Publications
70. Islam, Md. Faizul; Wijesekera, Gamage Isuri P.; Sindt, Ammon J.; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Examination of Photoinduced Radicals in Two Crystal Forms of Triphenylamine Bis-Urea Macrocycles.CrystEngComm. 2024 Link to article
69. Wijesekera, Gamage Isuri P.; Gbadamosi, Fahidat A.; Hossain, Muhammad Saddam; Patra, Abhilash; Sutton, Christopher S.*; Shimizu, Linda S*. Understanding the Key Factors for Photoinduced Radical Generation in Crystalline Triphenylamines Using Experiment and Machine Learning J. Phys. Chem. C. 2024 Link to article.
68. Prakash, Rahul; Esmaeili, Mohsen; Gbadamosi, Fahidat; Pellechia, Perry J.; Sadati, Monirosadat; Shimizu, Linda S.* Supramolecular Gelation of Triphenylamine Bis-Urea Macrocycles in Toluene. Macromolecules 2024, 57, 1312-1318. Link to article
67. Robert, Llorenc; Islam, Md. Faizul; Greytak, Andrew B.; Prakash, Rahul; Smith, Mark D.; Gomila, Rosa Maria; Frontera, Antonio; Shimizu, Linda S.*; Soberats, Bartolome;* Two-Dimensional Supramolecular Polymerization of a Bis-Urea Macrocycle into a Brick-Like Hydrogen-Bonded Network. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023 Manuscript ID: 202312223.Link to article
66. Prakash, Rahul; Islam, Md Faizul; Kothalawala, Rajeen; Hossain, Mohammad Sadam; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Cooperative Supramolecular Polymerization of Triphenylamine bis-Urea Macrocycles. Chem-Eur. J.. 2023 Manuscript ID: 202300698R1 .Link to article
65. Selvanesan, Benson Chellakkan; Varghese, Sheelu; Andrys, Justyna; Hernandez, Ricardo Arriaza; Prakash, Rahul; Tiwari, Purushottam; Hupalo, Daniel; Gusev, Yuriy; Patel, Meghja Nitin; Contente, Sara; Sanda, Miloslav; Uren, Aykut; Wilkerson, Matthew D.; Dalgard, Clifton Lee; Shimizu, Linda S.; Chruszcz, Maksymilian; Borowski, Tomasz; Upadhyay, Geeta* LY6K signaling to Aurora Kinase promotes advancement of the cell cycle and the growth of cancer cells, which is inhibited by LY6K-NSC243928 interaction. Cancer Lett. 2023 Manuscript ID: CANLET-D-23-00066R.1.Link to article
64. Prakash, Rahul; Goodlett, Dustin W.; Varghese, Sheelu; Andrys, Justyna; Gbadamosi, Fahidat A.; Arriaza, Ricardo H.; Patel, Megha; Tiwari, Purushottam B.; Borowski, Tomasz; Chruszcz, Maksymilian; Shimizu, Linda S.; Upadhyay, Geeta* Development of fluorophore labeled or biotinylated anticancer small molecule NSC243928 Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2023, 79, 117171.Link to article
63. Islam, Md. Faizul; Adame-Ramirez, Emely; Williams, Eric; Kittikhunnatham, Preecha; Wijesekera, Andrew; Zhang, Siteng; Ge, Ting; Stefik, Morgan; Smith, Mark, D.; Pellechia, Perry J.; Greytak, Andrew B.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Inclusion polymerization of pyrrole and ethylenedioxythiophene in assembled triphenylamine bis-urea macrocycles, Macromolecules, 2022, 55, 11013-11022. Link to article
62. Hossain, Muhammad Saddam; Ahmed, Fiaz, Karakalos, Stavros G.; Smith, Mark, D.; Pant, Namrata; Garashchuk, Sophya; Greytak, Andrew B.; Docampo, Pablo; Shimizu, Linda S.* Structure Property Investigations in Urea Tethered Iodinated Triphenylamines. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2022, 24, 18729-18737. Link to article
61. Helmers, Ingo; Hossain, Muhammad S.; Bäumer, Nils; Wesarg, Paul; Soberats, Bartolome; Shimizu, Linda S.*; Fernández, Gustavo* Anti-cooperative Self-Assembly with maintained Emission Regulated by Conformational and Steric Effects. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022,134, e202200390. Anti-kooperative Selbstorganization mit aufrechterhaltener Emission reguliert durch konformationelle und sterische Effekte. Angew. Chem. 2022, 134, e202200390. Link to article
60. Oluwatoba, Damilola S.; Islam, Md Faizul; Som, Bozumeh; Sindt, Ammon J.; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.; Do, Thanh D.* Evaluating the Effects of Metal Adduction and Charge Isomerism on Ion-Mobility Measurements using m-Xylene Macrocycles as Models. J. Am. Soc. Mass Spec. 2022, 33, 5, 840-850. Link to article
59. Daneshian, Leily; Renggli, Isabella, Hanaway, Ryan; Offermann, Lesa R.; Schlacter, Caleb R.; Hernandez, Ricardo A.; Henry, Shannon; Prakash, Rahul; Wybouw, Nicky; Dermauw, Wannes; Shimizu, Linda S.; Van Leeuwen, Thomas; Makris, Thomas; Grbic, Vojislava; Grbic, Chruszcz, Maksymilian* Structural and Functional Characterization of beta-cyanoalanine Synthase from Tetranychus urticae. Insect Biochem. Molec. 2022,142, 103722. Link to article
58. Goodlett, Rachel L.; Sindt, Ammon J.; Islam, Md Faizul; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Selective loading of xylene constitutional isomers in a self-assembled triphenylamine bis-urea macrocycle host. Cryst. Growth Des. 2022, 22, 1017-1023. Link to article
57. Islam, Md. Faizul; Sindt, Ammon J.; Hossain, Muhammad Saddam; Ayare, Pooja J.; Smith, Mark D.; Vannucci, Aaron K.; Garashchuk, Sophya; Shimizu, Linda S.* Assembled triphenylamine bis-urea macrocycles: Exploring photodriven electron transfer from host to guests. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2021, 23, 23952-23960. Link to article
56. Hossain, Muhammad Saddam; Sindt, Ammon J.; Goodlett, Rachel L.; Shields, Dylan; O’Connor, Colin J.; Antevska, Aleksandra; Krakalos, Stavros G.; Smith, Mark D.; Garashchuk, Sophya; Do, Thanh D.; Gudmundsdottir, Anna; Shimizu, Linda S.* Effects of self-assembly on the photogeneration of radical cations in halogenated triphenylamines. J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 19991-20002. Link to article
55. Som, Bozumeh; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Multi-dimensional copper(I) and silver(I) coordination polymers of a pyridyl bis-urea macrocyclic ligand. Polyhedron 2021, 201, 115170 (1-7). Link to article
54. Goodlett, Rachel L.; Sindt, Ammon J.; Hossain, Muhammad Saddam; Merugu, Rajkumar; Smith, Mark D.; Garashchuk, Sophya; Gudmundsdottir, Anna D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* From incident light to persistent and regenerable radicals of urea-assembled benzophenone frameworks: A structural investigation. J. Phys. Chem. A 2021, 126, 1336-1344. Link to article
53. Pote, Swanandi; Kachhap, Sangita; Mank, Nicholas J.; Daneshian, Leily; Klapper, Vincent; Pye, Sarah; Arnette, Amy K.; Shimizu, Linda S.; Borowski, Tomasz; Chruszcz, Maksymilian* Comparative Structural and Mechanistic Studies of 4-Hydroxy-Tetrahydrodipicolinate Reductases from Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Vibrio Vulnificus. BBA – General Subjects 2021, 1865 (1), 129750. Link to article
52. Benti, Senyi; Tiwari, Purushottam B.; Goodlett, Dustin W.; Daneshian, Leily; Kern, Grant B.; Smith, Mark D.; Uren, Aykut; Chruszcz, Maksymilian; Shimizu, Linda S.; Upadhyay, Geeta* Small Molecule Binds with Lymphocyte Antigen 6K to Induce Cancer Cell Death. Cancers 2020, 12, 509. Link to article
51. Link, Benjamin A.; Sindt, Ammon J.; Shimizu, Linda S.; Do, Thanh D. Selective Host–Guest Chemistry, Self-Assembly and Conformational Preferences of m-Xylene Macrocycles Probed by Ion-Mobility Spectrometry Mass Spectrometry. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2020, 22, 9290– 9300. Link to article
50. Sindt, Ammon J.; Dehaven, Baillie A.; Goodlett, Rachel L.; Hartel, Johannes O.; Ayare, Pooja J.; Du, Yong; Smith, Mark D.; Mehta, Anil K.; Brugh, Alexander M.; Forbes, Malcolm D. E.; Bowers, Clifford R.; Vannucci, Aaron K.; Shimizu, L. S. Guest Inclusion Modulates Concentration and Persistence of Photogenerated Radicals in Assembled Triphenylamine Macrocycles. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 1, 502-511. Link to article
49. DeHaven, Baillie A.; Chen, A. L.; Shimizu, Emily A.; Salpage, Sahan R.; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Interplay between Hydrogen and Halogen Bonding in Cocrystals of Dipyridinylmethyl Oxalamides and Tetrafluorodiiodobenzenes. Cryst. Growth Des. 2019, 19, 5776– 5783,. Link to article
48. DeHaven, Baillie A.; Liberatore, Hannah K.; Greer, Alexander; Richardson, Susan D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Probing the formation of reactive oxygen species by a porous self-assembled benzophenone bis-urea host, ACS Omega 2019, 4, 5, 8290–8298. Link to article
47. Sindt, Ammon J.; Smith, Mark D.; Berens, Samuel; Vasenkov, Sergey; Bowers, Clifford R.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Single crystal to single crystal guest exchange in columnar assembled bromotriphenylamine bis-urea macrocycles, Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 5619. Link to article
46. Sindt, Ammon J.; DeHaven, Baillie A.; McEachern, David F.; Dissanayake, Mevan M.; Smith, Mark D.; Vannucci, Aaron K.; Shimizu, Linda S.* UV-irradiation of self-assembled triphenylamines affords persistent and regenerable radicals. Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 2670-2677. Link to article
45. DeHaven, Baillie A.; Goodlett, Rachel L.; Sindt, Aammon J.; Noll, Niklas; De Vetta, Martina; Smith, Mark D.; Martin, Corey R.; González, Leticia; Shimizu, Linda S.* Enhancing the stability of photogenerated benzophenone triplet radical pairs through supramolecular assembly, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 13064-13070. Link to article
44. Sindt, Ammon J.; Smith, Mark D.; Pellechia, Perry J.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Thioureas and Squaramides: Comparison with Urea as Assembly Directing Motifs for m-Xylene Macrocycles Cryst Growth Des. 2018, 18, 1602-1612. Link to article
43. Som, Bozumeh; Shue, Jessica; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Temperature induced pseudopolymorphism of molecular salts from a pyridyl bis-urea macrocycle and naphthalene-1,5-disulfonic acid. Acta Cryst. C. 2018, C74, 75-81. Link to article
42. DeHaven, Bailie A.; Chen, Anna L.; Shimizu, Emily A.; Salpage, Sahan R.; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Synergistic effects of hydrogen and halogen bonding in Co-Crystals of Dipyridyl Ureas and Diiodotetrafluorobenzenes. Supramol. Chem. 2018, 30, 315-327. Special issue on Women in Supramolecular Chemistry. Link to article
41. Kittikhunnatham, Preecha; Som, Bozumeh; Rassolov, Vitally; Stolte, Matthias; Würthner, Frank; Shimizu, Linda S. Greytak, Andrew B.* Fluorescence Polarization Measurements to Probe Alignment of a Bithiophene Dye in 1D channels of Self-Assembled Phenylethynylene Bis-Urea Macrocycle Crystals. J. Phys. Chem. C. 2017, 121, 33, 18102–18109. Link to article
40. DeHaven, Baillie A.; Tokarski, John R.; Korous, Arthur A.; Mentink-Vigier, Frederic; Makris, Thomas M.; Brugh, Alexander M.; Forbes, Malcolm D. E.; van Tol, Johan; Bowers, Clifford R.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Persistent Radicals of Self-assembled Benzophenone Bis-Urea Marocycles: Characterization and Applications as a Polarizing Agent for Solid-State DNP MAS Spectroscopy. Chem-Eur. J. 2017, 23, 8315–8319. Link to article
39. Som, Bozumeh; Salpage, Sahan R.; Son, Juno; Gu, Bing; Karakalos, Stavros G.; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Pillars of Assembled Poyridyl Bis-Urea Macrocycles: A Robust Synthon to Organize Diidotetrafluorobenzenes. CrystEngComm 2017, 19, 484-491. Link to article
38. Salpage, Sahan R.; Xu, Yuewen; Som, Bozumeh; Sindt, Ammon J.; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Pyridyl-phenylethynylene Bis-Urea Macrocycles: Self-Assembly and Utility as a Nanoreactor for the Selective Photoreaction of Isoprene. RSC Advances 2016, 6, 98350-98355. Link to article
37. Salpage, Sahan R.; Paul, Avishek; Som, Bozumeh; Banerjee, Tanmay; Hanson, Kenneth; Smith, Mark D.; Vannucci, Aaron K.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Structural, electrochemical and photophysical properties of an exocyclic di-ruthenium complex and its application as a photosensitizer. Dalton Trans. 2016, 45, 9601-9607 Link to article
36. Salpage, Sahan R.; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Crystal Structures and Hirshfeld Surface Analyses of 6-Substituted Chromones. J. Chem. Crystallogr. 2016, 46, 170-180. Link to article
35. Salpage, Sahan R.; Donevant, Logan S.; Smith, Mark D.; Bick, Andreas; Shimizu, Linda S.* Modulating the Reactivity of Chromone and its Derviatives Through Encapsulation in a Self-Assembled Phenylethynylene Bis-Urea Host. J. Photoch. Photobio. A 2016, 315, 14-24. Link to article
34. Bowers, Clifford R.*; Dvoyashkin, Muslim; Salpage, Sahan R.; Akel, Christopher; Bhase, Hrishi; Geer, Michael F.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Crystalline Bis-Urea Nanochannel Architectures Tailored for Single-File Diffusion Studies. ACS Nano 2015, 9, 6343-6353. Link to article
33. Bowers, Clifford R.*; Dvoyashkin, Muslim; Salpage, Sahan R.; Akel, Christopher; Bhase, Hrishi; Geer, Michael F.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Squeezing Xenon into Phenylether Bis-Urea Nanochannels. Can J. Chem. 2015, 93, 1031-1034. Link to article
32. Dawn, Sandipan; Salpage, Sahan R.; Koscher, Brent A.; Bick, Andreas; Wibowo, Arief C.; Pellechia, Perry J.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “Applications of a Bis-Urea Phenylethynylene Self-Assembled Nanoreactor for [2+2] Photodimerizations.” J. Phys. Chem. A 2014, 118, 10563-10574. Link to article
31. Shimizu, Linda S.*; Salpage, Sahan R.; Korous, Arthur A. “Functional Materials from Self-Assembled Bis-urea Macrocycles.” Acc. Chem. Res. 2014, 47, 2116-2127. Link to article
30. Xu, Weiwei L.; Smith Mark D.; Krause, Jeanette A.; Greytak, Andrew B.; Ma, Shuguo; Read, Cory M.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “Single Crystal to Single Crystal Polymerization of a Self-Assembled Diacetylene Macrocycle Affords Columnar Polydiacetylenes.” Cryst. Growth Des. 2014, 14, 993-1002. Link to article
29. Xu, Yuewen; Xu, Weiwei L.; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “Self-assembly and Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization of a Bifunctional Carbonate-Stilbene Macrocycle.” RSC Advances 2014, 4, 1675-1682. Link to article
28. Geer, Michael F.; Mazzuca, James; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Short strong halogen bonding in co-crystals of pyridyl bis-urea macrocycles and iodo perfluorocarbons. Cryst. Eng. Comm. 2013, 15, 9923-9929. Link to article
27. Caricato, Marco; Leza, Nerea J.; Roy, Kinkini; Dondi, Dondi; Gattuso, Giuseppe; Shimizu, Linda S., Van der Griend, Douglas A.; Pasini, Dario* “A Chiroptical Probe for Sensing Metal Ions in Water.” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6078-6083. Link to article
26. Geer, Michael F.; Walla, Michael D.; Solntsev, Kyril M.; Strassert, Cristian A.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “Self-assembled benzophenone bis-urea macrocycles facilitate selective oxidations by singlet oxygen.” J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 5568-5578. Link to article
24. Roy, Kinkini; Wibowo, Arief C.; Pellechia, Perry J.; Ma, Shuguo; Geer, Michael F.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “Absorption of Hydrogen Bond Donors by Pyridyl Bis-urea Crystals.” Chem. Mater. 2012, 24, 4773-4781. Link to article
23. Xu, Yuewen; Shimizu, Linda S.* “Urea Capsules” The Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry; Atwood, J. L.; Steed, J. W.; Wallace, K. J., Eds; Taylor and Francis, CDC Press, 2012, 1-9. Link to article
22. Dawn, Sandipan; Salpage, Sahan R.; Smith, Mark D.; Sharma, Shiv K.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “A trinuclear silver coordination polymer from a bipyridine bis-urea macrocyclic ligand and silver triflate.” Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2012, 15, 88-92. Link to article
21. Roy, Kinkini; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “1D Coordination network formed by a cadmium based pyridyl urea helical monomer.” Inorg. Chim. Acta. 2011, 376, 598-604. Link to article
20. Dawn, Sandipan; Dewal, Mahender B.; Sobransingh, David; Paderes, Monissa C.; Wibowo, Arief C.; Smith, Mark D.; Krause, Jeanette A.; Pellechia, Perry J.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “Porous crystals from self-assembled phenylethynylene bis-urea macrocycles facilitate the selective photodimerization of coumarin.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 7025-7032. Link to article
19. Geer, Micheal F.; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “A bis-urea naphthalene macrocycle displaying two crystal structures with parallel ureas.” Cryst. Eng. Comm. 2011, 13, 3665-3669. Link to article
18. Roy, Kinkini; Wang, Chun; Smith, Mark D.; Dewal, Mahender B.; Wibowo, Arief C.; Brown, Julius C.; Ma, Shuguo; Shimizu, Linda S.* “Guest induced transformations of assembled pyridyl bis-urea macrocycles.” Chem. Commun. 2011, 27, 277-279. Link to article
17. Roy, Kinkini; Wang, Chun; Smith, Mark D.; Pellechia, Perry J.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “Alkali metal ions as probes of structures and recognition properties of macrocyclic pyridyl urea hosts.” J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 5453-5460, Featured Article. Link to article
16. Xu, Yuewen; Smith, Mark D.; Geer, Michael F.; Pellechia, Perry J.; Brown, Julius C.; Wibowo, Arief C.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “Thermal reaction of a columnar assembled diacetylene macrocycle.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 5334-5335. Link to article
15. Tian, Lie-lei; Wang, Chun; Dawn, Sandipan; Smith, Mark D.; Krause, Jeanette A.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “Macrocycles with switchable exo/endo metal binding sites.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 17620-17629. Link to article
14. Xu, Yuewen; Smith, Mark; Krause, Jeanette A.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “Control of the intramolecular [2+2] photocycloaddition in a bis-stilbene macrocycle.” J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 4874-4877. Link to article
13. Yang, Jun; Dewal, Mahender B.; Sobransingh, David; Xu, Yuewen; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “An examination of the structural features that favor the columnar self-assembly of bis-urea macrocycles.” J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 102-110. Link to article
12. Dewal, Mahender B.; Xu, Yuewen; Yang, Jun; Mohammed, Fiaz; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “Manipulating the cavity of a porous material changes the photoreactivity of included guests.” Chem. Commun. 2008, 3909-3911. Link to article
11. Yang, Jun; Dewal, Mahender; Profeta, Salvatore; Smith, Mark D.; Li, Youyong; Shimizu, Linda S.* Origins of selectivity for the [2+2] cycloaddition of alpha, beta-unsaturated ketones within a porous self-assembled organic framework. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 612-621. Link to article
10. Sobransingh, David; Dewal, Mahender B.; Hiller, Jacob; Smith, Mark D.; Shimizu, Linda S.* “Inclusion of electrochemically active guests by novel oxacalixarene hosts.” New. J. Chem. 2008, 32, 24-27. Link to article
9. Shimizu, Linda S.* “Perspectives in main-chain hydrogen bonded supramolecular polymers.” Polym. Int. 2007, 56, 444-452 Link to article
8. Yang, Jun; Dewal, Mahender B.; Shimizu, Linda S.* Self-assembling bis-urea macrocycles used as an organic zeolite for a highly stereoselective photodimerization of 2-cyclohexenone. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 8122-8123. Link to article
7. Dewal, Mahender B.; Lufaso, Michael W.; Hughes, Andrew D.; Samuel, Samuel A.; Pellechia, Perry; Shimizu Linda S.* Absorption properties of a porous organic crystalline apohost formed by a self-assembled bis-urea macrocycle. Chem. Mater. 2006, 18, 4855-4864. Link to article
6. Shimizu, Linda S.*; Smith, Mark D.; Hughes, Andrew D.; Samuel Samuel; Ciurtin-Smith, Delia Assembled Columnar structures from bis-urea macrocycles. Supramolecular Chem. 2005, 17, 27-30. Link to article
5. Ricks, Holly L.; Shimizu, Linda S.; Smith, Mark D.; Bunz, Uwe H. F.; Shimizu, Ken D.* An N, N’diaryl urea based conjugated polymer model system. Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 3229-3232. Link to article
4. Shimizu, Linda S.*; Hughes, Andrew D.; Smith, Mark D.; Davis, Matthew J.; Zhang, Paul; zur Loye, Hans-Conrad; Shimizu, Ken D. Self-assembled nanotubes that reversibly bind acetic acid guests. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 14972-3. Link to article
3. Shimizu, Linda S.*; Smith, Mark D.; Hughes, Andrew D.; Shimizu, Ken D. Self-assembly of a bis-urea macrocycle into a columnar nanotube. Chem. Commun. 2001, 1592-1593. Link to article
2. Renold, Peter; Tsang, Kwok Y.; Shimizu, Linda S.; Kemp, Daniel S. For Short Alanine-Lysine Peptides the Helical Propensities of Lysine Residues (SValues) Are Strongly Temperature Dependent. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118 (48), 12234–12235. Link to article
1. Stanley, Jean A.; Dakin, Susan; Szabo, Linda; Posaw, Leila; Lee, Christine; Hou, Wen M. A Convenient Preparation of trans-3,4-Diphenyl- and trans, trans-2,3,4-Triphenylvalerolactones. Org. Prep. Proc. Int. 1991, 23, 193-195. Link to article