About Prof. Gu

Education and Employment

2012.1-Now  Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Chemistry

2008.8-2011.12  Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara

2007.8-2008.7  Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

2002.9-2007.6  Ph.D. Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry

1998.9-2002.6  B.A. Nanjing University

Gu was born in Jiangsu, China. He studied chemistry at Nanjing University (China). In 2002 he pursued his Ph.D. studies with Professor Shengming Ma at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After postdoctoral research with Professor K. Peter C. Vollhardt at the University of California Berkeley, and with Professor Armen Zakarian at the University of California Santa Barbara in the field of natural total synthesis, he joined the University of Science and Technology of China in 2012. His research focused on the development of new transformations and their applications in total synthesis.

The Monographs

  1. Carbon-Halogen Bond Formation by the Reductive Elimination of PdII Species , Asian J. Org. Chem. 2012, 1, 16-24
  2. Phenacenes from Phenylenes by Nickel-Catalyzed Alkyne Cycloadditions, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 9413-9417
  3. Dual Ti-Ru Catalysis in the Direct Radical Haloalkylation of N-Acyloxazolidinoes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 7136-7139
  4. Studies Towards the Synthesis of Maoecrystal V, Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 1080-1082
  5. Concise Total Synthesis of Sintokamides A, B and E by a Unified, Protecting Group-Free Strategy, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 9702
  6. Total Synthesis of Rhazinilam: Axial to Point Chirality Transfer in an Enantiospecific Pd-Catalyzed Transannular Cyclization, Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 4224
  7. Studies on Thermal Reactivity of β-(1,2-Allenyl)butenolides and 2-Allyl-3-allenylcyclohex-2-enones, Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 2453
  8. Palladium Acetate-Catalyzed Cyclization Reaction of 2,3-Allenoic Acids in the Presence of Simple Allenes: An Efficient Synthesis of 4-(3’-Bromoprop-1’-en-2’-yl)furan-2(5H)-one Derivatives, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 10948
  9. Highly Regio- and Stereoselective Iodohydroxylation of Non-heteroatom-substituted Allenes: An Efficient Synthesis of 4-(3'-Hydroxy-2'-iodoprop-1'(Z)-enyl)-2(5H) furanone Derivatives, Adv. Synth. Cat. 2007, 349, 1653
  10. Pd(OAc)2-Catalyzed Coupling-Cyclization of 2,3-Allenoic Acids and Methyl Propiolate: An Unexpected -Bond Migration Proceeds Through Double 1,7-Hydrogen Shifts, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 6002
  11. Sequential Rearrangement of 1,2,4Z,7-Tetraenes Involving [1,5]-Hydrogen Migration and Electrocyclization: An Efficient Synthesis of Eight-Membered Cyclic Compounds, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 4942
  12. From Allene to Allene: A Palladium-Catalyzed Approach to -Allenyl Butenolides and Their Application to the Synthesis of Polysubstituted Benzene Derivatives, Chem. Commun. 2006, 94
  13. 1,4-Migration of Rhodium and Palladium in Catalytic Organometallic Reactions, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 7512
  14. PdCl2-Catalyzed Two-Component Cross-coupling Cyclization of 2,3-Allenoic Acids with 2,3-Allenols: An Efficient Synthesis of 4-(1’,3’-Dien-2’-yl)-2-furan-one Derivatives, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 6182
  15. Pd(CH3CN)2Cl2-Catalyzed Oxidative Heterodimerization Reaction of 2,3-Allenamides and 1,2-Allenyl Ketones: An Efficient Synthesis of 4-(Furan-3’-yl)-2(5H)furanimines, J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 6291

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