Qian Wu
Professor (tenure-track)
· Work Address: Room 350, College of Pharmacy, Nankai University
· Telephone: +86-13548122486
· E-mail: wuqian@nankai.edu.cn
Education
2011.09-2016.06 College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu (P.R. China).
Received Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry, June 2016
(with Prof. Jingson You)
2007.09-2011.06 College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu (P.R. China).
Received B.Sc. degree in Chemistry, June 2011
Academic Career
2021.06-present Professor (tenure-track), College of Pharmacy, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Nankai University, China.
2019.12-2021.05 Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University, Japan
(with Prof. Shigehiro Yamaguchi, JSPS Fellow)
2017.11-2019.11 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry,
Universität Berlin, Germany
(with Prof. Martin Oestreich, Humboldt Fellow)
2016.07-2017.09 Postdoctoral Researcher, SKLEOC, College of Chemistry,
Nankai University, Tianjin, China
(with Prof. Qilin Zhou)
Research Areas
Organic synthesis, Main Group Element Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry,
Fluorescent Probes
Awards
[1] 2020, JSPS Fellowship, Japan
[2] 2017, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany
[3] 2016, Excellent Graduate Awards of Sichuan University, China
[4] 2015, The MORESCO Scholarship
[5] 2013, Poster Award of the 8th National Organic Chemistry Conference, China
Research & Achievements
Selected publications:
[1] Qian Wu†, Avijit Roy†, Guoqiang Wang, Elisabeth Irran, Hendrik F. T. Klare, Martin Oestreich*, “Synthesis of a Counteranion-Stabilized Bis(silylium) Ion”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 10523. (Highlighted as a "Very Important Paper (VIP)" by Angewandte Chemie.) (†Corresponding author)
[2] Qian Wu, Elisabeth Irran, Robert Müller, Martin Kaupp, Hendrik F. T. Klare*, Martin Oestreich*, “Characterization of hydrogen-substituted silylium ions in the condensed phase”, Science, 2019, 365, 168. (Highlighted in SYNFACTS, 2019, 15, 1427. Commentary: Science, 2019, 365, 135; Nat. Rev. Chem., 2020, 4, 4.)
[3] Qian Wu, Avijit Roy, Elisabeth Irran, Zheng-Wang Qu,* Stefan Grimme, Hendrik F. T. Klare, Martin Oestreich*, “Catalytic Difunctionalization of Unactivated Alkenes with Unreactive Hexamethyldisilane through Regeneration of Silylium Ions”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 17307. (Highlighted as a "Very Important Paper (VIP)" by Angewandte Chemie. Highlighted in SYNFACTS, 2019, 15, 1427.)
[4] Qian Wu, Zheng-Wang Qu*, Lukas Omann, Elisabeth Irran, Hendrik F. T. Klare, and Martin Oestreich*, “Cleavage of Unactivated Si–C(sp3) Bonds with Reed’s Carborane Acids: Formation of Known and Unknown Silylium Ions”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 9176.
[5] Qian Wu, Yi Luo, Aiwen Lei*, Jingsong You*, “Aerobic Copper(II)-Promoted Radical-Type Cleavage of Coordinated Cyanide Anion: Nitrogen Transfer to Aldehydes to Form Nitriles”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 2885.
[6] Qian Wu, Chenglong Du, Yumin Huang, Xingyan Liu, Zhen Long, Feijie Song, Jingsong You*, “Stoichiometric to Catalytic Reactivity of the Aryl Cycloaurated Species with Arylboronic Acids: Insight into the Mechanism of Gold-Catalyzed Oxidative C(sp2)–H Arylation”, Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 288.
[7] Dongbing Zhao,† Qian Wu,† Xiaolei Huang, Feijie Song, Taiyong Lv, Jingsong You*, “A General Method to Diverse Cinnolines and Cinnolinium Salts”, Chem. Eur. J., 2013, 19, 6239. († These authors contributed equally)
[8] Qian Wu, Dongbing Zhao, Xurong Qin, Jingbo Lan, Jingsong You*, “Synthesis of Di(hetero)aryl Sulfides by Directly Using Arylsulfonyl Chlorides as a Sulfur Source”, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 9188.
[9] Kaizhi Li, Qian Wu, Jingbo Lan, and Jingsong You*, “Coordinating Activation Strategy for C(sp3)–H/C(sp3)–H Cross-Coupling to Access β-Aromatic α-Amino Acids”, Nat. Commun., 2015, 6, 8404.
[10] Jiaxing Dong, Qian Wu, Jingsong You*, “Stoichiometric Copper or Silver Salt-Mediated Oxidative C–H/C–H Cross-Coupling Reactions”, Tetrahedron Lett., 2015, 56, 1591.
[11] Guangying Tan, Xiaolei Huang, Qian Wu, Luo-Qiang Zhang, Jingsong You*, “Rh(III)-Catalyzed Annulation of N-Methoxybenzamides with Ynesulfonamides at Room Temperature: A Practical and Efficient Route to 4-Aminoisoquinolone Derivatives”, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 49186.
[12] Mingliang Li, Jiaxing Dong, Xiaolei Huang, Kaizhi Li, Qian Wu, Feijie Song, Jingsong You*, “Nickel-Catalyzed Chelation-Assisted Direct Arylation of Unactivated C(sp3)–H Bonds with Aryl Halides”, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 3944.
[13] Avijit Roy, Vittorio Bonetti, Guoqiang Wang, Qian Wu, Hendrik F. T. Klare, and Martin Oestreich*, Org. Lett., 2020, 22, 1213.
[14] Xurong Qin, Hu Liu, Dekun Qin, Qian Wu, Jingsong You,* Dongbing Zhao, Qang Guo, Xiaolei Huang, Jingbo Lan*, “Chelation-Assisted Rh(III)-Catalyzed C2-Selective Oxidative C–H/C–H Cross-Coupling of Indoles/Pyrroles with Heteroarenes”, Chem. Sci., 2013, 4, 1964.
