Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica

1. Design and Synthesis of Polymer-supported Palladium Catalyst
2. Hydrogen Production from Biomass
3. Supertorrefaction and Supergasification of Biomass in Molten Salts
4. Use Microfluidic System in Organic Synthesis
5. Synthesis of Water-soluble BODIPY-based Fluorescent Probes

1. Wang, J.; Xia, S.; Bi, J.; Fang, M.; Mazi, W.; Zhang, Y.; Conner, N.; Luo, F.-T.; Lu, H. P.; Liu, H. Ratiometric Near-infrared Fluorescent Probes Based on TBET and π-Conjugation Modulation between Tetraphenylethene and Hemicyanine Moieties for Sensitive Detection of pH Changes in Live Cells. Bioconjugate Chem. 2018, 29, 1406.
2. Xia, S.; Wang, J.; Bi, J.; Wang, X.; Fang, M.; Phillips, T.; May, A.; Conner, N.; Tanasova, M.; Luo, F.-T.; Liu, H. Fluorescent Probes Based on π-Conjugation Modulation between Hemicyanine and Coumarin Moieties for Ratiometric Detection of pH Changes in Live Cells with Visible and Near-infrared Channels. Sens. Actuators B Chem. 2018, 265, 699.
3. Fang, M.; Xia, S.; Bi, J.; Wigstrom, T. P.; Valenzano, L.; Wang, J.; Mazi, W.; Tanasova, M.; Luo, F.-T.; Liu, H. A Cyanine-based Fluorescent Cassette with Aggregation-induced Emission for Sensitive Detection of pH Changes in Live Cells. Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 1133.
4. Fang, M.; Adhikari, R.; Bi, J.; Mazi, W.; Dorh, N.; Wang, J.; Conner, N.; Ainsley, J.; Karabencheva-Christova, T. G.; Luo, F.-T.; Tiwari, A.; Liu, H. Fluorescent probes for sensitive and selective detection of pH changes in live cells in visible and near-infrared channels. J. Mater. Chem. B, 2017, 5, 9579.
5. Bi, J.; Fang, M.; Wang, J.; Xia, S.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, J.; Vegesna, G.; Zhang, S.; Tanasova, M.; Luo, F.-T.; Liu, H. Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probe for Sensitive Detection of Pb(II) Ions in Living Cells. Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2017, 468, 140.
6. Zhang, S.; Chen, T.-H.; Lee, H.-M.; Bi, J.; Ghosh, A.; Fang, M.; Qian, Z.; Xie, F.; Luo, F.-T.; Zhao, F.; Liu, H. Luminescent Probes for Sensitive Detection of pH Changes in Live Cells through Two Near-infrared Luminescence Channels. ACS Sensors, 2017, 2, 924
7. Zhang, J.; Li, C.; Dutta, C.; Fang, M.; Zhang, S.; Tiwari, A.; Werner, T.; Luo, F.-T.; Liu, H. A Novel Near-infrared Fluorescent Probe for Sensitive Detection of β-Galactosidase in Living Cells. Analytica Chimica Acta, 2017, 968, 97.
8. Zhang, S.; Adhikari, R.; Fang, M.; Dorh, N.; Li, C.; Jaishi, M.; Zhang, J.; Tiwari, A.; Pati, R.; Luo, F.-T.; Liu, H. Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probes with Large Stokes Shifts for Sensing Zn(II) Ions in Living Cells. ACS Sensors, 2016, 1, 1408.
9. Zhang, J.; Yang, M.; Mazi, W.; Adhikari, K.; Fang, M.; Xie, F.; Valenzano, L.; Tiwari, A.; Luo, F.-T.; Liu, H. Unusual Fluorescent Responses of Morpholine-functionalized Fluorescent Probes to pH via Manipulation of BODIPY’s HOMO and LUMO Energy Orbitals for Intracellular pH Detection. ACS Sensors 2016, 1, 158.
10. Dorh, N.; Zhu, S.; Dhungana, K. B.; Pati, R.; Luo, F.-T.; Liu, H.; Tiwari, A. BODIPY-Based Fluorescent Probes for Sensing Protein Surface-Hydrophobicity. Sci. Rep. 2015, 5, 18337.
11. Zhang, J.; Yang, M.; Li, C.; Dorh, N.; Xie, F.; Luo, F.-T.; Tiwari, A.; Liu, H. Near-infrared Fluorescent Probes Based on Piperazine-Functionalized BODIPY Dyes for Sensitive Detection of Lysosomal pH. J. Mater. Chem. B, 2015, 3, 2173.
12. Vegesna, G. K; Janjanam, J.; Bi, J.; Luo, F.-T.; Zhang, J.; Olds, C.; Tiwari, A.; Liu, H. pH-Activatable Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probes for Detection of Lysosomal pH inside Living Cells. J. Mater. Chem. B, 2014, 2, 4500.
13. Liu, H.; Vegesna, G.; Sripathi, S.; Zhang, J.; Zhu, S.; Luo, F.-T.; Jahng, W. J.; Frost, M. Highly Water-soluble BODIPY-based Fluorescent Probe for Sensitive and Selective Detection of Nitric Oxide in Living Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2013, 5, 4107.
14. Zhu, S.; Bi, J.; Vegesna, G.; Zhang, J.; Luo, F.-T.; Valenzano, L.; Liu, H. Functionalization of BODIPY Dyes at 2,6-Positions through Formyl Groups. RSC Adv. 2013, 3, 4793.
15. Zhu, S.; Zhang, J.; Janjanam, J.; Dorh, N.; Bi, J.; Vegesna, G.; Luo, F.-T.; Tiwari, A.; Liu, H. Highly Water-soluble BODIPY-based Fluorescent Probes for Sensitive Fluorescent Sensing of Zinc(II). J. Mater. Chem. B 2013, 1, 1722.
16. Zhang, J.; Zhu, S.; Valenzano, L.; Luo, F.-T.; Liu, H. BODIPY-based Ratiometric Fluorescent Probes for Sensitive and Selective Sensing of Cyanide Ion. RSC Adv. 2013, 3, 68.
17. Zhu, S.; Zhang, J.; Janjanam, J.; Bi, J.; Vegesna, G.; Tiwari, A.; Luo, F.-T.; Wei, J.; Liu, H. Highly Water-soluble, Near-infrared Emissive BODIPY Polymeric Dye Bearing RGD Peptide Residues for Cancer Imaging. Analytica Chimica Acta 2013, 758, 138.
18. Zhu, S.; Dorh, N.; Zhang, J.; Vegesna, G.; Li, H.; Luo, F.-T.; Tiwari, A.; Liu, H. Highly Water-soluble Neutral Near-infrared Emissive BODIPY Polymeric Dyes. J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 2781.
19. Lo, H.-K.; Luo, F.-T. Synthesis of PS-supported NHC-Pd catalyst derived from theobromine and its applications in Suzuki-Miyaura reaction. J. Chin. Chem. Soc. 2012, 59, 394.
20. Zhu, S.; Zhang, J.; Vegesna, G.; Tiwari, A.; Luo, F.-T.; Zeller, M.; Luck, R.; Li, H.; Green, S.; Liu, H.; Controlled Knoevenagel Reactions of Methyl Groups of 1,3,5,7-Tetramethyl BODIPY Dyes for Unique BODIPY Dyes. RSC Adv. 2012, 2, 404.
21. Zhu, S.; Zhang, J.; Vegesna, G. K.; Pandey, R.; Luo, F.-T.; Green, S.; Liu, H.; One-pot Efficient Synthesis of Dimeric, Trimeric, and Tetrameric BODIPY Dyes. Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 3508.
22. Zhu, S.; Zhang, J.; Vegesna, G.; Luo, F.-T.; Green, S.; Liu, H. Highly Water-soluble Neutral BODIPY Dyes with Controllable Fluorescence Quantum Yields. Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 438.
23. Luo, F.-T.; Lo, H.-K. Synthesis of bis-NHC-Pd catalyst derived from caffeine and its applications in Suzuki, Heck, and Sonogashira reactions. J. Organomet. Chem. 2011, 696, 1262.

Selected Patent：

1. Frank H. Shu, Michael J. Cai, Fen-Tair Luo, “Supertorrefaction of Biomass into Biocoal”, India Patent No. 293569, February 28, 2018.
2. Frank H. Shu, Fen-Tair Luo, Michael J. Cai, “Batch-Process Supertorrefaction System and Method”, Taiwan Patent, TW I560265, December 1, 2016.
3. Frank H. Shu, Fen-Tair Luo, Michael J. Cai, “Batch-Process Supertorrefaction System and Method”, USA, Canada, China, Russia, India, Germany, France. WO2015171865 A1, November 12, 2015.
4. Frank H. Shu, Michael J. Cai, Fen-Tair Luo, “Supertorrefaction of Biomass into Biocoal”, P. R. China Patent, CN 103249817 A, August 26, 2015.
5. Frank H. Shu, Michael J. Cai, Fen-Tair Luo, “Supertorrefaction of Biomass into Biocoal”, USA Patent, US 9096800, August 4, 2015.
6. Frank H. Shu, Michael J. Cai, Fen-Tair Luo, "Supertorrefaction of Biomass (Variants)", Russia Patent, No. 2549876, April 3, 2015.
7. Frank H. Shu, Michael J. Cai, Fen-Tair Luo, “Supertorrefaction of Biomass into Biocoal”, “Supertorrefaction de Biomasse en Biocharbon (French)”, Canada Patent, CA 2807094, March 31, 2015.
8. Frank H. Shu, Michael J. Cai, Fen-Tair Luo, “Supertorrefaction of Biomass into Biocoal”, Taiwan Patent, TW I443187, July 1, 2014.
9. Fen-Tair Luo, “Polystyrene-supported Palladacycle Catalysts”, USA Patent, US 7115762 B2, October 3, 2006.

Update： 2023-11-07

1. Xia Shuai, Wang Jianbo,* Bi Jianheng, Wang Xiao, Fang Mingxi, Phillips Tyler, May Aslan, Conner Nathan, Tanasova Marina,* Luo Fen-Tair,* Liu Haiying* Fluorescent probes based on π-conjugation modulation between hemicyanine and coumarin moieties for ratiometric detection of pH changes in live cells with visible and near-infrared channels. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 2018-07-15, 265, 699-708.
2. Wang Jianbo,* Xia Shuai, Bi Jianheng, Fang Mingxi, Mazi Wafa, Zhang Yibin, Conner Nathan, Luo Fen-Tair,* Lu H. Peter, Liu Haiying* Ratiometric Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probes Based On Through-Bond Energy Transfer and π-Conjugation Modulation between Tetraphenylethene and Hemicyanine Moieties for Sensitive Detection of pH Changes in Live Cells. Bioconjugate Chemistry 2018-03-01, 29(4), 1406-1418.
3. Mingxi Fang, Shuai Xia, Jianheng Bi, Travis P Wigstrom, Loredana Valenzano*, Jianbo Wang*, Wafa Mazi, Marina Tanasova*, Fen-Tair Luo*, Haiying Liu* A Cyanine-based Fluorescent Cassette with Aggregation-induced Emission for Sensitive Detection of pH Changes in Live Cells. Chemical Communications 2018-01-02, 54(9), 1133-1136.
4. Mingxi Fang, Rashmi Adhikari, Jianheng Bi, Wafa Mazi, Nethaniah Dorh, Jianbo Wang, Nathan Conner, Jon Ainsley, Tatyana G. Karabencheva-Christova, Fen-Tair Luo*, Ashutosh Tiwari*, Haiying Liu* Fluorescent probes for sensitive and selective detection of pH changes in live cells in visible and near-infrared channels. Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2017-12-28, 5(48), 9579-9590.
5. Jianheng Bi, Mingxi Fang, Jianbo Wang,* Shuai Xia, Yibin Zhang, Jingtuo Zhang, Giri Vegesna, Shuwei Zhang, Marina Tanasova*, Fen-Tair Luo*, Haiying Liu* Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probe for Sensitive Detection of Pb(II) Ions in Living Cells. Inorganica Chimica Acta 2017-11-1, 468, 140-145.
6. Shuwei Zhang, Tzu-Ho Chen, Hsien-Ming Lee,* Jianheng Bi, Avik Ghosh, Mingxi Fang, Zichen Qian, Fei Xie, Fen-Tair Luo*, Feng Zhao*, Haiying Liu* Luminescent Probes for Sensitive Detection of pH Changes in Live Cells through Two Near-infrared Luminescence Channels. ACS Sensors 2017-06-27, 2(7), 924-931.
7. Jingtuo Zhang, Cong Li, Colina Dutta, Mingxi Fang, Shuwei Zhang, Ashutosh Tiwari*, Thomas Werner*, Fen-Tair Luo*, Haiying Liu* A Novel Near-infrared Fluorescent Probe for Sensitive Detection of beta-Galactosidase in Living Cells. Analytica Chimica Acta 2017-05-22, 968, 97-104.
8. Shuwei Zhang, Rashmi Adhikari, Mingxi Fang, Nethaniah Dorh, Cong Li, Meghnath Jaishi, Jingtuo Zhang, Ashutosh Tiwari,* Ranjit Pati,* Fen-Tair Luo,* and Haiying Liu* Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probes with Large Stokes Shifts for Sensing Zn(II) Ions in Living Cells. ACS Sensors 2016-11-17, 1, 1408-1415.
9. Jingtuo Zhang, Mu Yang, Wafa Mazi, Kapil Adhikari, Mingxi Fang, Fei Xie, Loredana Valenzano,* Ashutosh Tiwari,* Fen-Tair Luo,* Haiying Liu* Unusual Fluorescent Responses of Morpholine-functionalized Fluorescent Probes to pH via Manipulation of BODIPY’s HOMO and LUMO Energy Orbitals for Intracellular pH Detection. ACS Sensors 2016-02-26, 1, 158-165.
10. Nethaniah Dorh, Shilei Zhu, Fen-Tair Luo, Haiying Liu, Ashutosh Tiwari BODIPY-Based Fluorescent Probes for Sensing Protein Surface-Hydrophobicity. Scientific Reports 2015-12-18, 5, 18337.
11. Jingtuo Zhang, Mu Yang, Cong Li, Nethaniah Dorh, Fei Xie, Fen-Tair Luo,* Ashutosh Tiwari,* and Haiying Liu* Near-infrared Fluorescent Probes Based on Piperazine-Functionalized BODIPY Dyes for Sensitive Detection of Lysosomal pH. J. Mater. Chem. B 2015-01-19, 3(10), 2173-2184.
12. Giri K Vegesna, Jagadeesh Janjanam, Jianheng Bi, Fen-Tair Luo,* Jingtuo Zhang, Connor Olds, Ashutosh Tiwari,* and Haiying Liu* pH-Activatable Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probes for Detection of Lysosomal pH inside Living Cells. J. Mater. Chem. B 2014-06-12, 2(28), 4500-4508.
13. Shilei Zhu, Jingtuo Zhang, Jagadeesh Janjanam, Jianheng Bi, Giri Vegesna, Ashutosh Tiwari, Fen-Tair Luo, Jianjun Wei, and Haiying Liu Highly Water-soluble, Near-infrared Emissive BODIPY Polymeric Dye Bearing RGD Peptide Residues for Cancer Imaging. Analytica Chimica Acta 2013, 758(1), 138-144.
14. Shilei Zhu, Jingtuo Zhang, Jagadeesh Janjanam, Nethaniah Dorh, Jianheng Bi, Giri Vegesna, Fen-Tair Luo, Ashutosh Tiwari, and Haiying Liu Highly Water-soluble BODIPY-based Fluorescent Probes for Sensitive Fluorescent Sensing of Zinc (II). J. Mater. Chem. B 2013, 1, 1722-1728.
15. Shilei Zhu, Jianheng Bi, Giri Vegesna, Jingtuo Zhang, Fen-Tair Luo, Loredana Valenzano and Haiying Liu Functionalization of BODIPY Dyes at 2,6-Positions through Formyl Groups. RSC Adv. 2013, 3, 4793-4800.
16. Jingtuo Zhang, Shilei Zhu, Loredana Valenzano, Fen-Tair Luo, Haiying Liu BODIPY-based Ratiometric Fluorescent Probes for Sensitive and Selective Sensing of Cyanide Ion. RSC Adv. 2013, 3, 68-72.
17. Liu, Haiying; Vegesna, Giri; Sripathi, Srinivas; Zhang, Jingtuo; Zhu, Shilei; Luo, Fen-Tair; Jahng, Wan Jin; Frost, Megan Highly Water-soluble BODIPY-based Fluorescent Probe for Sensitive and Selective Detection of Nitric Oxide in Living Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2013, 5(10), 4107-4112.
18. Shilei Zhu, Jingtuo Zhang, Giri Vegesna, Ashutosh Tiwari, Fen-Tair Luo, Matthias Zeller, Rudy Luck, Haihua Li, Sarah Green and Haiying Liu Controlled Knoevenagel Reactions of Methyl Groups of 1,3,5,7-Tetramethyl BODIPY Dyes for Unique BODIPY Dyes. RSC Adv. 2012, 2, 404-407.
19. Hung-Kun Lo, Fen-Tair Luo Synthesis of PS-supported NHC-Pd catalyst derived from theobromine and its applications in Suzuki-Miyaura reaction. J. Chin. Chem. Soc. 2012, 59(3), 394-398.
20. Shilei Zhu, Nethaniah Dorh, Jingtuo Zhang, Giri Vegesna, Haihua Li, Fen-Tair Luo, Ashutosh Tiwari and Haiying Liu Highly Water-soluble Neutral Near-infrared Emissive BODIPY Polymeric Dyes. J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 2781-2790.
21. Fen-Tair Luo, Hung-Kun Lo Short Synthesis of Bis-NHC-Pd Catalyst Derived from Caffeine and Its Applications to Suzuki, Heck, and Sonogashira Reactions. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2011, 696, 1262-1265.
22. Shilei Zhu, Jingtuo Zhang, Giri Vegesna, Fen-Tair Luo, Sarah Green and Haiying Liu Highly Water-soluble Neutral BODIPY Dyes with Controllable Fluorescence Quantum Yields. Organic Letters 2011, 13, 438-441.
23. Shilei Zhu, Jingtuo Zhang, Giri K. Vegesna, Ravi Pandey, Fen-Tair Luo, Sarah A. Green and Haiying Liu One-pot Efficient Synthesis of Dimeric, Trimeric, and Tetrameric BODIPY Dyes for Panchromatic Absorption. Chemical Communications 2011, 47, 3508-3510.
24. Cuihua Xue, Shi-Hao Kung, Jian-Zhung Wu, Fen-Tair Luo Intramolecular Palladium-Catalyzed Cyclization of Alkenylboronate Prepared from Hydroboration of Terminal Acetylene and Its Application to the Stereoselective Synthesis of (E)-Doxepin. Tetrahedron 2008, 64, 248-254.
25. Hsien-Ren Liao, Yih-Jiun Lin, Yu-Ma Chou, Fen-Tair Luo, Bo-Cheng Wang Theoretical Study of Optical and Electronic Properties of p-Tterphenyls Containing Cyano Substituents as Promising Light Emitting Materials. Journal of Luminescence 2008, 128, 1373-1378.
26. Cuihua Xue, Fen-Tair Luo, Haiying Liu Post-polymerization Functionalization Approach for Highly Water-soluble Well-defined Regioregular Head-to-Tail Glycopolythiophenes. Macromolecules 2007, 6863-6870.
27. Xue, CH, Luo, FT, Chen, J and Liu, HY Synthesis and Biosensing Application of Highly Water-soluble and Cross-linkable Poly(p-phenyleneethynylene) Containing Osmium(II) Complex and Aldehyde Groups. Analytica Chimica Acta 2006, 569(no.1-2), 27-34.
28. Luo, FT, Ravi, VK and Xue, CH The Novel Reaction of Ketones with o-Oxazoline-substituted Anilines. Tetrahedron 2006, 62(40), 9365-9372.
29. Luo, FT、Ravi, VK Polymer-Bound Palladium Catalyst in Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation. Huaxue 2006, 第64卷第1期，頁1-20.
30. C. Xue, Z. Chen, Y. Wen, F.T. Luo, J. Chen and H. Liu Synthesis of Ferrocene-grafted Poly(p-phenylene-ethynylene)s and Control of Electro-chemical Behaviors of Their Thin Films. Langmuir 2005, 21, 7860-7865.
31. C. Xue, Z. Chen, F.T. Luo, K. Palaniappan, D.J. Chesney, J. Liu, J. Chen and H. Liu Synthesis of Water-soluble Electroactive Ferrocene-grafted Poly(p-phenylene-ethynylene) via Phase Transfer and Its Biosensing Application. Biomacromolecules 2005, 6, 1810-1815.
32. F.T. Luo, C. Xue, S.L. Ko, Y.D. Shao, J.C. Wu and Y.M. Kuo Preparation of Polystyrene-supported Soluble Palladacycle Catalyst for Heck and Suzuki Reactions. Tetrahedron 2005, 61, 6040-6045.
33. C.J. Wu, C. Xue, Y.M. Kuo and F.T. Luo Preparation and Photoluminescence of p-Terphenyl Derivatives Containing Cyano Groups. Tetrahedron 2005, 61, 4735-4741.
34. C. Xue and F.T. Luo Transformation of Amides into Esters by the Use of Chlorotrimethylsilane. Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society 2004, 51, 359-362.
35. C. Xue and F.T. Luo The Synthesis and the X-Ray Structure of 1,4-Bis(2-{4-[2-(4-methylthiophenyl)ethynyl]phenyl}ethynyl)-2,5-dihexyloxybenzene. Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society 2004, 51, 1411-1416.
36. C. Xue and F.T. Luo* Rapid Syntheses of Oligo(p-phenylene- ethynylene)s via Iterative Convergent Approach.. Tetrahedron 2004, 60, 6285-6294.
37. C. Xue and F.T. Luo Novel p-Phenylene-vinylene-dithienylene Type Copolymer: Potential Red-emitting Materials. Synthetic Metals 2004, 145, 67-73.
38. Z. Chen, C. Xue, W. Shi, F.T. Luo, S. Green, J. Chen and H. Liu Novel Selective and Sensitive Fluorescent Sensors for Metal Ions Based on Manipulation of Side Chain Compositions of Poly(p-phenylene- ethynylene)s. Analytical Chemistry 2004, 76, 6513-6518.
39. B.C. Wang, J.C. Chang, J.H. Pan, C. Xue and F.T. Luo Theoretical Investigation of Electroluminescent material 1,4-Distyrylbenzene Derivatives. Journal of Molecular Structure (Theochem) 2003, 636, 81-87.
40. A. A. M. Movahedi, S. Hakimelahi, J. Chamani, G.A. Khodarahmi, F. Hassanzadeh, F.T. Luo, T.W. Ly, K.S. Shia, C.F. Yen, M.L. Jain, R. Kulatheeswaran, C. Xue, M. Pasdar and G.H. Hakimelahi Design, Synthesis, and Anticancer Activity of Phosphonic Acid Diphosphate Derivative of Adenine-containing Butenolide and Its Water Soluble Derivatives of Paclitaxel with High Antitumor Activity. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 2003, 11, 4303-4313.
41. F.T. Luo, T.Y. Lu and C. Xue Palladium-catalyzed Stereoselective Synthesis of (E)-beta,gamma-Unsaturated Amides. Tetrahedron Letters 2003, 44, 7249-7251.
42. C.A. Lin and F.T. Luo Polystyrene-supported Soluble Palladacycle Catalyst as Recyclable Catalyst for Heck, Suzuki, and Sonogashira Reactions. Tetrahedron Letters 2003, 44, 7565-7568.
43. C. Xue and F.T. Luo Synthesis of Oligo(p-phenylene-vinylene-thienylene)s as Potential Red Light-emitting Materials. Tetrahedron 2003, 59, 5193-5198.
44. C. Xue and F.T. Luo Efficient and Rapid Synthesis of Oligo(p-phenylene-vinylene) via Iterative Coherent Approach. Journal of Organic Chemistry 2003, 68, 4417-4421.
45. T.Y. Lu, C. Xue and F.T. Luo Palladium-catalyzed Cross-coupling Reaction of Aryldioxaborolane with 2-Bromo-N,N-dimethylacetamide. Tetrahedron Letters 2003, 44, 1587-1590.
46. Gholam Hossein Hakimelahi, Kak-Shan Shia, Cuihua Xue, Shahram Hakimelahi, Ali A. Moosavi-Movahedi, Ali A. Saboury, Ali Khalafi-Nezhad, Mohammad N. Soltani-Rad, Valeriy Osyetrov, Kung-Pern Wang, Jyh-Hsiung Liao and Fen-Tair Luo Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of a Series of beta-Lactam-Based Prodrugs. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 2002, 10, 3489-3498.
47. Cuihua Xue, Fen-Tair Luo Synthesis of p-Phenylene-vinylene-thienylene Oligomers. Heterocycles 2002, 57, 1935-1946.
48. Fen-Tair Luo, Yu-Tai Tao, Sheng-Li Ko, Chang-Hao Chuen, and Hui Chen Efficient Electroluminescent Material for Light-Emitting Diodes from 1,4-Distyrylbenzene Derivatives. Journal of Materials Chemistry 2002, 12, 47-52.
49. Tomo Sakanoue, Yasukiyo Ueda, Sheng-Li Ko, and Hui Chen, Fen-Tair Luo Fabrication and Characterization of Orientation-Controlled Alkoxy- and Cyano-Substituted Distyrylbenzene Derivatives in Thin Film. Molecular Crystal and Liquid Crystals 2002, 377, 153-156.

1. Chih-An Lin, Fen-Tair Luo, 2004, “Polystyrene-Supported Soluble Palladacycle Catalyst as Recyclable Catalyst for Heck, Suzuki, and Sonogashira Reactions”, editor(s): S. M. Roberts, J. Whittall, P. Mather, and P. McCormack, Catalysts for Fine Chemical Synthesis, Vol. 3, Metal Catalysed Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions, pp. 116-125, England: John Wiley & Sons.
2. Fen-Tair Luo, 2002, “Other -Hetero-Substituted Organometals in Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling”, editor(s): Ei-ichi Negishi, Handbook of Organopalladium Chemistry for Organic Synthesis, Vol. 1, pp. 673-691, New York: John Wiley & Sons.

1. Tomo Sakanoue, Shuhei Nakatani, Yasukiyo Ueda, Fen-Tair Luo, 2002, “Structure and Optical Properties of Distyrylbenzene/PTFE Double Layer”, Technical Report of IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers), pp. 47, 1-6.

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