Murphy, John J., Driver, Ross B., Walsh, Ria and Stephens, John C. (2016) Synthesis of an Imidazolidinone Organocatalyst and Its Application in a Diels–Alder Cycloaddition: A Multistep Experiment for the Organic Teaching Laboratory. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (9). pp. 1626-1630. ISSN 0021-9584
Pezzati, Bernardo, Chellat, Mathieu F., Murphy, John J., Besnard, CĂ©line, Reginato, Gianna, Stephens, John C. and Alexakis, Alexandre (2013) Organocatalytic Asymmetric Annulation of 1,3-Bis(alkoxycarbonyl)buta-1,3-dienes and Aldehydes. Organic Letters, 15 (12). pp. 2950-2953. ISSN 1523-7060
Murphy, John J. (2012) Studies in Synthesis and Organocatalysis: (i) The Design and Synthesis of Novel Electron Deficient Dienes and their Application in the First Enamine Activated Organocatalytic 1,6-Conjugate Addition. (ii) The Development of a New Organocatalytic Methodology through the Combination of DNA-Based Catalysis and Organocatalysis. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Murphy, John J., Quintard, Adrien, McArdle, Patrick, Alexakis, Alexandre and Stephens, John C. (2011) Asymmetric Organocatalytic 1,6-Conjugate Addition of Aldehydes to Dienic Sulfones. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 50 (22). pp. 5095-5098. ISSN 1521-3773