Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
WU Xiaofeng
Title: Professor
Subject: Organic Chemistry
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Email: xwu2020@dicp.ac.cn
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Research Interests

1. Chemical transformations of CO

2. Biomass toward CO

3. Small moleculars activation

4. Polymer decomposition.

Biography

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Professor, 2020/06 - present

Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e. V. an der Universit？t Rostock (LIKAT), Rostock, Germany, Research group leader， 2017/04 - present

Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e. V. an der Universit？t Rostock (LIKAT), Rostock, Germany, Junior research group leader, 2012/02 - 2017/03 

Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e. V. an der Universit？t Rostock (LIKAT), Rostock, Germany, Doctor4., 08/2009 - 01/2012 

UMR 6226 CNRS, Universite de Rennes 1, France, Master, 2007/09 - 2009/06 

Dept. of Chemistry, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, B.S., 2003/09 - 2007/06 

Honors and Awards

Wiley Excellent Author Award (2015)

Young Scientist Prize of the 16th International Congress on Catalysis (ICC 16, 2016)

Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2017)

Publications

1. Fu-Peng Wu, Yang Yuan, Claas Schünemann, Paul C. J. Kamer, Xiao-Feng Wu*, Copper‐Catalyzed Regioselective Borocarbonylative Coupling of Unactivated Alkenes with Alkyl Halides: Synthesis of β-Boryl Ketones, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 10451-10455.

2. Jin-Bao Peng, Fu-Peng Wu, Xiao-Feng Wu*, First-Row Transition Metals Catalyzed Carbonylative Transformations of Carbon Electrophiles (Invited Review). Chem. Rev. 2019, 119, 2090-2127.

3. Zechao Wang, Zhiping Yin, Xiao-Feng Wu*, Copper-Catalyzed Carbonylative Transformations of Indoles with Hexaketocyclohexane. Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 4798-4801.

4. Yahui Li, Kaiwu Dong, Fengxiang Zhu, Zechao Wang, and Xiao-Feng Wu*, Copper-Catalyzed Carbonylative Coupling of Cycloalkanes and Amides (VIP paper; Highlighted in Chemistry Views). Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 7227-7230.

5. Xiao-Feng Wu*, Toward Greener Oxidative Transformations: Base Metal Catalysts and Metal-Free Reactions (Invited personal accounts). Chem. Rec. 2015, 15, 949-963.