Publications
Prior to UF Scripps
14. Zhang, Y.; Liu, Z.; Hirschi, M.; Brodsky, O.; Johnson, E.; Won, S. J.; Nagata, A.; Petroski, M. D.; Majmudar, J. D.; Niessen, S.; VanArsdale, T.; Gilbert, A. M.; Hayward, M. M.; Stewart, A. E.; Nager, A. R.; Melillo, B.; Cravatt, B. F., An Allosteric Cyclin E-CDK2 Site Mapped by Paralog Hopping with Covalent Probes. Nat. Chem. Biol. 2025, 21, 420.
13. Huang, K. L.; Jones, M. G.; Wong, I. T.; Curtis, E. J.; Lange, J. T.; He, B. J.; Luebek, J.; Schmargon, R.; Scanu, E.; Brückner, L.; Yan, X.; Li, R.; Gnanasekar, A.; González, R. C.; Belk, J. A.; Liu, Z.; Melillo, B.; Bafna, V.; Dörr, J. R.; Werner, B.; Huang, W.; Cravatt, B. F.; Henssen, A. G.; Mischel, P. S.; Chang, H. Y. Coordinated Inheritance of Extrachromosomal DNA Species in Human Cancer Cells. Nature, 2024, 635, 201.
12. Liu, Z.; Remsberg, J. R., Li, H., Njomen, E., DeMeester, K. E., Tao, Y., Xia, G., Yoo, M., Nguyen, T., Simon, G. M., Schreiber, S. L., Melillo, B., Cravatt, B. F. Proteomic Ligandability Maps of Apirocycle Acrylamides Identify Covalent ERCC3 Degraders. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 10393.
11. Liu, Z.; Oxtoby, L. J.; Sun, J.; Li, Z.-Q.; Kim, N.; Davies, G. H. M.; Engle, K. M. A Sterically Tuned Directing Auxiliary Promotes Catalytic 1,2-Carbofluorination of Alkenyl Carbonyl Compounds. Angew. Chem. In. Ed. 2023, 62, e2022141.
10. Liu, Z.; Oxtoby, L.; Liu, M.; Li, Z.-Q.; Van T.; Gao, Y.; Engle, K. M. A Transient Directing Group Strategy Enables Enantioselective Multicomponent Organofluorine Synthesis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 8962.
9. Wang, X.; Li, Z.-Q.; Mai, B. K.; Gurak, J. A.; Xu, J. E.; Tran, V. T.; Ni, H.-Q.; Liu, Z.; Liu, Z.; Yang, K. S.; Xiang, R.; Liu, P.; Engle, K. M., Controlling Cyclization Pathways in Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Intramolecular Alkene Hydrofunctionalization via Substrate Directivity. Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 11307.
8. Xiao, H.; Liu, Z.; Shen, H.; Zhang, B.; Zhu, L.; Li, C. Copper-Catalyzed Late-Stage Benzylic C(sp3)–H Trifluoromethylation. Chem 2019, 5, 940.
7. Liu, Z.; Xiao, H.; Zhang, B.; Shen, H.; Zhu, L.; Li, C. Copper-Catalyzed Remote C(sp3)–H Trifluoromethyl-ation of Carboxamides and Sulfonamides. Angew. Chem. In. Ed. 2019, 58, 2510.
6. Liu, Z.; Shen, H.; Xiao, H.; Wang, Z.; Zhu, L.; Li, C. Copper-Catalyzed Ring-Opening Radical Trifluoromethylation of Cycloalkanone Oximes. Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 5201.
5. Liu, Z.; Chen, H.; Lv, Y.; Tan, X.; Shen, H.; Yu, H. Z.; Li, C. Radical Carbofluorination of Unactivated Alkenes with Fluoride Ions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 6169.
4. Zhou, S.; Song, T.; Chen, H.; Liu, Z.; Shen, H.; Li, C. Catalytic Radical Trifluoromethylalkynylation of Unactivated Alkenes. Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 698.
3. Tan, X.; Liu, Z.; Shen, H.; Zhang, P.; Zhang, Z.; Li, C. Silver-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Trifluoromethylation of Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 12430.
2. Shen, H.; Liu, Z.; Zhang, P.; Tan, X.; Zhang, Z.; Li, C. Trifluoromethylation of Alkyl Radicals in Aqueous Solution. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 9843.
1. Chen, H.; Liu, Z.; Lv, Y.; Tan, X.; Shen, H.; Yu, H. Z.; Li, C. Selective Radical Fluorination of Tertiary Alkyl Halides at Room Temperature. Angew. Chem. In. Ed. 2017, 56, 15411.
