1. Zhixiang Chen, Yongwen Jiang, Li Zhang, Yinlong Guo, Dawei Ma. Oxalic diamides and tert-butoxides: Two types of ligands enabling practical access to alkyl aryl ethers via Cu-catalyzed coupling reaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019, 141, 3541. (ESI高被引论文)
2. Zhixiang Chen,# Mi Wang,# Dimin Wu,# Longchuan Bai, Tianfeng Xu, Hoda Metwally, Yu Wang, Donna McEachern, Lijie Zhao, Ruiting Li, John Takyi-Williams, Meilin Wang, Lu Wang, Qiuxia Li, Bo Wen, Duxin Sun, Shaomeng Wang. Discovery of CBPD-268 as an exceptionally potent and orally efficacious CBP/p300 PROTAC degrader capable of achieving tumor regression. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024, 67, 5275. (被评为“Featured Article”)
3. Zhixiang Chen,# Mi Wang,# Dimin Wu, Lijie Zhao, Hoda Metwally, Wei Jiang, Yu Wang, Longchuan Bai, Donna McEachern, Jie Luo, Meilin Wang, Qiuxia Li, Aleksas Matvekas, Bo Wen, Duxin Sun, Arul M Chinnaiyan, Shaomeng Wang. Discovery of CBPD-409 as a highly potent, selective, and orally efficacious CBP/p300 PROTAC degrader for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024, 67, 5351.
4. Zhixiang Chen,# Biao Hu,# Rohan Kalyan Rej,# Dimin Wu,# Ranjan Kumar Acharyya,# Mingliang Wang,# Tianfeng Xu,# Jianfeng Lu, Hoda Metwally, Yu Wang, Donna McEachern, Longchuan Bai, Christina L Gersch, Meilin Wang, Wenjing Zhang, Qiuxia Li, Bo Wen, Duxin Sun, James M Rae, Shaomeng Wang. Discovery of ERD-3111 as a potent and orally Efficacious estrogen receptor PROTAC degrader with strong antitumor activity. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2023, 66, 12559.
5. Zhixiang Chen,# Harshil Dhruv,# Xuqing Zhang,# Rohan Kalyan Rej,# Longchuan Bai,# Donna McEachern, Paul Kirchhoff, Rakesh Nagilla, Larry J. Jolivette, Cory T. Rice, Peter Orth, Corey O. Strickland, E. Scott Priestley, Helai P. Mohammad, Meilin Wang, Bo Wen, Duxin Sun, Zhihua Sui, Shaomeng Wang. PVTX-405: a Potent, Highly Selective, and Orally Efficacious Molecular Glue Degrader of IKZF2 for Cancer Immunotherapy. (Nature Communications, minor revision completed)
6. Jie Luo,# Zhixiang Chen,# Yuanyuan Qiao,# Jean Ching-Yi Tien, Eleanor Young, Rahul Mannan, Somnath Mahapatra, Rupam Bhattacharyya, Lanbo Xiao, Tongchen He, Sanjana Eyunni, Yuping Zhang, Yang Zheng, Fengyun Su, Xuhong Cao, Rui Wang, Yunhui Cheng, Rithvik Seri, James George, Miriam Shahine, Stephanie J. Miner, Matthew G. Rees, Melissa M. Ronan, Jennifer A. Roth, Ulka Vaishampayan, Mi Wang, Shaomeng Wang, Abhijit Parolia, Arul M. Chinnaiyan. p300/CBP degradation is required to disable the active AR enhanceosome in prostate cancer. (bioRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.29.587346; Nature Genetics, under review)
7. Zhixiang Chen and Dawei Ma. Cu/N,N’-dibenzyloxalamide catalyzed N-arylation of heteroanilines. Organic Letters, 2019, 21, 6874.
8. Rohan Kalyan Rej,# Biao Hu,# Zhixiang Chen,# Ranjan Kumar Acharyya,# Dimin Wu,# Hoda Metwally, Yu Wang, Wei Jiang, Longchuan Bai, Leticia S Nishimura, Christina L. Gersch, Meilin Wang, Bo Wen, Duxin Sun, Kathryn Carlson, John A. Katzenellenbogen, Guozhang Xu, Weihong Zhang, Wenxue Wu, E. Scott Priestley, Zhihua Sui, James M. Rae, Shaomeng Wang. Discovery of ERD-12310A as an Exceptionally Potent and Orally Efficacious PROTAC Degrader of Estrogen Receptor α (ERα). Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024, 67, 20933.
9. Ranjan Kumar Acharyya,# Rohan Kalyan Rej,# Biao Hu,# Zhixiang Chen,# Dimin Wu,# Jianfeng Lu, Hoda Metwally, Donna McEachern, Yu Wang, Wei Jiang, Longchuan Bai, Jelena Tosovic, Christina L. Gersch, Guozhang Xu, Weihong Zhang, WenXue Wu, E. Scott Priestley, Zhihua Sui, Farzad Sarkari, Bo Wen, Duxin Sun, James M. Rae, Shaomeng Wang. Discovery of ERD-1233 as a Potent and Orally Efficacious Estrogen Receptor PROTAC Degrader for the Treatment of ER+ Human Breast Cancer. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024, 67, 19010.
10. Zhixiang Chen, Mengmeng Ning, Qingan Zou, Hua Cao, Yangliang Ye, Ying Leng, Jianhua Shen. Discovery and structure–activity relationship study of 4-phenoxythiazol-5-carboxamides as highly potent TGR5 agonists. Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 2016, 64, 326.
11. Hua Cao, Zhi-Xiang Chen, Kai Wang, Meng-Meng Ning, Qing-An Zou, Ying Feng, Yang-Liang Ye, Ying Leng, Jian-Hua Shen. Intestinally-targeted TGR5 agonists equipped with quaternary ammonium have an improved hypoglycemic effect and reduced gallbladder filling effect. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6, 28676.