Changxu Zhong⁺, Yingchao Huang⁺, Haocheng Zhang, Qiang Zhou, Yu Liu, and Ping Lu*, Enantioselective Synthesis of 3-Substituted Cyclobutenes by Catalytic Conjugate Addition/Trapping Strategies, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 2750-2754.

Meng Wang, Jun Chen, Zongjia Chen, Changxu Zhong and Ping Lu*,Enantioselective Desymmetrization of Cyclobutanones Enabled by Synergistic Palladium/Enamine Catalysis, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.2018, 57, 2707-2711.

Meng Wang and Ping Lu*, Catalytic approaches to assemble cyclobutane motifs in natural product synthesis, Org. Chem. Front., 2018, 5, 254-259.

Jacob J. Lacharity⁺, Jeremy Fournier⁺, Ping Lu, Artur K. Mailyan, Aaron T. Herrmann, and Armen Zakarian* Total Synthesis of Unsymmetrically Oxidized Nuphar Thioalkaloids via Copper-Catalyzed Thiolane Assembly. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 13272-13275.

Kai Yu, Ping Lu, Jeffrey J. Jackson, Thuy-Ai D. Nguyen, Joseph Alvarado, Craig E. Stivala, Yun Ma, Kyle A. Mack, Trevor W. Hayton, David B. Collum*, and Armen Zakarian*，Lithium Enolates in the Enantioselective Construction of Tetrasubstituted Carbon Centers wtih Chiral Lithium Amides as Noncovalent Stereodirecting Auxiliaries.J. Am. Chem. Soc.2017, 139, 527-533.