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 to the synthesis of organic molecules. Efforts are taken to develop operationally useful chemistry that would be easy to handle and would offer potential utility in academia and industry. We are also committed to the principles of sustainable development with the utilization of green catalysts, such as light, as the basis to overcome the major challenges presented by environmental requirements. We hope that you will enjoy our work and your valuable advice or suggestions will be much appreciated and welcomed by sending emails to taoxu@tongji.edu.cn.
【April】Congratulations to Xinxuan Li for winning Shanghai Outstanding Graduate Student Award 2023.
【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 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 just 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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