Mild and Selective Desilylating Agent for Phenol t-Butyldimethylsilyl (TBDMS) Ethers, Synlett 2017, 28, 381–385.
Banerjee, S.; Sinha, S.; Pradhan, P.; Caruso, A.; Liebowitz, D.; Parish, D.; Rossi, M.; Zajc, B.: Regiospecifically Fluorinated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons via Julia-Kocienski Olefination and Oxidative Photocyclization. Effect of Fluorine Atom Substitution on Molecular Shape, The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2016, 81, 3983–3993.
* Editor-Selected Featured Article
* Featured on the Front Cover of the Journal, Issue 10
Kumar, R.; Singh, G.; Todaro, L. J.; Yang, L.; Zajc, B.: E- or Z-Selective Synthesis of 4-Fluorovinyl-1,2,3-triazoles with Fluorinated Second-Generation Triazole-Substituted Julia-Kocienski Reagents, Organic and Bimolecular Chemistry 2015, 13, 1536–1549.
Invited contribution for Molecules Special Issue on Fluorine Chemistry
Chowdhury, M.; Mandal, S. K.; Banerjee, S.; Zajc, B.: Synthesis of Regiospecifically Fluorinated Conjugated Dienamides, Molecules 2014, 19, 4418–4432.
Ayeni, D. O.; Mandal, S. K.; Zajc, B.: Julia-Kocienski Approach to Trifluoromethyl-Substituted Alkenes, Tetrahedron Letters 2013, 54, 6008–6011.
Singh, G.; Kumar, R.; Swett, J.; Zajc, B.: Modular Synthesis of N-Vinyl Benzotriazoles, Organic Letters 2013, 15, 4086–4089.
Kumar, R.; Zajc, B.: Stereoselective Synthesis of Conjugated Fluoro Enynes, The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2012, 77, 8417–8427.
Mandal, S. K.; Ghosh, A. K.; Kumar, R.; Zajc, B.: Expedient Synthesis of alpha-Substituted Fluoroethenes, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 2012, 10, 3164–3167.
* Featured on the Front Cover of Issue 16
Kumar, R.; Pradhan, P.; Zajc, B.: Facile Synthesis of 4-Vinyl- and 4-Fluorovinyl-1,2,3-triazoles via Bifunctional “Click-Olefination” Reagents, Chemical Communications 2011, 3891–3893.
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Review: Special Issue on Fluorine Chemistry
Zajc, B.; Kumar, R.: Synthesis of Fluoroolefins via Julia-Kocienski Olefination, Synthesis 2010, 42, 1822–1836.
* Highlighted in Cheminform: DOI: 10.1002/chin.201033244
Ghosh, A. K.; Zajc, B.: Fluorinated 1-Phenyl-1H-tetrazol-5-yl Sulfone Derivatives as General Reagents for Fluoroalkylidene Synthesis, The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2009, 74, 8531–8540.
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Ghosh, A. K.; Banerjee, S.; Sinha, S.; Kang, S. B.; Zajc, B.: alpha-Fluorovinyl Weinreb Amides and alpha-Fluoroenones from a Common Fluorinated Building Block, The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2009, 74, 3689–3697.
He, M.; Ghosh, A. K.; Zajc, B.: Julia Olefination as a General Route to Phenyl (alpha-Fluoro)vinyl Sulfones, Synlett 2008, 999–1004.
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del Solar, M.; Ghosh, A. K.; Zajc, B.: Fluoro-Julia Olefination as a Mild, High-Yielding Route to alpha-Fluoro Acrylonitriles, The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2008, 73, 8206–8211.
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Ghosh, A. K.; Lagisetty, P.; Zajc, B.: Direct Synthesis of 8-Fluoro Purine Nucleosides via Metalation-Fluorination, The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2007, 72, 8222–8226.
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Bae, S.; Mah, H.; Chaturvedi, S.; Musafia, T. J.; Baird, W. M.; Katz, A. K.; Carrell, H. L.; Glusker, J. P.; Okazaki, T.; Laali, K. K.; Zajc, B.; Lakshman, M. K.: Synthetic, Crystallographic, Computational and Biological Studies of 1,4-Difluorobenzo[c]phenanthrene and its Metabolites, The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2007, 72, 7625–7633.
Zajc, B.; Kake, S: Exceptionally Mild, High-Yield Synthesis of alpha-Fluoro Acrylates, Organic Letters 2006 8, 4457–4460.
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Ghosh, A. K.; Zajc, B.: High-Yield Synthesis of Fluorinated Benzothiazolyl Sulfones: General Synthons for Fluoro-Julia Olefinations, Organic Letters 2006, 8, 1553–1556.
Kramata, P.; Zajc, B.; Sayer, J. M.; Jerina, D. M.; Wei, C. S.-J.: A single site-specific trans-opened 7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene 7,8-diol 9,10-epoxide N2-deoxyguanosine adduct induces mutations at multiple sites in DNA, Journal of Biological Chemistry 2003, 278, 14940–14948.
Okazaki, T.; Laali, K. K.; Zajc, B.; Lakshman, M. K.; Kumar, S.; Baird, W. M.; Dashwood, W.-M.: "Stable ion study of benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) derivatives: 7,8- dihydro-BaP, 9,10-dihydro-BaP and its 6-halo derivatives, 1- and 3-methoxy-9,10-dihydro-BaP-7(8H)-one, as well as the proximate carcinogen BaP 7,8-dihydrodiol and its dibenzoate, combined with a comparative DNA binding study of regioisomeric (1-,4-,2-) pyrenylcarbinols", Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 2003, 1, 1509–1516.
Zajc, B.; Grahek, R.; Kocijan, A.; Lakshman, M. K.; Komrlj, J.; Lah, J.: Evaluation of the enantiomeric resolution of the proximate carcinogen 7,8-dihydroxy-7,8-dihydro-benzo[a]pyrene, its 6-fluoro and 6-bromo derivatives on polysaccharide columns, The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2003, 68, 3291–3294.
Simhadri, S.; Kramata, P.; Zajc, B.; Sayer, J. M.; Jerina, D. M.; Hinkle, D. C.; Wei, C. S. -J.: Benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide-deoxyguanosine adducts are accurately bypassed by yeast DNA polymerase zeta in vivo, Mutation Research 2002, 508, 137–145.
Zajc, B.: Synthesis of (±)-trans-7,8-dihydrodiol of 6-fluoro-benzo[a]pyrene via hydroxyl-directed regioselective functionalization of substituted pyrene, The Journal of Organic Chemistry 1999, 64, 1902–1907.
Zajc, B.: A convenient preparation of N-bromosaccharin, source of electrophilic bromine Synthetic Communications 1999, 29, 1779–1784.
Custer, L.; Zajc, B.; Sayer, J. M.; Cullinane, C.; Phillips, D. R.; Cheh, A. M.; Jerina, D. M.; Bohr, V. A.; Mazur, S. J.: Stereospecific differences in repair by human cell extracts of synthesized oligonucleotides containing trans-opened 7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene 7,8-diol 9,10-epoxide N2-dG adduct stereoisomers located within the human K-ras codon 12 sequence, Biochemistry 1999, 38, 569–581.
Lipinski, L. J.; Ross, H. L.; Zajc, B.; Sayer, J. M.; Jerina, D. M.; Dipple, A.: Effect of single benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide-deoxyguanosine adducts on the action of DNA polymerases in vitro, International Journal of Oncology 1998, 13, 269–273.
Lakshman, M. K.; Chaturvedi, S.; Zajc, B.; Gibson, D. T.; Resnick, M.: A general chemoenzymatic synthesis of enantiopure cis beta-aminoalcohols from microbially derived cis glycols, Synthesis 1998, 1352–1356.
Page, J. E.; Zajc, B.; Oh-hara, T.; Lakshman, M. K.; Sayer, J. M.; Jerina, D. M.; Dipple, A.: Sequence context profoundly influences mutagenic potency of trans-opened benzo[a]pyrene 7,8-diol 9,10-epoxide-purine nucleoside adducts in site-specific mutation studies, Biochemistry 1998, 37, 9127–9137.
Page, J. E.; Christner, D. F.; Lakshman, M. K.; Zajc, B.; Oh-hara, T.; Lipinski, L. J.; Ross, H. L.; Agarwal, R.; Szeliga, J.; Yagi, H.; Sayer, J. M.; Jerina, D. M.; Dipple, A.: Effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon adducts with deoxyguanosine and deoxyadenosine in vivo and in vitro, Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds 1996, 10, 171–178.
Lakshman, M. K.; Zajc, B.: A rapid, high-yield method for 5'-hydroxyl protection in very reactive and amino group modified nucleosides using dimethoxytrityl tetrafluoroborate, Nucleosides and Nucleotides 1996, 15, 1029–1039.
Lakshman, M. K.; Zajc, B.: Regio and stereocontrolled synthesis of aryl cis aminoalcohols from cis glycols, Tetrahedron Letters 1996, 37, 2529–2532.
Zajc, B.; Lakshman, M. K.: Acyl migration in anions derived from non-enolizable esters of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, The Journal of Organic Chemistry 1995, 60, 4936–4939.
LeBreton, P. R.; Huang, C-R.; Fernando, H.; Zajc, B.; Lakshman, M. K.; Sayer, J. M.; Jerina, D. M.: Multiple fluorescence lifetimes for oligonucleotides containing single, site-specific modifications at guanine and adenine corresponding to trans addition of exocyclic amino groups to (+)-(7R,8S,9S,10R)- and (-)-(7S,8R,9R,10S)-7,8-dihydroxy-9,10-epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a] pyrene, Chemical Research in Toxicology 1995, 8, 338–348.
Zajc, B.; Lakshman, M. K.; Sayer, J. M.; Jerina, D. M.: Epoxide and diol epoxide adducts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at the exocyclic amino group of deoxyguanosine, Tetrahedron Letters 1992, 33, 3409–3412.
Zupan, M.; Černič, K.; Hribar, M.; Stavber, S.; Zajc, B.; Ferlež, M.; Kapus, F.: Chemistry of organohalogenic molecules. Part CXXX. Halogenation of substituted phenols, Vestnik Slovenskega Kemijskega Društva 1992, 39, 405–417.
Zajc, B.; Zupan, M.: The effect of polymer-supported reagent structure on bromination of organic molecules, Tetrahedron 1990, 46, 6161–6166.
Zajc, B.; Zupan, M.: Fluorination with xenon difluoride. 37. Room-temperature rearrangement of aryl-substituted ketones to difluoro-substituted ethers, The Journal of Organic Chemistry 1990, 55, 1099–1102.
Zajc, B.; Zupan, M.: Bromination of aromatic molecules with polymer supported reagents, Tetrahedron 1989, 45, 7869–7878.
Stavber, S.; Šket, B.; Zajc, B.; Zupan, M.: Chemistry of organo halogenic molecules. Part 100. Comparative behaviour of xenon difluoride and caesium fluoroxysulphate in the fluorination of enol acetates and ketones, Tetrahedron 1989, 45, 6003–6010.
Zajc, B.; Zupan, M.: Thermically-initiated fluorinations at saturated carbon atoms with xenon difluoride, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan 1986, 59, 1659–1661.
Zajc, B.; Zupan, M.: Fluorination with xenon difluoride. 27. The effect of catalyst on fluorination of 1,3-diketones and enol acetates, The Journal of Organic Chemistry 1982, 47, 573–575.
Zajc, B.; Zupan, M.: Room-temperature fluorine addition to fluoro-substituted naphthalene derivative using xenon difluoride, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan 1982, 55, 1617–1619.
Zajc, B.; Zupan, M.: Room temperature fluorination of 1,3-diketones and enol acetates with xenon difluoride, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications 1980, 759–760.
Zupan, M.; Zajc, B.: Fluorination with xenon difluoride. Part 18. Reactivity of diphenylsulphide and substituted thiochromanones, Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions I 1978, 965–967.
Book Chapter
Zajc, B. Application of Xenon Difluoride in Synthesis. In Modern Organofluorine Chemistry-Synthetic Aspects. Laali, K., Ed.; Bentham Science Publishers, 2006, Vol. 2, pp 61–157.