• Melman, A., Gao, Z. G., Kumar, D., Wan, T. C., Gizewski, E., Auchampach, J. A., and Jacobson, K. A. (2008). Design of (N)-methanocarba adenosine 5 '-uronamides as species-independent A(3) receptor-selective agonists. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 18, 2813-2819.
• Ko, H., Fricks, I., Melman, A., Carter, R., Ivanov, A.A., Harden, T.K., and Jacobson, K.A. (2008). The glucose moiety of uridine 5 '-diphosphoglucose is structurally permissive in activation of the human P2Y14 receptor. Purinergic Signalling 4, S22-S23.
  Melman, A., Gao, Z.G., Kumar, D., Wan, T.C., Gizewski, E., Auchampach, J.A., and Jacobson, K.A. (2008). Design of (N)-methanocarba adenosine 5 '-uronamides as species-independent A(3) receptor-selective agonists. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 18, 2813-2819.
• Melman, A., Wang, B., Joshi, B.V., Gao, Z.G., de Castro, S., Heller, C.L., Kim, S.K., Jeong, L.S., and Jacobson, K.A. (2008). Selective A(3) adenosine receptor antagonists derived from nucleosides containing a bicyclo[3.1.0]hexane ring system. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 16, 8546-8556.
  
• Melman, A., Zhong, M., Marquez, V.E., and Jacobson, K.A. (2008). Synthesis of enantiomerically pure (S)-methanocarbaribo uracil nucleoside derivatives for use as antiviral agents and P2Y receptor ligands. Journal of Organic Chemistry 73, 8085-8088.
• Nikolakis, V.A., Tsalavoutis, J.T., Stylianou, M., Evgeniou, E., Jakusch, T., Melman, A., Sigalas, M.P., Kiss, T., Keramidas, A.D., and Kabanos, T.A. (2008). Vanadium(V) Compounds with the Bis-(hydroxylamino)-1,3,5-triazine Ligand, H(2)bihyat: Synthetic, Structural, and Physical Studies of [(V2O3)-O-V(bihyat)(2)] and of the Enhanced Hydrolytic Stability Species cis-[(VO2)-O-V(bihyat)](-). Inorganic Chemistry 47, 11698-11710.
• Rizkov, D., Mizrahi, S., Gun, J., Hoffman, R., Melman, A., and Lev, O. (2008). Nonstoichiometric Gelation of Cyclodextrins and Included Planar Guests. Langmuir 24, 11902-11910.
  
• Joshi, B. V., Melman, A., Mackman, R. L., and Jacobson, K. A. (2008). Synthesis of ethyl (1S,2R,3S,4S,5S)-2,3-O-(isopropylidene)-4-hydroxy-bicyclo[3.1.0] hexane-c arboxylate from L-ribose: A versatile chiral synthon for preparation of adenosine and P2 receptor ligands. Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids 27, 279-291.
• Shavit, M., Peri, D., Melman, A., and Tshuva, E. Y. (2007). Antitumor reactivity of non-metallocene titanium complexes of oxygen-based ligands: is ligand lability essential? Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 12, 825-830.
  
• Al Quntar, A. A., Srivastava, H. K., Srebnik, M., Melman, A., Ta-Shma, R., and Shurki, A. (2007). Formation of diethyl 2-amino-1-cyclopentenylphosphonates: A simple synthesis with a unique mechanism. Journal of Organic Chemistry 72, 4932-4935.
  
• Sherman, D., Xiong, L. Q., Mankin, A. S., and Melman, A. (2006). Synthesis and biological investigation of new 4 ''-malonyl tethered derivatives of erythromycin and clarithromycin. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 16, 1506-1509.
  
• Peri, D., Alexander, J. S., Tshuva, E. Y., and Melman, A. (2006). Distinctive structural features of hydroxyamino-1,3,5-triazine ligands leading to enhanced hydrolytic stability of their titanium complexes. Dalton Transactions, 4169-4172.
  
• Nahmany, M., and Melman, A. (2006). Simple approach to beta-lactam derivatives from N-acylimidazoles. Journal of Organic Chemistry 71, 5804-5806.
  
• Nahmany, M., and Melman, A. (2006). One-step tethering of omega-mercaptoalkyl function to alcohols. Synthesis, 2841-2844.
  
• Ekeltchik, I., Gun, J., Lev, O., Shelkov, R., and Melman, A. (2006). Bis(hydroxyamino)triazines: versatile and high-affinity tridentate hydroxylamine ligands for selective iron(III) chelation. Dalton Transactions, 1285-1293.
  
• Sherman, D., Shelkov, R., and Melman, A. (2005). One-pot tethering of organic molecules through non-symmetric malonate derivatives. Tetrahedron Letters 46, 4901-4903.
  
• Shelkov, R., and Melman, A. (2005). Free-radical approach to 4-substituted dipicolinates. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1397-1401.
  
• Rizkov, D., Gun, J., Lev, O., Sicsic, R., and Melman, A. (2005). Donor-acceptor-promoted gelation of polyaromatic compounds. Langmuir 21, 12130-12138.
  
• Nahmany, M., and Melman, A. (2005). Studies on the synthesis of DNA-damaging part of leinamycin: regioselectivity in Ti(OiPr)(4) mediated opening of hydroxy epoxides with carboxylic acids. Tetrahedron 61, 7481-7488.
  
• Gun, J., Ekeltchik, I., Lev, O., Shelkov, R., and Melman, A. (2005). Bis-(hydroxyamino) triazines: highly stable hydroxylamine-based ligands for iron(III) cations. Chemical Communications, 5319-5321.
  

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