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Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen has published an article, "Ligand-Controlled Regioselective Dearomative Vicinal and Conjugate Hydroboration of Quinolines," in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Her coauthors include Elizabeth Barta ’26 as well as collaborators from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Merck & Co.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen has published an article in ACS Catalysis, "." Coauthors include Gabriel Negrao de Morais ’25 as well as collaborators from Yale University.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen has published an article, "," in Organic Letters. Her co-authors are Marisa Ih ’25 and collaborators from the University of Marburg, Germany.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen recently published the article “” in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Her coauthors include Gabriel Negrao de Morais ’25 as well as collaborators from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen has recently published an article, "," in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. Her coauthors are two current 91ֱ�� students, Isabella Moppel ’25 and Barbara Elliott ’26.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen has recently published two new articles along with 91ֱ�� student coauthors. "" has appeared in the Journal of the American Chemical Society with coauthors including Gabriel Negrao de Morais ’25 and collaborators at Indiana University. "" was published in Nature Communications with coauthors including Anna Crowell ’23 and collaborators from Scripps Research and Corteva Agriscience.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen has recently published three articles with 91ֱ�� student coauthors. “Chemoselective Quinoline and Isoquinoline Reduction by Energy Transfer Catalysis Enabled Hydrogen Atom Transfer” was published in  with Kyogo Nagashima ’24 and collaborators from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. “Pd/IPrBIDEA-Catalyzed Hydrodefluorination of gem-Difluorocyclopropanes: Regioselective Synthesis of Terminal Fluoroalkenes,” appeared in the  with Zachary Cheng ’25 and collaborators from Renmin University of China. Most recently, “Nitrene-Mediated Enantioselective Intramolecular Olefin Oxyamination to Access Chiral γ-Aminomethyl-γ-Lactones,” was published in  with Clayton Ritter ’23 and collaborators in Marburg, Germany.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen has recently published two papers. "Expedited synthesis of α-amino acids by single-step enantioselective α-amination of carboxylic acids" appeared in . Coauthors include Drew Dansby ’24 and collaborators from Marburg, Germany.  "Chemo-, Stereo- and Regioselective Fluoroallylation/Annulation of Hydrazones with gem-Difluorocyclopropanes via Tunable Palladium/NHC Catalysis" was published in . Coauthors on this article include Hieu Nguyen ’25 and collaborators from Renmin University of China.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen has recently published an article in ACS Catalysis, "." Co-authors include Elizabeth Rigby ’22 and collaborators from Yale University.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen has been awarded a $55,000 grant by the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for her project, "Probing Complex Post-Transition State Bifurcations in Reactions Between Boroles and Unsaturated Hydrocarbons". Professor Chen and her undergraduate research students will use both experimental and computational approaches to study mechanisms in this family of organic reactions.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen recently published an article, "," in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Coauthors include Sam Le ’22 as well as collaborators from UCLA, the University of Indiana, and the University of Munster, Germany.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen recently published an article in , "Cyclometalated Chiral-at-Ruthenium Catalyst for Enantioselective Ring-Closing C(sp³)–H Carbene Insertion to Access Chiral Flavanones." Co-authors include Peter Choi '23 and collaborators in Marburg, Germany.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen recently published a paper in , "Selective skeletal editing of polycyclic arenes using organophotoredox dearomative functionalization." Co-authors on the article include Cassie Davies ’24 and collaborators from UCLA and the University of Arizona.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen has recently published a paper in ACS Catalysis: "." Co-authors include Cassie Davies '24 and collaborators from Yale University.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen co-authored a research article in Nature Chemistry with Professor Eric Meggers' research group at the University of Marburg, Germany. This collaborative experimental and computational study reveals that non-covalent interactions, such as π–π stacking, hold the key to stereocontrol (control over three-dimensional shapes of molecules) in a novel synthesis of chiral α-amino acids catalyzed by ruthenium and iron complexes.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen and Anthony Gao '21 published two research articles on transition-metal catalysis: "Mechanism and Selectivities in Ru-Catalyzed Anti-Markovnikov Formal Hydroalkylation of 1,3-Dienes and Enynes: A Computational Study" in the Journal of Organic Chemistry; and "Catalytic α-Deracemization of Ketones Enabled by Photoredox Deprotonation and Enantioselective Protonation" in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The latter work was published in collaboration with Professor Eric Meggers' research group at the University of Marburg, Germany.