John W. Cran

A Convenient Protocol for the α-Iodination of α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds with I₂ in an Aqueous Medium

Marie E. Krafft, John W. Cran · Synlett · 2005 · 94 citations

High Yields, Chemical Engineering, Aqueous Medium +14

Gold(I)-Catalyzed Claisen Rearrangement of Allenyl Vinyl Ethers: Missing Transition States Revealed through Evolution of Aromaticity, Au(I) as an Oxophilic Lewis Acid, and Lower Energy Barriers from a High Energy Complex

Dinesh V. Vidhani, John W. Cran, Marie E. Krafft et al. · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 2012 · 57 citations

Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Cross-coupling Reaction +15

Solvent controlled mechanistic dichotomy in a Au(iii)-catalyzed, heterocyclization triggered, Nazarov reaction

Marie E. Krafft, Dinesh V. Vidhani, John W. Cran et al. · Chemical Communications · 2011 · 51 citations

Asymmetric Catalysis, Chemical Engineering, Cross-coupling Reaction +15

Gold(i)-catalyzed Claisen rearrangement of allenyl vinyl ethers; synthesis of substituted 1,3-dienes

Marie E. Krafft, Kassem M. Hallal, Dinesh V. Vidhani et al. · Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry · 2011 · 39 citations

Regioselective Cyclizations Utilizing a Gold‐Catalyzed [3,3] Propargyl Ester Rearrangement

John W. Cran, Marie E. Krafft · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2012 · 38 citations