An personal account entitled, "Covalent Modification of Nucleobases using Water-Soluble Palladium Catalysts," written by Kevin Shaughnessy has been published in The Chemical Record.  This review was invited as part of a special issue on Nucleoside, Nucleotide, and Oligonucleotide modification edited by Anant Kapdi and Mahesh Lakshman.
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 A paper by Ethan Hu, Corrie Burlas, Sabrina Curley, Tomasz Gruchala and Fengrui Qu entitled, "Effect of Aryl Ligand Identity on Catalytic Performance of Trineopentylphosphine Arylpalladium Complexes in N-Arylation Reactions," has been published in Organometallics.  The paper describes the role of steric effects of aryl ligands on the performance of palladium catalysts in C-N cross-coupling reactions.

The last paper from Dr. Kerry Barnett's dissertation has been published in Inorganic Chemistry in collaboration with the Dixon Group.  This paper provides a detailed structural analysis of the palladium complexes of trineopentylphosphine ligands using computational and experimental data.  The highly flexible trineopentylphosphine ligand adopts a very sterically demanding conformation when coordinated to 1- or 2-coordinate palladium centers.  Unusually, this very sterically demanding ligand is highly pyramidalized due to the low back-side strain of the neopentyl groups.  When coordinated to a 3- or 4-coordinate palladium center, trineopentylphoshine adopts a less sterically demanding conformation.

A paper authored by Huaiyuan "Ethan" Hu, Ashley Gilliam, and Fengrui Qu entitled, "Enolizable Ketones as Activators of Palladium(II) Precatalysts in Amine Arylation Reactions," has been published in ACS Catalysis.​  The paper describes a novel reduction of palladium(II) precatalysts using enolizable ketones.

A review authored by Kevin Shaughnessy has been published in Current Organic Chemistry.  The review is entitled, "Monodentate Trialkylphosphines as Privileged Ligands in Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions."