R. M.  Patel and Argade, N. P., ?Facile S(N)2 ' coupling reactions of wittig reagents with dimethyl bromomethylfumarate: synthesis of enes, dienes, and related natural products?, Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 72, no. 13, pp. 4900-4904, 2007.

R. M.  Patel and Argade, N. P., ?Total synthesis of (+/-)-1,3,4,5-tetragalloylapiitol?, Synthesis-Stuttgart, no. 3, pp. 372-374, 2009.

R. M.  Patel and Argade, N. P., ?Bromine-induced facile synthesis of butenolides and spirobutenolides from sterically congested tetrasubstituted dialkyl alkylidene succinates?, Synthesis-Stuttgart, no. 7, pp. 1188-1194, 2010.

R. M.  Patel and Argade, N. P., ?General approach to 2,4-dialkyl-3-carboxybutyrolactones: an efficient synthesis of (+/-)-striatisporolide A and (+/-)-lichesterinic acid?, Indian Journal of Chemistry Section B-Organic Chemistry Including Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 49, no. 8, pp. 1071-1075, 2010.

R. U.  Batwal, Patel, R. M., and Argade, N. P., ?Chemoenzymatic total synthesis of potent HIV RNase H inhibitor (-)-1,3,4,5-tetragalloylapiitol?, Tetrahedron-Asymmetry, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 173-177, 2011.

R. M.  Patel, Puranik, V. G., and Argade, N. P., ?Regio- and stereoselective selenium dioxide allylic oxidation of (E)-dialkyl alkylidenesuccinates to (Z)-allylic alcohols: synthesis of natural and unnatural butenolides?, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 9, no. 18, pp. 6312-6322, 2011.

R. M.  Patel and Argade, N. P., ?Palladium-promoted [2+2+2] cocyclization of arynes and unsymmetrical conjugated dienes: synthesis of justicidin B and retrojusticidin B?, Organic Letters, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 14-17, 2013.