhan, Y Li Catalysts 7 (11), 337, 2017 | 55 | 2017 |
| Biomimetic syntheses of ineleganolide and sinulochmodin C from 5-episinuleptolide via sequences of transannular Michael reactions Y Li, G Pattenden Tetrahedron 67 (51), 10045-10052, 2011 | 42 | 2011 |
| A concise total synthesis of (±)-anthecularin Y Li, CC Nawrat, G Pattenden, JM Winne Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 7 (4), 639-640, 2009 | 32 | 2009 |
| Exploration of a proposed biomimetic synthetic route to plumarellide. Development of a facile transannular Diels–Alder reaction from a macrocyclic enedione leading to a new 5 … Y Li, G Pattenden Tetrahedron Letters 52 (17), 2088-2092, 2011 | 29 | 2011 |
| Synthesis of exo enol ether-cyclic ketal isomers of substituted furanmethanol structures related to marine furanocembranoids Y Li, G Pattenden, J Rogers Tetrahedron Letters 51 (9), 1280-1283, 2010 | 28 | 2010 |
| Synthesis of E-deoxypukalide, and its biomimetic conversion into deoxypseudopterolide by photochemical ring contraction involving a 1,3-allylic shift Z Yang, Y Li, G Pattenden Tetrahedron 66 (33), 6546-6549, 2010 | 26 | 2010 |
| A strategy towards the synthesis of plumarellide based on biosynthesis speculation, featuring a transannular 4+ 2 type cyclisation from a cembranoid furanoxonium ion intermediate Y Li, MJ Palframan, G Pattenden, JM Winne Tetrahedron 70 (40), 7229-7240, 2014 | 21 | 2014 |
| NR2A contributes to genesis and propagation of cortical spreading depression in rats F Bu, R Du, Y Li, JP Quinn, M Wang Scientific reports 6 (1), 23576, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Microwave-assisted silver-catalyzed protodecarboxylation and decarboxylative iodination of aromatic carboxylic acids K Zhan, Y Li Catalysts 7 (11), 314, 2017 | 19 | 2017 |
| The syntheses of cyclic spermine alkaloids: analogues of buchnerine and budmunchiamine C Y Li, M Hesse Helvetica chimica acta 86 (2), 310-323, 2003 | 17 | 2003 |
| Photochemical isomerisation studies of rubifolide and bipinnatin J. Unravelling some of the biosynthesis interrelationships between macrocyclic and polycyclic cembranoids found … Y Li, G Pattenden Tetrahedron letters 52 (26), 3315-3319, 2011 | 15 | 2011 |
| Total Synthesis of the Spermidine Alkaloid 13‐Hydroxyisocyclocelabenzine Y Li, A Linden, M Hesse Helvetica chimica acta 86 (3), 579-591, 2003 | 12 | 2003 |
| Mononuclear tetraamineplatinum (II) complexes: Synthesis, anticancer activity, DNA binding, and cellular uptake MS Robillard, BAJ Jansen, M Lochner, H Geneste, Y Li, J Brouwer, ... Helvetica Chimica Acta 84 (10), 3023-3030, 2001 | 7 | 2001 |
| Analogues of polyamine alkaloids and their synthetic advantages Y Li, K Popaj, M Lochner, H Geneste, R Budriesi, A Chiarini, C Melchiorre, ... Il Farmaco 56 (1-2), 127-131, 2001 | 6 | 2001 |
| Synthesis of Isoquinolinones via Regioselective palladium-catalyzed C–H activation/annulation W Qi, Y Wu, Y Han, Y Li Catalysts 7 (11), 320, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
