Kayal, R.; Baldinelli, L.; Harden, I.; Neese, F.; Bistoni, G. Understanding and quantifying the impact of solute–solvent van der Waals interactions on the selectivity of asymmetric catalytic transformations. Chemical Science 2025, 16, 2700–2709.

Harden, I.; Neese, F.; Bistoni, G. Dimerization of confined Brønsted acids in enantioselective organocatalytic reactions. Chemical Science 2023, 14, 10580–10590.

Schümann, J. M.; Ochmann, L.; Becker, J.; Altun, A.; Harden, I.; Bistoni, G.; Schreiner, P. R. Exploring the Limits of Intramolecular London Dispersion Stabilization with Bulky Dispersion Energy Donors in Alkane Solution. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 2093–2097.

Harden, I.; Neese, F.; Bistoni, G. An induced-fit model for asymmetric organocatalytic reactions: a case study of the activation of olefins via chiral Brønsted acid catalysts. Chemical Science 2022, 13, 8848–8859.

Chatterjee, S.; Harden, I.; Bistoni, G.; Castillo, R. G.; Chabbra, S.; van Gastel, M.; Schnegg, A.; Bill, E.; Birrell, J. A.; Morandi, B.; Neese, F.; DeBeer, S. A Combined Spectroscopic and Computational Study on the Mechanism of Iron-Catalyzed Aminofunctionalization of Olefins Using Hydroxylamine Derived N–O Reagent as the “Amino” Source and “Oxidant”. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022, 144, 2637–2656.

Das, S.; Mitschke, B.; De, C. K.; Harden, I.; Bistoni, G.; List, B. Harnessing the ambiphilicity of silyl nitronates in a catalytic asymmetric approach to aliphatic β³-amino acids. Nature Catalysis 2021, 4, 1043–1049.

Harden, I. Computational Modeling of Complex Chemical Transformations in Homogeneous Catalysis. Doktorarbeit, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, 2023.