Recent Publications representative of our research:

• I. Erden, A. Griffin, J. R. Keeffe and V.Brinck-Kohn, Intermediates in the Dye-Sensitized Photooxygenation of Nitrones and Hydrazones,Tetrahedron Lett., 1993, 34, 793.
• I. Erden, J. Drummond, R. Alstad, and F.-P. Xu, Chemistry of Singlet Oxygen: Isolation and Characterization of a Stable Allene Oxide From a Fulvene Endoperoxide, Tetrahedron Lett., 1993, 34, 1255.
• I. Erden, J. Drummond, R. Alstad, and F.-P. Xu, Cyclopropanones Derived From Saturated Fulvene Endoperoxides: Synthesis of Highly Oxygenated Organic Compounds, Tetrahedron Lett. , 1993, 34, 3391.
• I. Erden, F.-P. Xu, J. Drummond, and R. Alstad, Chemistry of Singlet Oxygen. Synthesis of Functionalized Cyclopentenones From Saturated Fulvene Endoperoxides, J.Org.Chem., 1993, 58, 3611.
• I. Erden, J. R. Keeffe, F.-P. Xu, and J.-B. Zheng, Acid Catalysis of Nitronic Acid Formation from Nitroalkane Precursors, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 1993, 115, 9384.
• I. Erden, F.-P. Xu, A. Sadoun, W. Smith, G. Sheff, and M. Ossun, Scope and Limitations of Fulvene Syntheses. Preparation of 6-Vinyl-Substituted and -Functionalized Fulvenes. First Examples of Nucleophilic Substitution on a 6-(Chloromethyl)fulvene, J. Org. Chem., 1995, 60, 813.
• I. Erden, Lithium Amide (vol. 4). In: Encyclopedia for Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. A. Paquette (Ed.), Wiley, New York (1995), ISBN 0471-936235. W.-G. Cao, I. Erden, and J. R. Keeffe, Ring-Opening Nitronic Acid Formation from Nitrocyclopropanes. A Concerted, Acid-Catalyzed Mechanism, Angew. Chem., 1995, 107, 1206; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 1995, 34, 1091.
• I. Erden, Oxiranes and Oxirenes: Fused Ring Derivatives, (vol.I). InComprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry II., A. R. Katritzky, C. W. Rees, E. F. V. Scriven (Eds.), 1996, Pergamon Press, New York, ISBN 0-08-042985-8.
• I. Erden, Monocyclic Oxiranes and Oxirenes (vol.I). InComprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry II., A. R. Katritzky, C. W. Rees, E. F. V. Scriven (Eds.), 1996, Pergamon Press, New York, ISBN 0-08-042985-8.
• I. Erden, F.-P. Xu, W.-G. Cao, Sigmatropic Shifts in Allene Oxide Rearrangements. First General Route to Aliphatic [3.4] Shifts, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 1997, 36, 1516.
• I. Erden, W.-G. Cao, R. H. Grow, J. R. Keeffe, J. Song, M. B. Trudell, T. L. Wadsworth, F.-P. Xu, J.-B. Zheng, reactivity in acid-catalyzed carbon-carbon heterolysis, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 1999, 77, 1009-1034.
• I. Erden, J.-G. Song, W.-G. Cao, A Novel Pathway in the Photooxygenation of Cyclic Allenes, Org. Let. 2000, 2, 1383-1385.
• I. Erden, N. Ocal, Oxidative cleavage of the C=N bond during singlet oxygenations of amidoximates, Tetrahedron Lett. 2001, 42, 4765-4767.