“Proposed Biogenetic Origin of Secu'amamine A from Allosecurinine: A Model Study To Support the Intermediacy of the Putative Aziridinium Ion.” Magnus, P.; Padilla, A. I. Organic Letters 2006, 16, 3569-3571. 

“Some reactions of persistent benzofuranone radicals related to the 'old' diazonamide structure. ” Magnus, P.; Venable, J. D.; Shen, L.; Lynch, V., Tetrahedron Letters 2005, 4, 707-710. 

“Stereospecific Synthesis of (+-)-1,2-Anhydro Methyl Rocaglate.” Magnus, P.; Stent, M. A. H., Organic Letters 2005, 18, 4531-4534. 

“Synthesis of the Tetrahydroisoquinoline Alkaloid (+-)-Renieramycin G and a (+-)-Lemonomycinone Analogue from a Common Intermediate.” Magnus, P.; Matthews, K. S., Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005, 36, 12476-12477. 

“A Mild Thermal and Acid-Catalyzed Rearrangement of O-Aryl Ethers into ortho-Hydroxy Arenes.” Goldberg, F. W.; Magnus, P.; Turnbull, R., Organic Letters 2005, 20, 4531-4534. 

“Synthesis of functionalized bicyclo[3.2.1]octan-6-ones for diterpenoids: allylsilane directed Pummerer reaction: insertion reactions of diazoketones.” Magnus, P.; Rainey, T.; Lynch, V., Tetrahedron Letters 2003, 2459-2461. 

“New Strategy for the Synthesis of Tetrahydroisoquinoline Alkaloids” Magnus, P.; Matthews, K. S.; Lynch, V. Organic Letters 2003, , 2181-2184. 

“Synthesis of the hydroazulene portion of guanacastepene A using a [2.3]sigmatropic sulfoxide rearrangement: observations on silyl enol ether electrophilic chemistry for the introduction of the C-13 hydroxyl group.” Magnus, P.; Ollivier, C. Tetrahedron Letters 2002, , 9605-9609.

“Synthesis of the Kopsia alkaloids (+-)-pauciflorine B, (+-)-lahadinine B, (+-)-kopsidasine, (+-)-kopsidasine-N-oxide, (+-)-kopsijasminilam and (+-)-11-methoxykopsilongine.” Magnus, P.; Gazzard, L.; Hobson, L.; Payne, A. H.; Rainey, T. J.; Westlund, N.; Lynch, V. Tetrahedron 2002, , 3423-3443. 

“Stereoselective synthesis of the tricyclic core ABC-rings of nakadomarin and manzamine from a common intermediate.” Magnus, P.; Fielding, M. R.; Wells, C.; Lynch, V. Tetrahedron Letters 2002, 947-950. 

“Pummerer reaction methodology for the synthesis of 5-thiophenyl substituted oxazoles.” Kreisberg, J. D.; Magnus, P.; Shinde, S. Tetrahedron Letters 2002, 7393-7396.   

“Stereoselective synthesis of the bicyclo[5.3.0]decane portion of the diterpene antibiotic guanacastepene using a pyrylium-ylide [5+2] cycloaddition reaction.” Magnus, P.; Waring, M. J.; Ollivier, C.; Lynch, V. Tetrahedron Letters 2001, , 4947-4950; 

“Direct conversion of alpha,beta-unsaturated nitriles into cyanohydrins using Mn(dpm)3 catalyst, dioxygen, and phenylsilane.” Magnus, P.; Scott, D. A.; Fielding, M. R. Tetrahedron Letters 2001, , 4127-4129; 

“Concise synthesis of (+-)-rhazinilam.” Magnus, P.; Rainey, T. Tetrahedron 2001, , 8647-8651;