Welcome to the Tao XU group @Tongji University!
Our research group was established in 2017. We, working to create value through innovation, focus on the development of new synthetic methods and their application in the synthesis of organic molecules. Efforts are made to develop operationally useful chemistry that is easy to handle and offers potential utility in academia and industry. Additionally, we are committed to the principles of sustainable development with the utilization of green catalysts such as light to overcome the major challenges presented by environmental requirements. We hope that you will enjoy our work, and we greatly appreciate and welcome your valuable advice or suggestions. Please feel free to send emails to taoxu@tongji.edu.cn.
【October】Congratulations to Wenhao Xu and Shanya Lu who have won the National Scholarship for doctoral and master students, respectively.
【September】We welcome Zijiang Yang, and Abuduwaili Alimu to join our group.
【June】We summarized our recent work on dual Ni/photoredox-catalyzed asymmetric reductive cross-couplings and published in Acc. Chem. Res.
【May】Congratulations to Dong Wang who has successfully defended his Ph.D thesis and received a doctoral degree from Tongji. Congratulations also to Zihao Hu for completing his master's thesis defense.
【April】With halogen-atom transfer as an effective tool, we published a novel catalytic enantioselective protocol to generate chiral trifluoromethylated alkynes in Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.
【March】Congratulations to Dong Wang for being awarded as an outstanding graduate of Tongji University.
【February】Congratulations to our former member, Jun Zhou, for receiving the outstanding master's thesis award at Tongji University.
【February】We reported a new protocol to achieve deoxygenative transformation of alcohols via phosphoranyl radical from exogenous radical addition in Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.
【November】Congratulations to Wenhao Xu who has won a PRET Scholarship for doctoral students.
【October】Congratulations to Dong Wang who has won a National Scholarship for doctoral students.
【September】The group welcomes Shilong Wang, Huiyuan Wang, and Fancong Meng to join us.
【August】Congratulations to Hepan Wang who has successfully defended his Ph.D thesis and received a doctoral degree from Tongji.
【August】Our coupling to access chiral allylic phosphonates with high reactivity, enantioselectivity and stereoselectivity was published in Sci. China Chem.
【June】Best wishes to Jun Zhou who has fininshed his master degree studies in our group. Good luck for the future!
【April】Congratulations to Xinxuan Li for winning a Shanghai Outstanding Graduate Student Award 2023. He will pursue his doctoral degree in Peking University.
【March】A facile protocol to access chiral α-alkynyl phosphonates was developed via dual nickel/photoredox catalysis and has been published in Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.
【January】We reported an enantioselective C(sp3)-C(sp3) reductive cross-coupling of alkyl halides with α-chloroboronates under dual nickel/photoredox catalysis system in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
【December】We published a deoxygenative haloboration and enantioselective chloroboration of carbonyls in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
【November】A deoxygenative arylboration of aldehydes via dual nickel/photoredox catalytic system has been published on ACS Catal. from our group.
【October】We reported a novel method to synthesize versatile secondary α,α-dialkyl boronates via deoxygenative alkylboration of aldehydes in Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.
【October】Congratulations to Hepan Wang who has won a National Scholarship for doctoral students.
【September】Congratulations to Dr. Purui Zheng who has completed her post-doctoral research in our group. Good luck for the future!
【September】The group welcomes Xiaoqiang Wu as a Ph.D student and Shanya Lu as a master student.
【July】Congratulations to Pan Zhou who has successfully defended his Ph.D thesis and received a doctoral degree from Tongji.
【February】 We published a modular and facile method to chiral α-aryl phosphonates via dual Ni/photoredox system in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
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